Lots of time - little actually happening...

Well, due to over-tiredness, stress from a friendship that has taken a weird turn, and my own puzzlement over what to say on a blog when it's the same old, same old... I had taken some time off from blogging. Not a conscious decision as much as a sort of falling into a period of blog-less activity.

I feel I lead a pretty boring existence, and realize I tend to rant & ramble quite a bit on topics, rather than let others vicariously partake in my lifestyle.
Oh well, perhaps we are not all meant to lead exciting, movie-star lives, huh?

I've done a fair share of catching up on sleep, watching movies when I'm too exhausted to do anything other than vegetate, and thinking about where my life is leading.

For now, I am plugging away at my day job(s). Yeah, I have 4, which total about 65 hours a week currently (all together :) ).
I'm expanding & focussing my reptile/snake breeding project. I don't have the really big bucks to invest in new morphs (interesting new colors and/or patterns (or lack thereof)), but I do have 4 potential breeding females for next season. I will have to feed them lots of food & feed them often, but for $30 or so, I figure I should have all the food I need for them (soon - my rats are still getting started).
If all goes as planned & reasonably expected, I stand to have at least $10K in profits about this time next year.

I don't know if I'll always have all these guys, but for now, they are my pets - a bunch of big babies that get more like family members every day (in a good way :D).

I've decided to get back to selling things on eBay - I have lots of stuff sitting around that I'd rather have the cash for.
I've sold a couple DVRs recently, and it went better than I expected, so I guess I did something right :) So many people supposedly earn their living doing just that, why can't I be one of them, right??

After hearing "Just Like Heaven", the old The Cure song covered by Ketevan "Katie" Melua, and having it stuck in my head for several days (beautiful beautiful beautiful :) ), I was browsing DVD titles at the library, and saw the movie of the same name (wonder if they got the title from the song??), starring Reese Witherspoon & Mark Ruffalo. I looked it up on imdb at the library, and sure enough, that song was on the soundtrack.

Being a guy, and therefore feeling a little self-conscious renting "chick flicks" (though I wanna watch more than I'll ever tell :) ), I also checked out with Munich, National Treasure, & New World (you can see I stayed in the same section alphabetically - hah!).
Of course, I watched JLH first, and liked it quite a bit. Short synopsis including some possible spoilers = Mark's character moves into a cozy San Francisco (!) apartment following his wife's untimely death. Reese's character, following a severe car accident which left her in a coma, returns to her apartment to find a stranger living there. They determine she is not entirely there, and as she has amnesia, set out to discover who she is. At first, they seem to have nothing in common, and are constantly at odds, but as they work at their goal, they see each others' good sides & begin to enjoy time together.
As the movie continues, they work through some difficult situations, drawing closer, and finally reach what they both hoped to find.
It reminded me that while we may never reach what we long for & may even struggle to find, we should not give up hope, as the journey is worth as much as the destination. "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step"
I think I am still struggling to lift my foot from the ground (or my rear from the couch :)), but now I know I am not comfortable where I am, and have a rough idea of where I'd like to be. If I'm patient, and don't stray, He'll help me get where I need to be, and I keep praying that I'm on the right track already.

We've finally gotten to the actual wintry part of winter :)
As I've seen lots of winters now, I don't get quite so excited by the cold weather, blowing snow, frozen fingers, toes, & nose, not to mention slippery walkways, cold cars, and being so tired from trying to stay warm all day.

Now that we have snow on the ground, and I've gotten a few pictures of it, it can go now :) I'm anxious for spring, flowers, gardening, and oh yes, I've decided to raise a few chickens this year. It's been years & years, and I miss them, so I've requested a catalog (yes, a chick catalog!), and will hopefully be able to pre-order some hatching eggs. You see, the hatcheries incubate certain numbers of eggs, and once they are gone (usually pre-ordered last fall), there are no more for several months.
Well, if it's meant to happen, it will.
I've noticed lately that that is my primary outlook - that is something doesn't go smoothly, I decide it isn't meant to be, and I let it go, and take a different direction. I don't think I use that philosophy as an excuse to be lazy or to lack persistance, but rather as an indicator of God's blueprint for my life.
I realize some things take a lot of work, and perseverance, and when I know something is what I need or where I need to be, I get blinders on, and don't lose focus.

Okay, I just looked, and this is a really really loooooooooooong post, so rather than have readers falling off their chairs in slumber (as I am about to), I shall end here, while


listening to...


Dido - Here With Me
Everyday Sunday - Hanging On lyrics
John Mayer - Back To You
Katie Melua - Just like Heaven