March 31, 2004
poor timmis
me and snowbell did go up to the game after bible study. got there with a few minutes left of first half. the boys were up by about 14 - i thought "good". but then, it was stressness, and then they lost by about 8 or something (correct me tim when I'm wrong). so that was a bit disappointing for them. tim did a ripper of a three pointer though... snow, me and michelle were mighty impressed!
and lastly, i hate that i just blogged a million entries in the space of two minutes... that, I find, is annoying to myself of myself
blonde
i hate having blonde moments (no offence to people who hate the term blonde moment - tamara) in front of guys about cars. especially in a service centre or repair shop. oh dear it's embarrassing.
ripping it up!
tim's baskie grand final is on tonight. i don't know i'll go see him play though. maybe if i can convince zoe to come with me after bible study. too scary to go by myself (sorry tim). maybe we can be cheerleaderse together. i'm sure tim would appreciate that! i hope they win. that would be nice for them all.
bible study tonight will be fun. it's tamara's birthday. and she and most of the other girls are in year 12 and in the middle of their half-yearlies. the poor dears. so we're having a little party, as well as bible study on proverbs. hopefully it will all be a nice and welcome distraction from the stress and pressure of HSC. I don't remember having stress or pressure during the HSC. I'm suer it was there. I don't even remember sitting in my exams. but i must have, since i got my HSC!
broom broom!
although, i want that to be like a car noise... not something you sweep with x2.
anyways, i got my car back this arvo finally. only a week and a half after the bingle. no worries. but now i owe my mumma just over $1000 - joy. that is not particularly exciting. but yay for insurance, coz that means i didn't have to pay the full $4000ish. for as much as a rip that insurance can be, sometimes it's worth it... no matter if it's car, health, home, life. i'm sure it's a good thing in the end.
March 30, 2004
excitement to the excitement house
we FINALLY have ADSL at home... it's very exciting after a few months of no home internet. tim was oh so close to getting it connected last night, but because we're still old school windows 98 it took a little extra effort today to find things. but done and done.
had quite the productive day at work all by myself, before heading up to cafe for a bit to see little Ben (who i got to see briefly as his and sam's bus left) and to see Howie. howie was ripping it up in pool against daniel. some very impressive shots.
then i caught the train to normanhurst to do my 'paper run'.
really feeling yesterdays limbo fun... i didn't even know there were muscles under my belly button, but there must be because they hurt.
i wish i had exciting things to say... but at the moment i just don't...
and still no adsl at home, or work. that's a bit sad.
today is just one of those "i'm sick" days. that being because i am sick. but powering on is always fun and recommended. "rest up"??? - bah!
March 29, 2004
peoples
i have been very much enjoying the company of tim over the last week or so. not that i didn't previously enjoy his company!! but of recent it's been really good and easy to just hang out with him and go to all the things we have to go to together and stuff. i just want to say YAY!
and it's exciting coz in a few weeks time i may get to hang out with sammy and lachlan and have a day of insanely funny DVD watching. i had to make sure my mouth was healed before we did this, coz it would hurt too much to laugh that much. those two together though are crazy.
and i saw kirri on Friday for the first time since she and sam were back from Egypt/Italy... i like kirri. she was with Tim Dab picking up Deb Dab from GAP. Oh that was a crazy night. combined 7ups and GAP nights are a little hectic. The GAP guys don't really appreciate being at 7ups sometimes, coz they're over the whole 7ups thing. But Lach's talk was really good... "how do you butter your toast" - not being clumpy lumpy christians, but spreading God's word/love/service/etc all around the place.
i'm feeling a little spacey at the moment... my eyes aren't quite focussing correctly. maybe coz i have a bit of a cold happening. it's all a bit strange!
and so my weekend went well. it was very 21st orientated in the scheme of things. with steve's lunch, and then lyndal's at night - which was good fun catching up with people like sam. then yesterday, i had this big day of action planned:
#1. morning letter box drop stuff
#2. read my chapter for phil
#3. clean my obscenely messy room
#4. wait patiently for tim to come at 5pm.
but instead i only met objectives #1 & #4. I got incredibly side tracked by workng on a powerpoint presentation for Deb's 21st. Which isn't til June. And that involved scouring all our family photo albums, and scanning about 150 photos into our computer, and then starting to set it all out in powerpoint. It filled my day quite nicely, and did feel awfully productive. Although I didn't get #2 and #3 done - I think I was procrastinating. But Deb's 21st is gonna be fun. I love photos.
