Eventful day

Well, today was the first and only full day my folks are here this trip.  It isn’t so bad just coming out for the weekend.  With the trip between here and Albuquerque being inexpensive and only an hour flight, it really couldn’t be any better.  Granted, my parents might say that the “even better” would be for me to live in Albuquerque, but let’s not go there; just ain’t gonna happen.

My dad, my really good friend Billy, and his father-in-law played golf this morning at Star Pass.   It is a beautiful course consisting of 3, 9 hole courses, and the different combinations of those make the 18 hold round.  We played Rattler.  The morning started off horribly for me.  I was losing more balls than I care to admit publicly.  But I wasn’t totally alone.  Everyone else was finding the course very challenging as well.  Next time, I won’t play a course like that when I haven’t touched a golf club in 2 months.  It was a beautiful day for golf too.  It was not very windy, and it was slightly overcast, so perfect conditions.  Once that was done, I ran a few errands with my mom and then got ready for dinner.

Josh and Katie invited my parents and I over for dinner tonight.  We had carne asada fajitas, or as Josh calls them “carn el sada.”  It was such a beautiful night as well, that we ate on their porch.  After dinner my dad, Josh and I went back to my place in Don’s truck to get an extra bed I have.  You might be wondering what I am doing with an extra bed.  I used to sleep in a king sized bed.  For those of you that know me, and can picture the complete ridiculousness of me in a king sized bed, you will understand why I downsized to a queen when I moved into my new house.  Anyways, we got the bed and drove it back to Josh’s house.  After getting that all setup, we sat and chatted for quite a while.

I really enjoy the friendship that has come about with me and the Reich’s.  Not just Josh, but Katie as well.  I mean, I wouldn’t do all this kind of stuff for just any friend.  It’s really nice to have a really good friend like that.  So, the Reich’s are part of my family.  They have been that way for a while, but you know how promotions go…you have to be performing at that level for a while before you get the distinction.  Something about making sure you can sustain that performance.  Well, they can sustain it…plus they put up with me.  So bonus.

Folks visiting

Well today I picked up my folks.  They are visiting for the weekend.  It is always nice to have them come visit.  My dad and I are going to play golf tomorrow morning.  We were going to play with Josh, but he hasn’t been getting a lot of sleep because of Ava.  I think that it’s because of the changes in their family.  Being the younger of 2 children in my family.  I am really bummed that he can’t go with us.  But we are still going to go with Billy and his father-in-law.  We have all played together before in the Erin Trujeque Tournament back in July.  It was a lot of fun and I am looking forward to it.  I told Josh that we will play golf this month, he can’t weasel out of it that easy!  (Yes, I am only joking).  Tonight we were supposed to go to Vivace for dinner, but I had a very stressful day at work and ended up not feeling very well after.  So we just had a quick dinner at Marie Calandars.

Tomorrow we are also planning on going to the Reich’s for dinner.  Carne asada fajitas…mmm.
My folks are really looking forward to talking to the Reich’s more.  They have met Josh before, but only in passing at church.  It is going to be a fun weekend.

Boring week

It has been a rather boring week for me so far.  Sunday night I was over at Josh’s watching football, and I had an epiphany.  I really truly suck at fantasy football.  I don’t know why, but I have had horrible luck in my league.  Don’t get me wrong, it is not that I have horrible players, but I just end up picking the wrong players each week.  I do have a friend helping me with my line up, as I am just starting to learn the game, and he is not to blame.  (Don’t tell him that though!)

Today I did get to go  to lunch with Scott, Josh, and Dave.  We met at Buddy’s Grill.  It was the first time I have eaten there.  I must say, the service was lacking.  I ordered a Bacon Cheddar Burger, and I got a Guac Burger.  I took a bite and was a little confused as one should be.  I flagged down the waitress and told her and she took the guac burger away.  It took her another 10-15 minutes to get my order out.  By that time Josh and Scott were already done eating.  Dave was still going, but he was also talking a lot and not concentrating on food.  Then, when I got the check, there was not even an apology or a free coke!  And the funniest part was the ticket even said Guac Burger.  The waitress needs to work on her hearing!

Freakin Awesome TV!

Tonight I watched the premier of Heroes tonight!  Wow!!!  I love this show but I also hate it at the same time.  I really enjoy watching it not for the special effects, but also the hot ladies and the story line in general.  I am a big fantasy/sci-fi buff and really enjoy seeing a whole different world that came from someone’s imagination.  I can’t wait until Friday when my other show premiers!

‘Nother weekend down in the books

Well so far my weekend has been pretty cool. I definitely needed it after the week I have had at work. It’s amazing what a high stress environment does to people. Anyways, I went to watch Josh play soccer. He is actually pretty good. Not to say that he was boasting about his soccer prowess, but I did have my doubts. So I did that last night and today just watched football. It’s funny that I watch sports now. Growing up I never watched sports with my dad. I also went to the tattoo place to see if they could help me with my tattoo idea. I was really disappointed in the guy that was behind the counter. He didn’t seem all to keen on helping us out, and when Josh told him what he wanted he made a comment about the styles being mixed. It was really annoying. I think I am going to call the other store they have in town and hopefully go there instead.

