Month: <span>November 2006</span>

Published November 24, 2006 by

My many I’s

A couple of days ago I glanced quickly at a blog post that I’d written and was somewhat horrified to see that I had started almost every paragraph with I.

Not only does this display a very poor variety of sentence structure but it strikes me as being altogether self absorbed.

Now I would like to give you the opportunity to let me know what you like reading on here. It is incredibly easy and mindless to write about my day and about me or I or whoever.

So if you could comment on this post and vote in the side bar (as soon as I get it up) then I’d appreciate it.

What do you want to see more of?

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Published November 24, 2006 by

Buy Something Day!

raffaellosI missed Buy Nothing Day.

I went shopping instead. Of course the whole thing was under the guise of getting a few things for tonight’s Youth Group Sleepover Breakup (“Must supply the kiddies with enough sugar to keep them happy with PG movies”) and my drive-illiterate sister Emily’s pleading. It unfortunately turned out quite expensive.

So, I got some more of my photo’s printed and duplicates for others, that was fine, that was intentional.

At the ABC shop I found the David Copperfield DVD (Dickens) which is a family favourite and we only own a taped video. It was cheap… so I bought it.

At JB a double CD Acoustic mix caught my eye and my head justified that I haven’t bought music in quite a while and I’m sick of scrounging around myspace having to hit play every 3 minutes. 40 new songs.

And… while getting the aforementioned youth leaders peace offering sugar I decided to treat myself to some Raffaello’s (pretty much some of my most favourite chocolate in the whole world) while getting some chocolate for someone else. Now at home I can’t find either them… except on the receipt. Not impressed. Sometimes you really look forward to little things like that.

Alas to be shown up as consumeristic!

General Life

Published November 23, 2006 by

Freeze

bottle.jpgI have written about the household fridge previously. The cause this time is not because it has again gone feral. Infact quite the opposite, the fridge is getting frequently cleaned, namely because we’re on our third for the past two weeks.

The current fridge simply disobeys the thermostat. The photo is of what happened to glass water bottle. The frozen explosive arrangement was pretty spectacular!

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Published November 23, 2006 by

Sight

contented.gifYesterday I completed the expensive business of getting new lenses put in my glasses. Now I can more safely drive when I don’t happen to be wearing the contacts. It’s a sorry fact that once your eyes start (and they probably were always bad – I blame the genes) that they really only get worse. Mine are down to a shocking -6.0 and -6.5. If I could afford laser treatment I probably would – but who has a spare $4,000 or so lying around?

General Life

Published November 22, 2006 by

Game of expectancy

Ah it’s curious how you come across things that are oh-so-relevant.

“John Bevere says that expectations are the breeding ground for an offense. I think this is true. When someone does not meet our expectations we build a case in our minds based on our disappointment in them. Sometimes our expectations are unspoken and our offenses are also unspoken. Well, we might tell others how someone let us down but we don’t often talk to the person. But, if and when we do, we let them know how disappointed we are in them and how they let us down. Perhaps this game of expectations is really about us and not about what the other person did. Thus needing to look inside before telling others or that person how disappointed we are…” (Lori Boucher)

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How true this is.

(now… who can I MAKE read this?)

and in the meantime, YES PLEASE…

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