Going Green

Today I started on our house initiative to save some money on energy this year by putting plastic on the windows. We weren't able to carry the project to completion because we ran out of plastic and don't have a hair dryer, but I think we have a good start. Later Travis is getting Rachael's hair dryer and tomorrow we are getting the rest of the supplies we need. Additionally our property manager (she's like our landlord's point guard) is nice enough to GIVE us those energy efficient light bulbs to put in all our lights. The third measure we are considering is supplementing our natural gas central air with some electric ceramic heaters. James is going to do some research (something about price per BTU) to find out which is a more cost effective way to heat our house. Apparently its a pretty complicated problem involving efficiency and and numbers...calculus even; I'm out. I'm sure he can figure it out though, and then we'll be set.

Tonight I am back at midweek with my mom. Spending Wednesday night with my mom is once of my favorite things in life. We usually get dinner somewhere and then talk for a while about what's going on in life. Lately its been heavy on family stuff which, I won't lie, has been messy, but overall I think it's good. No matter what it is, I think it's better to process stuff than to leave it alone. It's been nice because for the last 5 weeks we have had homework to read roughly 10 chapters of Genesis a week, and there is a ton in there about dysfunctional families. It's given us a lot to talk about and been really good for me and my mom. The other really cool thing about this Midweek session has been sharing a table with the same group of people every week. The format of the class we are taking is half teaching from the front, half discussion time with our table. The discussion is guided by 8-12 questions starting with very textual questions about the section of Scripture we are talking about, and moves toward more personally applicable questions. It's been awesome for me because I have discovered that there really are some faithful people actually trying to follow God with their lives, decisions, families, ect. at the Vineyard. I mean I know it sounds silly and obvious, but I was starting to have my doubts. So I sit for 90 min on Wednesday nights with a bunch of faithful people trying to work out life with God together.

So that's what I'm doing. My mom just called to find out what we are going to eat tonight. Neither of us are very hungry so we are going to LuLu's to split some Chinese.