[nards]

Originally Posted by coldtoedpunker

umm.... there was something else i was going to say...

hmm..........

Have a great day Bon

[beanie]

Thanks guys! I had a long as day. I'm so glad it's friday and I can relax a bit even though this weekend is gonna be pretty busy.

Matt, we can get icecream soon! It'll be rad as... and you can come to my fare thee well party in February. I wont forget to invite you. (Remind me.)

[beanie]

I didn't take them but they're nice.

1. The beginning of the Great Australian Bight (that looks like a bite has been taken out of the southern/west coast). That's about 4 hours drive from my home.

2. This is Golden Beach and Golden Island in the back there. It's not too far from my farm but takes a while to get there cos you have to go on designated roads and through the national park and pay your entry fee and drive slow and stuff. It's awesome. The water is absolutely freezing, straight from the south pole, but no matter what, you'll find me jumping in there, clothes and all just to ride some of those waves (that are usually a bit bigger)!

3. This is almost at Wanna. It's sooooooo good... for camping and sandboarding and four wheel driving.

4. This is the dunes at Welcome Bay. Aboslutely rip-snorting!

[nards]

Hey Bon,
Yeah weekends are always good aye.

There's a Welcome Bay in Aussie as well. I never knew that, cool.
Anyway, have an awesome weekend.

[beanie]

This is the "first picture" of my brother's baby that's currently inside the womb of his bride and wife. 12 weeks and 2 days old. Eep! I can't believe they're gonna be parents.

Renee, the almost mum, has told me about the affectionate names the boys in my family has come up with.

One brother is calling him a "puppy"
The dad is calling him a "prawn"
and the almost grandpa is calling him a "piglet"
A family friend thought he looked more like a guinea pig than a piglet, but currently calls him a "little guinea prawn".

I'm really scared of being pregnant! (Thank God I'm not even in a position to worry about it!)

[guitarfan01]

"prawn?"

and why are you scared?

[coldtoedpunker]

Originally Posted by guitarfan01

"prawn?"

and why are you scared?

what you might wrongly know as "shrimp"

[guitarfan01]

Originally Posted by coldtoedpunker

what you might wrongly know as "shrimp"

ah, ok. tankee, matt.

[beanie]

Originally Posted by guitarfan01

"prawn?"

and why are you scared?

Well, Ren is sick all the time. Plus, she'll be mega fat over the summer. It just sucks (... I think) to be preggas in the summer! Then, I'll have my family naming my little baby strange seafood names. Then, I'll be fat - which really doesn't bother me as much as the thought of labour does! I figure there's heaps of kids out there who don't have parents. I could just adopt one of them - I'd be their dream come true and it'd be relatively pain free. I'm all for adoption.

Yesterday, I picked up the phone to call my mum and it rang. I answered and it was her. Unbelievable. My dad helped me draft a letter of resignation to my work. He's so good. My brother spent all day in hospital after being bitten by a brown snake. It's like a family thing to be bitten by a snake and survive. For prospective husabdns, I should add it to the list of requirements/initiations into the family. Hahah. I mean...

Last night, Kez came over and she just "picked up the superglue and all of a sudden it was everywhere". She had it on her hands and I tried to wipe it with a tissue but that stuck too. It wasn't a big mess, but it was funny. After I said goodbye to her, I went to throw my sheets back to get into bed but they were stuck to the bottom sheet! Then, when I woke up this morning I had a hard time getting out of bed cos ... I was stuck. But it wasn't the glue. It was severe lack of motivation!

Tonight, I went to the movies with Kiah. We saw "The Notebook". Oh, it was really nice. We cried for the last half an hour and I was going so strongly! It wasn't just one tear either it was streaming tears, snot everywhere, no tissues avaliable and sobs - all the while trying to be silent like the rest of the audience. I found out when the lights came on that everyone else (at least the ladies) was crying too! We sat for ages trying to collect ourselves. Then I had to run and catch a bus... Ah. Fun times.


Peace out! 74 days to go.

