28.09.06
CHALLENGE!!
Ok so no one will get that joke except for Rachel… oh well.
I’m all hyped up for our weekend in Meroo. My first proper Challenge conference!! Read the rest of this entry »
18.09.06
Carnival
‘Carnival’ is the theme for Beach mission this year – and I have exactly 4 days to figure out my costume for the houseparty.
 After googling a little I found some suggestions:
From the Venetian Carnival page: During the carnival, Venetians used to dress up in the oddest of ways. A document with the strange title of “Different ways of dressing up for carnival introduced by both men and women alike during the 18th century” lists the different costumes in use. Here are but a few:
- as a fisherman with his fishing-rod
- as a Turk with a pipe or sceptre
- as Gnaga with a baby or a cat or a dog wrapped in swaddling clothes
- as The Doctor
- as a lawyer with papers
- as a lackey
- as a Spaniard
- as a weeping Jew
- as a demon
- as a hunter with a fake gun
- as a trembling, gouty old man
- as a Gallic invalid
- as an Armenian
- as a Satyr
- as a kitchen-gardener with hat and basket
- as a peasant-girl
- as an old peasant widow
- as a baker
- as a butcher
- as a king with his sceptre
- as a medical doctor
- as masqueraders on stilts
- as a collier
- as a street-vendor
- as an astrologer
- as a Pyrenese sailor
- as street assassins
- as armed soldiers
- as masqueraders wearing suits of copper coins
- as a chained dancing bear
(!!??) If any of these costumes strike you as something I should wear – let me know..
Ramble
I always want to make my blog posts make sense – you know – have an intro, a body and a conclusion. To have a theme or a style. But some days I just can’t think of an intro, and there is no theme.. and I just want to ramble.. This is one of those days.   Read the rest of this entry »
11.09.06
TV (or lack of it)..
I watched ‘GhostBusters’ (and ‘Ghostbusters II’) this week for the first time, all the way through.
I know, it’s hard to believe that an 80’s baby hasn’t watched these integral and important films… but my childhood was quite sheltered in this area… I wasn’t allowed to watch ‘Ghostbusters’ – or ‘Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey’ (despite enjoying their Excellent Adventure muchly) or ‘Look Who’s Talking’.
Although I was terribly upset at this deprivation at the time – I’m not sure I missed out on much. In fact, I’m kind of glad my parents were strict when it came to what we watched.
Up until recently our family had owned only one TV in my lifetime. It was an old grey 36 cm dinosaur (with no remote!). We were restricted to minimal TV watching and often weren’t allowed to watch any at all. Us kids hated it and snuck into the TV room at any opportunity to absorb whatever was on at the time. As a family, we watched ‘Heartbeat’ (with Dad making slurping noise in the kissing bits) and ‘The Bill’ alot. As for movies, I think we rented pretty much every Rodgers and Hammerstein musical available.
Now, I’m in a new no-TV household (excepting a certain football game between Newcastle and Manly on friday night). We still have the TV I bought 6 years ago which has, I might add, survived a rain storm – a 36cm dinosaur that occasionally emits a constant high-pitched noise for no reason. And besides sometimes feeling lost when anyone refers to a TV show or ad, we’re much better off.
05.09.06
Ministry Wifelyness
I’ve been ridin’ the emotional rollercoaster for the last month or so trying to figure out what being a ‘Ministry Wife’ means for me.
Actually I had no idea that was what I was struggling with until I had a good talk with someone on Sunday who had one of those clear outsider’s perspectives. I just knew that I was unhappy with church and that everything to do with church made me sad. To the point where Sundays were my most depressed day of the week.