Friday

I'm glad today is Friday.
It's been a long week.
I haven't been feeling the best.
I've had dramas with our fitting lab at work and it's raining!
Tomorrow though is Saturday,
And I don't have to work (yay).
I get to sleep in,
And celebrate a friends 21st.
Sunday is church and friends.
Fellowship and relaxation.
Then all to soon it will be Monday again.

Luke 19:40

I found you today, I saw your face in the sunset
and a butterfly reminded me that I'm alive

You say in your word
that if I don't sing this song
even the rocks will cry out
and proclaim your glorious name
You wrote your name in the sky
for all to see, none can deny.

If you care enough
to make the little things so delicate and complex
how much more you care for me
I can only guess
And if that wasn't enough
you let your son die for us
to proclaim your glorious name

You wrote your name in the sky
for all to see none can deny.
So if I don't sing this song
even the rocks will cry out
and proclaim your glorious name.

I wish I coud take credit for writing the beautiful words in this song. It's written by Shooting Stars a great Kiwi acoustic duo. This is probably my favourite song by them. God loves us so much and it's expressed so clearly in this song. Like the words say, if he took so much care in creating the smallest creatures on earth and painting beautiful sunrises and sunsets across the skies, then just imagine how much he cares about us. It's pretty much beyond comprehension. We have been created in the image of God, our Heavenly Father. Created though as unique individuals with free will. What an amazing thing!

Waiting

I'll wait.

"Wait for the man who pursues you, the one who will make an ordinary moment seem magical. The kind of man who brings out the best in you and makes you want to be a better person. Wait for the man who will be your best friend, the person who will drop everything to be with you at anytime of the day no matter what the circumstances, wait for the man who makes you smile and when he smiles you know he needs you. Wait for the man who wants to show you off in sweats and have no makeup on. Most of all, wait for the man who will love you only second to Jesus Christ."

The last few posts haven't been original thought I must admit, but I keep finding things that I want to share. This came from a random chicks website and I thought it was pretty good. She'd been asking the question where has Chivalry gone! It was funny that I read it especially since I had been talking about that very thing with a friend on Saturday night.
I spose you could say that she is more on the traditional side of things. The guy should be the one chasing the girl. He should make the effort to get to know her more if he's interested and 'pursue' her in general.

While I like the sound of that, the reality is that some guys are chicken. They're as afraid of rejection as we girls are. I guess too personality plays a big role in how a guy would act while chasing a girl.
While I'm not totally opposed to being the chaser, the girl in me would love to be chased.
One thing I do wonder about is how guys feel about being chased. Are they opposed to it? Or do they like the idea of having a girl after them? Obviously everyone is different and at the moment there's really only one person that I'm concerned with! Unfortunately he's proving to be very difficult to read so I'm just going to keep on with the little things and we'll see what happens.

I guess though based on the quote at the beginning of this post, you could argue that if he is the one then he'll go after you til he gets you.

The Priest

Elli is reading one of my books called "The Priest" by Francine Rivers. She just emailled me through a passage that is pretty challenging and amazing. I thought I'd post it here too. It's written at the part where God is parting the Red Sea for the Isralites to pass through to escape from the Egyptians.
"...The God who laid down the foundations of the earth and scattered the stars across the heavens was protecting them! The God who could call forth plagues and part the sea was overshadowing them!" Who will dare stand against a God like ours?"
Elli's comment about it to me was special too she put it really well. (Hope you don't mind me posting this Elle)
" --- i like that, its nice to know you have an almighty, all powerful, forever graceful God, or Father on your side when you feel like the whole world is against you!"

Amen

Today

Well, what a day it's been. I left for work this morning at 5 past 8 and didn't get there until 9.25am!! It was probably my longest journey to work ever. It was raining which usually causes some chaos - it was just far worse today. I text ahead to work saying I was running late and they were ok about it.

