Over the Hill

Time to update the blog. I don't know why I have any attachment to this worthless online journal what-so-ever, but something in me reminds me that it is time to post my thoughts every once in a while. The summer is drawing to a close, which means another long winter in fast on the way. I do, in some ways, look forward to the snow and winter activities, but for the most part I find that winter lasts far too long and I would not mind having at least 30 more days of summer. Oh well, I chose to live here, I can't bitch about it.

Life has entered the drone of the coming and going of every day chores. I work, I feed the animals, I water the plants, and soon the day is gone and I am once again waking up in my bed, thinking of the coming day's activities. Friends of mine still discuss the wanderlust of youth, how they don't want to be tied down just yet, how this is the time to be travelling the world as a nomad. Well, maybe it's just the Virgo in me, but I see plenty of time ahead to explore, and I feel I do need to continue to plug away at what I am doing now in order to hopefully make my future a little more secure and simple. I would rather travel leisurely in my middle age than finish my travelling then and have to work my ass off as a 50 year old man. Of course, who's to say I'll see 50? Morbid yes, but certainly not impossible.

Yes, in case anyone hadn't guessed, I just had a birthday, and for the life of me, I can't figure out how I fall into these predictable patterns, like becoming all sentimental and reflective on my birthday. Does the realization that we now introduce ourselves as a year older actually become so prominent today? I mean, every day we get older, why does it have to be the birthdays that become the anxious event? We humans just need to be able to mark out everything on a calendar.

So what am I going to do with my life? Well, I continue to fish a lot and hopefully I can continue to live a fulfilled realtionship with the lil' lady. Things have gotten a bit better with us again lately, the ebb and flow of the tide of love I guess. Also the ebb and flow of other stresses in our lives. We are both at a relatively calm point in our lives right now, and that helps in all other aspects of life. Communication opens, energy levels rise, and we are just generally more perky. I say that calmed down in the way to be.

Anyway, I have now updated this silly thing, and maybe my addiction to online gut-spilling will be satisfied for longer. As always, I ask myself, should I try to get this blog rolling as a public-viewing forum? Maybe in the future I will advertise a bit. Until then, tight lines all, and may your fish find their way into your nets.