Had an awesome sunday, as I always seem to do of late.
Went to the 10am service at church, we had a guest speaker from just down the road at Glen Innes. WOW! great stuff, speaking about the fear of God, cleared up a few of my confusions.
After the service I went and grabbed a cuppa with the girls, gave out a few invites to Kate and my 21st, then we had another Electrolight conference meeting, and Damn! is the holy spirit awesome or what. Kez, who's also on the creative design team pulled out her sketching pad to share a few idea's she'd been having, I grabbed mine too and as we flicked our way through them all, everyone started humming with excitement. Mick turned to one of the pages in each of our pads and sat them side by side as Davo let out a "YOUR JOKING" we'd both sketched practically the same image, it was unreal!
so yeah, there's definite head-way going on at the moment, it's exciting, it'll be sad to leave for a good six weeks while I'm on my next teaching prac.
After the meeting I organised to meet up with the girls for an early dinner, late lunch at Tess's place before we headed to the night service at church. As I walked along texting Laura to let her know I was on my way, I looked up to see Nick pointing straight at me with this huge grin on his face "Whaaa" I mumbled
"The note Jess, thanks for the note, it was really cool"
As I was trecking my way back down the hill last thursday I'd spotted Nicks car in the carpark (It's pretty hard to miss) I'd previously Nick-named it the "Happy Car" due to it's bright yellow colour, but seeing it reminded me to pray about his whole work situation, so I grabbed a piece of paper and scribbled him a quick not which I left under his windshield wiper
"Hey Nicko!
Saw your beast parked here and it gave me a kick!
"The Happy Car" - reminded me to pray for ya!
Have an awesome day brother
Jess :)"
Got a bit of a run-down, and Nicks managed to score an interview with the company he really wanted, so thats awesome news! I'll keep praying
So I headed to dinch (dinner/lunch) with the girls, and we chatted and acted like fools, which was unreal then headed over the 6pm service at church...The place was absolutely buzzing, which was unreal! everyone was so pumped so the whole mob of us were moshing about - Felicity was up singing with the Band - So proud, she was nervous, but beautiful!
stayed after the service for Cafe`, chatted and hung out with the gang...
Great great times.
Had a full car when I left, headed all over armidale dropping people home...fantastic!
Had a good ol' chat to Fless afterwards...always one of my favourite times...
So this week...3 assignments to finish, travelling home on saturday...
coming to the realization that I'm going to miss arkidale SOOO much while I'm gone (Never thought I'd feel that way)
Thanks Lord, for knowing how much I would love being here, long before I could even see the light :D
Monday, August 15, 2005
Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Thanks to Bec-star...now I'm hooked on Quizzes
stupid quizzes didn't work...but...er....yes, I am hooked
"Teddy Scare"
We're making a movie!
Wae-jae, Bec and Myself are having a crack at it and today we started shooting our first scenes literally 5 minutes ago. The quality is going to be dodge, but oh man, just coming up with the idea's has had us all in stitches.
The basic plot; Bec was delivered a giant Teddy bear (I mean seriously this thing is big, it comes up to about my hips) - we grabbed Luke to play the delivery man - the note which accompanied it said it was from a secret admirer. The next few scenes involve Bec introducing me to the teddy, the pair of us loving it to bits - shots of us doing all sorts of Jazz with 'Teddy' - eating dinner, playing computer, going for a walk, sleeping, watching T.V. The plan is to change clothes in every shot as well as have little titles 1 week later...basically Teddy has become a huge part of our lives and we love him to bits.
Then we get a new flatmate Wae-Jae, immediately wae-jae dislikes Teddy and thinks theres something unsettling about him. One night over dinner Wae-Jae confesses his dislike.
weird stuff starts to happen, I won't go into to much detail coz it's going to be something which you've gotta see :P perhaps if your kind I'll get you a copy.
So anywhoo basically the teddies alive, and the only thing it says is "Hooooney" in this real scratchy creepy voice. But the only one who ever see's it moving or hears it is Wae-Jae, the rest of us think he's nuts.
I don't want to give away the ending but it involves a honey sandwich, a plastic axe, tomato sauce, a mobile phone, an enraged Teddy and a terrible stink.
Man we're having the best time. I'll definitely fill you in, I have this feeling that my bro Matt is going to love it!
....
On a completely unrelated note I saw Becs car today while I was at Uni, so I wrote her a quick note and pinned it under her windscreen wipers, then on the same stretch I saw Nicks car which I've nick-named the "happy Car" coz it's got this shape which I thinks quite funny and it's bright bright yellow...seeing the car actually reminded me to pray about his whole Job situation, so I scribbled another quick note and left it on his windscreen...
Bec came back and said that I'd freaked her out because she'd seen the note and thought that she'd gotten a parking ticket (Yaaaaaay for me!! hoping Nick had the same heart-attack :P)
Pretty good day today, can't complain can't complain - Bec and I have decided to grab dinner tonight - pizza perhaps, in celebration of our interviews which went well - our 4 week teaching programs have been approved! YAY!
