SLIGHTLY ODWAY...

i wanna go home. i feel like i'm about to puke. today is not a good day. i think everyone in my pd class thinks i'm juvenile. so now i've retreated to the library. i wanna go home.

ooo, hot gossip conspiracies - will harry potter die in the last book?

sorry, another thing: (wow i've blogged alot today - the joys of being on the 3rd day of a 4 day weekend...)
On john mayer's live album "any given thursday", the first part of "Lenny/Man on the Moon",with the guitar solo, it's no actually john mayer playing, it's Michael Chaves? he's awesome, and i just want to make sure that john is not getting the credit (with all this talk of john mayer going around, i just wanna make sure that i get my 2 cents worth, even if it is almost paying him out. but yay for Michael Chaves!

Oh my gosh, I feel so incredibly loved. Ham (Maryanne) just dropped into my place and gave me a cake that she had just baked (and it tastes delicious), all because of “Thanksgiving Day”. So, I would like to take this opportunity to thank all my friends out there in the blogging world for supplying me with endless hours of amusement and good times. I really do appreciate my blogging community. Note that the first thing I did when finding out that today is Thanksgiving Day was come to you guys. Well almost, after chatting to my dad and mum...

i'm a bit worried about tom. i think perhaps we don't know the real thomas j after all... just a few quotes of his from over the last few weeks that i've found slightly disturbing:

"John [Mayer]'s just so damn hot..."
"Another thing I like about John Mayer is that he looks almost as skinny as me. Yeah baby!"
"I felt the body and it was beautiful."
"I ... think I'm up to that task... with more testosterone ... who can manage the tongs, sausages and fire? I'm ... a boy, ... give my your kebabs and hotplate."
"I really like people who aren't white."
"I love the young guys. Really, they are one of the highlights of my life. How lucky am I?"
"I'm at work. But I think I'll go home. Maybe I'll have a sleep... I'm ... meant to be working."
"I have nothing much to say" (This seems strange coming Tom, and it was made more funny by the fact that after saying this, he proceeded to write a rather extensive post)

NB. disclaimer: Some of these quotes may or may not be taken slightly out of context.

Yesterday turned out to be a good day. Went ten pin bowling in the afternoon with Triple G (God’s Gorgeous Gals - Becky and my yr6-8 small group). Much fun.
Courty and I’d organised for our bible study group to come to my place for dinner and games, and we were gonna make it a nice early 7:30pm, but courty said that beck was going to a band rehearsal til 8pm. I was supposed to be going to this band rehearsal too, but I had figured I wouldn’t be able to go coz we’d be heaps late due to Triple G outting. So I decided I should go to band too, and therefore the social at my place would have to start at 8:30pm coz I wouldn’t be back before that. It turned out that beck wasn’t going to the band rehearsal and she wasn’t comin to mine and so it was all stuffed up… don’t you hate when that happens! I think that’s me complaining again…
But i had fun with courty, leech, ham (maryanne) and scott. Great food (yay for scott’s veggie salad – it had apples in it!) and much funness. Scott, Ham and I overcame leech and courty in polka – no matter what they say – and I found that snap is actually the hardest card game. I am sooooo slow at it.
And then I spent the s’mornin fixing my parents cam-corder. I took it outside to film our block and you couldn’t see anything coz it’s a dodgey camera. Gay. Oh no, I’m complaining again.
Ok, I’ll try not to complain. Next Friday we’re having a pyjama party for Triple G. Maybe a veggietales video would be in order – something to do with grace or the like. Larry’s the coolest – I like his silly songs. Then after pyjama-ing, I’m off to the city to gamble. Janine and Karen (my sisters) are planing to take me out to paint the town. Yay! That’s exciting. Yesterday at bowling they were having a raffle and first prize was $500 worth of beer. So I asked the lady “what kind of beer” and she said “go away, you’re not 18” and I said “how would you know, maybe I am” and response was to the effect of “you look like a 14 yr old”!!! well that’s saddening…

so sad - i had to cut my nails for bowling tonight. they were 4mm! so impressed. i think that's the longest yet. althought it wasn't so good coz i couldnt press the strings on my guitar, so it was a bit pathetic.
i decided i better cut 'em coz i knew that they'd break whilst bowling anyway and i didn't want to go through the same pain as last time...
i miss my nails already...
and that's my whinge about having to cut my nails.

