| personal risk assessment |
[May. 4th, 2008|03:23 pm] |
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| [ | Current Mood |
| |  thoughtful | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Desperate People - Hillsong United | ] |
So I've become a facebook-addict. Sigh. I am so disappointed in myself. Still, I held out longer than some. I don't know if that is better or worse - it means I couldn't bring myself to invest in something until the market is already relatively saturated. I'm never gonna be able to be a good business person with that kind of attitude to risk.
Speaking of risk, I'm praying about my position in the church at the moment. The Annual General Meeting is coming up in a couple of months where they take nominations for ministry positions and the church council (elders/deacons/spiritual leaders of the church) and I'm feeling that God could use me somewhere better than where is my comfort zone. It's starting to be a bit all the same, and there are enough new people to fill my place. But if I take up something I don't know well, I could potentially do more damage than the position being done half-heartedly by someone else. Fortunately it's a couple of months until nominations.
Also Stu has a proper teaching job! :D |
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| but we're never gonna survive unless we get a little crazy |
[Mar. 1st, 2008|09:32 pm] |
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| | Crazy - Seal | ] |
So work's gone a little ballistic on me. I guess they're paying me for it now (woo!), and the responsibility is somehow liberating, but one of my colleagues who was ignored for candidacy when I got my promotion is not hiding the fact that he wants to leave and me going to all these meetings put me back further than where I was at the beginning of each day. I feel that even working 10 hour days I would never catch up. So I finally taught myself not to kill myself over it. Don't get me wrong, I work hard, and I'll meet deadlines (at least the most urgent ones). But there is always going to be too much work, and as good as work is to me, it's not the biggest thing in my life.
We've started doing the Purpose Driven Life for home group - trying to get in the swing of doing four studies a week is a little tricky. It's been a while since I've even done regular bible readings. Though our home group has expanded a little and I'm loving having two more young married women in our group. One of them has just moved over from the UK with her husband and two daughters but her husband isn't Christian, so we pray for him often. The other has had amazing answers to prayers and she always prays as though God has already answered her somehow - her faith is a really good witness to all of us.
Stu and I were going to be at Cornerstone this weekend but as Stu needed more time to do his forward planning document before he starts his prac on Tuesday, he pulled out, and I decided to stay home with him to make sure he eats and sleeps and has some company. I hate punishing him with loneliness because he's doing the right thing. Besides, I helped him out with some formatting stuff so he didn't kill the computer, so that has to have helped ^_^
We have also invested in some good quality exercise equipment from Orbit and I've already spent over an hour on the treadmill today. It's great - I can watch TV and exercise at the same time. That was what frustrated me about the aerobics DVD - the exercise was fine, but I didn't want to watch the DVD for half an hour. How boring. Not that Friends DVDs are exactly enlightening, but still...
Anyways, we're somehow holding together at the moment. Tupperware and Undercoverwear orders are about to come in, and with the new equipment and Stu on prac and not working we're going into cash-only purchases soon :) There's so many more things I want to do with my time, but it's hard to get out of the rut of get up, get ready for work, commute, work, commute, relax, dinner, relax, bed. I also feel sometimes that I should culture myself - go to outdoor cinema, find some chic stores, you know, generally get out of the house and do stuff other than bum out with friends. Maybe after Stu's finished prac :P |
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| have mercy on me |
[Jan. 6th, 2008|08:59 am] |
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| |  sick | ] |
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| | Lord Have Mercy - Michael W Smith | ] |
Sometimes when I'm feeling fine, I think: Being sick wouldn't be that bad. I'd get some time off work, and that's what painkillers are for, right? It'd be a change in routine and I could just hole up and read or watch TV.
But then when you're actually sick, your perspective is put all back where it is supposed to be. It's ironic that most of the times when I am sick it happens mostly over a weekend. Today though, I do appreciate the chance to hole up given that I somehow semi-consciously scratched off half of my nose a couple of days ago and it's scabbing quite badly :/ |
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| last night i lost my head |
[Jan. 1st, 2008|12:38 pm] |
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| | okay | ] |
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| | Giving You Up - Kylie | ] |
Another New Year's Eve party at our place. Unfortunately it was cooler than last year so the pool didn't get quite as much use, and I didn't have camera-happy Claire this year and I forgot to pull my camera out, so I think JJ caught the only pics on his underwater camera. They should be interesting :P
However my bruschetta and cheese twists went down real well, I'll have to follow Bec's suggestion and do funky foods more often, though they're more work. We actually catered about on par, including with the BBQ, woo. We have quite a bit of alcohol leftover, but I'm not touching any of it for a while. Fortunately I'm only slightly hungover this morning, so I'm much happier than this time last year.
I wish I had more time off work. I wanna spend today doing nothing but there's still cleaning to be done and I'm so social I wish there was people still here :p Stu's asleep again already, though he and Sean and I had been crazy busy over the last few days massacre-ing the backyard and cleaning etc. Stu and I were up for 20 hours straight, plus alcohol... no wonder I passed out at 1:30am.
