excited

ah. i am very excited. tomorrow after school i am jumping on a plane and going to queensland for 4 days to hang out with H. the weather better be good, because it's going to be down here!

on sunday i'm going to movie world. very, very excited.

funny yummy mummy

i have to make an amendment to a previous blog where i called my friend nat a yummy mummy, she since has informed me that she is actually a funny yummy mummy.

sorry nat, my mistake, oh course you are!!!!

and if anyone else finds this funny, when mum read that i had been admiring the scenery down at lorne on the weekend, she really thought i meant i'd been admiring the scenery. ha ha.

nice scenery

i spent the weekend down at lorne. we were on patrol - p3 - the best patrol - well, we think so anyway! the world life saving championships were on. those athletes are machines. the scenery was fantastic. there we no dramas as far as we were concerned. but after we had finished, the first aiders from the worlds had to deal with a poor french(?) girl who had been mucking around with her team mates, when one of the boys threw her. she hit her head hard on the sand and completely blacked out, she also had bit her lip and so was bleeding from the mouth. not good. poor girl. she had to go to the hospital. i bumped into nick, an old swimming friend of darren's - i told him ew'd try and catch up when you are here daz- that was nice to see him. i was also inpsired to get superfit after seeing all these awesome athletes in action.

i have to make an apology - the other day i wrote that i knew who the anonymous comment poster was, but i don't. i asked them and they went nope. so i don't know who it was.

a big thanks to tam who produced my ad for raw camp. it's our youth group camp that is coming up on the long weekend in march. matt and i filmed it on my camera and then tam whacked it all together as a dvd. she's great. so knowledgeable. just remember tam- july 16th...

today the countdown has hit four weeks, four sleeps til i go away. excited, scared, not scared, can't wait, don't want to pack, don't want to leave the warm weather, do i have enough money, plus a few other things, that's how i am feeling at the moment. one thing that i am definitely excited about is to see my family and my special little daniel.

surfing and stress

So yesterday I went surfing down at phillip island with my leisure ed class. It was a good day and the snooze on the way home on the bus was almost as good as the surfing itself.

This is part of an article I read today – it was given to me two weeks ago but I was too busy to read it!!!


Benefits of Staying Stressed

- stress gives you a chemical high
- it helps you seem important
- stress helps you maintain personal distance and avoid intimacy
- it helps you avoid success
- you can maintain a poor me image
- it justifies being tough on people

Maintaining Stress

- don’t exercise
- stay overweight and eat anything you want
- drink plenty of coffee and coke
- be a perfectionist
- don’t call your friends and avoid them whenever possible
- be serious, lose your sense of humour
- set impossibly high standards and goals and be a workaholic
- take all criticism personally
- keep up the negative talk
- never learn meditation or any relaxation techniques
- let events, people and time overrun your life


3 special notes
- wendy, you have not offended me and I would talk to you about it if you did!!!
- to the anonymous blogger, thanks for your comments, I appreciate them greatly, though I have a feeling I may know who you are!!!
- just because i have mentioned the stress article, doesn't mean that i am stressed, in fact i am having a great term, i just thought it was kind of funny!!!

live like you're dying...

Again I have been busted by the blog watchers and asked on numerous occasions when I am going to add to my page again. I horrified myself when I realised it has been 11 days since my last blog. Bad girl. Things have been busy. Anyway, here it is.

Well it’s now the fourth week of a six week term and things are flying. I went to volleyball today and I am off surfing for the day tomorrow at Philip Island. I can’t wait.

Congratulations to mum, who for the first time in her 57 years of living, got her ears pierced. Of course she screamed when it was done, but to her credit, she didn’t faint.

I have had some interesting comments made to me over the last few weeks. Some of which have upset me a bit and some which I am wondering if they are really true or not. I am hoping not, but then there are usually reasons as to why people say things, so it has made me wonder where they come from.

