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Ingi & I are playing again at an open mic night this Monday! So if you'd like to come and hear us play, or if you think we suck and would like to either laugh at us or support us anyway, then come along!

This Monday August 1st
Wesley Anne
250 High St
Northcote
9:30pm

Hope you see heaps of people there!

Well the war has begun...
Luke (my little bro) and I are engaged in a psychological battle of wits! He likes to sneak up on me and scare the living daylights (how does daylight live anyway?) out of me! It's one of his favourite past times. Well I'm sick of it. So i'm fighting back! He did it two nights ago and I thought, "That's it! I'm getting him back!" So I glomped him in the middle of the night. Oh yeah! For those of you unaware, 'glomping' is an over enthusiastic crash tackle hug. So then he stole all my turtles (well he tried to, he missed like 5 of them). I love turtles you see and I have about 12 or 13 of them in my room. Then I froze his keys in a cup of water. Then he hid my keys in the fruit bowl (LAME)! And now I've done something else to him which I'll tell you about after he finds it. I don't want to write it here in case he reads this before he sees it.
IT'S ON!!!!

EDIT:
Haha! He found it! I remade his bed the other way around so his pillows were up the foot end of his bed

I wonder what kind of impact we leave on our world. I want to have a positive one that helps shape the lives of others in whatever way I can. I don't want to miss out on any opportunities that are provided for me to have an impact on this world and on the individual lives of others. I wonder how many opportunities I have squandered by being so preoccupied with myself that I just can't see them. I have such a heart to do some good in this world. It can be overwhelming thinking that I am just one person, but I know that I can have an impact. Perhaps not one that causes me to be famous, but that's not necessarily what I want. In fact, I think fame would suck! But I do want to be the kind of person that those who I come into contact with remember me as someone who mattered and had a positive impact.

To check out a wonderful piece of writing (kind of related to this topic) by my very talented brother read this

Here are some more photos of my time in Tassie. This is Jacob during our psycho hike through the walls of jersulam national park.



And here is Geri & I at the recpetion of Claire and Brenton's wedding.

Naomi and I have a food! Most people have a song or a place or something. We have a food! We've never eaten KFC's wicked wings without the other one being there. It's kinda weird really. Here is us eating wicked wings!



And here is a gorgeous double rainbow I saw yesterday.

I had such a scarey dream last night. I dreamt that my friends Anna and Rob died overnight from food poisoning. It was just so horrible! I was devastated! I spoke to Rob on the phone, then went out with some other friends in some strange place I've never seen before that was inside and outside at the same time. Very odd. Then I woke up while people were setting up for their funeral. I hate waking up and feeling really freaked out by dreams. Even though I know they're not real I get really affected by them.

Dboy's wife pointed out to me yesterday (until then I had remained oblivious to this fact) that I am the only girl who visits (or at least posts on) Dboy's site! What's up with that?! I don't think I'm particularly blokey, but I seem to be the only girl (or one of very few) on quite a lot of sites I visit regularly. Will someone kindly inform me as to why that may be?

Well I can finally send photos from my phone to my email account so I can start posting more photos! WOOT! Here is one I took at the wedding I went to down in Tassie. Here is Claire and Brenton as brand newlyweds! Awwww....

As you can see in the title Biz has finally got herself a blog! How exciting! Biz is a friend of mine from Tassie if you're thinking 'Uh, is Biz some sort of new fancy cola?'. So to check out the exciting world of biz have a look here:

BIZ

Here's a pic of us in January in Poatina. I'm a bit sunburnt... Hmm.. red face... attractive...

Last night I went to some place on High St in Northcote. I have no idea what it's called, but I went there anyway. There was this guy performing there called Mal Webb. He was absolutely astounding! I have never seen someone who impressed me more with their musicality. This wasn't just some guy who played and sang, he was a real musician, a real musicologist. He knew everything there was to know about musical theory and all the physics behind it. It was incredible! Half the stuff he did wasn't even songs, but rather just demonstrating something of what you can do wtih music. He played 6 instruments while I was there, and I'm sure he plays about a thousand others. And he was really really good at all of them! He was really good at interacting with the audience too, he did a lot of talking and explaining. He was really entertianing as well as informative. He has this pedal thing which could record a sound and just loop it over and over again. So he'd record something, then record something else over that and so on until he had something that had about 17 different tracks of just him doing various things with his voice, then he'd sometimes play an instrument over the top of it or something. He'd sing 4 or 5 part harmonies with himself. It was astounding! That man could do almost anything with his voice! I can't believe some of the sounds he got to come out of his mouth. He didn't have the most amazing sounding voice, but he had so much control over it, he could do almost anything!

I recommend everyone get along to see him if you can. It's something quite different, but really really great! Click here to see his web site:

Mal Webb

Also an update on my puppy. She seems to be ok, but she's still very sore and bruised. She won't let anyone pick her up coz I think her tummy hurts, and she's doing everything very slowly. She's being careful, but she seems ok. Thank You God!

