Jul 01, 2012 20:40
My life is so different now than it was just a year ago.
1. I've been going to my Episcopal parish for just about a year, and I "joined" it, and I like it. Meanwhile, the Catholics do more to to irk me at every turn. And yet, what I feel about the Catholics is more the annoyance of an outsider than the despair I imagine I would feel as an insider. If all this business with the HHS mandate were going on while I were sitting in the pew, I don't know what I would do.
2. I got a new position and promotion at my job, and I really like it!
3. Lee got laid off, making me the sole breadwinner, and he is staying at home with the kids for the summer. He is trying to start his own business repairing and selling musical instruments. To that end, he rents a booth at the flea market every weekend. He has been building an inventory and is starting to get rolling now.
4. I am raising chickens, a pasttime I never seriously considered until a short time before I went out and bought some chicks in early June.
5. I have a 1964 Dodge Dart in my car port that we have been working to restore since last August. See #3 to know why that project is stalled right now, but it won't be forever. Having an awesome 1960s car is a long-time desire of mine, and it's going to come to pass, however slowly.
I did not see any of this coming, but it's all really nice.
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