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Rebirth

Stewart Lee — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 22:43:41 +0000

I am reviving this blog to two ends. First, I very much enjoyed keeping it when I did, and secondly to share my experiences as a husband married to a woman with PCOS. I recently read Matthew’s blog where he recants his experience with his wife (also where I got the above image). As weird as this sounds, it made me feel better while at the same time not better. I felt so much better reading my life story written by someone else. It’s like he not only knew what I am going through, but he described all the emotions I go through weekly. As Matthew stated, the internet is full of support groups and forums for the women with PCOS but there is little out there for the husbands that support these women and live with the symptoms in our own way.

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Pretty Woman can rule the world!

Kelsey and Witt tied the knot

Stewart Lee — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 16:40:42 +0000

Here are a few of the pictures I have processed thus far from the wedding. It was a beautiful wedding with to beautiful people. It was kinda crazy as it was a last minute thing and forced Lindy and I to come home early from a Florida wedding we were attending the day before. Witt is in the Marines stationed in Va. and can only get time to travel every so often and even then it’s uncertain. I am glad the weather worked out too, it couldn’t have been a prettier day. (click the image for a larger view)

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Halloween Fun

Stewart Lee — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 03:08:00 +0000

We carved some pumpkins at the last min last night. It was fun, though I was exhausted from lack of sleep the night before. Check out the pictures!! Kiarin decided that this year he wasn’t going to go trick or treating so we had some of the best Chinese take out we have had in years and did the pumpkins.

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Early morning stroll

Stewart Lee — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:31:12 +0000

To make up for yesterdays word only post, here is a cool little snail I found the other week. He was really motoring along making it hard for me to crawl on my belly and photo him at the same time.

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Take 50 million and call me in the morning…

Jobs and the struggle to make it

Stewart Lee — Tue, 26 Oct 2010 17:03:28 +0000

As a few of you know, I have been trying to get my teaching certificate “decorated” so that I might stand a chance at getting a teaching job. Right now I only have an intial certificate with an Agriculture endorsement. I am finding in this FFA free county that I am needing at least science on my certificate as well. No problem I thought, I have 2.75 degrees and I took the Biology/General Science Praxis subject area test I should be able to get “highly qualified” status no problem. No so much… It seems that the old adage that decisions in the past often come back to haunt you is truer than I once thought. When I was a freshman, I had the option to take 2 biologies or 2 Chemistries and one of the other. Being that I was a forestry major I chose 2 biologies and one chemistry. Now that I’m wanting to use a different degree to get a different job, I am wishing I would have stuck with 2 chemistries and one biology. Oh, well whats done is done.

As I battle the red tape and get my teaching certificate in order I take time to pause. Is this really what I want to do, where I want to be right now? Though I have never had a “real” job or should I say career, am I working hard to get this teaching certificate, finishing my PhD, and ignoring any and all other options that are serving as a distraction right now the right way to do things? I loved forestry, then I started my masters and I loved the research and teaching, then I started my PhD and I loved the research about education and the thoughts of educating educators. All these things I could see myself doing for a life time. However, I look towards my friend Charlotte Jennings and see what may be (more or less). Charlotte was a forestry major back when girls were rare to find in the degree (and the good looking ones were hunted to extinction). Then I crossed paths with her again in the Ag Ed Masters program. Now Charlotte is a very successful photographer (check out her blog) and her contest for gaining over 500 facebook fans.

As most regular readers know I love to take pictures. Some even turn out decent. Am I over looking careers because they aren’t “safe”? I would like to do some evaluation consulting, but that is scary too since it’s something I can do but have never done it outside the University setting. Have you ever literally jumped off the proverbial bridge and just had to trust the tide was up and would catch you? Have you ever had to make a decision that had the possibility of resulting in utter and complete devastation and did it anyway? How did it work out?

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More Renovations

Stewart Lee — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 20:20:28 +0000

We are starting to decorate the house – oh yea… As long as we don’t decide to paint again any time soon I’ll be ok. Here is the first room of the house and the decorating. I made the fern on the slate by the way. Well not the fern (it grew on it’s own) but the thing you see is my creation. Total cost was about $7 and I got the idea from one just like it but on a wooden frame at a greenhouse where they wanted $56 for it.

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Dr. Dixon… Thank You

My first QSL Card

Stewart Lee — Tue, 05 Oct 2010 16:04:10 +0000

I received in the mail today my very first QSL card. I made the contact with NE5Y just after putting up my inverted L antenna on 20m. He is in the process of collecting contacts from all 50 states on 20m for the award and needed SC. So we are exchanging QSL cards. Below is a picture of his (front side) and then mine (the KI4EXF one). I’m excited and am also starting to try and collect QSL cards for the “worked all states” award though I’m not going to challenge myself by limiting it to one band just yet.

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Puppies, Waves, Lindy… Good day

Stewart Lee — Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:10:53 +0000

Sunday Lindy and I took the Puppies to the beach for some fun surf play. We were leery of letting Koda run loose off leash so we kept her on the flexi-leash to see how she would act. It worked fabulously. She had to stay close to Lindy because of the leash, and so Tanner never strayed far even though he was off leash the whole time. It was funny; several people walking by stopped and watched the dogs for a while during our play time. I of course had the camera with me and so without further ado, here are some of the pictures.

(Some have been Photoshoped to remove the leash from Koda, the others have yet to be fixed)

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Heck-of-a Sept. so far

Stewart Lee — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:03:06 +0000

For those of you who don’t follow me on Facebook, I just returned from the funeral of my Uncle Jerald Shealy. In addition to that, my other Uncle Charles’ Mother passed the day before Jerald did. I got to see most of my family this weekend though I would have rather visited for different reasons.

In other news, I am still looking for a job. I will take the Praxis Test 030 on Sept 18th. That is the Biology/General Science test to certify me in Science for 7-12th grades. Hopefully that will give me a boost next time I apply. It is crazy I tell you. I have always been able to find a job – always… In honor of this unique point in time of my life I give you the Simpson’s -

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Banana Tree and Updates

Stewart Lee — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 15:42:37 +0000

There are two things that I feel I should put out there. First – the banana trees we have are ornamental and do not produce bananas. Yeah, I was disappointed to learn that as well, but thats the breaks for cool leaf patterns and colors I guess. Second – I stopped with the daily pictures of the pup once I got a few days behind and it was as big (or bigger) than other pups that were bought with the main tree. Sorry for not mentioning that sooner.

I have a new windshield and vent window in the truck now! Also, yesterday I had the new in dash radio installed – it looks sweet ya’ll!! When I get rid of the truck that radio will go in the Camaro and the Camaro’s radio will go in the truck for Dad. I also found the knob off my FT-8900 Ham radio on the floor of the truck so even though I can’t use the radio yet, it looks less busted up.

This week I am focused on contacting and becoming involved with emergency communication on the island in conjunction with my Armature License. Once I get involved I will post up information about it.

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