One of these days
It's 2:30 in the morning, and instead of just lying in bed tossing and turning I decided to get up do something. I don't know exactly what led me to write on here, but shazam, here I am. I've somewhat exhausted my options during the last few months on things to look at. I remember when we first got the internet, I was a senior in High School. We had dial-up at the house, and I'd spend several hours a night just going from site to site. Now with high speed, I can look at the same number of sites in a fraction of the time. Plus the fact that I only really look at 5 or 6 sites daily. Throughout the day I'll think of different things to look up on wikipedia, but usually forget them by the time I get the chance to do a little browsing. I've rambled for a good while on my tendencies on the computer, but my point is that there isn't nearly as much that interests me now as there used to be.
It figures that one of the only times that I have to get up early, I can't sleep the night before. I have to help move from office to office tomorrow (er..today) for my Dad and his secretary. Great fun! The weekend is coming though and as usual for this time of year, something is going on. The weeks past have seen barbecue cook offs, cookouts, boats, and concerts. This week is another concert. It should be fun. I haven't had the chance to see my favorite singer Mark David Manders in probably about 2 years. He used to come to Lubbock all the time, but for some reason just stopped during my last year or so up there. There's other good bands too, but my money is going to watch and sing along with Mark David. He's a pretty good singer, but my favorite part of the deal is that he puts on a good show. It didn't hurt that he used to have an extremely attractive fiddle player too. I think she's the one that got us to come back the second and third times we saw him, then we realized what a great show it was.
My favorite of the concerts that we saw him in was at the Blue Light in Lubbock. He has a song called Gillespie County Peaches but he rarely plays it in concert. Seeing as how we in Kerrpatch are so close to Fredericksburg (which is in Gillespie County) we kind of adopted that song as out own, and always ask him to play it. Chuck and I would yell after every song he played that we wanted to hear Gillespie County Peaches. Finally this night, he told Chuck and me that he hadn't done that song in so long that he doesn't remember all of it. We just laughed and enjoyed the rest of the show. Somehow after the music had stopped and the bar had cleared out, a group of us ended up behind the Blue Light with MDM and his guitar. While back there, he tried to remember the chords and said we'd have to help him with the lyrics. We tried, and got about half way through the song but being that it was dollar pitcher night beforehand, it just wasn't happening for us. So we all gave up and walked across the street to the library and had a few more. We being our group and Mr. Manders. I'm sure that kind of thing happens all the time for folks, but I know our group really enjoyed it and appreciated it.
The title of my post is one of these days. It was originally going to mean that one of these days I'll get onto this thing and type out a good long blog about how things are going. Seems like that somewhat happened tonight though. I was just planning on saying a quick hello and trying to hit the hay again, but it's already 2:45 now.
Things...Well I can say they aren't ideal right now, but I don't really have any complaints. I think that in this last week I've figured out more than I had in the previous 5 months. I'd kind of turned a little bitter towards life in general. Not so much at particular individuals, but just the state of my situation. It had been brewing for a while but I sat down and thought things out. I still don't know for sure what I'm going to do with my life. I'm not blaming that on anyone but myself though. Things will work out for me as soon as I stick my foot on the pedal and get them moving. I've waited around for reasons I thought were pretty valid at the time, but in retrospect see that it might have been a mistake. I've had new ideas pop in my head weekly about where I want to go, and what I want to do. Again though, nothing is going to happen until I make it.
The funny thing is, that for so long I just wanted to get the hell out of here. Now though I'm impartial. I wouldn't mind sticking around. I also wouldn't mind getting a chance to leave. Whatever happens, happens. I'll be the one who dictates that. As I said earlier, there seems to be so much stuff going on right now that I'd hate to leave and miss it. I'm really happy with the activities that are happening, and the friendships that have been continued and made in the past 6 months or so. If I do end up sticking around, certain things will have to change (ie living situation) but I can't say that I'll be upset about being "stuck" in Kerrville. We've got a great group of folks who we see 3 or 4 times a week. It'd be difficult to go off and start anew elsewhere.
The twice weekly basketball games, and the weekly softball games might make me a little worse for wear, but I'm having a good time. I'm thinking maybe that's why I'm not sleeping tonight, I'm friggin' sore. I love it though, it's so much better than sitting at home and not doing anything. I don't know if I'm losing weight, but I'm feeling great. It's funny how being active for as little as 5 to 10 hours a week turns your confidence in the right direction.
That's it for now. I wish I had some prize for those of you who've read everything I've written on here. My life is exciting to be living, but I'm sure to a fly on the wall it isn't quite as thrilling to read about. Oh well!! It's past 3 in the morning, and I've got to get up in 4 hours. I haven't done this since college, or some of these long weekends lately.
