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[05 Sep 2006|12:21am] |
tonight zoe and i drove over to summer hill to say the last goodbye to ol' betsy. we pulled pieces off her for zoe to keep as memories, including burning off her seatbelt because we couldn't find any scissors. we then said some words and threw the keys into the harbour. and despite a few cuts from the broken glass, it was some good closure.
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[26 Jun 2006|03:50pm] |
i have been commanded to post this:
if you comment on this post:
1. i’ll respond with something random about you
2. i’ll challenge you to try something
3. i’ll pick a color that i associate with you
4. i’ll tell you something i like about you
5. i’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you
6. i’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. i’ll ask you something i’ve always wanted to ask you
8. if i do this for you, you must post this on yours
there.
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[08 Jun 2006|12:13am] |
1. oh yes, i am so so sleepy. and i think i am just going to get over the fact that i have an assessment due tomorrow that i'm yet to start and just go to bed... after all I AM playing squash at 8am.
2. we're surviving quite well without the parents i think, although the other day i did have to settle on a hot dog for lunch and the frankfurt was kinda green and was hard instead of soft. but i got through it and i'm still alive. hurrah.
3. in other news, i got placed at Royal North Shore (yay!) in block 1 (ie over MMM) instead of block 2 for my acute care placement. so i had to go and complain and they managed to push me into block 2... at westmead (boo).
4. my head is full of thoughts about things i dont want to be thinking about anymore. it's lame.
yep. bed.
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[23 May 2006|02:17am] |
oh... it's 2:20am and i have a big exam tomorrow that i haven't studied for.
child protection course was long but actually quite good. and i appreciated the chance to stop and think WHY i do youth ministry, and also to be really aware of what can be going on in these kids lives. it's important to be trained in this stuff!
i didn't go home when it finished at 10pm but i messaged Ruth and we ended up buying gelato and walking through Newtown talking about absolutely everything until midnight when she drove me home and we proceeded to sit in her car outside my house for the next hour and a half. we had the best conversation and it just didn't stop. and although i was meant to rush home and study i convinved her (and myself) that this was way more important and eternal and so we caught up guilt free.
but now i have to face reality and get to bed so i can set my alarm for a ridiculous hour in order to skip my morning lectures and cram for this exam.
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oh oh oh i am so sick of this assessment.
i have been trying to understand these concepts for hours now, let alone put them into an essay and poster. sigh indeed.
i'm sitting at the table with my mother while she draws pictures (and talks to herself with a lisp... and laughs... i'm getting worried...) and rach and steve are attacking each other in the kitchen.
and NO ONE is coming online, and no one is messaging me and there's no good tv and i've eaten so i can't justify any sort of distraction.
boring mcborison.
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[05 Mar 2006|01:17am] |
well... that was one of the funniest nights ever. haven't laughed like that in a long time.
im feeling very tired, but have had SUCH a good saturday :)
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[27 Jan 2006|11:01pm] |
got back from KYLC this afternoon. man, what a week... but that story is way too full on for LJ. but i'm feeling good :)
some stuff that came out of the talks was just fantastic, things i really hope i dont forget.
i'm so excited about the next couple of weeks. camping at gerringong and then byron. i cant wait to get in the swing of byron, when it's about day 3-4 and you've forgotten sydney and you can feel yourself starting to really relax.
must sleep so i can be engerised enough to bake cookies with my youth girls tomorrow morning.
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[29 Dec 2005|05:30pm] |
so something sharp got stuck pretty deep in my foot on monday, so i dug it out with scissors and left a bit of a hole.
walking without shoes on wednesday something else kinda sharp got stuck in there, so i dug it out with tweezers and and left a bigger hole.
last night i woke up a few times because my foot was aching.
this morning i realised it's getting infected and now i can't walk on the area sorrounding the wound which is directly where i need to walk.
mmm... lame.
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[21 Dec 2005|06:53pm] |
Make a list of 20 songs you can listen to over and over and over and over again, and never get sick of listening to. Then tag five people.
