I don’t know about you, but I definitely have a different outlook and feeling about 2012 than previous years. I can’t really put my finger on it but it’s just a combination of a bunch of things that has given me a more positive feeling about where we’re headed. Maybe 2012 is the actual “year of change” for us. Maybe it took all of 2011, and writing about it, to set ourselves up for the actual change. Let’s take a look at it, so far this year, we’re much healthier, the misses has an opportunity to get into something she really enjoys doing, I’ve basically changed (at least in my own mind which is the first step to implementing actual change) the whole structure of our Company and the way we do things, and most importantly, I now have this inner peace that everything is going to somehow work out and be ok. We still have lots of bills and our home has lots of things that need fixed and the World, well, it’s still a mess, maybe even more so than it was a year ago, but with all that said, somehow I feel like we’re headed in the right direction as a family and good things are on the horizon for us. Just a gut feeling, hope I’m right!
Yesterday the misses was off early and the oldest was not feeling well. He didn’t have a temperature so we sent him to school with the caveat that if he didn’t feel well, I’d come and get him. I had a bunch of errands to run in the morning as I needed to do some things to get some cash in the bank. By the time I got home, it was 1 in the afternoon and soon after, I received a call from the school as the oldest guy was in the clinic with a temperature. I went to pick him up and we stopped to pay a few thousand dollars worth of bills on the way home and picked up some udon soup to sooth his cold. Mom took off from work 30 minutes early to make it to the youngest ones teacher conference where all was good. I meanwhile stayed home with the sick guy cleaning the house. By 4 I had to jump back on the phone and was on until nearly 7pm. I missed dinner with the family (on the phone) so the misses brought it down to me in my office. Next up was all four of us in our bed for an hour and then it was time to go to sleep.
First thing in the morning after dropping the boys at school, I ran to get the oil changed (interesting huh?) and $200 later was back on the road on the way to the carwash. Exciting stuff!
Today I have a call at 8:45 am that’ll go until around 11 and then we’ll run downtown for lunch with our friends from Iceland (she’s a doctor and he sold some biotech business for a bunch) to discuss a joint sustainable food venture and raising some grass fed cows in Wyoming. Just one of the things we have going. In short, we have the connections and they have the money. Â I also had a long conversation with my other “little sister”who’s now running a german wine import company and lives in Tucson. She’s also a Master Sommelier, one of 17 females in the World (it’s a big deal in the wine business) and a good friend for years. Her company is based in Carlsbad CA and she said she bought a condo there by the beach but only spent 10 days there last year. She told me that we should go out and use it but she doesn’t have any furniture. You think I travel a lot, she had 202,000 miles last year on United alone and more on Southwest and Jet Blue. That’s a lot of time in airplanes. I’m kind of her mentor so we talk often when she needs some advice but we’ve both been so busy and we haven’t spoke for a few months. My Mom will remember her (Laura) as we all had dinner a couple of years ago in Arizona. Anyhow, maybe we’ll go use the beach condo when it warms up!
It’s now a little after 5 and I need to go get my run in. Hope you all are doing well. Remember half of the battle is having a positive attitude. (it’s an up day for me, can you tell, ha ha) It’s not always easy to do with the problems we all face, but as my Mom says, try to keep your chin up. Take care and God Bless.