I've mainly not been posting on here all that much lately because I didn't (and don't) want to spew negativity. I hate negativity, but it creeps in on us all. I miss the days of being happy go lucky, and just enjoying every minute of things. I think I'll try that again. The first few steps of that will be the next few months. I think I'll enjoy myself, if things fall into place during that time, great. If not, I guess I'll keep on keeping on. G'night
It figures that one of the only times that I have to get up early, I can't sleep the night before. I have to help move from office to office tomorrow (er..today) for my Dad and his secretary. Great fun! The weekend is coming though and as usual for this time of year, something is going on. The weeks past have seen barbecue cook offs, cookouts, boats, and concerts. This week is another concert. It should be fun. I haven't had the chance to see my favorite singer Mark David Manders in probably about 2 years. He used to come to Lubbock all the time, but for some reason just stopped during my last year or so up there. There's other good bands too, but my money is going to watch and sing along with Mark David. He's a pretty good singer, but my favorite part of the deal is that he puts on a good show. It didn't hurt that he used to have an extremely attractive fiddle player too. I think she's the one that got us to come back the second and third times we saw him, then we realized what a great show it was.
My favorite of the concerts that we saw him in was at the Blue Light in Lubbock. He has a song called Gillespie County Peaches but he rarely plays it in concert. Seeing as how we in Kerrpatch are so close to Fredericksburg (which is in Gillespie County) we kind of adopted that song as out own, and always ask him to play it. Chuck and I would yell after every song he played that we wanted to hear Gillespie County Peaches. Finally this night, he told Chuck and me that he hadn't done that song in so long that he doesn't remember all of it. We just laughed and enjoyed the rest of the show. Somehow after the music had stopped and the bar had cleared out, a group of us ended up behind the Blue Light with MDM and his guitar. While back there, he tried to remember the chords and said we'd have to help him with the lyrics. We tried, and got about half way through the song but being that it was dollar pitcher night beforehand, it just wasn't happening for us. So we all gave up and walked across the street to the library and had a few more. We being our group and Mr. Manders. I'm sure that kind of thing happens all the time for folks, but I know our group really enjoyed it and appreciated it.
The title of my post is one of these days. It was originally going to mean that one of these days I'll get onto this thing and type out a good long blog about how things are going. Seems like that somewhat happened tonight though. I was just planning on saying a quick hello and trying to hit the hay again, but it's already 2:45 now.
Things...Well I can say they aren't ideal right now, but I don't really have any complaints. I think that in this last week I've figured out more than I had in the previous 5 months. I'd kind of turned a little bitter towards life in general. Not so much at particular individuals, but just the state of my situation. It had been brewing for a while but I sat down and thought things out. I still don't know for sure what I'm going to do with my life. I'm not blaming that on anyone but myself though. Things will work out for me as soon as I stick my foot on the pedal and get them moving. I've waited around for reasons I thought were pretty valid at the time, but in retrospect see that it might have been a mistake. I've had new ideas pop in my head weekly about where I want to go, and what I want to do. Again though, nothing is going to happen until I make it.
The funny thing is, that for so long I just wanted to get the hell out of here. Now though I'm impartial. I wouldn't mind sticking around. I also wouldn't mind getting a chance to leave. Whatever happens, happens. I'll be the one who dictates that. As I said earlier, there seems to be so much stuff going on right now that I'd hate to leave and miss it. I'm really happy with the activities that are happening, and the friendships that have been continued and made in the past 6 months or so. If I do end up sticking around, certain things will have to change (ie living situation) but I can't say that I'll be upset about being "stuck" in Kerrville. We've got a great group of folks who we see 3 or 4 times a week. It'd be difficult to go off and start anew elsewhere.
The twice weekly basketball games, and the weekly softball games might make me a little worse for wear, but I'm having a good time. I'm thinking maybe that's why I'm not sleeping tonight, I'm friggin' sore. I love it though, it's so much better than sitting at home and not doing anything. I don't know if I'm losing weight, but I'm feeling great. It's funny how being active for as little as 5 to 10 hours a week turns your confidence in the right direction.
That's it for now. I wish I had some prize for those of you who've read everything I've written on here. My life is exciting to be living, but I'm sure to a fly on the wall it isn't quite as thrilling to read about. Oh well!! It's past 3 in the morning, and I've got to get up in 4 hours. I haven't done this since college, or some of these long weekends lately.
I've mainly not been posting on here all that much lately because I didn't (and don't) want to spew negativity. I hate negativity, but it creeps in on us all. I miss the days of being happy go lucky, and just enjoying every minute of things. I think I'll try that again. The first few steps of that will be the next few months. I think I'll enjoy myself, if things fall into place during that time, great. If not, I guess I'll keep on keeping on. G'night
posted by Sancho at 12:23 AM
3 Comments:
" Life's a garden, dig it!" Joe Dirt
keep on keepin on...gotta love that quote!! Things will all work out for ya! :)
Well written article.
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