Stuff I have been Doing

Aaargh! It's Friday, and the last time I posted was Tuesday! And it's not like I've been busy or anything. Rather the opposite, in fact. So rest assured you haven't missed out on much. But today, I drove in the rain! For the first time properly! Much excitingness! It was all rather flustering, actually. Plus, I forgot to put my glasses on so I couldn't see much at all. Whoops. Trials of a learner driver.
Other than that, I have been doing random things like listening to Regina Spektor and Mika while cleaning the kitchen most mornings, (I am all-of-a-sudden re-obsessed with Regina Spektor) and reading The Voyage of the Dawn Treader because I'm kind of supposed to be writing a VBS (vacation bible school) program around it right now, but I can't figure out what we need to teach these kids from it, so also praying about that, and I'm up to about question 73 or 74 on the Impossible Quiz, and I'm turning into a Harry Potter conspiracy theorist (I'm completely convinced Aberforth Dumbledore is the barman at the Hog's Head, and almost completely convinced Mundungus Fletcher has at least one Horcrux in his posession.) Also I found a necklace I need to buy. And today I'm getting a haircut.

I looooove being on holidays.

Ninjawords

Ninjawords is an online dictionary I was pointed to this afternoon by Jonathan Carroll's blog. I like the idea of a fast-like-a-ninja dictionary, but don't think I will find it particularly useful - I tested it out and it knows 'chicken' and 'dark' but not 'pedosphere' or 'hebetudinous'. So that-all's a bit sad, and I'm sticking with Answers.com for now. I do heart ninja stuff, for example this song.

AAAAAAAAAGH!

Today I had a driving lesson. Nobody died.

Rassum frassum right hand turns...


(It wasn't that bad really.)

Things I did yesterday

Well, yesterday was so full I really had no time to post. The ministry conference basically went off: I had fun, learned much and came away really encouraged, and I think mostly everyone else did too.
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers was good fun; I sat through it with the biggest stupid grin on my face.
And cooking in the evening was mainly all right, except for icky-sticky jam drop mixture, and a chocolate caramel slice that shall be known henceforth as Disaster Slice. (The caramel didn't set.)

Bless your beautiful hide

So these were the days of playing sims, reading Harry Potter in preparation for the dun-dun-DUN last book, and battling evil roundabouts. Gnaaargh.
Tomorrow is full of cooking, ministry conference, and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, not necessarily in that order. Should be well shiny, yay!

Went to bible study tonight. Man oh man have I missed bible study. The one in QLD died toward the end of last year, and I've been without one for three months or so - the uni semester. But now I'm home and, my, does it feel good. I mean, I do the church and the devo things, but you really NEED Bible Study, don't ya? I muchly do.

My brothers are just home from the basketball and will be psycho. Yuk.

Cool Blog

This site, on my desk, is awesome. Really really awesome.

indie indie coffee coffee

I've been really enjoying doing not much the last couple of days. It's luvverly.

My sister and I have been looking at hideously expensive indie design baby paraphernalia from all around the web, mainly using indie fixx as a bouncing-off point and spiralling ever onward through various linkages. (We're looking because our friend is expecting, not because we're random and strange. Although we are random and strange.)

Tomorrow I'm looking forward to having my first coffee at my fave coffee place at home, where I haven't had a coffee for months and months because I've been in the good old QL of D. Yay coffee!

My sister and I made donuts tonight. They were yummy.

End of Construction

This quote was in our church bulletin yesterday and I was quite taken with it.

" I saw a sign on a strip of highway once that I would like to have copied on my gravestone. It said, 'End of construction. Thankyou for your patience.' "

It's from Ruth Bell Graham, wife of Billy, who passed away quite recently. Good reminder that God's changing us every day we wake up in this world.

love gonna get you down

My sisters and I have been dancing around to this song all morning - it's pop, and seriously good pop at that. Mika is hella shiny!

