It's only 5 months away now. Turning 30 is something strange. I didn't make it into something big but somehow it became that. It's not like some outside person came into my life and told me "turning 30 is a big deal" or some story implied that... but it feels that way. 30 years on earth. We've somehow decided that you get 22 or 23 years to figure ( Read more... )

So, a couple of months ago I was diagnosed as having sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is a condition where, while sleeping, a person's trachea slowly closes until it prevents the person from breathing. After a short period of time the person's brain "wakes" the body up so that it will start breathing again. While the person may not fully wake up to ( Read more... )

On Carlene's suggestion I started a new blog. It has a bit more of a direction and a point. Do me a favor and check out and leave a comment and some encouraging words :) Make it your friend too!

http://mrfrenchblog.livejournal.com/

Carlene and I had our 2 year anniversary this past weekend and I have to say things are looking pretty good. For quite some time we fought a whole bunch and we were both frustrated as hell. We got mad about stupid things. We yelled at each other. We just generally made each other miserable. Then we started to come to some realizations! We were both ( Read more... )

I frequent a number of websites about the economy on a daily basis. I could care less about the stock market but I love how the economy is something we feel like we can control but in reality, it does whatever the hell it wants. I find myself drawn to articles about companies figuring out the next big thing early and love watching companies that ( Read more... )

I don't eat a lot of fast food but when I do it tends to be either Taco Bell or Wendy's. They're both cheap and pretty good as far as fast food goes so that's just where I like to frequent. This is not a post about the quality of either of these places though ( Read more... )

So, I've kept a surprising number of my friends from high school. It's still a lot of fun to hang out with most of them though I must admit that a lot has changed since then. Some people you were really close with back in those days simply change in ways that just aren't really compatible with the ways that you change and generally, it's pretty OK ( Read more... )

I think for the most part I'm a pretty decent fellow. I will full admit to being overly opinionated. Also, I'm rather aggressive with those opinions but other than that? Pretty good guy! You're welcome to disagree, as a note ( Read more... )

For those of you not in "the know" Carlene and I got a kitten a while back. She's a purebred Persian. Her name is Sofie. She's a sweet as sugar and as troublesome as the devil after you sell him your soul. The way you know some kind of trouble is afoot is when she puts on her crazy eyes. The whole flat face thing seems to make her eyes seem more ( Read more... )

Well, as per usual, it's been a while since I've written anything here. The interesting thing is though, I'm hardly alone. I'm not sure if it's simply one of the built in features of aging but my group of livejournal friends have been updating less and less. I can think back to 5 or so years ago when I was in college and just about anytime I logged ( Read more... )