Family

New Year’s Eve Afternoon ​⁠#instagram #live #hagleywest included a major discount on  watches. I decided to buy more for Joanna & her daughter, & finally myself. I found it also to be a good opportunity to promote my website https://ClipoftheDay.com

New Year’s Eve Morning ​⁠ #instagram #live included limited edition watches. I decided to buy some for my kids and also found it to be a good opportunity to mention my website https://ClipoftheDay.com/

I decided to talk to my Instagram followers, all 7 of them, and random stuff came out of my mouth. 

I then decided to sing a Calum Scott song that I admired very much. I also mentioned my late wife Sonya that passed away on 103124. We all miss her dearly. 

At a PFO “Playing for others” event, Dani opens up and is vulnerable on stage. They discuss their #gender identify and the realization they had as a young human  & learning about being #nonbinary 

While tearing up myself, luckily I was able to hold the camera steady enough and make it to the end. I gave them a hug right after they came off stage.

Just because I know how to mow the lawn doesn’t mean I should.

 I was chatting with someone this week and I was reminded of when a salesman from now closed R&R Sunrooms built my sunroom. We were talking about how I built my mom’s deck and helped Andrew Foor.

Shout out to Andrew and Shannon (Stout now) and the kids, build his brother’s deck in Raleigh NC.   The salesman, I can’t place his name now, it has been 16 years, mentioned that was great and all but I shouldn’t feel bad. “You do all this …” (speaking of my day job). I am paraphasing her e, “Just because you can do it doesn’t mean you have to. You make good money doing what you do, just focus on doing more of that and pay people that make less per hour to help you out. You have enough to handle.” 

For some reason that conversation has stuck with me over the years and it is starting to mean more everyday. 

Find your strengths and harness them. Take ownership of your strengths and take advantage of the skills that come easy to you. Don’t waste precious time trying to fit your personality / work ethic into a hole (career, lifestyle, relationship) it won’t fit in. 

Thanks for reading my ramblings. 

I am just a sound guy trying to keep the lights on. 

—Secrest Out!