March 27, 2004
steve's 21st
just back at tim's after steve's 21st out at bayview. such a nice house, and beautiful area. it was an alright afternoon. tim's family is so funny sometimes! there was a LOT of time spent talking about and displaying digital cameras. everyone seemed to have got one recently. it's funny too how similar a lot of the family members are... even if not blood related. steve seemed to enjoy himself which is good. was all pretty low key. only malcolm said a few words - but they were very nice words. lots of food and refreshments. was plenty fine.
March 26, 2004
coming soon to a household near me... ADSL.
well, i hope it's coming soon! stuff was delivered today...
March 24, 2004
my kids will have no concept of a world without mobile phones or the internet or DVDs. they may not even have a concept of dial-up. that is all very scary.
belated
i thought it should be recorded - and since Luke already congratulated us in my comments.... hoorah for two years of Tim and Jenny yesterday. and here's to many more!
i broke myself this morning - i'm not quite sure how. i think i've caught a nerve in between two bones in my shoulder blade. stupid broken shoulder to start with. so it really hurts. and if i move certain ways it hurts much much more... i haven't figured out the pattern of pain yet, so it keeps surprising me.
and then, something is really stinking out the office. i'm not sure what it is. i hope it's not me... but pooey!
March 23, 2004
21st's
they seem to come in waves. i have three over the next two saturdays... and will continue to have a number the rest of this year, and into next. it's been a while since someone's turned 21 though - about 6 months maybe.
buying presents for people you don't know very well is difficult on one hand, and then easier on the other. you can buy them anything pretty much, because both you and them know you don't know what they really like. but then, it can be hard to narrow it down to something you'd at least think they'd like. girls are easy enough though - bay swiss. heaven. boys are hard though. i don't ever know what to buy boys. what do boys like?
March 22, 2004
grub
ooh, i just dropped no name brand choc wedge icecream all over myself, and having then put water all over it to wash it off, i look quite like i've had a wee accident
March 20, 2004
oopsy daisys
i had a little bit of a car accident this evening... oops. ran into the back of a ute, coz he braked suddenly to avoid hitting a guy who decided to stop and get a parallel park. so, into the back of the ute i went, despite all my intentions and actions. no damage to him it seems, as his tray just went over the top of me mostly. but quite a bit for me... my poor car. punctured radiator and bonnet ouchy and the like... so mr tow-man came and towed my car away, and mumma came and picked tim and me up from sydney road, balgowlah. so instead of a pleasant evening at manly, tim and i shall have a pleasant evening at his house watching "pirates of the caribbean: the curse of the black pearl" (top flick!). you live, you learn. and i seem to learn a lot when it comes to car 'incidents'.
March 18, 2004
attention spans
would it be classified a long attention span if i can sit and watch the cast commentary of the "two towers" over and over again, without getting annoyed or bored?
the story of the teeth that were
It’s Wednesday night, and I thought that it would be fun to blog since I don’t have much else to do at this stage - I'm waiting for the finale of My Big Fat Obnoxious Fiance - and that is a little sad.
I thought it interesting to be under a general anaesthetic. It’s a bit strange. First off, I wasn’t too pleased to be waiting four hours in hospital before getting on the trolley to go to surgery. Then another 30 mins lying in a little room next to the theatre watching the minutes tick by. The next fun was me not having obvious or willing veins. None in my left hand, none in my left arm, none in my right hand, and difficult ones in my right arm. So after having a little poke around with the needle in my right arm, he found a vein, cannulated me and we were good to go. But it wasn’t much fun. The worst thing though was the stuff they spray into your nose to dry it up so they can put the tube in. It was like swallowing liquid vicks inhaler…. Yik! Then into the theatre and I started having little panic attacks – where I shiver uncontrollably. By this stage they’d hooked me up to the heart monitor, so I could hear my heart beat fluctuate as I tried to control my shaking. Not too long later, I was put under, with something in my arm, and gas. I thought in my head, as I could feel myself falling away, my vision going blurry, that I could tell my body was fighting it.
The next thing I remember, is trying to wake up in recovery, still blurry, and very tired. And lots of moaning. It was funny how much I moaned. After a little bit, they took me back to my room, where I spent another two or so hours. Before slowly getting changed and heading out the door, I’d drunk some water, eaten some jelly and “passed water” – that’s funny phrase.
But it’s been alright, in terms of the pain and swelling. The medication has done it’s job so far I’d say. There really hasn’t been much pain with the sockets (lest I speak too soon). There has been a bit of a sore jaw. The swelling was slight, mainly on one side. And it’s pretty much gone down. Hoorah. And the bleeding stopped by Saturday night. And so the worst part was the mush I’ve had to eat, and the nausea from not having a full stomach. There are much worse things to complain about!
