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  • coffeehousereader 2:12 pm on December 26, 2009 Permalink | Reply
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    I Splurged! 

    I was blessed with some Christmas money from a relative and I got a….BIBLE. No surprise there.  I’ve had a Bible type of fetish for a few years now, but I told myself today this is THE LAST ONE! Yep, no more.  I now only own 2 NLT’s and the new one I bought.  The other one I have I’m going to donate to my favorite bookstore. I really want to simplify the books I own.  This Bible is leather (o.k. I’m a total sucker for bonded leather and having it look all pretty).  I got the Amplified Version since I like it and it’s outside the box compared with NIV, KJV or The Message, or whatever the newest translation is.

    Today was spent having my parents and grandfather over for breakfast.  That was fun.  Beforehand got up early to meet my friend and her mom for her coffee.  She recently moved back home so it’s great having her near by again.  Now I just have to wait for her brother to also, move back home.  After breakfast and watching model airplanes fly around in a park near by I went to lunch with my husband and then on to Borders where I truly splurged.  Now I can relax.  No more Bible fetish for me.  Yes, I am a strange creature.

    This afternoon is going to be spent resting.  I’m determined to finished Sleepwalking In Daylight by Elizabeth Flock.  When I first started it I thought I wouldn’t like it, but now that I’m over half way done with it I can’t put it down.  I’m eating it up as much as I ate up, Me & Emma by the same author.

    I can’t believe 2010 will be here in less than a week.  This past year has flown by so quickly it feels like I was just catching myself writing 2008 accidentally.  I wonder how as a society we’re going to say 2010? Are we going to abbreviate it as ‘10?

    Tonight is going to be spent resting and having a glass of white wine.  I don’t drink that often, but sometimes I like a small glass. Very small. Yes, I’m a completed light weight.

     
    • Krys 4:13 pm on December 26, 2009 Permalink

      OH! I keep meaning to put Me and Emma on my list. It was good?!?

    • Addie 10:59 am on December 27, 2009 Permalink

      If you wanna downsize your books, take all the books you’ve read and donate them to a library and/or school. Thats what I do. I leave a box by my bedroom door and when I’m done with a book I put it in the box. When the box is full , I take it to a school or library. Libraries do need help with getting that contemporary stuff in.

  • coffeehousereader 10:20 am on October 25, 2009 Permalink | Reply
    Tags: Bible, Fetish, Habits, Laundry   

    Creature of Habit 

    I’m only in my early 30’s and I’m already a creature of habit.  I have my little routine comfort zone I relish in.  I enjoy my morning coffee shop time to help wake up, drink something hot and energizing.  I get to spend some nice R & R time with my hubby before going off to the salt mines that take up most of my M-F life.  I do laundry on Sundays.  My washer sounds like a spaceship taking off.  I like taking naps on the weekends so I can try and be a night owl for once.  Sometimes I like to enjoy a fun drink at home (entails a splash of flavored vodka with sprite) to relax while I read.

    I’m hoping to make a habit of walking around my future playing field once I move to my new digs.  I’m looking forward to a more peaceful neighborhood.  Looking forward to a window seat to dream at while writing………

    A habit I must get back into is reading my Bible.  I procrastinate on it so much.  I’ve struggled with having a Bible fetish.  Rather a fetish of buying them…..not being satisfied with the one I own.  Wanting it in leather and gilded pages, wanting it with indented book tabs, wanting a Study Bible, wanting one with no commentary, etc.  It’s ridiculous and I fear I inherited that fetish from my dad who collects Bibles more so than I do.  Of course he’s in ministry so he sort of has an excuse to have so many.  I even struggled with which translation to go with.  That took up a good number of years of my life.  A waste of time to struggle over.  I mean by now I do know there is a difference between all the different translations. Thanks to Joyce Meyer I discovered the Amplified Bible which I find very readable and doesn’t make me want to giggle out loud like the Message.

    So I’m hoping to incorporate some new habits that will better my health and spirit.

     
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