I was ruled against in regards to custody for my daughter. To bad for me right? Well now here I am paying about 25% of my paycheck (pre-tax) so she can get a new ride and a boat. The catch? Our daughter has a broken door and no curtains or blinds for her room. This is an 11 year old girl mind you, with no functioning privacy in her own room from the outside world!

And to think the judge questioned my taking a job for a 60% pay increase, full benefits and more. Crap what was i thinking about there… bad me!

I would like to wish all a Merry Christmas as well as a Happy New Year. May you get what you wish for on the day and may the New Year burden your future with good days.

All take care of yourselves and those around you. Merry Christmas!

I notice as I get farther along in my years I start to wonder what happened to the person who used to do all those wild things. Where did he go? The answer is no where. As we get older we tend to fall in line with the rest of the populace. Doing what is expected of us and following the norm. When I was younger I did not care what the norm is at all and I still have a distaste for doing things just because it is what is expected of me. That is the key point!

Don’t stop doing the things you want to do. Don’t stop being you. When you see a chance to do something you want to do, whether in the norm or not, do it. I was walking back to the apartment after working out tonight and went by the Woodland Pool (there are two here, this is farther from my apartment) and it looked so inviting. The first thing through my mind was “jump in and cool off”. The second thing of course was “you should just head back to the apartment and shower”. I gave in to the first and let me tell you I am glad I did.

Those who let go of themselves and get old mentally have lost eighty percent of the battle. I have had some rough times here in the past year. Single now and forced to be without my daughter most of the time I have decided to find me. Start doing the things I enjoyed a a kid again. Swimming late at night in the pool, just going nowhere, whatever comes to mind I want to do I do.

How am I for it? I feel better every day!

Laugh all you want. You know it sounds like an awesome, childish and cool thing to do!

I will try again soon. Till then be patient please. I have not forgotten you.

A.A.A.D.D. - Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder

This is how it manifests:

I decide to water my garden.

As I turn on the hose in the driveway, I look over at my car and decide my car needs washing.

As I start toward the garage, I notice that there is mail on the porch table that I brought up from the mail box earlier.

I decide to go through the mail before I wash the car.

I lay my car keys down on the table, put the junk mail in the garbage can under the table, and notice that the can is full.

So, I decide to put the bills back on the table and take out the garbage first.

But then I think, since I’m going to be near the mailbox when I take out the garbage anyway, I may as well pay the bills first.

I take my check book off the table, and see that there is only one check left.

My extra checks are in my desk in the study, so I go inside the house to my desk where I find the can of Coke that I had been drinking.

I’m going to look for my checks, but first I need to push the Coke aside so that I don’t accidentally knock it over. I realize the Coke is getting warm, and I decide I should put it in the refrigerator to keep it cold.

As I head toward the kitchen with the Coke, a vase of flowers on the counter catches my eye — they need to be watered.

I set the Coke down on the counter, and I discover my reading glasses that I’ve been searching for all morning.

I decide I better put them back on my desk, but first I’m going to water the flowers.

I set the glasses back down on the counter, fill a container with water and suddenly I spot the TV remote. Someone left it on the kitchen table.

I realize that tonight when we go to watch TV, I will be looking for the remote, but I won’t remember that it’s on the kitchen table, so I decide to put it back in the den where it belongs, but first I’ll water the flowers.

I pour some water in the flowers, but quite a bit of it spills on the floor.

So, I set the remote back down on the table, get some towels and wipe up
the spill.

Then I head down the hall trying to remember what I was planning to do.

At the end of the day:
the driveway is flooded
the car isn’t washed,
the bills aren’t paid,
there is a warm can of Coke sitting on the counter,
there is still only one check in my check book,
I can’t find the remote,
I can’t find my glasses,
and I don’t remember what I did with the car keys.

Then when I try to figure out why nothing got done today, I’m really baffled because I know I was busy all day long, and I’m really tired.

I realize this is a serious problem, and I’ll try to get some help for it, but first I’ll check my e-mail.