One Year Later...

It's been a year since janice and I have moved into this house. I still love it. I am working right now doing a documentary for the producer I was working for last year. it's a good feeling and a project that is really setting a new level of challenges for me. I am up for it and every day I go in feeling like I can take it on, but by 5 p.m. and working straight observing footage, I'm exhausted both emotionally and physically. I'm left thinking, what the hell am I doing.

In the end I come home and I'm exhausted. It has me thinking about the past year. Where I was last year when we moved into this house and how I was feeling. I was worried about work, I was worried about a lot. My life felt like it was put into a weird spiral. I thought I could grab onto what was going on, but in the end, I think emotionally I never did recover until Jan. of this year. I had a lot of challenges put before me last year and if time has taught me anything it's that you can get through it with a good person by your side and a lot of faith. Janice and I made it through a tough year and we did it together! It was awesome. Now that our anniversary is upon us in the house, I look back and think of how wonderful the last year really was. The time I had to enjoy this house while not working and the time I had to think about what we have to do to fix things up. Right now I'm sitting here with a cold draft on my neck from the front window (or is it the side window?).

We're looking at redoing the windows, kitchen, I need to stop the garage from flooding during bad rains and insulate the attic. And I want to get all of this done sooner than later.. because we have a little bundle of joy starting our family in september.

Okay.. going to wrap this up. In a nutshell. Last year was great. Despite down times, we're doing alright. We survive cause we got each other and we always will. In the last year, I lost a job, gained a house, found temp work to keep me a float, got married, went on a honeymoon, came into the world of future fatherhood, and got a job.

God really knows how to put you on a roller coaster ride doesn't he?