tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44979305281637965392024-02-07T15:36:27.493-08:00Meandering DadAn honest and open look at life from the eyes of a husband, a father and an average joe. At times nonsensical, and perhaps uninteresting, here are the ramblings of a meandering mind. Enjoy.. or don't.Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.comBlogger65125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-8669855845152865242016-07-29T20:37:00.001-07:002016-07-29T20:37:14.792-07:00The End is NearOne month since you heard from me last.
Time seems slip away so quickly, doesn't it?
Already, I'm almost done with school. Only one week left. Our group project, our final project, is done. Mostly. There are still some tweaks and last minute adjustments we can work on during next week, when we aren't too busy doing whatever it is we do in the final week.
There will be job prepping, interview Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-41940787908959246572016-06-29T23:07:00.004-07:002016-06-29T23:07:57.546-07:00DevMountain (What I've Been Up To)(I wrote this last week, but then busy and forgot about it. It never got posted. Well, until now, obviously, or you wouldn't be reading it. So here it is, slightly out of date as I am halfway through my first week back.)
A quick update on things and life.
It's been seven weeks now since I started going back to school, but not your typical school. It isn't a college or university, and it isn't Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-73979611811360001742016-06-14T21:41:00.001-07:002016-06-14T21:41:58.831-07:00Some Melancholy and Some Hope"I'm a writer,"
That's what I say to myself, in my mind. Where no one else can hear. Where no one can dispute, or argue or point out flaws in that simple statement. No one, but myself.
"I'm a writer," I say.
And then a voice, from the back, hidden in the shadows of cracks and crevices. Somewhere deep. It isn't a loud voice, but soft and, sometimes, though perhaps I imagine it, sorrowful.Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-45450927488773409442016-04-11T09:04:00.000-07:002016-04-11T09:04:44.218-07:00Marriage Advice?
The other night my wife and I were eating out with family and friends. We sat at a table with her younger brother and his fiancé. I had gotten up to grab something and when I got back to the table I found my wife talking about marriage advice and she asked if I had any for the soon to be newly weds. My response to this question is almost always the same and has a tendency to be givenDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-69300551611524132822016-01-02T19:09:00.001-08:002016-01-02T19:09:15.502-08:00New Years (A short post)
It's a new year and with it comes new beginnings.
I've been giving a lot of thought to goals and resolutions for the coming year and reflecting on those from years now past, both the ones I've actually finished and ones I haven't and the reasons why. I think part of my problem is that my goals are often too big, too vague or I have too many. I think it's actually a fairly common thing peopleDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-4223709519015462752015-12-05T10:41:00.000-08:002015-12-05T10:41:34.797-08:00Babies and Toddlers and Family
Babies are hard.
They're adorably tiny little helpless humans which are sometimes covered in hair and sometimes not. In our case there's hair, a lot of it. It's that newborn hair that feels as soft as some animal's fur and which won't last long, much to Mushu's relief I imagine since it covers his ears, shoulders and forehead. It's cute now but, it probably wouldn't be years from now.
Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-86521449825149372752015-10-11T16:29:00.000-07:002015-10-11T16:29:06.995-07:00Lazy Sundays are the Best Sundays (and a Cute Kitten)
TRUTH - too bad I suck at naps
It's been a few weeks since I last blogged. I think it's safe to say no one is surprised.
I have, however, been writing. At least over this last week. I've had an idea knocking around my head for awhile now and I'm finally beginning to see what the overall arch will be, it's quite a bit different from the initial idea and I imagine it will only continue to Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-73264437608837011032015-09-12T22:48:00.003-07:002015-09-12T22:48:59.126-07:00Quick Post - An updateI'm writing this on my wife's kindle. It's an older model and only has an onscreen keyboard. Not that that's a problem.
I've written several things, including a few blog posts from my phone, which is a lot smaller. I'm used to my phone though, accustomed to it and I feel a bit clunky and awkward here so it's taking me a little longer to write.
I don't have much experience using any type of Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-6165768092944591002015-09-08T11:26:00.000-07:002015-09-08T11:26:11.186-07:00Sick Holidays and Getting Better
This past weekend was a bit of a bust.
I'd been planning for quite some time on going out of town and enjoying the three day weekend with family. Instead, I spent most of the weekend in bed, somewhere between almost conscious and zombie. Some time mid last week I got hit by a bus of a bug and from one day to the next I found I couldn't breathe, my head felt like an over filled balloon and IDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-70632292805951294412015-08-30T12:30:00.001-07:002015-08-30T12:53:16.136-07:00Sunday Post!Whoever said there's no post on Sunday?
