Friday, October 29, 2004

Great ways to study for your linguistics exam

I've been ant-watching. I put some banana loaf on the ground and watched as first 3 ants each found their piece of loaf, then more ants came scurrying along, until there were about 30 ants eating, and others scurrying around, some carrying little bits of loaf in their mouths. I watched them for about an hour before a)my neck got sore from the contorted position i was lying in, b)it got hot, c)i was hungry, and d)i felt guilty for not doing more study...

I like antys!

Here is an excerpt from a book we have on Invertebrates:
"[Ants] follow smell trails. Some keep aphids just as farmers keep cows, 'milking' them for a sweet sticky juice. Others have learnt to grow edible fungus."
aaaaaaawesome! Look at them go!! Heh heh...

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

lure and possibly a jig

If you see me, and say in these exact words "would you please do a jig for me by way of invitation and coercion to your party" then i will do one. Wherever, whenever...

Here is my lure... if it works for Strongbad it can work for me!

Come to my house, hotties, hotties, come to my house!
i've got a movie, with llamas, i've got a movie!
maybe you'll get fed, little ones, maybe you'll get fed
i'll provide a bed, if needed, i'll provide a bed
but you have to come to my house, friends, friends, come to my house!!

Some friends respond better to lures... some to jigs. I will catch you all!

Tuesday, October 19, 2004

saturday night draws closer

Just to remind you all about the part-ay at my place this saturday night... from 5pm onwards if you wanna share tea with me, otherwise from 7 onwards.
I live at 11 Fraser Place, Rangiora
So far Chad, Mike, Fraser, Steve, Katherine, Ruth, Sal and Helen(?) are interested... so thats 4 cars between the 4 of you already :)
If you so desire, you can sleep over (yay a sleepover!) :)
And... incase you have forgotten, we are watching the Emperors New Groove... a disney movie that is clean (yay), has no yukky kissing scences (even more yay) and absolutely no bad language! Plus it has llamas! what more could you want? Its a really really really funny movie... my absolute favourite :)

Come, my pretties! I am calling you home!

(oh yeah, and everyone is invited, so spread the word :) )

fiiiiiire up

Time to procrastinate again, so heres todays thoughts from the bible, heh heh... Great when being 'holy' helps you waste time :P (just kidding)

Joel 2 v.28
Afterwards I will pour out my spirit on everyone: your sons and daughters will prophesy; your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions. At that time i will pour out my spirit even on servants, both men and women, "And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood and fire and pillars of smoke. The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the coming of the great and awesome day of the LORD. And it shall come to pass [That] whoever calls on the name of the LORD Shall be saved.

He he he... EXCITING... i'm all fired up now...
and i should mention that that was an amalgam of the Good News and the New King James cos the NKJV had some cooler words like prophesy and pillars and awesome ... yup.
COOL.

Saturday, October 16, 2004

Singing the praises of Aunty D

*hides head in shame* i bought a savage garden tape today... for $6.99 at teh waerhoues - their first album, from 1997. I have wanted it for years... it will do for days when i feel like mindless pop music *grin*. I've also wanted the feelers supersystem for AGES so maybe one day my embarassing music collection will be complete. (Matt Wilson take note! it just gets worse!)

Heh heh - on Thursday night it was the birthday tea for my mum at my auntys place. Everyone left around 8pm, but i stayed on to have a good ol' chitchat with Diane (aunty). I haven't seen her for ages, so it was really great. Sadly, her husband is already living in Australia and only comes home odd weekends, and my Aunty and her kids are moving over there to join him in december *sob*. She, apart from Ruth and Nathan, is my 'greatest' confidant. ('greatest' because i dont really confide much, so her and Ruth and Nathan are great to talk to when i do actually talk, which isnt that often)
ANYWAY, a few months ago i was spending a lot of time at her place and felt a bit like her husband was annoyed at me always being there (this is when he was still in CHCH) and so i gave them chocolates and wrote a lovely card telling my Aunty she was really awesome and i loved her heaps. Well after our big chat on thursday (til 11pm) my Aunty sent me a card which i got today... i shall quote some things from it
"I've missed seeing you lately... i am very glad that you have some really special friends that you can talk to and who support and love you (yay for Ruth!! 10 points to you, hottie!)... I want you to always remember that no matter where I am I will be thinking of you, and will always be there for you if you need me. *pause to sob, he he* ...you give me as much love and support as i give you... I hope you find your calling in life (and that "real man" you want to find - but not too soon)"
waaaaaahhh *bawls like a baby* how can i not cry after that!! he he!
I love my Aunty.. she's awesome :)

(just to satisfy your curiosity - we were having a 'submission' discussion on thurs, about how a man should be a man, and a woman should be the helper, and i was saying that i want a manly man who isn't afraid to make decisions and who i can hide behind when i'm scared. Heh heh... go the "real" men!)

