embracing the goodness

So I now have joined the Apple family. It has taken a few years for me to own and use an Apple product, but that all changed last night when I received an early birthday gift from my older brother and his wife - the latest ipod nano, in blue!!!

I got it last night and added from my computer the songs and podcasts that were saved in Ronnie's online itunes. I've already listened to three podcasts! I think there may be problems with owning a device such as the ipod. See I went from my car listening to the podcast, to my house with the earphones plugged in, cleaned the kitchen listening in, and ate dinner with the earphones in.

I haven't been watching the telly much lately, so now that I have the ipod and can listen to podcasts I've seemed to find a new way of entertaining myself.

The reason this is bad is because I am quite content to sit alone and entertain myself with listening on to the messages on the ipod.

However I am thinking that I am not going to be able to keep up this much listening. This weekend I went to church on Saturday - listened to a message. I went to church Sunday morning - a second message. And today I listened to the message from my home church via podcast, and the first two messages in the Nehemiah series from Mark Driscoll up at Mars Hill in Seattle. I need to know google and find some new podcasts. Listening can't take the place of reading. At least fiction reading. But who knows, I might be persuaded to listen to nonfiction books via the ipod, but something about that seems so wrong. I mean you read - you don't listen to someone else reading a book. But...

So I am very appreciative of my ipod. It took me long enough to admit that I might want one. Really I didn't see the need. I am not fussed about the music. I will listen to whatever Airone has to offer in the car, and will put a CD in the player when at home; but I must admit the ipod is revolutionary. I know, most everyone else already knows this, but sometimes I am slow to embrace the goodness of life.

This is also true when it comes to food - how this relates to Ipods, I'm not sure - but what I do know is that it is 1145 and I really should be turning the computer off, and showering, and getting in my bed, but back to food.

I had this tendency to not try new foods. My mum could tell me the food was great, and she would cook it, etc but I wouldn't eat it. But in recent months I've been trying foods, and food combos that I wouldn't have normally tried. Foods such as grilled eggplant with mango salsa. Or even avocado -- this food I wouldn't even touch, but now yum yum in my sandwich, and guac, never liked that - now, delicious. Let's see what else -- oh cold coffee, cold coffee on purpose. Until this past Sunday I had held the position that I didn't like it, but lo and behold it is quite tasty. Shrimps. Olives. And all sorts of other foods. But now that cooked food is something that doesn't find it's way into my tummy too often, I take advantage of the food cooked; and embrace the goodness of life.

There could be much deeper meaning in all of this -- usually there is, you can take the simple matters of life and how we live them, and see how those are parrallel to how we live out of walk with Christ.

Ok signing off for now -- probably will take in another podcast tomorrow. Although I seem to have this to do list that keeps growing, it isn't supposed to grow larger, but smaller - and larger it gets, more because I forget and then add something new.

Oh, one more thing...COUNTDOWN...5 days until I turn 1 year shy of a quarter of a century old (24 for those of you unable to do the math).

And as is common, but now I am issuing a disclaimer: I haven't reread through this post. I am sure there are spelling mistakes, typos, grammatical errors, and I am not going to track back and make corrections at this point so as you've done in the past, you can decipher the meaning from my words!!!