a photo a day

as my one faithful reader (hi tami!) knows, i tend to start blogs and abandon them for lack of time and/or interest.  i get all excited about keeping tack of something or writing about something else and then life gets in the way or it's not as interesting as i thought it would be.  well, i am going to try again...and this time it's going to be interesting!  for me and for you!  i started a photoblog that for now is called a photo a day and can be found at photokam.blogspot.com .  i am committed to posting (at least) a photo a day for the next year, it may have something to do with that day in particular or it may just be a photo...but they will all be my photos (unless otherwise noted.)  so with that, i redirect you to my most recent posting ...as it has not been the best start to 2009 and the post will tell you a bit more about why.  but remember there's always a silver lining which sometimes takes on a bright orange hue!

Some good words about new beginnings

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.The old has passed away; behold, the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17

Sometimes letting the past be in the past is a hard thing to do. If you're attempting to create new habits or to let old habits go, be reminded that having the spirit of Christ in you allows you to be daily transformed - press into Him as you embark on the journey of this New Year!

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Happy New Year

Wow…can you believe it’s 2009?!?  I am having a hard time believing we are now 9 years into the “new” millennium.  Crazy!!  I have been sick since the day after Christmas so I haven’t had much time to think about resolutions and stuff like that.  There are definitely things I want to do this year, both things to improve my life and to have fun!  But you are going to have to wait to find out what that is…:)  Until then, here’s to another year gone and the fun of another to come!

Procrastination

Wikipedia defines as a type of behavior which is characterized by deferment of actions or tasks to a later time. Boy, do I have this one down pat. A deferment of actions... putting things off! That's pretty much what it is. Sometimes we try to rationalize it because there is something else to do that might be more important...but in all actuality it's still deferring the task it's still putting off the other thing that needs to be done. Well, I wish that this wasn't among the things I know well...in fact I would really like to be bad at procrastinating. Could it even be possible to forget how to procrastinate?!? I am hoping that my new planner that came in the mail this week will help.

a case of the Mondays!

Definitely a case of the mondays today!  So glad there are only 2 more minutes left!  I know it's because I had to work some this weekend and didn't get done what I wanted to.  Oh well.  I am not going to be too hard on myself about it.  It's only Monday afterall...got a few more days to get things done.  I did get through a big stack of mail today, and put down a deposit for a new hot water heater, and go to a meeting for an organization that I volunteer for...all that plus work!  I guess it could be a good day after all!

it's 1 am and I am still awake

So if you know me, you know that I don't sleep well. The problem is not so much in the actual sleep, but more in the dreaming. I have some pretty crazy dreams on a pretty regular basis and they are not too fun. In fact some might even call them nightmares, as they can be quite oppressing. The thing is when i have a bad dream, it makes me not want to sleep. Sleep for the rest of that night is basically shot...which is the raw end of the deal because these dream have a tendency to happen only an hour or so into the night. But eventually I fall back asleep. Sometimes it happens again in the same night and sometimes there is a reprieve. But the thing about it is, I just don't know. I never know when they are going to strike, so I am always kind of waiting in anticipation...preparing myself for the worst. It is difficult to describe the dream except to say that it is oppressive...like something is pushing me down or holding me down. I have tried to analyze it and I have no answers. But this is just to set up the fact that as a result of these sleeping issues I have tried to be better about things like getting into a routine at night and not drinking too much caffeine. Well, I have been very good about the caffeine thing, but you must know that I love Coca Cola Classic (for those who lived through the New Coke fiasco.) In fact I have been so good that I began to drink a can of coke yesterday and had to put it down before finishing half of it. But today I finished the other half in the morning and then at dinner had some more. First rule broken--more than a half a can of coke in a day. Second rule broken--after 2pm!! Well I hear you caffeine...I know your effects on me. I will put you back in the place you belong tomorrow...if you would please let me sleep tonight! Lesson learned. :)

New beginnings

We are beginning a series at church based on the book The Beautiful Fight by Gary Thomas.  It is providing both the structure for the sermons as well as the material for our small group time. I will share more about it in the future, but there were five points our pastor wanted us to take away from today's sermon:

1. The man Christ Jesus is in Heaven.
2. What He is, we will become-He will transform our lowly bodies.
3. The man Christ will return from Heaven to Earth.
4. Our citizenship is in Heaven.
5. Our mission field is the Earth.

Small group begins tonight as well.  I have really enjoyed being a part of this group for the past year.  It has changed a bit over time, as it should, we all change and so the things we participate in change as well...but it has consistently been a place of support, growth, and refuge for me.

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