yes it is true. i wasn't sure at first. but i regret to inform, well, myself, that i have contracted, once again, the dreaded: throat infection... (drawn out enough?)
"not again" i hear you say. yes, for the 5th time in the past 2 years. i think i shall go to the doctor once again and get some drugs ~ antibiotics are much funness.
i think this is God's way of telling me that i'll never be a pro singer. every important performance seems to be at the same time that i get a throat infection. lets just pray that it's not the case this year. davo high concert's coming up next month, so i'll have gotten over it by then and i'll prolly be right for about a month, and then just as the trials come up and i have to perform for my music assessment i'll probably contract it again. that woud be the way of it...

well i'm really sorry kaye, i feel so bad, i only just read the post you wrote ages ago asking "exactly what would a turtle look like without a shell?". this image has been amusing me for a while now. i think it started about the time that howie first introduced me to blogger. ahh yes, there's the old blog i used to have ages ago.
you see, you would expect a turtle to be a yucky browny colour inside their shell, but my pondering has led me to believe that this is not the case. they are actually a incredibly bright yellow colour with purple dots and red stripes. completely unfashionable. because of the horrible colour clashing and the disgraceful patterns, the turtles would feel much out-of-placeness at the sushi ball without some kind of coverage. they also attempt to hypnotise us humans into believing that they have a saggy, wrinkly skin under their shell, but no! i am not so easily decieved. they are infact as hairy as jeremy jack's legs (it is possible that people will not know this person, so just think "right, bloody hairy"). they hide this hair because they dont particularly enjoy nugees and hair-pulling fights. also, their flippers are not long enough to comb the back hairs, and they choose not to look like the carpet men that seem to congregate around the beach.
turtles are shy ok, they just don't like being the centre of attention. so they hide away...
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yes, turtles are a deceptive bunch...

today is so beautiful ~ truly lovely. the leaves are glistening in the trees and the sun's sending it's last rays over the hill and making the water look an orangy-brown colour (the brown bit doesnt sound so nice, but it certainly looks good). the boats have their sails out and it's so peaceful here in bayview, well apart from the fact that i have my stereo up pretty loud so that my whole house is shaking to jebediah...
no school for 4 days now. today was only a half day too. how funny. that means that this week grand total of participation at school is 1 and a 1/2 days. how bludgey! it's all for legit. reasons though, not coz i'm wagging or whatever. on tuesdays i dont have any classes coz i'm smart and picked "online" subject ("online" in the sense that they aren't arty-farty or majorly smartness "offline" subjects). thursday's a teacher's strike. friday's the athletics carnival, and since i probably wouldn't participate anyway, i may as well stay home and procrastinate. today's wednesday which is sports day, and seniors don't have to do sport so i get to come home early. yay!
tried tom's "chunder" - sour cream, mandarin, and marshmellows last night. it was good until the aftertaste kicked in - kind of a milky slag in the back of your throat. ooh, SLAG's a good word to put in that romantic, ballady song ~ so now this song needs to include gunk, snog and slag. anyway, whatever rach says, she did not actually try enough of tom's concoction to actually taste it so if she blogs about it, her words are meaningless...
last night's small group was good hey. inspiring quote of the week: "the best use of life is love, the best expression of love is time, and the best time to love is now!"

sitting in the library - stroppy mood. photo's on today again coz we missed out on individual's a coupla weeks ago. today just happened to be the day i didnt do my hair before coming to school, i dont have the envelope with the money and i look like ****!

2 ticks, twitching eyes and a full belly...
"And I think that's all I have to say".
well actually no, i have plenty more to say, but i'm just to tired...

oh yay! i made it to the blog bog. i feel quite liberated...

yay i finally get to blog my challenge for you fellow songwriting bloggers:
i want someone to write a good song (not rap or anything pathetic like that - rap is quite unmusical...) that includes the words gunk and some other word that i've now forgotten (tom help me out here...). i'llget back to you barry
anyway it has to be a romantic ballad (sickly sweet)

day of gatherings yesterday. 2 b'day parties - kim and eleni. much food - kim's pancakes on the rocks and eleni's greek cuisine. puppet plays and egg squishings. much shenaniganising. no school work or study.
today woken up by my 5yr old cousin. much silliness had - musical teaching, hamocking, hide-and-seeking, texta-ing, noteworthy-ing, computing. i like teaching emily. she's too pink though...

many adventures...
much fun...
limited sleep...

i decided to take an online IQ test - 135. i'm not sure but maybe that's not very good. not surprised. anyway they gave me a low-down:
"Your Intellectual Type is Visionary Philosopher. This means you are highly intelligent and have a powerful mix of skills and insight that can be applied in a variety of different ways. Like Plato, your exceptional math and verbal skills make you very adept at explaining things to others — and at anticipating and predicting patterns."
yay for maths...
but what the heck is a "Visionary Philosopher"???

