With All My Hopes and Dreams

[soldier]

Well it has been a while since I posted last and I thought I would throw something out here. I started my Master’s Degree college class for this month and that has acted as a good time filler. My trip to North Carolina is a go for this weekend so that is nice. I have a small 5k fun run coming up at the end of this month with some friends from work and later this week I will be attending a local chapter meeting of The Professional Association of SQL Server (PASS) to better myself in my career. I set up a doctor’s appointment for some yearly stuff just to make sure my body is still in good shape and I have now lost 42 pounds with only around 40 or 50 more to go until my goal. I bought some new cloths and a pair of good running shoes and did my first run in over 6 years the other day. It was only a 1 miler but you have to start somewhere.

There has been no contact with my wife other than D5 or business related since my last post and she has still not reached out to me to see about lunch sometime this week as she said she wanted to. I am being patient but it still hurts. She has yet to reach out to me via any type of communication of her own free will save for one email and a few small text messages. I guess this is how it goes but I really miss my friend something bad. I don’t get posts from senior DB’ers but if I did I would imagine they would tell me that this is when it is most important for me to maintain my patience but this doesn’t make you miss your best friend any less.

I bought her a mother’s day card any filled it out inside but I will not give it to her as I know this is not what I should do. Ohh what a wonderful game this is. When the military sent me to Korea, all my family was sad to loose me for a year but I could never explain to them that I lost all of them at once for that year. The pain was hard on me but I had to stay strong to encourage them. Funny thing is I would gladly do three tours (3 years) back to back if I could just talk to my friend again and have her enjoy talking to me in the process.

I finished the book “The 5 Love Language Men’s Edition: The Secret to Love that Lasts” and found it to be a really solid book. I enjoyed it much greater than the apology one that I read prior. This one goes over the love side of things and has good examples of how to feed someone’s love tank by speaking to them in their primary love language. It will be nice if I ever get the chance to do this with my wife but as of now that is not a valid possibility. My primary was Physical Touch and my secondary was tied between Quality Time and Words of Affirmation. It was interesting but does not help to much right now.

I am moving on to a book called “Controlling People: How to Recognize, Understand, and Deal With People Who Try to Control You”. As always once I get over ½ way through this book I will post a review but this will take a bit longer than the previous ones as I now have college reading to content with.