Nolan James Ross

I do, I do.

I miss these guys especially.

It’s weird to travel with a group for 10 months and to go about life after all of it.  I think of them every day.  I wonder about what the kids from Uganda are doing.  And what the kids from India are doing right now.  I don’t even know what time zones they are in, but it’s probably morning and they are up doing devotions and school.  I miss them lots.  But two tours of traveling was it for me.  It was time to move on, because who wants to say goodbye to more kids after being around them for so long?  It stings.  Still does.  But I’m happy with what I did and when I’m old and gray and I’m sitting on a porch in who knows where, I’ll remember all the good times we had at Disney World and Kings Dominion and the parks and the churches.  Always.

I am enjoying my job at Ruehl though. It’s cool to be in management.  Something different, but I like the idea of making sure customers get what they need and to make them happy.  Someone’s got to do it, right?

I’m hopefully moving into a house here pretty soon.  Going tomorrow (or today - it’s midnight) to give my application to the owner and hopefully get settled into the house.  It’s nice - three bedrooms for not too many shiny nickels.  I can’t complain.  I’ve eaten alot of five guys lately.  It’s just too easy, when it’s downstairs in the mall you work at.  And the burgers are amazing.  I was ecstatic when I found out they had one here.  Mainly cos it’s an east coast thing.  It reminds me of VA.  And NC and all the other great east coast states.

I really need to get into reading again.  The more I think of it and have conversations about it, it makes me sad that I won’t be able to tackle as many books as I did while on tour.  But, I still can make time for it.  Since I’m not reading as much, I’ve watched a good bit of movies lately.  That’s been good.  Dirty Harry, The Great Gatsby, To Kill A Mockingbird, and a few others.  I really need Netflix.

Bedtime.