- 02:05 #EverydayThankful I'm thankful for my son. Smart, creative, funny. Good kid (most of the time.) #
- 14:07 #veteransday I had a tea party with the kids, read Flanders Fields, and talked about whats and whys. Good things. #
- 23:16 preordered the new Star Trek and HBP vids at Walmart.com for $9.99 apiece. Can't beat that. #
- 14:10 "You're fast. Like a bunny." "Bunnies don't fast." "Yes they are!" "Why?" (Daughter and I.) #
- 12:34 #WorldsThinnestBooks Decorum, by Kanye West. How to impress Heads of State, by Barack Obama. (There, done with my small list). #
- 12:49 Tired today.Had an appointment which I forgot about until I was waiting with Will for his ride this am. (which, incidentally, was late). #
- 16:18 My son is playing scrabble by himself making words. I'm a happy mom #
- 16:29 Oh, dear. Anna is awake, and I am actively encouraging the creation of a "calvin-ball" style scrabble. Well, they're learning. #
- 17:48 More tired. Did my DDR after not being able to last week. Whooo. #
- 23:15 RT @wilw Hey, it's @neilhimself's birthday (@amandapalmer told me so) and we should all wish him well: Happy birthday, Neil! You're awesome. #
- 00:07 #EverydayThankful Today, I'm thankful for my husband. Good man, patient with me, funny, awesome. Pass it on. #
- 12:56 Son invents a game. Munchkin-find-it. Take blank cards from M sets and hold them blank out. Which is treasure? Which is door? #
- 15:21 Yesterday was full of crap. Literally. Dealt with several scatalogially related things. Not the most fun. O.o #
- 13:24 making frozen cookie dough into cookies. "Monster Mash" flavor. PB dough with tiny M&M type things. #
- 13:47 Ok. Misspoke. Monster MANIA cookies. From Schwan's :D #
- 19:28 playing on the spare mattress w/ the kids. got ahold of W's leg. A; I helping. Me: Who are you helping? A: b/c I want to! #
- 22:20 I love Paula Cole's Hush hush hush. #music #
- 14:25 Gotta Do Something With That Old CRT bit.ly/29Zj2c Haha I like this. It's funny. #
- 15:26 Baby Entertainment bit.ly/1cFkNn extremely, and utterly true. #
- 15:39 RT @laurenperry8 Praying for soldiers and families of the Fort Hood community. #
- 19:03 ugh. Just smashed a "walking-stick" bug on my tp roll. #
- 19:46 I subscribed to everydayasl's channel on YouTube bit.ly/rNR7k #
- 22:25 Daughter often says, "I know my numbahs." Puts me in the mind of KND. O.o #
- 00:17 Deleriou5? -- Find me in the River: Making me think and remember. #
- 02:16 Comics - Explosm.net bit.ly/4BY2lC This is funny! I like it. #
- 07:37 Son: "I wish we could have a holly jolly Christmas" "We can." (Explain meaning of 'Holly Jolly') "Oh." #
- 14:52 Just added myself to the wefollow.com twitter directory under: #carlsbad_nm_usa #christianity #sci_fi #reading #internet #sahm #
- 18:04 Hey, do you reckon if I changed my twitter name to "crapmykidssay" I'd get a whole slew of followers, too? #
- 18:13 twitpic.com/ob23r - Also, as equally randomly, I love the "landscape" thing on new digi-cam. From trip. #
- 00:12 this is really cool! I did my bg with it. icio.us/igtwcf #
- 00:36 Daughter is now making a tent. From the blankets off her bed and a chair. Common practice lately. "minister of very small spaces" indeed. #
- 01:09 I tried to lift the mattress in the front room. I couldn't. Daughter: "/I/ can lift it." Five min later: "I can't lift it." O.o #
- 13:12 Anna's discussion with 3yo cousin on phone is pretty much the cutest thing I've listened to in a long time. #
- 13:57 I laughed. RT @BarackBorat The Internets are amazing. Gibbsy is find biography of me, is written in 1935! Very niiiice. is.gd/4MhrP #
- 23:09 Daughter's current occupation: testing durability of structures made from Duplo. Product safety testing in her future? #
