30.01.08
Posted in Journal at 2:44 pm by Sarah
H and I often sit around planning our future. You know, standard five year plan stuff. It’s kind of fun to look forward with innocent eyes and idealise the details. ‘The plan’ changes constantly with our moods, our goals and our dreams.
Yesterday, the future caught up with us. We were confronted with a couple of large decisions and things started getting bigger than I was comfortable with. Why does it always seem so much scarier when it’s reality?
Anyway, prayers are appreciated as we face some significant decisions this week….
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29.01.08
Posted in Journal, Seen at 11:43 am by Sarah
We left late to have lunch with H’s family. Mainly because I was having one of those days where I hate what I’m wearing and agonise about whether to change and what to change into. I ended up wearing a favourite skirt with a belt. I’m not normally a belt girl.. and it made me a feel a bit unconfortable all day. I also managed to make decent gluten-free pancakes which I was pretty proud of. Later, I found out our maple syrup has wheat in it (trust me, the weirdest things contain wheat) so I still got sick.
But we did get there in the end and had a lovely lunch of yummy dumplings and vietnamese rolls. We all hung around afterwards and flicked around on the TV… I got flogged in a game of Ticket to Ride… yet was happy that I got the most destination cards. We ate bits of dinner and left for the gig.
We had seats about 7 rows from the front, at the end of the row. We had get up quite few times to let people in, but other than that, we had a perfect view of Joanna Newsom’s face behind her harp strings. Although I’ve been listening to her music for a while, the live performance put everything into a new perspective. I loved the way her face contorted when she sang and how she sings out of the side of her mouth. Her voice was angelic and clear – and showed how badly it is captured in recordings. It had so many elements… the emerging twang, the high squeak as she enters a high note, her tone swelling and receeding with the music.
And her harp playing was mesmerising. It was amazing to watch her fingers float over the strings. Her support musicians and the orchestra were also interesting to watch.
It goes without saying that I loved every minute.
The next day had been elected as ‘catch up on sleep day’.. and that’s exactly what we did. I also recovered from eating things I shouldn’t have been eating the previous day 
. We emerged eventually to go to our church which was meeting at someone’s house this week. It was good, but a little distracting to have kids playing in the background. We ate dinner and went to catch the end of the 7pm service. I lost Ticket to Ride badly once again. I think I need a new strategy.
We had several possibilities lined up yesterday. But we ended acting quite frumpy and old…. and started cleaning and reorganising our house. This is something we needed to get done before H’s MTS year starts rolling out. It sorta got done… but we need to do more.
…and this was mainly because I randomly decided to join Facebook and spent half the day playing. I’ve been dissing it for a while… yet I still had friends requests which freaked me out a bit. Anyway I’m there now.. and my email inbox now looks like this…. ahhhhhhh!
Dunno if I can come back from the dark side now….
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24.01.08
Posted in Journal at 2:25 pm by Sarah
I’ve been going through the highs and lows kind of rapidly this morning. And no, the cause isn’t what you’re thinking – or the other thing you’re thinking.. moving on..
High: Managing to get through 12 hours without my tummy being yukky – this included consuming a full Chinese meal!
Low: This is probably because I’ve gone off gluten which probably means I have another intolerance which means I can’t eat anything good! (slight exaggeration – highlighted by the yummy meal I ate last night..)
Low: Trying to get a farewell card signed for a guy who has worked in our department for over 10 years only to be met with “Who’s that?” and “Can you describe him?”. Big companies can suck a bit.
High: Managing to buy part of my lunch at the downstairs cafeteria for only 40c! (Mixed salad to go with my lemon pepper tuna)
Low: We have to get up at 8am on Saturday to let the plumber in to fix our toilet (which hasn’t really worked properly since we moved in)…. 8am = too early..
High: Remembering I have a nice quiet night to good forward to.. blobbing on the couch and possibly watching some ‘Sleek Geeks’.
High: We’re going to see Joanna Newsom on Saturday! (H’s Christmas present to me 
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22.01.08
Posted in Church/Ministry, Journal, Seen at 12:35 pm by Sarah
Actually… before I report on mission. I had a day off the day before we left. Emma flew up to Sydney and we went shopping and saw ‘Spicks and Spectacular’. Read the rest of this entry »
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08.01.08
Posted in Journal, Seen at 4:56 pm by Sarah
Tickets to Spicks and Spectacular? check
Poster paint and giant paint brushes? check
Fairy lights and tea light candles? check
Talk on the Fall and Jesus’ sacrifice? check
I’m off for a week or so…. missioning and so on. See you when I get back!
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03.01.08
Posted in gardening at 10:24 pm by Sarah
The fruits of my labour…. including my first strawberries!!
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Posted in Projects at 10:21 pm by Sarah
Do ya wanna see what I made for people??
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02.01.08
Posted in Journal at 12:23 pm by Sarah
Now with pictures!
So here I am (reluctantly) back at work. And blogging… of course.
Our break was incredibly nice. Bereft of all the usual stress and craziness that Beach Mission brings. Meaning: we did’nt have to finish off our lesson/craft/whatever on Christmas day, drive 6 hours north on Boxing day..etc. Read the rest of this entry »
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