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Problems

I seem to increasingly find that when I have a problem with a person, or a group of people or a task that is before me, that it turns out that I am more the problem than the problem I perceive to be in front of me. And then I find that when I sort myself out, its not really such a problem any more, more of a bit of challenge to get over.

yes

It is June already, this year is going a bit quick like.

Why is that some days I wake up and I feel good and I feel good all day, and then some days I wake up grumpy and groggy and feel grumpy and groggy all day. It seems like how I wake up has more effect on the day than anything else.

Paul has finished his exams. You might think that this would mean the he will blog more, but you can't really be sure. He has been doing some more stupidpaul stuff if you are interested in that kind of thing. It's not new stuff, more upgraded old stuff.

This weekend I am going to Sizewell. It is two years since I have been there. I am looking forward to that. Before that I am having my hair cut but one of the few people who can actually manage to cut my hair well. I am looking forward to that. Before that I get to have lunch with the father. I am looking forward tot hat. After the weekend I am going to college for the week.

hmmm

Right so here is a thing that I don't actually understand. Why is it that when there is no-one else in the office (like all week) I get more distracted and find it harder to work than when there are other people around?? I don't actually understand that.

forgiveness/guidance

We had an interesting discussion at the boyfriends cell group last night (note that subtle mention of new man in life). We were looking at Psalm 25, which appears to have themes of forgiveness, guidance and protection running through it. We were then talking about whether you need God's forgiveness before you get/accept his guidance. And then had a bit of a discussion about God's guidance, and God's path for us. There were three points of view represented.

1. God has only one path for us, if we wander from it we have to get back to it.
2. God has many plans and paths for us. Wandering from one path does not necessarily mean we have to get back to that path.
3. God knows where we are going and our wanderings become part of his plan for us, therefore God only has one path for us, the one that we are on.

I joined the conversation arguing point 2, but now I am having to think about point 3.

Tommy K

I bought some Heinz organic tomato ketchup because it was ridiculously reduced. Oh my word I think I have died and gone to ketchup heaven. It is so amazing. I am going to be so sad when it is finished and I have to revert to normal ketchup. In honour of the amazing ketchup this weeks sandwiches have had a corned beef and ketchup filling.

In other food news I made a really random curry yesterday, it was one of those that had in it any ingredients that needed using up. It was quite tasty. In the process of cooking I did manage to spill uncooked rice all over the floor. In the process of dishing up I managed to spill cooked rice all over the floor. I'm not quite sure what the rice had done to deserve being spilt quite so much.

Life as a student who works full time means....

- writing as many words and reading as many books a day as you can squeeze in between everything else. This is hard as your brain has to keep switching modes.

- spending lots of money on books, and finding creative ways to stay awake and squeeze study time in around everything else.

- getting home from work, being tired, and still having to keep the brain switched on and find motivation (oh if only there was a library to study in.)

- never having time to go out

- having a real life job that carries responsibility and is all scary and grown up, but also really complicated

- not much time or inclination to blog

- wondering what on earth you used to do with your time, and what friends are. Now you come to mention friends, I did used to have some of those but work and study seem to have taken over my life, maybe I will find some again when I have more time.

Oh to be a full time student.

The most unpleasant experience of my week.

The other evening I went to see a friend to take my spare key back to them. I had had to use the spare key when I left my not-spare key at work. I find it best to take it back to them so that the next time I lose my not-spare key I can still get into my flat. As I was walking back to my flat I rang Paul. We were having a lovely little chat when I heard something make a big bang or pop kind of noise. I looked around and saw a lot of feathers and a pigeon kind of fly up into the air. The pigeon made it across the verge and onto the pavement, where it kind of lolloped around before stopping moving. 'Paul,' I said, 'I have just seen a pigeon get hit by a car.' 'Is that what that big bang kind of noise was,' he says. 'Yes', I said. And then I stood by the road for a bit not knowing what to do, and feeling quite sick. Paul kept on talking to me, and I carried on on my way home. I don't think I want that to happen again soon please thank you.

Food

I thought I was having stir fry for my tea tonight. When it was defrosted it turned out to be chili. The chili turned out to be better than the stir fry would've been. End of story.

