Late Nights

So... I really suck at taking the time to write to everyone out there. On days in which I am locked in my apartment because there is a tropical storm outside and flying is a distant memory I waste the day away instead of doing something useful. I am giving up on trying to catch everyone up on my life since I moved to Florida and from here on out will just stick to the title of this blog.  I am sorry if you are a friend of mine and decide to follow this blog because you will be subject to the inner workings of my mind whenever I get the urge to write.

Over the past Month or so since Lauren (my wife) started her new job as a teacher, at Imagine Schools, life has been insane. I have two students at Flight Safety who started from nothing so I am getting some good flight time logged and I am spending the rest of my time trying to be a supportive husband by helping Lauren in her first year of teaching. It seems like my life consists of nothing but driving, flying, and doing random things in Lauren's classroom.  To give you an idea my day could start anywhere from 5am to 9am and I usually don't get home until around 8pm or later.

Walking a paved path

So after the initial disappointment with my new job and of course a lot a bit of stress about how I am going to pay bills and support my wife, I decided to attempt to do something with the other side of my degree. As most of you know I graduated with an Aviation Flight Science Bachelors as well as a Aviation Science and Administration Bachelors, and I did this in the hopes that I would not have to go back to school for my MBA.  After about a week of setting up Monster.com and Careerbuilder.com profiles I started getting calls.  I took interviews for about a week, most of which were in Orlando.  In the end it came down to two positions. One would just be another job that I could do on the side from home and possibly make a commission or two after about a billion phone calls. The other position was again a commission based job but after your first promotion there is a base pay, nothing great but at least it is something stable to pay the bills with. Well after a first and second interview I was really hoping for something. The interviewers told me that they would call me around 3pm with there decision and I had to be at my flight instructing job at 4pm.  Because I live about an hour away when 3pm came and went I got in my car and started driving to Vero Beach.

Less

What do you do when life turns out to be less than what you expect? Where do you turn when every move you make seems to be the wrong one or get you no further down the road than the path you were on. I have a few good examples around me for which I am thankful but strangely that doesn't make things any better. I am fed up with this world and the million different ways that it sucks (by the way sucking is physically impossible it can only blow).  Let me explain a little more about my situation.....

Introductions

Welcome!
Welcome to my life. As stated above this blog is for the wonderful people whom I love and miss that are all over the United States and the world. People who I have left in a place that will always be home to me and people that have also left that place to go onto bigger and better things. People and lives that I have invested in and those same people who have invested and shaped me.

In here you will eventually find updates of what is going on in my life, and if there is nothing interesting to report you will find random thoughts that pass through my mind on a multitude of topics ranging from how I see the world and how God is continuing to grow and shape me to that funny thing I heard once. If I am brave enough I might even share my testimony of how I came to be me, the Christ follower, or whatever I am. You know the guy who tries, trips, stumbles, falls, gets up and goes the wrong direction only to be found and brought back again. You may see some of that here on this blog as well.

Well I will keep introductions short. Thank you for being one of those people who take an interest in me and my life, whether you are a life long friend or just a passerby. The juicy bits will follow soon.

Sincerely,
Me