Carla Gypsygirl's Blurty

Sunshine, canaries, bananas...it was all yellow (and I wish it didn't sound like a Coldplay song)

Geoff and I keep getting invited to dinner parties. It is a whole new world that has been opened up to me, now that I'm part of Couples World. It's very nice. I try to turn up with flowers and a home-baked cake. But sometimes I end up buying the cake, 'cause you know, I'm an independent woman type and sometimes I don't have time to bake, okay? Though I still cry all over my boyfriend sometimes, and let him hug me and tell me that things will be okay, and that I will find a job someday, and stuff like that.

Meg invited Geoff and I over to her place for dinner the other night. Her boyfriend Nathan was there, too. Meg and I are like the official Caecilius fan club, what with Nathan being the drummer for the band, and Geoff being the singer. We had heaps of fun that night- Meg and Nath have these funky digital cameras, and were taking these funny photos of Geoff pointing a fake gun at Nathan. And Meg is such a legend, she took the first photos of me and Geoff as a couple! Wow! That's me and Geoff in the photo above. We have more lovey-dovey photos that Meg took, but I felt a bit funny about putting them up. Anyway, Meg also made shepherd's pie and salad and quiche and garlic bread. Probably the worst bit of the night was when I walked in on someone going to the toilet. Come on, that is totally up there in the list of the most embarrassing things that can happen to you, right?

Meg, Mel Dunne and I went out tonight to see the new Hilary Duff movie, "Raise Your Voice". I'm beginning to believe that Hilary Duff might be the solution to many of the problems in our society today. I mean, look at her, she is so wholesome and sweet! And I don't care what people say about her- I am a sucker for teen popstar types! Meg and Mel kept saying that I AM ACTUALLY LIKE HILARY DUFF, which made me feel weird, because I am not blonde or 17 or anything. But apparently, I am "very toothy and smiley", and I swish my hair around a lot, and I pretend I'm a rockstar! So I walked around for the rest of the night feeling funny, and expecting to see Hilary Duff every time I looked in the mirror.

My buddy Rachel turned 21 the other day, and I went to her party. She got married last year, so she had a wedding photo up. That was pretty unusual- most people have baby bath photos up at their 21st's. Anyway, Rach had this totally cool concept for her party. She sent out different coloured invitations to everyone, and asked us all to turn up in the colour of the invitation we received. She left a message on my phone that said, "You can just wear a ribbon, but knowing you, Carla, you'll go all out..." So of course, I felt pleasantly obligated to dress head-to-toe in yellow. I didn't actually know that I owned so much yellow. I felt pretty slick until I saw an ENTIRE FAMILY turn up in canary yellow. The daughter (who I think was a teenager) had a funky bright yellow ra-ra skirt, a yellow halter-neck top, yellow Cinderella slippers, yellow star-shaped earrings and a yellow Spongebob Squarepants bag (my baby brother would have loved it!)! Jonathan was the only person I knew there, and I cleverly said to him, "So, you got a brown invitation?" But alas, he actually got a garish blue one, and didn't have anything in that colour.

During the party, Rachel's husband Ross came over to chat with us. He told us how tired and stressed he'd been about the party. He told us how much he wanted to pray and read the Bible that day: "Television, reading, even sleep...nothing gives us as much refreshment as reading God's word." I admired his honesty, and tried reading God's word for refreshment later on in the week. It's true- God's strength is so much greater than our own; His thoughts are so much above ours. He is in control. He loves us and promises to renew us. Let's take His gift of eternal renewal. Jesus rocks!