i've only been doing this for a week, and i'm already addicted. i've been making a mental list of "blogworthy" items for the past three days. pardon the disjointedness.
1. Can i say that people should have to get a license to own and operate a cell phone? i hear that "amen." how many of us have wished for this very thing but have done nothing to instigate change? i am seriously going to petition for instating a bureau of cellular devices (BCD), not unlike the BMV, to regulate the owning and operating of cell phones in the public sector. one would have to undergo "cellular ed" classes and/or pass a written test as well as an operational test during which he/she must employ the proper use of the phone in everyday scenarios. for instance, use of a cellular device while attending a church service, movie theater or meeting of any kind would be strictly prohibited and (at the very least) punishable by revocation of cellular rights. specifically, answering the phone while exiting the church service, talking on it in an outdoor voice directly outside the door and then finishing the conversation while walking back into the service would be punishable by death. (okay, i know it's a little severe, but think how many people would think twice before, um, being dumb, the next time they get a phone call!)
2. on sunday, i made $43 in ten minutes! i took a couple of bags of old clothes to plato's closet, and they took a small stack of clothes and gave me my cash. what a great way to make (or at least re-earn a percentage of) money. i'm definitely doing that again.
3. i got home from the store to find i was locked out of my house. keys? in the backseat of my friend's car after attempts to placate the crying, screaming infant behind me. friend? on her way home 15 minutes away with no cell phone. parental units? not quite off work yet, 15 minutes away. spare key? on back porch behind two locked gates. neighbors with spare key? not home. house church meeting? to take place in approximately 15 minutes. so i called my friend's apartment, talked to her husband, told him the situation and asked him to send his wife back when she got there. then i called 411, got the number of the dunlap branch library in hopes that they hadn't closed two minutes early, asked my mom if she was coming straight home and then waited on my front porch playing blackjack on my cell phone (this, i must add, is one of the best and most proper uses of such a device). i didn't make it to the meeting but did notice with much astonishment that there are apparently lots of people who live around me. and not just ones who deal drugs to indiscreet addicts with babies in the backseats of their cars. and all these neighbors seem to have little boys with bikes who like to beat each other up. fascinating.
4. at the end of the day, i was reading through II Samuel. David is singing a psalm, and he says in verse 37, "You enlarge my steps under me, And my feet have not slipped" (NASB) or "You broaden the path beneath me, so that my ankles do not turn" (NIV). we all know the path is "straight and narrow." but in this case, it doesn't stay narrow, once we take that step of faith. He doesn't make it look easy, but once we've gotten over the hard part of just doing what we know we should do (going where it looks a little scary or unstable), that's when it gets so much better.
just the thoughts that have been cluttering my brain through the weekend. thought it best to get them out and clear some much-needed space.
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