Laughs And Lashings: What a wild, weird, (and wonderful) year it has been!

     Like, TOTES.

    As you may have noticed, I have not been around much typing lately.      I also have not been playing my guitar, going for walks, lifting weights or painting as I usually do.

   This last year sure has been a big one.   I got married.     I moved in with my wife (another person) into a cool old Victorian house downtown.    I have been busy working.    I also recently found out that I am going to be someone's dad next year.

This is sort of crazy...     Good crazy.     At first I was riddled with fear for a few days, and now it just sort of does not seem real.     Eve and I wanted to go to England as a sort of delayed honeymoon (And I Was going to make a business trip out of it, importing some Land Rover Defenders back home) in the Spring, but we have not moved out plans right on up to this month so we can travel before she is large and/or uncomfortable.    In the meantime, she is pretty moody (but PLEASE do not tell her I said so), so we'll see how two weeks in a car together driving around in a cold mist collecting old car parts goes for us.

I need to keep this brief today, but I wanted to make an installment. I just got back from a walk by the river, and I forgot how great it is to get outside and make some time for walking and reflecting.     I need to write more!    I need to exercise!      I HAVE stopped drinking (not that I needed to, but I thought I would help provide a Unified Front for the Missus, who sadly can not drink for 6 or 7 more months) and this is a good thing.

    I have been more productive than I have ever been.   I have saved a lot of money.   I have finished most every dangling, nagging obligation that has been haunting me for the last 6 years.   I am stepping into the next big chapter of my life, both at home and at 'work'.    I will have a little person screeching in a basket soon.     Will it love me?    Will I be overbearing?   Will it like cars?    Will it find me old and boring? Will it be funny?   WILL IT BE HEALTHY???

    So, I am off.    This is the start of new things though, and I will be back soon to update.    There are pictures, too.      There will be many more.   There are stories and plans, and things are happening a lot like I imagined they would, and I feel grounded and much more calm, like I always imagined I would.      How many people can say that?     That they were getting to have the life they planned on having, and it felt as good as they thought it would??