| #1163 |
[04 Jul 2008|02:05pm] |
I still have trouble grasping the concept of fear of the Lord. I know it's important but I still struggle with it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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| #1162: Gah! |
[03 Jul 2008|04:23pm] |
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People use the word "horrible" way too loosely. >_>
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| #1161: Biscuit tin |
[03 Jul 2008|03:34pm] |
This was yesterday's effort, and I am quite happy with it. I didn't expect it to turn out so absolutely awesome but hey, here you have it.
It's a biscuit tin. No idea what brand or anything, since the evidence is gone now, but it was a blue tin and it had the most delicious biscuits in it. Danish, maybe?
They're yum, whatever they are.
The silver is fabric paint and I did the flower design with acrylics. I don't know what to do with it now, though. I was thinking it could be a giving tin that circulates... people put in a present and give it to someone they care about, and then that person passes it on, and on, and on, and on, and it goes all over the world...
But I'm well aware that that probably isn't the most practical idea ever, and there will be a lot of hoarders.
If anyone has any cool ideas, let me know. Though I probably won't get any, what with my audience of.. myself. That's cool though. I can deal with it.
The rest of what I have to do these holidays (only two weeks left):
* finish "The Braided Path" (lots to go)
* write a few stories
* give blood
* get my L's
* design my Holy-wood Kids folder (painting)
* make a skirt (mum's unsure about this one but I reckon I can do it)
* anything else that comes up!
Life is exciting.
Tonight's a Harlequin night.
We're gonna LAN.
;)
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| #1160: The talents that we're given. |
[02 Jul 2008|04:48pm] |
Tom made me these awesome banners to put in my signatures -
And because he requested that the forum be linked -
http://enterctp.forumotion.com
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| #1159: Stories about Amy |
[01 Jul 2008|11:09am] |
Stu: Hey Nathan, guess where Amy's first bee sting was?
Nathan: Where?
Stu: On the bum!
Some people got told on Sunday morning that Children's Ministry is separate from the church.
I'm glad I wasn't around.
I don't think I would have dealt with that too well.
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| #1158 |
[27 Jun 2008|01:51pm] |
In my dream last night I ended up delivering babies as voluntary work in a bid to avoid a social encounter with some people I do not like, though I truly can't remember who they were. The voluntary doctor with me was complaining. I kept thinking "it could be worse." and was actually quite positive about my work.
I can't remember any pregnant screaming women though. Just.. babies.
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| #1157 |
[27 Jun 2008|01:10pm] |
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| #1156: What we have done to Christ... |
[26 Jun 2008|03:36pm] |
Sister Wendy Beckett, an art critic and Catholic nun, stated in a television interview with Bill Moyers that she regarded the work as not blasphemous but a statement on "what we have done to Christ" - that is, the way contemporary society has come to regard Christ and the values he represents.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piss_Christ
Maybe this is truer than any Christian would like to believe.
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| #1155 |
[26 Jun 2008|03:30pm] |
Historian Stephen Nissenbaum contends that the modern celebration in the United States was developed in New York State from defunct and imagined Dutch and English traditions in order to re-focus the holiday from one where groups of young men went from house to house demanding alcohol and food into one that was focused on the happiness of children. He notes that there was deliberate effort to prevent the children from becoming greedy in response.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_controversy
I like that end bit... the focus on preventing children from being greedy in response...
though surely he's still missing the point of Christmas.
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| #1154: I'm spending the day jumping around Wikipedia and I'm not sorry |
[26 Jun 2008|03:07pm] |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Christian_discrimination
In July 2006 the Madhya Pradesh government passed legislation requiring people who desire to convert to a different religion to provide the government with one-month's notice, or face fines and penalties.
Who intend to convert? Why intend to convert? If people are going to convert, what's stopping them from doing it immediately?
That is a straaaange law.
I feel like I was cheated with one of my participation marks.
Maybe it's because I was always eating almonds in class.
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| #1153: It's simple and it's bright and I love it |
[25 Jun 2008|11:36pm] |
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| #1152 |
[25 Jun 2008|11:05pm] |
I want to post lots and lots just so the latest entries sidebar isn't drowned in smut.
There is hope yet, sbar, there is hope yet!
.... It never used to be like this.
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| #1151 |
[25 Jun 2008|10:43pm] |
Guh. Spam blurties are frustrating. I do not understand why they are created or what they are supposed to achieve. I understand it's a bot but what an inefficient bot with absolutely no results.
