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Well I fixed my violin today and I had a play. It felt so good! I'm definately going to keep playing. The violin is just such a beautiful instrument! I'm going to have to build up my calluses again, and get back up to the standard that I was, but it'll happen! I love my violin!!! Isn't it pretty?

All I want to say is LOST IS AWESOME!!! Such a great episode tonight! I'm so fully hooked! Is it wrong that i'm so attracted to Sawyer? Yay for Josh Holloway!

Life is good. Saw the MSO again tonight. Are they astounding or what?! The answer is yes. I am most definitely taking up the violin again. I would love to join an Orchestra, but as if I have the time to do that. After seeing the MSO I went to 'walks' (cafe/bar near me) to see a fantastic accoustic duo. What a great night of great music!

Going away tomorrow, just overnight. It's a retreat for one of my subjects before classes start on Monday. Should be great. Report later. With photos. Of course!

As a side note, I can't say I'm a huge fan of Dvorak. I like bits of his music, but never the songs in total. I don't feel like they take me anywhere, they transition too much and never go where they feel like they are headed.

Happy Birthdays to Alison (24) & Penny (21)! Have a great day girls!

Have I mentioned how much I love weddings?! And how much I'm looking forward to going to so many?! I get to go to one on Saturday! WHOO!!! Yay for Anna & Rob! I can't wait to wear my new dress!!!

Classes start again on Monday, and I have a 2 day retreat for one of my subjects this Thursday/Friday. Looking forward to studying again. Looking forward to catching up with lots of people from college too. Yay for Kingsley! Such an awesome plave to study!

Loving "Dragon's Song" by Harmony at the moment. One of my current favourite songs. It's in 5/4 time! How interesting!

Got the house to myself tonight, it'll be nice to have some 'downtime'. I like my space sometimes, even though I'm a very social person.

Going to see the MSO again tomorrow night. Should be awesome.

Did I just Ludicrow?

Oh I'm so excited! My friend Amy got engaged a little while ago, and she's getting married on May 13th. And she has asked me to be a bridesmaid! WHOO!!! I'm so excited!!! Here is me and Amy from when she visited last month.



I'm going to 5 weddings this year! One in February (on Saturday actually), one in March, one in May, one in September and one in December. Love is in the air!

Last night I had my first meeting for my new role in my Church. I go to Eltham Baptist Church and I have been asked to be involved in the youth ministry this year. At first I was asked to be a youth leader, and I was going to do that, but then I was asked to take on a different role. Along with Danny, Chrystal and Brent, I will be helping to look after the needs of the youth leaders themselves. The way it works is the youth stuff all happens between 5pm and 9pm on Sundays, and then the leaders get together on Tuesday nights for pastoral care, bible study, debrief, fellowship, fun, whatever they need. So the leaders will be split into two groups, one lead by Danny & Chrystal, and the other lead by Brent & myself.

I'm really looking forward to this new role. I haven't done anything quite like this before. I think it will be a very challenging time for me. It will help me grow in all sorts of ways! I also think it's going to be a great to time get to know a whole bunch of people from my church a whole lot better. Not to mention a whole lot of fun!

Judging by our meeting last night, we will be spending about 15 minutes all together, then spending the majority of our time on a Tuesday in our small groups. This is a big responsibility which I'm all up for! I'm sure that with God we can make it work the way He wants it to. It's all a bit up in the air at the moment, seeing as Tuesday nights have never taken this exact format before, but it's exciting. It looks like we will be doing all sorts of things from listening to each other, to praying, to bible study, to learning new skills, to just chatting, to getting to know each other better, to whatever you can think of that would be beneficial to everyone. I can't wait to see what God is going to do through us all this year!

