Life as a Husband, Dad, Systems Analyst, and Responsible Adult.

It's December of 2013, and I feel content. Our company is selling software, and that means we are doing something right. I will have a busy couple of months coming up, traveling and implementing large-scale software projects.

my window on the world for 9 hours a day

I am getting along well with my wife and daughters. I feel a little distant from my son, but he knows I love him and am proud of him. 

Finances are tight right now. We bought a house in the summer and our expenses rose by about $600 per month. We have a little yard for the dog, and Christmas lights around the front porch. My wife has started going back to church, and I go with her sometimes. God has really blessed our family, mostly with spiritual blessings in Christ, and also with material blessings. I have a car that runs, by the grace of God, with 175,000 miles and some needed service. My wife has a good car too, and recently got the oil changed. We are truly blessed to have jobs, cars, a house, enough to eat, and clothes to wear.

A lot of my free time is spent in addiction recovery-related activities. We are doing a financial program to work toward getting out of debt and living more prosperously. By the grace of God, I have been sober from drugs and alcohol for 23 years. I am free from porn and sexual acting out for 11 months. Also, maintaining a 60-lb weight loss since Halloween of 2011. This is achieved by not eating flour and sugar, weighing and measuring my meals, and meetings, Bible study, prayer, and meditation. 

I have started doing an exercise plan called Power of 10. It involves any kind of resistance training, 10 seconds in and 10 seconds out. So a pushup is a full 10 seconds up, and a full 10 seconds down. I can do about 4.5 of these pushups until muscle failure. I do this about once a week, with a few other exercises. It helps me feel better about myself. I also take vitamins in the morning, and stretch to overcome stiffness from my multiple car wrecks since moving to Oregon.

I miss my friends, but I feel like we are getting ready to connect with more people, and I am excited about that.

That's all I have for now. It feels good to write, so I may be back sooner than later.

Here's one: What did the little dog say to the people walking by? Bow wow wow wow wow!