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Thursday, January 12, 2006
Monday, January 09, 2006
Negative trumps positive
Well, it finally happened. On Monday, we made some rather aggressive programming changes to His Kids Radio. Among those were weeding out a block of programs we call The Classic Connection - programs from the 50's or so, long ago and far away... Not bad, but definitely dated language, etc.
The classics hit the biffy this weekend. And, on Monday, the "how could you ruin my Saturday night" brigade was out in full force, letting us know in NO uncertain terms that there is now nothing worth listening to on our station, since we killed the ONLY programs that were worth their time.
Ok - I might be blowing that up a little for comic effect...
And, today, I found out that my blood sugar has crept up again. Not a great deal, but the Doctor asks that I pursue one of my favorite hobbies - poking my finger twice a day for the next week or so, before I see her and we discuss it.
My question is... why do the negative voices always sound louder than the positive? We'll get a ton of mail about how HKR is impacting families, but one negative comment makes the rest of them fade away. In so many areas of life, one little negative can do so much damage. I've been free of the diabetic meds since I started losing weight, but one high blood test can make me forget all of the progress over the past two years.
How can we learn to roll off the negative, and let the positive do its important healing work in our hearts and minds?
Lord, help me stuff my negativity in some hole someplace and never let me go looking for it again. Help me to be an encourager, not a card-carrying member of "The Friends Of Job." And, help me to process the negative by remembering who You are, and let Your positives always outweigh their negatives.
The classics hit the biffy this weekend. And, on Monday, the "how could you ruin my Saturday night" brigade was out in full force, letting us know in NO uncertain terms that there is now nothing worth listening to on our station, since we killed the ONLY programs that were worth their time.
Ok - I might be blowing that up a little for comic effect...
And, today, I found out that my blood sugar has crept up again. Not a great deal, but the Doctor asks that I pursue one of my favorite hobbies - poking my finger twice a day for the next week or so, before I see her and we discuss it.
My question is... why do the negative voices always sound louder than the positive? We'll get a ton of mail about how HKR is impacting families, but one negative comment makes the rest of them fade away. In so many areas of life, one little negative can do so much damage. I've been free of the diabetic meds since I started losing weight, but one high blood test can make me forget all of the progress over the past two years.
How can we learn to roll off the negative, and let the positive do its important healing work in our hearts and minds?
Lord, help me stuff my negativity in some hole someplace and never let me go looking for it again. Help me to be an encourager, not a card-carrying member of "The Friends Of Job." And, help me to process the negative by remembering who You are, and let Your positives always outweigh their negatives.
Saturday, January 07, 2006
In the new year...
A lot of my friends have made New Years posts on their blogs, so I guess that it's time for The Captain to add his list of things that probably won't happen, but are still worth striving for...
==> I want to finish my CD this year. Even if it's at 11:59:59.999 PM on December 31st. I was hoping for March, since folks always ask when they hear me at the Father Daughter Banquet, "do you have your CD yet..." but I don't think that will happen.
==> I need to keep working toward understanding what "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it" means. Nowhere close to it yet, but working on it.
==> I want to get better at my craft, being PD of HKR, which is The World's Best Job.
==> I'd like to learn to play the Chapman Stick, although that won't happen since 1) they cost way more than I'll ever be able to afford for an instrument, and 2) even if I had the money to buy one, the wait is around a year for them, so it still wouldn't happen in 2006. But hey - I did mention that these things probably won't happen. :-D
==> My weight remains an issue. I'm back too close to 400 lbs, and need to get focused again. I also need to find exercise that I can and WILL do, like making a place at home to be able to use my stability ball and weights. And I MUST find a water class for the sake of my knees.
==> 2006 would be a cool year to have knee replacement, if I hit my goal weight...
==> I want to get better at my chosen instruments: whistles, windsynth, bass, keyboards. I'd like to really learn how to use MIDI, and to really learn the programs that I use for making music. (Reason, Sonar, Acid, and even the cool new features in Band In A Box)
==> I'd like to get back to storytelling and maybe magic as well, although all of the above may preclude that...
==> And, at the bottom of the list, the thing that should be at the top - yea, even should be the entire list. I want to return to my first love. I want to follow Christ. I want to stop stumbling through my days doing everything but the one thing I should do - keeping my eyes on Jesus. All these other things are crapola compared to knowing Him more this year. I want to return to that intimate place I was when He was walking through my mom's death with me. When He was so real to me that almost every thought included Him at the center. To re-establish my worldview with Him at the center as He should be. I want to seek Him first, then these other things.
So, there it is. If only one of these things happens, may it be the final one - to draw closer to the One who made me. That thing alone will put all the others in their right places.
==> I want to finish my CD this year. Even if it's at 11:59:59.999 PM on December 31st. I was hoping for March, since folks always ask when they hear me at the Father Daughter Banquet, "do you have your CD yet..." but I don't think that will happen.
==> I need to keep working toward understanding what "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church and gave Himself for it" means. Nowhere close to it yet, but working on it.
==> I want to get better at my craft, being PD of HKR, which is The World's Best Job.
