"I also need some money for a treat, said the blonde." - Christi Adkins
2010. I just really can’t believe this. Another year has come and gone. Another decade has come and gone. And I am beginning a whole new five-year period on this website. In some bizarre way, I have been dreading the coming of 2010. When I look at the five year periods of my life – all eight of them so far – each one is characterized by one overall ‘theme’ that seems to permeate the entire era. Read the rest of this entry »
Abraham Lincoln said that “the best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.” That implies that time drips by like molasses - when in truth we seem to skip from one year to the next in the blink of an eye…or do we? I had a real sense of deja vu as I spent my New Years Day at Jim and Jan’s. This was where I was on the first of the year in 2007 as well, and it seemed like I had just been here – rooting through Jim’s CD’s and photos, worrying about Ashleigh because I hadn’t heard from her yet that afternoon, and filling out a similar posting to this one. Read the rest of this entry »
I don’t usually like to write about the website on the website, but no real in-depth glance of my life would be complete without mentioning the time spent on putting this together – especially considering I would like to be able to look back on the website to capture the flavor of any given era. Whereas when I reflect on events or time periods of the past and I can usually summarize a broad overview of not only what was going on eventwise, but what was going on in my head, when I write about current events, I miss the brushstroke that paints the atmosphere of this time period. And certainly a key element to the year 2007 would be the work I have done on this site. Read the rest of this entry »
Make no mistake, my life is not quite worthy of a biography… but I have always wanted to create a synopsis of important and interesting events from my life in some unknown format just for the sake of having some documentation available for later on down the road when I’m too old to remember anything. This is also a worthwhile endeavor simply for the sheer joy of recalling good times of the past.
There are two things I especially wanted to chronicle. I thought about actually doing two booklets and printing them up a while back, but that seemed much too difficult and would have invariably fallen by the wayside and never been completed. But with this journal, I can see myself actually doing it a little at a time and leaving myself the opportunity to edit it and add things to it. Read the rest of this entry »
I hope this is one of the few posts on this diary that has no accompanying visual aid, save this stock photo of a camera. The problem is I can’t post a photo here because of the nature of the topic.
Priorities change in life all the time. Ideas develop over the years and we often criticize ourselves for indescretions of the past… Read the rest of this entry »