- 07:33 Most organized trip I've been on in a long time, but I'm glad to be home. #
| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| sunsaralyn goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Hermione Granger. |
| docwoo tricks you! You get a rotten egg. |
| enriana gives you 19 dark blue banana-flavoured nuggets. |
| felipethepea gives you 11 light blue root beer-flavoured gummy worms. |
| kaffeemadchen gives you 14 light yellow peach-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| nakedjack gives you 1 blue orange-flavoured pieces of chewing gum. |
| nightambre tricks you! You lose 28 pieces of candy! |
| peacekeeper tricks you! You get a block of wood. |
| tadiera gives you 15 white pineapple-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| the_maenad gives you 6 red raspberry-flavoured pieces of taffy. |
| whobyfire78 tricks you! You get a dead frog. |
| sunsaralyn ends up with 38 pieces of candy, a rotten egg, a block of wood, and a dead frog. |
| Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
- 21:27 RT @RaeWhitlock: Possibly the dumbest criminals ever. EVER. tr.im/Dxlf #
- 07:56 apparently, the kids' comp's power switch isn't working. Daughter asks to give the computer "some plugging." (she thinks it's unplugged.) #
- 08:35 Burger King Japan selling Windows 7 burgers | Electronista bit.ly/20swrf Only in... No, wait. Only in Japan. #
- 15:17 RT @LamontHiebert Here's a new blog I posted called "What if 2 Adult-White Males were Trafficked Every Minute." bit.ly/3DdUqv #
- 19:29 Near-bday girl: "Guess what cake I like, Will?" "I forget." "It starts with 'Strawberry on top.'" #
- 15:20 RT @kevinrose RT: @marissamayer Google and Twitter!! Yay!! bit.ly/183svN (maybe Nick's right. taking over the world). #
- 20:24 Anna: "Da Dee-dar mat is not fold up." ie "The DDR mat is not folded up." #
- 18:07 Read an article: "10 things not to tweet." about your kids was one. Sorry, not changing that here. atm, my kids=my life. Deal. #
- 19:15 RT @RaeWhitlock Plz RT . . . My wife @amyru has diagnosed w/ H1N1 today. Plz pray for speedy recovery and protection for me and Zoe. Thx. #
- 20:30 One of the old school "Map people" icio.us/ezxaiw #
- 23:01 my mommy is coming my mommy is coming my mommy is coming.... Can you tell I'm excited? 3 more sleeps. #
- 23:41 Write or die... NaNo, anyone? icio.us/hrklhv #
- 15:24 Of course -- Me: "The word for today is 'robots'. Maybe tomorrow it can be 'lasergun'." W: "I think it should be 'God' every day." #
- 22:11 Ok. I got my google wave invite. None to share yet. BUT. If you have it, add me thecookiemoma@googlewave.com #
- 22:25 It was pointed out to me. I left out an M in my googlewave addy. thecookiemomma@googlewave.com Sorry, folks. #
- 15:46 Found out this week that Anna is not speech delayed, she just has a larger vocab than "normal". And longer sentences. #
- 17:53 More amusement via child: He's playing Sims 2 on the ps2. He's laughing about his poor character's "pee-pee dance." O.o #
- 00:31 Can I bottle this question and wish for 10 years? Daughter: "Mom, can we do the dishes now?" #
- 22:37 RT @BarackBorat: I play punk'd joke on AARP, make Soc. Security payment in prune-juice coupons and Depends vouchers. is.gd/4kd2d #
- 23:31 As said by Nick: "The Guide!!" #
- 23:33 Helps to send the Link. As said by Nick: "The Guide!' bit.ly/1j2XE7 #
I don't normally do the quote lyrics thing, but I'm going to tonight. R heard a conversation that threw me into what felt like a 'cascade failure of faith'. The things that kept me from complete meltdown were the fact that my personal experiences with my faith are pretty unexplainable otherwise. And that I prefer the tenets of the Scripture I know to anything else I've heard thus far.
