Town Councilman

My husband is running for Town Council! I'm so proud of him, he will be great if he can get elected. Next up for our political advancement as a family is me running for Register of Deeds. We'll be awesome political figures at home...half Republican and half Democrat. Of course everyone knows that Democrats are cooler.

Sometimes I wonder...

What would I do if I won the lottery? Zach and I talked about it this past weekend, and I have decided that I would do the follow:

• Hire people to finish the changes to the house - painting, floors, kitchen remodel, attic renovation, and complete landscaping
• Buy furniture for the house
• Buy an old classic sporty convertible
• Pay off all my of school loans (this should be number 1 on the list) and pay off the house
• Get a personal trainer and get in shape
• Buy a new wardrobe
• Go on vacations all over the world
• Give money to family members to take care of their debt and to buy a few luxuries
• Set aside college funds for the kids
• Do random acts of kindness
• Support great charities
• Write a book
• Make some art

That's where my list starts. Nothing big, nothing fancy - just normal stuff.

What would you do?

The Notebook

I had never seen The Notebook until this evening. My husband put it in my Netflix queue and I thought that I'd finally give it a try. You have no idea how much joy I've derived from informing people that I have never seen the movie, and that it never crossed my mind to rent it and view it. Sigh, now that joy will be gone, but it was a good movie.

Zach and I talked about how horrible it would be if either one of us got Alzheimer's disease. I can't imagine him not remembering me or our future children and our entire life together. At the same time, I can't imagine not being able to remember who you are and never again recognizing your children, your husband, and your friends. I hope that the Lord spares us from this all too harsh reality for so many people.

Now to talk about Nicholas Sparks. This best selling author was once a pharmaceutical's sales representative. He wrote his first novel, had an agent send it to 25 publishers, and was offered a million dollars for his first ever book! How does that happen? He has been on the best sellers list with every single one of his books! That's too good to be true? How is it?

I want to write a book. I have some stories in my head, but I have never written them down. I'm afraid I can't do it. I worry that I'd never be able to make it what I want to be and that I'd ultimately fail. However, I will eventually try. I will write a book, get it edited, find an agent, and get it published. I will be an author one day. I know I can do it.

Until then, I'll just keep reading and thinking and blogging.

Break

I'm going to be taking a break from this blog. I've been reading through it, and it bores me. You must agree if you have ever read it. I'm going to work on a different blog for a while and see how that goes. I'll come back to this one at least once a week to update it.

Visit my other blog - Commuter Musings. Hopefully, you will be better entertained there.

Weekend Away

We went to the beach for the weekend and spent our 6 month anniversary in Swansboro, NC. We had a great time, and it was nice to get away. We will have to work on getting a weekend away more often now. I'll recap our activities later today.

Clarity

Beauty is the realization
That six months in -
Despite compromise and disenchantment
Love is not your start or destination -
But your travel guide and dear companion.

Saturday is our six month anniversary. It seems impossible to believe it's been that long, or really that short. I wrote that little poem just thinking about us.

Working Together

Zach and I have been working on our closets in the evening after we get home from work. We have been trying to install a second pole in the closets so that there is a lower rack for pants and an upper one for shirts.

This process has necessitated removing the current pole and shelf in each closet and repositioning them to allow for a second pole. This doesn't seem like it would be a difficult project, and it really isn't, but the difficulty of a task is never an issue when Zach and I are working together. The issue is always our lack of cohesive teamwork.

Our methods for getting a job done usually involve the following:

• Me trying to tell Zach how to do something when I think that he is putting in to much effort, or that his technique will result in having to do it all over again

• Zach getting angry at me for trying to correct him, which results in him completely ignoring me and doing something wrong (or luckily, sometimes he does get it right)

• I step in and try to do it myself

and we never seem to get the job done.

However, our closet project was different. We worked as a team! We had some setbacks, but we never argued or got angry, and we got it done! I was truly amazed. I only changed my normal tactics slightly in that I tried not to tell him how to do everything. In turn, he changed his normal tactics and actually listened to me and didn't argue.

This is the first time that we have started and finished a project without arguing. This is a major mile stone. We are becoming a better team.

I think we are going to make it after all.