Thanks God...

i want to say thank you to God he has provided a lot for me lately :-)

thanks God that i have money to go to the doctor,

thanks God that i have a nice warm bed to sleep in at night,

thanks God for the amazing friends i have,

thanks God for nature, its so beautiful..,

thanks God for my church and youth group :-)

thanks... :-)

its raining this morning,
i love the rain, it means i can stay inside and watch lots of movies!! lol :-) *cough* (greys anatomy season six...) *cough* lol :-)

hmmm.... yummy salad for tea..

while family eats KFC! lol :-)

feels good to eat healthy food! :-)

xoxo

Camp!

been at TNC camp this weekend! awesome time with friends at Ashley Gorge. stayed up till 1am sitting around the camp fire singing camp fire songs! lol :-)

yay for Holidays!!!!!!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

just finished my english exam! am so glad its over!.... can't wait for tomorrow to see Peter Pan! lol

oh blog how i have neglected thee!

im so sorry!..

stupid Facebook :-) time waster ... xxoxoxoxoxo

exams start next week! at the moment im not sure if i'm scared or excited? oh well still got big week ahead of me!
- unit standards to finish - deadline, Tuesday
- finale rehearsals  Thursday night all day friday and most of the night Saturday! 
- tee shirts to print ... me thinks i might not have social life this week :-( i  think i may be working at lunch too! yay

I  LOVE MY LIFE!
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxox

i have a feeling i am about to have a very busy week... only two weeks left till study leave for seniors!! ahhhh!!!! HELP!

i'll be fine..

 i hope :-)


xoxoxoxoxo

My week.

i havent posted for quite awhile so i thought i would post about my week:-)

Saturday: Made a facebook page :-)
Monday: Labour day! went to see (500) days of Summer with my friend Sophie, ate lots of chocolate and felt very sick afterwards :-)
Tuesday: went to maths but maths teacher was not there because she had just had her second baby five weeks early :-) 
Wednesday: messed up at work first time screen printing a clients work and majorly messed up! argh!
Thursday: had basement opening at school nervous as, didn't get to show off my directed piece because one of the people who was in it decieded to go to work instead, then after that finished went to TNC Youth group :-)
Friday: had a 45 minute talk about The Cervical Cancer injections, all the girls in the school had to go to it but only saw half of 'em? then went to see Julie and Julia with mother and Sophie and her mother, very nice time :-) really good movie!
Today: am making Orange and Poppy seed muffins YUMMY! with pink icing 

Smiggle!

oh my goodness! i love stationary! this looks like the coolest place to buy from :-) xoxoxoxhttp://www.smiggle.co.au/ 

Neighbours

last night we had some of our neighbours over for dinner. it was a really nice time being with our street whanau and eating yummy food! will do it more often this summer!

Yay! it's Friday and a long weekend ahead! Whoo! i just really hope it stops raining so that i can get outside and do fun stuff!

what's white, cold and sits on a rug in the middle of a field???.....





it's a fridge! hahaha lol :-)

New Season of Top Gear Starts tonight! YAY :-)

 i'm so glad school holidays are over!! i have been so lonely these past two weeks! i need to be working and   be back on schedule again :-) lol i am just like my mother! (sorry mum!) xoxoxoxo

Twitter

everybody must join twitter! it's so much fun! lol

             CANDLE FOR JASPER BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE HIS BODY TO BURY HAS BEEN                         BURNING ALL DAY. I LOVE YOU JASPER.....                                             

the cup cakes were very yummy, just went to dentist, no fillings needed this time... lol over very quickly, went to library, got 6 reads for the holidays on theatre and directing etc etc. still miss my Jasper like hell.

don't think i will be replacing him for a long time ;-( 

ate some chillie beans yum! 

R.I.P. Jasper

Jasper i miss you so much! i don't want to replace you. can't believe someone was in such a rush driving down that road and didn't stop in time to miss you, why were you there anyway? you never go that far from home. i want my Jasper back... 

mum lit a candle for Jasper, i cried

then she show me cute photos of Jasper, i cried

i think about him, i cry

i want my black nose back! 

am looking after small children today, Roo will not make breakfast for him self too busy watching the blasted t.v.  Annie Rose is asleep in her bed. 

