Celibate and Sane: Re-Arranging Furniture & Some New Photos

July 21, 2010

Re-Arranging Furniture & Some New Photos

Today we had a 2nd-hand desk delivered which I purchased last week. We've had to put up with a broken desk for several months now, and so when I spotted this one at the Salvation Army store, I thought it would fit in quite well, and it wasn't too expensive. This one is longer and means that both JD and I can sit down together when he needs help with his homework.

So several hours today I spent putting everything back together again, including the computer, printer etc and finding places for most other items. In addition, I managed to find an hour to program a new universal remote we purchased since we have a talent for regularly destroying our TV and DVD remotes. And yay, we can now access everything via the one remote.

And just when you thought I couldn't find more to do, I managed to snap a couple of photos as well.

Now having no further use for an old shelf-stand, we've placed it over the mini-freezer (which we also had to move) and presto - a three level viewing platform at the window for our cats. They LOVE it! Since they rarely get outdoors, they can at least be voyeurs.

At the top is Cinnamon, second shelf is Larci (who has his own blog as a superhero cat), and at the bottom is Stanley, the elderly gentleman of the house.

And just outside the window today I spotted a couple of native flowers and a hungry laughing kookaburra, which I am enclosing for your enjoyment.

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)

Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”