So my days have held DVD’s: Two Towers cast commentary, Oceans Eleven, Pirates of the Caribbean. Two books in two days – Matthew Reilly’s ‘Contest’ and ‘Temple’ – much to the dismay of my father. And sleeping. Back to work tomorrow. At least for a bit. I’ve missed it. But I wouldn’t have been able to work like this.
And Tim’s been lovely, visiting me Saturday night, twice on Sunday, Monday night, and then I got to visit him this afternoon. What a nice guy. Hoorah for Tim.
March 17, 2004
just quickly
hello world... finally able to blog after getting my teeth out. still no stupid internet at home, but back to work tomorrow. For all those still teetering on the edges of their seats to see how my operation went, i am fine. not too more soreness or swelling which is very exciting. so much to blog, so little time. i shall be much more the updater on all things jenny tomorrow.
March 12, 2004
Wisdom Teeth
I'm getting my wisdom teeth out tomorrow, all four of them! I'm going under a general anaesthetic in hospital, but will be back out of hospital sometime tomorrow arvo (assuming all goes well!). I'm hoping that it’s not too optimistic to think I’ll be back at work on Wednesday. I swear my face is gonna blow up like a balloon.
And then Andrew emails me “I have never had wisdom teeth out but it one of my greatest fears”. Thanks Andrew. I think him saying it’s one of his greatest fears has bumped it up my list of greatest fears!! Oh well, not to worry.
March 11, 2004
We actually do work very hard in the office - we just also used our "lunch break" time very effectively... Isn't my new jumper pretty!!
mentoring
for all the talk that can go on with mentoring - Christian or otherwise - i'm very proud of debbie taking it on at church with the 'cultivate' program. what was very exciting was to find out that all the girls in Snow and my bible study group have a mentor! such potential for encouragement and growth! And strengthening relationships between the generations of our church. Not that there's much generational variation in 'cultivate' - but still, 5-10 years of age can make quite the difference.
It's kinda weird being a youth leader, and thinking about how the way i used to look up to Chuckie, Scottie (who I now lead with), Bart, Mattsir, Jake, Carby.... and thinking that's how the GAP guys might now look at me.... that is a little scary!
March 10, 2004
trailer
i stand and applaud people who are competent at reversing with a trailer - not an easy feat. but the scene i saw this morning amazed me. on my way to work, i drove past Barker, and all those huge apartments going up. they're working on one at the moment. and i was a little annoyed that they were stopping everyone in the street so i truck could reverse into the driveway to then take all the dirt and refuse away. but then, i got to watch him (i assume it was a him driver, coz they normally are) reverse his mega truck - with the equivalent of a humungous trailer (being the second 'carriage' - i'm not up on proper truck terminology) - into the driveway. it was amazing! i can't believe how skilled truckdrivers have to be. it was very proficient.
March 09, 2004
cafe
how good is it when young people surprise you in the most amazing ways. cafe is an awesome example of it. some of these young people are taking huge steps at the moment, towards God, and that is exciting! I pray they would follow through and get to the places they're planning on going, and that God'll use that in HUGE ways!
another place of pleasant surprise-ness is GAP and Junior Uggies. Sometimes the things that are said astound me with the profoundness. It's such a privelidge (spell check much?!) to be a part of all this stuff going on. God is awesome!
harvie krumpet
tim and i watched it on SBS last night, after watching the soccer (oooh, good game liverpool vs leeds utd, AND both Owen and Kewell!!). I guess we watched it coz of all the Oscar buzz - it wasn't too shabby. Got me thinking though about old people, in nursing homes and stuff. And it kinda, very sadly, is like they are just their waiting to die. like a sean penn quote from '21 grams' too, that i can't remember, but was along those lines. it's sad. all these people just sitting there, whether oblivious to the world or not, capable of doing anything or not. And so many lives just wasting away. I guess that's what you get with frail age - not something I look terribly forward to.
But I guess on the other hand there are plenty of older people living life to the full - doing all sorts of crazy and wonderful things. And that is something to celebrate. Older people are so valuable. When my Gma got Bells Palsy, and having thought it was a stroke, I thought more about my G'parents, and how tops they are. So I'm gonna go spend much more time with my other G'parents (since they're only in Eastwood rather than Old Bar). My G'parents are so awesome - so many stories!!