I've had a rather traumatic evening! I went over to Kathryn's with Maggie (my doggy) to go for a walk as I do most nights. We were about 1/4 of the way through our walk and a cat ran across the road. And my dog - being a silly dog with no foresight - chased after it across the road. Well a car was coming. Thankfully it was right near a round-a-bout and the car was slowing down, and they slammed on the brakes, but they did hit her. She wasn't run over by any tyres but she was hit by the car itself. I was soooooooooo freaked out! I screamed at her as she ran but she was focused on the cat and I ran after her. She rolled across the road a little bit and was really scared. I tried to pick her up but she was yelping. Then she let me pick her up after a little bit. I tried pressing all over her body and she didn't seem to be in any real pain, just a bit bruised and in lots of shock. She has been really sedate and freaked out all night. I carried her home and she seems to be ok apart from being in shock. I might take her to the vet to get her checked out just in case. She can walk ok, but I'm still worried about her. It was so scarey to watch her get hit! I love my dog and I would be so shattered if anything ever happened to her! I love my puppy!

Here's a photo of my puppy (complete with freaky green eyes)!

This is awesome! You gotta see it!

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By the way, I thought I'd clarify some stuff from the other day. My mum read my blog and misinterpreted what I meant, so I thought I'd clarify it for everyone in case it wasn't clear.

It seems that it may have sounded like I felt I couldn't be myself around people. That's not what I mean. I mean that I don't always represent myself to others the way I mean to. Not out of lack of trying, but because I cannot always see myself objectively. I see my motivation, but others only see my behaviour, which means that we may not always have the same understanding of my behaviour. I want others to see who I really am, not just my character flaws that get in the way of me being all who I can be. I feel like sometimes there are things that get in the way of me reaching my potential, and I want to work on getting those out of the way so that I can reach my potential.

Hope that's a little clearer.

Like my new photo? :)

Well I got all my enrollment stuff for college yesterday! I filled it all in today and I'm so excited! The subjects I'll be doing are all compulsary first year ones. The 5 subjects I'm doing are:

Biblical Survey B
Intro to Hermenuetics
Church History Survery
Christian Living Seminar II
Intro to Psychology and Councilling

I'm really excited about the last 2 subjects, but I have no doubt they'll all be fantastic. I'm sure there will be things I'm not so excited about, but it will all be helpful to know and I'll enjoy knowing it, even if I don't always enjoy learning it. I'm not the biggest fan of Hermeneuitcs, but it will still be good to do. For every 3 hour class (which they all are) I'm supposed to do 6 hours outside of class, so I think it's going to be pretty full on. That's 15 contact hours a week, but another 30 on top of that study. Whoa!

Only 12 days to go until I start college! YAY!

I just drank half a litre of orange juice. That's a lot of juice all at once. Now my tummy's all gluggy...

Thanks guys. I appreciate the encouragement from everyone. I don't always feel squashed, I think yesterday was a squashed feeling day. I think I'm just in limbo at the moment. I'm waiting to start bible college in a couple of weeks, and feeling a bit in between things. I guess I just have too much time on my hands at the moment, feeling a bit lost and yeah, just in between things.

But I really excited about going to bible college. I can't wait to get back into some study and learn heaps more. I'm really looking forward to being intellectually stimulated, and to being personally challenged. I got my enrollment stuff in the mail today which I'm really excited about! I get to do all that form filling in stuff now, and look into getting textbooks and all that 'school' stuff you have to do before commencing a course. I can't wait to go staionary shopping!

Do you ever feel like you're not communicating yourself properly? Sometimes I feel like I am just so much more than people know. I know that's true of everyone, but some days I feel it more than other days. There is so much I want to do, and so much I want to be. There are so many dreams I have. But converting that into reality is a rather difficult task at times. I want to show people my potential and what is in my heart. I'm sick of living a half existance where what people see (not all the time, but too much of the time in my opinion) is pretense or a mask or something. Why are we so afraid to just let go and live life? It's not like we get multiple tries at it. I get sick of having to ask myself the same questions all the time. I just want to be able to sit back and breathe. I want to choose what I want in life and how I behave. I don't want to let circumstance and emotion drive me. This is something I have been consciously working on over the last few years, being the person I really want to be, not just who it's easy to be. But it's still so easy to be lazy with how I live. I do things I don't want to do, and I don't do things I want to do. I can relate to Paul in the bible when he says 'The good I want to do, that I don't do. But the bad I don't want to do, that I keep on doing.'. I feel frustrated and slightly trapped today.

If any regular visitors to my site that aren't already linked would like me to link to their site from here on my side bar, feel free to let me know and I'll put you up there. Wow. That was quite a long sentence.