When I finally made it in I noticed a rather large box sitting on the floor in one of the exam rooms... my computer had arrived!!! I opened it up and had a bit of a play but I'll leave it mostly til I'm home tonight. It looks so cool though. David (my boss) asked me very politely if he could have a play, how could I say no. So he set it up in one of the rooms. I'm happy I decided to go ahead with it. It was too good a deal to pass up. Even the leather carry case is great. It's really strong and has lots of pockets and compartments for papers, pens, cards and even a cell phone!
So grown up!!!! : P

Actually when I think about it I should probably take that last statement back. I am such a klutz! I have to admit that most people who know me already realise that. Even when I was at camp I was called into the Klutzy Club! How could they not after the knee incident! The reason I've mentioned this is because I was heading into our kitchenette at work I punched the corner of the desk (accidentally of course) but boy did it hurt. I caught the knuckles of my middle and ring finger on my left hand. Instant swelling and soon after some nice bruising appeared! I can't believe myself sometimes!!

Soup Soup Soup

I love Soup! There is almost nothing better than a steaming hot mug or bowl in winter time. You know that winter has arrived at Church when we start having Soup Lunches on Sundays after church. They ask a whole lot of people to make a crock pot full of soup and bring it in before church. Then we all enjoy it afterwards with fresh bread rolls. I had the nicest Spiced Kumara soup. It was delicious!! It's also a great time to talk and catch up with different people.

Spent Sunday afternoon with Bex, Elli and Alyssa. Shopped at West City for a bit, then sat in the sun down at the waterfront. Then before inCite watched Gilmour Girls and ate pizza. I know I shouldn't say, but that night I had some good perving time too!! Hehe naughty me!! :-D

I have a busy end of the week/weekend coming up. Thursday night I'm going to a product launch for work. Our main lab is releasing a new lens so I'm off to check that out. Then on Friday night is Simon's farewell thingy - he's off to America for 3 months. Saturday night is Aimee's 21st party, thankfully I'm not working on Satuday morning so I get a sleep in!!! Busy busy!

Yay for ZM!!!

One of our local radio stations is ZM and they run a competition where you can enter online and go in the draw to win a work shout. Alisha a girl I work with entered us in last week and this morning a girl rang and said they'd pop in around 11am this morning! We were all a fluster when Alisha confessed she'd entered us into 2 draws. One was for Subway for lunch and the other was 3 topless guys would come and serve us the new KitKat Temptations on a Silver Platter, one of the guys being the very good looking Mark Hewlett from various tv ads and he won a series of Fear Factor a while ago. They arrived a little after 11, but came with KitKats, Subway and free cat food - which was a little weird but cool none the less. There were 3 guys as promised but they were fully clothed (its pretty cold today!) I was kinda relieved actually. Could have been a little awkward had any patients walked in!! They stayed and chatted for a good 15 minutes or so. They got quite excited and were trying on frames and asking us lots of questions. It was a nice surprise!

Thanks ZM!!!

The very yummy new KitKat Temptations!!

Babysitting

Yesterday after I finished work Elli and I went up to Sharee and Brendon's to look after Kaeli and Asher for the afternoon. We thought it would be nice to give Sharee a break for a bit. She's now just over 8 mths preggers. Thankfully she took sick Asher with her (he has baby giardia) :-( So Sharee went out shopping with her mum and Elli and I got to have fun playing playdough! Kaeli had saved half to share with us! Very generous of her! Then we were treated to a fashion show and plenty of hula dancing. She is such a little darling. Asher had actually perked up a bit when they came home so we were playing peek-a-boo. It was a fun afternoon!

Laptop Update!!!

I thought I would take advantage of the 'Check Your Order Status' on the Dell website. While I know I only placed the order yesterday I wanted to see if any progress had been made! To my delight my order has been completed!!! And when I clicked on the shipping status it says it's left the factory !! Yay!! I'm very EXCITED!! It should be here towards the end of next week.
And even better in 18 minutes I'm leaving work for the day.

Drama Drama Drama

Why is it that some people can not exisit on this planet with out drama in their lives. Why they can't be content just living a normal stress free life is beyond me!! Sometimes creating drama is the only way they can get attention, which actually makes me sad. It doesn't matter if it's positive or negative - just as long as they get it. For me though the worst part is when others get caught up in the fuss they create. The reason for my ranting ... I got caught up in some of this drama this week - it wasn't any fun.

