I was bored, so I made this:

You can also make such an exciting thing at: Type Drawing

Well, I'm too lazy to write out what has happened to me in the last while, so I'm drawing pictures and you all have to guess. Perhaps I will explain a tiny bit, but brownie points to people who guess correctly! :o)
Okay, this is what I did on the weekend:

Let's guess who each of the people are! (at least guess who is me!)

And what exciting adventure does this represent?

And the weekend is not complete with out this! hahahaha. O dear. If you were there, you would understand. and perhaps be afraid.

And recently:

Any takers for this one?? (hint: I wasn't getting enough hours at Northern Getaway).

And this "glorious" event means that I must look after my brother and dog for two and a half weeks!!!

Happy Guessing... haha. And have a great day!

Oh dear...

I don't get people sometimes. Especially people who deem it amusing to make plush-toys that look like viruses and various bacteria. And especially people who think that they should give me such things. As many of you may know (or may not know and are soon to find out), I'm REALLY squeamish about stuff that has a large gross or body-sickness factor... I usually become very uncomfortable, lose all the blood flow to my head, which causes white face, lack of hearing and sometimes if I don't remove myself from the situation (or en route) I faint.
Anyways, I'm now the proud owner of "sore throat", which looks like a little red peanut. It's really cute looking, but I'm still terribly disgusted and disturbed that someone makes such things and that me, of all people, was given one! I don't get some people's senses of humour...

Argh. The people in Bountiful annoy me. A LOT. If you don't know what I'm talking about, go to probably almost any Canadian news source ( I went to www.canada.com to check my email and saw the lovely story) ... I could rant for a while...

It's exciting for TEC is coming quite soon! I must remember to sleep a lot before hand so that I do not get sick on the weekend (which I think might happen because I'm been battling off sickness in the last week or so...) I still must write a lot of wheat. I guess I should go and attempt to do some of the things that I need to do before I head to work....

Have Fun to whomever reads this! :o)

Interviewed by Tammy!

It's the interview game! Here are the rules:

"Leave me a comment saying, "Interview me." I will respond by asking you five questions of a very intimate and creepily personal nature. Or not so creepy/personal. You WILL update your LJ (or other blog) with the answers to the questions. You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the post. When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions."

And I got it from Tammy, who in turn 'stole' it from Sean. The excitement. Off we go!

1. If you could have any superpower, what would it be and why?
   I would have the ability to tell what emotions people were feeling, for then you would have the ability to help them a lot better compared to trying to interpret what they're feeling, getting it wrong and having them close up to you completely. Or to have the super ability to say the right thing at the same time (it is a super power! especially from one who has a tendency to say something without thinking). Then you could encourage, comfort, etc. and not have an arguement or have the person become really angry at you because you said something stupid.
2. What does love mean to you?
   Man, that's tricky. Especially since there's different kinds of love. But for "general" love, it means that there is a deep rooted, strong bond between two people. Each person can trust the other with their own life and they would die for the other, if they had to (ie. like Jesus did for us). It also stems from a strong desire to help the person better themselves and in the process better themselves. To love someone means that you care extremely deeply for another and you want the best for them and are willing to do whatever it takes to get that for them as well as respecting their wishes. It's not without it's anxieties, but if you love some one, you will try to have the patience to work out difficulties and not give up on them. On a more romantic level, it means that there are feelings of attraction and affection and a strong desire to spend as much time as possible with them. And for love in general, I'm really only touching the tip of the iceberg of what I think it is...
3. What is the importance of post secondary education?
   Well, if you try to get the most out of it, it teaches you how to think, so that you can become an intelligent human being that can contribute to society. It also helps you develop an idea of who exactly you are and what your passions are (and gives you a chance to become more educated about that passion) and generally lets you learn skills and knowledge that will hopefully help you find a career. It's really the beginning of the learning curve, for it should prepare you for a life of learning.
4. Fuzzy or silky and why?
   Hrmmm... Fuzzy because it's usually really warm and reminds me of really cute animals. Silky reminds me of silk underwear, which is kind of embarrassing.
5. What is your biggest fear?
   My biggest fear is probably the thought that I might go through life and not do things God wants me to do and end up being this huge failure and the fear that I'll be forgotten by people that I love.

Anyone else like to be interviewed? I will try my best to come up with interesting questions...

Blogs, Church and Baptism.

Whoa man, my feet hurt. This leads me to believe that I am not meant to spend very, very long periods of time standing without moving that much. And blisters suck. A LOT.
Okay, enough complaining.