If I was a writer for Neighbours this is what would've happened this week

Zeke: Hello my name is Trent. I am Phil Adams son.
Rachel: No you are not, you are my brother, your name is Zeke.
Zeke: And who are you?
Rachel: I am Rachel, I am your sister.
Zeke: Ah yes, there is something familiar about you. Do we not have another si
Rachel: (interrupting) She so not talk about her, the actress who plays her does not want to be in neighbours at the moment, so even though we thought you were dead she never came to be with us or to help look for you, or to your thanksgiving service or anything like that, so we try not to mention her too much in the hope that the viewers don't think its too weird she's not around.
Zeke: Oh. OK. So my other sister isn't even going to come and see me now that I am found and not dead.
Rachel: No.
Zeke: OK. And who are you.
Libby: I am Libby, your step-sister.
Zeke: Ah I have a step-sister.
Libby: Yes, after your mum died your dad married my mum.
Zeke: Right so my mum is dead.
Libby: Yes.
Zeke: Thanks for telling me.
Libby: I had forgotten that you had no memory.
Zeke: So where are my dad and your mum, can we go see them.
Libby: Hmmm, that may be tricky.
Zeke: Why?
Libby: Oh look, here come my mum and dad now, they will explain to you. Mum, Dad, come and speak to Zeke.
Susan: Zeke, we are so happy you are alive.
Zeke: Please can I see my dad?
Susan: No darling you can't see him, he is dead.
Zeke: Right, so my mum and dad are dead.
Susan: Yes.
Zeke: But they didn't die at the same time.
Susan: No. Your mum died quite a while ago.
Zeke: And then you married my dad?
Susan: Yes. I was married to Libby's dad Karl.
Karl: Hi.
Susan: But then I divorced him, I can't remember why now, it might have had something to do with the fact that every so often the actor who plays him goes to England and plays gigs for students, and so the writers thought the best way to cover for his absence was for us to get divorced.
Zeke: Ok.
Susan: Then I met your dad.
Zeke: And you got married?
Susan: Yes.
Zeke: And we all lived together as one happy family?
Susan: Well not quite so happy, this is a soap after all.
Zeke: So then what happened?
Susan: Well your dad died. And then the actor who plays Karl came back to Australia and wanted to be in Neighbours again.
Karl: The writers thought it would be a great idea if me and Susan married again.
Susan: so we did.
Zeke: Right so let me just get this straight, Rachel is my sister, I have another sister but we can't talk about her in case the viewers think it is strange she is not here in such a time of family distress. My mum died, my dad married Susan, who used to be married to Karl. My dad died. Susan married Karl again.
Rachel: That's right.
Zeke: Is this normal round here then?

Got to ad break. Don't return to hear Zeke's question answered because it is a silly one. In fact don't return to this storyline for another three weeks.

PCC

I have either done a silly thing, or a listening to God thing. As of today I am now on the PCC of my church. This could be fun!

PA

I had to do the PA for a service this morning. I was rubbish at it. It's not the first time I've done this job and been rubbish at it. Makes me wonder why I got asked to do it again. I guess at least this time I didn't play a CD during a prayer.

Door step

For the very first time ever in my life I washed my door step yesterday. While I had been away someone had either been sick on it, or spilt something on it. I didn't really want to keep walking over it so I did the actual washing of the doorstep. It made me feel like I was some kind of housewife of yesteryear.

Hello

I am literally back in the land of blogging. It took me a little while to get back to this green and pleasant land after Easter, there was some kind of holiday thing that I went on and while I was on this holiday thing I had NO INTERNET AT ALL so it was a bit hard for me to blog.

The trouble I have now is that there are lots of things for me to blog about because I've not done it for so long, but I don't know whether to catch up on those things, or ignore them as if they are not there and start with things that are all now and current and all that.

My car is in the garage today having an MOT and service. I always worry when it is in that something will be proper bad with it and cost me a lot of money.

My internet is not working at home AGAIN. It seems to be more not working than working at the mo. A fixing man is coming on Friday. This will be the third fixing man that has been out in the last seven weeks. Hopefully this one will be an actually fixing man and not an imposter. The only reason I can think that the last two didn't fix it properly is that they are actually imposter's and not real fixing men.

