A New Week

Tonight I'm adding my 1hr at the gym to my daily activities, since I've yet to actually start that like I said I would. Surprise, Surprise. I've lost just about all the weight I think I'm going to lose from my surgeries though without exercise, and I'm not going to be satisfied until I'm model material! har har

Even though it's that time of year to talk about Tithing again, I much enjoyed yesterday's service. Took an entirely new look (for me) at the idea of money and who it belongs to.

Also, I started a new book "Did God Write the Bible?" by Dan Hayden. I'm interested to see what he has to say since my stance on the matter is that the bible is man's interpretation of God's word, as he (man) understood it. I started reading this so that I'd still be able to dedicate an hour or so to my time with God daily on Sundays and Wednesdays, as those are the two days I'm not working on my "Experiencing God" bible study. It only has activities for 6 days of the week, 5 of them you do on your own and then one is done one day a week with your group. Even with actually going to the church on those days, I still felt the need to have *my* time with God just between the two of us.

Of course, I'm still reading fiction as well.. rereading to be exact. Since I do so love to make sure all my books are well loved and well read! Last book in the Kushiel's Legacy series finally went to softcover and so I'm working through the set again as not to miss any of Jacqueline Carey's wonderful "hidden" references. Typically her references of greater significance are going forward, but there is of course those that go backward too.

Finally made up my mind to butcher my Mac... splitting up my HD and putting Linux on it. Unfortunately, some of the programs I expected to be on my computer with the re-installation of OS X are no longer there... I.E. Garage Band. *cry*

I want to be able to play LotR Online again, as well as WoW Scape... so I need a non-Mac OS to really run them smoothly. SecondLife will be thankful for my putting it on something that will run it more smoothly as well, because boy does my lag bite the big one!

Ta-Da!

Not planning on posting anything substantial considering that it's getting close to 2:00a.m. and I am tired. But...

I did want to at lease post something as I plan to begin using this again. Just for myself really. Of course for myself, actually. LOL

This week has been a good one, in comparison to a long string of bad ones. Not good because of anything specific that happened really, and much of the week was honestly a struggle to get through - but the point is, I got through it and kept on trucking.

Getting off the narcotic pain medications the military doctors were keeping me on as "stable" was a really good choice on my part. The difference in how I behave now, verses just a couple of weeks ago... AMAZING.

While I do not call the following "New Years Resolutions" I will agree that they are resolutions, they just happened to be around New Years because of when I came off the medications and started to *care* again. So, without further ado, there they are..

1) Spend 1hr per day cleaning.
2) Spend 1hr per day in prayer (I.E. Bible Study).
3) Spend 1hr per day exercising.

For the past week I've been doing good on all but the exercising. LOL Well, that's not exactly true. By 1hr a day, I meant 1hr in the gym on top of whatever else I do. While I haven't gone to the gym, I have been very active as I've been walking for 1/2 the day or more on many of the days this past week as I've gone around on my own shooting pictures in different places. So, my legs have certainly been getting a workout!

I'd like to start keeping track of my Christian walk, but I'm not sure yet if I'm going to do that here or start a blog specifically for that. Either way, I'd like to keep track of my progress (both ups and downs) over time. Something to reflect upon.

What spurred much of what I'm trying to do was my reflection on how the times I've been most happy were often the times I had the least. Certainly, I do not mean like now were I am powerless to deal with or fix anything that's going on because of... reasons. What I mean are the times where I had balance in my life, because my life was simple. Family, Church, Work, Relax. Rinse, wash and repeat.

Okay, time for this bonzo to get to bed. Um, love you Dear Diary? lol... g'Night!