I heard a song the other day and one line from it went something like ‘live like you’re dying’. This has made me think more than anything else over the last few days. I think I really do want to live like I’m dying. I mean this in the sense of not being scared or not holding back, not wasting time, not saying what you really mean or think or feel. Really, life is kind of short, I’ve been alive for 26 years already, that time has flown. Going by the averages I’ve probably already lived about a third of my life and I feel like I’m still only getting started. So I do want to live like I’m dying, and hopefully it won’t be for a long long long time yet, but I will one day. So why live life like you’re not going to die???

on a lighter note...

It’s a small world…yesterday as brad and aaron and I were moving things from my friend sarah’s house into storage, her neighbour pulls up and it is nathan curtis who was one of my friends at high school. He was in the car – with his wife and baby – a spin out in itself – and has been sarah’s neighbour this whole time. I visit sarah on a regular enough basis, but as yet we have never bumped into each other. How bizarre how bizarre.

and for those interested - 5 weeks, 4 sleeps to go

witches and epiladies

today i am going to blog about my friend nat. she's a wonderful person. she's a yummy mummy. she does a very good impersonation of a witch. she has another special voice which she does of roger the racing car driver. if you ever meet her, ask her to do them. she's also not afraid to do silly things, something which means we get along very well. nat and i have been known to visit our friends classes, at times, to help bring joy and laughter to the children (or occassionally they just sit and shake their heads as we embarress ourselves). nat also loves to talk about epiladies - or is it that she hates it when the conversation gets stuck on hair removal, i can't quite remember. i do know that she doesn't mind to chat about her husbands grandma when it suits her! anyway nat, i love you very much, and i use a braun 'silk epil' epilady. it's mainly white, but with some purple on it too (side note for the ladies - get into epiladies, forget shaving, that sucks, at the very least move to waxing, including underarms).

some other quick comments

• congratulations brad on getting a job (at city mission) - check out his blog at www.freindy.blogspot.com he's quite amusing
• i'm looking forward to the day when chris comments on my blog
• apparently the seahawks only lost the superbowl due to bad reffing
• i go overseas in 7 weeks and 1 sleep
• my brother comes home for a visit in 5 weeks and 1 sleep

and happy birthday to anyone who might be having a birthday today!!!

BBQ + church

yesterday i went to a lovely bbq at mike house. it was the science teachers annual bbq and no, i don't teach science, but seeing as i used to be in the office with all science teachers, i often get invited to their do's. we had a great afternoon. and yummy yummy food too.

at church, emma (of the lewis variety who i have been staying with recently) and dave become senior soldiers (in normal people's language - full member of the church). they both spoke of a calling of God on their lives and of a real relationship with Him. ian hamilton preached and was great. he talked of although we all have been chosen by God, we must decide how to respond. he was very good.

it's been a full on day at school today and yet again my brain is fried. so nothing deep today. just thought i should write as it's been a while.

p.s. congratulations to chris who won the invitational bowls event yesterday!!!

moved again - lots of stuff

i moved again last night. from the lewis' to the begley's. i actually walked to work today. it took 11 minutes. i will actually miss being at the lewis' house quite a bit and i didn't realise how much till i was saying goodbye to them all last night (though i will see them on the weekend). i am very grateful to them for opening up their house to me and making me feel like part of the family! i am moving to the begley's while the school term in happening and then i will go back to the lewis for my last 3 weeks of being in the country. daz will come and stay there too when he arrive, so that will be fun - dustin can't wait!

moving my stuff was funny. i didn't realise how much 'stuff' i still have. mainly clothes and shoes. i really need to do a big clean out very soon. it made me think about life. i think it must happen that sometimes all these things creep in. unnecessary things. without us even realising it. until one day we go woah, how did that happen. i guess it can work in both ways. good things and bad things. i think i need to be more careful over my life and do a regualr junk check, just to see what's going on.

school has been great. i have now met all my classes and they all seem pretty good. my year 12's are my favourites - helps that 20 of them were my yr 11's from last year! and of course it's been good seeing all my friends again. tonight after school we are all heading up to knox for an early dinner! yay!

well, 8 weeks today i will be on a plane. i am quite excited and a little nervous too. now that i am working full time, the time will absolutely fly by. i don't really have expectations of what canada will hold for me and i am happy about that. i don't want to go with any preconceived ideas. i'm just happy to go and find out what it's all about when i get there.