(Janae right here first, yet one more reminder that I’m on Ali’s Podcast HERE)
Hey everybody, it’s been a minute or two. I simply needed to chime in and write a fast visitor publish, sharing a life replace by means of the lens of Andrew. Listed here are a number of snippets of life, not so as of significance, however quite how they got here up in my digicam roll.
Considered one of my favourite photos proper now. We’re on our method to Hawaii, and the little man couldn’t assist however put on his new snorkel and fins all through the home. I’ve by no means tried this type of masks earlier than, however I heard it’s all the craze for youthful youngsters!!
I’m nonetheless working within the Organ Donation world. I’m coming into my third 12 months on this position, and it has been a HUGE studying expertise. I really feel like I might do a whole publish on my job, however I’ll spare you this time; subsequent time, you gained’t be so fortunate. I work on the donation aspect of organ donation; it’s a very tense and difficult. I work with households who’re going by means of nightmares of dropping a cherished one.
People are wonderful, and even of their darkest moments, I discover folks considering of others and donating to present life and heal by means of organ donation. My precise job title is an Organ Donation Coordinator. My job is strictly that: I coordinate organ donation from begin to end, and I’m answerable for all the small print to make sure viable organs attain the suitable particular person on the proper time. I work all through the state of Utah, in addition to components of Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada. Janae has talked about a number of instances that I work on this subject now, and I’ve had a number of readers attain out to share their experiences, which implies the world to me. Only recently, I had a reader inform us about her son’s expertise of receiving a coronary heart transplant. Tales like this assist me. Whereas I get to see the title, location, and age of the recipient of an organ donation, I don’t get to listen to the life-changing tales, until the recipient writes to us or the donation household. I do love my job, even by means of all of the unhappiness, and stress. Every day isn’t the identical, and it may be very wild.
One other work image. Typically that is my transportation to work and I LOVE IT! In one other life, I might have cherished to have been a pilot. I really like being within the air. Most days I drive to the hospital I will likely be working at, however when it’s farther, I’ll fly on Life Flight’s fixed-wing (airplanes). Beck at all times asks me to ship photos once I fly!
That is how I survive the stress and decompress. My colleagues suppose I’m loopy, however after a protracted shift or within the OR, I would like one thing to decompress, so I discover myself most days or nights grinding on the coach to launch the emotions I’ve skilled that day.
That is how I do know that I’m having a superb summer time. My tan line from my watch is off the charts this 12 months.
It’s at all times a superb time when it’s New Bike Day! This was really a number of months in the past. I offered the Santa Cruz Hightower that I acquired again in 2020, and made some extra room for this man. For these biking nerds on the market, I’ve a Specialised Epic Evo, which options 120 mm of journey within the entrance and 110 mm of journey within the again. After I’m married to a distance runner, I really feel like I must do exhausting issues too, so I began cross-country racing on mountain bikes.
I did my first bike race this final March, and I did it with Brooke’s dad. We love speaking bikes, and we really deliberate to do that race when Brooke was within the hospital final 12 months. After I first married Janae, I by no means would have thought that we’d do one thing like that, however it’s humorous how life is! I’ve some huge objectives in biking over the subsequent few years. My final objective is to finish the Leadville Mountain Bike Race in underneath 9 hours. If you happen to full it in lower than 9 hours, you obtain a big belt buckle. It’s fairly the feat. I feel that is going to be a 5-year challenge; possibly it’s not doable. We’ll see. To narrate slightly higher to the runners on the market, it’s my “qualify for Boston”. Till then, it’s a wide range of races throughout, plenty of driving within the mountains, and many coaching on my bike coach at dwelling.
Our present favourite date! She runs, and I bike together with her. I really like Utah and the mountains. There are such a lot of locations to discover. I’ve given up attempting to maintain up working with Janae. I can solely do it on two wheels now.
My present meals habit! There’s nothing higher than chocolate and cornflakes proper now. Dealer Joe’s has this, so get it whereas they’ve it.
Skye is loving ice hockey and I get to go skate and do stick time together with her each week! My biking pastime is fairly costly and takes up most of my little free time that I do have. However, if I have been to start out a brand new pastime, I feel would do rec ice hockey. Perhaps it’s all that nostalgia from watching all of the Mighty Geese films.
I’m teaching Brooke’s soccer membership once more this 12 months. Final 12 months, I began a model new staff, and it was actually enjoyable, though VERY time-consuming as properly. This 12 months, we mixed with one other staff, and we moved right into a extra aggressive league. We simply gained our first event, and we’re two video games into our season, undefeated up to now.
We went to BYU’s Soccer season opener and the entire fam cherished it! Fortunately, this was an earlier sport, so Beck and Janae stayed up the whole time, haha! We’re stoked for one more season of soccer at our dwelling!
Thanks for letting me take over the weblog for the day. I hope you might be all having a implausible day!!!
Questions:
Those that experience, what’s your present bike? What’s subsequent?
Do you have got a particular objective that you’re working in direction of that scares you? What’s it? What are you doing to finish it?
What’s your go-to favourite deal with proper now?
