Boredom Thoughts

Let me begin this post by saying that it is one prompted by simple boredom. Nathan is in Lansing with the photo staff for the weekend and I was told by the doctor I needed to take it easy and talk very little. (I'm dealing with a throat issues, luckily not strep.) And while I'm on the subject, Nathan placed third for pictorial in the Michigan Press Photographers Association yearly judging. That is why he is in Lansing. So that was nice.

Next, I'd like to tell you that I just made a delicious egg sandwich. I was inspired by the green eggs I had in Chicago, so I made a green egg sandwich, the green being pesto. And I used only egg whites. D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S. Oh and they actually turned out red because I put ketchup on them. So they were more like Christmas eggs.

Now for a deeper thought than green eggs. I am a forward thinker. I am constantly longing for the next page... mainly because we can't seem to grab hold of "the next page." Whereas Nathan would rather hold on to the past, although he's doing that less and less these days. I used to think... Where do I want to be in ten years? as if I really had much to do with that. God tends to ignore where we want to be, which is certainly a good thing. He's worked things out better than I could have ever planned. His timing is perfect and his plan is perfect. But I'd like to take a couple minutes, just for fun, and decide where I want to be in ten years. You can do the same if you'd like.

***Thinking***

Here it goes: In ten years (I'll be... 33) I want to be living in either Bowling Green or Nashville. I want to be a stay at home mom, maybe thinking about going back to school or possibly be writing children's books, hopefully with at least one child (I'm not going to get greedy these days!) I want Nathan to have a photo job that he absolutely loves with health insurance, making at least $50k/year and no 2-10 shifts. I want to be debt free, no student loans, and with a minimal mortgage (I don't want to be a slave to my house!) I want Nathan's parents to join me and my parents in Bowling Green. I want to have a nice, comfortable homey little home in the country with a rolling meadow backyard.

I was going to imagine what it'll probably be like but I found myself being very pessimistic, so I'll stop there. That is my ideal in ten years. We'll see what happens. I hope God has something even better in store for our future, although really... I don't know how it could get much better than that.

Ok... I'm going to go now. I wish you all a wonderful weekend. Thanks for reading through my boredom induced thoughts.