You Can’t Always Get Whatchou Want

But if you try sometimes, you might find, you’ll get whatchou need.  Awww yeah.

With the new (97) Yukon in the garage a familiar sense of pride washed over me.  Before the Mrs brought it home, I fired up the tractor and re-graded the gravel in the garage.  I also re-plowed a bit of driveway in front of the garage door we don’t generally use and cleaned a big area out next to where I normally park.  Now I could park my tiny refrigerator of a car on the other side of the garage and leave a big open space for the mammoth Yukon to dominate.

It’s a 13 year old truck, but I’m so proud to have it that I’ll clean the garage and fight over who gets to drive it next. Standing back from the garage, I realized I should have taken a “before” picture.  In fact, I realized I should take lots of “before” pictures.

I’ve addressed before that I’m amazed by simple things.  I try so hard not to take things for granted, and I’m so fortunate to have so many positive changes in my life.  I always catch myself saying or thinking “Man, would you believe that we’d _______ last year at this time?”  Just one year can make so much difference.

So my idea is this, I’m going to take a shit-load of boring pictures. All the most sad and mundane things around the house.  It’s normal to take pictures of your new car, or the house once it’s been repainted.  What I want to do is take pictures of all the things that are “so-so” and compare them later on.  I can’t imagine I’ll have much bitching to do when the proof is right there.

This seems like a good thing for the kids too, to be able to say “yeah, this is how it used to be – but we worked hard and got this better thing”.  I grew up with very little money, but my parents always made sure I had what I wanted.  Miss E is already getting whatever she wants, so I hope the little things aren’t lost on her.

I don’t want to make a bragging list, but when I look at my house I think “Wow, that’s awesome.  I’m so lucky.”  When I use my neat smartphone I think “This is so cool, that I can have something like this.”

*mushy alert*

When I look at the Mrs, I think “She’s so awesome, more than I ever expected. I am so lucky to have her” and similar for my friends, including you guys, I’m lucky to have you all and when I compare memories, it’s always positive change.

This was a week late, and somber on top of that, so I want to spice up the deal by having you visit Fucking Windows. Go there and resize your window over and over.  Fucking awesome.