Running now - Antiskeptic
Glycerine - Bush
Crash into me - Dave Matthews Band
Eve, the apple of my eye - Bell X1
I love the rain most - Joe Purdy
Older chests - Damien Rice
Hands down - Dashboard Confessional
All over you - Live
Here is gone - Goo Goo Dolls
Chop suey - System of a down
Conversations - Sara Groves
Closer to Thee - Mike McCarthy
This road - Jars of Clay
Buy now pay later - The Whitlams
Mrs.Potters Lullaby - Counting Crows
Gillian - The Waifs
Somewhere in between - Lifehouse
All these things that I've done - The Killers
Sad Lisa - Cat Stevens
Wish you well - Bernard Fanning
mmm ok, i tag rachm, samm, jenbudd, kane
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[15 Dec 2005|12:02am] |
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jackie, rach and i got to be a part of the( recording ) for the new emu youth album. fun fun :)
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[12 Dec 2005|01:24am] |
I finally caught up on some sleep, and then find myself awake at 1:30am and so will probably ruin all my good work.
so much has happened in the last week. i did so many things for the first time, and Tom kept saying "if you can ride this motorbike you can ride any motorbike" and "if you can shoot this gun you can shoot any gun". pretty cool!
such a great sermon tonight. challening and important stuff.
went to crystal's afterwards and we watched "the office" which i found hilarious. and then just sat around talking with the gang. jonny sat in the cupboard that made his voice sound funny and told us a story while we sat around listening and laughing (partly at the story, partly at the fact that jonny was in a cupboard and we were listening).
my mind is busy busy with so many thoughts.
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full on weekend.
started getting sick...
did my talk at TOMS
which was followed by a crazy, 13-year-old-girly sleepover which involved things such as karaoke, mulan and my ability to somehow not sleep despite my insane tiredness which means i watched my clock go after 4am, and before i knew it it was 7:30am and we were all up and about.
home for about 45 mins then off to yum cha with zoe, darien and rhys.
home for an hour or so where i fell asleep at the computer for about 10 mins, managed to move to my bed for about 15 mins and then was awoken by a message.
off to blues point for a coffee, music etc with zoe
home for about 2 hours on my own to listen/write music
jackie over for dinner and then 'we can be heroes'
harry potter with zoe and rhys
sunday morning go to 8am church to hear mark earngey speak
2 coffees with rhys
met with simon flinders about my work next year
to the lloyds to help rose install and add songs to her new mp3 player
straight to lawn bowls for our retro outreach event - ben and i teamed up and we brought home the winners trophy
straight to church
from church the gang when to crystal's new (completely empty) place where we sat on the floor and ate junk food, sang and chatted.
sam, jonny, rach and i wrote the funniest song for crystal which is perhaps a little controversial.
we crammed into the bathroom and tried to put up a giant poster and sat in the bath
lay in em's room and tipped our heads upside down to let the blood run into it and then took the most offensive photos i've ever seen that made us all nearly vomit with laughter.
home at 12:30am and i'm SO glad i can sleep in tomorrow. my head feels like it's going to explode and my eyes wont stop crying for no reason.
these are gonna be good holidays!
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[27 Nov 2005|10:22pm] |
remember that day when the sky was on fire?
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[18 Nov 2005|01:00am] |
got such a good, early birthday present.
i didn't see my facilitator today. so i msgd him tonight to just confirm what i was meant to do tomorrow.
beth writes: "hey simon, so i'll head to the cummins ward at 9am and then go to the hearing at 1pm?"
simon responds: "i dont want you in the cummins ward on your own. so take the morning off"
sigh. a joyous sleep in :)
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[16 Nov 2005|11:54pm] |
ah. tired i am.
australia did good tonight.
i'm nervous about the next two days.
i dont want to complain, because it's all good... well at least it will be.
but i want to complain cos i just feel like it.
meh. i'll just sleep, at least that'll solve the complaint of tiredness for a while.
hi darien :)
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[16 Nov 2005|12:10am] |
ah! i should SO be asleep. maybe zoe's right, maybe when you're full time workers you need to go to bed earlier. maybe i'm trying to prove her wrong and just getting sick and cranky in the process.