Thursday, October 14, 2004

oh nuts

i need you guys heaps today. please. okay, so i'm gonna need to be more specific or you'll all be really worried. Basically its my mum's birthday and i've already made her cry, and she's stormed off out somewhere. Its not as simple as it sounds... it wasnt really 'me' that made her cry... it was my uncle saying he wont come to our family tea tonight, cos he wanted to do it on sunday, and my other uncle saying he wont do sunday cos his family is going to a barbecue. I just walked right into it without knowing and ended up having to awkwardly watch while my mother yelled and cried and thrashed the dishes while washing them. I also had to listen to her rantings about not celebrating anything with her family ever again... etc etc.
But for some reason its stirred up a whole lot of stuff from the past, and while mum's gone out somewhere, i'm left here shuddering and gulping and producing much snot (ha) and wondering 'what's wrong with me?'

i guess to be really honest there is something wrong with me. And its probably that i've got a whole lot of unresolved stuff from the past thats coming up. In a post months ago i mentioned that one day i will post about my family, but i never have... and i dont know if i ever will... But basically we arent a family that talks, so my parents dont even know that i tried to kill myself many times over 5 years when i was younger, or that i wanted to run away, and we dont talk about Mum's problems with anger and depression....
Anything really, we dont talk. And right now thats stirring up stuff. Like thats probably why i dont talk to my friends when stuff is going wrong. And i guess i'm also worried that i will turn into the same sort of mother that my mum is - that i will rant and yell and throw things, and generally make my kids feel like they're a nuisance, which will cause them to get their affirmation from elsewhere, and wish they were somewhere else.
I decided a while ago that i didnt want kids, and my main justification was that it will totally wreck my body, but i think i have to admit that its also because i'm worried about how if i can't even control myself, and i dont know whats wrong with me, how will i be able to sow into someone else's life, and make them grow up and feel like they're awesome.

blah blah blah. anyway writing about it has helped me to calm down a bit. But its still a bit scary not really knowing why you are gasping for breath and feeling so worthless.
Argh. why am i so open? i'm not going to take any of this back. But dont look at me with pity.
Breathe in.... count to ten.... slowly breathe out...
Breathe in some more of God's comfort, and breathe out all the tension you've been holding in....
erm. i dont know how to finish off this post now... so i guess i'll just say
squirrels
and disappear.

oh wait. i need to say 2 more things: i had a test yesterday and it was really good.... i think it went well even :) And i got back the linguistics assignment that i was stressing about a couple of weeks ago. So i'm not as crash hot as i thought i was... and i got a D (pause for rueful face).... But i got my pols essay back and i got a B. So its not the end of the world :)

Monday, October 11, 2004

ode to the small box

Yay! one test down, one to go! One assignment down, one to go, and one essay left. Yup. Its all downhill from here.... (not really, but if i tell myself that, i will believe it)
My test was an absolute shocker... its basically an exam, except that the lecturer has to go back home to Germany in about a weeks time, so he wont be here for "real" exams. It was horrible. Even if i HAD done the COMPULSORY readings i dont think i could actually have answered any of the questions properly. It was 90 minutes and worth about 30% of our mark... I wrote 4 sides. Yup. Don't see how that could get me 30% of my final grade... AAAAAAAAAAanyway.... lets not think about scary stuff like that! I am feeling very drained though...
Next i have a test on Wednesday, and essay due at the end of the week, and a journal due in 2 fridays. Should all be relatively sweet. (har)

So.... wanna hear something really funny? After my post about wanting to live in a box, i went to ABC last night, and they're having a slumberover (or something) where people sponsor you to sleep in a box, to raise money for the church. When this idea was suggested i saw a couple of heads turn around and grin at me... Yup. I'd do it for free... In fact, i'd do it voluntarily!!

