Katy’s Weblog
It’s time to read another mystery for my entertainment, so I picked out The Nine Tailors from the local library.
I was not disappointed. Always loved Sayers writings. However, I don’t understand a lot of the cultural context. For example, there are many references to bell ringing of church bells – pealing. I just skip the parts that give details of the art of ringing.
“The older you get, the more important it is to not act your age.” – I would like to live by that.
“How old would you be if you didn’t know how old you are?” – I would be 35 and just go do things. I often feel limited by my age now – “I’m too old for that.”, “I might get hurt.”, “It’s too much trouble.”, “What if I get a heart attack while traveling abroad.?” I never had those thoughts when I was 35.
Playing Scrabble with my family:
“Is ‘eWorked a word?”
“Well, there’s Elance, eHarmony, email, elope. Sure, eWorked is a word.”
36 points for that new word in the Scrabble dictionary. :)
This year I have learned that procrastinating is not worth the pay off from procrastinating.
So why do I procrastinate? What are the payoffs?
– having fun doing other things instead of the thing that I put off doing.
– doing easy things instead of tackling the difficulty of the thing that I am putting off
A blessing by Jean Vanier
May all your expectations be frustrated.
May all your plans be thwarted.
May all your desires be withered into nothingness
That you may experience the powerlessness and poverty of a child and sing and dance in
the love of God the Father, the Son and the Spirit.
I am an ENFP.
“ENFPs are basically happy people. They may become unhappy when they are confined to strict schedules or mundane tasks. Consequently, ENFPs work best in situations where they have a lot of flexibility, and where they can work with people and ideas. Many go into business for themselves. They have the ability to be quite productive with little supervision, as long as they are excited about what they’re doing.
I needed some mindless reading, and my genre of choice is a good whodunnit mystery.
Remember that old TV show Murder She Wrote? I read one of the books “Domestic Malice”. The writing is not particularly great, but the basic storyline is decent. It’s easy reading, and while it is not a page-turner, it at least kept my interest. The ending had a bit of a twist but nothing very intriguing. Wishing again that Agatha Christie was alive…
“Why do you behave so well in Bible drill but not in worship?” I asked a fifth-grade boy.
“Because I don’t want my mom to get mad at me in Bible drill.” He replied.
Even as adults we are often motivated by external forces without any inner change. We can act good and proper in certain circumstances but when no one’s looking or when it doesn’t matter, our true self comes out.
I attended the funeral of Ron D, an 80-year-old very devoted Christian man. I didn’t talk to him much when he was alive, but I sure learned a lot from him today.
One testimony stood out to me. A man said that when he was a young man, Ron told him to read the Bible. “Why would I want to read that crap?” He replied.
My sister is into jewelry. She tries hard getting me interested it in. “You order it and it’s mailed to you in a beautiful box,” she says excitedly.
But honestly, jewelry is not something I get excited about.
What I look forward to in the mail are books! When I order a book from Amazon…