tellings of the beautiful life

Recent

2009-09-20T23:35:00.000-07:00

Alas, I have not blogged for many months, but here are a few shots of recent outings and happenings of the past few days...

Days at the beach with friends

Road tripping

Beautiful views

Spring blossoms

My beautiful nephew

Let Me Be

2009-05-20T19:46:00.000-07:00

Hello, my word it has been a long time since my last blog.

Lately i have been discovering things that normally never enter the circle of my thoughts,

how wonderful it is to spend hours exlporing things of old and new such as:

The musical mianderings of Xavier Rudd. (http://xavierrudd.com/) check it out.

The ever amazing, raw and honest postsecret.

Re-decorating my room with pretty things.

Planning a beautiful birthday party, tomorrow! Eek!

Having my leg cut off by my 1 year old nephew and his toy chainsaw. So cute!

Coldplay show.

The Fray show.

Hot lemon, honey and ginger drinks.

Beach holidays in the winter time, so beautiful.

Autumn leaves everywhere!

Finding assorted cute things in op shops.

Learning endless amounts of theory at uni.

Spending a day pottering with my mum.

Painting.

Winter coats, boots, scarves, gloves and hand-warmers.

Ingrid Michaelson. (http://www.ingridmichaelson.com/)

Finding pretty photos online.

The morning time

2009-02-22T14:08:00.000-08:00

Good morning.

Today is study day, to get all things study done...

Meanwhile i am procrastinating in the lovely world of blog...

Don't you just love it when things get sorted out...between friends...

When everything is out in the air and plain for you both to see.

A pinch of vulnerability is essential but entirely benefitted from...

In time all things will work out.

Well, for today anyways. especially

from this weeks secrets:

(This is the front of the next postcard)

cute :)

you know you love them when...

2009-02-10T22:34:00.000-08:00

An ode to those friends, family or speical people in life.

-you come home from work and they're the one you want to tell all your stories to...about the lady that yelled and wouldn't give you her personal details for a refund, about your amazing delivery guy and about the little asian man at the sweet station in the mall who smiles so big his eyes totally dissappear into his smile.

-when you just wana take away all things that stress, rain on and have any negative effect on them.

-you think of them when couples kiss on the movie.

-they show you they really know you...way more than you thought...and wana hang out anyways.

-no one else's opinion matters about your outfit that day for that event.

-you can't bring yourself to lie to them, you know they see right through you.

-it breaks your heart to see them learn their lessons.

to be continued at some point...
your additions welcome :)

I like...

2008-11-21T16:20:00.000-08:00

These:

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Go here, it'll changed your whole outlook and life and things and people.

Ups and downs...

2008-11-10T00:27:00.000-08:00

not doing well at the mo...

life is just really hard sometimes. and it doesnt try cover up or pretend that it isnt hard, its just blatantly hard.

-sigh-

i need some hope that the things will be smoothed out...

http://luxxxxxx.deviantart.com/

Could you please be more or less specific...

2008-11-06T12:28:00.000-08:00

So things at the moment have all slowed down, finished with camps, finished with bible school, and here I am at home in my pink love heart pjamas blogging :) its positively lovely to be so relaxed, but at the same time my mind has started to analyse things, most things, and I seem to be being sucked into my mind, needing to get out to get some perspective on things, remind myself that my world is not the world.

but then at the same time, I havent just 'thought' for a long time. maybe I do it on purpose for this very reason, that thinking makes me down and I get stuck in my own head...

meanwhile this blog is not making much sense for you innocent bystanders reading it...

meanwhile, this is just today, im sure tomorrow will deliver lovely packages of wonderful things :)

The man walking his dog

2008-11-01T01:43:00.000-07:00

I'm a Youth intern at my church. And part of being a youth intern is that I do 'bible in schools' at Rotokauri School every tuesday morning, which is so much fun, even at the early hour.

And so I battle the traffic from my house over to the other side of town every tuesday, and every tuesday morning without fail I see a man walking his dog. He's quite an elderly man, in his 60s perhaps, and everytime a car drives past he waves to them. At first I assumed that he knew the people in the car he waved to, untill he waved to me. The first time i was like huh? Then I realised that he waves to every car. He waves to every person he sees driving along that country road, perhaps being the first hello of the day for most, I know he is for me. This may seem really random, and it kinda is, but he has been on my mind for a month now and I just had to get my thoughts and sightings out there.

So thankyou, man walking your dog.

You're the reason shreads of true community and genuinely good people still exist in this day and age :)

Things to do in novemeber...

2008-10-22T14:53:00.000-07:00

Novemeber is my free month! where things settle down ministry wise which is sad, beacuse its been amazing, but now i get to do a few lovely things for me again again...heres what im thinking so far:

Going to shows with Chrissy
Re-doing my room, perhaps making a duvet cover
Taking lots of Photos
Spending time with my mum, lunch at scotts
Teaching Kelsi how to play guitar
Email Jess in England
Paint my nails
Read books
Get new Frankie/other wonderful magizeens
Start running
Hanging with my Stomp girls
Spend time with the boy
Look for Amanda and Jeremy's wedding presents
Give my room a really good clean
Get a haircut
Babysit my nephew/neice, take them out for fun with their aunty

...hmm any other suggestions?

Our delivery man Dwaine

2008-10-12T20:33:00.000-07:00

Dwaine is our delivery guy at diva. He is actually amazing.

Always so lovely and happy, and gets worried when it's just me on a monday and theres 4 boxes to unload, asking if im going to be ok and if i have someone else coming in to help.