Got a message today from the beautiful Rea, She's living in Virginia in America as a nanny thingy-majig, she's awesome, easily one of my greatest friends in the whole world. I was sort of having a bit of a blue moment and then she sent it, instantly brought a smile to my face - she always had a knack for being able to do that. Rea your fantastic! a great friend who I'm blessed unbelievably to have - I love you!
Wae-jae, Bec and Myself are having a crack at it and today we started shooting our first scenes literally 5 minutes ago. The quality is going to be dodge, but oh man, just coming up with the idea's has had us all in stitches.
The basic plot; Bec was delivered a giant Teddy bear (I mean seriously this thing is big, it comes up to about my hips) - we grabbed Luke to play the delivery man - the note which accompanied it said it was from a secret admirer. The next few scenes involve Bec introducing me to the teddy, the pair of us loving it to bits - shots of us doing all sorts of Jazz with 'Teddy' - eating dinner, playing computer, going for a walk, sleeping, watching T.V. The plan is to change clothes in every shot as well as have little titles 1 week later...basically Teddy has become a huge part of our lives and we love him to bits.
Then we get a new flatmate Wae-Jae, immediately wae-jae dislikes Teddy and thinks theres something unsettling about him. One night over dinner Wae-Jae confesses his dislike.
weird stuff starts to happen, I won't go into to much detail coz it's going to be something which you've gotta see :P perhaps if your kind I'll get you a copy.
So anywhoo basically the teddies alive, and the only thing it says is "Hooooney" in this real scratchy creepy voice. But the only one who ever see's it moving or hears it is Wae-Jae, the rest of us think he's nuts.
I don't want to give away the ending but it involves a honey sandwich, a plastic axe, tomato sauce, a mobile phone, an enraged Teddy and a terrible stink.
Man we're having the best time. I'll definitely fill you in, I have this feeling that my bro Matt is going to love it!
....
On a completely unrelated note I saw Becs car today while I was at Uni, so I wrote her a quick note and pinned it under her windscreen wipers, then on the same stretch I saw Nicks car which I've nick-named the "happy Car" coz it's got this shape which I thinks quite funny and it's bright bright yellow...seeing the car actually reminded me to pray about his whole Job situation, so I scribbled another quick note and left it on his windscreen...
Bec came back and said that I'd freaked her out because she'd seen the note and thought that she'd gotten a parking ticket (Yaaaaaay for me!! hoping Nick had the same heart-attack :P)
Pretty good day today, can't complain can't complain - Bec and I have decided to grab dinner tonight - pizza perhaps, in celebration of our interviews which went well - our 4 week teaching programs have been approved! YAY!
Got a message today from the beautiful Rea, She's living in Virginia in America as a nanny thingy-majig, she's awesome, easily one of my greatest friends in the whole world. I was sort of having a bit of a blue moment and then she sent it, instantly brought a smile to my face - she always had a knack for being able to do that. Rea your fantastic! a great friend who I'm blessed unbelievably to have - I love you!
Tuesday, August 09, 2005
Relational Drama's
As i promised here I am again...In order for the sunday night convo to make sense, I feel it appropriate to provide some background information.
About a month ago, Fless, Tess and I met for Coffee in a little Armidale Cafe`, we arrived at about 4pm and left no sooner than 9pm that evening. We talked, the 3 of us really really chatted about just about anything and everything. The big topic of the time was in fact Nick - yes the same Nick which I have spoken of in past posts. It seems that I was not alone in my initial fascinations of the man. Tess and Fless shared their own affections towards him, which if anything, was interesting.
I'm not a fan of competition, and if anything the revelations made me feel as though I was in primary school, so I sort of vowed that I would 'get over it' and forget about the whole Nick thing, I've been a kid once I don't want to be that again.
I've picked up that Tess isn't altogether sure of herself, of late I've sensed an almost clingy mentality which I find slightly suffocating. As Felicity and I chatted over Coffee at Cafe` we both expressed our fear that we were perhaps become too Cliquey - something which we both see incredibly eye-to-eye on, to put it simply, we don't want to be that! So we decided to spread out on sunday night and chat and sit with other people and do some timely mingling, which was some of the best fun I've had in a long time, Fless agreed, however Tess didn't think so, she actually got a little cranky because we did it, I fear that she may have thought that we were seperating in order to get away from her, Fless and I tried to explain that we weren't doing anything of the sort, rather we were preventing anyone else from thinking that we were trying to 'get away from' them.
The church body is so important, and I want to know each member, and the only way to do that is to make the time to. Sure there are going to be people who you know or get along with better than others, but that doesn't mean that it should by any means become something exclusive.
