Gratitude With the days getting shorter and winter approaching, I began thinking about the winter blues. Maybe it was the cool, dreary weather, but I began to dwell on what I had lost. I could feel my mood deteriorating. It was a new experience for me to recognize exactly what was happening. I never used to be that attentive to my feelings. Could it be from living a very complacent life?Hey, look at me, I’m growing. Sorry, back to the…
We all love our coffee in the morning, or at least us normal people do. So what happens when you wake up, start the coffee maker and come back ten minutes later only to find no coffee brewing? If you’re like me you get very angry, but before you throw the coffee maker across the room lets figure out if we can fix it. First Things First Go to your nearest Tim Horton’s or favorite coffee shop and get that…
Hangovers The headache, the stomach that feels like it’s been pickled, the wasted day. There’s nothing fun about a hangover. Ten years ago this was not a huge issue for me, but it seems like every year that goes by, it just gets worse. I will say this before I get in any further, any of you out there reading this saying “I never get hungover.” I am happy for you, but please stop telling me that when I am…
Memories The other day I had finished playing a double-header to close out the regular season. Like most slo-pitch teams, we sat around with a couple of beers after the game and shot the shit. I’m not sure how or why it came up, but we started talking about a couple of memories from our younger years. Not only did it make me feel old and make me wonder where the time went. It also made me laugh at how…
“No one gets out alive, every day is do or die The one thing you leave behind Is how did you love, how did you love?” Lyrics from one of many great songs from Shinedown’s album Threat to Survival. Such a great thought. Certainly a fantastic motto to live by. Although sometimes hard to do. How Not To Love Apologize for the heavier subject matter again. Honestly, I am a very happy guy but I was determined to write something…
The Welcome Sam and I would like to welcome readers to our little corner of the internet. We were originally going to start with a welcome post, but we don’t always do things in order. Besides, it’s more fun when you don’t know what’s coming next. Think of it as having your playlist on shuffle. Now that we’ve got a couple posts published, I’d like to take a few minutes to explain what readers can expect from us on this…
Throughout the years Jeremy and I have come up with some pretty idiotic ideas. Some sounded more idiotic than others, but the argument could be made that embracing the idiot made them awesome. Bacon Vodka One such idea was to attempt to infuse bacon into vodka. How could that be anything but awesome? Turns out that when you add bacon to a bottle of vodka, you end up with a terrible bottle of vodka. Looking back, a better idea would…
“Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.” – William Shakespeare What is greatness? How can I find greatness? How will I know if I’ve found it, and am I talented enough to achieve greatness? These are questions I ask myself far too often. Let’s begin with the easy question of what greatness is. People have many different perspectives of greatness and my view of it may differ from your…
Perspective… Perspective can be a very powerful thing when trying to control our feelings about something. By changing the part of the experience that we focus on, we can change the way we feel about that experience. The Easy Example… I was very fortunate to have a seven week honeymoon in the south Pacific. We did a lot of amazing things on our trip. We swam with dolphins, hiked up a glacier, and flew to the top of a mountain….
So here we are, getting everything ready for our blog. Everything is coming together slowly, but we’re working hard and getting closer to the big release day. What can go wrong right? Well how about pushing the power button to your computer one day and nothing happens? Not gonna lie, I swore at the old beast, but I’ve been in this situation before and can fix it rather easily. As a bonus I have a topic for my first ‘How…