I Wanna Talk About Me

School

Sometimes I get so focused on other things that I forget about me. Now I’m not saying there’s a lot going on in my life, but it’s been busy.

Many of my readers know that I am taking Bible classes.  The course is a 3-year course with three semesters each year. I recently finished up the second semester of the second year and have moved on to the third semester.  My hope is to keep the pace and finish up here within the next year.

Some of the classes have tests that go with them. Some of them do not.  The course is designed so that you will be ready to preach if that is what you choose to do. I am currently in the last semester of the preparation and delivery of sermons class. There are no more tests involved in that class so I could literally watch the classes back to back and finish up sooner than expected.

It’s been an interesting journey. Early on when I began, it always seemed like there was something going on that took me away from being able to get it all done. At work, I get an hour break and each class is about an hour. I have made it a point to use my lunch hour as my school time and it’s working.

ADHD

I have to give props to those people in the mental health field. Life for me, has been very different since discovering that I have adult ADHD. I know that some people are against taking medications, however, I feel like I’m more myself even though we are still tweaking doses and medications.

A month ago I thought we were very very close, but I had some lingering issues. So my doctor tried a different ADHD medication. After about 2 weeks, I knew that I felt better on the previous medication. 

Yesterday I met with her again and we’re going to try something else. You would think that the trial and error process would be frustrating, and it can be sometimes. However, with all of the different tweaks I know that we are getting closer to where I need to be.

Most guys might say it’s a guy thing to start something and forget about finishing it. However, that’s one of my biggest ADHD issues. So we are working towards correcting that.

Hopefully, soon

Uncle Again

Sam’s sister has had a pretty rough pregnancy.  When she was at our house for the 4th of July, she looked so miserable.

On Sunday night, they went to the hospital because something wasn’t right. They kept her overnight for observation. Then it was decided that they were going to induce labor.

Over the course of the next day or so, they went from inducing labor to stopping labor and then starting it back up again and stopping it again and so on… She just wasn’t progressing like they had hoped. Finally, yesterday my newest nephew was born.

I worked yesterday, but my wife took my daughter up to see the new baby. I can’t even begin to tell you how excited she was to meet her cousin, and to hold him. When she got back home, they video chatted with me. All she kept telling me was how soft the baby was!

The word is that she’ll be out of the hospital sometime today. I’m hoping to get the chance to meet him very soon.

Plenty of Pasta

On Saturday, Sam’s adopted twin brothers had their open house. Originally, they were going to do a joint open house with a friend of theirs at a hall. I guess that fell through.

They had told Sam’s mom that they really didn’t want to do an open house. I am guessing that after talking to friends who had an open house, they realized that in those cards was cash and they decided they wanted an open house. Lol

Everybody pitched in. One sister-in-law brought a brisket, my brother-in-law brought macaroni and cheese, My mother-in-law and father-in-law made pulled pork and fried chicken, and I was the pasta man.

Despite working late on Friday, I was up early on Saturday boiling pasta noodles.  Once they were done, I put them in a container and we made our way over to Sam’s mom’s house to set up for the party.

I had asked my mother-in-law if she wanted me to make the sauce as well. She said I didn’t have to do that, she was just going to get sauce from the store. I guess afterward, their friends were talking about how good the pasta was. My mother-in-law laughed because it was really just noodles and Ragu!

Is the Novelty Worth It?

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you know that I tend to feature a lot of music. Some folks have said music is life, and I tend to believe that. I can’t imagine life without music.

That being said, I was toying around with an idea that stemmed from a feature my friend Nancy did on her blog. She had Weird Al Wednesdays where she featured a different Weird Al song every week.

Her posts got a lot of reactions from her readers and I wondered how you felt about novelty songs in general.  My thought process was maybe featuring a different novelty song once a week. Wacky Wednesday, or Silly Sunday.

I don’t know, I just feel like there’s a whole lot less laughter in the world these days. So many people are stressed out about what’s going on in the world, what’s going on in their lives, and stressing just to get through the day. I thought maybe a feature like this would bring a laugh that may change the attitude of the day. What do you think?