Welcome, 2008. It will be interesting to see what this year brings. |
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| just lay me down |
[Dec. 29th, 2007|01:09 am] |
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| |  sleepy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | I Dont Feel Like Dancing - Scissor Sisters | ] |
Four day weekend, yay! NYE should be good but I'm not entirely sure about the crowd. Seems good to me to invite all the friends, but after the invite list I thought, oh, two are underage, one is my pastor, there's a couple of people who aren't getting along and bunches that don't know each other. But last year turned out okay, and people generally know what the limits are. Drinking's fine but I don't want alcohol poisoning or drunk driving, underage drinking or any other drugs! Sigh. I want to drink with a friend, want to play around, want to DM with people, but I don't know I can do all of that, keep an eye on everything and feel better about it all than I did last year. Particularly with that hangover, yuk.
My sister-in-law encouraged me to do finger food rather than chips and dips etc, and after my success with bruschetta on Christmas Eve I'm tempted, but the effort and cost and time... we'll see.
And now my head is feeling a little funny after my tummy was earlier, so I'm gonna go to bed. |
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| with a little cheeky smile |
[Dec. 23rd, 2007|12:25 am] |
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| |  content | ] |
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| | Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks | ] |
It's been so long since I've lanned.
*contented sigh*
Christmas lunch with some friends was nice too, got to exchange a few Christmas pressies and Secret Santa each, Stu got some magic foam stuff which is like putty but has little foam balls in it! Really creepy. It also smells like alcohol :p
I managed to score the next two Mondays off work, so I don't have to worry about not having time to cook a roast for my brothers and their partners on Monday evening. My first Christmas without my parents... at least I still get to see some of my family :)
Merry Christmas all. |
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| staring blankly ahead |
[Dec. 6th, 2007|07:49 am] |
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| |  nervous | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | A Thousand Miles - Vanessa Carlton | ] |
So I got up at 6:30 this morning to finish the washing, wash and dry my hair (a big undertaking for me) and pack for Carnarvon. I was ready before 7:30am, including putting my heels I normally wear in my bag with my necklace and wearing metal-less flats so I don't have to fuss around at the security gate at the airport. But Stu booked my taxi for 8:45am, as my plane doesn't leave until 10:15am. So now here I am, waiting... trying to decide what to do to plug some time.
I haven't flown Skywest before, apparently they're in a different part of the terminal. And I have a printout of my e-itinerary (is that the same as my e-ticket?) with my confirmation code on it, and ID, and the receipt for my e-ticket as well.
I am such a nervous traveler when I travel by myself. I much prefer having people with me >__< But I have a credit card, and I'll fill out forms to get travel allowance when I get back. Our DPI rep in Carnarvon said he'd pick me up from the airport, but the airport's only a few k's from town in a worst case scenario. I confirmed my room booking last night, and check in's from 12pm so I can hole in there from whenever I want. I should be okay, right...???? |
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| meme! |
[Nov. 14th, 2007|06:23 pm] |
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| | okay | ] |
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| | Bollyrock - Fourplay | ] |
As seen on the LJ of ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) mellie28
The rules:
a) Answer the questions and type into Google image search.
b) Post pictures from the first results page as your answers.
( meme! ) |
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| thriller night |
[Nov. 1st, 2007|06:33 pm] |
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| |  ripped off! | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Thriller - Michael Jackson | ] |
| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| chipaholic goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as the little mermaid. | | 3quinox tricks you! You get a scratched CD. | | domgrief gives you 14 milky white evil-flavoured jawbreakers. | | drpsychobabbler gives you 5 red-orange root beer-flavoured gummy worms. | | eldudyrino tricks you! You lose 17 pieces of candy! | | even_star_ tricks you! You get a broken balloon. | | fenrisolf gives you 10 light blue cinnamon-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. | | livvyd gives you 2 mottled green spearmint-flavoured pieces of taffy. | | mellie28 gives you 11 red apple-flavoured gummy bats. | | modernshoggoth tricks you! You get a toothbrush. | | silvacody gives you 1 red-orange coffee-flavoured nuggets. | | chipaholic ends up with 26 pieces of candy, a scratched CD, a broken balloon, and a toothbrush. | | Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
So ripped off. You guys suck. (Especially YOU, Stuart.) |
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| clever girl |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|10:38 am] |
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| | annoyed | ] |
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| | Did It Again - Kylie | ] |
I forgot daylight savings, and slept through church.
Bugger. |
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| heat of your skin |
[Oct. 22nd, 2007|10:27 pm] |
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| |  exhausted | ] |
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| | Trim - Underworld | ] |
Cox: The key to my exercise program is this one simple truth: I hate my body.
Turk: What!?
Cox: Do you understand that the second you look in the mirror and you're happy with what you see, baby, you just lost the battle?
Turk: You should give speeches to teenage girls.
I did the fifty sit ups before work and aerobics just then. Aerobics is too ambitious in the morning, takes too long. But at least I'm sleeping well at night. |
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| the ache is in my bones |
[Oct. 21st, 2007|09:55 pm] |
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| | Breathe - Kylie | ] |
I am not totally impressed with what I am putting on show for summer, I have definitely gained some winter weight. My mum told me I could eat crap and it wouldn't show until I had my first kid... but I think it's actually until you're 22/23, and it just happened to coincide for her.
