Daniel Farrell

Hey blog readers. I need to fill you in on some very sad news. My marriage to Alicia has been struggling for some time. I’ve not really known why but have been trying everything I can think of to make it work and unfortunately it hasn’t been helping. A couple weeks ago in couples counseling Alicia told me she wants a divorce and so we are separating. There has not been any cheating or anything inappropriate she just does not want to be married in general and has apparently felt this way for a number of years.

I am not real stoked on that as you might guess if you know me. I’m going to do everything I can to make space for her to change her mind at some point but it is not seeming likely at this time. I’d appreciate your prayers for us both and I am asking everyone to treat Alicia with love and respect.

I’ve disabled comments on this post on my blog as that really isn’t the place to discuss stuff like this. Contact me privately (Email, message me on Facebook, call, etc) if you have questions and I’ll answer them.

I realized today as I took time to read some poetry by Rumi and to journal some just how much I’ve let my interior life slack.
For a good part of my life I had very good discipline with taking time to know myself, my motives, my feelings, and to focus on connecting with God. Unfortunately I’ve been neglecting that discipline for a while now and it’s showing in the rest of my life.
Hopefully my time this morning will be the jumpstart I needed to get that part of life back on track.

I know that I’ve lost all readership but I am still alive, in case you were wondering. I’m also still skinny(have been maintaining about 190 through the winter) as that was a topic of interest on here.

My life is fairly boring these days though so that explains the lack of updates. Just working away, playing soccer(Indoor at SCOR now after a fall CVSA league), and trying to enjoy life some. You can always see smaller details on twitter (@danielfarrell) if you want to know what I’m up to.

I’ve been dropping some pound this summer. It’s been good to be more active again and also to get back down to a healthy weight. I took a photo of myself in Photobooth yesterday and I saw that I had taken one just before summer soccer. The difference is noticable. Here is before:

And here is after:

I still plan on dropping some more pounds and hopefully putting on a few pounds of muscle as well. I’ll post progress as that happens.

Our summer co-ed team(Random Heroes) was eliminated tonight in the semi-finals by a heartbreaking late goal. That brings an end to the summer soccer season for me. It was a great experience to get myself back into playing soccer and back into shape in general. I feel like I improved a ton during the season and look forward to continuing to improve as I’ll be playing on a fall team as well.

*Sidebar – if you are a guy soccer player in Richmond and don’t have a fall team yet let me know because our team could use a few more players*

I’m also interested in playing some street soccer if I can find some other people who are interested. I think it would help improve my ball skills and it just looks like a ton of fun! Hit me up if you want to kick it around downtown sometime!