So, what the devil have I been up to..
Being that it's been almost 6 months sense I've updated my journal you're probably thinking that I've been up to wonderful and exciting things right... right... LOL I wish.
Truth be told life for me has been pretty hum drum for the last little while, had a few highlights :
November brought Thanksgiving, which lawsoprano and I spent with my Brother and his wife's family. Good time. It had been some time since we'd spent time with them due to my absence from the RenFest this past season.
December brought the usual cadre of family gatherings, lawsoprano and I took a raid trip down to Guthrie, OK to spend X-mas with my parents. Again, my brother and his wife joined us later in the week.
New Years was another blast down at Alirose and Grepper's house. The snow storm made it for a fun drive down, but once everyone was there and settled in a good time was had by all I'm sure. I know I had a good time.
Let's see, oh yeah, tail end of January lawsoprano decided it'd be a wonderful idea to spin her car out and run it into a concrete median. (Okay, in reality some schmuck who wasn't looking tried to change lanes on top of her and she spun out as a result of trying to avoid him.. but let's not argue semantics.) So the 2001 Pontiac Grand Am that we had purchased from my sister went the way of the dodo bird and we picked up a 2002 Toyota Camry XLE. Being that I do the lion's share of the driving, lawsoprano suggested it was my turn to get the "new" car. So after 8 1/2 years, I'm no longer the primary driver of my Ford ZX2.
Health wise I'm fat, lazy, and out of shape. No seriously. My ankle injury has caused me more issues that I ever thought possible. I've tried going back to Tae-Kown-Do a few times, but no matter how well I support it, my ankle doesn't hold up well. It's not that I have pain, it just has periods where it feels weak, like the joint isn't quite all together. On some level I really want to go back, on another level I'm kinda glad I've been away from the gym. With everything that happened back in September, I'm sure I would have been angry and just left; at least this way I can try and go back if I'm every physically able to keep up. Though, I still feel I need to do something about my fitness; I'm probably gonna look into getting a club membership somewhere and workout on my own terms.
Professionally things are alright. I'm still with Merrill Corporation after 2 years, and I don't envision that changing anytime soon. I struggle with many of the usual day to day frustrations that your average IT worker does. Problem is, I've been feeling very unmotivated at work as of late. Part of me wonders if I'm not depressed a bit about my physical state and that's somehow bleeding over to my work.
World of Warcraft has even begun to ware on me. Not because I don't enjoy playing the game, but due to the guild I'm currently in. There are a lot of good players that I enjoy playing with in Warband of Grey, however at the same time there are 3 times a many people who just piss me off right now. Even since the expansion pack (Burning Crusade) came out in January, there's been a sever lack of individual effort by most of the guild to get their characters ready for the new Raid Dungeons, so those of us that have been raid ready for over a month now are now pulling people along trying to get them ready. I've thought about leaving the guild more than once, problem is there are just too many people that I enjoy playing with in the guild and I enjoy my position in the guild. So really I just have to suck up and deal or quit playing.
It all leads back to a common theme that I've begun to notice with my life. I can never seem to stay happy for a long period of time. All I know right now is, on a whole, I'm not happy right now; problem is, I don't know what's making me so.
I do know what makes me happy though, lawsoprano. Whenever I'm spending time with her, doesn't matter what I'm doing, I'm always happy to be spending time with her. Guess that's one of the reasons I married her. It's when I'm not with her that I'm miserable (for the most part.)
Anyway, I've dodged work enough for the time being, back to the grind.
Truth be told life for me has been pretty hum drum for the last little while, had a few highlights :
November brought Thanksgiving, which lawsoprano and I spent with my Brother and his wife's family. Good time. It had been some time since we'd spent time with them due to my absence from the RenFest this past season.
December brought the usual cadre of family gatherings, lawsoprano and I took a raid trip down to Guthrie, OK to spend X-mas with my parents. Again, my brother and his wife joined us later in the week.
New Years was another blast down at Alirose and Grepper's house. The snow storm made it for a fun drive down, but once everyone was there and settled in a good time was had by all I'm sure. I know I had a good time.
Let's see, oh yeah, tail end of January lawsoprano decided it'd be a wonderful idea to spin her car out and run it into a concrete median. (Okay, in reality some schmuck who wasn't looking tried to change lanes on top of her and she spun out as a result of trying to avoid him.. but let's not argue semantics.) So the 2001 Pontiac Grand Am that we had purchased from my sister went the way of the dodo bird and we picked up a 2002 Toyota Camry XLE. Being that I do the lion's share of the driving, lawsoprano suggested it was my turn to get the "new" car. So after 8 1/2 years, I'm no longer the primary driver of my Ford ZX2.
Health wise I'm fat, lazy, and out of shape. No seriously. My ankle injury has caused me more issues that I ever thought possible. I've tried going back to Tae-Kown-Do a few times, but no matter how well I support it, my ankle doesn't hold up well. It's not that I have pain, it just has periods where it feels weak, like the joint isn't quite all together. On some level I really want to go back, on another level I'm kinda glad I've been away from the gym. With everything that happened back in September, I'm sure I would have been angry and just left; at least this way I can try and go back if I'm every physically able to keep up. Though, I still feel I need to do something about my fitness; I'm probably gonna look into getting a club membership somewhere and workout on my own terms.
Professionally things are alright. I'm still with Merrill Corporation after 2 years, and I don't envision that changing anytime soon. I struggle with many of the usual day to day frustrations that your average IT worker does. Problem is, I've been feeling very unmotivated at work as of late. Part of me wonders if I'm not depressed a bit about my physical state and that's somehow bleeding over to my work.
World of Warcraft has even begun to ware on me. Not because I don't enjoy playing the game, but due to the guild I'm currently in. There are a lot of good players that I enjoy playing with in Warband of Grey, however at the same time there are 3 times a many people who just piss me off right now. Even since the expansion pack (Burning Crusade) came out in January, there's been a sever lack of individual effort by most of the guild to get their characters ready for the new Raid Dungeons, so those of us that have been raid ready for over a month now are now pulling people along trying to get them ready. I've thought about leaving the guild more than once, problem is there are just too many people that I enjoy playing with in the guild and I enjoy my position in the guild. So really I just have to suck up and deal or quit playing.
It all leads back to a common theme that I've begun to notice with my life. I can never seem to stay happy for a long period of time. All I know right now is, on a whole, I'm not happy right now; problem is, I don't know what's making me so.
I do know what makes me happy though, lawsoprano. Whenever I'm spending time with her, doesn't matter what I'm doing, I'm always happy to be spending time with her. Guess that's one of the reasons I married her. It's when I'm not with her that I'm miserable (for the most part.)
Anyway, I've dodged work enough for the time being, back to the grind.