I'm not going to go into details of the conversation, because it's not important. The important thing is that it made me think of some of the more colorful passages in Ezekiel, especially those about false shepherds and the like. And, it brought back to mind two songs that have been running through my head all week. I think without these songs, I would've dealt with the situation less easily.
Never Dim -- The Waiting
I think I smell the sunset
Think I feel the close of day
Clean shaven correspondents
Are all crowded at the gate
Smell the oil from their torches
Their voices growing more irate
Sheperd's staves are crooked
Leading every crooked way
All the sheep lock their doors
Yeah, they're pulling down their shades
The faithful looking in their mirrors
The faithful growing old and gray
But I look at you
Your eyes are clear and bright
I see your face
It's an amazing sight
Your glory Lord
Is still a burning light
The light that all our faithless hands
Could never dim
Think I smell the sunset
Think I smell the death of day
People laughing at a funeral
People dancing at a wake
All the seasons blend together
This bird's losing feathers everyday
But I look at you
Your eyes are clear and bright
I see your face
It's an amazing sight
Your glory Lord
Is still a burning light
The light that all our faithless hands
Could never dim
And everybody's tired and scared
And begging unbelief
But you have yet to break a sweat
You're not afraid
You're not afraid
I think I smell the sunset
Think I feel the close of day
Sheperd's staves are crooked
Leading every crooked way
People laughing at a funeral
People dancing at a wake
Wine Red -- The Hush Sound
Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
It hung heavy on the tree above your head
This chaos, this calamity, this garden once was perfect
Give your immortality to me; I'll set you up against the stars
Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
Who shot that arrow in your throat?
Who missed the crimson apple?
And there is discord in the garden tonight
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
I cut the arrow from your neck
Stretched you beneath the tree
Among the roots and baby's breath
I covered us with silver leaves
Gloria,
We lied, we can't go on
This is the time and this is the place to be alive
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
The sea is wine red
This is the death of beauty
The doves have died
The lovers have lied
The sea is wine red (Gloria, we lied)
This is the death of beauty (we lied, this is the time and place)
The doves have died (Gloria, we lied)
The lovers have lied (this is the time and place)
Very different songs, but both have been mixing up in my brain, reminding me of two things. One, that I'm not the only person to ever feel this way, and that His character doesn't change even if things aren't the way I thought they were. Two, I remember that I've done some seriously stupid things myself.
- Mood:
disappointed
- 14:33 tinyurl.com/yakkut2 I don't normally post links, but this one talks about the changes in society I've been thinking about. #
- 14:44 Re previous tweet/update: Been thinking a /lot/ about church / evangelism / discipleship with this info. Somethin's gotta give. #
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the_maenad. Hope it's a great day.http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea
And, yes, I'm going somewhere with this.
Things about people my age and younger that get overlooked:
* We're night owls. I think a big factor is that folks my age got used to the internet's best time for speed being between 2-3 AM. So, we'd stay up to utilize that. From there, I think it just got more complicated. Or was complicated already.
* We can get information to and from each other more quickly, efficiently, and tersely than ever before. This leads to communities developed by the members, instead of easy acceptance of the limits of geography, socio-economic class or age, even. My group of friends, as I've mentioned, is online. We come from all sorts of levels of each. We share a couple things in common and that's what the "community" is based on. It works.
* Because of the ease of information and surface stuff, when we do go do something, we want it to be something that's deep / specialized / worth our time and effort. If it isn't, we'll just blow it off and get the summary later via text, IM or twitter from someone else. So, to attract our attention, it either needs to be new enough, or very high quality. Bonus points if it's both.
