Cold hearted

Over the last week or so it has finally gotten cold enough to be called winter. I appreciate sub freezing temperatures more than most people do so I have found the last week a little refreshing. To top it all off it finally snowed, and snowed enough to have some accumulation. But what does mother nature do? The day after it snows, the sun comes out, the temperature warms up and melts most of the snow. No fun in the snow for me I guess. Then to make it even worse, the next day the temperature drops even again, to probably even lower levels then before, so I freeze my hind-end off walking back and forth across campus to get to my classes. Thanks mother nature, thou art cold and heartless.

My new inspirational line.

I am sure you are all familiar with those inspirational photos/wall decor things. The ones with a picture of a light house, or an eagle with some word underneath like attitude, freedom or forgiveness followed some inspirational quote. In that same tradition I am coming up with my own line of inspirational decor. Here is my first, what do you think. (The picture is from Angel.)

Just Desserts.

Last night I was driving home from work. It was almost 11pm so it was dark and late so there weren't very many other cars out. I'm driving along obeying the speed limit (honestly) when this car speeds up behind me with his high beams on, blinding and annoying me. He's behind me for about 3 minutes when we get to a part when there is a second lane in our direction, he speeds on by me like I was standing still. I remember thinking that if there are any cops out there he's going to get pulled over and hoping that he would. (There are often cops on that road at night.)

About a mile or so down the road I see the distinct flash of police lights and knew may wish had come true. Sure enough he had been pulled over. I just smiled and waved as I drove past. Sometimes its the simple things in life that can bring a little ray of sunshine into your otherwise dreary day.

One reason why I hate shopping, or life in the No Go lane.

My boss gave me a gift card for Red Lobster for Christmas. Since this was one of the few days off I had in a while we decided to use it. Lunch was great, I got Salmon (yum), and since we where in the big shopping area I asked my wife if their was any place we wanted to go which took us to her favorite store, Target.
We shopped around for a while, or really looked around as we have no money to be buying much, Which my wife never let me forget as she would complain how we did not have enough money to buy everything she wanted, which was about everything there. We did decide to buy a little candy for us to snack on later. We proceeded to the check out which had only two lanes open, I picked the one that seemed the shortest and quickest. This gets me to the part I hate, I always manage to pick the wrong one.
First their is the elder lady who takes ten minutes to write out a check. Then there is the lady with three kids, each kid got money for Christmas. That means that the one person was really four, three of them children, all paying in cash and I believe one of them had a couple of dollars in change that had to be counted out. When they finally finished it was our turn. With our few bags of candy and my handy debt card it took all of one minute for us to check out and pay.
I think stores should add a new lane, one designed for the chronically slow, overly large or multiple order, people . Right next to the express line, they can call the it the No Go lane, with the instructions of 10 minutes or more.

2009, a very big year.

Its a new year, like you didn't already know, and whenever a new year comes around people all over reevaluate there lives and make resolutions in an effort to somehow improve upon who they are (Weight loss being the most common). While I can appreciate the attempt people make to improve, most fail. If you'd like I can tell you why, but that is another blog another time. Any way I usually pass on the whole New Year's resolution thing. I usually say it's because I'm already perfect and therefore have no need to make any resolutions, but in reality it's because I prefer to do something else.

First habits don't change, form or go away overnight. They require hard work, discipline and time, you can't just decided that you want to be one way then wake up the next morning and TA-DA it's happened. I just try to be better than I was the day before. So for New Year I prefer to do something a little different. I set a goal or two, something I want to accomplish or get done by years end. No, diets or exercise, no "spend more time with my family" or anything like that. I like specific and concrete goals that are easy to mesh out, measure and work toward.

This year its rather easy, I want to graduate from college. But secondly and probably more importantly I don't to working at Fazoli's anymore (with one exception). That means that I want to working some other job or be attending grad school. (If I am attending Radford or Tech, I might consider working part time still at Fazoli's). With the exception of my Marriage back in '07 this could possibly turn out to be the most important year of my life. A lot could happen that determines my future and how my life turns out graduating from college, and either going to Grad school or finding a real job. Much is certainly hanging on what happens during 2009.