Yearly update
Well, here I am again on my own, like a drifter blah blah blah. My daughter April turned 1 year old last month, a picture is worth a 1000, so here's some semi recent ones of everyone:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127389656@N07/
I'm finding fatherhood suits me alot better than I thought. I always tell people, marriage is likely willingly going to prison with someone, and having a kid is like giving up your yard time, but they have their upsides, and that need to be involved and protect comes pretty easily, it mystifies me how parents can have the kid and then detach. Not much to tell yet as she's just become a toddler, she's quiet and serious and well behaved like her folks, she's big into eating and flipping pages in books and pointing, but she doesn't care for being read to.
I had more trouble with Lexian up until about 3 months after April was born, some of that might have been hormones. I finally went ahead and split the finances, which was a big fight at the time but has pretty much closed the book on every finance fight going forward, which is what most of ours usually came to, things have been good for 8 months now and we still go out on our dates on the weekends so hopefully they'll continue that way.
Work sucks, they're doing this new initiative straight out of Office Space, but I'm making more each year and not in any kind of jeopardy, Lexian works for the same company and she gets her raise too. House is already half paid off two years later, so I'm in good shape.
My mother and brother are both still living their twisted lives, but they're up in Jacksonville so there's not too much damage they can do from there. I find I like the musical stylings of WASP, and I'll share my theory on how they indirectly caused the 2nd Iraq War if enough people chime in. Trying to grow my hair out one more time while I can, I've gotten a little farther with it and I've actually got a plan so we'll see if I can't manage Adrian Paul instead of Joe Dirt.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/127389656@N07/
I'm finding fatherhood suits me alot better than I thought. I always tell people, marriage is likely willingly going to prison with someone, and having a kid is like giving up your yard time, but they have their upsides, and that need to be involved and protect comes pretty easily, it mystifies me how parents can have the kid and then detach. Not much to tell yet as she's just become a toddler, she's quiet and serious and well behaved like her folks, she's big into eating and flipping pages in books and pointing, but she doesn't care for being read to.
I had more trouble with Lexian up until about 3 months after April was born, some of that might have been hormones. I finally went ahead and split the finances, which was a big fight at the time but has pretty much closed the book on every finance fight going forward, which is what most of ours usually came to, things have been good for 8 months now and we still go out on our dates on the weekends so hopefully they'll continue that way.
Work sucks, they're doing this new initiative straight out of Office Space, but I'm making more each year and not in any kind of jeopardy, Lexian works for the same company and she gets her raise too. House is already half paid off two years later, so I'm in good shape.
My mother and brother are both still living their twisted lives, but they're up in Jacksonville so there's not too much damage they can do from there. I find I like the musical stylings of WASP, and I'll share my theory on how they indirectly caused the 2nd Iraq War if enough people chime in. Trying to grow my hair out one more time while I can, I've gotten a little farther with it and I've actually got a plan so we'll see if I can't manage Adrian Paul instead of Joe Dirt.