So anyway,as I stated in other posts Im dealing with the whole Nick thing, and I think I'm doing remarkably well (If I do say so myself) Basically the standing I've come to is that while I'm not persuing a dating relationship with the guy, I am keen to build a friendship - thus is the reason for some drama on sunday night.
As I sat in Fless's college room I was able to really chat about everything which was going on, it was great to be able to have a good vent about it.
When it came down to it, the only real drama was that Tess is pretty much convinced that she is in love with Nick, meaning that any attempt I, or fless make to be friends with the bloke is read, in Tess's eyes, as us 'having a crack' - incredibly frustrating and in my opinion... immature.
Fless is such a support, she said to me "Jess, you know your heart, you know your intentions, and I believe you when you say that your only seeking friendship with Nick. Believe me when I say that you should not have to worry about how Tess is viewing your conversations with this guy, or your interactions with him. If she goes into a jealous rage about it, well thats her problem...granted we're called to not bring one another to anger, but your by no means doing anything which is out of line, cruel or malicious. Just keep being you Jess, who knows, you may very well end up with Nick and if that were to happen I'd like to think that each of su would be able to deal with that maturely with our friendshisps still in tact - I mean who knows, maybe Tess and Nick will end up married in a couple of years - what I'm saying is we don't know where any of this will end up, but at the end of the day the only thing that is important is that you stay true to who you are,stay true to your God and Tess is going to have to deal with her emotions and her intentions, you can't do that for her, just keep being a friend...keep doing what your good at"
Truth be told Fless explained that the same sort of thing had been happening to her, apparantly Tess was under the impression that Fless was deliberately trying to embarrass her in front of Nick. I was glad that I had been there the whole night as I was able to put Fless at ease, that in my opinion she had done nothing which could be viewed as relational sabotage.
After a good chat, we decided to pray that God would intervene and prevent this from turning into something it really shouldn't be. I was getting images of broken friendships because everyone wanted Nick. It's ridiculous!
Fless and I decided that God isn't a cruel little man sitting in the clouds with a big club just waiting for the chance to mess us up. We prayed for Tess, we prayed for each of us, for a clearing of the emotions that we wouldn't ruled by them, but rather that God would aid us in applying wisdom to each and every situation.
Let me just say that I felt a lot of peace over the situation.
I sort of regretted ever telling the girls about my past feelings for Nick, because I wondered if I hadn't would it have come to this?
Ah well, I'mm glad that we're nipping it in the butt early.
Everythings going to be cool, as Fless said, Tess is still a fairly young Christian she's still learning alot, and we ourselves still have so much to learn...pray that God would use this to grow us, and teach us whatever it is we're meant to learn.
Praise God ! he is faithful, he is pretty darn great!
Yeah!! lets get some happy claps going... :p
About a month ago, Fless, Tess and I met for Coffee in a little Armidale Cafe`, we arrived at about 4pm and left no sooner than 9pm that evening. We talked, the 3 of us really really chatted about just about anything and everything. The big topic of the time was in fact Nick - yes the same Nick which I have spoken of in past posts. It seems that I was not alone in my initial fascinations of the man. Tess and Fless shared their own affections towards him, which if anything, was interesting.
I'm not a fan of competition, and if anything the revelations made me feel as though I was in primary school, so I sort of vowed that I would 'get over it' and forget about the whole Nick thing, I've been a kid once I don't want to be that again.
I've picked up that Tess isn't altogether sure of herself, of late I've sensed an almost clingy mentality which I find slightly suffocating. As Felicity and I chatted over Coffee at Cafe` we both expressed our fear that we were perhaps become too Cliquey - something which we both see incredibly eye-to-eye on, to put it simply, we don't want to be that! So we decided to spread out on sunday night and chat and sit with other people and do some timely mingling, which was some of the best fun I've had in a long time, Fless agreed, however Tess didn't think so, she actually got a little cranky because we did it, I fear that she may have thought that we were seperating in order to get away from her, Fless and I tried to explain that we weren't doing anything of the sort, rather we were preventing anyone else from thinking that we were trying to 'get away from' them.
The church body is so important, and I want to know each member, and the only way to do that is to make the time to. Sure there are going to be people who you know or get along with better than others, but that doesn't mean that it should by any means become something exclusive.
So anyway,as I stated in other posts Im dealing with the whole Nick thing, and I think I'm doing remarkably well (If I do say so myself) Basically the standing I've come to is that while I'm not persuing a dating relationship with the guy, I am keen to build a friendship - thus is the reason for some drama on sunday night.
As I sat in Fless's college room I was able to really chat about everything which was going on, it was great to be able to have a good vent about it.
When it came down to it, the only real drama was that Tess is pretty much convinced that she is in love with Nick, meaning that any attempt I, or fless make to be friends with the bloke is read, in Tess's eyes, as us 'having a crack' - incredibly frustrating and in my opinion... immature.
