Update from Pueblo

Tim: It has been a couple of days since we last posted, so here is the latest with us. On Thursday evening, after our daily trip to the Barnes and Noble, we watched the final round of “American Inventor” on ABC. We are not huge reality TV fans, but we have really enjoyed watching this series. The final four contestants have shown us the true meaning of commitment to your dream. One contestant in the final round works in a factory in Detroit, owns a small gym in his community and had to declare bankruptcy on his small gym during the show. Another contestant in the semi-final round was fired from her job in pursuit of her dream. Still another contestant spent $80,000 over a five year span to build his new computerized word game. All of these people risked so much with the possibility that only one person would win the $1 million prize. That really spoke volumes to us, especially looking at what we have done in the last two and a half months.

We have been weighing where we should go next, but the one thing we do know is that we will have a level of commitment that will be unwavering. Ben Stein, an author that Candy has spoken about in the last post, used an analogy in his book, “How Successful People Win: Using "Bunkhouse Logic" to Get What You Want in Life”, regarding “being at the table.” He said that in order to be successful at a casino, for instance, you have to be competing at the table, not by watching, but by taking a risk. You have to be at the table. We have decided that whatever happens, we will be “at the table.” So many people do not take chances in their lives and never reach their true potential. Failure is not final or fatal…this is something I have learned about my recent experience in coaching.

We had planned to go to Pike’s Peak on Friday, but decided to wait until next week to make the trip. Instead of going to Pike’s Peak, we made a trip to the bookstore, and then went to the local drive inn movie theatre in Pueblo. We saw “Poseidon”, which in our opinion was not as good we thought it would be.

We had not been to a drive inn movie in over a year. One of the things we loved to do when we lived in Grove City was to go to the Butler Drive-Inn in Butler, PA for a Friday night double feature. We would always stop by Sheetz and pick up a sandwich, chips, and a drink, then head to the movie. Going to the movie this past Friday night brought back some good memories of that time in our life.

After the movie, Candy started to feel sick. She apparently ate something wrong at lunch on Friday. After a very long night of chills, a sour stomach, and a lot of vomiting, we deduced that it was food poisoning. She has had a tough Saturday and is very dehydrated. I have gone through being food poisoned twice in my life, so I can understand how painful it is for her. She has gotten a lot of fluids and rest today and we hope she feels back to normal by tomorrow.

Chase update: that rambunctious puppy is healing very well after having his bandages taken off this week. He finally got to exercise yesterday.

Sorry we do not have any pictures today. With the resident picture person doubled over with food poisoning, we do not have any cool images for the blog today. Thanks for reading again and to all the moms out there, have a great Mother’s Day!