Describe a man who has positively impacted my life.
My dad. Easy. Jon Heinichen is one of the kindest, friendliest, most wonderful people to be around in the world. I really, really lucked out with him, thank the stars. He’s thoughtful, musical, loves movies and books, a tinkerer, a craftsman, adores animals, always has a smile on his face, he can build you a deck or install a front door, a deal hunter with a nose for free stuff…but he was there and loving when we were kids, and that’s what mattered most. I wasn’t even his kid, but I always felt like I was. He loved me completely. LOVES…past tense there only because of thinking about being kids, lol. He loves me completely. I’m so grateful for that, and so lucky. Thanks, dad.
The other man who instantly sprang into my mind was Mr. Steven (?) Miller of Eureka High School. I wish I’d kept in touch with him, but he really, really made an impression on me in his english classes, of which I took two from him. Second year English and…English Honors, I think? Yeah, something like that. He demanded that absolute best of his students. He pushed me in ways nobody ever had before, but he was funny, and charismatic about it. He made you feel passionate about it. He read Cather in the Rye to us, and he was brilliant at it. He made that book come alive. And he made us perform Shakespeare. I remember I did Othello’s candle soliloquy in his class, and he was misty-eyed by the end of it, which shocked me. I doubt it had anything to do with my performance of it…but the language. It really smacked me upside the head that day in class just how powerful a performance can be. That class got me interested in performance, and the world of the classics, of really really good writing. I wonder what he’s up to these days. I know he retired not long after I was a student at that school…
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I’m in bed early tonight, exhausted. Two new projects floated my way today, which has me a little stressed out with all the Netflix work I need to finish BUT…I’ll get it done. The big thing today was that I got the finances done. Whew. We did better this year, mostly in terms of controlling our spending. Our method works. Really, Scott and Addie’s method. It works! When we stick to it, it does wonders. Spending goes way, waaayyyy down, and it’s so much simpler than trying to keep track of everything all at once. It’s a simple number: $500 a week. Stick to that, and we’re in good shape overall.
Anyway…that’s it. That’s all I did today, except therapy in the afternoon, which was a good session.
Night night.