==> I'd like to learn to play the Chapman Stick, although that won't happen since 1) they cost way more than I'll ever be able to afford for an instrument, and 2) even if I had the money to buy one, the wait is around a year for them, so it still wouldn't happen in 2006. But hey - I did mention that these things probably won't happen. :-D
==> My weight remains an issue. I'm back too close to 400 lbs, and need to get focused again. I also need to find exercise that I can and WILL do, like making a place at home to be able to use my stability ball and weights. And I MUST find a water class for the sake of my knees.
==> 2006 would be a cool year to have knee replacement, if I hit my goal weight...
==> I want to get better at my chosen instruments: whistles, windsynth, bass, keyboards. I'd like to really learn how to use MIDI, and to really learn the programs that I use for making music. (Reason, Sonar, Acid, and even the cool new features in Band In A Box)
==> I'd like to get back to storytelling and maybe magic as well, although all of the above may preclude that...
==> And, at the bottom of the list, the thing that should be at the top - yea, even should be the entire list. I want to return to my first love. I want to follow Christ. I want to stop stumbling through my days doing everything but the one thing I should do - keeping my eyes on Jesus. All these other things are crapola compared to knowing Him more this year. I want to return to that intimate place I was when He was walking through my mom's death with me. When He was so real to me that almost every thought included Him at the center. To re-establish my worldview with Him at the center as He should be. I want to seek Him first, then these other things.
So, there it is. If only one of these things happens, may it be the final one - to draw closer to the One who made me. That thing alone will put all the others in their right places.
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
So, what did you do?
Happy New Year, everybody! Welcome to the first post of the new year!
This will have more interest for my co-workers at CU than anyone else...
This year, the University gave us the week between Christmas and New Years off. Quite a lovely thing, really. So the big question around here, is "what did you do with your week off?" We found out about it sort of at the last minute, so there wasn't time to make big earthshaking plans, so it's been interesting to see what folks did with the time off.
As for the Olsoni? Well, we spent the week sewing for the most part. Yes. I said sewing. And I said US. Vicki is the one who taught me to use a sewing machine and a serger, and we really enjoy working on sewing projects together. So, Monday was spent cleaning the sewing room, which had become a junk depot over the last few years, and looking through our stockpile of projects in process and fabric, as well as checking our supplies to see what we had to work with. Tuesday was a trip to Saginaw to meet my aunt Debbie (Mom's sister) for lunch at Red Lobster. We were delighted to find that my aunt Lori also was able to meet us there, and we had a lovely lunch and a long chat to catch up.
Wednesday, the sewing began. We found 7 vests (and a couple others) that we had laid aside and never completed, so we began with those. So, between some movies, lots of sewing, and some good rest, that is what we did with our week. We had two vests done in time for New Years day to wear to Church, and are wearing new ones today as well. The last two are waiting for a bit more stitching and finishing (topstitching, buttons, buttonholes, etc) and then we'll be done with 7 new vests. Sweet...
Especially sweet when you consider that we haven't done any serious sewing since before my mom died. Or for a year or two before that. So it's been a l-o-n-g time since we were able to sew. And it reminded me of so many hours of spending time together, Vicki and I and "the girls" downstairs. Lots of good memories. And now, new ones to add to them. Nice...
So, C-stone folks, feel free to comment: What did you do with your week off?... :-D
This will have more interest for my co-workers at CU than anyone else...
This year, the University gave us the week between Christmas and New Years off. Quite a lovely thing, really. So the big question around here, is "what did you do with your week off?" We found out about it sort of at the last minute, so there wasn't time to make big earthshaking plans, so it's been interesting to see what folks did with the time off.
As for the Olsoni? Well, we spent the week sewing for the most part. Yes. I said sewing. And I said US. Vicki is the one who taught me to use a sewing machine and a serger, and we really enjoy working on sewing projects together. So, Monday was spent cleaning the sewing room, which had become a junk depot over the last few years, and looking through our stockpile of projects in process and fabric, as well as checking our supplies to see what we had to work with. Tuesday was a trip to Saginaw to meet my aunt Debbie (Mom's sister) for lunch at Red Lobster. We were delighted to find that my aunt Lori also was able to meet us there, and we had a lovely lunch and a long chat to catch up.
Wednesday, the sewing began. We found 7 vests (and a couple others) that we had laid aside and never completed, so we began with those. So, between some movies, lots of sewing, and some good rest, that is what we did with our week. We had two vests done in time for New Years day to wear to Church, and are wearing new ones today as well. The last two are waiting for a bit more stitching and finishing (topstitching, buttons, buttonholes, etc) and then we'll be done with 7 new vests. Sweet...
Especially sweet when you consider that we haven't done any serious sewing since before my mom died. Or for a year or two before that. So it's been a l-o-n-g time since we were able to sew. And it reminded me of so many hours of spending time together, Vicki and I and "the girls" downstairs. Lots of good memories. And now, new ones to add to them. Nice...
So, C-stone folks, feel free to comment: What did you do with your week off?... :-D
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