7 Years!

A few days ago, I was reminded that I started this blog 7 years ago.  It started out as a place I could relieve the pressure I was feeling in my head.  It was a suggestion from my friend Gary.   I have shared a lot about me, and still have a lot to share.  I have seen a lot of changes in that 7 years.  So here are a few.

  • This blog was started out in one of the tough times in my life.  I was getting divorced, losing  the house and losing the business that I had started with my dad.  Things did not get better for me until October 2014, when I finally got the job with the Airlines and found a good place to live.  
  • Got really sick in 2016, and was out of work for two months.  When I finally went home dragging an oxygen tank around.  It took a lot of hard work, but I was able to get off the oxygen 6 months later.  
  • After 23 years I started dating again, which was hard.  I found a few women that I really liked and thought it would lead to marriage.  Well, marriage has not happened as of yet, but I have found a good woman to love and who loves me.  I meet Alicia about  3 years ago.  I have lived with her and one of her brothers for the past 15 months, and we are still in love.  Hoping in he near future that she will be my wife. 
  • With getting off the oxygen, I needed to change my lifestyle all together.  Alicia has helped me with this from the beginning.  So after a lot of thought, I had weight loss Surgery on Dec 12, 2018.  I have lost almost 165 lbs since.  I don't know if I will lose any more weight, but I continue on the path.  All I can say is, I am much healthier than I have been in a long time.  I am now walking 2 an a half miles to 3 miles a few times a week.  I have people always remaking how different I look.  
  •  For the past 5 years I have been working for the airline.  I started there just working in sales.  With in a year I had the chance to move to another desk, where I have been for the past 4 year.  In November, I applied for an instructors position, and got it.  A few weeks ago, I taught my first full class.  Who knows where this will lead.
  • The past few years I have been able to travel again.  I was able to go up to Moab twice before Gracie died.  My first time using my flight benefits was Salt Lake City.  Since then I have flown to Boise, Santa Barbara, Portland, and Ireland.  This last year, I was able to go to Hawaii with Alicia and her family to celebrate her parents 50th wedding anniversary.
Well, this is just the highlights.  There has been a lot of stuff in my life the last 7 years.  Who knows what they the next 7 will bring.  

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Feeling left behind

Over the past month I have been to two baptisms, two farewells and a home coming.  It reminds me of what I do not have in my life, children.  I also have had my 44th birthday, which I spent on my own.  My marriage of 22 years is gone, and I really have nothing to show that I am here. But I have been living some what an oddity in the Mormon Church.  Having been married for so long, with no kids, you just don't get the feeling that you are part of the church family.  I have set in many a Priesthood Class, hearing the teacher tell how special it is to be a father, and how closer to God you are.  I really have not made a lot of friends in these wards, because I have no  kids that are in the same Primary Class, Sunday School Class, or Mutual. It even feels like the newly married couple, when they do get pregnant, that they are now one up on me. A few years ago, our Ward did away with the Family Camp Out.  But what stayed were the father/daughter and the father/ sons camp outs.  For
Read more

Trains

Image
Me with Jensen in 2012. As I was writing about my vacation with my grandparents, it made me realize that I had a love of trains.  Not only did my Hatch grandparents work for the railroad, but so did my Grandpa Close.  One thing that I left out from the trips, was that we did stay here in Mesa between our travels from California, Northern Arizona, and Utah.  My grandpa Hatch would always take me down to Pioneer  Park and they had a train engine there, and I climbed all over that train inside and out. I think it that next Christmas that he got me a train set that had and engine that blow smoke.  I had that train until I think the second move out to Arizona.  But I have always enjoyed model trains.  One of the things I really enjoyed about going to the State Fair was going and seeing the model train set below the grandstands.  And then seeing the exhibit in San Diego in 2007. Living in Chattanooga was great as well.  During the Civil War, Chattanooga was the major train hub for th
Read more

Life after High School

This week my oldest niece, Ashley, is graduating from High School.  It is hard to believe that this little girl that I watched from a distance, is now a young woman, and going out into the big wide world.  I remember graduating from the same high school back in 1988.  There was over 800 plus of use getting our diplomas that night. A few days later, I was on a plane to Hawaii, for a week of fun with other classmates.  I had worked all senior year, and back than I think I paid $300 for the total trip.  There was about 15 of us from Mesa High that went on the trip.  About two weeks later, we were all back together to share our pictures of the trip.  The talk turned to what next.  For most, it was off to college.  I was one of three Mormons that went on the trip, and I knew that in two months I would be putting in my papers for a Mormon mission, and with in six months I would be in the mission. field.  I was shocked to find that many envied me,  because I knew what I was going to be doin
Read more