Maybe it's experimentation of trying to create a sympathy bot that makes people feel sorry for it because it has such a hard life that it always writes about on blurties...
Well that experimentaton should occur offline.
I never told you that I deleted a stack of my accounts on various social networking websites =]
Not facebook of course. I'm still in love with facebook. (how long will it last?)
But I guess I'm not the most social person ever =]
Clarification of an earlier entry. Nothing horrifying actually happened to me. I've just seen some horrifying stuff lately and haven't been able to deal with this intake. I wouldn't call myself sheltered but I am sensitive to things like... to things like what I've seen, and it's been haunting my thoughts so that I haven't really wanted to write or think or exist because the memory of what I saw just kept recurring. And I put things in boxes in my mind that say "don't open!" but I wander around my mind too much to not trip over those boxes.
The stuff is all pretty much suppressed now, though, which is good. I still think of it but it's not making me sick anymore. It probably sounds like it's something dodgy but it's not in the way that you're thinking, and I don't really wanna bother actually explaining what happened. So I'll let you have your misbeliefs but know that you're wrong =] And yeah. I know what you're thinking because when I confided in people minimally they all had a wrong idea of what it is that I saw.
It's all good.
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| #1150: Ever more pictures... |
[23 Jun 2008|10:33pm] |
These ones from xkcd.. or whatever the website is called.
( some of these are kinda cool.. )
Actually, I think I'm going to drop this website now. No bookmarking for j00!
Sorry, friends, you've failed in your recommendations.
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| #1149 |
[20 Jun 2008|03:50pm] |
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Why is it ingrained in our hearts and in our minds that glasses are not attractive? WHY?!?!!?
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| #1147: メハトキョ！ |
[18 Jun 2008|11:41pm] |
Can't... resist... must needs flood of megatokyo!
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| #1146 |
[18 Jun 2008|05:32pm] |
I meant to write this earlier.
There was a drama on the weekend.
I wanted to cry at the time but I was the comforter. Maybe because I don't like crying in public. Maybe because I could see that nobody else was going to step up to the role, no matter how much it was needed.
I was forced to suppress my feelings and go do something else.
It boiled down to nothingness eventually and everything was ok.
Later I wanted to tell Harlequin something I learnt from it. I wasn't upset, I felt somewhat enlightened. I had come to an understanding I didn't have before and I didn't want to lose that. So I told him what I'd learnt. Then to put it into context I started to explain what had happened. Soon I was bawling my eyes out and not forming complete words. (Yet he knew what I was saying.) "And-she-was-" something along those lines. He listened for a while so long as I kept trying to explain it then pulled over the car and hugged me and started praying.
I don't think anybody in the past has responded so wisely. I think people have told me what I should do instead of giving me a chance to vent. I think a lot of people haven't given me that chance at all. Whenever I've said to people, "how about we pray?" it always seems to be met with not the most positive reaction, (mostly with Christians this happens - non Christians seem to relish in the comfort) and people make me feel like I'm ramming prayer and God down their throats when that's not what they want to think about.
How wise Harlequin is to know that God is what we need - what I needed - especially when things are so desperate.
I think I was a bit misleading. When I said "drama" at the start I did not mean a fight or argument between people, I mean a short performance. It was... it was very real. And I applaud the people who were in it. And even though it made me bawl my eyes out and I can't really think of the song or of the drama without my eyes glazing over I wish I could show the world. Cause the world needs to know that God is there through all the crap. And the world needs to know that believing in God will not be a quick fix to the problems we have in this life. But the world also needs to know that Jesus broke the power that all that crap ever had over us. And I wish that I had understood the extent of that. And I wish that I hadn't only known that but that I had believed it and understood it and been able to tell people so with conviction. And now I can.
And that drama made me bawl my eyes out and it was a little scary but I am glad I saw it.
And I am glad that Harlequin thought to pray about the issues it raised.
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| #1145 |
[18 Jun 2008|05:22pm] |
When we watched a clip from The Princess Diaries 2 the other day, everybody was like, "where is that little girl from?"
I said it's the same little girl from Little Miss Sunshine and they all looked at me like I was crazy.
WELL, I WAS RIGHT.
I asked IMDb and it told me so.
I don't think people would have recognised her from anything else. She's also the little girl from The Ultimate Gift - that movie made me want to cry (and also made me think a lot of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants) but I don't know if it was ever released in Australia.
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| #1144: It's not fair! |
[17 Jun 2008|05:58pm] |
more cat pictures
It's a piece of cake.
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