The day to day

My days and nights are typically filled with things to occupy my time, so much so that I rarely take the time to take a step back and just appreciate the good fortune in my life.  Despite dropping out of college after three months and drifting through several random, future-less, mostly physical jobs in my early 20’s I have wound up on stable footing with financial security, a roof over my head, and not wanting for much of anything.

As much as I bitch and complain about the trials and tribulations of aging, compared to most of my peers, I am holding up well, refusing to relent to “me too” mentality where being lazy and not caring about your health at this age is the de facto attitude.  Cindy and I have our own small but unique family element where animals literally accept and provide child-like love.  With the addition of baby DJ to the mix that love has only increased.  Cindy of course has had a lot to do with my good fortune.  Her energy and caring for me helps cancel out some of the negativity that is wired into my personality.  I appreciate everything she does to make our house a home and her efforts to be my partner in life.

I know most blog posts are filled with me recounting all of the stuff I am doing and not necessarily what sort of stuff I am feeling.  I just wanted to take a moment to clarify that despite whatever griping you may hear, in the big picture I know I am lucky to have landed where I have after all is said and done.

So now that’s out of the way, last night I found myself again busy building stands for sale.  I have a unique order that is getting shipped over to a military base in the Pacific.  I did not realize that you can ship worldwide to military bases for even less than what normal domestic shipping costs, that’s pretty cool.  I have had a lot of overseas interest lately, I have another order for the UK that I need to get working on next.

I booked someone to come out and detail the Tacoma on Monday, when I will already be off for the carpet restretch.  I have NEVER paid for someone else to detail my vehicles in my life.  However life changes as you get older.  I am shifting into a time period where in some areas my time is worth more than my money.  Sure, I could spend 3-4 hours doing the work myself but still winding up with a less pretty outcome than professional results. At this point I’d rather pay for a full detail once a year and I continue to handle normal hand washing duties.

This trend will surely expand as time marches on.  For example the ground elevation / sod project will be done mostly by someone that does it for a living.  The cost to do so is reasonable in my mental ledger.  No worries, there are still plenty of projects that will be paid for by sweat equity alone.  For example I want to redo the fencing around the chicken area.  I somehow bought and installed welded wire instead of woven wire fencing.  The welded wire stuff is garbage and is already falling apart at the areas where standing water lives in the summer.