Fless is such a support, she said to me "Jess, you know your heart, you know your intentions, and I believe you when you say that your only seeking friendship with Nick. Believe me when I say that you should not have to worry about how Tess is viewing your conversations with this guy, or your interactions with him. If she goes into a jealous rage about it, well thats her problem...granted we're called to not bring one another to anger, but your by no means doing anything which is out of line, cruel or malicious. Just keep being you Jess, who knows, you may very well end up with Nick and if that were to happen I'd like to think that each of su would be able to deal with that maturely with our friendshisps still in tact - I mean who knows, maybe Tess and Nick will end up married in a couple of years - what I'm saying is we don't know where any of this will end up, but at the end of the day the only thing that is important is that you stay true to who you are,stay true to your God and Tess is going to have to deal with her emotions and her intentions, you can't do that for her, just keep being a friend...keep doing what your good at"
Truth be told Fless explained that the same sort of thing had been happening to her, apparantly Tess was under the impression that Fless was deliberately trying to embarrass her in front of Nick. I was glad that I had been there the whole night as I was able to put Fless at ease, that in my opinion she had done nothing which could be viewed as relational sabotage.
After a good chat, we decided to pray that God would intervene and prevent this from turning into something it really shouldn't be. I was getting images of broken friendships because everyone wanted Nick. It's ridiculous!
Fless and I decided that God isn't a cruel little man sitting in the clouds with a big club just waiting for the chance to mess us up. We prayed for Tess, we prayed for each of us, for a clearing of the emotions that we wouldn't ruled by them, but rather that God would aid us in applying wisdom to each and every situation.
Let me just say that I felt a lot of peace over the situation.
I sort of regretted ever telling the girls about my past feelings for Nick, because I wondered if I hadn't would it have come to this?
Ah well, I'mm glad that we're nipping it in the butt early.
Everythings going to be cool, as Fless said, Tess is still a fairly young Christian she's still learning alot, and we ourselves still have so much to learn...pray that God would use this to grow us, and teach us whatever it is we're meant to learn.
Praise God ! he is faithful, he is pretty darn great!
Yeah!! lets get some happy claps going... :p
Sunday happenings...
It seems that I've discovered an incredible buddy in Felicity.
Sunday night I headed over to Fless's (<---I'll explain felicity's nick-name later) college room to chat about the evenings happenings, twas an interesting evening.
Sunday morning, I became the mother and got Wae-Jae's butt out of bed, in the car and warming a pew at Church. When Wae-jae first moved into the flat we couldn't believe that we both went to the same church yet had never met before, now I can believe it, as the likely-hood of actually running into the fella at church was slim, left to his own devices he probably only heads along once every couple of months. Great Preach by pastor davo! - really good stuff.
Wae-Jae left immediately after the sermon, claimed he was in the mood for a walk, I knew him better - he was going back to bed.
So I hung around, doing what I do every sunday afternoon, chatting my way around the Church Cafe`. Now I must say that I've been pleasantly suprised by Laura, I met this shy little petal last sunday night at Church - I'm normally quite introverted when I first meet people, however of late I've noticed my willingness to really force myself to be more out-going, more myself in order to make others feel welcomed. So thats what I did with Laura. She expressed a desire to come along to the UNE bible studies on Tuesday nights, so I offered her my mobile number and gave her the directions to my flat so that we could meet there, then head over to the study together - thought it would be more comfortable walking in with someone you vaguely know, rather than entering a room full of strangers.
So after all that babbling I'll get back on track - I had to head along to the "Electrolight Team meeting" but I organised to meet Laura for Lunch straight after.
The team meeting was fun - didn't realize there was free Pizza involved, nice surprise. We embraced the opportunity for happy-clap moments, in-fact every time a member of the team entered of left the room a cheer went up, good laugh. We got more direction which was great, sorted through some stuff, basically just people establishing what area of the event they want to be focused on. Kez was talking about me being the leader of the Creative design team "Your the Arty one Jess, you'll be great, we'll be your faithful little lemmings, just show us the way" - little iffy, but it was definitely exciting, we'll see though.
Met Laura at the Court House - was in a great mood because I was able to get an awesome park due to the lack of parking restrictions on sundays (God bless the sabath!) we headed down to Macca's where I was sneezed on by a young kid from Church. I met little Joseph that morning, he's 3 and adorable and as he was chasing my shoes, he let out a rip-snorter of a sneeze which covered my legs...ahhh, children eh! surprisinly my gross metre must be malfunctioning because I just laughed hysterically instead. Laura later held up her straw, thinking it was completely empty and blew, managing to spray me with fushia pink slushy...ahhh, obviously the day for it!.
After a couple of hours at Macca's (the only place open on a sunday arvo) I dropped Laura home, singing along to the vegi-tales tape the whole way.
Headed back to the flat with Asia, had enough time to freshen up a little before heading back to Church for the 6 o'clock service.
I sat on my own, and can I just say I loved it so much - no distractions, just me and my God.