Journey

Huzzah! Am blogging from my sister's (extremely messy) bedroom! Because I am home!

Mostly okay trip, except the egg (that's my suitcase, named for its hard shell, smooth curves, and extreme fragility) got cracked in transit - again. This was the replacement egg I got after Quantas killed the last one, and they did it again. This time I'm prepared to just let it go and not worry about another one. Time for a new suitcase, one that can withstand the burly (I'm assuming they're burly) domestic baggage handlers.

Also, the airport coffee was foul. Bleagh.

Shoesday

Today was the day of the valiant quest for birthday presents and yellow shoes. The birthday presents will not be further mentioned, as the persons recieving them read this blog, even though they both already know what they're getting.

The yellow shoes were found and duly bought, plus some red ones which were dead cheap and well cute. Yay shoes! (The photo of the yellow shoes is a pretty spot-on representation, but the red ones are darker and shinier than they look here. Also if you look closely you will see that I have big feet.)

Tomorrow is getting-on-a-train-and-then-a-plane-and-then-another-plane day. Which should be fun, and means I now have to go pack.

Random Craziness

I am the cleaning NINJA!

So. Yesterday was Science day, as in studying and then exam. Today was the day I did a Hannelore on my bedroom, yay! Cleanliness! Woo!

masquerade madness

So. Have been kidnapped, fed far too much chocolate slices, and forced to watch Battlestar Galactica (tough life, I know :))

Then this morning my cousin and I watched MirrorMask, and then got all inspired to make masks of our own.

Here's mine:

Here's hers:

Aren't we clever! and stylish, and crafty, and elegant, and cool...

tiny tiny tarts

Here are some of the caramel tarts I made yesterday. I'm being kidnapped later, and taking the tarts with me. (Kidnapped by my aunt and uncle, not the scary kind.)

just Sims 2 snapshots

Sims 2 - the perfect way to relax after stressful studying. Here's the twins from my current favourite family.

100 100 100

Welcome to blog post 100! Yay!

Am planning on spending the afternoon making little caramel tarts, and possibly Paneer Butter Marsala, which is like Butter Chicken but lacking in chicken. And also getting my Sunday School stuff in enough order that I can hand it over to the next teacher with a minimum of confusion.

I feel like this post needs something exciting and special because it is the hundredth, but here's a picture of some balloons instead, that I took with my phone.

And a slightly fuzzy picture showing how adorable my clock looks in a hat.

Friday Things

This is the first day it's been cold enough up here to wear a winter coat - and I'm ecstatic. Walking to uni this morning in the sunshine and freezing wind, wearing my Favourite Purple Coat and listening to Regina Spektor, made me so happy I could feel it physically - that sharp, joyful constriction under the rib cage that makes you feel like you're about to lift off the ground.

I heart winter so so much.

Have finished assignment, but forgot integral pen-to-write-on-the-CD, so I'm stuck here till the bookshop opens at 2. Then I'll hand it in and go home and only have a science exam and freaky airport dreams to worry about.

I spent a very happy half hour last night playing the Impossible Quiz. So far I can only get to about question 52, though.

Sawyer Sawyer Locke

I'm consoling myself.
The Sawyer Song

Ugh.

Ugh. Forgot to enrol for next semester this morning, and am now saddled with a pretty ugly timetable. Yes, this is still the day enrolment opens, but everyone has got in at 7:02 this morning. Ugh.

Overcast and Nightmaring

Well, it stopped raining, but the sun isn't shining either, so kind of the worst of both worlds, especially since the entirety of my wardrobe has been sitting on the clothesline since Tuesday morning (we don't have a dryer.) If it's still wet Saturday, I'll ring my aunt and see if I can borrow her dryer for the morning.

Nothing much happening my-ways, just assignmenting and Simming and reading-Harry-Pottering. My toddler twin sims grew up last night, and they make for very cute kiddies. The boy looks rather effeminate. I want to take piccies if I get enough of the behavior management assignment done first. I've got time to kill till nine-thirty tonight - stupid Channel Seven putting Heroes on before Lost rassum frassum.