Well, there have been some potentially interesting things going on in my life - one of which is the fact that my church is starting this visioning process in hopes of rebuilding the congregation and become more vibrant once again. I have been asked to be in charge of this "progress blog" and if a website ever gets made, that too. This is sort of exciting, for it's doing something that I like to pretend to be good at, which makes me happy as (a) I'm doing something I like (b) I'm helping.
In the last while, I've been wondering if I should stay at St. Edmunds or if I should move on to a different church because to be honest about it, I'm quite fed up with it. However, I believe that I given the message yesterday that I should stay and help. I don't know how I recieved the message, just that I realized that I enjoy talking to the people and that I was asked to do something...
One reason why I've been kind of grumbly about going to church is that I don't really get anything out of it. Ever. I don't think I ever have. So last night I went to centre street and I was really moved with what the guy had to say. After coming back, Ian and I talked about random things that the service made us think about and made the decision (or at least, I did) that I will try to attend centre street more often, but probably won't go out very frequently afterwards, for I want to conserve the money in my poor bank account. Ian also offered to give me these devotional dealies that he once had, which is good, for any of you who heard my talk know how much I struggle with reading the bible and getting stuff out of it. So hopefully that will help me to feel.

I guess as of late, I've made a decision that I truly want to live a more christianly life - you feel so much more satisfied and less empty... last night I talked to Trevor about baptism and confirmation, which was interesting. An idea that has been swimming around in my head for a while is that perhaps I should get re-baptised... (can one even get re-baptised?) for I was baptised when I was a baby, and then got confirmed when I was 12, but I did it because it was "the thing to do" and I think my parents wanted me to get confirmed before we left St. Barnabas, not because I was desiring to confirm my faith in Jesus. For after this time (from ages 12 - 16) I was probably the farthest away from God that I've ever been... Like I admit that at times, I feel quite far away, but I thought during this time that church was for crazy people as it was ridiculously boring, thus I would do anything to get out of having to go to it. Plus, I didn't really believe anything and was extremely uncomfortable about talking about any sort of christian-ness... (still sort of am, but considerably better than I was.) I guess I'll have an opportunity to work on it this TEC weekend. Wow. It's less than two weeks away O_O

I get to volunteer for explore IT this wednesday, which shall be pretty cool!

Well, if any thing else exciting is happening, I have forgotten what it is because of my exciting rant. Plus I think it's almost dinner time!

Hrm. There is a weird mood in me at this moment. Thus, rambling.
I managed to work on my talk a bit more tonight - I like it considerably better than what I wrote yesterday. Hopefully I will get a chance to work on it tomorrow, but it seems to be quite a potentially busy day - Women in Engineering Day from 8:15 - 4, then going out to dinner with Ian and watching "The Iron Giant"... Perhaps in between something, for it would be good for me.

It's interesting for lately God has really been sending me the message that he will provide as long as I trust in him. I guess it's just the "scottish" in me that is always worried about how exactly everything will work, but it seems that God does have ways of providing me with things to that I don't have to worry. The trust is the hard part.
Something I REALLY want to work on (still) is listening. How do each of you listen to God and know that it's him as opposed to a random voice in your head?

That I love you

I have loved you all along

And I miss you

Been far away for far too long

I keep dreaming you’ll be with me

and you’ll never go

Stop breathing if

I don’t see you anymore

This is a bit from one of my favourite songs - "Far Away" by Nickelback. As I was listening to it today, it made me think - do I really ever take the time to show and tell people that I love them? I guess I'm afraid that I don't let my friends and family that I love them (in the agape sense) and that there is a .. mental "far away"-ness in many of my relationships. I realize that during the semester I wasn't exactly the most pleasant or available person and I am afraid that this could have made gaps in relationships larger.
I guess it's also the same with my relationship with God - I desperately want to be less "far away" but I really don't know how.

this is your life, are you who you want to be

this is your life, is it everything you dreamed it would be

I was listening to this Switchfoot CD my brother got me for my birthday (this song is "This is Your Life") as I was attempting to write my talk and as you guessed it, it caused me to think about where I am in my life. I know there are many things that I desperately want to improve and this made me think about such things... Sure, I'm pretty pleased with some things in my life but there is always room for improvement. I know that I'll never be perfect, yet I know that I am not who I want to be.

• I want to know God better
• I want to wake up on Sunday morning and be excited about church
• I want to learn to be pleased with what God has given me, so that I will have the confidence in myself to do things I normally wouldn't do
• I want to be able to be able to actually help people and feel that I have accomplished something not for personal gain

How could I have been so blind to not see you

The more that I look the more I find

You've led me to the truth

At times I feel really blind... I know what the truth is, but I still need to accept it. God please help me not to be blind to you and truly lead me to the truth.

Man, I should go to bed, as I must wake up early, early, early tomorrow!