March 08, 2004
phoebe
the beautiful phoebe was at work today, letting us all know how loud she can be. the poor thing cried her little heart out for hours. but once mummy was back - she was all giggles and smiles. so much gorgeousness. funny how much babies are attached to their mum's and can recognise them out of anyone, and feel so safe and secure when they're around.
computers and bass
silly dad still hasn't brought computer home yet - so no geek at home. sooo... here once again at tim's blogging and checking emails, while he sits right beside me playing bass. he's sitting in a different seat he brought over, so i still get the computer chair. isn't that sweet of him.
naughty
i always feel bad when this happens... see last night we had youth supper at west penno at some people's house. lovely house by the way. anyway. sooo was getting into all of that - eating, drinking and being merry - and was only planning to stay a little, to get some food, speak with some people, and then head home to go to bed, to sleep off some more of my cold. and i drove tim, so he had to come with me too, coz his car was at my house. anyway, we stayed just that bit too long, and so when it came to the time of reflectiveness, we were AGAIN dodgy, and left just as it was to begin. that always happens and i feel horrible. it's like we're ditching on the important stuff... but i had a good reason this week! at least luke and matt stayed this time. but man, i felt bad. and thinking about it, i still feel bad. probably just because i worry about what other people think of me in it. which is silly. false guilt. hmmmm.... still.
sickness
being cold-full is sooo much fun... i think i'm on the tailend of it now... which makes me feel better, because i am feeling better. don't know if it matters that i had a cold, if i am going under a general anesthetic on saturday - coz in the questionnaire filly-outty thing it asked if you've had a cold in the last 6 months - and when i filling it out, i hadn't. but now i have. hmmmm.... oh well. if i die, it's all good. i go to heaven.
March 06, 2004
Welcome one and all...
I've made the move to footboot - thanks Ryan. And thanks too for that wonderful joke below. You're all class.
But hoorah for hopefully a much better blogging experience. and i hope too to one day soon transfer old blog posts over, but i have no idea how this thing all works - so hoorah for Ryan, and Howie - who did a great job of trying to set up my template.... hehe
Blogcity is no more...
See me now at jenga.footboot.net - and hopefully all these blog posts here will end up moving too.... it's been good. thankyou blog-city for your competence.... was good to get me started. Hoorah...
March 05, 2004
Best Poo Joke Eva!!
There are two flies sitting on a pile of poo.One fly passes gas. The other fly looks at him and says, "Hey do ya mind? I'm eating here!"
March 02, 2004
Future Aspirations
Figure it’s all good if I write my blog post at home, and then take it to work to actually post it…. That sentence is just to ease my guilty feeling for the being at work bit.
So, at the youth service two Sundays ago, and then during Na’s workshop at camp, and with Andrew’s sermon, God’s been pointing at things in me that He wants me to be thinking about. A lot of what James said the other week (talking on the rich young ruler) made me go “it’s all good”. Talking about denying yourself, taking up your cross and following Him (or going and selling all you have, giving it to the poor, and going and following Him). And what that might mean I’m called to give up. And I sat there as James read out his little possibility list, probably sitting there with a streak of pride growing in me. Give up a career – didn’t have any particular aspirations to start with, and now working as a volunteer; give up boyfriend/girlfriend – in my case boy (just to clarify) and although that would be heartbreaking, if God called me and Tim to be apart, we’d do it (and I told tim that, so it’s ok, it won’t be news to him if he reads this!!); giving up certain behaviours/habits/pleasures etc; giving up time; etc etc. Then it got a bit harder as I actually looked at what I’d struggle giving up. And I figure it’s the whole getting married and having a family thing. I think I’d cope without the suburban image, but just the family aspect would be hard to not have I think. At least in my mind at the moment (and for my whole life up to this point). I haven’t ever wanted a career. I’ve always wanted a family. But I have to be thinking if that’s what God wants for my life. I don’t think he’s telling me I won’t, but I think I have to be prepared to give up anything, if it means glorifying God and living his purpose. Then coz Na’s workshop – the girls-only one – talked about singleness. I didn’t feel it speaking directly to me, but still I was aware of not holding on to the family idea as being my life. I just have to wait and see what happens, and where God takes me. But this little voice within me still says “please God don’t let me not have a family!!”. It’s all good.
March 01, 2004
Proverbs 31:30
"Charm is deceptive, and beauty if fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised"
Amen!
over a week... tsk tsk
and it's been quite a week of events... and i have no idea where to begin! Libby has left for byron bay. chuckie has left for thailand and nepal. orbit camp has been and gone. mel and ben are married. my grandma was diagnosed with bell's palsy. my cousin joanna had a severe epileptic fit meaning she couldn't come down from QLD for mel's wedding :(. Ummm...tim got his wisdom teeth out. phoebe was dedicated. megan came to bible study. sam and kirri come home in 2 days. luke and laura got back together. my bestfriend broke up with her boyfriend. debs and i spoke about boys (a real rarity). i decided i like howie's robbie williams cd. jo came and played at the cafe again. luke and elise are together. see... lots and lots of things happening. and i didn't get to blog about a single thing of them, because our internet is STILL not connected at home. So it's another come to work early day just so i can blog. silly silly silly.