I missed the good part; then I realized I started looking for excuses.

I try to justify how I feel by saying to myself that what you're doing isn't good for you...

But for some reason I'm jealous. And I hate that.

tickets

So I'm cleaning my room. It's one of those throw-everything-out kind of room cleanings, so I'm going through all the junky drawers and tossing things away/discovering things I forgot I had.

Such as many of the tickets I possess. I subconsciously collect them; they end up in my room and then I keep them. But I've come to notice that tickets are a good thing to collect, as some of mine hold some good memories:

Such as the Ignite Film Festival Awards Night ticket, dated September 6th, 2008. This is where I was when my youth leader's first daughter Evie was born.

The train ticket from my first Youth Surge. I wish I could rewind and experience that night again, or maybe just watch over what happened.

WICKED

The Importance of Being Earnest! Which I saw at NIDA with my babies Bethie and Kristy. And Mom :)

A Hawaiian Airlines boarding pass - Honolulu to Sydney, the trip home in 2005

Disneyland passes :D

Coldplay concert... over a year ago now... 

A Caesar's Palace keycard. Yup I've been there. Just like in Ocean's Eleven and Iron Man!

And yeah now I'm gonna go finish cleaning my room.... :)

Come now, don't you want to see what a difference you've made in me?

Hello fellow bloggers!

Well this morning I left the house wearing three layers and a beanie. So I've brought my laptop from the depths of my bedroom out in to the sunlight in an attempt to regain a little energy and generally enjoy the weather. I've already shed my hoody and feel much more comfortable. In my defense when I left this morning there was still fog in the air, the sun was yet to climb over the city buildings and the TAFE classrooms are hideously chilly; you would be a warmer if you stripped naked in the snow and sculled a Slurpee. Not to mention that would be much more thrilling than sitting for two and a half hours in Flash class. Today the teacher wrote a website link up on the whiteboard and instructed us to spend the lesson going through the tutorial on the site, while he went down for coffee and came back to check the rugby scores on his computer. Joy.

Anyway, yesterday was Mother's Day and I got my mother some flowers. She'll probably read this blog about me giving away my spectacularly awesome scheme to bring her said flowers, but I'd like to share it with the rest of you as well, so...

*SPOILER ALERT FOLLOWING*

I was contemplating for a long time how I would bring mom flowers with her juice and little presents in bed on Sunday morning without her previously knowing of their existence. There aren't really any flowers shops in short walking distance; the nearest one is on King Street and it would've taken me at least 40 minutes to go there and back, and I didn't even know when they opened. So I was thinking about this as I was walking up to catch the bus into Newtown on Saturday afternoon, and as I rounded to corner onto Enmore Road I nearly smashed my shins into a massive flower pot with some magnificent lilies in it. 

I looked up and it just so happened that a flower shop had opened that day, literally 5 minutes from where I live! So was I overjoyed and skipped inside immedaitely to enquire about their opening time the next morning. 

I woke my brother at 6:45 am to make mum orange juice, and at 7 I raced down to the shop (still half-dressed in my pyjamas) and bought her a bouquet of those beautiful lilies I'd seen yesterday. They look and smell absolutely gorgeous. Here's a picture. Don't you love them? 

When I got back we went into her room together and gave her her presents. She was splendidly surprised, and I must say it's probably the best job we've ever done keeping secret about what we had planned for her. We also got her a little book of Sudoku, called A Sudoku of One's Own, and I made her a voucher for Yolanda's Mexican cafe in Ventura, so we shall take her out there when we go on our trip in a couple months.

Went out for breakfast before church. Had bacon and eggs, and it was nice. Played guitar at church as usual; came home and watched Dead Poets Society (*tear*) while mum and dad went for a walk to the beach, or somewhere. Went to youth group that night and played guitar again. Sat in the back row at Salt for like, the first time ever. It was odd. At the end the Dicker family came to visit us; as I forgot to mention, our youth minister and his wife just had their second daughter, Josie. So now Evie, who is not yet 2, has a little sister. They are such darlings. :) 

And yeah.

A few other things worth mentioning: I saw Iron Man 2 on Thursday night with Katherine. I didn't get around to reviewing it but I definitely recommend it. Also, we really need another Earnest meeting, darlings. You know who you are.

And yeah, I think we won.

Here it is. Probably the most spectacular video you will ever see. Made by me, starring my wonderful friends. Enjoy!

Well why don't we?

So my fellow blogger and good friend Kristen wrote what she has penned as a 'Bucket Statement' on her blog Cool Is What You Make It and challenged the rest of us to write one too. So here is my Bucket Statement of the things I want to do in the future, in no particular order:

- Read the whole bible

- Write and film a movie

- Get paid for photography

- Go overseas with a friend (or two)

- Write a book and get it published

- Ballroom dance

- Become a youth leader

- See the Pyramids

- Move out of home

- Fall in love

- Learn to drive

- Do Year 13

- Take the Orient Express from Venice to London

- Take a road trip with friends

- Buy my parents something with the money I make from writing (preferably a house in Hawaii)

- Drive a motorbike

- Learn parkour

- Go white-water rafting

- Get a job

- Learn another language

- Learn to play a John Mayer song

- Sponsor a child by myself

- Memorize a whole book of the bible (probably one of Paul's letters)

- See U2 live

- See performances of Macbeth, Othello, and The Mousetrap

- Perform in a Shakespeare play

- Play a huge game of 'Monster in the Dark' with my friends

- Be a better listener

- Learn to think before I speak

- Trust God fully with the unknown

it's better to say too much... than never to say what you need to say

"Shoot until you can't stand up. Then shoot some more."

So for video class today we just watched Youtube videos the whole time, to get ideas for our assignment. How amazing (and time consuming!) are these? 






parkour motion reel from saggyarmpit on Vimeo.

Wishful thinking :)

Just for fun. I wish for....
Cinnamon rolls. I have a craving.

Strawberry ice cream. I saw this picture and wanted some.

A canon video camera.

A leather computer chair.

These shoes. Like. Oh. My. Gosh. I don't think they actually exist. But words cannot describe how badly I want a pair of these. *loves*