Fictional - I remember reading a book years ago called Peep Show. If I remember correctly it was about a girl who worked for some sort of production company and her bosses came up with an idea to put hidden camera's around her house to secretly film the going on's of her flat mates. It was a great book. In the end they wanted to turn it into a book and they had to reveal what they had been doing to her roomies and they were understandably angry... Anywho, it was a good read...
Non-Fiction - A Case for Christ by Lee Strobel. I love this book. I have read it twice and I really think its amazing. Lee used to be an atheist. One day his wife came home and declared that she was a Christian. After a couple of years he decides he needs to investigate it for himself. So he travels around the country interviewing these amazingly brilliant men and asking them difficult questions about Jesus' life. I found it very educational. He was asking questions that I haven't even thought of before. He is a journalist and a lawyer and he just has a really great way of writing and explaining things. He has also written other books which I also enjoy. I highly suggest looking him up...
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Day 12. Talk about anything you like...
Ok, well I am not feeling very inspired today. I am at work and it is a bit of a slow day. Let’s see. My earliest memory is when I was 3 years old. I woke up on my birthday and I thought, YAY I’m a big kid now! I don’t know why that memory has stuck with me. I loved the house I grew up in. In a little place called Towrang, just outside of Goulburn. It was set on a 50 acre block, it had a train line that ran over it and river that ran through it. The train line was set high on bricks handmade by convicts from years ago. There was a giant rock underneath the train pillar’s and if I bashed and scrapped it, it would produce some powder and if mixed with water from the river this would make paint! It was pretty cool. My brother, my two sister’s and I had lots of fun running around, building cubby houses in the tree’s, climbing the pillars, hiding in the small pine tree paddock that we had, swimming in the river using empty 4 litre orange bottle’s to keep us afloat. If there was too much rain the river would swell and flood. On a couple of occasion’s we would write a note, put it in a bottle and toss it into the river. One day we found a note that our next door neighbour had also put in a bottle. We didn’t have the heart to tell him that we had found it so close by. Let him think it ended up in some faraway magical land...
Later on, we got a canoe and would float down the river looking at it from a different angle than the one we knew so well. There was seaweed and eels and leeches. We had a big backyard with a trampoline, a massive shed that help two cars, a tractor and a whole bunch of other stuff, we had a bunk house out the back, which Dad used as his study. We had a big veggie garden behind that which held strawberries, apples, cherries, corn, lettuce, carrots, beans, pumpkin and all sorts of other wonderful things.
We had two main dogs while I was growing up. Zac was the first but he grew old and deaf and eventually wandered onto the tracks of the railway and must have been hit. I was only very young when this happened, but I still remember Dad coming in to tell us. The second was Jess. They were both beautiful black and white border collies. Such gorgeous dog’s. Jess passed away in Qld when after mum and dad had relocated up there. There were a few stray dogs that came by in between, but they didn’t seem to stay for very long.
We also had a horse on loan for a time I believe, but we weren’t allowed to ride him. We had a long dirt driveway and once when the railway was re-doing the rocks on the tracks they gave us the previous stones for free and bulldozed them on our driveway. Dad was extremely pleased as this would have cost thousands and thousands of dollars if we had of been paying someone!
My sister and my brother and I were all homeschooled till various ages. Ruth and Liz went to school in year 5 and 6, I went half way through year 2 (after Dad had a heart attack) and then Josh went in year 7. Mum was a teacher and put a lot into us kids.
Ok, that’s enough for one day
Cheerio Old Chaps xo
Later on, we got a canoe and would float down the river looking at it from a different angle than the one we knew so well. There was seaweed and eels and leeches. We had a big backyard with a trampoline, a massive shed that help two cars, a tractor and a whole bunch of other stuff, we had a bunk house out the back, which Dad used as his study. We had a big veggie garden behind that which held strawberries, apples, cherries, corn, lettuce, carrots, beans, pumpkin and all sorts of other wonderful things.
We had two main dogs while I was growing up. Zac was the first but he grew old and deaf and eventually wandered onto the tracks of the railway and must have been hit. I was only very young when this happened, but I still remember Dad coming in to tell us. The second was Jess. They were both beautiful black and white border collies. Such gorgeous dog’s. Jess passed away in Qld when after mum and dad had relocated up there. There were a few stray dogs that came by in between, but they didn’t seem to stay for very long.
