Jeff

2010

So its the new year (and 2 weeks in because I am lazy) and I get to look forward to another year of my life. I will turn 24 this year (in August), I will reach my first year at my job, I will have been with my girlfriend 2 years in February and almost 3 by the end of the year, and I will hopefully accomplish some goals. Goals… I always try and not state them because a week later they will be different, but I think I have an idea of some that can be sustained all year. So lets start them out…

  • Improve my cooking, I have started trying to become better at cooking since about September as I have felt that my health could use not eating hamburger helper every night. I have since started cooking other things, but I still rely heavily on finding some recipe and getting the ingredients ahead of time. I also remain limited in my abilities and would like to become a little more experienced in various types of food so that I won’t be so nervous cooking for others (Kim).
  • Fix this site up some, I have been thinking of various things to add to this site, but have refrained from jumping on something before I am certain of what I want to do. I recently discussed a thought I have had for a while about adding an “Article” or “Essay” section where I would put more “Blog” like posts about things beyond things I do in my life. I have also thought of expanding some of the functionality, but that would require more creativity on my part. And if possible, I would like to post on here more often, it would probably improve with an article section, but I would also like to start talking about the regular occurrences in my life.
  • Learn some Japanese(?), I have wanted to learn Japanese for a while and have made little bursts of effort, but I have not been able to commit to it. Most of the effort has been in little moments that got mashed up in my transition to my new home. So now that I have settled down more, I would hope to commit so much time a week to studying and learning the language. I have heard tentative plans to travel to Japan sometime in the next year or so and I would love to have some background in the language (though very limited) by then.
  • Become healthier, this has been a goal for a while and I think I have done a decent job, but I know that I need to make a better effort to accomplish this. I have tried to eat healthier, work out some, and build up better habits. I still need to improve my eating some (see above) and I should try and work out more than just when Frisbee comes around (though I do have Winter league coming up and Summer league this summer). So I will try and go to the apartment complex’s gym and do regular exercises here.

I know that I am forgetting some stuff, but these are the things that I think are definite goals I will aim for through the year (beyond just a few weeks as is often the case) and will hopefully accomplish to some degree… So Happy New Year!

long overdue

Okay, this is a very overdue entry and will have a ton of stuff left out probably… So I’m going to bang right through a number of things that have gone on since the last entry… I went to Boston on a business trip, it was interesting to be frank. Kim came down here for Thanksgiving. I bought a couch, a vacuum cleaner, and get my coffee table on Wednesday. I have continued working and my major project is rolling out in the next month-ish (?) so I have a lot I need to polish at work over the next few weeks. Christmas is coming up and I still need to finish my shopping. I am cooking for myself and will probably upload photos from my experience sometime. The fall frisbee season ends this week and winter league begins in January. I’m going up to Purdue on Friday to pick Kim up and bring her down for the office Holiday party on Saturday. The Colts are 13-0 and I got to see them become 12-0. I have been trying a ton of different beers, maybe I will set up a photo of all the bottles I have collected thus far. My dad’s birthday is today and I am going out with my parents to celebrate that. I would talk about his gift on here but I know he is one of the few people who occasionally read it (even though I update it so infrequently, but I am going to make it my resolution to update more often). Kim and I have been dating for 22 months and a handful of days. I am eyeing toys that I will probably get around to buying now that I am pretty caught up in apartment necessities. And that concludes the random, fast paced, montage that I have neglected writing about for a while…

roller coaster day

So today has been quite a roller coaster. This morning, right before I was going to drag myself to work, I was called by a cop. He was calling to tell me that my car had been broken into over the night. I went down to talk to him and report what was stolen. (I am now without my beloved MP3 player) After talking to him, I went back upstairs to start making calls. I talked to my mom and arranged for her to pick me up so that I could use the extra car temporarily (we don’t have an extra car, my dad is just out of town). I called the office to tell them that I would be in much later, then I got to call my car insurance company (OH JOY!). I need to arrange a time to have a glass repair person come and fix the window. (The bastards broke the driver side too, so I can’t even man up and try to drive it to get it fixed) Needless to say, this morning sucked… I didn’t get into work until 2, an all time late for me and one that I hope to not repeat. Oddly enough, I was incredibly productive in the 4 hours I was there working and am almost done and ready to push this stuff out to the company we are integrating with (that is probably all I can say, maybe too much, but I don’t think many people actually read this). That is the end of the low part of the roller coaster.

After work, I was supposed to go play indoor ultimate for the new fall league. I had joined a team of kind of free agents who all were interested and we all just kind of played it like pick up. I hadn’t played in two months (mostly since I had only gotten my good glasses a week or so ago and did not want to try playing with shit ass eyesight) and was surprisingly good. I was throwing well and moving well. I feel really good about that and am looking forward to the fall league a lot more than the summer league, where I basically warmed the bench and felt like showing up was a waste of time. I also got to see that Adam Wainwright was pitching a 1 run 3 hit gem through the 8th inning and my beloved Cardinals had a 2-1 lead going into the ninth. The closer, Ryan Franklin, comes in and gets two solid outs, one out away… Matt Holliday drops a fly ball, basically losing the final out, and then Franklin lets the game go to hell, a horrid 3-2 hell where we lost the two games with the front running Cy Young candidates starting. This is going to take an amazing turn around for us to move on… (this whole end part is kind of a downer and was added randomly)