day 19: don't change.

what do you hope never changes about you?

i think that i hope that i don't become resistant to change. at least not more than i already am. seneca once said,

"we should every night call ourselves to an account; what infirmity have I mastered today? what passions opposed? what temptation resisted? what virtue acquired? our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift."

i want to, each day, die to myself.. and that requires serious change. so, i hope that my constant desire to improve myself will not change.i hope that i am constantly talking to God about where i'm falling short and constantly wanting to be better today than i was yesterday. we know that on this earth, there is a time for everything, including change (and trust solomon.. he thought about it a lot haha), and i'm no exception to that rule.

was that a cheating answer?

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day 18: if i had my little way...

What is something you wish you could change about yourself?

i procrastinate. in fact, some of my best work has been done as a procrastinator. seriously. i think it's actually that i work better all at once than in stages, and the "all at once" is usually at the last minute as well. some days, though, i wish i could go to sleep or lay around instead of catching up on chores. actually, right now is one of those times. i have laundry to do.. but i'm not doing it. and i will be so unhappy in a few hours when all i want to do is hang out with my honey and i have to do the wash. but... i'm lazy sometimes. it's been bad for the past few months. really bad.

but ugh... it's 75 degrees and i went for a walk, and now i'm sunbathing on my couch. you just can't let moments like this disappear. one day i will have kids to chase around, or i'll be working or something equally important and/or time-consuming, so i have to enjoy these moments while i have them. i'm sure my friends with kids will agree -- one of my buddies back home has a kiddo that just turned 1 and i'll bet you if she could go back, she'd sunbathe more often. just sayin.

i'll bet my life sounds amazing.. usually i'm cooking or cleaning something, or chasing after my adult-child (husband) and his schedule. but my little joy in the mid-afternoon is the sun shining through my window. and i'm enjoying it.

anyway. i'll regret this sunbathe while i'm doing laundry and cooking and cleaning my house before john comes home from work haha.. so don't get too jealous. 

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challenge day 17: cravings. (& things)

so, before we get to springing forward, i have to write about this crazy week that we're having. as you may know, john is about to go to a training so he's been mentally preparing for this week. but things have been so weird this week, i think it's calming him down haha. first of all, we had an awesome weekend with our friends... saturday we "just danced" and "michael experienced" our way to 1 am, then after church on sunday we went out for a very... "rowdy" lunch at a local diner. and here comes monday. picture this. 

we're driving. behind a waste management truck (trust me, you don't see where this is headed). we're slowing to turn.. and so is the truck. i'm in the middle of teasing john about something when, from the top of the truck jumps a RAT. to its death. right in front of our eyes! what?! i say it jumped because how is a rat going to fall from the TOP of the truck?! he's not.. it was probably compressing the garbage and he had to get out of there. or he was ratatouille and couldn't take anymore of the eating garbage to survive. whatever it was, it was a suicide jump. (he probably thought he could make it to the grass.. but no dice!) it was a big rat too... very disgusting. it bounced. 

so here's to a great week, you start out by watching a varmint suicide. 
then tuesday was less entertaining for y'all, but he had to spend the day in orange county doing some very boring, very detailed work and didn't get home until almost 6pm! what the heck. i get it.. that's not big deal to y'all. 

then today, i woke up to check the time and our power was out.. so i went back to sleep. i figured my internal clock wouldn't let me down too badly. (well played, right?) well, i was right.. we started getting ready about half an hour later than normal. showers in the dark. he couldn't shave.. makeup done in a dimly, "naturally" lit mirror. etc. etc. etc. and (of course) we couldn't open the garage so for a brief moment i thought we'd be stuck in the house... but unfortunately we're intelligent and he unplugged the device and opened it manually. gah. 

and for dinner tonight? since he got to pick all the meals for the week... rotel. this week can only get cooler. 

also, come back for what i'm loving wednesday in a few minutes or so! :)) now... on to the business.



Something you crave a lot.

source

carbonation! i think i could live without soda mostly if i could find another good carbonated drink. i haven't liked any of the carbonated waters i've tried so far, except one from kroger brand maybe? and we don't have that here. but every time we go out, i order water but have to take a sip of my husband's soda to get my "fix"! we don't buy sodas really because i won't drink a whole can and john usually chooses gatorade or tea. but i do think about it. that's weird, i know.
what are you constantly craving?

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