Well, I made it over a week and I’m still going! I’ve had soda twice over that span, but I was good and had sprite. I’ve still been tired at times, but it’s more like a natural tired, not a caffeine crash tired. I’ll definitely keep it up and see how I feel over the next couple weeks.

I’ve got the first paragraph of my next book, and no, it’s not a sequel to the first. I want to do something completely different and stretch myself. It’ll probably be a lot shorter than Terra Nova, so you might not have to wait as long. All I can tell you is that it’s about an old man.

We’ve only got four weeks of school left, and for this I am excited! The last week is mostly babysitting, and we have Monday off, so that’s really only 2 and 4/5 weeks.

In the mail the other week I got my invitation to my 10 year high school reunion, but I don’t want to go. Recently I’ve seen a few people that I graduated with, and I realized I have no desire to see or talk to those people. I still keep in touch with a number of friends I graduated with, so maybe I can convince them to do something, but the people I haven’t seen in 10 years? I could go another 10 probably. I don’t need to pay close to $100 to force myself to have conversations with people that I barely know anymore.

Hope everyone has a great Memorial Day!

My caffeine intake isn’t insane like some people. I’ve read about people that drink like 5-10 diet cokes everyday and crazy stuff. I usually do a cup of coffee in the morning, and that’s usually it, unless we go out. At a restaurant I can easily have a cup or two of soda. Lately I’ve just felt really crummy, like I’m constantly tired, and the only way to perk back up is a coffee or soda.

I woke up on Saturday, and instead of my normal coffee or mountain dew from 7-Eleven, I decided to drop it cold turkey. I’ve read that it can take anywhere from a few days to two weeks to get over the headaches and other withdrawl symptoms, but I’ve also read it can take up to 6 months to get back to normal! Hopefully since I wasn’t a super caffeine addict (just a small one) I’ll bounce back much faster.

Today is day 3 without caffeine. Back in ’07 I got to at least five days, but I can’t remember what happened after that. Obviously I didn’t stay off of it. Hopefully this will be good for my overall health. I’ll promise to keep you posted (and I’ll start a counter in the top right to keep me going).

This is a very special post, because it is number 1000 here on the blarg. Can you believe it? One thousand different posts in just under five years. I’ve certainly slowed down now that I have Luke…but still, that’s hard to believe. Since it’s such a monumental post I thought, what better to write about than our family’s future.

I don’t know about most of you, but I try and strike a healthy balance of planning for the future, but enjoying the present. If I spend all my time thinking about the future, I won’t enjoy the awesome moments of life right now, but if I only live in the present, I might not be adequately prepared for the future.

A person could go nuts checking home prices everyday and recalculating projected savings. Throw on top of that planning for future children, if we’ll have enough room for them, how old we’re getting, and it’s all a lot to think about.

We know we can’t stay in our current place forever, but in the meantime it’s great. It’s just the right size for us, and we could probably survive here with a second child for a while. But eventually we’d like to move areas…perhaps to the Los Alamitos or Cypress area…or Huntington Beach or Fullerton if we wanted to go farther. Just like my parents moved us to a better area when we were younger, we want to do the same for our kids. It’d be nice to be able to park a car outside and not have to worry if something will happen to it, or live in a district with public schools we’d be happy to send our kids to.

My guess is another three years or so and we’ll be able to do that. It’s hard to say with such a crazy housing market, but that’s what patience and prudent saving are for. For now though we are making sure we enjoy the life we have, and all the wonderful things we’ve been blessed with. Today we celebrated what an awesome woman I am married to, and our son is a constant reminder of how lucky I am to be raising him with her.

Here’s to another thousand posts…

I’m voting no on all of them. Tom McClintock has his thoughts, Kurtis has his, and John and Ken.

My main reason is…I don’t want higher taxes for the next two years. Screw the state government. Our state budget has DOUBLED since the late 90′s…and for what? What the crap are we getting now that we weren’t 10 years ago? Jack squat. Those idiots in Sacramento can LOWER the budget, and LOWER my taxes thank you very much.