Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
it’s late. i’ve been having a hard time getting to sleep lately. then, when i get to sleep, i tend to wake up around 3 or 4 sneezing and needing a drink. i’ll get up, then sleep in and be late for work. yeah, it sucks, if i’m going to be late to work, i’d at least like to get extra sleep in return…
i leave for london next wednesday. i’ll be gone for a week and a half. most of my time will be spent helping with the office move, relocating several servers, and getting the new internet setup with the new voip system, the isp is bringing in.
work has been going better recently. we’ve finished the first round of pci tasks and now we’re just nailing everything down and getting things lined up to complete our full baseline audit by year end. we’ve got a lot of small projects going on here and there, but things are becoming more manageable with better communication taking place between all the worker ants and the management.
the dogs are good, and mandy and i are doing great. we spent this last weekend with our friends and family, and mandy seems to have gotten a lot of photo edit’s off of her plate. the rest of this month and on into october look pretty busy for us, but we’re looking forward to our cruise next march.
we watched the first episode of the 9th season of the shield tonight. looks like this season is going to be good, but bitter sweet knowing this is the planned final season.
you guys take care.
listening to…
Coldplay - Viva la Vida - Viva la Vida
Sunday, June 15th, 2008
I woke up crying late at night
when I was very young.
I had dreamed my father
had passed away and gone.
My world revolved around him
I couldnt lay there anymore.
So I made my way down the mirrored hall
and tapped upon his door.
And I said “Daddy, I’m so afraid
how will I go on with you gone that way?
Don’t wanna cry anymore
so may I stay with you?”
And he said “That’s my job,
that’s what I do.
Everything I do is because of you,
To keep you safe with me.
That’s my job you see.”
Later we barely got along
this teenage boy and he.
Most of the fights it seems
were over different dreams,
we each held for me.
He wanted knowledge and learning.
I wanted to fly out west.
Said, “I could make it out there
if I just had the fare.
I got half, will you loan me the rest?”
And I said “Daddy, I’m so afraid,
there’s no guarantee in the plans
I’ve made and if I should fail,
who will pay my way back home?”
And he said “That’s my job
that’s what I do.
Everything I do is because of you
to keep you safe with me.
That’s my job you see.”
Every person carves his spot
and fills the hole with light.
And I pray someday I might
light as bright as he.
Woke up early one bright fall day
to spread the tragic news.
After all my travel, I settled down
within a mile or two.
I make my living with words and rhyme
and all this tragedy
Should go into my head and out instead
as bits of poetry.
But I say “Daddy, I’m so afraid,
how will I go on with you gone this way?
How can I come up with a song to say
I love you?”
That’s my job, That’s what I do
Everything I do is because of you
to keep you safe with me.
That’s my job you see.
Everything I do is because of you
to keep you safe with me.
Sunday, March 9th, 2008
On February 29, Mandy and I took the leap and where married in Fort Worth. Among friends and relatives, we shared a short ceremony and what turned into a short desert reception. Mandy and I dated for 2 and a half years, 6 months of that engaged.
I feel like I’ve known Mandy my entire life. I have never experienced a person with Mandy’s love and passion for the world around her. She has truly made me a better man in more way’s than I can share in a simple blog post. If you would have walked up to me, and asked me where I would be today, there is no way I could have told you any part of my life today. When I’m with Mandy, I feel like my feet don’t touch the ground.
I remember when I met you, big city boy small town blues
This town seems so small to me well I was used to the blvd
When I saw you I fell so hard now I never want to leave
Girl I’m here forever
We got moon light, all night
Lord I pray on the next star I see tonight never lose this thing we found
Your by my side, I can do without the city lights
I fly so high when you’re around yeah my feet don’t touch the ground
Things I’ve done the places I’ve been just don’t compare to the love I’m in
Its beats all I’ve ever seen
If youd’ve told me a few years back that I’d still be living in the place I’m at
Oh I’d say you’re living in a dream,
Girl I’m here forever
We got moon light, all night
Lord I pray on the next star I see tonight never lose this thing we found
Your by my side, I can do without the city lights
I fly so high when you’re around yeah my feet don’t touch the ground
We got moon light, all night
Lord I pray on the next star I see tonight never lose this thing we found
Your by my side, I can do without the city lights
I fly so high when you’re around yeah my feet don’t touch the ground
Feet Don’t Touch The Ground
Stoney LaRue
I invite you all to visit ChucksandBoots.com for photos and updates on the wedding before and after as well as video’s and information about the wedding ceremony. Eventually, it might become the new home of this blog, but that is all still in the works.
Mandy and I are back from our week in “Mexico”, tomorrow is work. You all take care and God Bless.
Monday, December 3rd, 2007
the stars won in a shoot out. this doth please me.
browned hamburger meat for the first time in my life tonight and succeded with a little help from mandaloo. hamburger helper and mac-n-cheese for the win.
i need something new to motivate me, to inspire me, to challenge me.
mandaloo says 87 more days. hopefully we’ll have a house in 26.
good night everyone.
Sunday, December 2nd, 2007
mandy and i spent friday shopping for my angel tree kid and her secret santa for work. that night, mandy and i met up with neo, hambone, and david to for diner and to play games on neo’s newly built computer.
saturday morning mandy and i met our realtor, brent, to go look for a list of houses he pulled togehter for us. mandy and i decided to get back in the house hunting game when we found out we would be getting most of our money back from the house we moved on before. after looking at eleven houses, we decided to ask mandy’s parents and my family to come look at our top three. after showing them the two that we considered tied for second, we went on to look at and place a bid on our favorite.
today, mandy and i missed church because she was not feeling well and was up most of the night. this afternoon, we got a call from brent saying the home owners where interested in moving foward with out bid if we where okay with closing before year end. :-) so tomorow mandy and i will move foward filling out whats left of the paperwork and lining up inspections for the house.
tonight, mandy and i watched ‘the notebook‘. i do not think i will ever understand these types of movies. they always tell such a great story, but always end sadly and just leaves women in tears… it was a good story though, i never thought i would see jim rockford, narrating such a story.
stupid dumb work tomorow, ya’ll have a safe week.
Nothing is ever really lost, or can be lost,
No birth, identity, form–no object of the world.
Nor life, nor force, nor any visible thing;
Appearance must not foil, nor shifted sphere confuse thy brain.
Ample are time and space–ample the fields of Nature.
The body, sluggish, aged, cold–the embers left from earlier fires,
The light in the eye grown dim, shall duly flame again;
The sun now low in the west rises for mornings and for noons continual;
To frozen clods ever the spring’s invisible law returns,
With grass and flowers and summer fruits and corn.
Continuities, Walt Whitman, 1819-1892
