[living for God]

wearing uggboots to uni- that is something i would do, i mean if i had uggboots, and if i went to uni. always go to have warm feet

[beanie]

dude! keep wearing your ugg boots! i love the rain!

[living for God]

that sounds nice, it's starting to get cold now i just have the socks on (odd ones)

[beanie]

I love intellectual subjects like ugg boots!

I'm wearing mine now too. I can't imagine how I could've lived without them before! I've also decided that I'm gonna wear them tomorrow to college if it's not gonna be heaps warm.

Yay for us!

[Flyguy]

What all do you do in your Creative Living class? Sounds kinda interesting.

[snowboarderTim]

My boss just instant messaged me and said to call, so I can't stay long but....

HI
and
CONGRATS, You finally submitted to blogdom...

Tim

[beanie]

Originally posted by snowboarderTim
My boss just instant messaged me and said to call, so I can't stay long but....

HI
and
CONGRATS, You finally submitted to blogdom...

Tim

Oh crappers...

You make blogs sound so boring!

[beanie]

Originally posted by Flyguy
What all do you do in your Creative Living class? Sounds kinda interesting.

It's really really cool. There is now Creative Living 2.

Here's a course outline.


DIGNITY (Week 1-4)

This was all about self-acceptance. The ins and outs of who we are in Christ, what He's done, our blessings etc.


MASTERY (Week 5-8)

This was all about reigning in life... over coming difficulties, being proactive (not reactive), reigning over temptations, passions, possessions, pride, emotions, depression and stress.
Listening to and evaluating criticism... Faith in God, not faith in faith.

UNITY (Week 9-12)

Loving as we have been loved, forgivng as we have been forgiven, how to be a friend, how to get on with difficult people, speaking the truth in love.

SPIRITUALITY (Weeks 13-16)

Prayer as a privlege, prayer as a necessity, prayer as grace.
Prayer as participation in the prayer life of Jesus through His Spirit.
Praise and glorying in Christ
Worship in the Spirit
The will of God

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I can't tell you much about Unity or Spirtuality modules cos I haven't done them yet. Dignity was really good. It's an awesome subject for new Christians to do cos you realise how costly you are to God, how much He loves you and your whole view of yourself and the people around you is so much more positive when you know this stuff.

Mastery was also a fantastic module. It was all about how to stand up to stuff and not letting "possessions posses you". Like, you rule your life... you say yes and no to what you like. Choices. It was rad.

I'm in Unity at the moment... and ... I forget eveything from the lectures.

Just jokes...

It's good. Loving and grace and other people. God's really been working on me the past few weeks to really love people who who He created them to be not who I'd like them to be. Loving them for who they are now, not in anticipation of who they might become. Pretty challenging!

Gotta go have tea - toodles.

[brandontmilan]

Originally posted by beanie
It's not that you talk weird, just different. With the younger generation of girls coming through, I've noticed that they love to mimick the American accent. Some words we pronounce differently (but that's also the case here, pronunciation depends on what state in Australia you were born in).

There is no such thing as an 'American accent'... there's about a million different accents over here... it pretty much differs between states, and even certain areas within the different states... people from other states can tell just by the way i talk that i'm from upstate South Carolina... i've got the twangy, hick accent... most people think i'm a redneck because of that...

Originally posted by beanie
Some of the things you have, we call different names. Like "ottomans" to you are "footstools" to us. We don't have "settee's", just couches and lounges.

I've never heard of an ottoman or a settee... but we do have couches... do you guys know where 'yonder' is???

Originally posted by beanie
Oh... something that you call... er, what was it... oh! dagnamit... I just forgotted. They are like sheep-skin boots with the wool on the inside and they keep your feet extra snuggly. You call them something... which I can't remember and we call them 'ugg boots'. I have some grey ones which I decorated with yellow towel and denim jeans.

hmmm... i don't think i've ever seen sheep skin boots... i've seen snake skin boots... but no sheep skin boots...

[beanie]

Originally posted by brandontmilan

I've never heard of an ottoman or a settee... but we do have couches... do you guys know where 'yonder' is???

Yonder like... "the house is over yonder"... in the distance... over there type thing.

[beanie]

Life is nuts. Ever wonder why some things happen and some things don't? Or why you feel a certain way and you know you shouldn't? I do. I wonder all the time. Then I have to make a konshus choice to ask "why" and "is it right" and "what can I now do to change it". I'm pretty mad right now.