One of my new years resolutions was to take advatage of the things that Melbourne has to offer. I think I've done pretty well for the month of January. And last night I went to the Sidney Myer Music Bowl to see the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. The soloist that played with them last night was a pianist by the name of Hoang Pham, born in Vietnam now living in New York, via Australia, and the conductor was Pietari Inkinen from Finnland. They performed Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini. Oh how I love Rachmaninov! It was such a great night. The MSO played for about 2 hours. The rest of the pieces were other orchestral pieces from dvorak, vivaldi and I'm not sure about the last one. It wasn't the most pleasant weather for it, but I plan to go back next week, and hopefully it will be a bit nicer then. I just really enjoy good music, and the MSO are world class. It has inspired me to get my violin back out! This is Hoang Pham taking a bow after his dazzling performance. If only I could play like him...



And this is the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra after their performance, while we were all getting sore hands from clapping for so long. They even did an encore! I didn't realise orchestras did encores! What a night of amazing music!

Well it's been a weekend of people! I had Anna's hen's day on Saturday, spent Sunday at a BBQ, and I've had my friends Biz & Kris over from Tassie staying with me for the weekend. It's been awesome, but that meant that sleep was sacrificed. I had a much desired nap this afternoon. Mmmm... nap...


It was so awesome catching up with Biz & Kris. I've missed them. Haven't seen them for about 6 months. They came over for the 'big day out' (music festival for those of you who have no idea what I'm talking about) on Sunday. I dropped them off at the airport at midday today. Wish I could have spent a bit more time with them, but was great seeing them for the time we did get to spend together. We went to the 24 hour pancake palour last night. Mmmm... pancakes...





So as I was saying, I spent yesterday at a BBQ at Ben's place. Happy Birthday Ben for Saturday! We had lots of fun. We watched the cricket and the tennis. GO ROGER!!! I must say that I'm really a bit in love with Mr. Federer. He's just so lovely. Glad he won. Baghdatis is great though, he should be very proud of himself. But I swear he looked like he was about to die when the match ended!







So back to the BBQ, lots of fun! There was way too much food, some good wine, some jamming on the guitars, and great company! Oh, did I forget to tell you that I bought a digital camera on Friday?! Oh yeah! It's a Cannon Powershot A610. Awesome! So I've gone a bit nbutz with the photo taking! This one is Ben (the birthday boy) & myself having lots of unattractive fun!


This is Aaron & Glenn (from left to right). Aaron doesn't ever not pull stupid faces when there are cameras around, so this is a rare photo indeed! Do you like my double negative? Just to annoy all you English teachers out there! :P



This is Alex. Just because we all like to put bowls on our heads from time to time.








This is Ben (non-birthday boy Ben). Isn't eating just one of the most attractive things a person can do? Oh yeah! Go Ben!



So I had a really great time over the weekend. But it was a little exhausting. I'm really enjoying the holidays!

Yesterday was so much fun! The wonderful Anna & Rob are getting married in 1 week and 6 days (11th Feb), and yesterday was Anna's hen's day/night. This is the beautiful bride at the first winery we went to. We drove around in 3 different cars to 3 different wineries in the Yarra Valley. It is just a stunning place! We had so much fun and drank some really good wine (and some not so good wine).




This is Anna & myself at the first winery tasting a lovely red (I forget what kind). There were 10 of us there for the day. We went to 2 wineries, then out to lunch at the Yarra Glen pub, then off to another winery before heading back to Anna's place.


This is Anna and Kelly, who is her bridesmaid. Kelly is getting married in December. How exciting! So many weddings! Now if only I could find a man...




This is the big group of us. This was taken at the first winery. From left to right is: Anna's mum, Kelly, Emma, Vera (Anna's brother's wife), Kathryn, Alison, Sveta (Anna's cousin), Me, Anna, Rhonda (Anna's almost mother in law).




Mmmm... wine...









Then it was back to Anna's place where we had fish & chips for dinner. Then we played some silly bridal games like making wedding dresses out of toilet paper and fun things like that! Then Kathryn & I went out and hired a Playstation 2 and borrowed the game 'singstar' off a friend of ours. Oh so fun!!! For those of you unfamiliar with the game, it's basically a karaoke game! Yay for karaoke!!!



