At the big lake.

Well it’s late at night and I am sitting here in the dark at the big lake while everyone else is sleeping, Jessica in the other end of the house because this bed hurts her back and Alexander in the playpen in the room with me. The big lake being Jessica’s parents house on the shore of Harlan County Reservoir for those of you not in the know. We are here for Thanksgiving and got talked into spending another night here and watch the game in the morning. I don’t really mind I guess but like anyone I would prefer spending more time in my own home in my own bed surrounded by my own stuff rather than living out of a duffle bag. Had a nice dinner again with Jessica’s extended family, nice to have someplace to go where a good amount of people get together for the holidays. Alexander was pretty well behaved for us, but I’ve nixed encouraging his new thing where he adds the word “poop” to all his songs he sings. It’s funny when it’s every once in a while but when he starts doing it for everything it makes him look dumb like he doesn’t know the words when he really does and makes me feel like I’m being a bad parent. He’s a smart kid and can show it, no use encouraging him to look dumb, at least not all the time anyway.

It’s been a while since I’ve written but since that time I applied, interviewed for, and got the weekend team leader position at work. I’m on a three to six month probation period right now where I’ve got all the hassles, headaches and power that comes with being a shift supervisor, but not all the money… oh well, I’ve got my shot and I’ve just got to make the most of it and the money will come. I’m a couple weeks into it so far and I feel like its gone pretty well so far. My first day by myself as boss we really got our ass kicked but everyone really stepped up and for the most part everything went well. I think that it has more to do with the other guys that stepped up than it did with anything I did as a team leader, really it doesn’t matter what I do if I don’t have buy in from everyone who reports to me. I’ve just got to improve every day and emulate the people in my life who have been great leaders and I think everything will be fine. Gotta try and make it into a place where myself and the people who work there don’t hate spending our lives there for forty hours a week. I’m liking the fact that I now work three days and have four days off. The days are real long, especially now that its cold when I work two fourteen hour days and a twelve but the time off really helps. Even when Jessica is working again we will be able to do something’s together in the summer time now too which is really nice. As it was all summer long we never had the same days off so we could never really have any summer fun at all. The increased money will be nice, not that I will notice it all that much since I just end up saving and investing it all and won’t be throwing it around and getting new stuff with it. I do want to buy a jeep, I’ve wanted one since i was sixteen years old and my dad told me no because they “rode too rough”. When I showed Jessica one that was for sale she said, and I quote, “That’s really nice, maybe it will still be for sale after we get gutters and siding put on the house.” Ouch. So i guess we aren’t getting one of those right now. The one thing I have learned about being an adult is that no matter how much money you bring in there is never enough money to freely go and buy something that you want without something else suffering in exchange. I wonder what that amount of money is because I don’t think I will ever reach it. That’s all I’ve got for tonight, I’m getting tired and its time to go to sleep.