Celibate and Sane: I'm a Handicapped Handyperson

October 27, 2010

I'm a Handicapped Handyperson

In the past few weeks, I've been getting back into some handyman chores around the house, which I had been neglecting for some months. With a recent increase in my energy levels (helped by some slightly better sleeping patterns and less stress), I've undertaken a few neglected items.

One of the latest chores became a family activity and we now boast a five shelf bookcase in which we have placed several hundred of our DVDs. It's tidied up our previously overflowing and frankly quite messy set-up, but we've actually been up to place them in some kind of order. I'm not anal enough to want to place them into alphabetical order, but at least we've broken them up into G & PG rated, oldies and everything else.

Today I put up two strong bird-perches on our back verandah so that our visiting feathered friends can have somewhere to sit, especially in the rainy weather.

I even managed to clip the worst section of the front hedge which should more rightly have been called "the crazy and out-of-control green monster thing that may have eaten our postie."

My next chore is to make a four-line indoor clothes line for our laundry. We have only a small airer on which to place our clothes in wet weather. With three of us sharing a house, it has proven very inadequate, not to mention a nuisance in such a small space. I've worked out how to make it and have purchased the clothesline, the hooks and the dowel. Let's just hope my skills can match the design in my head.

I won't bore you with the remainder of my chores - there are several which I can't complete because I'm physically not able, but have a good mate who will help out with those, one of which is to remedy a major drainage issue.

That was my exciting events of the day, which included a visit to a major hardware store where for the first time I found an employee who actually gave a damn about what I wanted and went out of their way to find it for me ... amazing!

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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.”