There is too much...

So much has happened since my last post. Not sure where to begin. I know I haven't posted in forever. For some reason my motivation just went away. We were all sick for a long time back in February. Almost a whole month. Some stupid viral thing that just wouldn't go away.

I was in a car accident back in the beginning of February, too. It was a four car pile up. Fortunately, I was the fourth car and only got grazed. Cracked the driver side door panel, took a chunk out of it and removed my driver side mirror. I've been driving it like that ever since. The insurance company of the driver that actually hit me finally made good, so hopefully that will get fixed in a week or so. The body shop is booked up for the next several days, sadly, but at least I have the money now.

We had a problem with our heating/cooling unit. Cost an arm and a leg to fix. Turned out to be a hole in a copper tube that caused all the freon to leak out. We went for a couple of weeks without any climate control in the house. Not fun, but fixed now. We also have started looking into getting our bathrooms remodeled. We have a small leak coming from the upstairs one and the downstairs is just... icky. Thought we had a bad mold problem, too, but it turned out to be a lot better than we suspected.

We've done some other remodeling on the house. New curtains, some fresh paint. Still in the process of painting the outside. The nasty browns just had to go. That's what we were dealing with when another bomb dropped (metaphorically speaking). My wife's ex, the father of my two step kids, died unexpectedly. I won't go into details (a lot of you already know about it), but it really tore the kids up. My wife, too. I mean, sure he ended up causing her no end of grief, but she was married to him for a long time before he left her. I totally understand how she feels. So, instead of us finishing the painting last week, we had to deal with the emotional fallout. Then I ended up going to the memorial service. That was awkward, but we didn't get the stink eye from as many people as I expected. At this point, we just have to deal with all the complications that will ensue now that he's gone, which may prove less than pleasant.

So, lots going on, including the SCA event season kicking up into high gear and my step-daughter graduating high school and preparing to go off to college. 2010 seems to be the year of big changes. I'll try a little harder to share them as they happen, but sometimes it gets pretty overwhelming and writing on my blog isn't exactly at the top of the priority list. I'm sure y'all understand.