[beanie]

Today, I got off my sorry excuse for a bottom and booked a driving lesson. Hofreakinray! I don't even know if I'll be eligible to drive when I'm in NZ if I don't have my full license, but meh. It's all good.

Things have been massive busy. Working heaps. I'm leading youth group tonight. I'm so organised... not! Graduation from d2 is tomorrow night - I'm in charge of that! I can't believe it's over already. I remember thinking at the meetings we leaders had before it started that the following 9 weeks of 5am Saturdays are going to be slow as. Wrong. It's been sooooo good!

Last night, I went to a mall north of the city to help out at a thing they have at the bus interchange, where you give out free hot drinks (or cold, depending on the season) and chat with people. I didn't really like it the first time I had to go (a few months ago) but this one was awesome. I mainly prayed and made a few friends. (who I'll prolly never see again... cept for maybe heaven!). It was fun!

Mum rang me last night to tell me that the letter I wrote to her this week was especially good. Aint she nice? Dad'll be in town in early November, so he'll be moving a whole stack of my stuff back! It's so soon!

I was thinking the other day about money and how I need some to pay for the rest of my Philippines trip. I know that the money will come; that God has promised and he is faithful. I was wondering then, why would I ask other people to pray for it when I know that it will happen?

So, I asked my dear pal Ali about it. We ask other people to pray with us, agreeing that it will happen for several reasons.
1. God wants us to be community and share with each other.
2. Using a bit of boldness to ask for money can stir it in another to give it.
3. Praying together promotes unity.
4. The testimony and lessons learned touch more lives.
5. Other people are inventing into the kingdom.
6. God works in cooperation with his people.

Then, at the church prayer meeting on Wednesday night, right after I talked with Ali, my pastors wife led some teaching in praying about prophetic words spoken to our church specifically and individual prophecies. Noni shared from 1 Kings 18 and Daniel 9 (which is right were I was up to in my personal devos!). In Kings, it was talking about how the drought was going to end; God had said he'd send the rain. I think it was Hezekiah heard the word and got him and his buddies to fasting and praying for the rains ... even though they knew it would come.

In chapter 9 of Daniel, he (Daniel) has just found out that the Israelites were only supposed to be in exile for 70 years, according to the word of God through the prophets. Those 70 years were up and so Daniel got to praying & fasting for the return of the remnant to their homeland. He knew that they would go back; that God had promised and he always fulfills them. But he still got down on his knees.

So, even though I know that God is gonna provide more than enough for me, it's still good and encouraging and God-purposed to share the journey and struggle and resulting joy and abundance. I'm gonna buckle down to fasting and praying. Not just for money, but you know... everything. Ah. Rad.

[beanie]

Where's an example of cannaballism in the bible?

2 Kings 8:1


hohoohohohoho........





What is red and invisible?



No tomatoes.

(That's my latest favourite!)

[coldtoedpunker]

awesome jokes....

The tomato one reminds me of another one

what's orange but not orange?
an invisible orange

hmmm

[beanie]

Today, I was thinking about makeup. I personally don't love it much at all. I'm too uncoordinated to put it on and if it does go on, I rub my face or suffocate and ruin it all anyways.

I sometimes do work in the makeup aisle at work. They've got all the flashy names for the gear and I bet some girls never really think about it. One company has a foundation/cover-uper-er called 'Correction Liquid'. Hello? When chicks buy this stuff, they are infact, saying that their complexion and skin is incorrect?! As if they're not made in the image of God and that is good enough.

Then, there's this mascara (it's stuff you put on your eye lashes, right). They've got all fancy names as well... wondercurl, extenda lash whatever. One lady tried to sell me some of this stuff saying, "You put this clear gunky type stuff on before your mascara, cos it's creates more lashes." Hello? How the heck can some gloop that looks like clag glue (the stuff you use for paper mashy) create more lashes? I was just like, "Cheers love. See ya later. And no, I don't want a crappy makeup party."

Boycott makeup.

[guitarfan01]

amen.

I've been boycotting makeup since the day I was born.

[Christop]

Yes, makeup needs people to feel crap about themselves for the industry to survive. That is, indeed, very sucky and rather crap.