Today, I saw my mum and dad. (They are over for the weekend (from Port Lincoln where I used to live) for a wedding.) Mum and I went into the city and spent most of our time at Koorong (Christian Bookstore). We spent about a gazillion dollars on stuff... books mainly. I got a some cd's for my brother and a book called "The Journals of Jim Elliot" which I'm going to send to a friend (after I've finished reading it... I'm actually considering getting my own copy. It's heaps good!).

When I said that I got cd's and books ... Mum actually paid for them. She wouldn't let me. Then she tells me that money's pretty tight for them right now and it makes me feel bad but she wont take anything (cos I'm a student at Tabor I get a 15% discount, so she thought that was nice enough of me!!). I got a little green Larry Boy t-shirt which is pretty exciting! My birthday is soon and I'm getting a Superman t-shirt too! It's rad.

We then skedaddled from the city to Blackwood (which is near where I live) to the hairdressers. They were doing this deal where you get a colour and pay an extra dollar for the haircut. My hair turned out wicked, but the ... ahhem... silly lady who did mum's hair seriously should have been blonde! Mum said she wanted like a brown and then blondish streaks over the top. The daft (can I say anything more without being really really mean) lady just did the blonde. Mum's already got grey hair so the blonde did ZIPPO! I was sooooo angry! What a waste of blooming $39!!!!!!! Mine was $64 cos I got a million colours put in. Cant say as I'll be doing it again any time soon... I'm just really angry cos Mum's hair... nothings changed. (This is why I am mad.)

Now we are home for tea and then Glenda (mum's cousin, who I live with), Mum and I are going back into the city to watch "How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days". It's a chick flick and I'm not expecting it to be a movie to rave about (like Emperor's New Groove) but it'll be fun to watch with the old ducks and listen to them reminice about old times. So much fun. Seriously!

I remember one time Glenda told me a story of when Mum was newly married and they were going to my auntie's hens night. The party was over and Mum was driving Glenda back to her house in a LandRover (the greatest car in the world, by the way). They pulled up at the lights and some young guys, around their age pulled up next to them. The guys revved their engines and stuff... so mum did it back, as if she was asking for a drag! The lights went green and the boys sped off and the little Landy was chugging through second gear across the intersection. By this time, the guys were long gone.

Mum and Glenda then, being the ditz's that they are, decided they didn't know what way to go at the round about so they kept going around and around and around and around.

I always ask Mum to do that... but no. She's far to sensible, right? Then I hear stories like this and feel that I've been misled about my Mum my whole life!!

Let me tell you some things about my Mum:
1. She is the greatest cook in the world. (And that is not open to debate.)
2. She is so funny. I think she was blonde in a past life also.
3. She can't drive very good. She likes going over round-abouts and onto the street from the footpath, not where the curb slopes down to accomodate a smoother transition!
4. She has had grey hair ever since she had me. Now that I've moved away, more of her former brown colour is coming through, which I think says something about me.
5. She's farted out 5 kids, plus a still born.
6. She has lived with my dad longer than I ever will.
7. She's helped us develop into the people that we are (and that also shows).
8. She loves us equally.

I could go on, but that last point was a nice one to end on, I think. She's never shown favouritism (even though we've all accused her of it). It's all unconditional, forgiving, gracious. She has taught me a whole lot. Glenda is very similar to her. Funny as well. She has taught me a lot as well. I love them both, but only one is my Mum. I'm pretty blessed in having Mum as my Mum alone.

Tomorrow, I'm going to a wedding which I'm pretty excited about. The family we've known the groom's family since forever. We practically 'grew up' with each other cos our parents have been prayer partners since forever. Craig (who is the groom) is marrying Kerriann. They both did the same course last year that I am doing this year. At a mid-year camp, they had a mock-wedding in a play or something. They started going out in September and got engaged in January. Now it's May and they are getting married. My sister-in-law's immediate reaction to this news... "Bonnie, this could be you in a year!"

She was fully excited at the thought, but I'm not so keen. There are some nice guys in my course, but I'm fine right now by myself. I'm not totally closed off to the fact that it could happen... I'm just not expecting it to happen any time soon. When it does happen, I want it to be a quick engagement. I hear about couples who wait for like 2 years to get married... My theory is if you know that you know, what is the point of waiting any longer? I'd like to just meet someone, get to know them, know that we know and ... 4 months later, be married. If that.