Raining outside. 

Roo is being a seven year old.. 

Am wearing Mum's engagement ring. very beautiful

just made some chocolate cupcakes and some bright green icing to go with them. very cool

xxoxoxo

i know i'm pathetic

i remember the day i bought Jasper home, i got him from some people who live down Cashel Street, he didn't like being in the cage, i remember him sleeping in my shed in the garage. he always loved being in there, it was like his real home... 

every time i went to go out there he would always run out there and be in there with me, when mum was pregnant with Annie he would sit on her and watch Grey's. Mondo and Jasper were the best of friends, i think Jasper thought he was a dog too, often we would walk into the lounge and see Mondo trying to "eat" Jaspers head, he was very gentle with him. i have many happy memories with Jasper.

he was my favourite cat

Sadly some bastard ran him over  on Thursday 25th Septemebr the bugger.

Good bye black nose ;-( 

i love you Jasper

xooxoxo

R.I.P. 

i want muffins....

Preferably...

- Mars bar

- Spinach and cream cheese

- double choc

- i do love muffin break muffins! lol bad addiction!

???

went to a friend from my old schools 16th party yesterday, it's nice that we all still catch up (my friends from my old school that is) but every time i hang out with them they will always end up talking about their new amazing school (i left Hillview in year 9 they stayed on for year 10, i got ahead of them then they moved to Middleton....) anyway every time i am with them they end up talking endlessly about Middleton!  i want to kill myself! ahh! they go on and on and on and on  about the teachers and the boys (so immature!) and all their homework and how amazing they are! i do like hanging with them its just the flipping school thing that drives me nuts!!!!!!

rant over......

xoxoxoxo

JASPER!!! JASPER!!! where are you??????!!!!

my baby cat Jasper went missing on about Thursday...

don't think he is coming back...

my poor wee man is gone!!! 

very upset... animals are so much effort! :-(

i miss you Jasper!! xoxoxoxo :-(

Beautiful New Zealand...

we are so lucky to live in NZ... :-)

Welcome to Holland

i love this poem...

WELCOME TO HOLLAND

by
Emily Perl Kingsley.

c1987 by Emily Perl Kingsley. All rights reserved

I am often asked to describe the experience of raising a child with a disability - to try to help people who have not shared that unique experience to understand it, to imagine how it would feel. It's like this......

When you're going to have a baby, it's like planning a fabulous vacation trip - to Italy. You buy a bunch of guide books and make your wonderful plans. The Coliseum. The Michelangelo David. The gondolas in Venice. You may learn some handy phrases in Italian. It's all very exciting.

After months of eager anticipation, the day finally arrives. You pack your bags and off you go. Several hours later, the plane lands. The stewardess comes in and says, "Welcome to Holland."

"Holland?!?" you say. "What do you mean Holland?? I signed up for Italy! I'm supposed to be in Italy. All my life I've dreamed of going to Italy."

But there's been a change in the flight plan. They've landed in Holland and there you must stay.

The important thing is that they haven't taken you to a horrible, disgusting, filthy place, full of pestilence, famine and disease. It's just a different place.

So you must go out and buy new guide books. And you must learn a whole new language. And you will meet a whole new group of people you would never have met.

It's just a different place. It's slower-paced than Italy, less flashy than Italy. But after you've been there for a while and you catch your breath, you look around.... and you begin to notice that Holland has windmills....and Holland has tulips. Holland even has Rembrandts.

But everyone you know is busy coming and going from Italy... and they're all bragging about what a wonderful time they had there. And for the rest of your life, you will say "Yes, that's where I was supposed to go. That's what I had planned."

And the pain of that will never, ever, ever, ever go away... because the loss of that dream is a very very significant loss.