I'm on a roll too. It wasn't even 10am this morning and I had a woman swearing at me. She turned up here for an appointment but we didn't have her booked in and we didn't even have an appointment at that time either. I was confused and she was mad. I offered to put her in for a little later in the morning but she wasn't going to have a bar of it. Eventually she mentioned something about a deal with ASB Bank... we don't have a deal with them. Sure enough she was booked in at our competition up the road. Thankfully she apologised before storming out the door! Aren't Fridays great!

On a positve note one of my favourite patients came in to pick up some contact lenses this morning! He always manages to put a smile on my face! A frame rep also came round with hot coffee! It's not as cold today as it has been this week but it was very welcome anyway.

I should also say that I had a lovely night out last night. After arriving late for dinner, nearly tripping over a chair and getting a wicked cramp in my hamstring, I sat down and had a great catch up with Amb, Isaac, Rach and Amber's family as well. The food was wonderful too. I had the biggest chicken burger ever! Home made bread, avocado, bacon, lettuce, chicken breast and aioli. Yum!! Not to mention a huge bowl of shoestring fries on the side. Tam and Stace ate most of the chips though. I took the cheap way out by not ordering any dessert but sampling bites of what the others had! hehe!! I'm definately looking forward to Amber and Isaac's wedding!! Will be the highlight of the summer I think!

Quiet

I've been rather quiet this week, haven't posted at all. It's been kinda strange I guess. Sunday was Mothers Day, so we had plans to go out for lunch, Mum text me though to say she was with Ash at the hospital! He had been having these bad headaches and vomitting and he'd developed a fever too. After spending the day there he was sent home still not knowing what was wrong. He has a low white blood, which is a concern but meningitis which was the biggest worry was ruled out. I spent Monday at home with him. I wasn't feeling too good either so it was a good excuse to be at home. We watched TV and made Scoobies and I baked a couple of things.
Rach came up from Wellington on Monday morning so we arranged to meet up for dinner on Tuesday. We had Indian at Handi in Titirangi. It was nice to have a proper catch up as we didn't get much of a chance to talk at my birthday. Tonight we're going to GPK with Amber and Isaac! Looking forward to it.
One exciting thing that happened today is that I bought a laptop!! It's a Dell. The only bummer is that it's going to take up to 10 days to arrive. I'm such a girl too - I got an extra coloured shell for it. Kinda like a phone face plate! It's this nice bright blue colour. So I can swap between the silver and white combo and blue! My boss was giving me crap, he asked me if it makes it go better? ... My answer, "OF COURSE!! But it'd go better if it came in Pink!" He just laughed at me. They sucked me in didn't they.
The weekend is fast approaching! It's been a short week for me but I still can't wait.

Jury Service

I got home from work yesterday and there was an envelope on the table from the Department of Justice! Nothing serious of course, but it contained a Jury Service Summons. This is the first time I have received one of these. It's only for the District Court, I'm thankful it's not for the High Court and I would only be required for a week. Of course now I have to decide if I want to get out of it, or if work wants me to get out of it. I guess I'm kinda torn really. Part of me can't be bothered with the fuss of it all. Getting time off work, fighting the traffic into town, finding a park in there and then catching up at work when it's done. But at the same time it would be a really interesting experience to see how the system works. Of course there is the real possibility that I will turn up and then not be selected to serve on a jury anyway. In which case it'll be a day off work and not much more.

Photos

Bex and Elle by Candlelight

Family

Family are wonderful. These are from left, my Aunty Julia, Uncle Will, Gran and Mum.

Almost all of my Mums side of the family were able to make it to Auckland for my 21st. Here we all are, it's a pretty good photo of everyone!

Me with my Uncle Will - the worlds biggest tease!

My darling brothers for the first time in their lives (age 17) thought it would be funny to dress the same and try to fool a few people. It's scary how alike they look.

Just one of those things...

So, I come to work everyday prepared to answer phone calls and take messages, book appointments and fix peoples glasses. Those are some of the things I am employed to do. One thing that really gets me though is when I'm answering the phone and it's for either of the other 2 girls I work with. I lose track some days how many personal phone calls they get or make in a day. There's nothing I can do about it though, it's not fair but I just have to deal with it. Just felt like having a whinge and this is a good place to do it!!

"Whatever I feel like I wanna do..."

This picture is too funny, I couldn't resisit posting it. I actually found it on someone elses blog page. It's some kids she knows all dressed up for Halloween. "...Gosh"

Thoughts for the day...

