The Beginning

Well here we go, I guess trying this blog thing won't be a bad thing, just different.

A little bit about myself, I live in the upstate NY area where we get SNOW (God I hate snow).  How did I get here?  Well back in 1991 after getting out of the military (USAF) my now ex-wife wanted to move back to the area where I grew up.  So we left California and moved here...then of course as I implied, she decided to move on with her life and left.  So in 2000 I decided that I needed to re-evaluate life and I did.  I found that God was the corner stone of life and that I should try to live more by His word.  At the time I was a Paramedic for a small company and I owe much of what I now believe in to one man, Mr. Ken Kelly.  Ken was not only my instructor as a paramedic, but a mentor in life.  Ken is now facing his biggest battle he is fighting cancer.  He knows that this will end his life, but instead of sitting around waiting to die, Ken is fighting, and he is still teaching.  Ken post many of his thoughts on a blog, which has been very inspirational to myself.  If there is one thing that he has taught me it is to be kind to everyone, and embrace all that is good in people.  I know that some day soon I will loose the ability to talk to Ken, however his words and actions will be forever engraved into my being.

After several years of soul searching and working really hard to clean up my life I met a lovely lady, Karen, and we began dating.  After about a year I asked her to merry me and she did.  Since 2005 we began this roller coaster we call life.  Karen's mother became very ill and almost died in 2006.  We got her back, and she was on the road to recovery when she was diagnosed with cancer, she passed away in 2009.  Since then Karen's father moved in with us, and he is into his 80's and wheel chair bound.  This has proven to be very stressful on the both of us.  To make matters worse, in 2011 to keep her job, Karen had to commute to Albany NY which is about 200 miles away.  So she would go to Albany for 5 days then come home.  This was not what I would call a great year. Thankfully on Thanksgiving Day 2011 she was transferred back to the Canandaigua office and now we have returned to normal.  Life was going on pretty normal until this past July when I lost my job.  So we now keep moving forward.

As a Paramedic, I learned many lessons, and one of the most important was to take things as they come and try not to worry about things I could not change.  I know that things happen for a reason, and I just need to figure out the reason.

So to keep busy, I was told to start a blog, one that would address life as an average citizen.  I will share experiences, answer questions.  Kind of like how to survive when things change.  I know that I am keeping busy with new hobbies (wood working) and the wife has me busy building boxes.  ( I will show you how to build a raised garden bed for less than $7.00 each).  So hopefully I can get this blog out and give some folks a little hope, and maybe get some more ideas on how to make life a little better.

Remember, be kind to one another and yourself.