Strike! This is getting long. I'm gonna say fare the well right now and see you guys another day! I have some PM-ing to do!

PS. Thanks for visiting even if you don't read it all... it makes my blog looks like its got heaps of visitors and other people might be enticed.

I'm gonna get onto some deep stuff in the not to distant future, so if you wanna hear some sermons (hoho), stick around.

Peas - Beanie

[beanie]

You're not Australian until:

- You've mimicked Alf Stewart from the TV show Home and Away's broad, Australian accent, eg. "push off, ya flamin' drongo!"

- You've had an argument with your mate over whether Ford or Holden makes the better car.

- You've done the "hot sand" dance at the beach while running from the sea back to your towel.

- You know who Ray Martin is

- You start using words like 'bloody' and 'grouse' and call people 'champ'.

- You stop greeting people with "hello" and go straight to the "how ya doin'?"

- You've seriously considered running down the shop in a pair of ugg boots .

- You own a pair of ugg boots

- You've been to a day-nighter cricket match and screamed out incomprehensibly until your throat went raw.

- You kind of know the first verse to the national anthem, but buggered if you know what 'girt' means.

- You have a story that somehow revolves around excess consumption of alcohol and a mate named 'Dave'.

- You've risked attending an outdoor music festival on the hottest day of the year.

- You've tried to hang off a clothesline while pretending you can fly.

- You've had a visit to the emergency room after hanging off the clothesline pretending you can fly.

- You own a pair of thongs for everyday use, and another pair of 'dress thongs' for special occasions.

- You dont know whats in a meat pie, and you dont care

- You pronounce Australia as "Straya"

- You call soccer "soccer", not "football".

- You've squeezed Vegemite through Vita Brits to make little Vegemite worms.

- You suck your coffee through a Tim Tam.

- You realise that lifeguards are the only people who can get away with wearing Speedos.

- You pledge allegiance to Vegemite over Promite.

- You understand the value of public holidays.

- You're weekends are spent barracking for your favourite sports team.

- You've played beach cricket with a tennis ball and a bat fashioned out of a fence post.

- You firmly believe that in the end, everything will be ok, and have told a mate in tough times that "She'll be right, mate"

- You use the phrase, "no worries" at least once a day.

- You've been on a beach holiday and have probably stayed in a caravan.

- You constantly shorten words to "brekkie", "arvo" and "barbie".

- You've adopted a local bar as your own.

- You know the oath of mateship can never be limited by geographical distance.

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Just to clear somethings up so you don't think I'm a heaps terrible person (even though some of you already do, I know)...

- I haven't adoped the local bar. I don't even know where it is. I'm hanging in Hindley St... (hoho... not).
- The spending weekends barracking for sport teams is not a favourite past-time of mine, even though I do do it sometimes.
- I hate Vegemite & Promite
- Not even Lifeguards should legally be allowed to wear Speedos.
- Drongo is a cool descriptive word, but I don't watch Home and Away, use that word very much ... or that flamin' word either.
- I don't own dress thongs.
- I've never risked my life for a music festival.
- I say "no worries" about a million times a day.
- Haven't done the Vita Brits and Vegemite thing.
- I haven't been to the emergency room after clothesline flying cos my mum say's "she'll be right".
- I don't have an alcohol/Dave story.
- The 'hot sand' dance is my favouritest.
- I have been down to the corner deli in my ugg boots and pj's.
- I don't say bloody or grouse.
- Never been to the cricket (and never intend to).
- I don't pronounce Australia that way.
- Girt is what my friend Girtrude is known as.

The End.

[Flyguy]

LOL - that list is hilarious.

[brandontmilan]

Originally posted by beanie
Yonder like... "the house is over yonder"... in the distance... over there type thing.

wow... good answer... most northerners don't even know where yonder is... we actually have a room in our house called "out yonder"

that list is kinda funny... minus Ray Martin, the ugg boots, and Vegemite, i've done pretty much all of those...

one could probably write a list about the South, that would be suprisingly similar to that one...

[snowboarderTim]

Ugg boots..... I'm thinking that we call them slippers, is that what you're talking about? Cause you wouldn't want to wear them in the rain......

Tim