I have noticed something very disturbing lately. I am spending way to much money.
Ten dollars here, few dollars there and boom the monthly total is huge!
I really have to put myself on cash only system. I carry my debit card anywhere and I use it all the time. I trick myself into thinking that I am using cash by carrying it in my pocket but I always pay with debit.
This is going to be hard, I have to force myself to bring lunches to work. It really ads up.
Just because I don't have time to think about anything else to write about.
Random things about me
I wish I was a better speaker
I don't care for Star Wars, I would watch it but it is quite low on my "COOL" scale.
After having two girls I want to have a son, and I hope he has green eyes.
I hate shaving. I always cut my neck.
I wish I was slightly fatter. I'm working on it by eating fatty foods.
I can't sing. I wish I could. I still do sing however, which drives Julia mad.
I don't like to swim. If men were meant to swim God would give us gills.
I love to read.
I have a scar on my forehead and green eyes. I am not Harry Potter.
I don't like scary movies.
I drink more coffee than water.
I am a morning person.
I love cartoons
I love cookies. I eat a lot of cookies.
I like to cook but I don't cook enough.
If you are following Canadian politics, you know that the left is trying to take over the power. They are also trying to put a guy who was voted down by majority of Canadians and who has no confidence in his own party as the next prime minister.
All of this is done with the help of a party whose sole purpose is to break down the country.
With this pathetic move the Liberals are showing their true colours. They are power hungry and are willing to go to bed with the devil to get it.
Lately the conservatives haven't behaved to well either. Harper is making serious mistakes almost daily. I'm quite disappointed with them all. What did I expect, they are politicians after all.
"In the age of the cell phone and the internet it is probably more difficult than before to protect silence and to nourish the interior dimension of life”
ZENIT News
So very true. Add to this two little girls and working late and there is hardly any time for anything. Surprisingly I still manage to find time to watch TV shows. Hmmm I think I have my priorities messed up.
When was the last time you have read your Catechism? Was it just today? Was it last month? I am assuming here that at some point you did in fact read the Catechism. If not, no better time than now.
After I read it for the first time cover to cover I've been reading it in small bits here and there. It has been a while since I picked it up and I find that I miss its genius. It overflows with spiritual wealth. Every paragraph is like food for the soul.
I think it is time for me and maybe for you too to pick up this treasure again and start reading it daily! This is what I hope to do from now on.
Lately I have been thinking about how much technology is a part of my life. I wake up, check my email, read the news on my iPod Touch while still in bed. I get up and download netcasts. Load them up to my iPod Nano. I listen to music on the bus. I twitter from anyplace I can. Every day all day there is some sort of a gadget in my hand.
This self imposed dependence on my infant cylons is starting to look more and more like an addiction. In order to avoid further spiralling down this technological dependence I have decided to create a day free of all gadgets.
What better day for this than every Friday. We are already encouraged to give something up on Fridays, it being a day of penance, and giving up meat is too easy with all the yummy vegetarian dishes I enjoy. To give up technology on the other hand is a really big deal for me. It would mean a silent bus ride (maybe I'll read some spiritual book!) It will mean not listening to music at work (This one will be VERY tough. It's what's making my day go by faster and keeps me awake!) It will mean that I have to be silent with myself. Something I have been neglecting lately.
The plan is that from sunrise to sunset on every Friday from now on (excluding Solemnities and Feast Days) I will not use my iPods, I will not use twitter or any other social network, I will not use my computer at home (no choice at work) and I will not check my personal emails. Also no radio, no TV and generally no gadgets! (If I had a cell phone I would also include that.)
I hope that this experiment will give me more opportunity to reflect on my life and what's really important. I hope that the silence will create a more prayful mind set and that I will end up being less dependent on my gadgets.