Reading philippians 2:12-18, I decided I need to change some things. I didn’t ever really think that complaining was actually a form of disobedience. You know, you are always told that God made you the way that He wanted and He thinks you’re beautiful no matter what the world tells you. So yeah, we try not to disapprove of our physical selves. But what about all the other things I find myself complaining about? God has this plan and whenever I complain, I’m actually bad-mouthing his plan. So I’m gonna try and stop my complaining negative nature…
Instead I’m gonna try to do the things it tells us in philippians 2:1-11. Be like Jesus – like-minded, loving, caring for others, humble and servant-like, because JESUS IS LORD!
PS. Anyone who sees that I am not following these things, please tell me…

The past 24 hours have been quite hectic:

Yesterday day: In Warringah Eisteddfod, Concert band 1 came 2nd (after pittwater high). That was a shock horror for everybody – but man just listening to our trumpet section (yes that includes me) we weren’t very good – I don’t think me or ben practised at all… well I certainly didn’t. it showed. I sucked. Oh well…

Yesterday arvo: Racing around so much before beck and my group started, to get ariane a cake and other food and stuff. We taught them a bit about grace. One thing I had planned to use but we didn’t was John 1:16 (NB. not John 3:16). I like that – it like we’re on a bridge, and God’s grace is a river that never runs out. His love just keeps washing though us. Maybe it’s not such a good analogy, but I like it. But man we had some break-throughs – God really answered prayers. For one, 5 girls rocked up to our group!!! Woohoo! We usually only get about 1 or 2, tops of 3. Another thing was that we were really getting into the study. Questions were asked and answers were given. Answers that were completely amazing and unexpected! We really pulled together as a group, even though there were 2 new girls who had never been before! Awesome! Amen…

Last night: I had told half the girls in our dteam that it was gonna be a normal night with just a small group. I hadn’t realised that we were goin ice-skating with the rest of Ernie junior. Tom msged me during warringah eisteddfods saying “Did I talk to you about ice skating?” well let me see – no! hehe. But it all worked out ok. God provided. Called all the girls at beck’s place. So iceskating was great fun. Spent a lot of time helping heather to learn how to skate – that was a challenge. But she got better. I only fell over once. I wish I wasn’t as scared to make a fool of myself – I wanted to challenge the limits of my skill, but no! I held back for some reason. I never have anyone the same level as me – the younger guys in our group were about my level, but they were too cool and a bit fast for me. Beck and sal and tom were too good. I pretty much felt alone in my suckiness… oh well…
I got home and decided I was hungry – I didn’t want maccas when we were at macquarie Ice rink. So I looked in the fridge: last nights dinner. But no, I felt like something different, something easy, something liquid – I wanted soup. Went to the cupboard: canned soups including pea & ham or minestrone. Hadn’t tried pea & ham before, so grabbed it and started loading it into a bowl, added water and chucked it into the microwave. I think it was when I heard the soup in the microwave spurting and popping that I first realised something was not right. Took it out and gave it a stir. It ended up looking like a bowl of spew and snot. I’ve never tried gruel before, but I imagine it must be something like this. Some of it went down the sink, and the remaining mess that wouldn’t go down went into the compost. I’ve made a vow: “pea and ham soup – never again”. By the way, I did look at the instructions and I was doing it all right, so hey, it aint my fault it turned out gross. So I had the last-night’s dinner instead. Then I almost fell asleep watching the glasshouse, but then started watching the truman show. I love that movie. my favourite bit is when the guy in the bath tub is clinging onto the shower curtain and screaming "hold on!"...

Th’smorning: woke up at 6:30am to the sound of mum rummaging through my mess. I’d just dumped all my clothes and school junk on the floor last night coz I was too tired to do much else. I think she was a bit upset that my blazer was strewn across the floor… I think after mumbling something inaudible, I went back to sleep. woke up again coz my alarm clock was buzzing and remembered I had to go somewhere. Got a text msg from nic (sister) asking me to bring all these cricket sets and balls and stuff to st ives. Oh yeh, st ives showground brunch thingy for a soul survivor thankyou gathering thingy. Out of bed I jumped, into the shower, washed hair, got dressed, scouted around for nic’s requested items and jumped in the car. Got there with time to spare – good stuff loz! We had fun – ate great bacon, played volleyball, frizbeed, vortexed, prayed, chatted, laughed… ah good times, great classic hits…

Now: blogging

Later today: school working

Tomorrow: hanging out with maryanne (aka “Ham”), Ernie-ing, Café-church-ing, and who knows what else (well we all know who knows…)

i think kaye needs to do something with her blog.

