So here we are again and it's mid August. What has changed? Well nothing really. Same old. Laura my very beautiful sister had her eighteenth and we all celebrated profusely and with great merriment. Yay! I was very pleased to discover that she left getting id until the last minute and missed out on clubbing at the time. This doesn't upset me. I'm quite happy to know Laura's safe at home and not pub crawling. Not to say she would do that.
I have now got myspace. Miriam has moved into the 21st century. I'm enjoying finding long lost friends and wasting time chatting to people I see on a regular basis and could speak to face to face. Oh the joys of procrastination. Perhaps I should get facebook as well and I could spend my entire day dodging work on the computer. "How can you spend so much time online and not update your blog?" You ask. My response, "I really don't know."
Things I have discovered: The word big is actually quite small. Smaller than the word small. The word bigger is bigger than small, but smaller is bigger than bigger. Big is smaller than little and tiny and petite. How odd. If your confused please feel free to go back and read again, or ignore because really it's completely useless information.
The Beach Boys completely ripped off Chuck Berry songs. So disappointing. I'm currently deciding whether I still like them so much or whether I should go to the source and listen to where the original sound came from.
If you spend all day inside and don't see it get dark for several days in a row, you lose track of what day it is. Or at least I do. Currently I'm trying to get up earlier and actually get into the practice room. But this is proving an illusive task and I end up either rolling over and fall asleep or still getting the school at the same time and not doing anything. At least I'm trying. Maybe I should go to bed earlier.
I must thank you people who replied to my previous post, this was most encouraging and great reads. Thankyou, thankyou, thankyou. My christian word of the day: For a long time I have been desperate to get out of the country. Go and explore. Meet new people and discover new cultures. But every oppurtunity dissolved just when the crucial part of the planning arrived. I'm talking about money. Yes, poor starving uni student. What I have learned from this is that sometimes you may think it is the right time to do something but it's not God's tme and though you had all the good intentions in the world God is still saying, Woah slow down I'm in control. That's a good thing because it means that God is interested and does take the time to plan out your life, even if you don't like that plan. If I had left the country I wouldn't have gone to Baywest or MYC or Tas Con. I would never have developed the important lifelong friendships I have now and I wouldn't have grown in my walk with God. Be patient. The plan God has for you will be amazing and though it may not seem great now. Who knows what is coming up around the corner.
With that little diversion I'm off. Till next time....

Yes I do still exist

Well it has been months and my clever plan of continued blogging has failed utterly and completely. So bad in fact that it may take several posts to bring it back up to date. This in fact proves that I have an interesting life. Well, maybe. Perhaps dot points would work better. Where to begin.

Passover: The gang aka: Sam, Alan and Andrew come down to the "family home" to meet my amazing relatives and have a suedo Jewish, Christian passover meal. Later discovering that playing cluedo with my brothers is completely unfair and involves flying peacocks.

Easter: A flying Sydney visit with Al and Sam. Krispy Kremes, strange late night bus rides, sydney con and the biggest church I have ever been to. Thankyou Rob for putting us up in your amazing house.

Alan's Birthday: Monopoly at it's cruelest. I'm still stumped as to how Andrew managed to get hotels on Mayfair and Park Lane.

Andrew's Birthday: The worlds biggest serving of spagetti. Yum. Am I the scum?

The Wakeover: Staying up all night watching movies and the wii. Personally quite a feat for someone like me who craves sleep.

Mid Year Conference: I can't begin to put words to this experience. 60 christians on camp for a week. Need I say more. Well actually I do. The soccer games were intense the teachings mindblowing and the company amazing. I feel so much closer to my friends from this experience and have made so many new ones. I'm so glad I went.

That's it for the huge ones. I will elaborate on these things in future blogs. Hopefully this won't take too long and I will keep up to date. I do apologise for the many in jokes.

Lately I have been mulling over the role of women in society. Specifically the role of christian women and God's plan for our lives. Is having a career ok? Or is God's plan that we be housewives. If so what is the point in higher education?
I know staying at home and raising children for many women is an ideal job and I don't disagree with this opinion. I believe that there is a place in society for this and it is a full time job. Not to be seen as anything less than the work of a doctor, lawyer or any other occupation. But do we all have to do this? I'd like to think no. I have always envisioned for my life a good career and respect from my coworkers. I want to have children at some stage but not yet and I have no idea how to balance them with the life I already have. Do you stay at home until your children get to a certain age and what age is that. Is it 8 weeks old like some mum's do or 5 years when they are at school or is it university like one mother suggested to me. Should it be a compulsary age? Is it wrong if a Christian woman chooses not to have kids?
These and other seemingly unanswerable questions run through my head on a daily basis. The only answer I can presently give (apart from this doesn't apply at present so I won't think about it) is that God is bigger than that and he does have a plan. It may not be our plan or easy but we can be confident that what ever the plan is it will be God's will. Maybe I will end up being a house wife. Or maybe children aren't part of God's plan for me at all. Who knows. I'll just take things as they come.
What is your opinion on this?