And more karaoke as the night went on... so much karaoke... but you can never have too much karaoke!!!



We had such a fabulous time! It was so great to have a girls day out and get to spend some really fun time together. A big big big thanks to Kelly for doing such an amazing job of organising the day!

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It has recently come to my attention that we missed revhead's birthday!!! It was on Sunday Jan 21st! HAPPY BIRTHDAY REVHEAD!!! Here is your song!





Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday to you!
Happy birthday dear Revhead/Martin/Hey You/Crazy Man!
Happy birthday to you!

Hope you had a really wonderful birthday!

I had a great few days. I went to Anna & Rob's yesterday, where Anna & I watched all 5 hours of the BBC version of Pride & Prejudice. Oh how I love it! Red wine, sushi and Colin Firth. Mmm... Colin Firth... Then we went to the pub to have some dinner, then off to play some tennis before settling in to watch a few hours of the Aussie Open. Oh how I love Roger! I stayed at their place last night, and today we went to Torquay and met up with Alison. Was such a great day! I bought a pair of $85 shoes for $15! Whoo! Go me and my bargain shopping! They are very nice rip curl skatie shoes.


Here is Anna & Rob enjoying Subway! Mmm... sub...










Anna & I looking gorgeous as always! Oh yeah! Check out those tongues!








The beach we went to in Jan Juc. You can see small Anna and Alison in the middle there, with a lovely blurry bird flying past.







Here are us girls at the beach! From Left to right we are Anna, Alison, Me




Rob & my charming self at the fish & chip shop in Geelong.








Then we went to the belgian beer garden once we got back to Melbourne, and Emma met us there. This is Anna, Emma and Rob. Much fun was had! Mmmm... European beer...

Roger Federer is AWESOME!!!


I'm going to the beach in Torquay today. WHOO!!!

Last night after work (about 8:30pm) it was still soooo hot! We'd been working for ages and we were quite exhausted. So once everyone had gone, Jodie and I went swimming in the outdoor pools in our uniforms. Ahhh...

Here are some great blogs to check out! Andrew with his missional diatribe! And Gary with his, something...something good. Check them out anyway, and get posting!!! They also now appear in my blog links down the side.

Been working lots lately. That's good, because work = money. Great equation. But work also = hotness and tiredness. Not such a great equation. I'm a lifeguard for those of you who don't know. Working at a pool (indoor and outdoor) in summer is so humid and crazy hot, and you have to watch everyone swim and you're not allowed in the water. Ug.

I'm wondering about a nickname change. I generally sign everything Meags. But that makes people think my name is spellt Meagan, instead of Megan. So perhaps I could go by Megs. What do you think? Am I a Megs? The options are:

Meags (pronounced like the word Me)
Megs (like Eggs, with an M on the front)

Cast your votes!

Oh how I love Missy Higgins cover of that Tim Finn song... One of my current favourite songs!

Really enjoying my holidays. Going to the tennis (Australian Open for you international bloggers) on Wednesday with Krissy (girl from work). I love the tennis! Hope to be seeing Federer! He's my favourite player! Krissy's favourite player is Rainer Schuettler from Germany, who unfortunately got knocked out today, so we won't be seeing him.

Performed a song at church yesterday that I wrote. Was so awesome! I intended to play it on my own, but when I was rehearsing, the guys in the band joined in and it sounded amazing! So I got them to play with me when I performed it. I had Glenn on acoustic guitar, John on congos and Chrystal singing harmonies. It felt like a real song! It was such an amazing feeling!!!



Bought a new bag today. It's so exciting! I got all girly about it. Isn't it pretty? It's silk! I don't usually get excited over handbags, but I really love this one!



Going to see Mal Webb tomorrow night. Very excited! And going to see an acousitc duo in Eltham on Wednesday night. It's a week for music! Although I think every week for me is a week for music. Yay for music!

