Category: random

coming home

so I was thinking about coming home last night (well… I’ve actually been thinking about it since we got here, but anywho…) and while I was thinking about coming home and seeing all our friends, it out of nowhere felt like we weren’t the ones who were gone, but they were. I don’t know why, but it felt like we were the ones who were home, and everybody else was gone.

we weren’t “coming home” any more… we were “moving”… again.

it was one of those feelings that wasn’t quite right, but wasn’t wrong like I was telling myself it should be. it was, I think, the first time that this place felt like home, really home, not just the place we were living. I have become comfortable used to being here and it’s a strange sensation.

it is definitely going to be a huge change coming back, and not that it is, but it almost feels like a step backwards; moving back into our old place, getting back into our old routine (well, mostly), and returning to the place where we were a year ago.

I’m not saying it’s going to be a bad thing, I’m still more than eagerly awaiting that day we go to Vienna for the last time and get on that plane headed home, but it’s not going to be the big “coming home” that I had imagined, but more like a “moving away” in a sense.

very strange.

T-Mobile… smart? not so much

chelsea wanted a new phone, and was looking at the BlackBerry, and because Verizon has a propensity for handicapping phones, I didn’t want to buy a BlackBerry from them. so we switched to T-Mobile, but this required us to sign a new 2-year contract, which is fine, but then we moved to Slovakia, and they don’t have service here. so we called up T-Mobile after we arrived and they said it’s fine, just get them proof that we are in fact living overseas and they’ll remove the $400 early cancellation fee.

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identification

so there is a species of bird that lives here that has a song like I’ve never heard before. the song is not the most amazing song I’ve ever heard (although it is really cool, and I love listening to it while I work), but what is amazing is that it sings mostly in the evenings, and I’ve heard several of the same species of bird in different areas of town, and while I can tell that it’s the same bird, the songs are vastly different (in one area, the song could have been recorded and used as 8-bit video game sound effects, it was amazing the types of noises coming out of this bird), and even from the same bird, the songs are somewhat similar (in that songs sung by the same singer are similar), but every time it sings, it’s a new song.

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Billa

This should be on the Slovak flag.

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Billa is a grocery store and you see every other person walking down the street holding at least one of these at all times. One, because people are always at the grocery store. Two, because you have to buy them when you check out, so no one wants to pay for them. Three, because these bags are made of titanium and could hold 5 pointy gallons of milk, I have no doubt. They are worth every penny, er, euro.

condiments

it seems to me that condiments at restaurants should be free. or, if not free, at least included with the price of the meal.

fry sauce is a condiment.

and that’s all I’m going to say about that.

the spark of life

I’m not a religious person. I’m not a full blown God-hating atheist, I’m more of an agnostic with atheistic tendencies. Or rather…  I’m a scientist, and due to the lack of any kind of scientific proof of God’s existence, I tend not to subscribe to any religious beliefs. But I digress. And how can I digress before I even started making my point…

Anywho…

There are several mysteries of the Universe that people often attribute to God, and based on your belief system, you may lean more one way or the other. Some of those beliefs are creation vs. evolution, the creation of the earth and the heavens (I’m talking of outer space, not the other kind of Heaven), what happened before the big bang, and where did life come from…

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train of thought

I was taking the trash out–and really what better place to have an epiphany than near the dumpster–when I walked through our parking spot, which was void of the RAV. A car I have loved owning, mainly because of it’s reliability. Not seeing it in the stall threw me fast forward into the realm of all things Slovak and the reality of this, some would say, bizarro move we are making. Knots of excitement and nerves immediately tied up in my stomach. I asked myself, again, “why are we moving?”  Was I unhappy about something?  Was I running away from something, running towards something?  I then contemplated what in my life was of discontent. What in my life was I unhappy about?

The truth ran me over in the parking lot: nothing.

Holy hell, nothing!?! really!?!

I feel like my entire life I have been striving to be happy with what I have now, this moment. There has always been something that was going to make me happy, when I finally got it. Something was always standing in my way of real happiness, some struggle or inner unrest that kept me from being at peace. Now though, now, there is nothing in front of me, nothing but icing on the cake. I felt like I was moving through the thought of some watered down version of ascension or enlightenment, since this is not what I imagined it would feel like, in the cold, near the dumpster. The idea of ascension, of course, made me think of Stargate SG-1 (hey, I’m deep, what can I say?).  I thought, that was a good show, I miss that show. Aha! Something I wanted, more episodes of a sci-fi TV show. Go figure!

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It’s like email forwards, but more permanent

9 T.V. Shows I watch:

  1. Heroes
  2. Office
  3. Chuck
  4. Bones
  5. Dirty Jobs
  6. Mythbusters
  7. Modern Marvels
  8. Nova
  9. Good Eats

9 Favorite Restaurants:

  1. Rodizio
  2. Blimpie’s
  3. Quizno’s
  4. Costa Vida
  5. Spaghetti Factory
  6. Settebello
  7. Leger’s
  8. Applebee’s
  9. TGI Friday

9 Things that happened yesterday:

  1. Woke up at 5a to deal with the little one
  2. Worked
  3. Got a tough portion of a project I was working on done
  4. Played Halo (at work)
  5. Played Guitar Hero II (at work)
  6. Went to lunch with the beautiful baby dahl
  7. Passed out candy
  8. Played with the baby girl
  9. Put the baby girl to sleep

9 things that I am looking forward too:

  1. Holding Skye on my shoulders on a beach somewhere
  2. Watching Skye play on a beach somewhere
  3. Building a sandcastle with Skye on a beach somewhere
  4. Finding out what truly makes Skye laugh
  5. Using that knowledge everyday
  6. Sleep
  7. Having enough money for retirement with Chelsea
  8. Skye being old enough that she’s not so high maintenance
  9. Seeing the end of chain blog tags

9 things on my wish list:

  1. Time
  2. Sleep
  3. Becoming independently wealthy
  4. New Computer
  5. Outdoor toys (ATVs, Jetskis, camper, etc)
  6. The death of Internet Explorer
  7. New, larger, nicer house
  8. Motorcycle
  9. A garage/toolshop

And I pass this tag on to:

  1. Nobody

You’re welcome.