12.12.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:59 pm by Sarah
There may be a considerable amount of silence for a while. My assignment at the extremely-generous-company-who-let-me-have-free-reign-of-the-net has come to an end.
And now comes the packing and cleaning and moving. Not to mention everything else! But I am relatively cheerful knowing that it's not impossible and we are on schedule with most things. Although it will be a little strange knocking about alone in a huge 4 bedroom house this week.. :/
The weekend was most satisfactory – involving shopping, catching up with friends, the TAFE Ministry Supporters Dinner and a small amount of clearing and cleaning.
Plus my HUGE achievement last night of thwarting Haoran at the Train Game and finishing in first place!!!!! *grin*
Fun times…
I shall be back with wild tales of Christmas craziness and Beach Misson madness. 
Bye!
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09.12.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 5:35 pm by Sarah
We have a house at last and we're moving on the 19th and it's perfect!!!!! God is so good 
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07.12.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 8:31 pm by Sarah
is a bear hug
is a newly cleaned floor
is delicious nutty chocolate
is stretching just before you go to sleep
is the feeling of accomplishment after exercise
is knowing God is in control
is learning how to love better
is reassurance
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06.12.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 3:46 pm by Sarah
Things have been…. interesting and fun.
On Saturday, after having our famous egg-and-bacon-greasefest, we set out to do our worst. First on the agenda… apply to rent ANOTHER house. We figure you apply for as many as possible and eventually we'll score. Problem is: there is a decided lack of rental houses in QH. So it's been kinda like looking for a needle in a haystack. Plus we're competing against the 50 billion OTHER people who are looking.
The real estate lady took her time with the photocopier causing us to be late for our advertising seminar which would score us either a holiday or some sort of appliance. Haoran got this random letter and we had decided to go so we could get the free stuff – but try not to listen to the hard-sell. But, of course, we were late and they had closed their doors, so we decided to can it and book our honeymoon.
Travel agents are weird. Maybe it's coz I really haven't dealt with them much… but we ended up with this chick who didn't talk to us, didn't listen, avoided eye-contact and managed to basically re-quote the stuff we'd already been quoted on anyway. We almost walked out, but ended up booking half of it anyway. I wonder whether I take the quality of customer service I get a little too seriously….
Then I learnt that dragging a boy through Spotlight for 20 mins is not the way to stay in the good books so I earnt back favour with muffins and promising to drive us to our next destination.
I hadn't been to Koorong for a while… it amused and puzzeled me to see 'The Prayer of Jabez' on the sale table as I walked in. It actually reminded me to be deserning as I looked around.
I guess one thing I realised while I was there was that there is a clear lack of decent Australian books and devotions for early teenage girls. What is there is either outdated or inappropriate or not at the right level. I didn't recognise the American authors and found most of the language to be 'Americanised' as well. It was a little frustrating when trying to select gifts.
Finally my body decided it had had enough and my head started throbbing and rendered me unconscious for the rest of the night. I did emerge briefly (after the pain-killers numbed most of my body) to try Haoran's delicious new salad recipe however! (mangoes…… mmmmm)
This week we're still looking for houses, making invitations and hosting a few NTE mission peoples! And I'll be trying to stay sane…
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01.12.05
Posted in Uncategorized at 2:44 pm by Sarah
1. House. House applied for. It's ok. It has everything we need. It has some traffic noise but I'll cope. Visitor parking is shocking too…. my poor visitors.. Next: set a moving date and find lots of muscley guys to move my stuff.
2. Invitations. Have paper – have prototype. It's on the agenda to argue about the wording. Next: set up invitation-making-session with willing and able friends.
2. Rings. We know what we want! (I think) Next: appointment with designer tonight.
3. Beach Mission Prep. In progress. Almost finished in fact. Next: Write up To Do lists and Shopping lists for each day.
4. Christmas Shopping. Made a dent in it yesterday thank goodness. Mostly done Next: What to buy Grandparents??
This is what my brain looks like at the moment. Literally. I woke up yesterday, after having several stressful dreams with a billion things running through my head and wrote them all down – which is always the best thing to do in that situation.
This is my goal for the next three months (79 days to be more specific): go to Beach Mission, KYLC, KYC, work in between… and get married.
This is my automated response: organisation frenzy and stress.
A Certain Other Person's response is: ok… so you/we need to do all this stuff. But we don't need to stress about it. We'll get it done soon enough.
My response to that is: We need to do it now! We have no time! Aaaarrgh!!!
So I give myself a pep-talk…
Ok.. take a step back. Get some perspective. You're not just going to Beach Mission. You're going to help a team of people tell the gospel to people by getting them fed. You're not just going to Katoomba conventions, you're going to stretch your mind and learn how to write better Bible Studies plus gain a whole lotta Bible teaching. And getting married is not about one day that has to be perfect, you're committing yourself to another person, to love them and be faithful to them, for the rest of your life. That is huge – but not incomprehensible. Get yourself together!
*sigh*
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