* Also because of the easy access of information, we get very specific and particular with who we spend our time / invite into our groups. It's not even "Music fans", or "genre fans". It's "Fans of this really obscure band that only plays on every third full moon." Or something similar. There are usually one or two defining characteristics for each set of friends. For example: I have my HP gaming friends, my Christian-I-went-to-YWAM-with-you friends, my Christian-I-grew-up-with-you friends, my ASL-class friends, and more. Some people fit into two or three categories, but early on, I learned that if you were in more than one category, I had to treat you a little different in each group. For me, this started very early. Like when I moved to Idaho-early.
* We tend to use whatever tools we've got available to make ourselves "heard". Blog, tweet, tee-shirts, texting, forum, facebook... We're used to having a say -- talking back. We're used to being able to change things by involvement -- with minimal effort. If we really feel passionate about something, it gets plastered pretty much everywhere in our "tech footprint". We blog about it. We tweet about it. We comment to others over IM / text about it. Sometimes, it's because we want a lasting record of it, and doing that and telling others at the same time saves us time and effort. However, I think it's because that's become our primary modes of communication. Watercooler chat has gone by the wayside when you can get that information delivered to a screen (tiny or big) near you. And when your friends of choice aren't near you geographically, necessarily, you put it out there for the world to see, knowing your friends will read it if they care.
* Sometimes, we're willing to sacrifice security for this community we've built. We'll share some personal things with the only other fan of "Third Full Moon" (my example band) that we've found for days. The connection is made quickly, strongly, and sometimes violently (not physically, but just strongly felt and strongly dealt with). A lot of us will go visit places we've never been because we know someone there. From these communities. Sort of like the old "Pen Pals", but more involved with less effort.
* We don't really tolerate intentional stupidity / ignorance very well. We're alright with someone who "just doesn't know" or "isn't aware", but if someone seems to know and disregards that knowledge, especially to the point of messing up a community, then they're labeled pretty quickly as "troll", or worse yet, "asshat" or something similar. This also applies to people who only have one tune to sing. If every post you ever make on a forum is about the Mets (and it's not a specifically tailored "Mets Forum"), then be prepared to be disregarded at the least and taunted at the worst. We're virulent and passionate, whether it be positively or negatively. And the nature of the technology and its dependence on words only makes that more clear.
Maybe someone else has done all this work and I'm just parroting him or her. However, I've been thinking about this in regards to the American church. I think in a lot of ways, the way it's set up by default seems to miss a lot of these things. Many churches have had the same focus for ten years. Even the more progressive churches change a few more times within that same span, but by their very nature need to keep a certain focus for a while. My generation (and those after me) honestly get very bored by this. There is value in waiting and quiet and patience, yes, but we find that to be a personal thing, done in the privacy of our own homes.
We'll put our money where our interests are. Easily. But when something seems to stop working, we want an update. A new version.
I posted those two links for a reason. The first has a video on it (at the bottom). It's long, but I thought it was very enlightening. It's Leo Laporte talking about how media has to change their ways because people my age (and younger) just don't really read newspapers or watch most television anymore. If you want to get your ad out there, then you have to go where the people are. I think there's a huge lesson in that for us as proponents of the Gospel. Jesus did just that. And really, he wasn't afraid of using examples that they'd understand. Fish. Bread. Grain. Even going so far as to quote some of their poets sometimes to get the point across. To keep up, I think we really need to understand the people we're talking to.
The second one was part of my reading last night. People who plant food know where and when as well as what to plant. I think unless we take at least a few of these to heart, we'll cease to be effective. Crop rotation. Changing methods to get more yield. The seed stays the same. The gospel stays sacrosanct. However, the way to get it out there has to change. Or we'll get left behind.
