Friday Five: ch-ch-ch-ch-changes

Many of the RevGals using Blogger are experiencing some chaos this week as they move from Old Blogger to New Blogger. (Is that anything like New Coke?)

Change is a given in life, yet it's not easy for any of us. So strap on your seat belts and let's talk about it:

1. Share, if you wish, the biggest change you experienced this past year. DH is out of graduate school and navigating the minefields of building a new and different career. This means I no longer have to proof read her papers, and instead of conversing about her student peers and her profs, we're conversing about her coworkers, supervisors, etc etc etc. It also means our income has doubled, and we have much more than a snowball's chance in Hell of paying off our debts --I hope. :D [PS Don't tell my creditors I said that! Shhhhhh ...]

2. Talk about a time you changed your mind about something, important or not. I always swore I'd never have a dog. Dogs are high-maintenance. Cats are low-maintenance. So a friend of mine convinced me that, since I had a backyard, I needed a dog and she had just found the perfect one for me, one she couldn't take in since she already had 6 or 7 ... I have changed my mind. Both dogs and cats are high-maintenance, just in different kinds of ways. And I love them both.

3. Bishop John Shelby Spong wrote a controversial book called "Why Christianity Must Change or Die." Setting aside his ideas--what kind of changes would you like to see in the Church? How about full inclusion for women? Full inclusion for GLBT persons? How about faith communities that are truly cross-cultural? More churches that are as vocal about peace, poverty and ecology as they are about other social issues?

4. Have you changed your hairstyle/hair color in the last five years? If so, how many times? My hair color is changing alrighty ... but not necessarily by my choice. ;) It's turning silver from reddish brown, and I won't color it because I think the silver is pretty. My hair style is sometimes longer, sometimes shorter. When it comes to my hair, I'm lazy --I like it "wash and wear," just the way DH cuts it.
Oh wait ... I did color my hair once, from brownish red to red. I had just experienced a breakup, and was motivated by one of my favorite jokes ...

5. What WERE they thinking with that New Coke thing? I think New Coke [Faux Pepsi] was intentionally designed to motivate folks to recommit to Coke Classic ... if there's something being taken for granted, there's nothing like the "threat" of change to refocus attention on that something ... for better or worse.