“Life moves pretty fast….”
“….You don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it”. These words always spoke true to me. From Matthew Brodericks mouth, to my mind. Ok, I know I said, I’m back. I’m back. That was 4 months ago. I lied. I could give you a B.S. excuse and say it was cause I was too conflicted with personal reason, but that’s not the truth. The truth is, I forgot about what calms me down. Relaxes me. Makes me speak my mind, my opinions. The opinions that no one can change, no one can forbid. And although I’ve faced an extremely traumatizing weekend, the past 4 months haven’t lacked to suffice. I topped this heck of a weekend, by taking a load off, and taking Leah to the drive-in to see the double-feature of Leap Year, and It’s Complicated. Just what I needed to snap back and remember, there’s more to life than trying to make EVERYTHING run smoothly. Sometimes you just have to go with the flow. You already put the carrots in the stew. You just gotta let them marinate a little bit. And note: This trauma over the weekend didn’t even have to do with me, so I can’t imagine how the ones it does have to do this feel, so I hope they are reading this. Take these words into consideration. Tomorrow, you’ll still be just the same is His eyes, as you were at your brightest moment.
Now, Not that my posts often express someting personal, but here, ladies and gentleman, is a little piece of what I’ve been up to. In October, I got offered to go on tour with my good friend Johnny, on Bike for the Light, http://www.bikeforthelight.com/, and that tour will begin on March 1st. I’ll be driving the bus for him. We’ll be getting back from the tour in July. Now I know what you all are thinking “WTF! You’re trying to plan a wedding! You’ll be getting back 2 months beforehand! And how can you leave Leah that long?! Won’t you miss her?!?”. Yes to all. Leah is the love of my life. That was my biggest hesitation when asked if I wanted to go. However, we worked outa great plan. Johnny just got engaged as well. Actually, his wedding is exactly a week after mine. And no way his fiancee, Sarah, is letting him leave for 6 months without seeing her. So, we’ll be flying back home for a week, every 8 weeks, and halfway through those 8 weeks, Leah and Sarah will be flying out for a weekend to see us wherever we’re at. So I’ll be seeing Leah every 3 weeks or so. And with the benefit of webcams and the latest technology, I can see her face every night. And the way I see it, being engaged sucks. Being a boyfriend was awesome. You always were chillin’, waiting for the next leap. Still finding out eachother’s mysteries. Then once you’re a fiance, you just want to marry this person!!! Having to wait that long to call this person your wife is horrible! So, I definitely think the tour will speed things up big time. Besides, absense makes the heart grow fonder. I also feel like Leah could get a lot more of the wedding planning done without me here to distract her.
But other than that little boomer, and of course the wedding planning, that’s all that’s been happening while I’ve been absent. Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas came and went. There’s been it’s ups and downs. Mostly just with people. I haven’t the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out. But life is good. Great. The man upstairs never ceases to amaze me.