Monday, December 11, 2006

The Onset

So today I decided to take a note from my big brother and start up a blog. He is currently in Japan teaching English and occasionally writes a blog about whats been going on and all that. It's been pretty interesting. I'll attach a link to his blog just as soon as I figure out how to do it. But anyway, this one's not about him, it's about me and everything interesting and exciting about me. For those of you who don't know, this past september I convinced the most beautiful girl in the world (pictures to come) to marry me. I'm still not sure how I did that but there you have it. I'm a married man. After a whirlwind honeymoon of driving to Montana and back we settled down the everyday life of working for a living. She works at Texas Tech University as an advisor for the Texas Success Initiative Program and I'm workin at Collins Tile and Stone writing programs for a machine that cuts granite and marble countertops. Currently we are working on moving out of our current cramped apartment into a much larger duplex with our roommate of the past year Ward. We spent this whole weekend painting the new place. It was exhausting but after a little more touch up work it will be finished and it does look really nice. Then we get to start moving. Then the holidays will be here with all the madness that entails. Then on MLK weekend we're going snowboarding to a little ski resort in New Mexico that most of you have probably not heard of called Sipapu. It's between Mora and Taos and it's about as close to perfect as ski resorts get. It's small. Few people know about it. We grew up going there. Learned how to ski and snowboard there. Took many a Boy Scout Ski Trip there. Lots of good memories. For anyone interested in checking it out their website is www.sipapunm.com. The first picture is of Big Brother Luke mushing dogs at his last job somewhere in the backwoods of Wyoming. The second picture is of me and my wife Mandi on a backpacking trip to the Guadalupe Mountains the summer before we got married. To the right you'll find some helpful links to my brother's blog and a few other blogs of some friends he's made of people doing the same thing as him in Japan. You'll also find a little list of books I've read that I liked. There will be more of those to come, I just didn't have time to post all of them. I think that's about all I've got for now. There'll be more to come soon. Enjoy!!

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