We also had a horse on loan for a time I believe, but we weren’t allowed to ride him. We had a long dirt driveway and once when the railway was re-doing the rocks on the tracks they gave us the previous stones for free and bulldozed them on our driveway. Dad was extremely pleased as this would have cost thousands and thousands of dollars if we had of been paying someone!
My sister and my brother and I were all homeschooled till various ages. Ruth and Liz went to school in year 5 and 6, I went half way through year 2 (after Dad had a heart attack) and then Josh went in year 7. Mum was a teacher and put a lot into us kids.
Ok, that’s enough for one day
Cheerio Old Chaps xo
Sunday, March 27, 2011
Day 11. A photo taken of you recently
This is probably the most recent one that I have immediate access to. At the begining of the year there was a 'pay it forward' thing going around on facebook. The idea was to put it on your status, the first three people to comment you have a year to make them something handmade. And in return they had to put it as their status and do the same for three other people. And so on and so forth.
As I am not very artistic, I decided to go to the Lyncraft shop the other day and it was a magical land of all sorts of different craft things. I thought I should start with something sort of simple. So I bought some knitting needles and some yarn (lol) and started knitting a scarf for my friend. It then turned into a blanket and then a circle! Epic Fail. So now I have started again and hopefully can make my friend a scarf by winter!
:-)
I hope you are having a happy monday everyone!
xx
Becoming someone we want to be...
We are all on a journey. There are ups and Downs in every one's life. Happiness is sometimes a choice... I find I am learning things every day. I am becoming more and more the person that I will be tomorrow. You choose how you are going to be.
To become the person we want to be takes a lot of work. And we can't do it on our own. We need someone to guide us. We have to make decisions to stay on the path that we need to be on every day. It's a constant struggle, but the rewards are worth it. There will always be people along the way, trying to tempt us and if we give in, we run the risk of falling behind on our journey and losing our way.
There are many people, that whether we know it or not, have helped us along the way. We might have looked at them and saw something we liked, or didn't like in them, or had a conversation that got us thinking about something fundamental, or something minor, that shifting our way of thinking, or helped us form an opinion about something. Everyone you meet in life has the potential to change your life. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but maybe one day... This being the case, we need to keep in mind that the opposite applies. We have the capability of impacting someones life. For good OR bad. I don't about you, but I want to be impacting people's lives in a positive way and hopefully get them thinking about God. You need to be true to yourself and true to what you believe.
I definitely have things I need to work on in my life. I need self control. In many aspects of my life.I need to know when to say something and when to bite my tongue. I need to find the balance between my nature (which is fight) and the other, which is flight.
My Dad has the gift of discernment. I could definitely use some help in this area. I am a trusting person and sometimes that means that I manage to let people take advantage of me. It's something that I have been faced with many times. But I don't want to let this dampen my spirits and prevent me from trusting in the future.
I also really could use some more patience. It's a hard thing to pray for sometimes because I know that God will probably be more than happy to teach me a lesson in this area. Ha ha!
Sometimes I think I am a good communicator and sometimes I think I could use some help in the area. I think there is room for improvement.
I strive to be a good partner, a good daughter, sister and friend. I think it is really important to love people and this is something that is usually easy for me. Although I would be lying if I said I didn't struggle with it sometimes... I know there is good in everybody and that Jesus loves everyone and what's good enough for my saviour is good enough for me. Although I am no where near perfect I think Jesus is a pretty good role model. The best one, in fact :-)
I need help in the motivation part as well. I usually get really fired up for something and then burn out too quickly. Maybe it's stamina I need. Not in the physical sense.
I wonder if anybody even reads this....
It's a good way for me to get some of the many many many thoughts inside my head out. So thanks for listening cyber space!
To become the person we want to be takes a lot of work. And we can't do it on our own. We need someone to guide us. We have to make decisions to stay on the path that we need to be on every day. It's a constant struggle, but the rewards are worth it. There will always be people along the way, trying to tempt us and if we give in, we run the risk of falling behind on our journey and losing our way.
