looks like they've updated their website recently. i like it as far as websites go, though the picture on the "life and work of the church" link looks more like a yoga pose than someone praying. but clicking through, it's rather nice.
which reminds me that i'm still waiting for the order i placed with forward movement for a subscription to forward day by day and other interesting prayer-related goodies. which sounds kind of strange, but anyway...they should be here any day. i had a subscription when i lived in texas. not entirely sure why i stopped it - well, probably because i wasn't reading it. (same reason that i let my lucky magazine subscription lapse - information overload.) which, in the tangled web of the way that my mind works, reminds me that i was going to look for an anglican (not episcopal) church in the area...or maybe celtic christian, just for something a little different. it's too bad the church that i really like is so far away.
but anyway...half an hour later (and a list of churches to try from theredbook.org pasted into voodoopad) i suppose i should head toward bed. start working on those "small changes" you know...
43folders.com is a blog i read daily (or whenever updated). he's got an interesting perspective on new year's resolutions.
The point, as ever, is that change is not to be found in the play-acting and sense of personal revolution that the resolution — good-natured as its intention may be — demands of us. The real cipher is to just get into the habit of noticing the small things that might bring about outsized improvements in our lives. read more >>
sounds somewhat similar to the tipping point to me. what small changes can you make that would create a huge difference in your life?
some of mine:
- going to bed at a decent hour (say 11:00) and getting up a bit earlier (say 15 minutes) each morning
- laying out my clothes the night before
- using the "do it now" principle and not putting stuff off (dishes, laundry, putting clothes away...)
babysteps...thank goodness for flylady
this weekend i stayed home and did absolutely nothing really...and it was great. okay, so i did make 10 valentine's cards (and cleaned up), and g and i did go to henry's last night to see robin henkel and smokestaxx. but today we just sat around and caught up to current on diggnation podcast episodes and messed around on our computers.
i'm still hunting for software or a combination of software pieces to implement gtd. i think my main problem is that i really need it to be seamless between home and work and mac and pc. i know i'm not the only one - i recently joined the macintosh_pims@googlegrops.com and have heard a few of the people there request the same. i've started using plaxo and it's great to keep home and work pcs synced, but right now they only support mozilla and thunderbird on the mac. It'd be great if they could come out with something that would work with either entourage or ical/addressbook. i'll take either. probably entourage, though, as i don't think that ical's todo section is all that advanced (e.g. able to assign multiple categories to one task). i did discover voodoopad, which is great. it works with wikis, which is something that i discovered when i was messing with gtd_tiddlywiki. to quote the about file, it's like my own personal world wide web. thus far, it's been nice for collecting links and information that i want to reference later. but the hunt is still on for the ideal...
i finally made my way through the stacks on my desk and found that a lot of the stuff that i had was trash or stuff to be filed. once i got through that, there wasn't much left. thank goodness. now if i can just keep up with it. now i have enough room to spread my yoga mat out on the floor - and with my small tv in the guest room (the one that has the vcr), i can work out to yoga videos. which, i'll have you know, i've done twice now. (just to stop the laughing i hear ringing across the internet)
i still have some boxes on the bed to finish going though, but i don't have anyone visiting for a while, so it's alright. if course, i still have to decide whether i want to host people for the balboa rendezvous. it might be kind of nice just to go and come home and not have to worry about shuttling people around. lately i haven't been lucky enough to host people who have cars. and the last time i got to listen to people bash my (rather fuel-efficient, thank you very much) suv. which i got partly because i have to haul their butts around when they're in town. you'd think they'd have the courtesy to do it behind my back and not while they're sitting in one. i was tempted to ask them if they'd prefer to walk the rest of the way home in the rain.
i finally managed to get the mt upgrade to work. of course, in between last week and today i also was in new york for a few days. amazing what leaving out a folder will do.
new york was a ton of fun. we had tickets to lion king, the producers, and wicked. lion king was the best - the puppetry and costumes were amazing. wicked...well...you begin to realize that the most maligned people may just have had bad pr. it was great. the producers was funny, but the others were just awesome.
we ran the gamut of weather - sun, rain, snow, warmth, bitter cold...it snowed and iced over the last day we were there. of course, that's the day that mom and sis decided that they wanted to visit ground zero (new meaning to that name!), the empire state building...at least i picked up a warm hat and scarf along the way. i need to get better gloves. knit ones just don't cut it. not at all. after an adventure on the subway, we walked back to where we were staying through central park...where i slipped and fell and hurt my knee and wrist. at least i had my knee brace with me...and my wrist is feeling much better today.
six and a half hours on a plane coming back...i'm ready to be at home for a while.
just when i feel content with my life and how things are going, i'm being pushed in a different direction. sure, i think i've gotten complacent, but i was rather happy with the old-shoe feeling i was having. at least it's just one part of my life where this is occurring. it's not a total upheaval, which would probably cause me to have a nervous breakdown.
still, at least i can see it coming, and i prefer that. those who know me know i'm a planner. i don't mind my plan changing as long as i know i have a plan. truth be known, i've kinda reached my potential in the position that i'm in. i'm starting to look for other things in the company to help with - other areas that could benefit from a change in procedures or a bit of organization. talk about dangerous. ;) but i'm motivated by challenges and the sense of accomplishment that comes when they've been conquered. that feeling's almost addicting.
now i can see a glimmer on the horizon, and it's starting to excite me.
that's the rhythmic arts festival to the uninitiated and what i did for new year's weekend. the dances are over, my hostees are gone...now it's time to recover. lots of dancing and lots of mess around my apartment. still need to get the tree down. washing to do...
too bad i don't feel like doing much more than sitting on the couch and vegging. hopefully i can talk myself into alternating 15 minute sessions so i can get a few things done. meanwhile, i'll miss g while he hangs out with his friend visiting from out of town.
today and yesterday were mass-rent-entering sessions interspersed with check writing for stuff that goes out at the beginning of the month. it should slow down in time to finish packing up the rest of our 2005 files. i'm looking forward to the middle of the month again. ah. quiet. i hope.
oh. saw king kong on monday. aie. the bug scenes still freak me out just thinking about it. i'm a big weenie already. i didn't need to see that! otherwise it was a great movie, thought i have to beg to differ with jack black's character's last assessment of the situation ("'twas beauty that killed the beast.") no, you jerk. it was greed that killed the beast. *your* greed. but yeah. it was a great movie - well filmed except for the obvious blue-screened chase scenes. ;)