Home for FIFTEEN days straight. This is awesome. I have been making breakfast for the kids every morning before I take them to school and making Adrienne coffee every morning before she goes to work.
While at home I take care of all the chores; laundry, grocery shopping, cleaning etc. It makes me feel good that I can do that for them. I also try to have dinner finished and on the table by the time Adrienne gets home from work. She works hard and has a stressful jib so I try to give her as much of a break from things as I can when I can. In fact most nights she gets a “six minute massage” It really means close to a half hour of neck, back, head and shoulder massaging for her, and serious hand cramps for me, but I wouldn’t change it.
I also spent time with Gabe on my days off. I said I’d tell you a bit more about Gabe.
Gabe and I met through work. He and I were both motorcycle instructors. We would talk at work and seemed to hit it off pretty well. Then Gabe found out that I did drifting as a motorsport. Gabe thought the sport was cool and in fact had been to Japan and seen how they do it over there where it originated.
Gabe bought a 1998 Firebird that he was using as a “toy”. He wanted to drift it so he started to take it to local events and try his hand at the sport.
At one of the events Gabe invited me to come and said he’d let me try out his car. Well, I couldn’t turn that down.
After Gabe saw me drive his car he asked if I would be interested in creating our own little team and just hit local drift event for fun. I agreed to it and off we went. Gabe and I started a pretty close friendship at this point and got to where we were talking almost daily. It turned out that he and I had very similar personality traits in a lot of areas and similar interests, so we hit it off great.
Gabe is a Marine, and a stand up guy. He has been in combat and seen things and done things that would put most of us in a nut house. How he keeps his composure a lot of times is beyond my understanding. I like to talk to Gabe because he is such a positive person. He can always see the silver lining. I on the other hand tend to be a pessimist. I can never seem to see the light at the end of the tunnel. So, Gabe has a great way of contrasting that and pulling my head out of the sand. Don’t get me wrong; my wife is superb at this as well, but its good to have a guy friend as well. Someone that you can confide in, much like my wife does with her girl friends.
So anyway, needless to say, Gabe and I have become very good friends and will remain so from now on I’m sure.
Also, this stay at home, I helped to install a new projector system in our church. Our new Pastor has wanted a new projector that had better clarity and such. This meant we had to relocate the projector. This meant lots of new cables, drilling holes, adding new mounts etc. A friend, Seth and me took on the project towards the end of my stay at home this time. We managed to get it installed and working, but not to my satisfaction. I didn’t have time to fix it though, so I will finish it when I return for my next stay. Unless of course Seth has handled it while I’m gone.
So I am coming to the end of my days off and getting ready to head to Dallas, TX, another new city for me.
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