Tonight I also found out that my mentor Juan is getting closer to having a date for his wedding. I have known him for almost 16 years now and he has been a really good friend and mentor all of those years. I was not able to go to his first wedding, so I am really psyched that I will be able to go to this one. I am not sure how many people are going to be there, but I have a feeling that it won’t be too many. The funniest thing is that my sister was trying to plan to come out here to Tucson the same weekend. But since Juan lives in Albuquerque, NM, I won’t be in town!

Re-connecting with old friends

Last night I went out with a friend I haven’t really spent a lot of time with.  We met up at Applebee’s and had half price beer and appetizers.  It was really cool to just sit and hang out with someone.  Not that I don’t enjoy having more people around, or kids, it’s just refreshing to sit and enjoy one persons conversation.  We then went back to his place and I saw the new desk he and his wife had bought.  It is actually a pretty nice desk.  Nothing that I would ever buy, my taste is a little more modern.  I bought a couple of my furniture items from Copenhagen.  They are getting ready for a baby and they moved their 7 year old into the old extra bedroom.  His room is pretty cool, all spacey and stuff.  Anyways, we then watched some TV and just chatted until his wife got home.  Then we chatted a little more and I went home.

Weekend of firsts

This weekend I had a lot of firsts. It started Saturday morning. I was at the church helping clean up the classrooms and getting ready for the new logos etc. I was in the office talking to Katie and Ava was there playing. All of a sudden, she looks up at me and said, “Uncle Scott!” I was like, holy crap! She just called me Uncle Scott! It definitely perked me up for the whole day. I was a little tired before because I had been up watching movies until 1:30 that morning. Then waking up to start manual labor was not pleasant.

Then this morning was a couple of firsts at church. It was the first time we did 2 services. It went really well, as you can see here. Also, I took communion. I know, you may not think that is a big deal. But for me it is. I have been on a really long journey back to God, and I finally felt that it wouldn’t be blasphemous of me to partake. I know it wouldn’t have been earlier…I just wanted to fit the word “blasphemous” into this post.

New Domain!

Well I went for it. I bought spudsblog.com and have redirected to have my blog there. As you may have noticed, you entered the blogger.com address, but you ended up on spudsblog.com. That is no accident. you may have heard of the saying, “All roads lead to Rome.” well this is more like “All URLs lead to my blog.” Get it? I know…bad joke. But I thought it was hilarious.

Slacker

I just realized that I have not posted in quite a while…relatively speaking of course. Not sure why that is, guess I have just been all out of whack these past few weeks. I know what some of you are thinking, and it’s not completely true. I have been realizing slowly that I may not be in the right “place.” I am not sure which “place” I mean, physical, social, work, etc. But I am definitely feeling something is wrong. I am not going to go near the explanation of my social life, or lack thereof, so I will venture into my work situation.

I have been on track to become a project manager for a while now. I have been taking classes at work, shadowing other project managers to see what they do, trying to learn as much as I can. But in this environment, it takes more than book smarts to be a PM. You need people skills too. I am not sure if it is the group that I work with, or something else, but I find it very difficult to lead here. This is not saying anything about anyone, but I get the impression that I don’t really fit into the leadership role very well. Are there classes that I could take to learn different skills? Yes. Will they help me interact with people? Possibly. I see myself failing miserably here. Maybe I am being too hard on myself.

If I were to decide that this is not the place for me, or the job for me, where would I go? What would I do? I am the type of person that is more comfortable knowing that I will have a place to sleep, a home if you will. Is that so wrong of me?

Pam’s House of Pain?

One of the people at church, Pam, is a massage therapist. She has been doing it for about 11 years. Now, I have been getting a massage regularly for about 5 years now. I used to go every week, but the massage therapist I was going to was way too flaky and I had to find someone else. Now I only go every month. Also, it was quite expensive going every week. I found a new massage therapist, Joan. My coworker has been going to her for a long time, and she came highly recommended. I have been seeing Joan for about a year and a half. Then I found out that Pam is a massage therapist. I was really excited to try a different therapist. Josh has seen Pam before when his leg was hurting him. He called his experience like a visit to “Pam’s house of pain.” I couldn’t help but laugh at that. I know that deep tissue can be pretty painful if you aren’t used to it or expecting the pressure. Well, I was expecting the pressure and it was delivered. I kind of missed that kind of massage. Lately I haven’t felt like the massages I get from Joan do anything. Well, I am thinking I am going to go back to Pam again and see if I really want to switch. I still think it is funny that Josh thought it was a house of pain.