There are many people, that whether we know it or not, have helped us along the way. We might have looked at them and saw something we liked, or didn't like in them, or had a conversation that got us thinking about something fundamental, or something minor, that shifting our way of thinking, or helped us form an opinion about something. Everyone you meet in life has the potential to change your life. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow, but maybe one day... This being the case, we need to keep in mind that the opposite applies. We have the capability of impacting someones life. For good OR bad. I don't about you, but I want to be impacting people's lives in a positive way and hopefully get them thinking about God. You need to be true to yourself and true to what you believe.
I definitely have things I need to work on in my life. I need self control. In many aspects of my life.I need to know when to say something and when to bite my tongue. I need to find the balance between my nature (which is fight) and the other, which is flight.
My Dad has the gift of discernment. I could definitely use some help in this area. I am a trusting person and sometimes that means that I manage to let people take advantage of me. It's something that I have been faced with many times. But I don't want to let this dampen my spirits and prevent me from trusting in the future.
I also really could use some more patience. It's a hard thing to pray for sometimes because I know that God will probably be more than happy to teach me a lesson in this area. Ha ha!
Sometimes I think I am a good communicator and sometimes I think I could use some help in the area. I think there is room for improvement.
I strive to be a good partner, a good daughter, sister and friend. I think it is really important to love people and this is something that is usually easy for me. Although I would be lying if I said I didn't struggle with it sometimes... I know there is good in everybody and that Jesus loves everyone and what's good enough for my saviour is good enough for me. Although I am no where near perfect I think Jesus is a pretty good role model. The best one, in fact :-)
I need help in the motivation part as well. I usually get really fired up for something and then burn out too quickly. Maybe it's stamina I need. Not in the physical sense.
I wonder if anybody even reads this....
It's a good way for me to get some of the many many many thoughts inside my head out. So thanks for listening cyber space!
Day 10 — A photo of you taken over ten years ago
Ok here are three photos of my when I was a toddler. I had a big cheekie smile and I still do. :-) The second is me and my Daddy and the third is me and my Poppy.
Photo's are a great way of capturing memories and I wish I had more from when I was little...
I had a nice weekend in Melbourne. The food down there that I ate was amazing. I tried Hungarian and Nepalease for the first time. Both very nice.
I went to the movies and watched Red Riding Hood and I quite enjoyed it :)
Back to work tomorrow.
Buckle up for a great week people.
xxx
Friday, March 25, 2011
Day 9: A photo you took
Ok, now I don't claim to be a good photography in anyway. I will leave that to my sister Elizabeth.
These two photo's I took in The Blue Mountains. One was taken on the Skyway. You are just hanging so high up in one of the most amazing landscapes that I have ever seen. The Blue Mountains always takes my breath amazing. It's beautiful is truly mesmerizing! If you haven't been, I highly reccomend it!
The other photo was taken at my favourite place in The BM. The Carrington. It is where I am getting married. I love ivy and I just found this really pretty.
I am sure that I will ramble on more about The Blue Mountains at another time :-)
Cherio Old Chaps xo
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Day 8 - A photo that makes you angry or sad
My beautiful Nephew Beau. This photo makes me more happy/sad. I could say it makes me angry because he was taken too soon from us, but anger is a useless emotion. Beau was the most perfect little man. He only lived to 10 months old, but in that time he had a profound impact of not only my life, but people all over the world. He had a genetic disease called SMA Spinal Muscular Astrophy. I won't go into the details of the disease, but it is the number one genetic killer of children under two and if you don't know much about it then I strongly suggest you go to our friend's website http://www.smaaustralia.org.au/ and have a look.
Beau was really special to me and he always will be. He had great personality and when he smiled he seriously did just light up the whole world. I miss him a lot. And think about him often. He would have been 3 this year and it kills me that he isn't here...
This was the last photo of him and I together on my last trip up to see him before he went to live with Jesus. I had a very special time with him. I was spinning my finger around and making noises and then when I got close to him, he would reach out and touch my finger. Which wasn't easy for him to do. It will always be a memory that I hold very very close, for the rest of my life.
Love you little man...
xxx
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