After the service while people headed off to the cafe` down the other end of the church, the band headed back up and were playing some mosh-worthy numbers, so we hung around. Tess and Felicity suddenly appeared beside me and we had a bit of a chat (they'd headed to Tamworth for the day) Tess, Jess and Felicity ---- > thus why Felicity became Fless, (Tess, Jess and Fless ;) )
I wanted to Mosh, Fless indulged me and we headed up with the mob of 'em, Nick was leading, thus why Tess wouldn't mosh, but I'll explain all that later, In fact I'll post again in a minute to explain the whole situation, as it'll take a good deal in order to explain properly. I figured that most things I do I either look like a moron or spaz so why fight it, embrace the unc and have a blast - thus I moshed and Fless and I had a good little laugh-a-puff session ;)
We headed out to Cafe` once the music stopped for the night, where I managed to somewhat embarrass Nick (Yessssss! for meee ) He had a hair hanging from his beard and while he was chatting to me I was just watching that hair swing from side to side, untill I couldn't stand it any longer so I reached out and grabbed it - Nick freaked out thinking that he had Naco's caught up in his beard, needless to say he was relieved that it was just a hair, made me laugh though when he commented "So THATS what you were looking at, I'll admit that you were making me a little nervous when you wouldn't break the stare you had going with my beard". Hung around, had a blast left at about 11pm, Dropped Fless home and while chatting in the car decided to head into the warmth of her room in order to continue the convo...and deal with the issues of the night. So to leave you oh avid reader in a suspence of sorts, I shall post the conversation of the night in my next entry.
Sunday night I headed over to Fless's (<---I'll explain felicity's nick-name later) college room to chat about the evenings happenings, twas an interesting evening.
Sunday morning, I became the mother and got Wae-Jae's butt out of bed, in the car and warming a pew at Church. When Wae-jae first moved into the flat we couldn't believe that we both went to the same church yet had never met before, now I can believe it, as the likely-hood of actually running into the fella at church was slim, left to his own devices he probably only heads along once every couple of months. Great Preach by pastor davo! - really good stuff.
Wae-Jae left immediately after the sermon, claimed he was in the mood for a walk, I knew him better - he was going back to bed.
So I hung around, doing what I do every sunday afternoon, chatting my way around the Church Cafe`. Now I must say that I've been pleasantly suprised by Laura, I met this shy little petal last sunday night at Church - I'm normally quite introverted when I first meet people, however of late I've noticed my willingness to really force myself to be more out-going, more myself in order to make others feel welcomed. So thats what I did with Laura. She expressed a desire to come along to the UNE bible studies on Tuesday nights, so I offered her my mobile number and gave her the directions to my flat so that we could meet there, then head over to the study together - thought it would be more comfortable walking in with someone you vaguely know, rather than entering a room full of strangers.
So after all that babbling I'll get back on track - I had to head along to the "Electrolight Team meeting" but I organised to meet Laura for Lunch straight after.
The team meeting was fun - didn't realize there was free Pizza involved, nice surprise. We embraced the opportunity for happy-clap moments, in-fact every time a member of the team entered of left the room a cheer went up, good laugh. We got more direction which was great, sorted through some stuff, basically just people establishing what area of the event they want to be focused on. Kez was talking about me being the leader of the Creative design team "Your the Arty one Jess, you'll be great, we'll be your faithful little lemmings, just show us the way" - little iffy, but it was definitely exciting, we'll see though.
Met Laura at the Court House - was in a great mood because I was able to get an awesome park due to the lack of parking restrictions on sundays (God bless the sabath!) we headed down to Macca's where I was sneezed on by a young kid from Church. I met little Joseph that morning, he's 3 and adorable and as he was chasing my shoes, he let out a rip-snorter of a sneeze which covered my legs...ahhh, children eh! surprisinly my gross metre must be malfunctioning because I just laughed hysterically instead. Laura later held up her straw, thinking it was completely empty and blew, managing to spray me with fushia pink slushy...ahhh, obviously the day for it!.
After a couple of hours at Macca's (the only place open on a sunday arvo) I dropped Laura home, singing along to the vegi-tales tape the whole way.
Headed back to the flat with Asia, had enough time to freshen up a little before heading back to Church for the 6 o'clock service.
I sat on my own, and can I just say I loved it so much - no distractions, just me and my God.
