2007
Happy New Year to my LJ friends!
After a couple of friendly nudges from a few of you, I have found my way back to LJ. I have not even signed on to this site in many months and therefore apologize to all of you as I am quite sure that I missed a lot of your interesting posts. It was not intentional that my LJ slipped into a hiatus; it just sort of happened. After we returned from our summer vacation in August my life got insanely hectic and I just “forgot” about LJ. I won’t bore you right now with all the details of what I have been up to the past many months but suffice it to say that things at work got very busy with international travel and my personal life was even more of a whirlwind. I coached my daughter’s soccer team; became quite active in our church; and most notably, ran (unsuccessfully) for the Maine State Legislature. Add all of that to a typically busy holiday season and I have had little time to sit and breathe, let alone write entries in LJ.
My life is not going to get any simpler in the coming months but I have decided to be more diligent about writing in LJ - if nothing except for selfish reasons. While eating Christmas dinner, family members began trading entertaining stories of our collective lives together. My wife was talking about the first winter in Maine with our girls. Their first “Maine” snow was falling outside and Julia was pressed against her bedroom window and exclaimed loudly that it was snowing outside. Little Anna ran to her bedroom and squealed with delight, “It is snowing outside my window, too”. As my wife related the story, I realized that I had forgotten this story, and it angered me. Admittedly, it is a sappy story but as the parent I do not wish to forget things like that. I have always prided myself on having an impeccable memory, but this event made me start to wonder how “permanent” all of the stories floating around in my head really are. I never intended for LJ to become a running transcript of my life and it certainly will not become that now, but it does serve admirably as a place to get some of the “stuff” out of my head and down on “paper”. So that is why I am back to writing in this journal.
Plus, I like all of you…………….
After a couple of friendly nudges from a few of you, I have found my way back to LJ. I have not even signed on to this site in many months and therefore apologize to all of you as I am quite sure that I missed a lot of your interesting posts. It was not intentional that my LJ slipped into a hiatus; it just sort of happened. After we returned from our summer vacation in August my life got insanely hectic and I just “forgot” about LJ. I won’t bore you right now with all the details of what I have been up to the past many months but suffice it to say that things at work got very busy with international travel and my personal life was even more of a whirlwind. I coached my daughter’s soccer team; became quite active in our church; and most notably, ran (unsuccessfully) for the Maine State Legislature. Add all of that to a typically busy holiday season and I have had little time to sit and breathe, let alone write entries in LJ.
My life is not going to get any simpler in the coming months but I have decided to be more diligent about writing in LJ - if nothing except for selfish reasons. While eating Christmas dinner, family members began trading entertaining stories of our collective lives together. My wife was talking about the first winter in Maine with our girls. Their first “Maine” snow was falling outside and Julia was pressed against her bedroom window and exclaimed loudly that it was snowing outside. Little Anna ran to her bedroom and squealed with delight, “It is snowing outside my window, too”. As my wife related the story, I realized that I had forgotten this story, and it angered me. Admittedly, it is a sappy story but as the parent I do not wish to forget things like that. I have always prided myself on having an impeccable memory, but this event made me start to wonder how “permanent” all of the stories floating around in my head really are. I never intended for LJ to become a running transcript of my life and it certainly will not become that now, but it does serve admirably as a place to get some of the “stuff” out of my head and down on “paper”. So that is why I am back to writing in this journal.
Plus, I like all of you…………….