The end of 2021....but what does that mean?

 

   As yet another year winds down, I will dust this thing off and reflect on the last year (or two) and start to map out the incoming new year...2022!!  Wow...that sounds weird.  

   We are wrapping up a two year stretch that has got to be one of the weirdest two years in human history. I am not sure if that is true exactly, but it certainly feels that way, doesn't it?  I have said for the last six months, that 2021 might be stranger than 2020.  I seem to think that COVID and everything that surrounds it has made it, and will continue to make it weirder, stranger, or whatever adjective you want to use.  I am also afraid to say, that I don't see any end to COVID in the foreseeable future.  Unless more people take it more seriously, it will remain to be the case.  I am not going to get in to all of that shit here.  I think we are probably all sick of rehashing the same things related to all things COVID.  I will remain to take all for the precautions needed to ensure that me and everyone around me, stays as clear from COVID as possible.  That is my choice....

   Of course as a new year rolls around, I always take some time to make resolutions.  Why not?  Resolutions are just goals,  and setting goals can be a good thing, whether reached or not.  I think the usual suspects will be on my lists.....reading, getting healthy, etc, etc....what are some of your goals for 2022?  I continue to read, but fell off a little the second half of this year.  I hope to get back on it this year, I need to continue to try and finish all of the Stephen King books (yeah, right!!)

   Running is something else that I very much try to do and get better at.  I hope to start back on that horse the first week of the New Year.  I need to get healthy.  It ain't going get any easier the older I get, and time is definitely marching on.  Not to mention, that I have pretty much picked up the twenty pounds that I lost in 2017-2018.  That was something that I should have never let happen because I really feel the extra weight, and I feel terrible.  

   There is so much more that I can type up here and make this post go on and on and on, but I will wrap it up here.  I just wanted to get something in the books.   I have thought about blogging and journalling a lot the end of this year so wanted to act on that.  I am not sure what 2022 will bring, but I think things are going to change, and I'm sure things aren't going to get any easier for anyone in the future.  Having said that, I do think that making some goals/resolutions and trying to chip away at them one day at a time will help get these goals (for me or for anyone) accomplished as we try to make the absolute best of what will be handed to us in 2022.  I wish nothing for the best for everyone and for myself as I try to get focused and to continue on as best as I can.  Won't you all join in with me?  Let's do this!  

Life

With these updates, I have quite a bit of things that I do want to touch up on this blog, but with some things going on in the last week, I would be remissed if I didn't write about this funny and unexpected thing called life.

Over the last week or so there have been life changing, tragic events that have happened to people around me. It hadn't really directly affected me, so to speak, but I have felt bad about the events. It makes you stop and relect on life around you. I always love to soak in moments, and I do realize that life is a wonderful thing. I appreciate everyday life. I am able to not let work, or business, or stress weigh me down. I have been lucky about that. Receiving news before a football game, even a Texans game (which is a big deal around these parts), made me realize just how trival and small a game is in the game of life (sorry for that phrase).

Yet it is in some trivial things that can make life that much better. Now a football game might not be the greatest example, but different strokes for different folks, right?! If someone can get a little relief, even if for a brief moment during a football game, then it did its job. For that, some might not realize that a football game can be comforting to someone, no matter what the outcome.

At the time, I didn't know if I was going to be able to enjoy the game, or even if I should, but I watched the game of course. A little ironic that during said game, a coach had to be taken to a hospital via ambulance, again making the game seem small. He now going through tests and will no doubt think about life.

I may be going in circles here, because I am having a hard time getting my thoughts down. I hope that this is coherent.

I say sometime that I am getting soft in my old age. I think that is true, or maybe I have always been a big ol' softy?! I am not sure which it is. One thing is that with the arrival of our kids, I have become much more of a homebody. I never really was the clubbing, going out all of the time, but now I choose to be home. There are times that I would like to go to different events, meet people for drink, what have you, but instead I think I would much rather be home. It's funny to say, or even weird to think, but it is fun being home. Oh sure, the occasional night out if very nice, but while the kiddos are small I want to spend as much time as I can with them because I know one day....the ain't wanna hang out with ol' Mom and Dad...maybe. I am of the opinion that we are building strong bonds and values now, that way when they are older, we have done our jobs. Does this make sense? I feel like I am rambling for some reason....

Anyway I can go on and on, but I may break it for there. I really hope that my thoughts came out a little clear and you can see a little into what I think and feel about life. Until next week....