New Beginnings
I mentioned a few days back that we were putting carpet in one of the upstairs rooms. We had been talking about it for a while trying to figure out if we should paint and put the hardwood floors in here. This is technically a bedroom, but I turned it into an office, where I study and do homework. It is away from everything and I can close the door if I need to. The idea of putting carpet in is that it will make it warmer in this room, sound proof it a little more and make things better, but as in anything there is a process you go through, removing old junk and throwing things away that you either don't need or haven't used in a while. This process can be painful as I found out today...
As I looked through old tax returns and seeing how we did financially in years past comared to today. It was enlightening. First there was more money, but when you make more you tend to spend more on stuff that is really not that important. Clothing for instance, there is something called investment dressing. You buy things that never seem to go out of style, instead I have looked through my closet at times and figured I must have been on drugs to buy some of the things I did The thing is when there isn't a lot of money you tend to think about the purchases you make. Also when there was more money there was less peace. Well what it is when yiou are making the big bucks there are a lot of demands and stress on you, so you don;'t enjoy the money as much, there isn't time, because you have to go and take care of this or that, be at some meeting or something., work if someone calls in sick, you end up working a lot of extra time for the money.. Making the money sometimes can take a toll on your health as it did mine. Your marriage so what do you do,?
Now on to the other stuff...Matt was in the military for over twenty years He spent time as active duty Navy, a Gulf War. Desert Storm Vet, he has a lot of military type records, we need to store those, including certificates, newspaper clipping ect. We have books, both of us like to read. The funny thing about us when we go on vacation, our idea of a vacation is setting somewhere peaceful with a good book. There are many times when we go to visit his dad in Tennessee, we go to the bookstores, do a little sight seeing, go out to dinner, but most of the time is spent Matt on the front porch reading and I am on the sun porch reading. Thank heavens for the Kindle, I love it. I can store many of my book on the Kindle and I can take it any where. Its been to the doctors office, and other places I have had to wait. I even have Bibles on it so that I can study. The room is fukll of books, some of them I am getting rid of because at the time they were on sale somewhere, I thought that they were a bargin. Turns out that some of them aren't worth the paper they are written on. I could do better than that myself. Turns out I found a novella hand written that I did back in the late 1980's to early 1990's. I need to type and put on a disc. That might happen now that my computer skills are better. I could have done that and should have done this sooner, in 2010 and 2011 most of the time I was busy with schoolwork and trying not to give in to self pity. That is a horrible all consuming thing self pity. because things haven't worked out the way you thought they would. Even though you know God has a plan, you still get depressed impatient with things. Next the art supplis.As many art supplies as I have I should be a world renound artist, I dabble, especially in the summer. I like to sit outside and draw and sketch. I did a little of that last summer until the storm blew the patio table away. I have to to work on that.
When Ri'Hana was about 15 she wanted a quilt made from jean material. I cut out the squares and started hand stitching it and then I stopped. I found all of that ibn my sewing kit. Maybe I will get in finished before she is thirty or my eye sight gets woorse. All of these things I love to do but somehow I hadn't been in much of a mood to do them. It just occured to me what a waste of time being full of self pity is.
For now I make a new start. That had something to do with posting the lyrics to the TV show "One Day At A Time", there was something in the song 'Don't you worry non, just take it as it comes one day at a time...
As I looked through old tax returns and seeing how we did financially in years past comared to today. It was enlightening. First there was more money, but when you make more you tend to spend more on stuff that is really not that important. Clothing for instance, there is something called investment dressing. You buy things that never seem to go out of style, instead I have looked through my closet at times and figured I must have been on drugs to buy some of the things I did The thing is when there isn't a lot of money you tend to think about the purchases you make. Also when there was more money there was less peace. Well what it is when yiou are making the big bucks there are a lot of demands and stress on you, so you don;'t enjoy the money as much, there isn't time, because you have to go and take care of this or that, be at some meeting or something., work if someone calls in sick, you end up working a lot of extra time for the money.. Making the money sometimes can take a toll on your health as it did mine. Your marriage so what do you do,?
Now on to the other stuff...Matt was in the military for over twenty years He spent time as active duty Navy, a Gulf War. Desert Storm Vet, he has a lot of military type records, we need to store those, including certificates, newspaper clipping ect. We have books, both of us like to read. The funny thing about us when we go on vacation, our idea of a vacation is setting somewhere peaceful with a good book. There are many times when we go to visit his dad in Tennessee, we go to the bookstores, do a little sight seeing, go out to dinner, but most of the time is spent Matt on the front porch reading and I am on the sun porch reading. Thank heavens for the Kindle, I love it. I can store many of my book on the Kindle and I can take it any where. Its been to the doctors office, and other places I have had to wait. I even have Bibles on it so that I can study. The room is fukll of books, some of them I am getting rid of because at the time they were on sale somewhere, I thought that they were a bargin. Turns out that some of them aren't worth the paper they are written on. I could do better than that myself. Turns out I found a novella hand written that I did back in the late 1980's to early 1990's. I need to type and put on a disc. That might happen now that my computer skills are better. I could have done that and should have done this sooner, in 2010 and 2011 most of the time I was busy with schoolwork and trying not to give in to self pity. That is a horrible all consuming thing self pity. because things haven't worked out the way you thought they would. Even though you know God has a plan, you still get depressed impatient with things. Next the art supplis.As many art supplies as I have I should be a world renound artist, I dabble, especially in the summer. I like to sit outside and draw and sketch. I did a little of that last summer until the storm blew the patio table away. I have to to work on that.
When Ri'Hana was about 15 she wanted a quilt made from jean material. I cut out the squares and started hand stitching it and then I stopped. I found all of that ibn my sewing kit. Maybe I will get in finished before she is thirty or my eye sight gets woorse. All of these things I love to do but somehow I hadn't been in much of a mood to do them. It just occured to me what a waste of time being full of self pity is.
For now I make a new start. That had something to do with posting the lyrics to the TV show "One Day At A Time", there was something in the song 'Don't you worry non, just take it as it comes one day at a time...
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