One Becomes Two

Just a quick entry today as I've finally gotten that "other blog" started! As I state in my first post there, I won't stop posting here, but I did want to keep the focus of each one separate for now. At some point they may come together again, who knows? If I could predict the future I think my daily routine would be different...or would it? LOL!

Anyway, here's the link and I hope you'll join me for both sides of my blogging life: http://thezendoproject.blogspot.com/

Cheers!

Things, They Are A Changing

As my regular readers know, I have been struggling with the decision on whether I should continue my doctoral program. I have gone both ways for a long time, but now I have officially decided to stop. I have known it was the right thing to do for some time now, so it's good I finally listened to myself. I wish I knew exactly where I was headed, but the possibilities of the unknown are more attractive than what I've left behind.

Over Labor Day we went up north to see my parents and we had a great time, but the boy and I came back with nasty colds. He was actually better at dealing with it than I was! The funniest thing has been trying to teach him how to blow his nose because it's not something you can really convey through action. To him it just looks like I'm holding a tissue up to my face and making a funny noise. So, many wipes later we're both back to normal and breathing through our noses again.

Now with a lot of "free time" on my hands, I've mostly been working on small projects around the house and out in the yard. It's only today that I feel that the house is becoming uncluttered! Part of it though is the reduction in my stress level which I think has been all to the good. Something else that will help that is my often referred to "other" blog project that will finally be revealed by this weekend! My idea is to have it be interactive, so get ready to offer your opinions!

Last but not least, I've added some new pictures of the boy from the last 9 months and if you haven't seen him lately he's definitely changed a lot. I'm really looking forward to doing more activities with him and can tell that his positive outlook on life is rubbing off on the old man. I love ya boy! I think the changes I'm going through will be good, but they are a bit scary. Just one step at a time, right? Make sure to breathe.

Spam, Spam, Everywhere!

At this time last week I thought the biggest issue facing my return to a less hectic life was met with everyone's favorite email treat, Spam. For the last few weeks the amount of spam accumulating in my inbox has been crazy, but now it's up to an insane level. Most of it is fake messages from eBay members, so those are easy to spot, but since I do sell on eBay I obviously have to open most of them. I'm also getting ones on themes I'm more familiar with like, "I'm the lawyer for Prince Sidar of Qatar and he'll sign over his fortune to you if you just send us $1,000" Everyone gets those, right?

Anyway, it's made life at the computer a bit more difficult that normal, but add that to the boxes we still have to unpack and I'm running behind. Oh poor little me. :) I've fallen out of touch with some folks I really wanted to keep contact with during the move and it just became impossible. Well, maybe not impossible, but certainly more difficult.

So, fortunately this post should signal the beginning of my emergence from chaos, at least from an online standpoint. We leave on Friday to visit my folks back in my hometown which we haven't visited since last December! That'll be a nice getaway I think and I'm sure the boy will love it. Hopefully, I will too!

Tomorrow I'll have some pictures (yes, I finally uploaded them) and perhaps I'll finally reveal that new blog project I mentioned before. Well, let's not get too ambitious shall we? Maybe that won't make it until we get back from our trip, but sometimes miracles do happen. Now, go out and enjoy that summertime before it's all gone.

Boxes, Boxes Everywhere!

I finally got the desktop set up this evening and I'm still surrounded by all our collected crap! We've been just keeping ahead of things and I'm very glad we're done with the moving part. Not that I'm overcome with joy about finding room for everything, but trust me it's nothing compared to all the hauling. As you might expect, my other blog project hasn't gotten anywhere yet, but having the main computer setup so I can download pics is a big step in the right direction.

I've mainly been busy doing my househusband duties of trying to keep the lawn green instead of brown, washing our large collection of dirty laundry (new washer and dryer...yay!), and generally making sure the boy doesn't get hurt while he dodges all of our belongings that are stacked in the dining room. He's been a real champ through the whole thing and continues to amaze me with his happy go lucky outlook on life.

So, as things begin to settle in I hope I'll be blogging more regularly. I won't make promises there since I haven't done so well in the past when I say that, but I think it'll happen. I also have to catch up on friend's blogs that I have accumulated in my Bloglines account. Sorry everyone! I'm sure you miss my witty (or not) comments more than life itself! ;) Now, if I can just find my way out of the boxes maze to find the stairs, it's off to bed. More to come...

Change of Scenery

Well folks, it's been another long pause in entries, but this time I have a damn good reason. We moved into a house! We've been staying nights here since Saturday and have all the large stuff moved. We still have a mostly empty apartment to clean though and have to be out completely by Sunday. It's been kinda weird to be honest since it doesn't seem like we live here! We're very happy though and once my muscles stop hurting I think we'll settle in nicely!

I've been thinking a lot about where I'd like this blog to go since I often feel like I'm showing off by talking about the good side of things. As is always the case, there is bad stuff too but I'm never excited to mention that stuff. I'd like to do something positive with my "blog time", so I've decided to start another one. I'm not ending this one necessarily, especially since the other will be a project based blog that will have an obvious end point.

Now that I've teased it a bit, I'll just say that it has to do with the little room here in the house that I'll be using as a room for my Zen practice. I have a name picked out for the blog and will start on it soon, but I have to do some work on the rest of the house first! And we have to unpack. It'll be up soon however and I'm hoping to make it interactive with my readers helping me make various choices about how to design the room. Stay tuned!