Wow. It has been since November since the last time I posted a blog entry. I knew I had been neglecting my blog (and everyone else’s), but I really didn’t realize that it had been so long. Time flies when you are having fun. The first question that comes to mind is how do I catch up on 8 eventful months. I think the answer is that I can’t, but I will hit some highlights at the very least.
While not the most exciting detail, first and foremost, it is perhaps prudent to establish that I am in fact still alive. I find this to be a rather important point as otherwise the past 8 months would probably be a bit boring primarily revolving around worms playing pinochle on my snout as the kid’s chant goes. Luckily, that is not the case and in fact my world has been a rather delightful place of late.
On May 22, Ale and I were married on Ocean Isle Beach in North Carolina. Not a day has gone by since then (really since she was able to get her visa and move here in March) that I have not woken up and realized just how lucky of a person I am. My only frustration at this point is being able to adequately express just how wonderful she is and how complete life has become with her in my life. I can only just keep trying…and smiling!! :)
We are still working our way through the immigration challenges, but I will save that for another entry sometime as it cannot help but to devolve into a rather critical treatise of the current state of the process. Regardless of the frustrations, things are progressing slowly but surely and hopefully things will start to resolve over the next few months so we can focus on more enjoyable things.
Hmmm…what else has been going on…
I planted a garden this year with a co-worker who had an ideal spot on his property for one. I have not gardened since I was a teenager working in my parent’s garden. I can still remember the vehemence with which I swore I would never have a garden in a typically overzealous teenage fashion. While it has been over 15 years, here I am working in a garden again. It is doing fairly well despite a bit of a drought and the inept skills of its caretakers. Perhaps I will post more about that on another day in case anyone is having trouble sleeping.
Having been rather lax in taking care of myself over the years and now facing high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and diabetes, I have been working on losing weight this year. While I have not been very consistent in diet or exercise, I am happy to say that I am down about 15 kilos from where I started last year and am still going down slowly but surely. Hopefully, it will have some positive impact.
Our spare time lately has been consumed by projects like painting, pressure washing the house, replacing fixtures and a multitude of other little home improvement projects. Before and in our spare time we have been running around the countryside enjoying various diversions from hanging out on the beach in Wilmington for the Azalea Festival, the waterfront in Beaufort for Memorial Day, catching Cirque du Soleil in Raleigh, seeing the exhibit “Temples and Tombs” on loan from the British Museum at the NC Art Museum, visiting my parents in Georgia, to a number other little adventures.
I am sure I have left out numerous things, but suffice it to say that life is good. I have been blessed with the love of a wonderful woman and for that fact I am ever awed and grateful. Hopefully, I will do a little better at updating my blog now and actually have a little more detailed posts in the future.
