I know. I know. I said I wouldn't be around (online) much because the old laptop can be frustratingly slow and I'm going to be super busy with getting the great room ready for whatever repairs are on our immediate horizon but then I saw this:
I immediately thought it would be interesting (maybe even fun) to read one section a week (there are 52 weeks in the year) and since it's only $1.99 I simply had to share it. If you do grab a copy (click the pic to get your copy), maybe we can read it together? I'm going to suggest this to my children and some of my friends in real life too.
Happy New Year, Everyone!
Thursday, January 01, 2015
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Not Quite How I Wanted to End the New Year
I’m typing my last post of 2014 on my laptop which is about
to be shipped off to the manufacturer for repairs. We will be boxing it up and sending it away
tomorrow (Wednesday, 31 December). I’ll
be using my older, much slower, laptop mostly to keep my inbox from becoming
too cluttered and apply for jobs.
That’s what I’ll be doing in between other things. The largest room in our home, which I call “the
great room” because I think it’s great, had a leak in the roof. That was
quickly patched up and with plans to do more than a quick patch job when the
weather is warm again. But then we
noticed a problem in the floor. There’s
a squishy spot and since the floor is carpet over concrete, it’s safe to say
that the floor shouldn’t be spongey.
It would seem the
leak has been working its way into the foundation of the floor.
So today Marc leaves for home (Chicago) and tomorrow, on top
of sending off my laptop, we’ll be packing up all of the holiday decorations so
we can then move all of the furniture out of the great room. Odds are the carpet will need to be replaced
and all of this is going to create quite a bit of chaos in our home. Instead of having a quiet, reflective lead in
into the new year, it’s going to be work, organizing, cleaning, packing up,
unpacking, etc.
On the plus side, I’ve long wanted to rearrange the
furniture in the great room and Rob has resisted it. However, with everything
being taken out, it only makes sense that we rearrange things at least a
little.
So I expect I won’t be online much between now and maybe 14
January. Assuming the floor repairs are completed by then, I’ll have rearranged
my favorite room in the house. If not,
then I might not be online a lot because there will still be a lot that’s being
done in our house.
Until the repairs (floor and laptop) are completed, we will
be in a state of chaos and limited online time.
I’ll be reading. I’ll be writing.
And maybe I’ll find pockets of time in which I can quietly reflect on
what has been a truly wonderful, it not necessarily life altering, year.
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