[LoOpY_cHoOk]

w00t for double posting!

And those girls... Blimey... they're so confusing! I wish they wouldn't be so demanding... :P

[beanie]

Originally Posted by LoOpY_cHoOk

w00t for double posting!

And those girls... Blimey... they're so confusing! I wish they wouldn't be so demanding... :P

Hi keZ
you're funny
girls are weird
it's hot
my hair is falling out
gilbert got long eye lashes and i didn't
why is the world so unfair?!
was nice to talk to you last night
see you on thursday
i love you
from bon

[beanie]

I've been at home on the farm for a few days. Man, I have done nothing and it's been absolutely freaken awesome!

I mean, I have read about 5 books (not ones required for uni) and I've shovelled half a tonne of mulch from the mulch pile to the place we call 'the wilderness' (mum's native tree shrubbery area). I've watched tonnes of movies too. Been to the beach, but, naturally, did not swim. Had icecream. Caught up with all the goss from the girls I went to school with. The guys who are still in town are buying houses and that thought freaks me out. Will I buy a house someday? If I had stayed in my hometown, maybe I would have done it all by now. God knows I'd probably have a husband, a farm and 10 kids ... if Dad had gotten his wish. Poor fella. Sorry dad!

I brought my tickets to NZ today!!!! SO EXCITED!!! I'm leaving on the December 31st, so that means I'm having New Years in Christchurch with my friends! Oh and now I have to go to dinner. The joys of not having to cook for myself. Sweetness abounds.

Peas out.

[nix]

Any chance of coming up to auckland?

[beanie]

Originally Posted by nix

Any chance of coming up to auckland?

Sorry mate. I really can't afford to, I don't think. I'll just check prices, but I really don't think I'll be able too, however, it would have been wonderful! Eh... Too expensive. $121 each way. I only paid 20 bucks more to get from Australia to Christchurch. What is with the world!?

Back at uni again today. Something crazy like, 6 weeks to go till I finish. One of my subjects finishes on Thursday. I have one essay to write for it, which is due next Thursday and then I'm done with Sociology.

On Sunday, camp starts. I'm the director. There's not that many campers, maybe 20, so I'm hoping for it to be cosy and friendly. It's by the beach and it's for a whole week, so should be ample time to get to know everyone and become a family. Another meeting this afternoon and in a week it'll be over. So much effort and so quickly time goes. It's crazy.

It's hot again. I'm already sunburnt from yesterday and I think it was only 22 degrees. Today is 28 and tomorrow is 31. I'm so beaching it tomorrow! I beached it yesterday as well... Love the beach.

Speaking of loving the beach, my boyfriend Ryan loves the beach. He lives in the north eastern suburbs of Melbourne and it's ages from any decent beach... A good 90 minute drive at least. Crazy. I've been praying for ... ever... that he'll get a change of heart and realise that he should move to Adelaide and that I shouldn't move to Melbourne. On Sunday afternoon, he called me to say that he's changed his mind and that he'll move to Adelaide.

I'm like... Should I get excited about this or is he gonna change his mind again!? And he complains that I'm always the one to change my mind. Boys are just as bad as girls, I say.

Last week, I had laryngitis. I couldn't talk. Ryan was so happy!

Our church is getting carpet this week. Last week we got blinds. It's so exciting how the building is shaping up to be our own type of thing that really suits us.

My aunty has bone cancer. I live with 2 of her kids here in the city. I haven't told them that I'm moving out at Christmas. I really don't know how to say it. I've kinda become their mother, cos they've really got no idea - and that whole thing has made me choose to move out... but their own mother is dying. I wonder how they'll cope with the loss of two? Then again, I hagve been away for 2 weeks and the house seems to have held up quite okay. I'm sure they'll cope somehow.

Anyways, I gotta scoot and drop into the police station. Should eat something too... I always forget that until I'm crippled with hunger pain. Toodles!

[beanie]

Well... it's been about forever since I wrote. I suppose I should tell you all that I got married in December and now I'm pregnant and our baby is due in November.

Just kidding.

I wrote that to my brother who I hadn't seen or heard from in ages. Now he feels bad that our relationship has waned so he at least sends me text messages more often.

I'm not married.
I'm not pregnant.
I do have a boyfriend.
Still the same one.
God only knows whats happening there.
Still, I'm trusting.
I'm at uni - 2nd year now - woo hoo!
The year is going so fast - I can't believe it.
I'll have me degree in a second at this rate!
Church is freaken awesome.
Winter is on it's way.
Hopefully it'll rain for the first time in a long time and break this drought.
I'm an auntie again - Auntie Bon - to Toby Maurice Turner.
He's cute.
I now have a house to move into after being kinda homeless for a few months.
I also have a job at an eye-talian restaurant.
It's awesome.
Maybe cos I work there?

Anyways, hope everyone who reads this is still in love with me.
I love you.

[guitarfan01]

Sweet.

Heh. Amusing about your brother, there.

How many times are you an aunt?

Housing and employment are both good things.

