Sunday, November 30, 2008

Taking Control

Well, it's been a while since I've written on here, so I figured I'd take a second to post real quick. I'm wrapping up my trip to St. Albans for Thanksgiving and football, I head home tomorrow and hope the weather will cooperate with me till I get home. This has been an awesome five days. Every time I come up to visit, it gets harder to leave. I love this area a lot- not to say I don't love Hillsboro, but this place is nice, a good middle ground between city and country, not too far out but not insanely busy. I'm glad Cate and Ben and Elliott all live around here, if nothing else it gives me an excuse to spend a lot of time here.

It was good to spend Thanksgiving with the family again, it's been a long time since we've all been together to do this. And it was definetly a nice change of pace from the past six years, from working at the grocery store to hanging out with the crazy clan and sitting at the kid's table to eat...

The football game was awesome, it was great to be right on the front row in the endzone and take it all in, even if some of the people there made me feel like an old man. Great time and experience, I hope to get to do it again nnext year, and it'd be nice to make it to some basketball games as well this winter...

I think I'll wrap it up for now, I gotta get some sleep before the drive tomorrow. I hope you all are doing well and had a great holiday, be positive and love your life, folks. Peace...

C-

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Speak Easy


Well, it's almost been a month since I've moved to West Virginia. It's gone by a lot faster than I thought it would have. I've started working out of the house, gone back to Toledo for the first time in several years, and got to visit with my brother and sister also. This has been a slow week so far, just cleaning up around the house and organizing stuff for the business. Next Thursday I'll be heading back for my last round at bloom before ending my ten plus years at the establishment. It'll be cool and kinda sad (again) to go back. While I'm looking forward to it, and need to go back for monetary reasons, I'd almost rather stay here. I don't miss Charlotte at all. I'm beyond content here. I thought it would be a hard transition going from the city to living essentially out in the middle of nowhere, but it's been a breeze thus far. Being with and closer to my family doesn't hurt the situation either. It's been good to laugh with my folks, walk through Hillsboro just taking everything in, heading up to St. Albans and hanging out with at Cate and Ben's house playing Wii, watching movies, and attempting to carve pumpkins, and going to Huntington for Elliott's birthday, complete with a trip to Stewart's. It's an awesome time so far, it's been great getting back to being me again. I got to a point over the past few years where I was trying to be someone else to make something broken work out and lost who I was. Now I'm finally back to being me. I feel great right now, better than I have in a very long time and I can't wait to see what's to come in my life. Stay tuned...