Spitting it out

You have no idea how many times I've written posts lately only to wipe it out before publishing... I just can't get my thoughts in order lately. Too much stuff going on. So... I'm not even going to try. Let me spit it all out somehow. Bear with me, I need to purge:

1st time home buying - We might be getting one. Despite forecast of gloom & doom, an opportunity came up for us that just can't be overlooked. I'm very excited because it's a bigger place (I'll actually have a true office), and it's our first foray into a real giant investment.

home buying experience - sucks. Numbers. Too many numbers. I hate it, my wife loves it. My wife goes to work and gives me a whole bunch of numbers. She gives me telephone numbers to talk more numbers with more people who then in turn, gives me more numbers to confirm with my wife.

married life - good, but takes practice. Little things can fuel disagreements that much easier...I'm thinking it's because the my wife's opinion means so much more to me then anyone else's. Just gotta step back and look at the big picture every once in a while. Can you believe it'll be my 1st year anniversary coming up next month? Only it looks like we'll be spending our anniversary day moving house...

travel - none. I'm grounded this year. I've gone from being able to fly away every 3 months or so while I was dating my wife to being completely stuck on this island for this whole year. My parents are going to see the Rockies this year, my brother is migrating to Australia, & my wife will be taking her 1st visit back to see her family around October. I'm not going anywhere because it's possible I might have a part-time teaching position this coming Fall. Sucks! I love traveling. Next year I'm going SOMEwhere you better believe it. All these family suckers going away and leaving poor me! Yeah I'm salty about it. Sue me.

exercise - none. After 4 years of religiously running and going to the gym, I've virtually stopped these past couple of months and I'm totally guilty about it. I'm just too exhausted from all this other stuff. Or I spent my normal exercise time in the mornings doing my wife's homework and talking numbers. Yet I've lost weight...how did that happen?

fun - a little here and there. Kung Fu Panda was great. Looking forward to seeing Batman and Wall-E. At least my wife is interested in seeing Batman with me. It's not that she hates watching movies but she doesn't like the theater experience here in the States. Back home in HK she can reserve seats and I guess people are less noisey. I wonder why we don't have reserve seating systems here in our US theatres...they seem to have them in both Australia and HK?

band - just as we were getting to the point I liked the direction the music was going and we sat our arses in a recording studio to put down some music, there's some internal situation and now we may be losing our drummer. I'm too old for this crap so I've stayed out of the ruckus. But here we are now with all this good music, a small following of people who always come out and see us, paying gigs if we want them...and now no drummer. Dunno what's going to happen here.

Whew! I did it...I spit out everything in a nutshell for my life right now. Ugh. OK....back to doing numbers.