Out of sheer boredom, I decided tonight, finally, that I would do another post. It's been awhile since my last one, and a lot of stuff has happened. Some good things, and then some not-so-good things. It's been fairly eventful.
So to start off, I signed up Preslie for baseball. I was hesitant about it for a few reasons. For starters, I knew that it would mean that I'd have to drive all the way to Farmington a lot. Also, I didn't really know if she'd be into it either. I've played catch with her a little bit, but that has been the extent of her baseball experience thus far. What if she totally sucked, and then that destroyed her confidence? I decided in the end that it would be a good experience for her to have, so we went with it. I played sports with the guys on my street growing up, but was never on any official teams or leagues, so I've been pretty excited to see her having this experience. Right from the start I committed to making it to all of her games, even though it's been a little bit of a sacrifice sometimes to make it up there. Nevertheless, she has done awesome, and I have loved every second of it! She's taken to it like a natural too. She is the only girl on her team, and the tallest by nearly a head. She has also hit the ball at every game when she's gone up to bat. I am a seriously proud Papa!
A couple of weeks ago, I took Preslie for a little weekend vacation to Idaho. She was born in Idaho, and I wanted to show her where we used to live, and what we used to do when we lived there. It was a really fun little trip. We made it to Pocatello, and checked out McKee's Pet Store and the petting zoo where I used to take her sisters for walks to. We also ate at a couple delicious local places that I used to love, and then did a little shopping. Finally, we ended up driving to Lava Hot Springs, and stayed at this cool Bed & Breakfast place for the night. We took a dip in a private mineral bath, then we went for a walk and played some arcade games, and finally went hunting for fireflies and fairies along the river.
Since then, I discovered that I was being audited by the Utah State Tax Commission, which was exciting. Not really a big deal, other than an inconvenience as I had to try and dig up information and paperwork from 2008 that I no longer had. In the end, a quick conversation with the Auditor cleared everything up, and apparently all is well again.
At the same time the audit was going on, I discovered inadvertently that my identity had been stolen too. When I found out, I said, "Well that certainly sucks..." but then I laughed. It has been an inconvenience, but is not devastating, as the thief didn't do too much damage thus far. Life goes on.
Finally, there was the train incident. I got this crazy idea that it would be fun to take the Frontrunner train up to SLC to get some pizza at Este Pizza downtown. I talked my buddy Austin into coming, so we headed to the American Fork Frontrunner Station and hopped on the train. We got a late start, and didn't end up getting to Este Pizza until 10:50pm. They had stopped making pizza, so we were only able to get 1 slice of pizza each. That was disappointing. To make a long story short, we ended up barely missing what apparently was the last train back to Utah County at 12:07am, and then became stranded in downtown SLC. The train station is right next to the homeless shelter, which is really not the best place to be. Especially after midnight, as we found out. We ended up wandering around downtown for many hours, passed the homeless shelter about 6 times, and almost got stabbed/raped a handful of times as well. Somehow we escaped unscathed, and with our butt holes intact. It was a bit unnerving to say the least. We thought we were going to have to take the Amtrak train back to Provo at 3:30am, but at the last minute, our friend Kris called and came to our rescue at 3am to take us home. There are far too many details that make this story a lot more entertaining, but alas, I will leave them out this time. Basically, it was a really long night, and that was the worst slice of pizza I've ever had in my entire life.
What really surprises me about all of this, is that through all of the negative and adverse things that did happen, I mostly just laughed. In the past, I probably would've stressed out and been a knot of frustration, but not this time. I'm a lot more relaxed about life in general these days. Life happens. I'm choosing to enjoy my life and all the little things right now. I have an amazing daughter, awesome family, great friends, a job I enjoy that pays my bills and keeps me comfortable, my health, a car I like, and all of my needs are taken care of. Generally speaking, I am pretty happy these days.
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