2 Oct 2011

Centering Moments ... When Life "Slips" Away

There are times in life when the world seems like a complicated place to live; there are other times where life seems to go into slow motion. I'm currently in the latter. At this very moment, life seems quite simple. This is what I would refer to as a moment in which I stop, make sure I am pointing my life in the right direction, plan it out, then continue on with life.

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13 Aug 2011

It's Easy

I'm sitting in Starbucks in Livermore, CA right now on my computer. I intended to work, and while attempting that the conversation by the two employees here is just so so interesting. The younger 24 yr old girl is going on and on about a relationship. Apparently she has a child, and is interested in a guy who feels like he should get to know the kid if he commits to her. And her take on it is very interesting. Interesting in the odd kind of way.

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22 Feb 2011

Birthday Generosity

On a friend's birthday,it's a perfect time to be generous! One of the most awkward things that you can experience on a birthday is going to any kind of meal, coffee, fun anything with a friend on a birthday where they pay for it. It's their day. If you go with them, plan to pay. Put it on the credit card if necessary. Please, please, don't let a friend take their own check on their birthday.
29 Jun 2010

Rules, if you will.

Here are a few things that I try to live by that I haven't put into words until now. These aren't easy to follow.

Never, ever, ever

  • Do anything that in any way de-values another person.
  • Tell someone that they are stupid.
  • Tell someone that they have a bad idea.
  • Insinuate that another person is stupid.
25 Jun 2010

Mirabelle Eloise Gratigny

It's a girl! At least the doctor *thinks* it's a girl. As the doctor was moving the little thing around and our skeleton, I mean baby, was being shown on the black and white screen.... I was thinking one word. Pink. We're going to have a pink room! Am I disappointed that we're having a girl?

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21 Jun 2010

Where do you Find Creativity?

Creativity is something that you do on a daily basis. It doesn't matter what you do. There is creativity involved in anything that you do.

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21 Jun 2010

Father's Day

I'm going to be a father. This is the last father's day of my life that I won't be a dad. I was musing today about this. About being a father in a few months. It's still something that doesn't seem very real to me. I know in my head that I'm going to be a father. It's there. I look at my wife and know that the thing growing in her is a child. It still isn't real to me though. It hasn't "clicked".

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19 Jun 2010

When did you use it last?

If you didn't use it in 6 months.... throw/give it away.  How much stuff do we hold onto because we just might need it someday? 

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18 Jun 2010

Charlemagne Raleigh Gratigny

Bring on the comments. Really. Bring them on. I want to see what you have. He's going to be made fun of. Check, heard that. Actually about 500 variations of all of the ways that Charlemagne is going to be made fun of because of his name. Really? My friends are telling me this. Hmmm. Let me think. If Charlemagne is made fun of in school that means my friend's kids are making fun of him? Come on. You aren't any better than elementary kids.

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16 Jun 2010

I was on the local news today

Lunch was a a new restaurant in town, and the "Action News" was there...

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