A couple of things have been going through my head this morning. I've tried to put both of them into words but nothing is coming out right today. One of them is the saying "Love is Blind" and what is meant by it and other was just something interesting that I'd been thinking about to do with how so many different things can trigger memories and the emotions that are associated with those memories. I had one such experience last week while listening to a CD on my way to work. I guess the memories can be good or bad, but in my case they weren't the best. Kind of sucks actually I really like the CD but I've been put off for a while.

Today

The number of posts that I've put up today should be an indicator of something... I'm bored. It's really really quiet at work today! Both of us on reception have been very busy tapping away at the keyboard typing emails most of the day! Isn't there something you could be doing? One might ask? Possibly yes, but nothing super urgent that can't wait until tomorrow. Everything that needs to be done today has been, which is the most important thing.

When I came in this morning the lady that I spend most of my time working with here, told me that her uncle in Fiji passed away over the weekend. He had been sick and she was planning a trip later in the month to see him for a last time. I obviously felt for her, but sort of realised I wasn't entirely sure what to say to her. I've been working here for close to 18 months now, 5-6 days a week, I've spent a lot of my life in this building, at this desk next to her. I sort of felt as though I should have been able to offer her more than I did. Perhaps it's just our culture here in New Zealand. Not wanting to get too close to people outside of our immediate circles of family and friends. It's obviously something worth thinking about. Being more outward than inwardly focussed.

PINK!!!

Just changed my template, pink is much more appealling to me than green! : D

Winter...

is definately well on it's way! My electric blanket came on for the first time last night! I love winter!

Good times...

After church yesterday Alyssa and I went and had lunch with Romina and her friend Reuben. He was at Youth Group on Saturday night as well. It was fun getting to know him. I decided he'd get along really well with Nick. After lunch Alyssa and I went and crashed Elli's cleaning frenzy. We talked for a while and Bex joined us there too. We ended up all on Elli's bed listening to Mozelee over and over again and talking like girls do! The conversation turned kind of serious and we were thinking about how much life can change in a year and what has changed since this time last year and then we got onto where we thought we'd be this time next year and what we'd be doing. We ended up actually writing stuff down, so it'll be very interesting to pull that out next May. To top off a random afternoon we got hot dogs and chips and ate them beside the Henderson creek in the dark and cold and had gone off soft drinks.
The day ended at InCite where we ... talked more (surprise surprise) and had some great teaching from Josh. He spoke on John 1:1-18 "In the beginning was the Word."
It was just one of those really fun days. In the famous words of Elli "...good times!"

Friday night

Cause us girls are always the ones making plans for us to do stuff, we put it to the boys to organise something for us to do. Kevin stepped up to the plate and planned for us to trek out to mini golf by the airport. The weather packed in so we chose a drier option which was 10 pin bowling. (Much to Elli's disappointment) It ended up being Kev, Chris, Dan and Antz Bex, Elle and I and then Cam and Mike joined us later. I didn't do too badly - got 90. Little Antz won with something like 120. He beat out all the older guys!! We went back to Kevins in time to watch the Kiwis vs. the Aussies in the League Test match. It was funny to watch the guys watching the game but Elli and I busied ourselves in the kitchen for most of it! Too bad the Kiwis lost right guys!!

The 3 Musketeers!

The 3 Musketeers! Or even Charlies Angels as we've been called recently. Bex, Elli and I doing one of our famous self photos!

More photos

This is me with 2 of my besties from school, Amber and Rachel. We've been friends since we were about 13 or 14. They both came to Auckland especially for my birthday! Love you girls!


PRESENTS!!! I was so spoilt by my family and friends. I apprecitated everything I got.

21st

This is me at my 21st Party

Clever

So, clever me! Got my first post up and then somehow managed to post the exact same thing again! I've deleted it now but I can see that this is going to take a bit of practise.

1st Post!!

After first creating this page late last year, here I am finally posting something. I've thought a bit about what sort of things to put on here and after looking at heaps of random blogs, I've decided that I was probably overthinking it. It doesn't seem to matter what goes on a blog. I'll probably get round to posting photos of different things, including my 21st which was a couple of weeks ago.