No blogs

I'm doing not blogging for lent. I am not reading them and not writing them. But as it is Sunday it is a feast day and so I can feast on blogs all I like. I am just catching up on Let's Dance for Comic Relief. I find it amusing. I've been to two good services today, at different churches. I'd been a bit all disconnected from the big God man for a while, but the last few weeks I've been getting a bit more connected up which has been all a bit good. I've got a major college assignment going on at the mo, and am getting on with it better than normal. I'm just trying to think if I have anything more to say, or any amusing annecdotes, but I'm not so sure I have. If you've not seen Smithy and the England team from Comic Relief then do make sure you watch it, it was funny funny ha ha ha.

btw - there are probably spelling mistakes in this, it won't let me check and I'm not clever enough to spot them myself.

I seem to be rubbish at this blogging thing. Sorry.

I also was going to be a copier and let you know my favourite song

but when I try and copy and paste the right bit from The You Tube it only copies part of it. So you just won't be able to know until I get more technologically competent, or until one of you tells me how to do it.

overheard.

Here are some things I heard people say at the weekend.

I think I'll wear it on a non-day (said by a five year old)
It's her granny knickers innit (said by a fifteen year old boy, sat on the train with two friends.)
Will everyone at church know its my birthday? (said by another five year old)
Why does everyone have to have a voice? (said by a four year old)

Pauls pictures.

I don't understand the pictures Paul has been putting up. He did explain one of them to me, but I still didn't really get it. I keep looking at them in the hope I will understand, but however much I stare I just don't get it. I think I must generally be a bit thick at getting things. I love to watch the BBC television program Hustle. In conversation with other people who also watch Hustle it turns out that they often understand what is going on a long time before it is revealed, whereas I generally seem to get it as it is being revealed (and sometimes not even then). I wonder if there is somewhere that people who don't get things can go to help them learn how to get things more quickly/better.

Thank you's and surprises.

Before Christmas in the lunch clubs we run we were thinking about being thankful. As part of this the children were making a thank you card to give to someone who had done something for them, or been a great friend, or such like. Several times children said to me 'can I write mine to Father Christmas to say thank you for my presents.' Every time I was asked that question I had to stop myself just before I answered, because the answer I was about to give without thinking was 'No, we are make these cards to send to real people.'

In my dreams last night Gareth and Hayley broke into my flat because they thought it would be a nice surprise if they came and visited me without telling me. And they thought the surprise would be even better if they were already in my flat before I got home. So when I got home and saw I had been broken into I ventured inside to find the intruders were Gareth and Hayley. Gareth made the surprise even bigger by hiding behind a door and jumping out at me. Hayley added to the surprise by having tea cooked ready for when I got home.

Technical

One of the school's I work in has a service in church at the beginning and end of each term. Sometimes I participate in this service, sometimes I just go along for the fun of it. Yesterday I was meant to be going to the service for the fun of it, but ended up operating the sound desk. This should not have been a tricky job. The system had been turned on and set up. Only one mic was being used, and that could be left on when it wasn't being used. For two of the songs being sung CD's were being used. A different CD for each one. For the first song I put the CD in the CD player, cued up the track and got ready to press play. When it was time to press play I pressed the eject button. This did not play the CD, instead it ejected it. So I had to reinsert CD, cue up the right track again and then press play. While everyone was waiting. When I had done this and pressed play the CD wasn't playing loud enough so everyone missed the beginning of the track while I worked out how to turn it up. For the second song I put the CD in, got the track lined up and managed to press the play button at the right time and have the volume at the right level. Just after the song two children were leading some prayers. The song stopped, one of the children said 'Now we are going to pray' and then another song started. I had forgotten to press the stop button on the CD player. I wonder if I will get asked to do that job again.

Joke.

Augustine, Calvin and Barth find themselves waiting outside the throne room on the Day of Judgement. Augustine goes in first, and after half an hour comes out and says to the others: 'It was wonderful! I had all the mysteries of sin, grace and salvation explained to me!'
Next, Calvin goes in, comes out an hour later and says to the others: 'It was wonderful! I had all the mysteries of election, predestination and divine sovereignty explained to me!'
Finally, Barth goes in. After two hours, God comes out and says to the others: 'I've still got no idea what he is talking about!'

Joke.

A new pastor was visiting the homes of his parishioners. At one house it seemed obvious that someone was at home, but no answer came to his repeated knocks at the door. Therefore, he took out a card and wrote "Revelation 3:20" on the back of it and stuck it in the door.

When the offering was processed the following Sunday, he found that his card had been returned. Added to it was this cryptic message, Genesis 3:10." Reaching for his Bible to check out the citation, he broke up in gales of laughter.