Man, has a lot of crazy stuff gone down since my last blog. I don't really know why I stopped updating. I've been a little busy of course, but not so busy that I couldn't blog. I did start another blog specifically to follow myself and Tiffany along our path to parenthood, so I've been kinda keeping up with that (it's about due for an update as well). I haven't really had the urge to write a whole bunch though. Of course I've been playing a lot of video games, because that's what losers winners do.

As I note in the other blog, Tiffany has been really tired during this first trimester so it leaves a lot of my nights wide open and I just sit and play Gears of War 2, Rock Band 2, Fable 2, Mercenaries 2, or something of the sort (and yes, I'm just now realizing that all of the games I've been playing lately are strictly sequels). One cool thing about playing so many games is that I've been able to "hang out" with Aaron, who is now in stupidly-sunny-and-warm Florida, quite a bit, as well as Randy, who is still in slightly-warmer-than-Oklahoma Plano, Texas (or close enough at least) and Josh, who is about a three minute drive from my house. It really is a good way to keep in touch with people, these online games.

I'm updating this during my break at work right now. Work has been horrible just fantastic lately and I would rather never have to go back ever ever ever really enjoy coming in every day. On a serious note though, I've been really pushing myself to do better at work to try and get noticed more. I do actually like a lot of things about my job and I'd like to work here for a while. However, I need to move up. I need to push myself more so I can get put into bigger and better roles so I can better provide for my family. The ultimate goal here is to be able to make enough dough so Tiffany can be a stay-at-home mom. I would really love for that to happen, but it would take a LOT more money than I'm making now. I mean... a lot. Like a whole bunch. Yeah. See, at this point she makes a little more than me anyways, plus since she works for the state, our benefits are with her, and they're NOT taken out of her base pay. So yeah, lots of the kizash. It's really an unrealistic goal, but I can hope and pray, I suppose. As a matter of fact, I'd say it would be more likely for me to be a stay-at-home dad than her be a stay-at-home mom. Which is WEIRD. I just really don't know if I could do it. But anyways, neither is a possibility any time soon if ever, so I might as well not even worry about it.

Saturday night, Tiffany and I went to Pastor Marty's house for a planning meeting for camp this year. As I was telling Tiffany, I didn't realize just how much we were going to be planning--rather, how important the things we were going to plan were. For instance, a lot of debate was going on about cutting camp down by a day or keeping it at 5 days. That's a humongous decision and I just didn't expect to even be a part of that. After thinking about it, it does make me feel good to know that we had such a good impact on camp last year that we're a big part of planning it this year. I'll basically be flying solo at camp this year, as Tiffany will be working as much as possible so she will be able to take a full 12 weeks off when the baby comes in September. She's going to help me plan things and is probably going to come to the campgrounds after she gets off work that week and help with the last part of activities and come to dinner and service and such.

Last year, I was really nervous about camp. It was a total attack and I let it get to me for a long time until we actually got there, but it affected the planning and got Tiffany and I into probably our biggest argument since we've been married. Then while I was there I was attacked with horrendous back pain and shin splints and my plantar fasciitis acting up. This year I'm not allowing the attacks beforehand at least. Anyways, this year I'm really excited about it. Our next meeting isn't until the 23rd of March, and we'll be going to the camp grounds for that.

Anyways, that's my post. Hope you all enjoyed it.

-Ryan J. Schwimmer