January 10, 2011
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status update
in theory i despise facebook. but once again i resort to status updates as a blog entry because i’m too brain weary to do anything else.
Jocelyn R. Plett:
is exhausted! Asher was up all night with a start of a cold (and me too). i think i slept a total of 3 hours.
cant sleep just now because the tiling guy is bashing the kitchen counter-top tiles out.
is looking forward to a mostly brand new kitchen. woot, woot!
but hoping it wont take all week to finish it up.
was so stoked to read the 4th book in Margaret Whalen Turner’s “The Theif” series, but thinks it’s not nearly as good as the first three. (sorry for that spoiler for anyone else who wanted to read it).
has good intentions of a) eating rice, vegetables and fruit only this week and b) walking daily to the market to buy them.
asked my husband last night before bed where he saw himself in 10 years… only to have him answer that he had no idea… and that he hoped he’d be employed. haha. The question, unfortunately helped keep me up late into the night.
imagining myself at 50 with a teenager in house was a huge motivation toward not having planning anymore children.
thinks being re-stationed in the Congo or Afghanistan might be an effective weight loss plan. (Apparently i’m too comfortable and stree-free here and therefore have gained a significant amount of weight. alas.)
can smell malathion wafting in from my garden.
and Josh watched the first 2 episodes of Glee season… 2? 3? (the latest one) and decided it was a bit too… “current” and that we preferred the 80s music of last season.
is contemplating the dilemma of dressing a 30 year old body in clothes that dont look like their in 30-year-old-denial (aka 20 year old clothes that fit snug around a post-20-year-old-body) nor look too i’ve-given-style-up-as-a-lost-cause in favor of comfort/hiding less than lovely parts/thrift.
has a SUPER busy 1 year old who gets into everything, only likes playing with ‘adult’ things, “gabs” on the cell phone whenever he can get his hands on it, climbs up on everything, hates going to sleep, doesnt like cuddling either, and is exhibiting strong mulish characteristics when faced with any obstacle to his wishes.
should really go for that walk if i want to make it back in time to go out to pick up judah from school.
Comments (5)
Well, it was very nice to see your faces and hear your voices in our church service yesterday. So much better, in some ways, than just reading a long update letter. I’ll be praying for you as you parent, and worry about your future and your weight etc etc…sound so familiar to most of us. Brenda Funk
Had to laugh about the comment Josh made about where do you see yourself if 10 years. Sounds like the same answer his brother gives.
I can honestly say I never expected him to stay in this position for this long, life is so full of surprises. If we plan too far ahead we may just end up disappointed. 
Oh, I meant I didn’t expect Nath is his position for this long, not Josh. I just assumed Josh would be a pilot the rest of his life. Isn’t that what he loves to do?
Karina asked me that same question (where I saw myself in 10 years) in the summer of 2008 when I had a good job with decent pay, a nice almost fully renovated house, newer truck and enough “toys” and that question started the process of our getting rid of everything and going into overseas missions with MAF. It can be a very dangerous question to ask if your not ready for the answer!!
ok – my one year old is bang on the same as your one year old . . . into everything adult and downright rude if i say ‘no’. he has taken to banging his head into the floor if i make him mad by putting restrictions on his desires.
and – i was reminded of steve’s latest dilemma by your comment about the whole 20′s 30′s thing . . . he is trying to find glasses he likes – to no avail because all the styles have changed and he doesn’t want to wear any of them. he wants to wear what he has worn for the past ten years. i told him to go to a thrift store, find some frames and go get lenses. ha. :)fiona