I’ve been thinking about my relationship with my dad a lot recently. Not really sure why, but it’s been on my mind more than usual. My parents were divorced when I was very young, so I lived with my mom and visited my dad whenever possible. I didn’t get to see him as much as I would’ve liked as a kid, and I remember not being happy about that when I was younger, but I also remember all the good memories we had together. He wasn’t always around, but only because the situation didn’t really work out like that. But he’s always been a good dad, and was always there for me. And to this day, he still is.
Archive for the “Life” CategoryAnd now for blog #3, the last for today. For the past year I have gone without a drop of alcohol. No hard liquor or mixed drinks or any alcohol of any kind. I started drinking before I was 21, not too often, but still more often than someone under the legal age should’ve been. For whatever reason, I have a rather high tolerance for alcohol and don’t really feel the effects until quite a bit more than those around me. That’s led to a few…drunken nights. I’ve never done anything out of control or anything I’ve had to regret the next day, but I’ve admittedly made myself sick on more than one occasion. After another such event last June, I decided to take a step back from alcohol for a little while, and that little while turned into a year. Once again, I’ve put off blogging for as long as possible, and now I have a ton of things to write about all at once. I have three distinct ideas in mind, each of which will get their own post. Keep up if you can, I’ll try to keep it interesting. But I’ll start with the one that’s most important to me, and that’s Keith. We’ve been together for over a year and a half now, and a little over a month ago we decided to take a big step forward, and so we moved in together. I know it’s been a long time since my last update, so let me first apologize for my absence and promise to try harder to be more present on my blog. I’ve had tons of things happen over the past few months that should’ve been written about, but I just couldn’t bring myself to sit down and hash it out. But a few weeks ago, while I was browsing the news feed on Facebook, I saw someone that I went to middle school with had posted a link to an obituary. When I clicked the link and read the obituary, I realized it was someone I had gone to school with all those years ago, and I just read the article in shock. Another year passes by, and another approaches just around the riverbend…I mean the corner. I’ve had some serious ups and downs this year, but looking around I know that lots of other people have too. I can’t pretend that my life was awful and that “2009 was the worst year ever” like I’ve heard so many times in the past few days. With social networking being what it is, Facebook and Twitter have been teeming with all the same-old-same-old colloquialisms about how this year was just awful and that hopefully next year will be better. But these are the same people who said the exact same thing last year, and will say the same next year. I had a mix of good and bad, but I won’t forget either to favor the other. |
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