12/27/84

this photograph was taken in 1984, the year i was born. that is my grandfather holding me.


i'm grateful for the years i've been alive on this earth. i have met many people. i have done a few things. i feel grateful to have been in good health and happy for the greater majority of the first 23 years of my life here. great friends and family. it's just been neric, the parents, and uncle brad this Christmas. love them. we play games. uncle brad gave me yahtzee as a gift this year. what a treat. i've so far spent this vacation the way i have wanted to, eating a baked potato at lunch while playing a game of yahtzee with my mother. i lost. didn't even come close to winning. she deserved to win though. she played her heart out. the potato was a bit of a distraction. delicious, but i feel like i was more focused on that than the game for my first 5 to 6 turns. that's ok. i later played a game of yahtzee with uncle brad and my father. uncle brad repeatedly said, "full house," when it was his turn. the funny thing is he rolled a full house for about 3 straight turns. i will now call him "uncle jesse" every time we play yahtzee together. i would also like to be known as "large straight man" every time i play yahtzee. it feels/sounds appropriate. let's say that's just the way i roll.