Life is a bit of a stressful time at the mo, then Dwaine comes in this morning, just being his normal neat self bringing diva boxes of joy, and all of a sudden i think i may just be able to exist through the rest of the days comings.

Thanks Dwaine, you light up my life.

The week

2008-10-09T20:00:00.001-07:00

Wow, big week.

Had kids camp which was amazing. So much fun, laughs, games, God moments and friends.

I also went down the hydro slide at narrows for the first time! (like 5 or six camps later! jeez) it was wonderful.

But am totally wasted now.

Found my new fave worship song though, 'the anthem' by Planet Shakers, amazing. If you haven't heard it, go on youtube and do it, you'll never be the same again.

Kids teach you so much. It's funny how we were all once kids, and were fresh and honest and genuine... what happened? did we forget?

apologies for the disjointed thoughts, fatigue is setting in.

off for a quick nap then work tonight :s

ciao x

Hallelujah, you have won the victory

Hallelujah, you have won it all for me.

Death could not hold you down,

You are the risen king

Seated in majesty,

You are the risen king

cutie tootie

happy boys

Heres to you.

2008-09-29T15:57:00.000-07:00

Haven't been here for a little while, life has caught me and sucked me in for a bit but I'm out now, silly life tsk tsk tsk. Last week was nice, handed in my assignment yay,! had breakfast with Chrissy, lovely lovely... and then just jazzed around.

In heart, I'm not a jumping up and down cheering supporter of summer... but i have been liking a few tidbits of what summer brings, such as nectarines and strawberries. Pretty scarves, dinner parties and late night picnics. And how for some reason everyone has less road rage and anger in general. They all start to pull out their colored clothing and jandals and just smile. There must be something in people that just closes down when there's bad weather....i wish we could be like this all year round...i myself love winter and rain.... but oh well.

My dad gave me an amazing present this last week, he is

so generous. I am continually blown away by my families generosity,

I am on a mission to be like them. Dad said to me that it was a tool that i can use in ministry to serve God to the best i can... thankyou Dad, i will.

Here's to you Dad, summer, nectarines and strawberries and the people :)

[a few things of summer]

Love

2008-09-21T17:08:00.000-07:00

I'm just loving the people at the moment. Not like romantically in love with everyone, but just really enjoying the people that have been put in the little basket that is my life.

My sister popped into to the office just now, she makes me laugh like no one else. My other sister is hilarious in her own unique way also. I love how my mum gets into hysteric fits of laughter and we end up cryin

g with stomach cramps over the silliest of things. Cheree whom I share an office with just makes me laugh and cry. We discu

ss matters that I cant really with anyone else. My dad, he's neat. Bizzle makes me happy, esp. when she's bitter, but I love her just in general. And just meeting new people this year like Amanda, who's my Gilmore girls partner! who knew there were others were as obsessed as I?

Jess who just gets me, I say one word and he's like "yeah" -sigh-

and the boy, who brings me roses and buys me jewelry, and Frankie and who is just the best thing since sliced bread.

Aunty's who encourage and help me question, affirm and contemplate, connecting tragedies and times of absolute glee in life ,helping it all make snippets of sense.

Here's to the people who make these days wonderfully diverse... Love you all.

p.s if i missed you out, its not because you aren't important, you are. this is just a tiny part.

mum and I...

me and bizzle...

sez cat...

Bits and bobs...

2008-09-20T19:51:00.000-07:00

I had a deep fried moro bar! (see first post) Tick that one off the list. Bizzle and I were having a sleepover, watching summerheights high (hilarious!) and the holiday (beautiful), and we popped down to the cute dinsdale shops and purchased one deep fried moro bar for $2. It nearly turned out to be a deep fried snickers bar, but the cute little asian man started vigorously fossicking around the shop and found us a moro bar! Thanks little asian man, you saved the day :)

Things to do:

. write assignment

. fill out uni forms

. sit in sun and read frankie that the lovely boy bought me

. excercise

. suss out my hectic october calendar

. and church later...

...right, better hop to it

just read this weeks post secret...love this one...

Have you ever felt like things are just good?

2008-09-19T21:28:00.000-07:00

Yesterday they were. I was driving in the car with Dave, off to get noodle canteen for dinner (which was exactly what i felt like). I was the perfect temperature (which is quite uncommon as i am normally quite a cold creature). The perfect song was playing on the radio (ghosts and lullabies by mumsdolla). I was exactly where i wanted to be, with whom i wanted to be with. God was with me here, which is the most incredible, indescribable feeling in itself... and then i saw it.....

The most amazing sunset i've seen all winter.

I love moments like these, so liberating.

These are the ones to cherish always...

Things

2008-09-16T19:33:00.000-07:00

I'm making a list of things I love, want to do, or do more of....

in no particular order, here's what I've got so far:

. more jesus time, throughout the day

. taking photos, photography

. dave

. family

. have more sleepovers

. go op shopping

. blowing bubbles

. read, and widen my horizons

. make things, sew, paint, bake (or learn how) etc

. write letters

. music- making, listening, discovering

. have flowers in my room

. make another wall collage

. picnics, maybe in the middle of a roundabout?

. exercise

. eat a deep fried moro bar

. rollerblading

. road trips

. hire golf buggies and go on missions

. movie marathons

. kumara fries, and new york cheese cake

. scott's epicurean

. opening new boxes at work

. love more

. gilmore girls

. spending time with friends

. post secret

. divine intervention

. laughing

. fiji, my kids in the slums

and many more...