Good morning! It's still morning isn't it?
Happy day, all! It's been awhile!
The sun is shining, the wind is gusting hard and it looks a whole lot warmer than it actually is outside. I woke up to snow covered grass this morning and for some reason didn't feel annoyance with it, as I've done in years past. I feel thankful for our very mild first Winter back in the Midwest. I was a little leary of spending Winter here and not in sunny Colorado for the first time in almost three years but it's been incredibly enjoyable. Every snow fall, I feel myself being excited instead of glum.
What comes hand in hand this Spring, along with more sunshine and longer days, is my trip to Ireland. 22 days and I'll be flying from Minneapolis to Chicago, another overnight flight and I'll be waking up in Dublin. My Fiance' and I hoped to adventure there at this time last year but then ended up just moving our life back home to the Midwest so we pushed the trip to the back burner, but only for a little while. What better place to spend my Golden Birthday, than Dublin, Ireland? Or perhaps a quaint town outside of Dublin to better fit my personality these days. I am morphing more and more into an introvert with every passing day. Perhaps the pubs of Dublin will nudge me right back into the social, out spoken being I was once. Not that I'm no longer outspoken. I latched onto the idea of spending my Golden Birthday in Europe and I refused to let go of it. It's only your Golden Birthday once! And I'm grabbing that shit by the horns.
Joel, my Fiance' is in Ireland now, exploring venues, making contacts, scheduling shows and bettering his music business. He is having the best time meeting people and sending me pictures to make me even more excited to meet him there and spend the last week of his tour with him. He turned 29 two days ago and got to spend his Birthday there as well. Although, I wasn't with him on his day, he spent it doing something that he loves and that's what's most important. I always find myself feeling so grateful that we both think travel is something that's important in our lives. We've both been so fortunate to travel like we have and experience different places around the world together. We were in Spain, sitting in the hot tub at our resort when we first talked about moving in with each other. That year, we moved our lives to Colorado and lived together for the first time and it was everything I thought it would be, and more. More untidiness, more guitar, more dishes, but also more love and laughter. Colorado is where he started doing his music business full time and no longer balanced his music with his landscaping business. As we moved our lives back to the Midwest last June, he's started working more for a buddies business, and is having to balance both jobs again. Bettering himself as a musician and getting as many people to hear his music and connect with them, collaborating with other musicians, well, these are all things that are important to him. Traveling to other amazing places in the world is something that he wants to do as long as he can, as long as he's able and that is great for his music business too. Friends, everywhere! And fans of Joel Kachel and his music. I will always support him in that.
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| Galway, Ireland |
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| Thoughtful Snaps. |
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| Joel found my initials in Galway. |
Our time in Ireland will be less music business and more adventure and hand holding. Also, ridiculous amounts of pictures and snaps that will blow up all your feeds while I'm there.
Perhaps, I'll feel extremely inspired to blog while I'm there. The sun did it to me this morning, so anticipating crazy amounts of rain during my time there, perhaps maybe not. You bet your booty that I immediately started googling and reading everything possible about Ireland once my ticket was bought. Give me all the facts, I must know the facts! I've accepted the fact that it will most likely rain the whole time, so that if there's a sunny day, I'll feel extremely happy. I've accepted that things may not always go according to plan and that I need to keep an open mind and be spontaneous. Joel is the most spontaneous, randomness-loving-person and I've always said, I only enjoy being spontaneous if it's planned. I have a hard time accepting unpleasant surprises and curve balls in my day or life. Good thing, my ever understanding Fiance' will be at my side to remind me that we don't always need to follow a schedule and to lighten the heck up a little bit. Maybe Ireland will give me cool things to write about other than just my current thoughts. What makes my thoughts cool enough to publish, anyways?
