January 2010
Frustrations
The Bible for me, at the moment, feels stale and old and I don’t want that to be the case, I really don’t! I want a fresh breath of life, a new awakening.
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“If you fail to plan. you plan to fail.”
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I have decided that when I am married, I want to make sure that because I have a husband, I don’t resolute to hermitising myself, slipping back into the comfort zone of only constant familiar faces, and only family people to talk to / run to for help. But I want to make sure, even with a husband, that I am still willing to go out and talk to people, have fun with the older generations and...
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Prison Break - Intel on Michael Scofield
Dr David Brighton (Paediatric Psychiatrist): Well Michael suffered from a couple of things. One was a condition called low latent inhibition... People who suffer from low latent inhibition see everyday things like you and I do, say this lamp for instance. Where we just process the image of a lamp. They process everything. The stem, the bulb, the bolts, even the washers inside. Their brains are more open to incoming stimuli in the surrounding environment. Other people's brains... your's and mine, shut out this same information. We have to do it in order to maintain our sanity. If someone with a low IQ has low latent inhibition it almost always resolves in mental illness. But if someone has a high IQ, it almost always resolves in creative genius.
Dr Sara Tancredi (Prison Doctor): Do you think Michael is some sort of a genius?
Dr David Brighton: ... In the classic sense of the word. Yes I do.
Dr Sara Tancredi: You said there was something else you treated him for?
Dr David Brighton: He came to me with absolutely no sense of self-worth. The loss of both parents very often does that to a child. But with the low laten inhibition, something interesting happened to Michael. He became very attuned to all the suffering that was happening around him. He couldn't shut it out. He became a rescuer. One of those people who are more concerned with other people's welfare than their own.
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“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken”
– Oscar Wilde
“Nobody minds that Santa’s not stick thin…”
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Year 9
Year 9 Experience - refer to Quote posted earlier…
Mine was our grade having a riot up in the school’s reception. Apparently the staff were scared for their lives. And the principal called a whole grade meeting in the last two periods of the day (90 min), where she was lecturing us, and trying to find the ring leaders. Famous words… “It’s not a laughing matter...
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“Now you will hear many jokes about Year 9. Year 9 is an interesting year. ...”
– Michelle McGuile, EDC1400 Lecturer
I think I’m enroute to bursting my ear drum again… :(
No blood yet… thank goodness… that was a nightmare and a half.
Go away cold. I really don’t want you to cause me more pain than is worth.
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“He who learns but does not think is lost.”
– Chinese Proverb
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“This world is but a canvas for our imaginations.”
– Henry David Thoreau
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“A good teacher makes you think even when you don’t want to.”
– Fisher, 1998, Teaching Thinking
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Grrrrr maybe I should've stayed the same size as...
I cannot lose anymore weight. I don’t know if I really want to anymore. I am trying to be happy with my body and not be so worldy and to do that I need people to stop telling me to lose weight. They gasp in surprise exclaiming how much weight I’ve lost since they saw me last and then a day or so later they tell me I’m fat and need to lose more weight. Please, I am...
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My Uncle spoils me infinitely
I am so blessed to have my Uncle. I do not deserve to have him. He’s the only living relative on my Dad’s side but boy he’d easily pass for a father. He’s in his sixties and should be getting ready to retire but he still works fulltime in a shop at a busy hospital and even though he’s struggling financially, he is selfless enough to help others.
He’s been...
Praise God
Just got an email to notify me of the possibility of a job near the uni… Maybe… Phone call to arrange meeting time next week *fingers crossed*
One of my close friends is off to YWAM soon. I’m really wanting to make her something to remember us all by, but I am thinking that I’ll be flat out with Uni, and trying to give her her 18th birthday present (from 7 months ago - still unmade) and her christmas gift. I have only just given her a remake of her graduation gift, as I think I left it at a shopping centre, and so out of...
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“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can...”
– Theodor Seuss Geisel
I think I’m going to be carrying around a few too many notebooks…
My family makes me laugh
Watching Murray vs Nadal play tennis...
Tony: Oh no I shouldn't have said out, Nadal's now got the point
me: you're making him lose Tony.
Billy: yeah Tony shut up!
Weather forecast...
Tony: Oh no don't tell me it's going to rain tomorrow... I've got to walk to work.
Billy: Just call in and say you can't, you're flooded in.
Tony: yeah flooded when we live in a second storey unit on the hill.
Tony: it's all karalyn's fault! There's too much clicking going on round here.
