Tags: memories, windows, DIY, Christianity, home, wedding
Date: 19 March 2006 20:58:37
After the quotation I posted on the 14th about "memories with a future", a couple of days later in my daily readings I read Jeremiah (not a book I read very often I must admit) 31:21: "Set up road markers for yourself, make yourself guideposts; consider well the highway, the road by which you went." I've never really noticed that verse before (probably because I don't read Jeremiah very often) but it felt like it was pushing the same buttons. On the one hand, I don't want to keep dwelling on the past (I found it quite frustrating when I was having counselling that I kept returning to the same few things), but on the other hand I want to understand my past and reconcile with it. Something about markers and guideposts on the road which I've already travelled is resonating in the same way that "memories with a future" did, I need to think about that some more (cue screed of streams of consciousness in journal - I'll spare you that here :) ). [Added: also a comment on a perfectly innocent SoF thread has pushed similar buttons - why is it always Heaven threads that do that?!]
In other news, my friend from London who is getting married in a few weeks' time phoned this evening to ask for after-reception music suggestions. Apparently I am a legend in my own lifetime, as I have a bit of a reputation as a party soundtrack expert following a few parties during the 90s (actually I used the same cobbled-together tapes for all of them, mostly taped from vinyl, but they were good I must admit - must dig them out sometime). Anyway I told him that I would consult my CD "Disco Mix 96" and you know what? He laughed at me! Honestly, I really can't see what's so funny. I got lesser laughs too for "I [Heart] Disco" and "I [Heart]2 Party". But once I told him what was on them he was desperate for me to bring them. Tuh, these musical snobs, honestly! Good job I have no shame.
Tomorrow I have double glazing put in. So I shall spend much of the day with big holes in the wall (and wearing twenty thousand jumpers, if it's still this cold). I'm supposed to take curtains and blinds down before they come, but I think I shall get up ridiculously early tomorrow to do that as I don't really want to display my sleeping self to the neighbours. I shall also carry on tiling the bathroom. I was hoping to finish today, but although I made good progress I still have to do the complicated tiling (behind the toilet and sink) (I'm getting better with the tile cutter, but still not good enough to give up the day job). I must admit it is quite satisfying to see it looking half decent when I know I've never done it before. I just won't look *too* closely at it.