Tangents - First Post

So I'm finally slightly giving in. My wife's been pushing me to do a blog - I'm still not really sure why. I'm not really the blogging type. I'm a little more of the drop-the-one-liner type. She said that's why I should blog. She also said because I'm funny. Not sure that qualifies me either. I do kinda have a random stream of consciousness (but probably not a conscious)

Maybe its her lack of blog posts. She started a blog about our family (ellispartyof5.blogspot.com) and is lucky to get one or 2 posts a month up. Don't get me wrong - she plenty busy otherwise - 2 kids under 3. I'm surprised she has time to go to the bathroom during the day.

We do follow a few blogs online of some friends - they definately strike me as entertaining. well some of them - a lady i used to work with had a blog about 2 yorkies i can't say i frequently visit (or even twice). the wife thinks i'm entertaining - hence me starting this blog.

So what is this blog about? Tangents I guess - so goes the title. I have a lot of weird tangents and things that seem to constantly run through my head - not like females with that over analytical stent on every detail of how her boot color clashes with her eyelashes - more like weird funny stuff. not so funny stuff too. my wife thinks i should talk about the everyday - since in our lives usually that's pretty funny in itself. and things i'm into. so i guess that's what it'll be about - stuff i'm into - so it'll be a little random - work, family, hobbies, stupid cartoons, a smorgasbord of randomness ( I like words like smorgasbord - but probably won't get featured as work of the day on Pee Wee's playhouse)

To start, I guess I'll talk a little bit about me to set the stage some. which means this might be the most boring post i do - tough - I'm sarcastic - not sure if that really comes out in my writing. i guess if you know me, you'll hear my tone. if you're offended - you probably missed the sarcasm. if your confused, yea - then too

-we just moved to the southeast about 6 months ago - 2 cross country moves in less than a year. Its tough getting to a new place - tough to make friends, tough finding the right church - i guess that's why i'm blogging - no local friends. so maybe i'll find some online friends - in reality, probably people I already know that feel bad for me. or creeps.

-i'm not big on punctuation, capital letters or complete sentences. i kinda like how the "i" looks all by itself - in case you couldn't tell. people don't talk in complete sentences. blogs shouldn't have to be. its not that i don't how or where to punch it in - just prefer not to. like how i just ended that last sentence with a preposition. my english minor sister would gasp.

-i'm a husband - i married a girl i met in junior high (when we were both in junior high - sick) aww, that's sweet you say. I always would tell people that I couldn't get rid of her, so I had to marry her. she hates it when I say that. Her name is Sarah - no namelessness here - we used to follow this blog where the guy tried to stay anonymous and write about his wife and kids calling the "she" and "girl #1" or fake names like "mona." no thanks. it was a little to weird - plus we all knew who he was talkling about - i think he's really in the FBI or CIA or something though. oops. was that a secret?

-I'm a dad - 2 great kids (so far - lets just say i've talked her down from 6 successfully) - "mona" is a girl - j/k - Taylor is my oldest - almost 2 1/2. smart as a whip (but aren't everyone's kids smart when they're yours) and a super repeater - its changed our vocabulary some. not like we cuss or scream expletives or anything - just things you don't want your 2 year old to say in public - you know like "shh. daddy's watching the bachelor" - and my now 9 1/2 month old that i just pulled a AAA battery out of his mouth - much sweeter than "mona" - definately with his own personality and way into speed crawling - especially when it involves eating dog food - which i'm sure he's done - and maybe now as i type. so i'm sure some posts about my kiddos

-I'm an ED doc up the road in a smaller city (a more country town- kinda a more fingers than teeth kinda place - but sometimes normal folks, too). lots of my crazy stories and randomness might come form this. most people that walk/wheel into the ED are a little off their rocker to begin with. and the workers are too. you have at least one screw partially loose to work there. the specialty attracts us, i guess. Like the lady night before last who told me her new tattoo hurts. i asked her if they repetitively poked her with a needle to do it. she said yes.

-I'm a Christian. still looking for a church in our new town. we've probably tried 15 and haven't found the right fit yet. we're somewhere between the laser light show and animal sacrifices. still hunting. some posts will be about my devotions and spiritual matters. hopefully they won't all end up like this:

-I love the outdoors - did a whole fellowship in wilderness medicine out in california last year - went ridiculously more into debt for it. i think sarah's still mad about that. we do love to camp, hike, backpack, mountain bike (despite the current 2 flat tires), and climb. not that we've done much of that since we had kids. but some posts might be about the outdoors or wilderness medicine.

-I like photography. somehow i convinced my wife to let me buy a super expensive camera before our first child was born - i said to document her life - secretly i needed an excuse - and hoped i could push off the olan mills style family portraits which aren't cheap. and who wants a guy named olan on your picture anyway. so you might see some photography.

-I'm an obligate runner - you know like away from bears, wolverines, ligers - or when my wife signs me up for races. at least its only a 10K this time. i think santa was trying to say something when he brought me running shoes, running socks, running shorts and entered me into a 10K. we've done some marathons in the past - another marital obligation - she loves to run - i just don't like being overweight. kids do that to you - gained 35 pounds since our first child - you know, pregnancy sympathy weight. all those runs out to McD when she craved nuggets.  none of that now that she's put me on the "new year's diet" - more on that later.

so that's a starting point. i think i'll stop there for now. hope the tangents didn't overtake you