travis' brain dump

I should have known it was coming yesterday… I woke up feeling like I didn’t get any sleep and when  I had my morning orange juice it burned… I ignored it…

Last night I had a little cough, but nothing could prepare me for this morning… I woke up feeling like I actually got sleep but still felt like a truck hit me. Sitting here at my desk I feel like I could just pass out… I ache all over and the coughing is one of those nice deep chest “i’m going to stay with you for a while” coughs…

I guess snowboarding is out this weekend… 🙁

On the upside, Andy will be pleased… that means we’ll be leveling Amanda’s character and I’ll be in the game more… sick = game time for me. LOL

Hmm… I need to call some folks… haven’t heard from a couple of them lately… I don’t like it when friends disappear and don’t check in. If you’re reading this and you know who you all are, you’re getting text messages and phone calls!

I’m going to close my door and hide now. Yes, that sounds like a wondeful plan. If only I really could.

Yep,  look who decided to drop into the game…

It’s Amanda! 🙂

So after a long discussion about how the game worked with Andy and I, Amanda caved and wanted to create a character. I guess that’s what I get for over justifying why I play the game huh, lol.  🙂

She did pretty good actually… I expected the learning curve to take a couple days but Andy is a great teacher and she’s well on her way to leveling like a pro.

Another convert I guess. *shrug* It’s not without it’s perks though, my moghouse isn’t quite as empty any longer. 😉

Anyway… it’s late and time for bed.

There has to be something said for finally finding some scheduling balance… after 4 out of 6  business days being 12+ (a couple 15+) hour days I was beginning to wonder if there was going to be any light at the end of the tunnel. 🙂 Apparently things look to be calming down this week and I’m looking forward to another 4 day week for sure. Hopefully I can get a chance to go up boarding this next Friday if all works out. Hopefully the weather will be as good as it was this past weekend… It has been phenomenal out here. I’m hoping here as it starts to warm up to finally get Arwen up there and trying the snow out. I got Amanda up there, now it’s up to the little one to join us and we can start making a family trip out of it to go up. ^^

Things *I think* are getting back to normal around the house… This past month has been really busy with all the traveling and family in town and such but I’ll say it’s quite honestly odd to have so much quite around the house now.  The trip with my parents went really well and I’m definitely glad that my Dad got a chance to go up a couple times and hit the slopes with me. Hopefully the next time we can shoot for three or four. With the calm-down I’ve also had some time to get on and play some FFXI again with Andy and Mike. More so Andy since Mike has been slackin lately… c`mon man, that’s my job. 🙂 I know Andy has enjoyed the company in the game again and it’s good to have some type of virtual distraction from the day to day things in life. But with that it’s also good to have time to balance that in with the time spent with my family and friends.

All in all things are going pretty good though. The new job is working out great and the family is doing well. Now if we can just finish getting everything squared away to begin moving forward on some more projects around the house we’ll be set. lol Funny how when you finally hit a spot of normal life you want to jumble it all up with more remodel work. yeesh… I’m just asking for it aren’t I? We’ve got some pretty nice things planned out and hopefully we’ll have the ability to implement most of them before this time next year. *knock on wood*

Ok, well nothing else too exciting to report… just felt like giving a shout out to let the world know I’m still breathin. 🙂

I think that’s the phrase that best describes the last week or so of life…

I’ve tried to start to write a blog four or five times with no success. I keep getting interrupted or something else comes up. Like I said, it’s been busy juggling between constant stuff rolling in at work and the home life. At least I’ve fit in some time for boarding. 🙂

Went up with my dad (oh yeah, did I mention the parents are in town?) to Breck last week which was a lot of fun. Not so much for him though when a boarder collided with him. I told him that’s what he got for wearing skis this time up, hehe.  At least he got in a few good runs before getting blasted. 🙂 We’re going up again tomorrow so we’ll see if he can successfully dodge the bullet this time… ooo that reminds me… I need to wax my board tonight.

Life otherwise has been pretty good. It’s business as usual around the house mostly… Oh, I did exchange emails with my friend Randy the other day… it’s been a while since I’ve heard from him so I was beginning to wonder what was going on out in Iraq with him. It’s good to here he and Sarah are well and to see some pictures. Come to think of it, I wonder how Troy is… I’ve got a few friends over there to worry about. Please remember our soldiers in those prayers folks…

Well, my time is short, so I must be getting back to work. This was a nice little break from the buzzing about here.