Greetings!
It’s that time, once again, for the year in review.
All in all 2014 was a good year;
I
attended 14 wrestling events including meeting the legendary “Heartbreak
Kid” Shawn Michaels and attended the Rhode Island Comic Con with John,
Jay, Jonny, Jeremy & Juliana. I was the only
non-J named person in our group to attend.
John
and I took in a screening of Return to Nuke ‘Em High Vol 1 at the
Nickelodeon in Portland with an appearance by the man himself Lloyd
Kaufman!
Kate
and I had a weekend getaway to Cape Code and Rhode Island and had a
fantastic day trip that took us through the heart of New Hampshire
dipping into Vermont.
For our 1st
Anniversary we dined at Chick-fil-A and went to the historic Boston
Opera House for a phenomenal production of The Phantom of the Opera.
We took our moms to Fenway Park for a Mother’s Day excursion, sadly the Sox lost to the Toronto Blue Jays.
WWE launched the WWE Network….so friggin’ awesome!
I took Kate to the Cumberland County Civic Center for her 3rd Tom Petty Concert, fantastic show!
Emma and Caleb got married.
Kate got Pregnant, it’s a boy!
We moved from Randolph to Gardiner.
Addison
– she started Kindergarten, participated in Gardiner Youth Cheering,
and is currently take Jazz dance class. She is very excited to become a
big sister. She has grown up a lot this
year but she’s still my little girl.
Canaan – big ole 3rd
grader now and still very active in sports playing baseball in the
spring, football in the fall, and basketball in the Winter. Also this
year he joined the
Boy Scouts and is a Bear Scout. Canaan is finally at that good age for
sports where they play full games with stricter rules and standards.
Baseball was the Minor League where kids only pitch, 3 outs, 3 strikes,
and the score counts! His team swept the
playoffs and won the 2014 Gardiner Cal Ripken Minor League
Championship. Football was 3rd grade & 4th
grade tackle; he was awesome on defense, not so much on offense. There
was not a championship per say that they played for. However
the participated in the BAYFUL round robin against 3 other teams and
won all three of their games. Basketball is just getting underway, they
don’t keep score, but they are much stricter on the rules with active
play clocks, and calling all rule violations
like double dribble and traveling.
I’m so very proud of both of the kids!
2014
brought some sadness and loss as well. My grandfather Bump (Raymond
Young) became ill over the summer and rapidly deteriorated passing away
in August a month shy of 89 years old. I
will miss Bump and miss playing cribbage with him. The next month in
September saw Grammie Connie leave us. For a while there it looked as
though Grampa Hobart was going to join her, but he seems to be doing
much better now.
I
had made a few declarations and have been able to keep up with most of
them. The biggest one being I would lose 25 pounds this year. I’m
happy to say with diet, exercise, and the constant
support of the family and friends in our Facebook weight loss group I
have managed to lose those 25 pounds!
My
approach was one of just taking it slow and steady, weighing up every
Friday and looking for a 1 pound loss. I cut my portions, and over all
decreased the amount of food I eat. I feel
that for the first time in my life I am approaching weight loss the
right way and doing it in a way where the weight is staying off even if I
stray for a meal or two. For the coming year my plan is to continue
on the path that I have been on and continue
to watch the scale creep down.
One
thing I have really enjoyed this year is the almost weekly movie nights
with Jonny watching some of the best and worst horror movies out there,
and some of the worst! The bad titles don’t
tend to stick with me, however some of good ones that were new to both
of us were; Wolf Cop, As Above So Below, and Tusk has stuck with us and
was quite disturbing. That wasn’t the most disturbing film I watched
this year, that was a film called “A Serbian
Film” which I won’t even bother to talk about here, if you want to know
about it do some research but I wouldn’t bother.
We
also caught up on a lot of movies he’d never seen or heard of and vice
versa. Off all the movies in that category though the number 1 flick
was me introducing him to “Monster Squad” which
is basically his new favorite all time flick!
This
year had some great movies in the theaters and I managed to take in a
couple with my favorites being; “Captain American: Winter Soldier”,
“Guardians of the Galaxy” and “Oculus”.
2015
looks to be an exciting year ahead with some fantastic movies in
Avengers & Star Wars sequels, The Boston Pro Wrestling Marathon, and
of course the birth of our son!!
Take care!
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