Seizing a Lifetime, One Day at a Time

I'm not a writer. I start that way because I've tried for about 15 minutes to figure out a good way to lead into what I want to say and I'm still stumped. So pretend I had a funny joke, an interesting statistic, or an attention grabbing statement that leaves you on the edge of your seat waiting for what's coming next and humor me while I share a few thoughts on what's sure to be my most controversial blog yet. I might even get double digit comments on this! (Although it's more likely I'll just lose some facebook friends.) In the past few weeks, one of the biggest pieces of news was that President Obama has switched his opinion on gay marriage. He now stands in support of the idea that marriage should be the same, whether homosexual or heterosexual. There has been a lot of news coverage on why he finally announced it, some saying it's a political move to help in November, while others say the president's opinion has naturally evolved and he felt it w...

Is there a law that describes the time when you're just about to take care of a potential problem and then when you make steps to take care of the potential problem, the problem isn't potential anymore? If not, I'd like to name it Tolley's Law because it is the story of my life lately. A year ago, Melissa and I started looking at cars just because we thought it would be nice to get a second one with four doors. After a few months of looking at every car on the market, our little cavalier had a tragic accident with a fence that put it in the garage for a few months (ask Melissa if you want details :) ). Luckily we had already been looking at cars so we went out that weekend and got a new car. Two weeks ago it happened again! We just got a new camera and the pictures are great, but they end up taking a lot of space on our hard drive. Our drive was starting to get full so we thought it was probably time to start looking for an external drive to store our pictures on...