(Janae right here first, yet another reminder that I’m on Ali’s Podcast HERE)
Hey everybody, it’s been a minute or two. I simply wished to chime in and write a fast visitor submit, sharing a life replace by way of the lens of Andrew. Listed below are just a few snippets of life, not so as of significance, however slightly how they got here up in my digital camera roll.
Considered one of my favourite footage proper now. We’re on our solution 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 sort of masks earlier than, however I heard it’s all the craze for youthful children!!
I’m nonetheless working within the Organ Donation world. I’m coming into my third 12 months on this function, and it has been a HUGE studying expertise. I really feel like I might do a complete submit on my job, however I’ll spare you this time; subsequent time, you gained’t be so fortunate. I work on the donation facet of organ donation; it’s a very annoying and difficult. I work with households who’re going by way of nightmares of dropping a cherished one.
People are superb, and even of their darkest moments, I discover folks considering of others and donating to offer life and heal by way of organ donation. My precise job title is an Organ Donation Coordinator. My job is precisely that: I coordinate organ donation from begin to end, and I’m liable for all the small print to make sure viable organs attain the correct particular person on the proper time. I work all through the state of Utah, in addition to elements of Idaho, Wyoming, and Nevada. Janae has talked about just a few occasions that I work on this area now, and I’ve had just a few readers attain out to share their experiences, which suggests the world to me. Only in the near past, 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 way of all of the unhappiness, and stress. Every day isn’t the identical, and it may be very wild.
One other work image. Generally that is my transportation to work and I LOVE IT! In one other life, I might have cherished to have been a pilot. I like being within the air. Most days I drive to the hospital I shall be working at, however when it’s farther, I’ll fly on Life Flight’s fixed-wing (airplanes). Beck all the time asks me to ship footage once I fly!
That is how I survive the stress and decompress. My colleagues assume I’m loopy, however after a protracted shift or within the OR, I want 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 season. My tan line from my watch is off the charts this 12 months.
It’s all the time a superb time when it’s New Bike Day! This was truly just a few months in the past. I bought the Santa Cruz Hightower that I bought 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. Once 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 truly deliberate to do that race when Brooke was within the hospital final 12 months. Once I first married Janae, I by no means would have thought that we might do one thing like that, but it surely’s humorous how life is! I’ve some large objectives in biking over the subsequent few years. My final objective is to finish the Leadville Mountain Bike Race in underneath 9 hours. In case you full it in lower than 9 hours, you obtain a big belt buckle. It’s fairly the feat. I believe that is going to be a 5-year challenge; perhaps it’s not potential. We are going to 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, a number of using within the mountains, and many coaching on my bike coach at dwelling.
Our present favourite date! She runs, and I bike along with her. I 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 dependancy! There may be 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 along with her each week! My biking passion is fairly costly and takes up most of my little free time that I do have. However, if I have been to begin a brand new passion, I believe 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 nicely. 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 to date.
We went to BYU’s Soccer season opener and the entire fam cherished it! Fortunately, this was an earlier recreation, so Beck and Janae stayed up all the 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’re all having a implausible day!!!
Questions:
Those that trip, what’s your present bike? What’s subsequent?
Do you will have a selected 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?