So today after we got home from Bunno, I did fifty sit-ups, half an hour on the stepper, and then later after looking in the mirror, went and did my aerobics DVD for half an hour straight. oh my gosh. It has obviously been too long since I have done it, I had to crawl over to the slate floor after and lie down and then I couldn't get up cause I was so weak. Sticking at it is the hard thing though. Wish me luck :/
Stu's working on getting the pool working too, it will be wonderful when that's working, what better than to get up on a hot summer morning and run outside and dive in the pool and have a swim before getting ready for work. Except I have to cut him some slack, he starts his five week prac tomorrow, and he's a little nervous. I'm sure he'll be fine. He made it through the theory, which was harder for him, and he's so... involved in teaching. I'm positive it's his calling. |
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| don't stop |
[Oct. 18th, 2007|09:54 pm] |
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| | slack | ] |
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| | Join Hands - Groove Armada | ] |
teehee...
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| sustainable living plug! |
[Oct. 13th, 2007|07:52 pm] |
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| |  determined | ] |
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| | The Best Is Yet To Come - Michael Buble | ] |
I know a lot of people are concerned about the environment, but not quite enough to go out of their way to do something about it. Recycling is relatively easy cause, well, there's two bins provided to you. And remembering to take those reusable bags to the shops is a bonus, but not something you'd turn around and go back for (maybe better, considering the fuel consumption).
But a friend's email recently alerted me to the fact that Synergy (Western Power) actually has a system so that you can pay a little extra (4.4c extra per unit, normally cost about 16c) to ensure that the equivalent of your power consumption is sourced from natural, renewable sources (solar, wind, hydro). You can read about it here.
They have a calculator too, and you can say you would like to ensure the equivalent of a 25%, 50%, 75% or 100% portion of your energy use is sourced from natural means. Stu and I signed up today online. You should too. It's really not that much more, and gives you a little more peace of mind :) |
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| if i made you feel second best |
[Oct. 9th, 2007|10:23 pm] |
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| | pensive | ] |
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| | Always On My Mind - Michael Buble | ] |
Why does everything always seem so much better retrospectively?
You know those bad decisions you made last year? Five years ago? And now you go: well that was a good experience at least; I learnt something from that relationship; I grew out of that. But when it's happening, you go: I don't know what to do; this will change everything.
Looking through some old pics every now and then, you remember those birthdays, those end of year school concerts, those book prizes, those family vacations. I don't remember the bad things so much. I remember the friends I made, those cool lollies and softies that no one makes anymore, those games I used to get out of a stupid orange book for my birthday parties. I wonder if I'll remember as fondly the times I'm in now in ten years time, or if you remember more that you don't want to as you grow older.
Why must we be so cynical? I do love most things about life. But it's amazing how one bad thing can throw off your groove. As a whole, a lot of the Gen Ys I know are pretty unmotivated. But we can be a lot more. |
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| saw my reflection |
[Oct. 8th, 2007|08:32 pm] |
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| | lazy | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Landslide - Stevie Nicks | ] |
Things are gonna get interesting in Aviation over the next couple of weeks. Well, even starting next week. I go back down to my level two (cry) but if the level six is successful in his secondment then I have a chance at acting in the four again! Even though the director wants me to act in the level five, but getting paid at the two or the four, he doesn't care. Does this not make sense to you? It hardly makes sense to me!
A few good things have happened recently though, despite my lingering cold. An old friend from when I first moved to Perth is organising a catch up on Wednesday - I'm really looking forward to that! I've been asked to say a prayer for my brother's marriage at his wedding. And Stu's getting close to finishing his assignments. Friday should be fun - let down our hair and party mode! Though I will be on kitchen duty this time (and fair enough).
Stu's trying to keep at me to keep eating healthy - he won't let me buy any chips. Damn him for doing what I asked him >__< I'll splurge on Friday though... mwahahahaha! |
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| evolution |
[Oct. 8th, 2007|07:20 pm] |
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| | thoughtful | ] |
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| | (none) | ] |
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| onslaught |
[Oct. 4th, 2007|09:28 pm] |
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| | thoughtful | ] |
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| | (none) | ] |
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| a woman taken by the sky |
[Sep. 13th, 2007|08:08 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | content | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Rhiannon [Live] - Stevie Nicks | ] |
You can actually imagine how our front yard is supposed to look now!! Stu and I slept in today but by 11am were at work in the front yard. We took a 45 minute break for lunch and called it quits at 5:45pm. Between us, we finished pruning the rose bushes, weeded more than half of the rose beds and both of the beds against the house and about 1/3 of the path leading to the house. It's a hella lot of weeds. Seriously. Stu is already in bed because he is absolutely exhausted.
Only one day left of my leave. It went too quickly... sigh. Still, I fully cleaned the house and made a dent on the garden and still spent plenty of time sleeping in and reading and watching movies and eating crap. Not bad for a one-week holiday. |
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