Ventures

Things have finally calmed down enough since my last real post. First and foremost, my sister had the twins on March 3, so they’re almost 2 months old. I have trouble telling the girls apart, with Rachel being only 1 pound heavier than Olivia, and both the same length. The family is doing fine, and Lauryn is getting used to and loving the babies in the house. Usually every Tuesday I go over, see the twins, pick up Lauryn, go pick up my mom, and take them both to Fashion Island to walk around. Lauryn loves the merry-go-round, the koi pond, the various fountains, and the nesting birds. It’s gotten to the point where if they mention I’m coming over, she gets all excited, looks for her shoes and ready to go. Very cute - she’ll be 3 in a few more months.

Work has calmed down as well. There was a portion of time with the family responsibilities as well as countless time-sensitive projects at work that was so stressful I couldn’t sleep at night or keep food down. When that finally passed, it took a while for my body and mind to recover. Just one of those perfect storm situations, I suppose. I’ve found that stress affects my eating and sleeping schedule a lot more now than it ever did in the past. Not sure why: age, lifestyle, importance of various work projects…a few year ago, no big deal, but now - I need to learn to handle it much better. Other than the easy way of just not giving a shit about anything, of course.

I’ve found and started a Twitter feed on the right sidebar. I like it because the WordPress plugin can take the various tweets I can do daily and combine and make it a post. Very nice when you don’t have the time to think and write up a post, just short “here is whats going on right now” type thoughts. I’ll still post, but often it can be difficult to remember what I did during the day and how I felt about it, so I do like the feature.

To wrap up, here’s a youtube of a Discovery Channel commercial of their hosts singing. The song is written for it, but based on a very traditional Boy/Girl Scouts campfire song. I really enjoy it as it serves to remind me that the world is one hell of an awesome and awe-inspiring place.