- Place:home
- Mood:
nerdy
- 18:53 very restless tonight. Dunno if it's 'rents coming later this month, R being gone, or general malaise. Ugh. #
- 23:59 "Mom, why it have a any?" Which being translated means, "Why is there a zero on this fan?" #
- 00:36 ♬ "A B C D E F G, H I J K M N O O P ..." Toddler song. #
- 15:28 #reasonsIlikeautumn : Halloween. Cool nights. Nice days. (Not blazing, not freezing) "Leaf-es." #
- 23:03 "I look at you-your eyes are clear and bright- see your face is an amazing sight-Your glory Lord is still a burning light" Waiting never dim #
- 16:01 I often have to look up terms my friends use on Urban dictionary. #embarrassingsecrets #
- 07:36 My darling son is somewhat obsessed with the Chainsaw-G. Thanks, KH2. O.o #
- 19:38 Man. The end of KH2 makes me cry. Again. Watching son's game. #
- 20:44 I favorited a YouTube video -- 17- Prelude to War bit.ly/2ZGZxv #
- 13:53 RT @Tadiera: RT @GoogleWaveNow: The ULTIMATE Google Wave invite give away! 1000 invites! Follow @googlewavenow & RT to get yours!! #goog ... #
- 18:18 RT @goowaveinvites: we got some google wave invites... you need one? RT this !! #googlewave #wave #
- 23:34 just voted "Yes want an invite" on "Do you care about this next generation email - GOOGLE WAVE?" vote too âž” bit.ly/ZlKzE #
- 23:39 Having trouble with my mouth again. Ugh. Can I have a transplant? #
- 01:21 bit.ly/22j0cw I love this song. Amazing song. Reminder of the good things. #
- 01:50 I favorited a YouTube video -- Karaoke - Sandi Patti & Wayne Watson - Another Time, Another Place bit.ly/2mN1sg #
- 00:06 Good bumpersticker idea from @enriana: "I speak 'Toddler'." #
- 20:48 Deleriou5? is making me happy right now. Old school stuff. Nice. #
- 23:09 Kind of sad. The Vagrant Cafe is planning to close. Lot of memories there. Thanks, C & J. #
I'm interested to see the results.
So, if you fit into the category, DOOO ITTTT.
- Place:home
- Mood:
curious
So, some of my thinking has led me to this. Be warned, this post will probably make everybody mad. Or has the potential to.
Freedom. I was always taught, dictionary definition aside, that it was giving everyone the space to do what is right. Ok.
Let me tell you what started my thinking process. I was reading this article (Who Will Speak for the Mothers? Glenn Beck. -- Pajamas Media) and thinking about my recent experiences and thoughts about motherhood, my kids and policies that affect all of us. I was thinking about how parents are treated and how kids are treated and just realizing that there are some things that ought to be sacred. Even if 'UR DOIN IT WRONG.' In fact, like I say, in someone's eyes, everything you do is wrong.
It boils down to the fact that people should have the right to be stupid. Yes, have consequences for their actions, but if they're not hurting another person (physically or their property--because emotional hurt is not really determinable by an outside source), then let 'em alone. Stupidity is its own reward, really.
My father used to say over and over again, "You can't legislate morality." It's really true. Making laws about how people should think and act beyond that "past your nose" line is doomed for failure or worse. (Worse, because success means tyranny, I think.)
It's more of going back to the basics.
- Mood:
mellow
- 22:55 Another mix from my demented mind:"Through the Eyes of Love" from Ice Castles, and Runrig's "Hearts of Olden Glory". Go figure. #
- 23:22 I think I need to start using this again. icio.us/pw3rdb #
- 23:30 There is a mosquito flying around me. I want it to DIE. #
I haven't come up with anything earth-shattering yet. Mainly, it's a slow process, thinking through things as they cross my mind. Our ideas about 'church' were just the first part of the process, I think. When you reconsider things you've thought were true forever and thought wouldn't change, it makes you take a good hard look at everything else.
