The house.

I have had a few people ask me many questions about my house that I bought in December. I have not had much time to blog about anything so here it goes. I have spent almost every free moment I have over there doing stuff... I put back all the walls with some help from my friends and family. That was really nice of them to come and give me a hand. I had my neighbor Anthony Kayberry who just started his own plumbing company come and redo the pipes in my bathroom. He made the sink and the toilet switch places. To do this he cut a hole in the floor and moved some pipes. He also installed the bathtub. It took me quite a while to decide on which tub to buy. There are so many choices and I finally ended up buying one from Lowe's. So far I am happy with how it looks. It got installed and I drywalled the bathroom and tub surround. I also had a brick guy come and take out the bathroom window and put in brick most of the way except for the very top, there is one row of glass bricks now. I like the way it has turned out so far.

A chain saw story

The other day I came home after working on my house. Lately my aunt has been teasing me saying if you keep tearing things out of your house you wont have a house left. Its been sort of a funny joke and I came home after using my chain saw and was talking about all of the things I have been chopping up. I chopped up two trees and a couple of bushes. Fun stuff, I do love using a chain saw. We were sitting around the dinner table discussing this when my aunt told a story about John Denver. Back a few years ago one day while watching the news, a story comes on about John Denver going through a Divorce. Apparently he got a little upset and when his former spouse demanded half of the stuff in the house, he got out a chain saw and cut everything in half. I thought to my self, I can understand his anger but it was just a bit funny. Some days I am still angry about my own divorce. It has been over three years since that has past. Maybe this week has been a bit much for me. It seems like I have had an unusual amount of people bothering me about marriage and other things. For the most part I am content with my life as it has turned out now. I do things when I want to and don't really pursue dating much, it is kind of low on my to do list. It's right up there with cleaning out the garage or washing the car. Yeah Ill get to it eventually just not today.

Life goes on

So I have not been very diligent in blogging. For most of you who know me well I tend to work too much, which is probably the case now. About a month ago I purchased a second house. It is next door to my first house. Yes I know that is kind of funny, the neighbors are teasing me about how some day I will own the whole block. That I assure you is not going to be the case. I Saw this house for sale and saw it as a good opportunity to buy a home at a very low price and fix it up how I wanted it. This seemed to be a good idea at first, but I am in for probably a ton of work. I started by taking out the floors and the wall between the kitchen and living room. Then I took out the bathroom, yeah the whole thing. Then I took out the hall ceiling and all of the air conditioning duct work. So now I have a huge hole in the center of my house that goes into the attic. Insulation everywhere and remnants of drywall and other things are everywhere. This place is now really a mess. So I am in it for the long haul. And I finally got my first mortgage payment yesterday. So hopefully in a few months I will be done and I can move in. I am working a lot for work and so I have to manage my time very wisely, to fit in time to work on the house. Hopefully I will have some more time off as the slow season for my work should soon be here.

The Easter Pageant

The Easter Pageant.

It has been a wonderful experience for me to be apart of. It seems that I needed a bit of a boost when it comes to testimony and self esteem. So this was the perfect thing to help me do this. Mom and Dad came to see me on one of the dress rehearsal nights and they both loved it very much. Every night before we go out into the audience we have a cast devotional in the chapel behind the temple. It has been so very nice. I am glad I had a push from my brother in law Matt to go try out, and I am glad that I made it in. I made so many new friends and had such a good experience participating in it. Thanks to all of you who came out and saw the Pageant and thanks most of all to my co workers at Aloha Air for helping me get off work every day on time to be in it.

Saturday and other things.

Today I quit lds link up and lds mingle. I started profiles on these websites with the hopes of meeting new people, but it was not so. So farewell to both of them, I was on lds mingle for a few months and lds link up for two years. Nothing really good came from ether so I decided I was through with both of them.

Saturday was the first day of Easter pageant practice. It started a 8:30 in the morning and went till 4pm. I am an angel in the pageant and I was a bit nervous about going to practice. I really don't know too many people in the pageant and out of a room of 35 or so people I knew maybe one or two, and besides that I am the oldest person there I think. But a couple of hours into it I was feeling a bit better about the whole thing. The pageant director is really nice and she talked to us quite a bit about our responsibilities. She said that we were cast because they felt like we could handle the tasks and that we would be mature and reverent in our duties. Apparently last year there was quite a bit of difficulty in this. They did not cast many people from last year because they did not act mature enough and were not reverent while doing their duties. But all that aside the day was good and I am enjoying being a part of something I have always wanted to do. I feel very fortunate that I am doing this. For many years I have wanted to be a part of this really I've wanted to be an angel and go on top of the stage. And for many years I have not been able too because of school, and having too many responsibilities at home. So now that my life has become less complex I can, and I am looking forward to next Saturdays practice.

Lucky

( A note about this post, I wrote it about a month ago and am now just publishing it.)
Lucky.....
Sometimes I think I am really lucky. A few things on my vacation this past week reminded me of that. After the first day of fun at Disneyland I had a small random thought. I was wearing a tan pair of cargo shorts that I have had for a long time. I dont wear them that often. I thought about the last time I had worn those shorts to Disneyland and it made me stop and think. In ths spring of 2005 I was at Disneyland and the trip was really terrible. How different a few years have made things. How very blessed I am to have good friends who share my same standards and values, and who give me support in my difficult moments.

cleaning day

Today since I did not have much work to do I started to clean the garage out.. Oh what a chore. The good thing is that I have many things for a yard sale so maybe I can make a little $$ from that since work has been so slow. So progress on that is coming. I worked my way through the storage rooms and found lots of things that I had forgotten about, mostly tools and air conditioner parts. So that was nice to discover all of those things in the middle of my mess. On to other things about my random life.

The other day some one heart attacked my car. And that was nice. Sunday morning I came out to that little surprise. I have not found out who did this but today I found out that a girl I dated for a few weeks last summer was in town last weekend. It seems she keeps stalking me, and I really have moved on. So it was probably her and well I'm not very excited about that at all. Which is my general attitude towards dating life in general. Maybe I'm a bit discouraged or just frustrated ( I think a bit of both ) but I have been coming back to the same conclusion that I don't really care. I want to care but I am a bit tired of getting my hopes up all the time. I'll be 31 in a few more weeks, and out of the singles ward. And I'm not going to go back and hang around after I leave. That to me is just weird. There is a reason you are not supposed to be there. Ill keep on trying to be social and make myself available till then but after that I've decided to not really hold my breath any longer in this part of my life. And I am ok with that. Its not what I want but that seems to be the course my life has taken, so I have taken my mission presidents advice that he gave me while in the mission. Look for the good in things focus on the positive and things will be better. As hard as that advice has been to follow it has helped me quite a bit.