I suppose i should elaborate on what i was talking about the other day when i suggested that i'd like to live in a box....
Well basically i was feeling like i didn't fit anywhere... like, as Reuben once posted, i am a square peg trying to fit into a round hole. I felt like i didn't fit in to my cell group, my church, my youth group, at university, my job, with my friends, anywhere really...
And *obviously*, the best solution is to move into a cardboard box. I guess the motives behind this was that i could sulk in peace, plus spend lots of time with God, and even have a little visitors hatch in case people wanted to talk to me. I've kinda forgotten half the reason exactly why i wanted to live in the box, and at Hermil too (i guess because if i did it in Rangiora no one would know i was doing it)...
But just to really put myself out there, i will be totally honest and say that i was feeling insecure about relationships developing around me, and friends leaving... and mainly i was feeling very discouraged about trying so hard to affect youth group kids and seeming to have no effect whatsoever...
Basically i was feeling rather useless and defunct, and not knowing what, if any, actual talent i had, and where i should be using it. And so i guess i figured that living in a box was the best way to not impose upon the world and lie around and lament (sulk) for a while.

I'll do it one day... maybe not to sulk, but just for the fun of it... i loved making houses out of huge boxes when i was a kid!!
Anyway, i think i need a free coffee... so i shall be off...

Saturday, October 09, 2004

strange thoughts from Saturday

15 minutes ago i decided i needed to plan my funeral. Just in case. In today's world, there is a very high chance of me being killed before i'm 30. Should really be prepared. In fact, i need to do it RIGHT NOW. Who cares about this test on Monday that i'm supposed to be studying for.... what if i die?! Who needs a university degree when you're dead?!

*giggles behind hand* as you can tell, i felt the need for procrastination, and this was the sad effort that came to mind...
Anyway, this is only a quick post as i also have to check emails, send a message about prayer to go, get some powerpoint notes... etc....
must.... procrastinate.... more....

If you're lucky, i'll tell you about the Strongbad take-off book i wrote for my friend Dan. It was his 21st on friday and he's a HUGE strongbad fan... so i bought him a cheesy Barbie book and i've gone through and made an awesome 'Kids book' Strongbad style... with lots of defacing and really random stuff... like vertical snail races and islamic militants... he'll love it :)
oh would you look at that!! i DID tell you about the book! it must be your lucky day!

maybe when i've ACTUALLY got spare time i'll tell you about my idea for living in a box. No - im totally serious. I'm going to move into Hermil in a fridge box and make it into a house. (why Hermil? because my mother wouldn't understand if i did it at home) Sometime later (hopefully tomorrow when i have 'time' to procrastinate) i will tell you why i want to move into a 2m x 1m cardboard box.
I'm totally serious. I know it sounds like a wacked-out idea, but i am actually serious. Sulkingly serious.
more on the strange saga of Barbara manatee- er i mean Michelle the um... whinger- later.

Wednesday, October 06, 2004

PRO-crastination strikes







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Llama night 23rd Oct??

*this is not a competition for more popularity against Mike*
Just so you all know - i've had this planned for a good few weeks, and i have already invited you....
I wanted to have an Emperors New Groove movie night at my place (rangiora) and i planned it for the 23rd October. For me, this is brilliant as i have 3 weeks study leave. But what i didnt realise is that for some of you, it is a mere day or so before exams.
Please if this does not suit, reply and let me know.... otherwise i expect to see you all there or i'll get out my cattle prod (yes i DO live in the country and thus do possess a cattle prod)

Details (at the moment)
Movie Evening (of my favourite movie EVER)
Date Sat 23rd October
Time: anytime... all flippen day if you like.... and my parents are away for the whole next week... so you don't really have to leave at all if you dont want to....:P
Estimate: from 6pm onwards
Bring: some food/drink... i mean comeon... we have orange carpet... PLEASE RUIN IT!!
Where: Yup. This is THE moment of truth.... RANGIORA.
11 Fraser Place.... I'll draw you all maps and stuff....
Other important details: you can all stay the night if you so desire, it takes 35-40 minutes to get here from Christchurch, i reeeeeally want all you cool dudes to come!!

So yeah, comment, ring, email, text or something if you can't came, or maybe even if you can come.... EITHER WAY I WANT YOU ALL!! he he he!!

Sunday, October 03, 2004

My Heros !!

Oh yay (i hear your sarcastic moans) another post from the crazy lady... Save me! Save me now!
Har. Not funny.
Anyway i dont think im really grumpy at all. Probably more like a little hurt at the small dose of rejection. Nothing very serious really.

I think whenever i post, i post twice. I never seem to have just one thing to say, hee hee!!

