Wednesday, July 09, 2008
Friends Re-Unite
I am so happy right now. In fact I don't think I have ever been this happy in my entire life. There are 2 reasons why I am so happy. One I can't quite share with you at this time. But I hope that person knows who they are. And Two, the good Lord has brought my life long time friend Steve back into my life. I went over to his parents house because he had been on my mind a lot lately. And I had been missing him dearly. I haven't seen or talked to him in over a year. He spiraled down with the help of drugs and alcohol. But now he is doing good. He has been sober for 5 months. I left a note for him just letting him know I love him and I forgive him for everything he had done. Well he called me when he got off from work. He said I made his year, that he had been thinking of me Jer and Tim a lot lately. We had the greatest conversation. I think we both could tell how happy we both were to be talking with one another again. God works in such great ways. I'm so darn happy to have him back in my life. We are brothers, I always knew it was just a matter of time. I wish I could feel this good every single day of my life.
Today was a Good Day!!
SUnday, July 27, 2008
The Boys (Re-Unite)
Later that night before sundown we went fishing. We ended up at a spot near where my Mother, Jeff and I dumped my father's ashes last summer. After a little while I decided to head over to the exact spot where we dumped his ashes. Within about 5 minutes I was lucky enough to catch the only fish of the trip. It's hard to explain, but it was a very special moment. I still miss him dearly, but just recently achieved real peace with him being gone. Me catching that fish kind of closed that chapter. It was a pretty good sized fish, real healthly little sucker. Maybe 16" and 2 lbs. It was nice to share that moment with everyone. Tim seemed the most excited for me. He kept bringing it up the rest of the night.
We closed out the day hanging out around the campfire. Just
laughing it up. I can't remember the last time I laughed so
much and so hard. It was a near perfect weekend. I loved
getting out of the city and hanging with 3 of my best
friends. I love those guys so much. It was great having
Steve around all of us again. We didn't skip a beat we all
picked up where we left off at. It was a real bummer saying
goodbye to Jer at the end of it all. What
Monday, August 04, 2008
Another Wedding
Through out the weekend I had a good amount of time to reflect on things. I thought a lot about my Aunt Gloria who was practically a Mother to my Father. She is probably the best woman I have ever met. She could make a stranger feel like they were apart of her family. As a kid we usually spent summers in Missouri. I always looked forward to them. Aunt Gloria always had a way of making us feel so special and wanted. She was so nice and sweet, the world could use more people like her in it.
This last weekend made me think a lot about family. The one thing about life that kind of sucks, is that the longer we are here the more loved ones we are going to lose. Thats just the way it is. Thats why it's important to make the most out of every moment we have with the ones we love.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Cat Power
We packed our things into our vans and took off. Like a dork I nodded my head goodbye to Grey as if he understood me. So we walked into the next customer's apartment, a very nasty dirty stinky dump. I sat down at her desk to check the levels of her modem on the computer. And guess what her cat jumps up onto the desk and nudges me to pet her. So of coarse I do. Jesus points out to the customer that cats have a thing for me this morning. After a couple of hours on the job we are getting ready to leave. I happen to take a look back at the apartment building only to notice three cats from two different apartments sitting in the window staring at me. So yeah I don't know why I seemed to catch the eye of the cat breed today. But by golly they sure seemed to notice me today.
