Also, a quick announcement!
I’ve just created a MoBlog using a service provided by Text America. This will allow me to post photos to the site directly from my new cell phone. You can find the new MoBlog here:
This version is only temporary until I (hopefully with a little help from Scott) can write my own custom version….
So… I came home last night, after an evening out with friends, to find the following note on my doorstep:
The offending sounds are, of course, not coming from my apartment… The fact that I haven’t had a serious date, much less been a relationship that would merit crazy, loud, freaky sex in a long, long, LONG, long time kinda rules me out…
…but it’s still just really damn funny… :)
So many memories for such a little house…
It’s late Monday night and I stand alone in my PJs on the crows nest of the beach house that my family rents each October. The night air is cool, and the brisk wind blowing in off the ocean is enough to chill me to the bone, but I don’t want to leave. The sound of the waves crashing just beyond the dunes fills my ears as I stare off into the star filled heavens….
So many memories….
They wash over me like the waves crashing on the not so distant beach…
I remember time spent here with Beth… The joys of young love… the simple tingle of a kiss shared beneath the stars… The comfort of holding someone in your arms and knowing that their love is as stong as yours….
I remember Unk, before he was sick… The innumerable hands of “Gizzy”… the laughter… the joking… I can’t help but smile even tho I’m on the verge of tears…
So many memories…
As the relentless roar of the waves continues, I my thoughts shift to the present… I think about surf fishing with my dad… There are few times that I have felt more content, more at peace than when I’ve been out on that beach, the waves lapping and splashing around my feet, just watching the tide come in, waiting for a bite… It’s moments like this that I feel the closest to my Dad… Sometime we’ll talk while we’re there, but mostly we just fish… and that’s enough… Sometimes you don’t need words to know how someone feels… I hope my Dad knows that those moments are as special to me as I know they are to him…
I think about my sister… This is the first time we’ve seen each other in far too long, and yet, in a way, it felt like we’d never been apart… I love my sister…
I think about my mom… I think about her smile… so beautiful in person, so goofy in picutres… I think of the way the love she holds for her children comes through every look, every touch, every word….
I stand there for a while longer, waves crashing, the cool salt air filling my lungs… I think of a million other things… friends, family… memories old and new… Finally, the chill of the night air is too much for me and I decide to head back to bed… As I go, I breath one last clensing sigh and turn my head to the heavens….
So many memories… so many stars…
Just a couple of random things…
First off, Californians (at least 3,675,317 of them) are idiots… I can’t say I’m surprised really, but I did have an ever so faint hope that sanity would somehow prevail… Ah well, personally, I would have voted for Georgy Russell, and not just because she could be my ideal woman… At the very least she’s a hell of a lot more capable than the Terminator, the porn star, and Gary Coleman put together…
Second, what’s up with my memory? I totally had something else to to say, but I can’t remember…. oh well…
Anyway, things at work seem to be quieting down a bit… I seem to be back to a more or less normal trouble call level, no huge looming projects calling for numerous hourse of overtime… and only one server died last week… and that was pretty easilly fixed….
Personally, things are, well, eh…. I’m not overly sad, disturbed, unstable, etc… but I’m also not overly happy, joyous, or excited… I just sorta am, I guess… ::shurg::
That’s not entirely true… On the one hand I am quite excited about my upcoming vacation, both becuase I will get a much needed week off of work, but also because I will get to spend some quality time with my sister, who I haven’t seen in FAR too long…
I’ve also been feeling kinda lonely recently… but, since it’s been longer than I care to mention here since anyone that I’ve been interested in has given me a chance, I suppose a little lonliness from time to time is to be expected… I’m sure it’ll pass….
OH, now I remember the other thing… I was watching GeekTV last night and on The Screensavers they mentioned a report that estimates that of the 4.12+ million blogs on the net, nearly 66% of them have been abandoned… I’m going to try not to be part of that statistic… not that many people actually read this thing anyway….
Ok, I think that should do it for now… It’s finally 5:00.. time to go home… :)