Galen

[beanie]

Hi Galen,

I'm an auntie two times now. Two nephews. Lochy and Toby. They're a lot of fun. I wish I lived nearer to them so I could watch them grow up. Whenever I see them, it takes a good while for them to get used to me again cos they don't remember much. It would be good to live closer, but right now I just cant. Maybe later.

Hope you are well.

Bonnie.

PS. I came to uni today for one 2 hour workshop and it's not on. Bummer. I could still be in bed!

[guitarfan01]

I am indeed well, thank you.

Originally Posted by beanie bon

PS. I came to uni today for one 2 hour workshop and it's not on. Bummer. I could still be in bed!

I know how that is!

Galen

[beanie]

I heard a sermon on debt and money and finances God's way at church on Sunday. It was good to hear them talking about stuff that is sometimes shied away from in church - like hell. "We don't want to talk about it cos it upsets people." Just go to a freaken user-friendly church then! Boring!

Anyways, the sermon was good and practical for me. I took a loan out from my parents to buy a new car. They gave me the money and then, a few months later, refused to give me their bank details to set up debiting and whatever. Said I should save it for my next overseas journey or something. Said that all the other siblings owed them money and weren't paying it back, so why should I?

I didn't heaps like the idea, but like a good girl, I didn't complain.

My parents are not really teaching me good money management skills in this situation, even though they are being nice. If I couldn't pay off the loan, fair enough. But I can. And if they didn't want me to pay it off, they shouldn't have given it to me under the term 'loan' - which indicates repayments.

So, I told mum yesterday that whether she liked it or not, I was going to pay back that loan. I'm also going to match, dollar for dollar, whatever I put into the loan repayments in a week, to put the same amount into a high-interest savings account.

I'm going to pay off my credit card and cut it up.

God is my source. He wants to be my source. He can prove himself.



In other news, I'VE GOT A HOUSE TO LIVE IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me and Kez have been looking for a while. Everything we looked at was average (to say the least) cos of our budget, but we were applying for them heaps. Nothing. But, our policy was, 'If God hasn't got this one for us, he must have something better.'

By that, I'm not meaning better as in more classy, more ritzy, bigger or anything. I was thinking better as in... maybe all the paint could be the same colour and please not be apricot orange! I was thinking better as in... maybe the people we live near (in the same complex for example) need us more than another place.

It's been a good 6 months of looking and applying and me being in a boarding situation in-limbo waiting on a house (a good 6 months as in I've really had a wonderful time despite half my stuff being here and some being there and most of it packed etc).

Then, Kez's parents sold a block of land by the beach for a treat and decided they'd like to buy an investment property... one that, conveniently, we could rent off them. Grand idea!

Easter weekend, Kez calls me. "How about a house here?"

Looked at photos on the net... Now, by better, I'm talking classy! The family wanted my opinion. I liked it alright, don't get me wrong, but why did they want my opinion! I was happy enough to just be getting a house to live in - this was something that they were going to OWN. My opinion doesn't heaps fit into it.

They put in an offer. They got the house. Settlement goes through start of next week and then we move in!

I always knew God would do better... but, once again, He's exceeded my expecations and given me a better house than I could have dreamed of.

My housemate...?

I think she'll live.

Even if she has to live with me.

[guitarfan01]

Originally Posted by beanie

So, I told mum yesterday that whether she liked it or not, I was going to pay back that loan. I'm also going to match, dollar for dollar, whatever I put into the loan repayments in a week, to put the same amount into a high-interest savings account.

I'm going to pay off my credit card and cut it up.

Good steps.

I remember Kez! We used to chat.

Galen

[snowboarderTim]

Bonnie!!!

I'm still alive! How about you?

Life is good, I'm married and I'm pregnant :-P

Okay, just kidding, I'm actually happily single and have no plans to get knocked up...

Don't worry, I still love you... I've just been a bonehead whose been out of touch with... erm... [virtual] reality ..er... well, my good friends here at CGR. I hope you all still love me too!!! I sent you and Keren an email earlier today, hope yas get it.

Peas!

[beanie]

Goodness gracious me.

Luckily I'm too young to die of heart failure. How lovely to *hear* your voice, young tim! I'm writing you a nice email which you shall recieve in a moment once I've posted this.

I'm not married (though 70% of my friends are).
I'm not pregnant (though 99% of my friends are).

Peas yourself.

www.myspace.com/isbonisgood

[snowboarderTim]

El yay! I got your email and you seem to be doing quite well for yourself! :-D

I'm adding you as a friend on myspace *grumbles*

*bwawble gawble*

:-P

[beanie]

I've somehow managed to contribute to 73 pages of this blog. What memories of my life does it hold? I'm unsure. But I'm going to read it all and probably hang my head in shame over what I've shared with the world.

Can I just say that not a whole lot has changed in all these years. Except that I'm older.
God still loves me.
I'm still destined for eternal spinsterhood.
I'm still blonde ... and unco.

But I'm almost finished uni.
I'm almost on the brink of something. I have to get to class.

Hello to all my old CGR friends! And new ones... if you're game.

Tim - are you still married and now a dad?!