prac is sloooooow. it's just action-unpacked (if you get what im saying) compared to ANY other prac experience i've had so far. normally i come home exhausted from being on my feet all day, right now im sitting in a chair DYING to get out there and practice stuff i know.
this morning was ok, i sat in on two sessions. one was man with terrible depression which made me think so long and hard about life and sadness and the need for Jesus. and the other was a dude with bipolar disorder who was dealing with debt and loss of wife etc due to manic episodes. interesting again.
hopefully simon will kick me out of his nothing-happens joint and back in with the ARC team where i started so i can see more of that stuff i saw monday morning. although i must admit i was a little scared at times. me and another very small lady had to go into a group home to give the guys their meds. there were 4 big blokes, all with serious disorders, one guy with severe aggression. and at one point they were all blocking the doorway and i just felt uneasy about what they could do and noone would know...
aaanyway. all this time of just sitting (today i sat in a room on my own undisturbed from 1:30-5pm) has given me a LOT of time for thinking about all sorts of things. it's been good.
went to get takeaway spicey wok tonight, as i stood in the line JACKIE turned up to get thai too. it was the best moment ever. so we sat and ate together :)
i looked through every single photo album tonight and i feel very nostalgic indeed. of things like england, the gang, dave, swans living in australia, school, canada, youth group days, belgium. sigh... time, what will i do with you!?
ok really is bed time or i'll die when my THREE alarms go off tomorrow. (three alarms one minute apart or i never get out of bed)
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[14 Nov 2005|12:13am] |
and so i write...
i was meant to come home and go straight to the shower so i can score 7 hours sleep, but rach just walked in. so instead i ate 2 homemade anzac cookies, a packet of original chips, about 30 olives and some coke. mmm so much for not eating junk food. mmm so much for not eating right before i go to bed. and so i wait for her to wash, so i may wash because it is a shower night indeed!
mental health prac starts tomorrow. yuck and yay. 8am, unpaid, vulnerable, uncomfortable, draining, unknown. and yet always very amazing, very eye-opening, very rewarding at times. the good with the bad eh? and plus, spurgeon so clevery explained to me the other night that i am right where God wants me, right where God can use me. how exciting if he can use me these next two weeks. comforting.
i was quite moved by the confession/thanksgiving tonight, it was written in a way that cut straight to my heart. it wasn't all fancy words etc, it was just so simple yet so real. and my little brother drummed so well tonight. you're gonna be a star :)
i cant believe i'm turning 21 on friday... i know it's really not all that old. but it still gets me thinking about life and how quickly it does move. especially after talking with jax tonight about paul and christmas etc... so bizarre.
i hate it when good things become complicated. so much analysing has gone into the past few days, it's time to just breathe and relax... God'll figure it out, nothing more i can do now.
aaaanyway, the ol' sister of mine is out so i should shower and try and grab sixandahalfhours... can i be asleep in 17 mins? lets give it a shot.
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[11 Nov 2005|12:35am] |
ah, SO many things... you remember?
exam saturday morning. there are 10 short answer questions and 2 essays. it took me the best part of today to study for TWO of the short answer questions. (full stop). i'm nannying from 8am-6pm tomorrow. then youth group which im trying to get out of, although i really really want to go. i'd hate to be at home at 8pm knowing TOMS was going on and i wasn't there... but it might have to come to that :( blah to exams!
awkward awkward evening at times. nothing like being left to entertain your parents friends for half an hour so. especially when 2 of them don't know the other 2 and so none of us had anything really in common to talk about and so i was forced to throw out those lines like "so any of you seen the new Pride and Prejudice? worth seeing?" yuck yuck!
a postcard from the swan's today. i smiled a teary smile and read it about 8 times. put it down. then read it about 3 more.
jackie came over and showed me her moves to the boogie that be. we laughed at sport wednesday videos in reverse then we bought ice creams and ate them in the car. it was just the perfect distraction :)
oh prac, no no never come. jesus come. not prac.
so much to do, so much to think about, so much to sort out...
i must go sleep so i can get 6 hours sleep before 10 hours with the mini-humans.
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