There are basic truths I know to be solid, real, and forever. Those things, very basic though they be, are what I'm working from. However, I've seen that many people who believe those same core things believe a myriad of different other things, sometimes different at different points in their lives. (You know, the whole "different river" argument.) Maybe there won't be anything that makes me completely twirl around in circles and redesign everything, but it's sure an interesting experience.
I don't think I'm doing the unnecessary here. I think it's something that everyone, no matter what their core beliefs are, should do from time to time. Heck, you may even find a reason to change the core somewhat. But 'I know in Whom I have believed', and that's enough for me.
Who knows where this will lead, but it's happening.
In other news, I am a little annoyed at the pharmacy we went to today. I got a ride to Wal*Mart and got Will's medication, and they only had four doses of it. Told me to come back for more tomorrow. I tried to explain that I'd really rather come on the weekend when my husband could take us, but that wasn't happening. So, I'm pretty sure they were completely out or something. I can't think of another reason to put us off like that.
Tomorrow, I am taking Anna to the preschool to see if she needs speech therapy like Will. She has much better speech than he, but her rs are nonexistent, as are the s' in the prefix blends. "Star", therefore, turns out to be "tah." I think she'd benefit from the school environment in other ways, as well. She'd learn to speak up around others outside her family and she'd learn to take turns. Or learn that every other preschooler wants a turn to be 'first'. (That's been her big thing lately. "I be fuhst.")
It's kind of silly, but I've been playing FF8 again, trying to beat it, and this time through, I've been near tears several times thinking about the implications of the storyline. Things like their discovery of who raised them and all that entails, as well as the convoluted relationships between Squall and Riona and those closest to them. (I have a theory on that one, but I don't want to spoil the storyline for anyone who cares, so I'll keep it to myself. However, it makes for an almost soap-opera like mess.)
I've been enjoying it, though, so I guess that's a good thing.
I switched from Firefox to Opera recently. I still use Firefox for a few things, but Opera is handling things more quickly and efficiently. I don't know what the problem is with Firefox lately, but I haven't been exceedingly happy with it. So, I put Opera as default and just switch over for those things I need. I don't like that it doesn't have a good "delicious" widget, but maybe the "opera link" will do what the other will. I dunno.
- Mood:
good
Soon, I'll put up some of the things R and I have been talking about in reference to the traditional western "church" and people our age and younger. We're realizing, as I've said, that a lot of the way church is done doesn't catch many of that age group. So, we've got kind of a backwards look to it that we're considering. I'll probably post a lot of that here when we get it more structured and worded in ways people can understand. So far, the people I've talked to about it have been intrigued.
- Mood:
excited
In the time of the Prophets in scripture, Elisha healed a man named Naaman. He told him to go bathe in the river, dip seven times and be healed. Ok. He was. Good. After that, he offered Elisha stuff for his troubles. Elisha turned the stuff down. Well, Elisha's servant Gehazi decided he wanted the stuff. So, he tracked Naaman down and told him that Elisha had changed his mind. He came back, and gave the stuff to Gehazi. Gehazi was found out and punished, yadda yadda yadda.
What's been bothering me is this: Did Elisha acquiesce to the request Naaman made of worshipping Jehovah in Dagon's presence at least partially because of Gehazi's behavior?
I'm sure the primary reason it was allowed is because "the Lord looketh on the heart." Yes. We all know this. But I got to thinking. How did Jehovah appear to Naaman when the primary servant of the go-between is corrupt and twists things for his own ends? He probably couldn't see the difference between the religions, except for the fact that Jehovah was powerful enough to heal, whereas Dagon wasn't. So, he figured the same manner of worship would work.
I wonder if God let that be because He knew how it looked?
