Marriage > School

The past few weeks have been ultra busy for me in school (this is Jacob by the way) which has admittedly caused me to spend significantly more time with my computer and school work than with Kel. I hate that. It's weird though, I've been a student for seemingly an eternity yet it still isn't automatic. You see, we learn a lot of useful and useless things in PT school. One thing, which falls somewhere in the middle, is that when you're learning a new skill (in the correct context a motor skill), you eventually get to the point where you can perform the skill autonomously and you only focus your attention on the details to take full advantage of your ability, i.e. using the environment to your benefit. Unfortunately, it doesn't appear this is true of school. No matter how long I am in school, it continues to require much more attention than it's worth, I cannot perform adequately on auto-pilot.

The hard part isn't school though, I have done school for a long time now and by itself I can handle it. Don't get me wrong, the hard part definitely isn't marriage either, whoever said the beginning of marriage would be extremely difficult hadn't met Kelley. The hard part is that I got used to school, then we got married and I had a break from school, during which time I got used to marriage (as much as you can in two months), but now I'm married and in school and I'm not used to this. In fact as I type this I should definitely be studying neuro, but it's been a great adventure to learn how to do life after college, school after college, marriage after college and thankfully church after college...and Kelley's taking it like a champ, sorry school ruins me Kel. 

civil wars

A quick post from our weekend in Birmingham!

We traveled Friday evening to see The Civil Wars perform at the Alabama Theatre. It was by far the best performance Jake and I had ever seen. The group, Milo Greene, opened for The Civil Wars, and we really enjoyed them as well. So, just a few bands to look into if you already haven't.

Here's a few photos from our brief adventure ---

    Driving into Birmingham, AL. 

After a super delicious dinner at John's City Diner, we arrived at the Alabama Theatre for the concert.

Also captured a few videos from the concert to share! The Videos aren't the best, but the you'll like the sound :) Poison & Wine and Barton Hollow. Enjoy!

And a video from youtube of Milo Greene, the opening act.

                 

        Breakfast the following morning.

         

And a quick hike at Oak Mountain State Park to end our adventure.

I'm thinking we'll need more weekends like this! So nice to take a break.

In other news, Jacob now has a Twitter - @jacobstagnaro. He may or may not blow up your Twitter feed, so you can't say one of us didn't warn you.

Until next time!

Love, The Stagnaros