Never Give Up! Never Surrender!

Welcome Back me ... like I ever was really HERE ...

Oh well.  I know I didn't make a valiant effort to establish much of anything here.  But then again ... oh well.  I am here now, I had forgotten my sign in name (Typepad IS case-sensitive btw ... lol).  So with that all figured out, a new year on the horizon, and ALOT to talk about ... here I am, welcome back me!

To recap a few things that are on my mind atm ... Mo is getting the shit harassed out of her by several narrow-minded anti-adoption dumbasses (and when I say that I am NOT implying that ALL anti-adoption ppl are narrow-minded nor dumbasses ... I am refering to JUST these particular ones).  They get on her website, pick one post out without reading the whole thing and then start jumping to conclusions and emailing her threats and other non-niceties.  Ppl really do amaze me.  Truthfully, the fact that there are SO many of these ppl scares me.  I don't scare easily, but the idea of a world with a large population of ppl like these ... really shakes my faith in humanity ... and a lack in faith in humanity, well THAT scares me.  I know there are billions of ppl out there and if I were to multipy the number of ppl that harass her by 10, say even 100, that's only 5000 or so, a mere 0.0025% of the US population ... well I start to feel better ... but not so much.  What happened to clear-thought?  What happened to common sense?  What happened to open-mindedness?  What's happened to ppl?  Thank God I found a beautiful woman that inspired and nutured these qualities in me.  SHE gives me hope ... SHE is what I look too when I need some faith in humanity. 

Oh and let's not forget today ...

A couple of big things happened today ... good positive things. I was able to pay a bill I had with a college (not much $300, but enough that I hadn't gotten around to dishing it out), and in turn I was able to get my Pell Grant processed so I'll get a check soon. Just as important though, I found a notary public that is willing to do our notarys for free and will travel for us! That was a big step in starting our dossier for our adoption. See Monique's blog for a rundown of all the things we have to do.

Other than that, I am going to relax and try to recharge for all the other things I have to deal with this week before Monique gets home (move a ton of stuff into storage, clean, etc.). Wish me peaceful rechargings! :) Ciao

The Day After

Wow ... yesterday was the most stressful day of my life. Honestly. I can't really tell you exactly why, just that a million little things finally got to me. I truely felt that I was going to have a nervous breakdown. My boss is on vacation, leaving me the entire responsibility of our office, one that normally would not be burdensome alone. However, my boss is new and it's my job to train him in the in's-and-out's of this department. Being that I am the employee with the longest time in that department, it's expected of me to have all the answers, be able to do everything, and multi-task like I were 18 people. We had 4 people but now it's down to just 2 and my co-worker is an idiot AND lazy. Give me one or the other and I am ok ... I can deal ... but both is just too much. That's a bad combination. Soooooo, that leaves just me ... doing 4 people's work. Add on to that, I had a hundred things regarding the adoption and finances to do that I was overwhelmed like never in my life. Monique called me up and I about broke into tears. Wow ... I never do that! ... not at work at least. But it was a huge relief to finally head home, knowing that I gave it my best shot. Again, I can't really express what all was involved in it being 'the most stressful' but trust me it was.

Thank god for my wife. I told her, ... her voice comforts my heart. I am so thankful that I have someone in my life that by just hearing something so simple as thier voice can calm my troubles ... let's me know that it's all ok and reminds me that God never gives us more than we can handle.

I love you Mo!

Ciao

I Love Saturdays

Except that I always seem to sleep just a little too long and always wake up with a headache or some other type of pain. Stiff neck, stiff back, it's always something.

This is my first blog ... so I guess I should introduce myself a bit. I am 31, male, married to the most beautiful woman in the world, and I am in the military. Currently we don't have any children, though we have been married (and trying) for 8 years. We started the adoption process though and we are well on our way to adopting a wonderful little girl from China.

So anyways, I am going to keep this short, besides I don't know what I am doing just yet and I want to make sure I don't screw this up. Ciao!

First Entry

Hello and welcome to my weblog.