I promised to have another post up today and so here it is in all its glorious, mundane normalcy. I'm not writing anything today, not really. (Aside from this blog). It's a lazy sort of Sunday. Except I'm at work. So it isn't.
But it will be, I hope. It was an early morning and a restless night filled with strange dreams I don't quite remember anymore. I'mDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-15655483995248071342015-08-27T10:01:00.001-07:002015-08-27T10:01:06.791-07:00Life, Time & Writing: A Rather Long, Rambling Post
I'm not very good at blogging am I?
I keep meaning to and then.. well, I just don't. It just doesn't happen and not because I secretly don't want to, because I really do. So I suppose the question is, why don't I? Why haven't I been blogging? Or.. really writing at all for that matter? There isn't a lot I've done in the past year to further my dreams and aspirations.
There are a few Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-63074063418049828102014-02-02T21:59:00.001-08:002014-02-02T21:59:09.284-08:00Personal Demons and Hard Days Today was really hard.
Last night I revisited some particularly painful memories, the most painful I have actually and reliving those moments was incredibly hard and almost unbearably painful for me. Over the years I've become accustomed to all the pain, sorrow and regret from those experiences and learned to push them away and ignore them. You could say I bottled them up, as I'm prone to Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-3312641257501150402014-01-31T19:24:00.002-08:002014-01-31T19:25:42.260-08:00The End in Sight
It's been an interesting month. Time has gone by incredibly fast and at the same time, heart-achingly slow, as it tends to do when you're waiting for something you really want. Right now, for me, it's the finalization of my divorce and everything that entails.
I won't lie, I'm lucky that my divorce has gone smoothly. It hasn't been ugly or tense, in fact, it's been a very peaceful and mutualDanielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-12646376908122525652013-12-31T22:40:00.002-08:002013-12-31T22:42:18.637-08:00New Years!! 2014It's New Years Eve! Only a few hours left of 2013 and then we enter into the big ONE FOUR!!
Since I didn't really have any plans for tonight I decided to do something new, something I've been thinking about for a long while. I made a video, two actually, and uploaded them on YouTube. The first was a cover of the song Demons by Imagine Dragons and the second, an original song I wrote a few Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-46340513678078308412013-12-08T21:18:00.002-08:002013-12-08T21:18:43.976-08:00Where did the magic go?A few short years ago this time of year filled me with excitement, joy and wonder. I loved Christmas and the holiday season and the way the world looked when covered in powdered snow and complimented by colored lights and the smell of pine. It was like magic. I could feel it deep down.
Sounds cheesy, I know, but it's the truth. There was always magic all around, all year long and I believed all Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-75788987618898876572013-10-20T20:59:00.000-07:002013-10-20T21:01:24.126-07:00A Good WeekThis last week was, by far, was one of the better weeks I've had in quite sometime despite my son being sick with a slight ear infection, which has made him crankier than a crack addicted dragon going through withdrawals, and the fact that I've (comparatively) written hardly anything at all.
I've gotten stuck in my WIP (work in progress) and am unsure of where it's going. After staring at the Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-59595730653065742482013-10-08T20:38:00.002-07:002013-10-08T20:38:39.757-07:00'Utah Mormons'<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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OMG!
HALLOWEEN IS COMING!!
*ahem*
Now that that outburst is done.
Halloween is fast approaching. Once one of my absolute favorite holidays..
Well, to be honest, in many ways it still is, though for different reasons. I suppose the truth is its less the actual holiday and just the season. An excuse to celebrate all the things I grew up loving and getting weird looks for.
All the Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-49143670748782150622013-10-03T15:13:00.001-07:002013-10-03T15:13:44.784-07:00Autumn: The Very Bestest<!--[if gte mso 9]>
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mso-padding-alt:0in Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-73009650333276963742013-08-27T14:06:00.001-07:002013-08-28T07:22:51.057-07:00A quick thought on Success
Because I love this picture
There are many "rules" in this life. Expectations that are instilled in us from the moment we're born. My last post mentioned in passing what an acceptable career choice is according to said rules. According to society.
This time I want to touch on "success" which is one of the rules that is perhaps most ground into our minds and which is one of the few that Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4497930528163796539.post-81752125445983427732013-08-17T19:36:00.003-07:002013-08-18T08:21:40.340-07:00My Dream, My Life
There's something very satisfying about realizing what you want to do with your life. The moment you feel and really know what you want, where you want to go and realize you're capable of achieving those dreams.
I have, for a very long time now, wanted to make a living as a writer. Not just a writer but an author. To write books and sell them and earn a living that way. For a very long time Danielhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15970937217167964759noreply@blogger.com4