After the service while people headed off to the cafe` down the other end of the church, the band headed back up and were playing some mosh-worthy numbers, so we hung around. Tess and Felicity suddenly appeared beside me and we had a bit of a chat (they'd headed to Tamworth for the day) Tess, Jess and Felicity ---- > thus why Felicity became Fless, (Tess, Jess and Fless ;) )
I wanted to Mosh, Fless indulged me and we headed up with the mob of 'em, Nick was leading, thus why Tess wouldn't mosh, but I'll explain all that later, In fact I'll post again in a minute to explain the whole situation, as it'll take a good deal in order to explain properly. I figured that most things I do I either look like a moron or spaz so why fight it, embrace the unc and have a blast - thus I moshed and Fless and I had a good little laugh-a-puff session ;)
We headed out to Cafe` once the music stopped for the night, where I managed to somewhat embarrass Nick (Yessssss! for meee ) He had a hair hanging from his beard and while he was chatting to me I was just watching that hair swing from side to side, untill I couldn't stand it any longer so I reached out and grabbed it - Nick freaked out thinking that he had Naco's caught up in his beard, needless to say he was relieved that it was just a hair, made me laugh though when he commented "So THATS what you were looking at, I'll admit that you were making me a little nervous when you wouldn't break the stare you had going with my beard". Hung around, had a blast left at about 11pm, Dropped Fless home and while chatting in the car decided to head into the warmth of her room in order to continue the convo...and deal with the issues of the night. So to leave you oh avid reader in a suspence of sorts, I shall post the conversation of the night in my next entry.
Saturday, August 06, 2005
Magic...
Today it was raining....more than that it was absolutely pouring down...
LOVE IT!!
Wae-jae asked for a lift down the street since it was raining and I was bored I took the boy for a drive, then found a parking spot furthest from the shopping centre so we could walk for a good way in the rain. Call me a freak, yes, yes I am
Wae-jae of course complained the whole way as we trecked it in the rain, but man, I had the absolute best time I was jumping in the puddles all the way there, hitting them at just the right angle that it sent the water splashing all over Wae-Jae...eventually he stopped whinging and started splashing me back, Mad fun! should of seen us as we entered K-Mart absolutely soaking wet - Drowned Rats! :)
Came back, had a shower, dried off and got into my Jim-Jams then wrapped myself up in a big doona and watched video's.
OH, then I had the incredible fun of taking Wae-Jae through a complete facial...we're talking scrub, cleanser, mud mask, toner and moisturiser...he was an excellent student :P let me have my girly moment...he was cracking me up coz he was so interested in learning all the tricks of the trade.
Later that night I headed over to Tess's place, where we had ice-cream with all the Jazz, then headed over to Youth Group, Matt Andronica's was talking about Evolution, I love this blokes brain...and I grew to love it even more tonight, he's not only supa smart but he's one of the most effective communicators I've ever met. So Yes Yes, we were the creepy old people hanging out with the youngen's reminiscing about the good old days...Wae-jae Whinged the whole time (You may be beginning to notice just how much this boy spends complaining ;) ) But they started doing the hokey-pokey, and you'd better believe I was in there!! I didn't care how old I was!
OOOOOOOOOh the hokey-pokey! some things always stay good...
I dropped Wae Jae back at the flat, then Tess and I headed over to her place for a video, afterwards we had a really great Chat, about God's working in our lives, the miracles the revelations, it was really really wonderful.
I had to park my car down the road, which meant that when I came out at 1am it was well and truely dark, and the chill was so heavy in the air I was freezing, and terrified when I'm completely honest.
The area isn't known for being real safe, so I was really scared, as I walked down the road, my gut clenched so tightly, praying and reciting the verse "For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of POWER and of Love and of a SOUND MIND". I gripped my keys tightly in my hand holding them between my fingers as Matt had shown me incase someone did 'have a go' I was praying in tongues as I fumbled with the Lock and finally got the door open, sat down and immediately locked the door beside me. The windscreen was iced over, I managed to squirt enough water form the wipers to get a little circle of clear windscreen, I drove the whole way home, with incredibly impressive posture as I peeked through this little circle of clear windscreen, praying, praying that God would get me back ok.
I arrived safely, as I stepped out of the car and began to walk across the grass, I was just blown away by the beauty which surrounded me, there was soft ice everywhere lightly coating the grass and with the small amount of light which reflected it, everywhere around me it sparkled and shimmered, it was as though glitter had been sprinkled upon everything. As I took a deep breath in (and managed to get a brain freeze) I looked up at the sky - it was a perfect night, stars sprinkling, so clear...absolutely beautiful.
I managed to get into my room, fell to my knee's and just wept and whispered prayers of thanks, I had been so scared in that street, moved on to worried as I navigated my way home through the frosted windscreen, and finally ended with absolute awe as I was to behold the beautiful wooing God had left for me upon the lawn of my flat.
God truely is a wonderful wonderful lover, he blows my mind and I am so grateful that he loves me, truely truely loves me.
LOVE IT!!
Wae-jae asked for a lift down the street since it was raining and I was bored I took the boy for a drive, then found a parking spot furthest from the shopping centre so we could walk for a good way in the rain. Call me a freak, yes, yes I am
Wae-jae of course complained the whole way as we trecked it in the rain, but man, I had the absolute best time I was jumping in the puddles all the way there, hitting them at just the right angle that it sent the water splashing all over Wae-Jae...eventually he stopped whinging and started splashing me back, Mad fun! should of seen us as we entered K-Mart absolutely soaking wet - Drowned Rats! :)
Came back, had a shower, dried off and got into my Jim-Jams then wrapped myself up in a big doona and watched video's.
