Progress, momentum, advancement, call it what you will. It is one of life's challenges to keep 'IT' up. So often it feels like progress in one thing means that other things slacken off. Like a juggling act or spinning plates trying to keep things going in one area and not letting other areas slow is such a hard thing to do.
Personally for me this year has been one of the most challenging for a while and we are barely three months in!!! Not all those challenges are negative though.
This year i hope to break some personal milestones and achieve some personal goals.
Finally after a few years break I got stuck into the Ax GTi Turbo project. No turning back time! After dropping the car at a friends workshop we then proceeded to strip it down, remove the engine and start with avengence cutting and fabricating parts.
It was a real feeling of nervousness as the angle grinder was taken to the front end of an otherwise good condition Ax! Still no pain no gain! The ball is well and truely rolling with the whole project now and feels like there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Can't wait to get back out on track in it sooooooo much fun awaits!
However one spinning plate that was unexpected was the issue of my Father being diagnosed with an illness that takes months to get over. The term Post Viral Fatigue is fairly vague but the essence of it is that you have no energy levels and get tired out very easily. For someone who runs their own business with employees etc this is not a good situation. However now that we are 7 or 8 weeks into this situation we have had to adapt out of necessity. Its hard work and stressful at times, but I puts into perspective all those who care for family members who are ill or disabled. I take my hat off to those people, legends the lot of them!
As posted last time, my brothers wedding is fast approaching and the headache of the Stag Do has befallen me. As I write this it's still a fair way off being sorted and its only a few weeks off. Couple to the aforementioned complication with my Dad, alot of the little bits he would do have fallen to me, I'm begging to feel like it's my own wedding! Less said about that the better I think!
So to one of the other plates that needs constant spinning, Housing.
After moving about for so long and never being in one house for more than a year, my current abode has served well for 2 years or so, some stability which was most welcome. However it is being sold so I have but a few months remaining there.
Time to move onwards and upwards.
I look forward (that's a lie!) to the new and exciting or should i say scary process of buying a house! Having found a way of getting a sizeable deposit the process will begin in earnest after the wedding, I know what i want but it's just a case of waiting for something to come up at the right price and in the right area.
How this goes remains to be seen but I'm trusting in God to provide, he's been spot on thus far with supplying me last gasp housing.
I think that's enough waffling and excuse making for now, life is to frenetic and chaotic to include everything, be it bad(NOT a good time to be working in the public sector believe me!) or good (my niece is the cutest thing in the world ever!) so I'll sign off on the dictionary definition of progress,
"a movement toward a goal or to a further or higher stage"
the wheels are still turning,
Tim
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