But... if you spend your life mourning the fact that you didn't get to Italy, you may never be free to enjoy the very special, the very lovely things ... about Holland.

yay for knitting!

yesterday i learnt to knit!! yay! lol i've always want to learn to knit, i tried  once when i went to girls brigade and failed... i'm going to make a tube thing to put around my neck like a scarf :-) i have only done about four rows but am well on my way! lol 

xoxoxoxo :-)

Oh Kanye.... you idiot!

Kanye you are a Moron! 

Greys Anatomy

OMG! yesterday mum and i watch the first five minutes of Grey's Season 6! 

ahhh! why can't we watch it the same time as the USA! its so not fair!!!!!! 

watch the first five minutes here....

http://www.zmonline.com/WhosOn/MorningCrew/Highlights/Detail.aspx?id=13032

can't wait for the next season...

xoxoxox

never mind...

You'll be OK Jasper... i hope :-)

My wee man is getting "the chop" today..

poor wee thing! i had to shut in my room so that he wouldn't eat anything after 10:30 last night... i think that made him very happy, till i shut him in the kids bathroom... every time we went in there he would make a bee-line for the door to get out and.... failed! lol sorry Jasper i do love you really! this is one of the cat things in life you just have to do! 

ill look after you when you get home.. and you can sleep in my room too. if you like :-)

xoxo

stupid internet wont flipping let put a cute picture of him on! ahhh!

Ezekiel 37

i just posted about Ezekiel 37. here it is! lol xoxo 

Ezekiel 37 (Contemporary English Version)

Ezekiel 37

Dry Bones Live Again

 ¹Some time later, I felt the LORD's power take control of me, and his Spirit carried me to a valley full of bones. ²The LORD showed me all around, and everywhere I looked I saw bones that were dried out. ³He said, "Ezekiel, son of man, can these bones come back to life?"

   I replied, "LORD God, only you can answer that."

    ⁴He then told me to say:

   Dry bones, listen to what the LORD is saying to you, ⁵"I, the LORD God, will put breath in you, and once again you will live. ⁶I will wrap you with muscles and skin and breathe life into you. Then you will know that I am the LORD."

    ⁷I did what the LORD said, but before I finished speaking, I heard a rattling noise. The bones were coming together! ⁸I saw muscles and skin cover the bones, but they had no life in them.

    ⁹The LORD said:

   Ezekiel, now say to the wind,  "The LORD God commands you to blow from every direction and to breathe life into these dead bodies, so they can live again." ¹⁰As soon as I said this, the wind blew among the bodies, and they came back to life! They all stood up, and there were enough to make a large army.

    ¹¹The LORD said:

   Ezekiel, the people of Israel are like dead bones. They complain that they are dried up and that they have no hope for the future. ¹²So tell them, "I, the LORD God, promise to open your graves and set you free. I will bring you back to Israel, ¹³and when that happens, you will realize that I am the LORD. ¹⁴My Spirit will give you breath, and you will live again. I will bring you home, and you will know that I have kept my promise. I, the LORD, have spoken."

Things i'm enjoying/liking/loving right now...

just a few things that make me happy right now... 

- the new perfume i got dad the other day to give him today~ it smells well good! note to self good choice chrissy! lol

- listening to jack johnson - the curious George album will walking to the bus in the sunshine! ahh happy moments! 

- the flowers that are popping up around everywhere! :-)

- just realising that i always put a smiley face at the end of my text messages :-) lo it makes me happy.. :-)

- school. i'mdoing some pretty cool classes and i only have about 8 more weeks left until study leave! yay! 

- the sunshine! a nice change from the cold frosts each morning in winter!

- blogging.. i don't care if no-one reads my blog:-) 

- my new red nose stud (its nice and red and sparkly! :-) )

- life in general - even bad days are teaching me new things

- promite.. no more needs to be said

- my bright green hoodie. its my fave! i would wear it everyday if i could but i imagine my dear mother would get sick of it and either use it for quilt back or bag etc or just throw it out! (love you mum! xoxoxo)

- the story in the bible in Ezekiel about the bones that came together and grew flesh and then God breathed life into them! so exciting i didn't even know about it till today! Ezekiel 37:6- onwards :-)

today is fathers day, and i gave dad a bottle of Dior Sport which smells amazing!

i went to go write dad a card last night and realised we have like no good cards left

so i was stuck with giving him this butt ugly card with some nasty pictures of... 

