Hau'oli Makahiki Hou for the 2010 New Year!
I had my ranking for the top 7 personal stories completed on Christmas Day. I thought it was really solid. However, when my Sunshine sent me her ranking of me, I had to change it. I guess you could say that it was a perception of what I think of myself –vs- what the one closest to me thinks of me!
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Trips to Northern Atlanta: El Pollo, Costco, IKEA, and Buford Marketplace. My wife and I plan on making the trip to this area once a month. We don’t have these chains in our hometown. It’s sad because we’d visit these chains on a regular basis. There’s nothing like a place where you can find the crazy chicken. It’s always good to get out of town about every month, just to get away for a while.
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The return to two tracks, at Texas and Bristol Motorspeedway, on
the NASCAR circuit. Sunshine and I
took a break from visiting a NASCAR race in 2008 because of the expensive trip
last year to Hawaii. Making that trip
was very expensive and it left no other possible activities. It was good to finally get to visit another
NASCAR race live. I have pictures on the
left side of this post. I wasn’t very
happy with the outcome of the season, though.
It was good to visit the Dallas area again. (The first time was driving through from
California to Tennessee.)
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Working with new colleagues, a new boss. It’s always a new experience of proving
one’s self when we are placed in a new work environment. Not only is it another city, but there’s new
co-workers to get to know, and a new boss to prove my abilities and
skills. And, of course, they have to get
to know how uniquely I communicate with others.
I realized that! Just like
everywhere else where I have worked, I have met some really interesting
people. I really don’t know if they
really understand me, really want to get to know them or not, but I’m here now,
and they and I need to make the best of the circumstances.
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Move from Memphis. I didn’t think that we’d move from the diverse city,
but we finally did. The opportunity for
new adventures moving farther east opened up.
I remember thinking when I first arrived in Memphis, thinking: this is
the farthest east that I would be living.
And now I have move farther east than Memphis. I am somewhat sad that we moved because there
are some good people that are still in Memphis, trying to make the city a
better place to live.
Weekend to Remember conference. In the month of November, it was a two-day conference that my wife and I attended. It’s another starting point of building more of our marriage. No marriage will ever be perfect. There is so much to learn and so much to put into practice, through the actions of our behaviors. I can really tell that 2010 will be a very compelling year full of many interesting married changes.
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Joining Facebook. I will find whatever way to communicate with my friends and family. A year ago there were 140 million users; this December, there were 350 million users. I believe that it’s one of the most important activities to nurture for the rest of my short life. I realize how difficult it is to stay in touch with everyone. Just to let you know, even though I do say that I am putting Facebook as high as I do on my stories of the year, it’s not without some of the things that I have against it. There are too many ads. Some of the ads are not type of ad I would support. That is one of the reasons why I have chosen to keep my TypePad blog account, and post most of my inner thoughts there.
And .... the number <1> story of the 2009 year ...
In Search for Colors trip: Blue Ridge, Connecticut &
Washington D.C. trip. I have always
looked forward to traveling across the USA.
It’s one of the primary reasons why I moved from growing up in
Hawaii. There is no doubt that the
pictures that I took will be those to be remembered. The colors on the trip were vivid and
spectacular! It marked many firsts in my
life, traveling through Virginia, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and
Connecticut. That is why this year’s
vacation will be very special, especially since I spent the journeys with my
Sunshine, and a trip to be remembered.