A thought for you, on Thursday

Am I really sticking to my schedule?? after my vent about not being on one...hmm...=)

So twice this week I have been asked what I like to do for fun. Is it bad I'm almost stumped by that question?? Potentially. I do have fun, not like in college kind of fun: hanging out till late with friends just killing time "destressing" from all pressure of school work etc.; but still have fun!

Why do I feel somewhat insecure about that question too? Probably because 1) I'm almost stumped by it, and we all know that well adjusted happy people do stuff for fun! and 2) I fear some type of judgment.

Anyway...Here are my thoughts on what is fun:

Hanging out in good company eating good food, telling lots of jokes, sharing lots of laughter, and stories
Going to Andrews, North Carolina
All staff river day with Snowbird Wilderness Outfitters
Being outside
Being silly with kids
Going out for a night on the town
Trying new things
New experiences
Playing around on my guitar
Writing/Reading and Discussion
Yard Sale-ing
Giving gifts
Catching up with folks on life
Listening to new music!

There ya go....just a few things that are fun to me, and for me...
I've been reading another book lately. This one is called Sabbath . It's been good to read and I think maybe I was stumped on the question regarding fun because I don't really rest anymore, because there is a type of rest/rejuvination in doing things that are fun, because they mostly cause you to experience joy which is rejuvinating.  Here is a short quote to follow up on that thought:

"Much of modern life, of course, is specifically designed to seduce our attention away from this inner place of refuge. When we are in the world with eyes wide open, the seductions are insatiable. Hundreds of channels of cable and satellite television; telephones with multiple lines and call-waiting, so we can talk to more than one person at a time; fax machines; mail, e-mail, and overnight mail; billboards; magazines; newspapers; radio. Every stimulus competes for our attention: Buy me. Watch me. Try me. Drink me. It is as if we have inadvertently stumbled into some horrific wonderland.

 Sabbath time can become our refuge. During the Sabbath we set aside a sanctuary in time, disconnect form the frenzy of consumption and accomplishment, and consecrate our day as an offering for healing all beings."

All this is of course done in Christ: 

"Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest." 

So much for a schedule!

Have you ever met one of those type-A's? You know, the kind that are ALWAYS five minutes early because early is on time for them and actually being on time is late?? and they also have everything planned out perfectly to a "t", every hair in place, every rule followed and kept with such ease and grace, and their kids probably grow up with their rooms looking like something out of the pottery barn for kids or the land of nod...on and on...you get the picture...and you are probably thinking of someone in particular right now =) I know I am.

I am not so much a type-A. Sometimes, I like to think that secretly deep down I really am but God's providential hand trumps my secret "type-A ness" every time, therefore making me a type-B personality...isn't that stuff kind of relative anyway?

When I compare myself to an extreme group of type-A's I'm definitely a type-B, but when I compare myself to an extreme group of type-B's I look more like an A...what's a girl to do, is there a type-A/B?? Maybe it's called type-C?  What do you say all you psych. majors??

Anyway, I had this plan, a schedule of sorts, to only blog on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Sundays. Each day's post was to be a particular topic....well as you can see, if you've followed my blog at all, my plan has been thwarted, ironically enough by my schedule...schedule of daily living. I have no consistent "Crafty Creations" for my Tuesday posts, rarely a "Nanny's Nook" post, and occasionally I have a thought for you on Thursday...today just happened to be Tuesday, and I just happened to have time to post something, but since it's Tuesday it should be a crafty creation I'm working on...yet I have nothing; nothing new, nothing progressed upon - evidence for a true type-B.

So, the secret type-A person inside me is very irritated, frustrated by the fact that my plan for the blog, and crafting, has not fully come to fruition and I consider giving it up all together because it can't be done perfectly. As I have planned. However, here I am, blogging - making myself appear as a type-B who joyfully blogs when she has the time, accepting the fact she lives in a fallen world where man's plans are bound to be trumped and the Lord's only prevail. Which I do believe and know that doctrine but still get very frustrated...

Anyway, what's the point of this blog besides my stream of consciousness regarding personality types and my frustration with mini-failure, except to to say that my plans for crafts have been placed on the back burner, due to life and commitments, as well as my plans to become Super-All Natural Beauty Product Woman Of The Year due to unsuspecting chemicals mixing on my face causing fiery reactions (Don't worry, I'm fine, just don't let baking soda and benzyol-peroxide repetitively touch your skin...)

so much for a schedule after all...


*if you sense a bit a bitterness in this post you are looking into something that is not there, at least not at the moment, I admire a classic type-A for all their perfect accomplishments and thank the Lord I don't worry too much about being so absolutely perfect...*