Odds and Ends

I really don't have much worth saying right now, but I have several thoughts on my mind and the urge to write, so here goes.

1. After almost five years of "growing it out," I feel like my hair has finally reached a length I consider to be long... and I'm not sure I like it. Part of it has to do with the fact that the ends really need a good trim, but I feel like if I take off even an inch it will no longer be long enough to be called long. Sigh. It just ain't what it was in Wade and my engagement pictures... over ten years ago. Is it possible to get that back again?

2. Wade isn't home tonight, which is both sad and fun. I always feel a little gloomy when he has to spend a night away, and it's hard to motivate myself to fix anything for dinner without him here to enjoy it. However, without him here, I get to stay up late! Woohoo! I'm terrible at hitting the hay on time without him here to entice me to bed. Thus, my plans for the evening include blogging, folding laundry while watching a much anticipated documentary on America's national parks, and maybe even scrapbooking a page or three if my eyelids hold out. It will hurt in the morning, but then it always does, so what am I losing?

3. We're studying Genesis in Sunday school and touched lightly on the young earth/old earth debate this week. Both sides make good points, but I really don't think it matters in the end. It's not a salvation issue, after all. Yesterday I read an article in The Banner called "Reading the Bible Well," which I wished I had read two days prior. It said, "Christians have long used that text (Genesis 1) to argue over when and how the world was created. But that text was never intended to answer those questions... The story was written to help Israel (and now us) address the questions of who created the world and why." Or perhaps this point just satisfies my desire to avoid conflict.

4. St. Joseph Hospital in Bellingham made the February edition of Reader's Digest, which just arrived in our mailbox today! Somehow that made me feel happy inside.