...now you are so proud?!?... Time flies by, and this July 26th...I will celebrating my 10th wedding anniversary! Big deal ... Seriously, at that time for our wedding, we had two cakes...a groom cake, and bride cake...We chose her cake to be big, elaborate multi-tier setup with lights on the bottom that changed color...(you had to see it!) At the time, we had joked that my cake will be a single tier, court-inspired rectangular chocolate cake, accented with Rocket-Red strawberries dipped in chocolate icing around it with a big orange basketball in the center (made of orange icing...) in honor of us meeting because of a Rockets game...thus my moniker ROX...her first 3 letters of her name...RAN, the first 3 letters of my name... When it happened, I was embarrased, and thought it was cheesy, but now that I hold the photos today, I can't help but feel like it was one of the best decisions on a great day!...
hmm... can't think of any... Seems like every regret that I can remember actually turned out much worse than I originally thought it would be. That sucks.
Well, let's see. I got hitched to somebody who didn't know how to be a proper relationship partner. That was stupid. In my much-younger love life and social life, made a lot of drama out of everything. Other things I wouldn't do now... going to a competitive school like Rice, studying science for some reason and getting all the way up through the doctorate. A lot of that... is just not "me", and I know it now. But I don't know if I strictly regret those, since they helped bring me to where I am today and all that. Oh well. We go from here and only the future is ahead of us.
I was best man at a wedding where the grooms cake was made out like the floor of the Summit. The groom and I had Rockets season tickets together.
Pretty neat...I guess it also goes to anyone that did you do something you thought was dumb or wrong, but look back differently in a better light?...
I regret not choking the life out of a project manager for another firm recently. The group i work with had a "Joint venture construction project with a tight deadline -3 month duration. The job turned out fine-we finished early and all the sub contractors made money and the client was happy. The project manager- who was actually the top guy on the Organizational chart did not participate in any of the planning, scheduling, or dealing with the client, subcontractors, or material suppliers and vendors. HE was a name on paper and did not participate in the project. When we were closing the job out he bragged about all the good things he had done for the project's success. He is bigger than me-same heighth, but outweighs me by 30 lb or more. When I would see him about every other day, he would tell me how great he was, how special his relationship with Jesus was. I personally love Jesus, but hate a preacher. He said he had a lot of money, land, splendid children, nice pickup, prize winning vegetables and roses, and was a model of success- he is writing a book. I acted polite and diplomatic instead of telling him to STFU. Beacuse I was polite - he never let up with his bragging. I just wanted to get through the project. I regret not breaking his fingers, nose or putting out one of his eyes. I might be writing this from prison, but I am certain it would have been worth it. Who knows? If the jury had heard him talk a few minutes they might award me a gold medal.
I'd say following a girl to Dallas. Had I not done that, I may not have met my wife or ever moved back to Houston. Even though I'm getting the itch to move back to Austin now, at least I'll be hauling a ball and chain with me. ROXRAN, Don't know if I ever got a chance to say it, but I'm extremely happy for you that everything has worked out with your wife!!!
As the butthole surfers used to say! "It's better to regret somethng you did, than something you didn't do! Congrats on the big 10 (mines the 26th of July next year)!
