Category: Gratitude
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So here we are, 2025
I’ve been thinking that I need to get back to blogging for awhile now. So much has changed and the world around us is so different than it was just a few months ago. I felt a strange aversion to blogging, like it was just too much work. That’s not true, it’s never been true,…
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Dueling Journeys
Here’s a timeline of my journey to become Zander: Age 4 – I vividly remember sort of waking up and becoming conscious of myself as a person, a male person. I started choosing my own clothes and toys and I remember loving Spider-Man and other superheroes. Age 8 – My parents bought me a pink…
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Growth
I’ve been in therapy continuously for almost 4 years straight. It will be 4 years in January. I did some therapy online and with a military therapist on base prior to starting for real in January 2021. For me, I wanted to change things once I was retired because I could. I no longer had…
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Surprise Trips
Tomorrow is my 3rd anniversary with my wife! I can’t believe it’s been 3 years already. It feels like it’s gone by in the blink of an eye. Some days have been long, but for the most part the time has flown by ridiculously fast. Last year we celebrated with her surprising me with a…
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Rounding out November in STYLE
It’s been a rough week in our house. Thanksgiving Day was a marvelous feast thanks to my wife’s amazing cooking. We relaxed, watched the parade in the morning, and I was on top of the clean up all afternoon. We were ahead and everything went really well. Then Friday happened…My wife and Girl set out…
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Looking down, backwards, and at the mirror
I am still so unbelievably happy with my surgery results. Other than some stubborn swelling, which I understand will go down eventually and is totally normal, everything is going really well with recovery. I am still not to lift anything over 10 lbs and I need to be careful with how much I extend my…
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Happy Anniversary!
WordPress told me that today is my one year anniversary blogging. ROCK ON!! It’s been an entire year already. I remember when I started. My goal was to stop censoring myself and finally speak my mind without holding back. I was so afraid of offending people. Fast forward to today…I don’t hold back even on…
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Stop holding it all in
(Mental note to self-it does not help you to hold in your emotions. You know this. You have learned this lesson repeatedly over the last three or so years. Just stop already!) I woke up yesterday and right away I knew I wasn’t feeling like myself. Something was off. I was cranky but for no…
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Work Day
It was a morning to sleep in, but not a day off. Thanksgiving cooking and prep was in full swing in the kitchen. Boy #3 and I assembled our new snowblower and his new smoker that was the main birthday present he got this past weekend. He helped me briefly with winterizing efforts out back.…
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Speak the Truth
Something that I do really well is give great reviews when someone goes above and beyond to help. It’s not enough to just say thanks in the moment. Sometimes people need a little more. Way back in 2012, I was driving a Chevy Cobalt. I loved that car and was excited to be able to…