i was very excited and stunned to see myself added to the blog feed. Howie said Ryan stayed up all night trying to figure out how to get me on it, because he thought I might have asked him to. I don't recall asking Ryan, but thanks for all your effort. My only problem now is that i feel myself buckling under the pressure to be a more frequent and entertaining and meaningful blogger - and at the moment i feel none of these objectives will be met! I have no internet at home at the moment, i can't blog at work (i came in early this morning to work to blog) leaving my only option tim's house. which i feel rude about using. so my apologies for perhaps ending up being at the bottom of the blog feed list, as my updates grow more and more infrequent.
meanwhile, things are coasting along smoothly enough. libby goes to byron on thursday - and last night chuck and i went to her farewell at carlingford. it was sad, because she's so stressed and trying to cope with it all. but she'll be back soon enough too, 3 months isn't a long time at all.
and then i went to visit poor old tim, with his missing wisdom teeth. and lo and behold, he looked like nothing had even happened to him - no swelling. he couldn't laugh without pain, and had plenty of blood seepage, but seemed ok. i'm very glad of that, coz i would hate for him to be in too much pain or discomfort. poor thing. but it's a good sign for things to come for me?! 13th march looms closer and closer. owwie.
was quite an enjoyable time away. port done and done. seen just about all there was to see. come home to find internet hasn't been working at home for over a week. hoorah for tim... and that's my post for the moment.
i'm off with the McInnes clan (minus brad, jo and dan) to Port Macquarie some early hour of tomorrow morning... so this will likely be my last chance to blog for over a week - better make it worth your while.
yesterday was a pretty good day... had work - good fun chats with tim and luke during the day, and then cafe in arvo. lots of fun with jo kemp helping out (yay jo!) and with all the kiddies. good to see joel. he's such a cack "you're off the team" - not sure if that's building people up, but hey. and then it was really good to pray with rob afterwards for about 20 minutes. then home for dinner to be served as i walked through the door - love alfredo!! and a 1.5 hr patient wait (surprisingly it was) for timothy to visit after orbit practise. spent some time chatting and praying, and hanging out. before it was beddybyes.
last ever GAP in the Red Room tonight - hope it's a doozy of a night. The Red Room has been a great initiative and it's sad to see it go, but God's got his plans for GAP in motion, and it's exciting to see where he'll take us.
So off to Port for a week of relaxation, reading, beaching, and whatever else Port has to offer (I'm sure there's heaps - maybe a visit to Fantasy Glades!!! yeh nah). and i'll see you back here in a little while :) BYE!
hoorah! junior uggies finally finished 1 Timothy tonight. what an achievement! high fives all round. then debbie had a surprise for snow and sarah - a video of shannon singing his "it isn't fair" song. these girls are so the coolest. i pray that this year they will grow further in Jesus, and that despite all the stresses of year 12, will learn and be changed in amazing ways!!
i'm being a bit lazy i think. i can only blog early morning or night. and i forget, or have other stuff going on, or whatever. and also, nothing terribly exciting happens that i can report on. so it's all very boring. apologies :)
but i did have some good convos last night with stu...
oh funniest story. (hope it's ok to tell it tim). i was telling my mumma about tim's awkward conversation with his mum, about how they aren't heaps comfortable with tim and i sleeping in the same room by ourselves in port - which is fair enough, not coz anything would happen, but it's nice just to remove any temptation or whatever - and my mum thought it funny coz of how the awkwardness would have been during that convo for all parties. and then my mum goes on to say, that when she and my dad took deb and matt to noosa, they didn't think twice about having matt and deb sleep in the same room, with the door closed. and then she jokingly started to think that she and dad are too much pushovers, and that maybe their trust is misguided if tim's parents don't think the same. hehe. so now tim will have to either sleep on a couch for a week (joy!) or drag his bed out of the bedroom. so funny. poor tim.
tops to hear from sam & kirri (both individually!!) during their egypt travels. they're having an awesome time! seeing amazing things, and meeting interesting people. that's awesome. i'm so glad they're having such a great time! off to rome in a few days. that will be fantastic too. they're looking so forward to it. hoorah for sam and kirri travelling the world, and becoming more cultured.
it's never a good sign when you wake up hot. i don't like the heat. too hot. mre
i can't believe how unbelieveably hard it is to see someone throw their life away - knowing they KNOW the decisions they are making are wrong in God's eyes - but wanting it so much they're willing to take the chance that God doesn't exist. i had fat chats with a dear friend of mine last night who is living this at the moment. and it's killing them, and me. we talked, i guess an hour isn't really that long, and cried. i hate crying. i am not a cry-er. most people in my life haven't seen me cry. but this whole situation has really gotten to me. i love my friend. and i want my friend to be happy, like they want to be. but i don't want my friend to foresake God, to take the chance that he's not real, because they don't want to live their life on a 'if'. and it's easier to not see what they're doing as wrong if God and the Bible and Jesus aren't real. But my friend can't help - they said - but believe in God. and they don't want to walk away from everything their life has stood for the last few years since they became a Christian. but they're going to. it's such a horrible, and difficult, and heartwrenching situation. i'm praying God's truth into it. but my friend doesn't want to listen for God. and that's even harder. God, there needs to be a miracle.
we had our second monthly leader's meeting for the year last night for GAP, except we didn't really have anything yet to meet about - so we spent a few hours bonding over conversation in scottie's living room. it was really good just to chat and laugh, and then pray together. unfortunately phil couldn't come, but we had ez, lach, gareth, scott & me. plus surprise visit from cad and cath and mel, picking up wedding stuff. cad's getting married tonight, very casual, but very cad. scott's a groomsmen, which is nice. means he won't be at youth group tonight, but that's ok. hope tonight goes off for GAP. second week in - high standards to keep :) should be bonza!
hoorah for yesterday... jo and tim finally met. it's been long anticipated. and what do they think of each other - actually i'm really not sure. but lunch was pleasent enough. and david joined us too. that is point one.
point two is crazy - tim started a blog - he bowed to jo and howie's pressure. i don't reckon he'll update much, but i'll add him to my links list. go check him out. make him feel loved. still, it's crazy. laugh-out-loud and shake your head crazy...
i've only ever played three games (i think), and two of are recent... and then two i ripped it up apparently. well, at least i beat tim twice. i got 281 today. we've gone into some sort of old school competition mode - playing things like scrabble, trivial pursuit, upwords, rummy-o. it's all so fun. i'm up at the moment, about 6-2 (those are just numbers i pulled from thin air - i really don't know). we are such grandpas. it's almost kinda sad. but it's fun too.
i decided i will try and give tim a tshirt with the word anti on it. it encapulates him. that's not mean or rude. it's just true. and it makes him tim. poor tim.
it's the season of the powerful, horrible movie me thinks. albeit bruce willis makes it all a bit more hollywood war genre-ey, but there were some very real and very disturbing scenes, of people being brutally killed and tortured in nigeria. and again, with the inhumanity of humanity. that this is going on all over the world, and what is there to do to help stop it?! and when there is something to do, why do most of us in the western world not do a thing? maybe it's easier to turn a blind eye. so much stuff going on in the world that we're insulated from. it's not right.