OH, then I had the incredible fun of taking Wae-Jae through a complete facial...we're talking scrub, cleanser, mud mask, toner and moisturiser...he was an excellent student :P let me have my girly moment...he was cracking me up coz he was so interested in learning all the tricks of the trade.
Later that night I headed over to Tess's place, where we had ice-cream with all the Jazz, then headed over to Youth Group, Matt Andronica's was talking about Evolution, I love this blokes brain...and I grew to love it even more tonight, he's not only supa smart but he's one of the most effective communicators I've ever met. So Yes Yes, we were the creepy old people hanging out with the youngen's reminiscing about the good old days...Wae-jae Whinged the whole time (You may be beginning to notice just how much this boy spends complaining ;) ) But they started doing the hokey-pokey, and you'd better believe I was in there!! I didn't care how old I was!
OOOOOOOOOh the hokey-pokey! some things always stay good...
I dropped Wae Jae back at the flat, then Tess and I headed over to her place for a video, afterwards we had a really great Chat, about God's working in our lives, the miracles the revelations, it was really really wonderful.
I had to park my car down the road, which meant that when I came out at 1am it was well and truely dark, and the chill was so heavy in the air I was freezing, and terrified when I'm completely honest.
The area isn't known for being real safe, so I was really scared, as I walked down the road, my gut clenched so tightly, praying and reciting the verse "For God has not given me a spirit of fear, but of POWER and of Love and of a SOUND MIND". I gripped my keys tightly in my hand holding them between my fingers as Matt had shown me incase someone did 'have a go' I was praying in tongues as I fumbled with the Lock and finally got the door open, sat down and immediately locked the door beside me. The windscreen was iced over, I managed to squirt enough water form the wipers to get a little circle of clear windscreen, I drove the whole way home, with incredibly impressive posture as I peeked through this little circle of clear windscreen, praying, praying that God would get me back ok.
I arrived safely, as I stepped out of the car and began to walk across the grass, I was just blown away by the beauty which surrounded me, there was soft ice everywhere lightly coating the grass and with the small amount of light which reflected it, everywhere around me it sparkled and shimmered, it was as though glitter had been sprinkled upon everything. As I took a deep breath in (and managed to get a brain freeze) I looked up at the sky - it was a perfect night, stars sprinkling, so clear...absolutely beautiful.
I managed to get into my room, fell to my knee's and just wept and whispered prayers of thanks, I had been so scared in that street, moved on to worried as I navigated my way home through the frosted windscreen, and finally ended with absolute awe as I was to behold the beautiful wooing God had left for me upon the lawn of my flat.
God truely is a wonderful wonderful lover, he blows my mind and I am so grateful that he loves me, truely truely loves me.
Friday, August 05, 2005
Change in the diet...
I've been a vegetarian for the last 5 years. An ova-lacto's vegetarian to be even more correct, which meant that I didn't eat red or white meat, but still scoffed on eggs and dairy.
However, it appears that things are changing. For a while now I've been feeling incredibly exhausted, more tired than I ever have before which I thought was strange since this is the healthiest that I've been in yonks - exercising regularly - no junky food - just fruit and vegies - plenty of water - plenty of sleep (in fact I've been taking naps which I've never done because I've been so tired) but I was still feeling just totally knackered.
So I headed to the medical centre and it seems my iron is low - really low. Explained my situation to the Doc and it seems that my body just isn't absorbing the iron from my other foods and so meat is the only way to go.
Call me a sook, call me whatever, but Thursday night as I prayed and read my bible for encouragement I had a good cry about it all. I've realized that when it comes to change I'm not always the best...I'm not terrible either, once I've gone through with something then I'm just fine and dandy, it's just making myself take that initial step.
So I ate some chicken nuggets, 30% work myself up to the heavier stuff and so far so good - no nights spend on the loo thinking I'm going to die.
Feeling a little vulnerable right now - and then Bec sent me this text message; (She's not a christian, but I asked her to pray for me) "I haven't prayed in a long time so I dunno what things r like between me n god at the moment, but I'll give it a shot coz I love u so much, n ur so important 2 me"
Stareted the waterworks off again but allowed me the opportunity to really pray into Bec's life. It's actually a really exciting time with the opportunities I've had to chat to Bec about God and his love has been awesome.
God is Good...
Your prayers would be wonderful right now - that I won't get sick and that I won't feel terribly guilty. I've been praying about it all and I genuinely feel a peace about eating meat. I think that I've discovered the balance and it came during some prayer, "Jess, you can eat meat, still love animals and continue to condemn animal cruelty..."
I'll be fine...
