Hello my patient readers.  I know it has been some time since I have posted a blog.  Life has been so wonderful to me lately.  I have married the woman I always dreamed of.  My family likes her, and she likes them.  I looked for so long for "the one" and it was a waste of my time.  I finally decided to stop looking and then she fell into my life.  We are perfect together.  The mere touch of her hand on mine sends a warm sensation straight to my soul.  She is my heart, my future, my eternity.  Never give up if you long for love.  But let God take care of it.  Stop asking Him for it and then trying to do His job.  Let Him do what you ask.  True love lasts.  Never give in to the criticism or stupid rationalizations of those who are bugging you about your choices.  Your heart knows, your mind knows.  Trust those instead.  As my hero Larry Winget says "Your friends want you to be successful.  But, they don't want you to be more successful than them".  When they see you start getting a better life, some of them, the poseurs will start trying to prevent it.  Sometimes they don't even know they are.  But they will.  Trust your love.  Don't ignore danger signs though.  Angela and I have no danger signs.  We got a lot of strange looks and a lot of misery, especially her, for what we chose to do.  But we were right.

This marriage will last.  So call off any stupid bets you made about that.  We are truly in love.  We are putting God first in all we do.  We are trusting in that.  As a result of that dedication a lot is going great for us.  We were desperate to how we would find an affordable place.  We wondered what work I would find.  Instead of getting too stressed about it, we decided to leave it in God's hands.  And the results are phenomenal and get better every day.  I am almost finished with school.  I have over a year in at the Five Diamond St. Regis Hotel, Houston which has been called one of the top 100 hotels in the world by The Robb Report.  When I graduate I am moving to Sacramento, CA so my wife and I can begin working together toward our future.  We now have a great home to rent at a great price lined up.  Through the great people who are renting us the house, there is an opportunity for me to be part of a great food and drink concept as the executive chef.  I have the training behind me, and the advice of seasoned professionals to help me out along the way.  We go into this together and we will support each others' dreams.  We put God first in that decision as well and He is opening doors for us.  I will support them by doing all I can to develop a dynamic menu.  In them, I have a support team that will do all they can to help me prepare and then give my food away for critique to see what hits and misses during the survey phase as I develop the menu.  My parters have comitted to help me get my name established so that people are hungry for more by the time we open the doors on our place.

Biking is going good too.  I am addicted to my fixed but the Fuji is cleaned and ready for my harder training to start.  Life is good.  There are more changes to come, and they are big as well, but we'll save those for their proper time and I will be posting happy blogs about that as well.

Tonight I sleep knowing that I have found my forever.  I am in true pure love for real and I can write all night and never truly say how great it feels, or even how it feels.  I will say though that I always knew it was okay to be what many called a hopeless romantic.  But look, it wasn't such a hopeless thing after all was it?