...and wonderful friends. This last week I have busy hanging out with Nick Sass and Taylor Smith. Some of my great friends from Redding. We got out a can of red paint and hit the town, not really, but we sure had a great time. Multnomah Falls, The Water trough Saloon, Baghdad Theater, downtown burrito carts, built a new bike, tour-de-portland, sunshine, and many a good memory.
I have been working at least five days a week since I got home from our Christmas vacation to visit family over the first week of the new year but I am not getting many hours. It works out because I might have lined up a part time job at a bike shop around the corner from me. And for the next two weeks I am working at a different store downtown while a girl is in Haiti. Looking foreword to a much slower pace Starbucks store for a while.
On a completely separate note. It must have been right around the time we got back from our trip to Cali that I had a day off and I cleaned the house, made breakfast, read some C.S. Lewis and walked to the dentist. As I was walking in the crisp northwest air with the sun shining that I realized that, "I am more content than I have been in years." I walked the 2.5 miles downtown and smiled the entire way. I am sure that the passer byes thought I was nuts, just another crazy homeless guy with a huge grin plastered from ear to ear, but it would not go away. I was just thinking about my life, where I have been, where I am now and couldn't think of a single thing that I was not satisfied with. Great wife, amazing friends up here, super awesome church community, we both have jobs, Lauren and I love each other more and more each day and have an amazing relationship. We can pay bills, our apartment feels more like a home than any other place I have ever lived and I breath easy when I am home. All and all I love my life. I was so satisfied with everything and I don't in know how long, if ever, I had had so much joy in my life.
Just some thoughts I have been thinking about. I am going to post some new pictures and I am also on Facebook these days so feel free to say hello. To all my friends come and visit I miss you all. The pacific northwest seems to melt away so much and just a very peaceful and inviting place. People are polite, content and it seems they are genuinely kind. Thank you Nick and Taylor for making it such a great week.