Nothing Really!

I had a great weekend! My tattoo turned out just exactly how I wanted it! I had fun at another great fire with my two favorite fire friends, Cate & Leah. We took lots of photos which are up on facebook...I'd put some up here...but I'm don't have them with me.

Right now I am at LaTrobe University with my lovely housemate Claire. We are just checking our e-mails and facebooks, etc. Good times. Then...we shall go home. Very exciting stuff.

I went to an enrollement of senior soldiers last night. It was great...there were 6 new Senior Soldiers enrolled at Box Hill Corps in Melbourne. The night was really great!

Not really much more to say at the moment...OH WAIT! In exactly one week today I'll be in the GOLD COAST...surfers paradise to be exact! I'm so excited. Should be so fun. I'm going to a conference...I expect to learn heaps and am looking forward to that greatly!

I Love FIRES!

For the last few weeks in a row I've been involved in at least one fire everyweek! Now...these are not the kind of fires that are bad like the ones that I've had in my past. These are CONTROLLED bon-fires in a backyard in a fire pit. Last night I had a great bonfire. It started off with our after school Girls Group for teens and we all sat around the fire and talked and had fun. Then we drove the girls home, and my friend Leah (whose house we were at) and I came back and continued the fire!

We roasted marshmallows, sang songs, had good life discussions...and pretty much just had a fantastic time. We only left the fire to go get more wood so we could keep the fire going. The only bad thing about the fire was that it did distract us from going to the gym. We had every intention to go...but the fire was just too inticing!

By about 9:30 Esther (who happens to live with Leah!) came home and saw us in the backyard with the fire (actually I believe that she smelt it first from in the house!!!) and so she came out and joined us. We sang more songs...(from such great artists as Shania Twain, Garth Brooks, Bon Jovi...some nice 80's classic...you name it we pretty much sang it!). Eventually though, all good things must come to an end. So we had to finish up the fire...although I'm pretty sure that Leah might have slept out by the fire all night! That was the plan anyway!

Good times with good friends...there is nothing better than that!

PS - Tomorrow is TATTOO DAY! I'm so excited!

My Tattoo...

I'm so excited...I've got an appointment to get a new tattoo on Saturday! I'll post pictures of it when it is done! I'm going to a place in Melbourne where my good friend Cate just recently got a tattoo from! This will be my 3rd one...and probably my second last...I just want one more after this one.

Today was a funny day. I was SOOOOOO tired when I got up. The first thing I did when I got to work was to go and get the biggest coffee I could...but it didn't really seem to help much. It was a quiet day at work. A lot of people were away.

Tonight I made a satay thing for dinner. It was so good. I thought so anyways! My housemates might beg to differ...but oh well! At least I've not had any fires in this house ;)

This post really doesn't have much to do with the title...I really should have called it random rambling or something like that...oh well...too late for that now!

THE ZOO!

Yesterday I went with some friends to the Melbourne Zoo. It was so amazingly fun! I love the animals. When I was a little girl I wanted to be a lion when I grew up...obviously I'm over that now. But I have to say that I was TOTALLY fascinated by the lions. They were beautiful and majestic. And for a split moment I could see why I wanted to be a lion!

The zoo was fun. Then I went to a tattoo place to look into my tattoo and I made an appointment for next saturday! Hurrah! I'm so excited!

Today I went and helped at the community tea at Box Hill Salvos. It was wonderful. I make a pretty rockin' salad!

That's it for now!

Banking Issues...

So yesterday I had some banking issues...in that there was no longer any money in my account. TRAUMA. But not to worry. It is fixed now! YIPPEE! It turned out to be an error by the bank. They had accidentally put in the wrong account number. So all my money was gone...but now it's back! Hurrah! I guess that's one way not to spend money on payday!

I felt so helpless because there was pretty much nothing that I could do. But it all worked out will and turned out to be fine! God is good!

Tonight I'm going to watch a movie that one of the teens from Shop 16 (Reservoir Salvos) made about the shop! I'm looking forward to cheering him on and to seeing what he has made! It's in Federation Square which is right in the downtown...should be fun. I'm meeting my friend Merideth to travel there with her! Good times!

That's all for now...that is my update!

Adventures Of A Friday Night

On Friday night I got the opportunity to go to a Youth Workers Network thingy...I was setting up a prayer Labyrinth for them...and leading them through it. It was really good. It went really well. The adventures were in the getting to and from the location.

I travelled with my friend Danielle...which in theory was a great idea. The only thing I didn't think about was the fact that she too is Canadian and neither of us really had any idea where we were going. That was okay. We were only about 45 minutes late arriving after getting lost a few times...trying to no avail to call Cate for directions (her phone was in another room)! We kept asking people at stoplights how to get to Footscray and they would point in the direction and we would drive that way...until finally we asked someone how to get there and they said "you are in it" and when we asked how to find the street we were looking for, he said "this is it!" So at last we were there!

The actual funniest part though took place on the way home. We made it as far as a roundabout that we recognized...but from there did not know where to go. We ended up trying all 4 directions but nothing looked right. So finally about 5 minutes down the road of the 4th one we asked someone at a stoplight for directions...and got the funniest response EVER. Now...you must also know that we were both laughing so hard it was hard to even ask...but Danielle manages to ask "Do you know how we get to the eastern suburbs from here?" To which this really aussie reply of
"Oh $%&* mate...you're not even close! You're going the exact opposite way!" He then goes on to say "Let me show you a map..." but trails off at the end when I hold up the map that we already have in the car. Anyways...the guys in the car were really nice and ended up pointing everything out to us on the map and then basically driving us pretty much right to the highway. It was so funny.

Which brings me to my next point. Australians are very very polite drivers. They always seem to let you over if you get stuck, they wave when they get in front of you, they don't really speed past or drive right up close behind you. They are just plain considerate. It sort of freaks me out!