- Mood: curious
- 22:38 I rated a YouTube video (4 out of 5 stars) -- Google Wave Made Simple bit.ly/BEOeu #
- 15:00 So, my daughter is awesome. And adorable. Right now, she's eating a tortilla and butter (one of her favs). Butter first. XD #
- 16:35 New @trillian update shows FB statuses every few minutes, even those not new. Anybody else having this error? #
- 00:52 Arrrrgh. Bonny Talk Like A Pirate Day to all ye scurvy dogs and bonny wenches!!! Now go walk th' plank!!! #
- 13:33 *checks* Nope. Still sick. #
- 22:16 RT @wilw: If a large, flightless Australian bird cries a lot and cuts itself, would you call it an emo emu? #
- 12:59 This rings so true. "Love was a master strategist, he realized. It took you when you least expected it. -- (lj)Whitling #
- 13:00 This rings so true. "Love was a master strategist, he realized. It took you when you least expected it. -- (lj)Witling (corrected) #
- 22:02 Aaand... I think I'm getting R's headcold. What joy, what bliss... >.< #
I just finished up a 'State of the Blogosphere' survey from Technocrati. It made me realize I haven't done a proper update in a long time.
So, I figured I'd do just that; I'd let folks know what's been going on. At least some of it.
R is working for Schwan's. He likes the job on the whole, but there are things that are making it less tenable as time goes on. Which seems to be the case with everything but missions and art trading. Go figure.
- William is in first grade, and we started him on some medication for ADHD. The doc and I chose the smallest dose of the lowest dose meds. We'll work our way up if we have to when it's time to change. It seems to be having a very good impact, which I'm very glad of.
- Anna is finally learning to go potty. I just gave up this week and did the whole dress without diaper thing, and it's been amazingly successful. I'm glad. We're also gonna take her to a screening at the preschool for her speech. She's got a bit of trouble with a few letters. Nothing huge, but if she can go to preschool to get help, I'm all for it.
- I've been doing some writing. Most of it is for a particular audience, which I know most of you do not belong to, but I've also been working slowly on a book called Daymaker. It's a science fiction novel about a race of aliens who are trying to assist humanity along our merry way, but are ambushed by their own mortal enemies. The Daymaker is the human liaison with the aliens, and she has to help 'save the day', for lack of a better description.
- Earlier this summer, we had some drastic stuff happen to us which, combined with changes in Richard's job, led us to stop going to church. The gist of it is that we felt like we needed a smaller community. However, when R got transferred to a different depot, his schedule changed so that he's only home on Saturdays and Sundays. So, I spend my Sundays with my husband. I miss choir somewhat, but not enough to miss that time with R.
- Shortly after all that, I started going back to the mental health for counseling. They had me on some medication for anxiety / depression for a little while. It messed up my mind so much that I couldn't think straight. I was nauseous, dizzy, all sorts of fun things. So, I stopped that. Still talking to them about whether to try another one or just wing it. My money's on the latter, because of the reaction and the fact that my primary focus is these kids. If I can't parent, I'm ... it's not worth it. That was the point in the first place. I'm thinking that learning new coping strategies and keeping my communications up with friends will be the biggest help.
- Speaking of friends, I've found a great group of folks on one of my games. We chat via IM, and voice sometimes. We're a pretty disparate group, but we really get along well. It's a good thing enriana, peacekeeper and several others are in the group.
- I've been thinking a lot about basic faith. R and I have been tossing some ideas around about a new kind of church for those of us in our age range. It'd be completely different from regular Sunday morning service. I dunno if it'd ever come to pass, but I do know it's made me think about how we as technologically aware young adults (say 35 and under) connect with those who have similar ideals. And the old stone church house just isn't the right fit anymore. Part of this comes with the realizations from the other situation, and part of it's been coming for much longer than that. I'll probably do a post soon with some of our thoughts.
That's plenty for tonight. We're supposed to get up and do a few things tomorrow, so I really ought to be in bed.
Goodnight.
- Place:home
- Mood:
contemplative
- 15:11 Today is one of those days that proves the insinuation of the Season When Thunder is Awake. #
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