This is new thing for me; I mean the time of day and my frame of mind for writing. It’s a Sunday morning and it has been such a very long time since I have written anything let alone had a posting here on the blog. I feel motivated to get back to old habits that once brought me to the page on a more regular basis. I have discounted what effect writing gives me to cope with the large and small challenges of life.
One of the things that happened to me and made it difficult to write was I have had some major computer difficulties. I needed more hard drive space so I took my computer to local store here to have another hard drive installed. It should have been an easy fix but for some reason I was given excuses with terminology like “incorrect jumper settings” and “unreconciled licensing issues.” After too much time, money and frustration I decided to take my computer to a more expensive, reputable computer company. After I told them of my issues they showed me exactly what the previous store had done and how they were going to fix it. They said that what I had been told previous was equivalent to being told that a gnome lives in my computer and that he was very angry so is holding my data hostage. BLASTED GNOME!!! In the end what I had to have done was to run a data recovery program to recover a bunch of data that ended up being inconsequential. It effected my work; was very stressful and now still don’t have the information that was on my old hard drive. I lost pictures of my family, old video journals I had made, letters to my girls… including the music that I lost from iTunes it was about 75 gigs of data.
As the blog will attest blessings follow hardship… I was so bugged about losing all that data and the possibility of losing all 35 gigs of my music that I became a man on a mission. My iPod still contained all the music that I had, but I knew that if I plugged it into my computer that iTunes would erase it all and I would truly have lost it all my data. I went to the Apple store here in Salt Lake and asked them what was available from them for this type of problem. The salesperson gave me the standard Apple answer… “Unfortunately, you blah blah blah….” Then he crouched his shoulders down, looked both ways slowly and whispered to me about a program that was available for download on the internet that would allow you to copy your music back to your computer from your iPod. His reaction made me think that he has telling me where to get some drugs or something… Funny… I found the program and have recovered back to my computer all the music I had. I told my neighbor about it and he offered me his iPod full of music for mine, so last night I added his library to mine with my nifty new program… all because of my hard drive issues…
Since my last posting we have closed on our new house. I don’t think I was very clear about it but our new home is currently a model home for a builder. We will be moving at the end of September, not October because the builder is leasing it back from us for this month. The home where we currently live in is also a short time away from closing; we are under contract and hope to have it wrapped up and finalized soon. Amie and I are so ready to move, when we closed on the house we thought it would be good to have this time to prepare, plus we get to use the lease payment from the builder to help with some of the expenses that arise when buying a home. Reality has set in that we are on the hook for our new home, it is all that we want, and we only get to look at it from afar until the end of the month. I recognize that these aren’t real problems, just inconveniences. Please excuse the whining.
Last week my girls were here from Wednesday night until Tuesday morning. Each visit gets better and better with them here. Jane and Catherine both were very happy and enjoyed being here. All the kids got along…. It was a good visit. One thing about my kids is that it doesn’t matter what time you put them to bed, they will wake at the crack of dawn; without fail (must be the Hassell side of them)… After they leave my internal alarm clock stays that way for a good week of rising with that feeling of needing to check on the kids. Catherine is talking more and more; she is just the sweetest little thing. Jane is a crack up with the things she is learning to say; her logic and ability to connect rational thought is increasing. She would catch me off guard with little things that she would say that made me laugh. She has been having issue with going to the bathroom in her pants; she doesn’t want to miss any of the action when kids are playing so we had to ask her all the time. She didn’t have any after the first day or so here. Amie and I have been quasi-planning a Disneyland trip for the kids and the bargaining tool we use with Jane is that if she is good and doesn’t have any accidents she gets to see Cinderella’s castle and meet her. After we told her that she would talk about it constantly; reminding us at the beginning of every Disney movie that we would watch that we were going to the castle on the screen if she didn’t have accidents. I can’t wait to give that to her as a memory. Even if she does have accidents we will take her, we just want her to try her hardest…
As far as the church is concerned I have no idea about the time frame for me to be able to be rebaptized. I am told one thing, then another… I am hopeful that today at church the Bishop will have some news for me. Two weeks ago he said he needed to talk to me; I waited for him at church and tried to speak to him but he seemed too busy. Last week we didn’t attend our ward, my cousin Jake and his wife Marissa blessed their baby at their ward in Eagle Mountain so I wasn’t able to speak to him. When I picked up the kids this last time Marla told me she was having a difficult time writing the letter she needed to which could be one of the delays. It seems the closer that the time gets for me to be a member again the more delay there is. To me completely honest, right now I am so exhausted of this fight that I don’t have much left to keep at it. Going to church as if you are a member and not being able to act upon anything is very taxing. The Lord has blessed me in other areas of my life to compensate for the blessings that I cannot receive in my current state, but nonetheless I need this to be over soon.
I will write more, maybe later today…
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