Published June 20, 2005 by

Some Photos

Playing with new camera…

Job the dog

and the wonderfully interesting things in our house result in photos of flowers:

And was mucking around with settings, not like you ever use colour settings but yeh I like them.

and so you aren’t meant to take w/ backlight. bah to conventions this is weird.

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Published June 19, 2005 by

Movies

after a thought running through my somewhat dead head last night… heres something undeep, required minimal thinking and is of probably no positive use to myself, bar the fact I could look back on this in a few years (or even weeks) and groan or alternatively be entirely satisfied.

Movies.

Top Chick Flicks (all in no particular order)
1. Little Women
2. Sabrina
3. Ever After
4. Finding Neverland
5. Pride and Prejudice
6. Anne of Green Gables
7. Breakfast at Tiffanies (not sure if it counts I saw it at 2am when I was half asleep)
8. Love Actually

Top Other
1. GATTACA
2. Les Miserables
3. Amelie
4. Life Is Beautiful (La Vita e’ bella)
5. Love Me if You Dare
6. Memento

Other movies I really liked
1. Punch Drunk Love or is it Punch Love Drunk?
2. Cold Mountain (I have only seen this in black and white, stupid tv)
3. Big Fish
4. A Beautiful Mind
5. Schindlers List
6. The Aviator (because it caught my fancy and everyone else I went with hated or strongly disliked it, maybe a ‘liked’ not ‘really liked’)
7. Spellbound
8. David Copperfield
9. Oceans11
10. LOTR/Starwars just for merits sake
11. Erin Brockovich
12. The Scarlet Pimpernel (this would probably majorly decrease if I saw it again…)

Top Series etc…
1. Jeeves and Wooster
2. Brother Cadfael
neither of which you can get in Australia easily 🙁

The somewhat Disturbing but still really enjoyed
1. Dead Poets Society
2. The Cider House Rules
3. Patch Adams (ha um, yes)
4. Boys from Brazil
5. Oliver Twist..maybe I didnt enjoy this one at all

thats all I can think of for now.

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Published June 18, 2005 by

Eighteenth of June 2005

so

how to describe.

or rather I don’t know if I want to, I’ve desensitised or tried to, or those well established emotional boundries kicked in, in full force.

church meeting.

needed to be done. uncomfortable, emotional people, a stand up and leave in protest after a speil (at the end) with a minority following, a time where I was standing in the line and swearing repeditively in my head b/c my mind had nothing else to do… that and talk to God. last looks at faces. I didn’t really properly say goodbye to anyone.

sitting next to Janice at the back away from sisters/mum (glad). eating skittles we grabbed on the way in. frustrated at how the thing went round in circles. glad I couldnt see faces when resignations were being read out.

“only way things can go are up”… church is not a building. wherever we end up God can use us. better than sitting around passively.

anyway. numb. hurt. annoyed. glad its over. hard to say goodbye. all that. more. haven’t had time to process properly I guess. dont’ want to right now.

Romans 8:28-39
Heb 12:2-3
Heb 12:14
2 Tim 2:23-26
Eph 4:14-21

aside from not crying all night. reading those did. thank you.

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Published June 18, 2005 by

Shot

slept til 11:50am. I never do that.

Jess W was coming to pick me up at 11:45am (yes thats right). Told me the night before to be sure to be ready as I don’t want to have to come inside and get you. Thankfully she was late. Got here about 11:55 instead. In a good mood 😛 so she gave me a fraction longer.

Fall out of bed. find clothes somehow, find shoes, find water, fed the dog, grabbed an apple to eat in the car (for breakfast), money, phone, assignment to hand in. left.

Got talking on the way to Tabor and so missed the turn off on to Oban Rd (erm. yes we do go the same way every time) had to go the long way round. Handed in essays with half an hour to spare. I went looking for Rowan to get my USB stick back, but their offices were all locked up, will just have to wait for camp.

Drove to Eastland (that would be the shopping centre) to meet Alecia infront of Macca’s for lunch (infront, not at). Subway for me, some a little sorry looking pasta for Jess and Alecia (when she came).

Jess and I then went Camera shopping. Teds Camera House first (which I told Jess was overpriced) weren’t there long. Then to Kirks. Nice shop. Jess got asked what she was looking for, “a camera” (A and I gave her lots for that seeing the whole shop was devoted to them). I managed to talk Jess out of giving into the sales lady’s advice and to wait and look round a bit more. Saw the camera I found last night for $649 the rrp listed on the Nikon site. Too much.

Then dropped Alecia back at her car and we drove back to Croydon. Second shop, much bigger range. Jess found something better, cheaper and I made her ask/get a deal for everything else thrown in. There’s some of the dutch coming out.
Managed to find one myself.
Same camera as before. Nikon Coolpix 4800 was after at least 4mp. and more zoom. Surprisingly $100 cheaper. Ho hummed for a bit, got sales person to chuck a card in with it, cost a bit extra but not too much. Decided I might as well.

So 🙂 I have a camera. finally!

mucking around and took this of the flowers we had for hannah:

Went to Annie Get Your Gun tonight at school. Good way to spend an evening. Typical school production with varying levels of singing/acting ability. Overall pretty good. Hannah was great! Don’t know where those genes came from. Her only obvious blunder when she snaped her gun in half… and everyone laughing so hard she found hard to hear the music – but kept singing. She didn’t have trouble with lines, although a few did. Had seats in the middle but way up the back as Han forgot to book early. I was fortunate enough to have a little kid in front of me 😛


Hannah (aka Annie Oakley)

Fun evening, even though I did have an ‘oversleep’ headache.

caught up with Jaclyn (cousin) very good to see her again 🙂 Miss not seeing her now I’m not at school.


em, jaclyn, laura

And that is the end of the saga of my day. Thank you for listening if you got this far, if you didn’t I don’t blame you.

Goodnight.

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Published June 17, 2005 by

Whatever

Worth remembering.

earlier this evening I was doing a boost for the sibling (aka Hannah) in gush as she is Annie in Annie Get Your Gun tomorrow night in the school production. I was looking and looking for that verse that says: ‘do everything for God deal…’ I couldn’t remember exact wording and spent a bit of time scrounging searches on biblegateway and gave up. I normally don’t put verses in boosts but it came to mind.

Anyway. later. lots later. after I’d sort of forgotten. I open to where I left off reading last night (yeah evidence I’ve been doing reading). And was on Colossians 3:15-17.

v.17 “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”

Ah the irony. God makes me laugh sometimes.

but hey, in looking for the Haig’s: its the thought that counts.

(and I just broke a bec rule: do not say the ‘but hey’… hmm that hasn’t come up in awhile. Oh well I’ll just leave it.)

Dictionary:
Haigs/Hagar – Hannah (the littlest sister)

Word of the Day: intrinsic only becuase I had it on the tip of my tongue when I was writing the personal creed – wanted to use it (and I did) but it took one extensive search of the dictionary and varieties of spelling.

God is cool.

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