It's been a few weeks since I've last blogged, and lots have happened. I've wanted to blog a few times but I just didn't think I'd have enough to make my post a meaningful one. But, since we're more than halfway through February, I thought I'd just write about more of the little things I've noticed in the last while.
I previously wrote a post titled Secondaries back in December, where I talked about some of the smaller things I've picked up on since moving down here - you can go check it out if you want. So I guess this is, in some ways, part two! Let's go.
This month has gone by super quick. Apparently I turned 24 about a week and a half ago. I find 24 to be such a weird age to be at. You're not quite 25, but you're also not so young that you're still free to enjoy some of the "I just became an adult" freedoms you normally get. That's why I find that being 24 is more of a nuisance than anything else. Haha. I might as well be 25 so at least my car insurance rate will go down.
During the weekend of my birthday, I also had a friend come down to stay over at my place. It was nice to have someone else other than me in my house for a change. It was also pretty cool to receive some birthday cards and presents from people back home, letting me know that I still exist in their lives.
As much as I want to, I really don't see myself being back in Edmonton for a long time. There also comes a point where we all have to stop living in the past and look at what's in front of us. It's nice to acknowledge what brought us to where we are, but dwelling there isn't going to help us moving forward. So until I am called to go back home, I am not sure when the next time I'll be in Edmonton is.
I've been super motivated in the last month to do all sorts of stuff. The thing you have to know about me, though, is that being motivated and being productive are two separate things that are worlds apart. I tried to nail down what it is exactly that makes me so lazy as a person. While I don't think that the general sense of being lazy is a terrible thing, because I still get things done for when they need to be, I just wanted to know what holds me back from living a more active life. Having a laidback personality is somewhat of a cop out to me. I do think that I won't ever be a workhorse like my sister, but I think it's definitely worth finding something in between where I am now and the other end of it. At the bottom of the searching, I found myself asking the question, "are you taking this serious enough that you'll do something about it?" I think that's exactly it. If and when I find something that I think is a serious matter, I jump on those tasks immediately. Maybe I just need to take things a little more seriously and be less care free.
For the month of February, I've also been trying something a little different in my budgeting of finances. I've divided up my salary into all the different areas I need to spend to the exact amount and treated my money like it's already been spent. That way, when I go fill up gas, for example, then I just subtracted from the total that I expected to spend for the month. I find subtracting rather than adding all my spendings help me control my spendings way better. It helps me because the number gets closer to 0 rather than getting closer to the salary cap. So I think I'm going to do this from now on.
Finally, I bought myself a camera. Haha! Last summer, I did a lot of research in trying to find a camera for my dad for Father's Day. Most of that research I felt was a bit wasted since my mom was smart and knew that he'd want a Canon regardless of what other brands offer, which is true because most of it nowadays come down to preferences anyway. So I bought myself a Sony A5000. For whatever reason, Wal-Mart had it like $150 cheaper than any other place, so I had to jump on it. I guess that with this camera, I'm another step closer to becoming hipster. Just kidding.
That's about it, I guess. Church is still going smoothly, and I'm continuing to adapt and see how I can serve this church, so I'm kept rather busy most times. I'm definitely enjoying things. I mentioned that I never really felt a honeymoon phase, but I think my church did. So it will be interesting to see how things change once the "new" label is taken off of me. I definitely feel the leaders in the church are doing more than I normally think they would to help me. In some ways, that's unfair of me to say because I don't know in great detail what the track record of this church is, but all things point to the leaders being very open minded and forward thinking. That's what I like, and that's where I hope it keeps going.
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