1.30.09 - Yay Friday!

I don't know if I have always been this way, but I think I am turning into a "rut" type of person. Between my various internship experiences and now my contract job, I see a certain set of patterns that emerge within my week. I grocery shop on Monday, I fill my gas tank on Thursdays, take the dog for a good walk on Saturdays.

On Fridays we usually get a late new patient at work. By the time I finish doing the new evaluation on that patient, they are tired, I am tired, and it is late. I go home from work, I pack my car, run the dog around a bit, and head for Colorado. So on Friday I generally have no motivation to make dinner. There is a great little sandwich shop just a block from my house where I will sometimes get a turkey and swiss sandwich with a delicious cookie. This Friday however, I was the lucky recipient of the leftover bowl of salad from a lunch ordered in for a work meeting. For a change I actually ate something that didn't require any effort but was actually somewhat good for me!

New Project - 806pm

I will first be honest and say I am borrowing this idea from a story I heard on NPR. I cannot find a link to the story, but the idea behind it was to snap a photo each day at the same time. In this way, a person could capture the day-to-day memories throughout the year. A main point in the story was that most photos are staged, capturing special events like a birthday, a sporting event, a holiday party... But with these daily pictures one could see the more mundane, but not necessarily less significant moments that make up a year.

I know I will not be diligent about posting my pictures each day...and I am not sure if I am going to post a week's pictures at a time, or just a few with short explanations. But at the very least I figured this might be a fun thing to try.

My appointed time will be 806 pm. Tonight at that time I was laying on my couch, watching a dvd, and petting my dog, Mattie.

Patterns

I am buried deep within the quest to organize my life...

Despite having lived in Cheyenne for two months now, I am not unpacked. I promised myself I would unpack with purpose - with a critical eye to examine what I have, why, and what I can pass on. Slow slow slow this process has been!

Among my slow unpacking, I came across an old journal. While reading through some of the passages (from only a year-ish ago) I saw two startling things:

1. I am not a very regular journal writer (or blogger as you can see!).
2. Much has changed in just a year or so

Inconsistent though I may be - I will not give up!

As far as change, I find it both encouraging and discouraging all at once. While, of course, there are many things that should and must change, it is difficult to see those things that have, but I never wished to. There are countless examples of prayers answered: marriages, families growing, jobs secured...but at the same time, a year ago there were friendships in my life that I could never imagine being any different. In such a short time I feel I hardly know how these friends are doing anymore.

Fortunately, a lot can change in a year....