Food, friends, festivities

THURS 24th

Guthrie Govan. Shred guitarist. Super nice guy. Ryan and I helped out with the Thump Music Guthrie clinic in Sydney. We took tickets and organized crowds and we wore Thump Music hats and hung out and chatted. Guthrie was lovely a lot more down to earth than Satriani. Then we caught the train home with Tan and chatted lots. Good times

FRIDAY 25th

Today was a day filled with friends. It was lovely. I got up early and finished my Ephesians talk and was reminded about how amazing Gods love is. I caught up with Peter Lin and got the chance to pick his brain about issues which was nice. Then I went to THAC and gave the talk at the year 7-8 girls Christian group which was a really sweet group. After that I was meant to go gym, but ended up spending the afternoon with Lana and Dad. Then I met with Estelle for afternoon tea, rushed home and made dinner for Soong and also for Felix and Laura. Youth group was awesome, good discussions and good times. 

SATURDAY 26th

Pancake madness! We hung out and ate pancakes. People stayed all day. We built park benches and we cleaned my house and drank tea and ate bacon. Love those guys. The evening was Christmas in July and so Helen and I went and ate lots and lots of food. Oh and Mandy gave birth!

SUNDAY 27th 

Church was good. Got to have some great conversations with people who we don't normally talk to. Tristan and Thomas came over for lunch. We got to visit Mandy and Jason and baby Oliver in the evening as well. So fun!!! It was Ez Lau's birthday so he organized for people to go out to Marconi all you can eat for dinner. I don't enjoy all you can eats but I enjoyed spending time with people from church! 

Sick again

Thursday night:

Got my hair done! Yay 

Friday:

Wedding yay!

Red rooster for lunch yay!

Time with old friends yay!

Saturday:

Spent the day on the couch watching DVDs blowing my nose and eating jam and peanut butter toast

Sunday:

Same as Saturday except it was Soongs birthday yay! We ate pizza for lunch and watched DVDs. We went to Thai for dinner with his family. Came back to our house and are cake. 

Monday:

Took the day off work. Went to GYG with Ryan and Soong for some birthday burritos. Spent the rest of the day on the lounge watching DVDs. 

Midweek Mountains Amongst Other Things

My weekend began last Wednesday 2nd July. Mum, Lana, Simon, Julian, Kahnya, Adrian, Soong and I headed up to the Blue Mountains for a short getaway. We stayed in a cottage with a fireplace and central heating so we didn't feel the cold much thank goodness. We explored the Mountains on a tour bus, and saw lots of different places that we wouldn't have normally seen. We ate lunch out in different cafes every day and got to try all different types of cafe experiences. We played board games, watched movies, ate meals together and had a good time.

We came home on Saturday 5th July at midday. Soong and I spent some time together doing some of my favourite things, talking, eating and grocery shopping. We bought lots of fresh produce for the week and I spent the afternoon preparing meals and cooking with all the fresh ingredients. It feels good to not be as busy as we were in June and to have time to just prepare and enjoy cooking healthy meals.

That evening we were planning on visiting Soong's grandparents for dinner, but got a last minute phone call from Matt & Erin so decided to go to their house and play board games with them. It was really fun, we played The Office Monopoly and ate chicken parcels for dinner. I got to read Rowan a bedtime story and that was really special.

Sunday 6th July I started my day with a visit to the gym with Dad. I've now started going to the gym up the road from my house which he goes to, and so he ran me through some of the basics of his gym and put together a toning circuit for me to use. That was fun but boy was I sore the next day!

After the gym I rushed home to shower and get ready for church. Nathan our bible study leader preached on Exodus 25 - 40, on what great things we can learn about God from the building of the tabernacle. This was followed by the second half of church which was really encouraging. Church was smaller than usual but everyone who was there was really keen for church that day so it felt very positive.

I headed to Afryll's for lunch with a few other girls. It was a girls only lunch so we sent the boys out to have their own fun for the afternoon. We ate lunch, drank tea and chatted about all sorts of things. It was lovely to spend time with the girls, particularly some who I don't normally spend time with. We all agreed we should do it again!

In the evening we went to Grace's house for a barbecue. There was SO much food - it was brilliant! She was cleaning out her freezer so she had lots of meat to be cooked, and I was able to eat and stay under my calories as well which was great. We spent the evening there and then got home and headed straight to bed.

Lots of good times with good people. 

Roadtrips, Rock Concerts, Reunions

This weekend was jam-packed full of fun, the best kind of weekend. I got to spend quality time with so many loved ones so even though I am tired and mentally somewhat fuzzy this Monday morning, I am deeply satisfied with how I spent my energy.

Let's go through it day by day, moment by moment. I may not have pictures of all fun times yet though because some are on my SD card which doesn't plug into my work computer.

Thursday:

Erin planned "damper madness". She had the brilliant idea to put cheese, bacon and other ingredients into damper and cook dinner in the bonfire for Madness. We rocked up with a bunch of ingredients and sat around the camp fire in her backyard for hours, cooking savory pizza damper and sweet dessert damper (chocolate and marshmallows). It was simple but such good fun. We eventually put out the fire and headed inside for tea and coffee, and chatted for hours. I can't remember what we talked about exactly, I just remember enjoying it lots.

