let's update the birthday list -- just because i can...

few people buy me things for my birthday...
i'm not complaining, mind you, but.....
then again, very few people remember my birthday,
let alone feel me important enough or special enough to buy me anything...

i know that makes me sound so materialistic, but i'm not, really...
my closest friends know that i don't strive for much
in the way of material possessions...

i don't have the newest console system
(actually, i don't have the time anymore, anyways)

i don't have the newest computer
(the fastest thing in the house is a P150, and that's my brother's --
-- the other computers or laptops that lie around the house
are owned by my brother's customers)

i don't have a souped-up car
('92 Saturn SL2 -- in a state of disrepair, since
i stopped driving it over 8 months ago)

but....
....i guess it's part of my upbringing --
-- i didn't have much growing up...
no, we weren't poor or anything,
but we made due with what we had,
and i'm sure my parents splurged on things as we needed them...
e.g., "new furniture here, new appliance there
renovate the house because we're moving..."

thank God that i grew up not having so many material things
i'm sure i'd grow up with the mentality that
"the more i have, the more i'd want"
sure, i'm not completely impervious to impulse buying or
buying for the sake of having or
buying things for entertainment purposes,
but thank God i buy something only if i really want it --
-- and i have the money to spare for it.

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i think this is the first time i've made a list of all the things
that i would like --
-- not necessarily need, mind you...

i guess this is my way of putting forward my wants --
-- i'll let God decide what it is that i need,
to be given at the time of His choosing...

[and if it "just-so-happens" that His timing is around
the anniversary of my birth, then............]

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the list is now at the top of the blog for easy reference..
check it every so often for updates!