December 29, 2007

  • I Am Resolved ...

    okay, I started this thinking I would blog about resolution, but as I typed the title the words to an old hymn popped into my head ...

    "I am resolved no longer to linger
    Charmed by the world's delight"

    Doesn't that sound like the hymnist was just a tad on the suicidal side?  It gets better ...

    "Things that are higher
    Things that are nobler
    These have allured my sight
    I will hasten to Him, Hasten to glad and free

    See?  This guy isn't just checking out, he's in a hurry to do so!

    Jesus, Greatest, Highest, I will come to Thee"

    o_0

    That's just a whole lot more depressing than I ever realized when I was kid concerned with the harmony line.

    Tucker has been defeating Doom Monkeys.  Between the Doom Monkeys and the VooDoo Bunnies he's had a busy day, but the last I heard, he's winning the battle.  Anyone who's ever said that the problem with kids is that video games are turning them into couch potatoes has never seen Tucker play. 

    He leaps to the side, he spins, he ducks ... completely unrelated to what the character on the screen is doing.  He says, "Moving around helps me focus better."

    He's focused on ridding the world of Doom Monkeys.

    I think there are lesser aspirations aplenty. 

    Chris Baty of NaNoWriMo infamy sent an email challenging WriMos to a Big Fun Scary Adventure.  The challenge works like this.  You make a list of "things that we've long dreamed about doing, making, or being. These can
    be hard-nosed acts of practical skill-acquisition, such as becoming a
    ninja and learning to kill people with one's eyebrows. Or they can be
    fantastical notions such as going back to school and getting a degree
    in business administration."

    I'd never considered death by eyebrow, but now that it's in my mind, I can't let it go.  Wouldn't that be a useful skill?  And what would the people on CSI say about it ... "Well, Greg, he appears to have suffered a fatal stroke after exposure to a ... LOOK."

    I swing wildly between two extremes in my daydreaming.  I want the house, the fireplace, and the designer kitchen.  I mean I REALLY want it.  And at the same time I want the convertible with barely enough room in the trunk for a toothbrush and change of underwear from which I can wave and wave and wave as I drive and drive and drive to Iowa, where there is nothing much to see after you've seen the first hundred miles of cornfields, but then you arrive at the University of Exuberant Air-conditioning and you settle in to WRITE.

    2007 was very good to me.  The first six months sucked as I (and Michael) dealt with the frustrations of the school, as I dealt with the frustration of a job where they gave me meaningful work but not meaningful pay, and I was lonely. 

    Now, I'm in Albuquerque where the weather is better, the schools are phenomenal, I have real live honest to god friends, (AND Cool Mary has been here to visit TWICE) okay, I'm still dealing with the frustrating job but at least I have a job. 

    So what kind of Big Fun Scary Adventure could I set off upon to make 2008 an even better year?  Maybe I should resolve to defeat as many Doom Monkeys as possible.  The job thing is leaping out at me as I review what I just wrote...

    I am resolved no longer to linger
    Charmed by the worlds' delight
    Things that are higher,
    Things that are nobler
    These have allured my sight.

Comments (8)

  • that...

    sounds like a great course of action for 2008!

  • should get tucker a wii...talk about moving around.  man...my nephews [greats/in-laws/and just plain nephs] work up one helluva sweat with that thing.

    iowa?  O_o

    and...death by look isn't that uncommon, ma'am.  the stink-eye death stare has been known to take down more than one mortal.

  • You better hasten. 

  • I like how you share you l"here and now" responses and thinking.  Could the hymn not mean that one wants to move closer to God without dying?  

  • I'm already deep into my own big scary adventure.  lol

  • May 2008 get better and better for you.  Blessings.

  • I have a very, very strong feeling that you are meant to be here for a LONG time to come -- to give all us mere mortals a taste of Great Example, if nothing else . 

    We're on an end-of-year adventure at the moment (in hotel, with swimming pool), and the eldest has now said for about the 10th time "Mom, can we p-l-e-a-s-e go explore n-o-w," and I've said for the 9th time, "Yes, honey, in just a moment..." heh.  Better actually do it...

  • yesterday was my 18th anniversary

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