You know, one of the most interesting (and most satisfying) things about getting older is how little you start to care what other people think of you. Not that I'm necessarily "old" at this point -- although sometimes it feels that way, lol -- but for me personally, there's a pretty huge difference between my mental state now versus my mental state ( Read more... )

One of the things I've been thinking about a lot lately is how I'm really going to need to do a better job of budgeting and prioritizing my time once the baby comes. Time management has never been my strong suit -- in fact, it's probably my single biggest weakness as a functioning adult. One of my problems is that I have a lot of passions and ( Read more... )

All right, it's taken me a lot longer than I thought it would to make it back here to write Round 2 of my latest batch of posts, but I finally found some time to collect my thoughts... I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't post some sort of update on the latest with making music and recording with Blake. And the good news is it appears that the ( Read more... )

OK, so piggybacking on my last post... The comfort that I've found in recent years in my home life has certainly been a blessing. I feel fortunate every day that I have a happy marriage and great family and friends who care about me. I have support all around me from my loved ones, a couple of steady jobs that provide me with financial stability, a ( Read more... )

I just can't quit you, Live Journal, haha. At this point, I guess this has become part of my routine, where I inevitably come crawling back here every 6-10 months to post a bunch of stuff in bulk. And that's exactly what I plan to do again here tonight, so hold on to your butts, folks ( Read more... )

There's another element to my recent musical reawakening that I haven't yet addressed... A little over a year ago, Blake and I reconnected for the first time in quite a while -- really, since well before he moved down to Florida. He had a lot of personal issues that he was dealing with for a long time, so he kind of fell off the grid for (at least ( Read more... )

...And hey, speaking of having more time to focus my creative energy elsewhere -- the past year or so has really seen me recommit to music more than I have in quite a long time. This started sometime last spring, picked up steam in the late summer and fall, and then really shifted into overdrive during the winter. And my new job was really the ( Read more... )

The other big news for me since the last time I visited Live Journal is that I got promoted at work... After spending more than 7 years as a reporter, I am now the copy editor at C & G. The transition officially happened about six months ago, and it's been pretty cool so far. I feel like I've been complaining about my job in this journal for almost ( Read more... )

Well, well, well... Look who suddenly came crawling back to Live Journal after more than a year away. I sometimes wondered if I would ever return to this place after being gone for so long. But I guess I just couldn't help myself, haha. It feels kind of strange as a 31-year-old man to still be coming here to write self-centered little posts that no ( Read more... )

I wanted to kind of piggyback onto the post that I wrote last week, but rather than awkwardly shoehorning this new (but indirectly related) topic in there, I figured it would be better for me to just create a brand new entry... Anyway, something happened recently that has been on my mind because it ties in with some of the LJ posts that I've made ( Read more... )