My Heros
Its time to talk about my heros. The following people are my current heros, in one way or another. (There are no heroines in this because i am anything but politically correct, eh Helen... we're spastic or retarded, not intellectually challenged...) (well i dont mean 'we' as in you and me... i just mean me!) Aaaaaaanyway.....

*Helen. She is cool. So cool that she wrote me an email and told me she missed me and hadn't seen me round lately. *sniff* (he he, getting teary eyed... heeeeeeeeelp!) and she hugs me. Very nice hugs... they're just right. Nice and tight and long. I cannot say enough lovely things about Helen. As she knows (and exploits) she is on the "people i'm discovering" list... on which she gets lotsa loving and can do no wrong! Aah... Heeeeelen!!!!! You get the most written about you cos i love you lots.

*Lara... She likes squirrels! And i didn't tie her down and force her to either!! Yay for Lara!

*M ... Shes a nutter! an utter peanut butter nutter... Who mentioned squirrels.... And ironing... and has a nutcase for a beloved!

*Stevie... He did the manly thing and checked the air in my tyres and dipped my oil! He he he! And he cut up my food for me like a dad! Aaaawesome *throws a peanut at Steve*

*Reuben - you know why! Reuben has hands of magic. If you need a massage, ask Reubs. Or join the queue. Thanks Reuben =)

yeah, i think that's about it or else people won't feel special, they'll just feel like one of the list :P Hope you Heros feel special anyway... you should, cos you are! =)

epic novel script

Grr...i'm a little bit grumpy!! I thought i was over getting grumpy, but i guess it still happens to people who think they've (finally) got it all together.
Anyway, i decided not to go to church this morning cos i knew I wouldn't be able to focus on God. (explain later) And then i got a txt from Haley (from church) asking if i was okay, and why wasn't i 'there' last night?
last night? what was happening last night??!! I didn't get invited to anything last night!
So i replied and asked about what happened 'last night' but when she replied she avoided answering the question. Then i checked my emails and found an email from the Pastor saying that for people who hadn't been telephoned, church was actually starting at 'normal time' rather than unholy 'daylight savings time'. Which meant that i could still go to church if i wanted to. Of course i didnt want to now... Nobody had even bothered telling me that church was not starting at normal time, and i'm often left out of plans that are organised (eg last night, and 2 weekends ago). So to add to my previous worry at inability to focus on God, i decided i definately wasn't going.
I always go to church. The only reason i wouldn't go is if i'm sick. I wanted to go to my parents church with them this morning (good old Baptist) but i wasn't ready on time...
Anyway, so the reason i'm thinking i'd be better to stay at home and talk to God is that a couple of weeks ago i was texting my friend D and i kept getting strange txts back like "J is handsome." "i like wearing dresses" So it turned out later that J had been texting me from D's phone. So i was at the house of another friend (who is friends with the 3 of us) on thursday, and i got hold of her phone and did a Sifty Nathan trick and changed some things round in her phone, and texted J saying "you're handsome, i love you"
Now J and this other friend are good friends. They would both know that getting a text saying that was a joke.
But i get a series of very angry texts back from J, calling me deceitful and immature and stupid.
Anyway, we kinda sorted it out and i apologised, and he later apologised, yet still managed to insult me.
J and I have been "friends" on and off for over 4 years now, and lately i've been feeling that he really doesn't know the first thing about me, and wouldn't know 'who i am' at all... and i've been thinking that we're not really friends after all, merely two people who hang out every few weeks/months. Over the 4+ years we've known each other, J has occasionally treated me, how i would consider to be, like crap. Its like he doesn't respect me at all, and sees me like an annoying bug that needs to be squashed, or a mischevious child that needs to be given a good telling off.
I guess thats really all the detail i need to go into, but we're at the same church, and sitting in church feeling confused about how someone else feels towards you, and trying to focus on God and failing has increasingly been happening lately. This is all the more noticeable cos there's between 15 and 20 "young people" in the church so you can't really stay away from someone without it being obvious.
So i figure the best thing to do is go somewhere else for a while until i feel more sure of myself, and more able to focus on God. The only problem with this is that theres only about 1 other church to choose from that i could go to!!

Argh! this is turning into an epic rather than a short story...!!! All i'm trying to say is that i'm confused with the status quo, and whether i can really be bothered with trying to please this person anymore when all they do is throw it back at me. Either way it's in God's hands. I just hope it gets sorted quickly before it causes problems.