Questions from answers

We are making room in our house to accommodate the next child coming, so we have to clear out a room that had my wife’s craft supplies, our computer, my tools and my photography stuff in it. Finding room hasn’t been all that easy, but we seemed to find some empty spaces. It would make sense to throw out some of the stuff I have saved for someday when I will look at them again. I think 90% of the stuff I will never look at again, so why do I keep it? I know part of me think I’ll have all this free time to look at all this stuff I kept and the other part is that somehow, this stuff makes up who I am. I do tend to go on some binges where I end up chucking a bunch of stuff out. So I don’t think I am really that bad, but yes in many ways I am pack rat:)

A kind of funny thing happenned yesterday. I wrote the above on Friday. Yesterday, Saturday we were going through all the Christmas cards we received this year, my wife asked if I wanted to keep some. So I picked a few that I thought were the best of 2004, It turned out to be the pictures some people sent and about 3 actual cards. Then my wife says ‘your going to keep all that? ‘ Anyway the pack rat syndrom reared it’s ugly head, but I did keep them. (for now)

Here it is Friday, January 6 2005. Another year. What will this year bring? Well around April 1 we are expecting our second child. It will be an exciting time, and yet a challenging one as we try to raise 2 kids. At this New Year time, it seems popular to make resolutions, I have never really felt the need to do them and most of my friends don’t either, so maybe I should try to find someone who actually does makes a resolution. I think as Christians, we are hopefully trying to be more Christ-like in our walk everyday. Of course we often fail, but I think that becomes more of our daily resolution. At church our pastor handed out some spiritual resolutions, we could pick one of the questions and challenge ourselves. The question I chose was what time waster in your life could you spend less time at. I kept thinking the internet, in many ways I feel like I spend a lot of time on the internet or the computer in general. I don’t really see it as waste of time though, I rarely play games, and usually I am reading message boards to read people argue about theology or current affairs. I am also a news junkie at heart and about curious about glogal affairs. I find it increases my head knowledge, but in that time I could be serving others and meeting their needs. I am trying to be more consious of how I spend my time, but it’s not easy when I have spare time at work to surf the net.
It was ironic this morning, our internet was not working at work. Which came to be what I was wishing for, but I was really trying everything to get it to work somehow. Anyway it’s back now, and I’m back here on my blog, not wasting time of course:)
Happy New Year!