- a plane

- a post card

- a beach?

im not all that sure what  was on it but it was bad! lol :-)

i'm pretty sure its the kind of card you give to some one who is going away on an overseas trip...

oh dear! sorry dad!

Note to self: Make some more cool cards with pictures i cut out of children's books!

xoxox

Sitting here in the library i have still got another hour to fill in till the next show(i'm doing crew work for Comedy of Wiskers which is being put on by the Malt House. Done Three show already this weekend, one more today and another two weeks! my co-crew workers are.... odd to say the least! in our crew there is me and about four others. i almost can't bare to go back and spend the rest of Fathers day in the Dark backstage with them! 

never mind at least the show is only about an hour long

two more weeks and im done...

good grief...

xoxox

Value life, live for today and treasure what you have got...

... It may not be here tomorrow...

xoxox

ha.... hmm fat Barbie

                                                                         Hehe.. lol

Psalm 119:165

“Great peace have they who love your law, and nothing can make them stumble.”- Psalm 119:165

Change...

this morning i decided i would wear a skirt because it's spring and i always wear my jeans, but have now decided this might be one of the last times i wear a skirt to school! i feels awful! i want my jeans and my Russian doll hoodie! lol

Nice recipe..

i felt like blogging today but don't have anything exciting enough to blog about so Mum suggested i put up a nice recipe.. what should i put up?......

ah i know

my famous brownie recipe! 

Chocolate Brownies:

ingredients:

200g unsalted butter

125g dark chocolate chopped

1 cup plain (all purpose) flour, sifted

2 cups caster(super fine) sugar

2 tablespoons cocoa powder, sifted

¼ teaspoon baking powder, sifted

4 eggs 

icing sugar, sifted

cocoa powder for dusting

Preheat the oven ti 180∘c. Place butter and chocolate in a medium saucepan over low heat and stir until melted and smooth (or you could just do what i do and put it in the microwave!). 

Place the flour, sugar, cocoa and baking powder into a bowl. Add the eggs and chocolate mixture and stir well to combine. Pour into a lightly greased 20 x 30 cm rectangular cake tin lined with baking paper. bake for 30-40 minutes( or bake till when you stick the knife in the cake a little bit of mixture still comes out, this makes it nice and gooey when you go to eat it! yum!!!) 

Remove from the tin and cool on a wire rack. Slice brownies and dust with the icing sugar and cocoa to serve.

Serves 10.... :-)  

Saturdays

This weekend Reuben and James have gone to boys brigade camp, so i got to sleep in this morning! yay, for breakfast i made Dutch baby with Lemon sugar! yum! (note not real baby!) Dutch baby- basically a cross between a pancake and a popover- is tremendously popular in Seattle. Serve it with fresh berries or nothing more than jam or a lavish sprinkling of lemon sugar! oh heaven! for the recipe go to www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/printerfriendly/Dutch-baby-with-lemon-sugar.com

after breakfast mum and i went to the super shed  and got 3 suit cases(later we found out they were free! yay!) a crotchet rug, some cool old plates, and some old golden books- when i got home i cut out pictures from the books and made cards!  and tonight i am going to my friends 16th birthday! i love weekends! 

I want to be seven again!

Today i went to pick up Reuben and his friend from school, and they were wearing their back packs on their fronts and bashing into each other! lol then when we were on the way home they were stealing peoples gardens beautiful flowers and pretended they were bombs... lovely! wish i was seven again!

Yellow Finger Nails!!

                                                    I love my yellow nail polish! hehe :-)

I LOVE you Annie! :-) xoxo

Oh Annie i'm so glad your a part of our family! i can't believe i thought having you in our family would be a bad thing! i can't wait till you can walk and talk! we are going to have so much fun together! I LOVE YOU ANNIE!!! 

                                                                         my wee elf!

                                                                         xoxoxo