I've had bad dreams about being stuck in Tullamarine Airport twice this week. Dreams about running from one end of the place to the other, sorting out baggage and flights and broken suitcases and delays - like all the worst airport experiences I've ever had put together. I'm not sure why. Usually if something is freaking me out, I lose sleep over it, rather than nightmaring. Also not sure why the whole thing is troubling me in the first place - I'm not expecting to have any difficulties, and even if I do in my experience the airplane people are pretty nice about fixing them up - either it's because I did actually end up missing my transfer and losing my luggage last time, or because I'm flying Rex the second leg of my journey this time, after I've had a year or two to get comfortable with O'Connor.
Sometimes I hate how the littlest things can throw me for a loop.

Rainy Rain

Still raining. yay.

Also realised that it's actually been three months since I started blogging, not two. Man this semester went by fast.

rain

I'm sitting in the back room, at the computer, listening to the rain filling up the water tanks. It's nice. My umbrella and I had a cheerful and somewhat damp walk home from the train station, so my nice clothes are in the laundry basket and I'm wearing my somewhat dilapidated PYV tee-shirt instead.

I love it when it really rains.

a random little chat about clothes and films.

Snap. It's round-abouts my blog's two month birthday. Happy birthday, blog. That should actually probably be anniversary, but oh well.
So today was the day I finally went to see Pirates. It was better than the last one, but I'm not sure it needed three whole hours. The bit in the whirlpool was good. Also, Orlando Bloom's role could have been played with more flair and aplomb by a sock puppet, but then all the preteen girly-types would get mad.
The thing I love about summer (well, winter here) blockbusters are the big-budget trailers, but I didn't get to see anything wonderful. Just a Harry Potter trailer that made me go 'wow, that was confusing' and a Transformers trailer that managed to make Transformers look about as fun and exciting as a movie about tax returns, which is really a sad state of affairs.

I saw a skinny girl in Queen Street wearing a full-on corset. I sighed and wished that I could wear a corset without looking like the kind of fat girl that wears corsets. Drastic weight loss is really my only option, which is a depressing thought to have after scoffing take-away for dinner.

word, work

Gotta love that funky word of the day thingo. A person who plays the vibraphone is called a vibist. Who knew! Well, other than the vibists themselves, close friends and relatives, etc...
Have finished writing the Introduction and Rationale for this art assignment. Which basically means I've done all the work. Another hour and I'll have it knocked over and e-mailed off. Which will be nice.

Communion yesterday. My church up here only has communion quarterly; it's so nice when it does finally come around. At home it's monthly, which is really nice, alternating between morning and evening services. Good to be able to share communion at my home church more than once a year, which is what it would be if they did the quarterly thing as well. Good to be reminded a little more often - I don't think about Him as much as I should.

you don't know the half of it

This made me giggle helplessly for some minutes, unfortunately.

mmm... lazy saturday

Spent today doing much of nothing in particular. Caught up on the week's taped television (on Lost, someone - Sawyer - finally asked the question I've been asking all season), discovered the word "contumely" from my Google page's word of the day (I like it for being a noun that ends in ly), never quite got around to painting my toenails, read some Ultimate X-Men, and generally gave my brain a holiday.
Tomorrow will get down to the serious business of cleaning my room. At the moment it's only River Tam walking in there - if you don't move elegantly, like a dancer, feeling your way, carefully placing the balls of your feet, you hear crunch and have broken something, or you slip on something, or you stub your toe. Which I can just about live with - I've tolerated it for the last fortnight or so. But today I needed to go out and had a one shoe bonanza. One runner, one sandshoe, two thongs (both left). I had two ballet flats, one for each foot even, but one was black and the other was gold and sparkly.
I am going to clean my room. And find all my shoes. And put them away.

and then it was June...

...and I had survived. I had passed, and I had learned.