Frying Chicken with my new wife and replanting dead squash...

There are times when life just flashes by. And there are others when you question the absurdity of why things are so hard. Today is one of those latter days. I just got married about a month ago and it is hard. Don't let anyone tell you it isn't. But its worth it in the long run I guess. I love my wife. And even after being totally emotionally drained like I am today, we get to enjoy such things in life like teaching her (a Haitian Canadian) how to fry chicken (like an African American). This life is so crazy. I don't know who I would have done it apart from God.

A great analogy for how I feel right now comes from my interaction with my garden. I grew some squash and it was coming in quite nicely. I felt very excited. But when I went back this week some horrible beast of a bug laid eggs on the stem hatching nasty worm things into it. The squash died a horrible death. I mourned the squash. Now, I don't want anyone thinking that I am in a horrible horrible maggot filled predicament, but things feel a little hard for me. So what did I do about the dead squash? I pulled it up and replanted. Period.