2018: Day 5

Yesterday I went to a RV show hosted by a big dealer.  I knew what I wanted to see.  I wanted to check out the Class B vans.  I went to the show at the local fairgrounds and wouldn't you believe it, they didn't have the Winnebago Travato 59G there.  I was called two weeks ago saying that they got them back in.  Anyway, they didn't have them at the fairgrounds but at their store front.  Sigh.  That and the food truck I wanted to go to, was closed for the winter.  Why, General Bao, why!?

Anyway, I  went to to the storefront and patiently waited for the the salesperson.  He didn't show up.  A few calls well after the time he was supposed to be the, ge said that he couldn't show up, that his manager told him he couldn't go.  Long story short I did get to see the 59G and run over it.  I just wanted to check out exactly how big it was compared to me.  All in all it wasnt that bad.  I fit in the barhroom and behind the dinette table.  The shower could have been designed better though.  The only thing I couldn't figure out was how to spin the captain's chairs around.  All in all, the experience started off good but ended up leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

Anyway (again) my brother went to pick up my niece.  One could tell because the weather is turning bad... I swear every time she comes up here.

2018: Day 3

Day 3 of 2018.  I am thinking about what I am going to do for the rest of the year.  The only major thing is a wedding my friend Gary and I have been tasked with cooking.  My friend Greg's daughter is getting married... my god it makes you think about how fast time is flying right past you.  It seems that time goes by faster the older you get.  I don't want it to go by.  I would like to catch, to hold on to those moments for a little longer.  It is strange that when you are younger you wish that you were older.  You couldn't wait to be older, to do all the things that you couldn't do.  To see an R-rated movie, to drive, your first drink, to get married.  

Other than that, I don't have anything planned for the year.  Unless something better comes up, I am still planning for next year to do the Appalachian Trial.  Fifteen months to go... oh god... fifteen months.  But that means training.   To continue to go on and do my walks and hikes.

2018: Day 2

Whoa.  It is the second day of the New Year.  What am I going to do?  What am I going to add?  What am I going to drop?  What am I going to be?  Four important questions and it is only the second day.  I am sure that I will have more in the coming days, weeks, hell, even months.  That is why I am trying to write here an a consistent basis.

A long time ago, back when I was still a babe, my mother said she took me to a fortune teller.  This was back when we were still in Taiwan.  She asked the fortune teller about my life and my mother was told that I would have a good life.  That according to my astrological signs (I was born in the Year of the Rooster) that I would be a lazy rooster and glide through life.  That I shouldn't get married until I was at least 30 to have a happy marriage.  She didn't bother telling me until I was well past 30 though!  Despite the series of bad luck I have had in the past, my life has been fairly good.  But, that is to say that it could be better.  I am trying to be a better person, better than I already am.  Maybe I just have to say it, to put it out into the world.  I am a big old introvert but maybe I will have to be more of an extrovert.  I will have to change, to evolve, to be the better person I aspire to be.  Leaner, healthier, a model of success.  I have got to be open to more things.  I have got to stand up for the causes that matter to me and of course to the world.

2018

It is January 1, 2018 and it is a cold but sunny day.  It is looking to be a nice day, but I am thinking that it is going to be like every other day.  I am not going to be pessimistic, after all according to general concensus it is supposed to be a new year that anything could happen.  2017 is gone and it was a year that was filled with controversy, horror and an absolute fear for the future.  As such we will have to fight for our future, to make it better for everyone.  That is everyone, even those whom we hate and fear, and even as they still hate and fear us.  But, let us also remember that it was a year that was filled with laughter, with love and with hope.  Hope is important.  Hope is what makes us dream for a brighter tomorrow.  Even though I do not approve of our president, I approve of the reason why a good friend voted for him.  It is not because she agrees with any of his ideas, but the change that is before us all.  That it will bring down the parties and make us in four years think about what has gone wrong and fix what was done.  I just hope that there will be something left to fix.  Sigh.  How did this become political?  Stream of consciousness, I blame that.

2018 I hope will be filled with new adventures, new friends, new horizon and new travels.  I hope to banish old fears and replace them with new experiences.  I hope to stay in contact with my old friends, to strengthen them.  I hope I will have love returned for I do have so much to give.

So, to everyone who is going to read this, I hope for you as well to have those things.  I hope that you will all grow to love, to laugh and to have your dreams come true.  Even if it is just the small dreams that matter to only you.

So to me, it is just another day.  Catch me on the Year of the Dog, that is when it really will begin...

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