Mum: *points to me as I'm typing this chat up*
tony: oh I thought it was your mum, I thought it was her being a woody woodpecker on the laptop... Aaaah haha *gasp* hahaha *gasp* ha *gasp* haaaaa....
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Fact Book.
I got a tagged fact thingamajig from larabelle, and I really want to do it, but I have no idea what facts to write- it has to be interesting for sure! Not just the usual “I’m a girl” “18” “like sport” etc. but really interesting stuff, like what larabelle wrote :)
So, it’s something that I’ve been thinking of doing for awhile, I’m going...
My uncle can’t get over the fact that he can now see my waist… I haven’t lost that much weight in 12 months have I? I’m blushing megatime :/
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be ignited.”
– Plutarch
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We often play a game at Catalyst (Student Life’s weekly meetings) called the I’ve Never Game’. In which, in sitting in a circle of chairs, if you’re stuck in the middle (because it’s kind of like musical chairs - but without the music) you have to say something you have never done. All the people who have done it, then have to get up and run to another empty chair,...
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what do y'all think about support raising?
philippians4:
like for a salary? like if I were to be a missionary and would have to raise support in order to make my salary?
There wasn’t enough room in the question box. But I think it’s a great idea. I know people who oppose this idea, thinking that a missionary should raise their funds 100% themselves, because it’s for “their” trip. But I believe that the...
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Amanda's Journey with Campus Crusade and God's...
This is from one of the STINT missionaries who came from America and went to Byron Bay with me in 2009. I love how seeing God works and think it’s uber cool how someone who’s not sure if missions is for them, is shown in multiple ways - growing their own faith as well as others around (including those who reading these sort of blogs).
“I thought it only right to start from the...
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Day 13
*SCRATCH*
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Is This Really a Church? Fear Factor, Part 2
1 Sam 12:24 Consider what great things he has done for you.
In our trek through fear, we often neglect to consider the validity of such worries. But if we really think about it, memories that testify that our God is, indeed, a caring God, will arise!
“Consider what great things he has done for you.” (1 Sam 12:24 NIV)
While navigating through the streets of my hometown this past...
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Seriously thinking about getting rid of FML updates on tumblr. I really don’t need to know how you had sex, who you had it in front of, or what happened during it. Seriously! Some of it’s funny, but some of it is just misleading, disgusting, crude and wrong… bye bye FML!
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hey hey hey
larabelle:
Just got back from church! God really took over me tonight, it was amazing. I was shaking and nearly crying while I was up there singing. I was still speaking too quietly, but apparently getting better! And I stumbled over my words (I as leading the service) but really just opened my heart to God, and lifted up the Body to Him.
We sang “The Stand” (we’d never done it at our church...
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I have lady beetle looking painted finger nails :)
God is good :)
philippians4:
peace-truth-love:
House found…
Moving date set :)
WOO this is exciting!
Definitely.
An answered prayer for sure, and just before Uni starts again too :)
God is good :)
House found…
Moving date set :)
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Tic-Tac-Toe
I avoid some people on purpose I’ve thought about cheating I hate the way I look most of the time I actually like the way I look most of the time I’ve been swimming in an ocean I’ve been swimming in a lake I have a sibling I have pets I’ve been on vacation recently I love meeting new people I am insanely shy I’m on a sports team My best friend is a boy I play music I don’t remember the last time...
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BUT GOD STILL LOVES ME ANYWAY!
I am the daughter of a convict.
The daughter of someone who had an addiction.
The daughter of a nurse.
The daughter of someone with high silent expectations.
The youngest in the close and extended family.
But the only one in my generation (close family).
I am the person who you see screws up her life,
by the choices she makes.
The person everyone expects to do well,
but instead fails...
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I'm reading a book... for pleasure... what is this...
I haven’t read a book for pleasure in sooooo long. let alone start and finish it. But I have decided I have a tonne of Christian books, non-fiction and fiction, that I should read before I buy/receive more, and have free time :)
So i’m going to start reading a book that one guy - closest thing I have ever had to a boyfriend, sent (from Singapore) me, just out of the blue (with some...
I flooded the laundry...
AGAIN…
*sigh*
Internet and food are really distracting activities when you’ve got water filling a tub. :P
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@Lara (aka larabelle)
larabelle:
Lol, where did you get that photo? you stalker :P hehehe.
That was ages ago. Who said it looked good? I like it dark too. You like the new hair?
Wouldn’t you like to know :P MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
One of the twins :P and YES… yes yes and YES„, I do I do I do like the new hair :) Well the one pic of it I do… hopefully I will see some more of it soon (either...
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