Material Burro

My previously posted goals for this year have dealt with the cultivation of skills both practical (driving a stick) and scholarly (learning Latin), or with advancing my spiritual growth (refraining from unkind words) and my career (transitioning out of the family business) – all generally conceded to be worthy aims by most.  Today’s post, however, is devoted to my shallow, materialistic side, and contains two goals I have concerning possessions.

First, Rebekah and I will finish moving into our house. It’s been six years now, and we still have a guest room full of boxes and bags that have never been unpacked.  My goal for the year is to finally clear out this room and make it into a craft room for Rebekah: a place where she can practice the many mysterious and beautiful arts at her command, a small shrine to the bright angel of our home.

And also a place where we can put all the yarn in the house to keep the thrice-accursed cats out of it!  I swear that attempting to salvage the myriad tangled skeins with which they bedeck the house after a yarn orgy is like treading the twisted pathways of a madman’s brain.

 

Also, I will build a sleek and powerful new computer with Ty.  My current computer was top-of-the-line when I bought it nine years ago, and it has served me faithfully for all of my twenties, traveling thousands of miles with me and operating with an astounding lack of those troubles apparently familiar to most PCs.  Finally, however, the peripherals are wearing out (the keyboard’s space bar functions erratically, and the monitor has begun to flicker at odd moments) and pricing new components led me to the realization that I’ve always wanted to build my very own dream computer.  I’ll need a little bit of help from my tech-savvy friend Ty, but I think that’s more of an opportunity than an obstacle.

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