I just cried while re-watching 'Lost', and my family laughed at me. I cry at everything. :(

I just found out that the Whitlams are playing in the city tonight for free!!! I can't go!!! I already organised for people to come over tonight. My parents went away this weekend, so I'm having people over, it's too late to cancel. I want to see the Whitlams... I love them!!! Annoying city!!! :(

Oh how I love going to see live music. It's one of my very favourite things to do. Went out with Chrystal last night and saw an awesome duo in Eltham @ 'walks'. Get along on a Wednesday when you get the chance. I'm going to the Arcadia in South Yarra tonight to see Tim & Dan (ex Taxiride guys). Should be awesome!

New Years Resolutions:

Get fit & lose weight

Get regular gigs

Learn some classical piano

Start playing the violin again

Play a sport regularly (I'm starting up Volleyball)

Get marks (at college) I am satisfied with

I know I had one more, can't remember it though

Alison, Sarah & I went swimming in the Yarra river over in Warrendyte yesterday. Was so much fun! Here are some photos!


Me in the car on the way there!












Sarah (Left) & Ali (Right)












Me looking kinda nbutz











Action shot of Ali & I being stupid in the water!

I'm so disappoitned in my song writing as of late. I've been listening to so much awesome music and I just can't seem to write anything as good as what I'm hearing. It's rather disheartening. What kind of music do you guys like? Tell me your current favourite song, or few songs, and tell my why if you know why you like it so much. This might help in my research of how to write music.

Guru got 'Lost' season 1 on DVD for Christmas, I'm in the process of watching it all over again. I hope to get it finished before season 2 starts in a month and a half. Such a brilliant show! I think it's even better the second time. I'm picking up on all the little bits I missed along with way the first time. If you haven't been watching this show, you've been missing out! GET LOST!




And I can't believe how indescribably hot Matthew Fox still is!

As I promised Emma, here is a report and some photos from new years. Although they are dodgy ones I took with my phone, other digital ones are yet to come!

Amy & I went down to Sorrento on the 30th to hang out with Alison and Kathryn. Kathryn has a holiday house down there. We had an awesome time at the beach and walking lots and lots. Then on the 31st we drove across to Philip Island where we joined some others for a great new years. There were 13 of us there at Grant's holiday house, awesome time was had by all! Lots of going to the beach, drinking a bit, playing cards, and just general merriment. It was a great way to see in the new year. Yay for 2006!

This one was taken in the car on the way to Sorrento, as you can see, we had Marty Moose with us! We just couldn't leave him home!








This one is Amy & Kathryn in the back of Anna's car on new years day.





This is a dodgy photo of Emma and Anesti just after midnight. As you can see, my phone takes terrible photos without proper lighting! See hte orange glow stick Anesti has behind his ear? Some girl from next door handed out heaps of glow sticks to us all. How fun!






Here is Amy & Marty having lots of new years fun!









Oh, and Revhead finally got a blog! WHOO!!!

My friend Amy is over from Tassie at the moment, and we spent the day in the city today. First we had lunch in the botanical gardens and had a wander around a bit. Got some fun photos! Oh, and we took Marty with us! He's my moose!






This is me in a big giant tree!










This is Marty having fun at the botanical gardens.











Amy and Marty in front of the lake





Us having fun at the botanical gardens. We had such a yummy lunch! We got this pesto, sun dried tomato and capsicum pull apart thingy. Oh yeah....





Then we went to the Melbourne Aquarium. Here are some cool looking silver fishes.










Look! It's Nemo!







Freaky Giant squid!!! It's the world's largest frozen squid. They found it frozen in ice appartently. It's 7 metres long. So creepy...








I couldn't not have a turtle! They're my favourite animals!











Awesome looking stingray that swam over us in the fishbowl room!










Can we be fish too?










Marty needed a beer after a long hard day!















And so did we...

Hope you guys had a great and safe new year! Happy 2006! May it be full of dreams realised.