However, it appears that things are changing. For a while now I've been feeling incredibly exhausted, more tired than I ever have before which I thought was strange since this is the healthiest that I've been in yonks - exercising regularly - no junky food - just fruit and vegies - plenty of water - plenty of sleep (in fact I've been taking naps which I've never done because I've been so tired) but I was still feeling just totally knackered.
So I headed to the medical centre and it seems my iron is low - really low. Explained my situation to the Doc and it seems that my body just isn't absorbing the iron from my other foods and so meat is the only way to go.
Call me a sook, call me whatever, but Thursday night as I prayed and read my bible for encouragement I had a good cry about it all. I've realized that when it comes to change I'm not always the best...I'm not terrible either, once I've gone through with something then I'm just fine and dandy, it's just making myself take that initial step.
So I ate some chicken nuggets, 30% work myself up to the heavier stuff and so far so good - no nights spend on the loo thinking I'm going to die.
Feeling a little vulnerable right now - and then Bec sent me this text message; (She's not a christian, but I asked her to pray for me) "I haven't prayed in a long time so I dunno what things r like between me n god at the moment, but I'll give it a shot coz I love u so much, n ur so important 2 me"
Stareted the waterworks off again but allowed me the opportunity to really pray into Bec's life. It's actually a really exciting time with the opportunities I've had to chat to Bec about God and his love has been awesome.
God is Good...
Your prayers would be wonderful right now - that I won't get sick and that I won't feel terribly guilty. I've been praying about it all and I genuinely feel a peace about eating meat. I think that I've discovered the balance and it came during some prayer, "Jess, you can eat meat, still love animals and continue to condemn animal cruelty..."
I'll be fine...
Tuesday, August 02, 2005
Joining the Team...
Chatted to Kez on sunday about the "Electrolight Youth Conference" which is due to run for the 2nd year early next febuary. They've been looking for arty-farties in order to make up a design team. When I chatted to Kezza she was so excited and granted I was already pretty stoked with the opportunity to really put myself into such an awesome project.
We spent a good part of the afternoon chatting about the direction which the conference wants to take this coming year and what they're hoping to do. Kez is a bit of an arty too, so we were throwing around ideas about what we could have going on over the course of the weekend. Man I was so excited, really got the creative juices flowing. As part of the creative design team we're in charge of the lighting, the flyers and pamphlets, as well as all the decrorative aspects of the event which included the big background canvas designs.
The theme is "Purpose" and draws heavily from Jeremiah, you know the verse "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you..." just tossing idea's around with Kez and the concepts of huge canvases with developing bubs and those words across them, as well as statements such as "Leave your mark - change YOUR world" with images of hand and foot-prints.
We have a team meeting scheduled for sunday afternoon, wo it'll be cool to get together and have a chat about what everyons been dreaming up and the area's they would like to persue.
I'll grab a link to the conference web site as soon as I can find it, so you can take a squiz and get an idea what it's ll about. The conference is still only a baby, with last year being the first year it was run, so we have great expectations, and there's an awesome excitement around everyone involved, the gigs been initiated, it's like a fine wine, we're hoping it'll get better and better with age. We're still learning alot, it's an incredibly exciting time.
The link I promised
We spent a good part of the afternoon chatting about the direction which the conference wants to take this coming year and what they're hoping to do. Kez is a bit of an arty too, so we were throwing around ideas about what we could have going on over the course of the weekend. Man I was so excited, really got the creative juices flowing. As part of the creative design team we're in charge of the lighting, the flyers and pamphlets, as well as all the decrorative aspects of the event which included the big background canvas designs.
The theme is "Purpose" and draws heavily from Jeremiah, you know the verse "Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you..." just tossing idea's around with Kez and the concepts of huge canvases with developing bubs and those words across them, as well as statements such as "Leave your mark - change YOUR world" with images of hand and foot-prints.
We have a team meeting scheduled for sunday afternoon, wo it'll be cool to get together and have a chat about what everyons been dreaming up and the area's they would like to persue.
I'll grab a link to the conference web site as soon as I can find it, so you can take a squiz and get an idea what it's ll about. The conference is still only a baby, with last year being the first year it was run, so we have great expectations, and there's an awesome excitement around everyone involved, the gigs been initiated, it's like a fine wine, we're hoping it'll get better and better with age. We're still learning alot, it's an incredibly exciting time.
The link I promised
Personality
 You are dependable, popular, and observant. Deep and thoughtful, you are prone to moodiness. In fact, your emotions tend to influence everything you do. You are unique, creative, and expressive. You don't mind waving your freak flag every once and a while. And lucky for you, most people find your weird ways charming! |
I knabbed the link to this personality test from Bec-star, not convinced that your personality can simply be determined by one click of the mouse on a piccie, but I definitely had to agree with at least some of it, definitely the emotions ruling a lot of what I do...made me think though, is it a weakness that I am so susceptable to the ruling of emotions? I don't believe that I always act on the shovings of emotions, however they often make me stop, think and ponder.
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