Friday:

Today started out with a 5km run with Josh. It was a bit random, a bit spontaneous, and a bit exhausting! It's been 6 weeks since I've done any exercise and so smashing out 5km felt great, yet painful. Then we had breakfast, cleaned my kitchen, and just chatted for ages. I visited Erin in the afternoon and had lunch and a cup of tea with her. Rowan kept bringing me books so I read with her lots.

In the evening I drove down with Pat to Wollongong to watch the album launch of Masterplan. Soong was playing in the band as well. It was a really really fun gig. Also was fun to have the company of Pat for 3 hours to and from the Gong!

Saturday

Soong and I spent the day doing odd jobs. We cleaned the bathrooms and our bedroom, we did two loads of washing, weeding, and began sorting out my bedroom at my Dad's house. There was so much to sort out! We emptied one bookshelf, and half of the wardrobe - but there are still many boxes to sort through, and I may need to make a decision about what to do with all my diaries!

Dad and I went out for dinner in the evening. He took me to Frank's lebanese restaurant, yum, and then we went to his house and watched The Lion King and Die Hard. He dropped me home afterwards, and I managed to fit in a few more episodes of Angel as well!

Sunday

The morning started off with cooking, bulletin prepping and prayer writing. Church was wonderful as always. Ez preached on Exodus 32 about our good and dangerous God. It was a real reminder that God is not safe, but because he is loving and kind we are safe in him. After church, Laura, Mandy, Christine and I celebrated "International Laura Day" which happens in June sometime. We took a roadtrip up to Bilpin to get fresh homemade pies and apple cider. It was a brilliant afternoon, so much fun! After the pie date, Soong and I went to his parents house to see Steph who was finally back from her travels in Europe. She bought me so many amazing pens from each place she went to! We had dinner with the parents and grandparents, hung out with family and then headed home.
 

A midweek special

The purpose of this blog is to record what happy things happen on the weekend so that when I am down and depressed I have factual evidence that my life is not as bad as it seems. 

Well sme happy things happen during the week too. 

Kirsty bought me a cookies and milk Tshirt because she knows I love cookies and milk. I felt so loved! 

I got to see Soong and his students perform on Tuesday and they did a wonderful job! And I was reminded again how thankful we should be for his job. 

A girl from the office bought me a gift from Kikki K with her gift voucher. It's super cute!!

The Wedding Weekend

There was lots happening this weekend!

Thursday night was a family outing to Inaburra to watch Hairspray. It was wonderful and the students did an amazing job. I have decided that I really like musicals and theatre and so hopefully can go and watch more plays. 

Friday morning was the beginning of the wedding prep for Jamie. I did a huge shop at Aldi and bought half their store. After I finished that, mum called to tell me she was in emergency at hospital. So we all rushed over there and spent the afternoon hanging out with her. She got released from hospital fairly quickly so Lana Julian and I went to Mac Square and I finished doing my wedding prep shopping. 

Saturday I spent all day in the kitchen prepping food for Jamie and Joel so I have no photos of the wedding. Chris, Thom, Josh, Lana and Simon all stayed and helped which was awesome. Afterwards a bunch of us went to Canley Heights and squished into a tiny booth and ate ice cream. It was so great and so much fun. 

Sunday was morning church. I got to hold little Josh Cheung, Nate's son, and he was so warm and fluffy. We had a youth group leaders meeting in the afternoon and that was good fun. We prayed for our kids by name which was super encouraging. We did some training and discussed term 3. 

Felix and Laura stayed on Sunday night and we had dinner, watched Impractical Jokers, and then watched Her. Amazing movie by the way! 

Gosford and Greeks amongst other things

Hello  

Last weekend was a mash up of good people and good times. 

Friday I caught up with Tracy for breakfast and was super encouraged by what God is doing through her. It's such an answer to prayer! Then I spent the rest of my day working on my youth group talk. I was really excited to preach on God's mercy because it is the thing about Jesus that really made me fall in love with God. The assurance that I am 100% going to heaven. 

I think I preached ok. Youth group was really fun as well anyway. The good camp vibes seem to have carried over so I'm really pleased. 

After youth Kirsty came over and we watched season 5 of Buffy and talked for hours. 

Saturday was lovely. Soong and I took a day trip up to The Entrance. It was really lovely. We went for a walk along the water, we ate fish and chips, we had milk shakes and just had fun! 

Then at night we had Greek night at church. I invited my dad to come but he only stayed for a short while and left before the talk. But he showed up which I wasn't expecting at all! Helen and Kins also brought friends who we were able to chat to.  Then afterwards, more Buffy. 

Sunday was lovely. Cooked food for Nate and Jen. Had Kinseys and Bransdons over for lunch, then popped around to the Lins afterwards and had afternoon tea with them. Spent the evening doing life admin and organizing Jamie's wedding.