Been a minute. Now that I am 52 I figured I would check in with myself. On a plane to Park City for my annual snowboarding trip…and am catching up on my to-dos.
Earlier today – before my flight – we went to Viviana’s
basketball game. She is 9 now (just turned 9 last month) and playing in the
9-11 girls league. I believe she is the only 3rd grader, most of the
girls are in grades 4-6. She is hanging
in there, and you can certainly tell who the older kids are. One day Viviana
will be a star in this league – I am confident in that. Ella was there with us
too, she likes to practice dribbling and shooting during the timeouts. She’s
still grasping the game but loves it like I did at that age.
So life is mostly that these days…kids and kids activities.
If not basketball, then it’s soccer or gymnastics or silks class. During the
week, I do my best to manage and grow my business between the hours of 9 and
4pm. Being the boss comes with perks, like managing my schedule and being
flexible to the family schedule. And once a year, I can get 2 days of
snowboarding in. Hopefully my family will want to do snowboarding trips in the
future.
I still manage to play basketball a couple times a week,
including a local league. I am one of the older guys at age 52…but there are
older men playing. Range of the guys is probably 25-55, although one guy last
season had turned 60! I will play as long as I am able. I can still hold my
own, and contribute on the floor. I average about 10 pts a game and 8-10 boards
a game. I really like adding assists, provides me great satisfaction to draw
attention from two defenders and pass to my teammate for the open shot!
Over the past 6-12 months, we’ve finished putting a pool in
the backyard (and beautiful deck and outdoor shower!), traveled to Dollywood,
Boca Raton, and had family visit us as well. We enjoy using the boat in the
summer, and we’ll get back to pool use here soon. We did use the hottub a
couple days over the winter…which is almost over now. We got 3 separate days of
SNOW in Huntersville this season…only an inch here or there, but school was
closed and we did some sledding! The girls love the snow!
Our dogs Maxwell and Zoey are still kicking it. Zoey just
turned 5, Maxwell is about 11-12 now and his eyesight is not doing that great.
He sometimes parks at me when I am more than 20 feet away, since he doesn’t
recognize me at that distance. We’ve also had hamsters and birds (several) in
the past few months. They come and go for various reasons. We miss our bunny
Bun Jovi who passed away last summer…he was a cool bunny. We have a memorial
for him in the backyard.
I am grateful for health, family, and my growing business.
Plenty to be happy with, and plenty to keep me busy. So much more going on but
will wrap it up on that note…I can go on for days if I had the time!
Opedogg
