My big night out!

This Friday night my 7 year old daughters school hosted a Father / Daughter school dance. I got her a new very nice dress, took her to dinner, then off to the dance we went. It was actually a very nice event that her school put on. I think we both had a really great time and it reminded me that I need to spend more individual time with my girls. Now I'm going to schedule a big night out with Mikayla.

It was the first event I can say I have gone to since moving to Fresno and I will tell you it was different. I have never entered a room at an event and not known at least a couple people. Last night I knew my daughter and that was it. I discovered that I need to start to make some friends here. I miss all of the friends I left in Arizona very much and wish I could move them all here. Since that is not likely I'm going to have to make some here. Being a person that lived in the same place his entire life I'm not sure I have ever had to make new friends.

How do you do it? Maybe I should ask my 7 year old. She had lots of new friends last night at the dance.

Life in Fresno!

I'm really starting to get settled in and comfortable with our new place. My new job is still going very well and I continue to grow my sales route every month. I continue to add customers to my route and improve sales of my existing customers.

All of my girls are adjusting well to the new place. Jenna is doing very well at her new school and we have our first father daughter dance this Friday night. Kristina and Mikayla have gone to the zoo a couple of times and go to the local library every week. We do miss everybody so much and it has been so strange having no major plans every weekend but it has also been kind of nice.

It has been a very wet winter so I'm looking forward to drying out this spring and summer. The rainy days are rainy, but the sunny days are amazing. We are walking distance to a outdoor mall and have walked over on some of our clear days. It is so close it is almost silly to drive to it. I have only been out on my bike once but look forward to going out on it much more often.

Less meat, week 1

This week I started a test to see if I could eat less meat and add more vegetables and other protein sources to my diet. I have always had 2 to 3 meals a day with meat in them. This week I only had 2 meals all week with meat in them. I'm not about to give up meat all together I like it too much. The more I learn about how meat gets to my table and the poor quality of meat available to us in fast food, and restaurants. The more I want to make sure the meat I eat is of the best quality. That is the point of this. If I'm only going to eat 2 - 3 meat meals a week instead of a day. I'm going to be very selective about the meat I eat. No fast food for me. Nothing but great tasting meats full of flavor and of the best quality. Not sure I'm willing to go an entire week with out meat yet but I might give it a try soon.

On a side note I'm not sure what it means, but being vegetarian gives a whole new meaning to "being regular." If you eat you will have a movement. I thought regular was once a day. Now it is around 3 times per day.