The Wannabe

Jul 18th, 2008 by Eryk

So here I am again with my monthly post. Every time I promise myself that I’ll post more often and I never seem to find the time so I’ve decided to skip that promise this time. I promise to post whenever I can…

I’ve changed the title of my blog from “The Wannabe Writer” to simply “The Wannabe.” I figured it was time for a change. As the tag-line says, I change my mind more often than I change Jaxon’s diapers, which is often. I enjoy writing and I’m often told I do it well so I see no reason to say that I want to be a writer. Besides, there are so many things I want for myself and my family that it’s difficult to say that writing is the focus of my life. It most certainly is not at this time. So I think the new title works well. I want to be a chef, a writer, a stay-at-home dad (pathetically abbreviated to SAHD), a network administrator, a CEO, a good student, employee, father, and husband. Yes, I think the shortened, non-specific title will do nicely.

So what’s going on in the Woods house? Plenty! Jaxon is now seven months old and doing very well. He was sick for about a week and exploding from both ends, but despite that he still managed to sleep through most of the night and be a fairly happy kid! He was sent home from daycare a couple of times so Shanan and I had to work magic with our schedules. All I have to say is that it’s a good thing we both have flexible work schedules and bosses who will work with us.

Jaxon was also in a parade this morning! It wasn’t so much a parade as it was a bunch of adults walking their children through the park, but it’s fun to think that he was in a parade. Sadly, my tech skills failed me this morning. Upon reviewing the footage I had captured with the video camera I quickly realized that I had recorded the ground for a solid fifteen minutes. Turns out the video camera was paused when I meant to be recording and it was recording when I meant it to be paused. Oh well, there will be other parades, right? Fortunately, Shanan had no problems working the camera.

I’m still going to school. I’m up to three classes per term. I used to only do two, and I even tried four once, but three seems like the perfect balance between having a tiny bit of free time and actually getting my degree at some point. I should be able to graduate at the end of spring term in 2009. That still seems like a long time away, but considering that I feel like I’ve been going to school since the dawn of time, another year isn’t so bad I suppose. After that I’ll be taking a year off and then it’s back to school for my MBA. Willamette has a part-time MBA program and with Shanan’s discount it sounds like that’s where I’ll be going…if I can get in…

Fortunately, even with school, I still have time for a bit of fun. I’m loving the new iPhone 2.0 firmware! It’s just like getting a new phone! Seriously, it’s the best phone I’ve ever owned and the ONLY phone I’ve ever owned that gets better with time. I’m hoping the Wordpress iPhone app that’s supposed to be released soon will inspire me to blog more. The Salem Art Fair is coming up this weekend and it’s arguably the most enjoyable event that takes place in Salem. One of our friends has a booth there this year with her paintings! She’s really good. You should check out her stuff. We’ve still got our Wednesday movie night and our relatively frequent movie marathon. And speaking of movies, at work I just won a $25 gift card to Regal Cinemas which should come in handy for seeing The Dark Knight next week!