A little about me…
Since the traffic on my blog has gone up a little bit, I figure I would tell everybody a little about myself. I’m not going to go into too much detail, just give you the jest.
My name is Arthur, but my friends & family call me Art. I was born on May 27, 1975 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I lived in Minnesota until August of 1983 when my Dad decided to move us to Arlington, Texas, where I’ve lived ever since.
I have a large immediate and extended family. I have three older brothers and two younger sisters that are twins. My two oldest brothers have passed on (that's a blog for another day). Luckily, my other brother and one of my sisters live within a mile or two from me. The other sister lives in Atlanta, GA, but since her husband works for Delta, we get to see her pretty often (but not often enough). I also get to see most of my nieces and nephews pretty often. I don't get to see my niece and nephew that live in Minnesota real often, but I talk to them pretty often. Up until a few months ago, my parents also lived within a couple of miles from us. But in April, my Dad fell off a ladder at work breaking his neck, shoulder & experienced some brain damage. Luckily, he is pulling through it slowly but surely and is currently staying at a long term rehabilitation. At this point, we are not real sure how long he’ll need this kind of care, but we are all grateful that he is still here. Now my Mom gets to live with us and I see my Dad more often then I did before his accident. Situations like this really make you realize how fragile life is and how short your time is on this earth. And it makes you appreciate things more and not worry so much about things that don’t matter.
I graduated High School (after having to go to summer school, again a blog for another day) in 1993. It was in high school where I meet my wife Sunny. We have been married since June of 1996 and we have two beautiful children. We purchased our first home when we got married and lived there until for 4-1/2 years. After we sold that house, we had to live in an apartment for few months during the construction of our new house, that we currently live in. There were a few things I liked about the apartment, but I am very glad it was temporary. My wife and I have experienced many happy times in the last 9-1/2 years and I think I love her a little more everyday. I couldn’t imagine life without her or our wonderful children.
After high school, I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted to do for a living. I has a few different jobs that included working at a placed called Venture (which was kind of like a Target or Kmart that went out of business in the mid 90's), worked as a valet in a parking garage in downtown Fort Worth, and worked as a service porter at the Saturn of Arlington, Saturn of Fort Worth and Don Davis Nissan. While working at the dealerships I decided that a career as an auto technician (and eventually owning my own repair/performance auto shop) would be pretty cool. I found a program that was offered through Brookhaven College in Dallas that was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. It was a 2 year program where you would work for a Ford dealership for six months at a time then go to school for 6 months at a time and after 2 years you would be a certified Ford technician and have an actual associates degree with real, transferable, college credits. At the time, they only accepted a few people a year and I was accepted based on my test scores. At the same time, I was offered a job by my then girlfriend’s Dad (now my father-in-law). Also at the same time, while working at Don Davis Nissan, I fell off ladder and broke my leg down near my ankle. So, in the summer of 1994, I had to decide whether to go to college through this program or go to work for my future father-in-law. Since I didn’t know where I was going to get the money to pay for the school, nor did I know how I was going to support myself while I was going to school, I decided to take the job with my future father-in-law and see how I might like it. Well, 11-1/2 years later, I still work for my father-in-law. I still have aspirations of owning my own business (and I currently kind-of do http://www.nlpracing.com/), but my job and family make it hard to spend the proper time to get anything started. Not that I resent that, it’s just the reality. Someday, I will own a successful business of my own.
This is a very short summary of my first 30 years on this planet. I still haven’t touched on the reasons why I’m so political, why I consider myself a Democrat, why I love cars (especially Ford’s) so much, why I love NASCAR & auto racing or my other hobbies, likes & interests, but I will in the near future….stay tuned.
My name is Arthur, but my friends & family call me Art. I was born on May 27, 1975 in Saint Paul, Minnesota. I lived in Minnesota until August of 1983 when my Dad decided to move us to Arlington, Texas, where I’ve lived ever since.
I have a large immediate and extended family. I have three older brothers and two younger sisters that are twins. My two oldest brothers have passed on (that's a blog for another day). Luckily, my other brother and one of my sisters live within a mile or two from me. The other sister lives in Atlanta, GA, but since her husband works for Delta, we get to see her pretty often (but not often enough). I also get to see most of my nieces and nephews pretty often. I don't get to see my niece and nephew that live in Minnesota real often, but I talk to them pretty often. Up until a few months ago, my parents also lived within a couple of miles from us. But in April, my Dad fell off a ladder at work breaking his neck, shoulder & experienced some brain damage. Luckily, he is pulling through it slowly but surely and is currently staying at a long term rehabilitation. At this point, we are not real sure how long he’ll need this kind of care, but we are all grateful that he is still here. Now my Mom gets to live with us and I see my Dad more often then I did before his accident. Situations like this really make you realize how fragile life is and how short your time is on this earth. And it makes you appreciate things more and not worry so much about things that don’t matter.
I graduated High School (after having to go to summer school, again a blog for another day) in 1993. It was in high school where I meet my wife Sunny. We have been married since June of 1996 and we have two beautiful children. We purchased our first home when we got married and lived there until for 4-1/2 years. After we sold that house, we had to live in an apartment for few months during the construction of our new house, that we currently live in. There were a few things I liked about the apartment, but I am very glad it was temporary. My wife and I have experienced many happy times in the last 9-1/2 years and I think I love her a little more everyday. I couldn’t imagine life without her or our wonderful children.
After high school, I wasn’t exactly sure what I wanted to do for a living. I has a few different jobs that included working at a placed called Venture (which was kind of like a Target or Kmart that went out of business in the mid 90's), worked as a valet in a parking garage in downtown Fort Worth, and worked as a service porter at the Saturn of Arlington, Saturn of Fort Worth and Don Davis Nissan. While working at the dealerships I decided that a career as an auto technician (and eventually owning my own repair/performance auto shop) would be pretty cool. I found a program that was offered through Brookhaven College in Dallas that was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company. It was a 2 year program where you would work for a Ford dealership for six months at a time then go to school for 6 months at a time and after 2 years you would be a certified Ford technician and have an actual associates degree with real, transferable, college credits. At the time, they only accepted a few people a year and I was accepted based on my test scores. At the same time, I was offered a job by my then girlfriend’s Dad (now my father-in-law). Also at the same time, while working at Don Davis Nissan, I fell off ladder and broke my leg down near my ankle. So, in the summer of 1994, I had to decide whether to go to college through this program or go to work for my future father-in-law. Since I didn’t know where I was going to get the money to pay for the school, nor did I know how I was going to support myself while I was going to school, I decided to take the job with my future father-in-law and see how I might like it. Well, 11-1/2 years later, I still work for my father-in-law. I still have aspirations of owning my own business (and I currently kind-of do http://www.nlpracing.com/), but my job and family make it hard to spend the proper time to get anything started. Not that I resent that, it’s just the reality. Someday, I will own a successful business of my own.
This is a very short summary of my first 30 years on this planet. I still haven’t touched on the reasons why I’m so political, why I consider myself a Democrat, why I love cars (especially Ford’s) so much, why I love NASCAR & auto racing or my other hobbies, likes & interests, but I will in the near future….stay tuned.
posted by NLPRacing at 9:15 PM
2 Comments:
Thank God you posted. That image of the eyeballs was starting to appear to me in my sleep- as far as traffic goes, I check your blog at least 5 times a week. Needless to say I consider Blogs great ways to communicate.
I don't remember so much the Ford Training/School thing, but after you described it- it started to sound familiar. That was back when we didn't see you alot. You were living in that crazy apartment living it up :)
Great blog. I too am glad that you finally put in a new entry.
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