As of today, I am 22 years and 2 days. I celebrated my birthday on Monday (well, and on Sunday too). Birthdays are always so good! Hanging out with my family and my friends, good food, great cake, a few gifts and cards, and mostly a lot of attention.
I don't understand when people dread their birthday. I look forward to mine! It probably helps that it's at the end of May, and also that I'm still young. I might be dreading my birthday 20 years from now.
Anyway, I got a pretty white shirt, a few books, a pearl necklace with matching earrings (fake, of course), and best of all: the most gorgeous bouquet of flowers from my wonderful boyfriend.
Quite a happy birthday, if I do say so myself. :D
Mmm, now I'm thinking about Kit Kat bars. But that is not the topic of today's blog.I have decided to take a sabbatical from the Internet. It's only going to be for about 5 days, so I guess I can't really call it a sabbatical, but I like the word. So sabbatical it is. I've decided to attempt to take the time I would normally spend on the Internet, and use it instead to read the bible and pray.
And even if it's for 5 days, this will be no easy task for me. I really like the Internet! But I think it's pretty much a guarantee that if I'm on the Internet, I'm not doing anything productive. Also, this sabbatical doesn't apply to the time I'm on the Internet when I'm at work. I work on the computer, I need the Internet for some of my tasks. And honestly, if I have no work to do, I use the Internet to amuse myself until I have work to do. Plus, if I let myself do everything I need to do on the Internet while I'm at work, then it's easier for me not to go on the Internet at home.
Anyway, the whole point of this is that I want to spend more time reading my Bible and praying when I have spare time, which I should be doing anyway. But we all gotta start somewhere. This also means that I won't be blogging for the next 5 or 6 days. I know that I don't blog everyday, but now you have all been notified, so you don't have to worry about checking in until....May 29? At least until then.
In fact, I'll try to write you all a nice long blog to let you know how everything went. Remember, my 22nd birthday is next week Monday, and next week is also big decision-making time for Art and myself. Exciting and scary. Alrighty then. Until next week!
If you go back to this post, you will find a picture of my boyfriend, Art. (It's not an actual picture of my Art, it's kind of a joke). Because we have a long distance relationship, most of the relationship happens over the phone. Thus the phone becomes kind of like a symbol for him.
Talking with my beloved boyfriend is wonderful, but unfortunately the conversation has to end at some point. This is the worst part of playing telephone with the one you love. It's late at night, or he has to go somewhere, and we really must let each other go.
So we take our time saying goodbye, and we usually say it several times, because we really don't want to get off the phone. Then we say our final goodbye. And sometimes I wait. Because I don't want to be the first to hang up.
At the same time, it kills me to hear the beep on his end telling me that he hung up. I hate hearing that. But I hate it on my end too! I don't want to hang up on him! I don't want him to hang up on me! It's a struggle I go through every time. And I don't know which one I hate more.
I wish that we would never have to stop talking. Of course, I wish even more that we could stop talking on the phone and talk all the time in person instead. One more year. We will make it one more year.