Wow well I don’t really know what I’ve been doing – well of course I do, but it just feels like time has been running away… but I’m kinda pleased with myself coz I finished my musicology essay (gotta love that jazz!) which is due tomoz. I sorta finished it th’smornin at 12:30am (I was determined to get it finished and didn’t realise the time), but today I had a chat with spritz (miss hattersley) and edited a few things so now I’m really proud of my little aural essay. But problem is I cant print it out coz my dodgey ink-consuming printer has consumed all my ink and now I cannot print it out. I’ll just have to be extra sneeky when I print it out at school tomoz so that the library ladies don’t make me pay – yes I am that pov…
Tomoz is warringah eisteddfods so yay for trumpetness. I like playing trumpet. It’s good fun. I also like spraying myself with my own spit (and yes, that was sarcasm). Boo-hiss for wearing stockings – they make your skirt ride up and turn around and they pull your knickers down. Not a good look…
Small groups in the arvo – shall be fun. Planning a little birthday celebration for ariane (her b’day was on Monday) so harraaaah to cake and candles… talking about grace – good topic, much enjoyment, yay for Jesus…
It was also my nan’s b’day today! I love nan! She’s so cute and she makes yummy cakes and great pumpkin soup. From my aunt she got some slippers, but my parents got her a whipper-snipper!!! HE-NAN! Awesome…

is it just mine or has everyone elses blogger thingys changed? some "dashboard" dubey - not sure if i like it, but maybe... it looks more funky
nothing else to really post about, except almost talked courtney mccloud into getting a blog - she tried to sign up but said blogger wouldnt let her...
shall go exploring this new blog thingy page now.

my passage this week: Matt 10:28-31

well that has been a bloggless week hasn't it... how unimpressive. i notice that i have been added to the blog bog, so this shall be my first sighting on it. YAY i qualified!
nothin much happened this week. actually no, tons of stuff happened, i just forgot. well we had photo day on thurs and that was annoyin coz the yr 8's took up so much time that when us yr 12ers went to get ours done in period 6, we only had time for the group and muck-up photo (which was great fun though). the photo ppl have to come back another day and do our portraits (which is good in a way coz this week has been a major ugly one for yours truly).
what else happened? well on tues night was parent teacher interviews and mrs cav (english) had a whinge about how badly i went in 1/2 yearlies and how she's so disappointed coz i used to be her 'top student'. but everything else was ok. mrs peek (maths) was cool coz she started evangelising to my parents (who aren't christians). at the time i thought it was hilarious, but mrs peek is so cool. good stuff.
also on tues night was bible study group. i realised that i was actually looking for contravertial things that i could write in my blog, so i decided now that this blog isnt going to be used to raise contraversy unless it's really necessary.
wednesday nite was kinda annoyin coz i decided to try out for epa (davo high concert) and i had only got the song on monday and made a really dodgey backing track and i kinda stuffed it a bit. only 3 solo musical acts were allowed in. yesterday had a chat with mrs oberg (music teach) and she told me i got in! feel kinda bad coz nobody else in my music 1 class did and i just hope that they dont think it's coz im good friends with oberg.
last night had beck and my small group, where only hannah and ariane came (yay for them) coz beck didnt ring her half of the girls dam. but thats ok, just a shame. the Lord will work how He has designed. also shame coz all other dteams were disrupting ours coz we start a half hr before everyone else's, so their groups decided to come over and check out wot we were doing (chatting, screaming, nicking our food,etc). i'm allowed to have my whinge. next week we might have ours in the church centre...
then after small group courty, scott, sal (who got her p's and leech did too), and ben rocked up and we all went for a drive to mona to get subway and a movie (S.W.A.T.). YAY that ppl came to my area for a change! we all went back to courtney's place, where we were joined by maryanne, kirsty and leech. watched movie - yay for cops-n-robbers movies and shenaniganised.
mum's day tomoz - sending ma and pa to an opera, so should be nice.
struggling to find other events now. the only other significant thing i can think of is my hsc timetable which we got on monday. turns out i have 2 days where i have 2 exams! dam.

last night was good fun
as tom would say, rach was "good quality"
picked rach up, then went to manly where i couldn't get a car park and rach bought the wrong chocolate.
then went to the mall. we were early for the movie so went to coles to get supplies and found that they didnt have wizz fizz - dodgey coles - so we trekked to woolies. on the way we played on the kiddies play things and squished our butts into the wiggle's "big red car" that we have now named the wiggle's "smallest red car in the world" and have made it fit into the song. i think the wiggles should re-release the song in tongue-twister/rap style. actually, all i wanna see is the kids dancing along happily and then suddenly the song changes and they stare blankly for that split second before hollaring "MUMMY!!!"
anyway after much shenaniganising, went to hoyts and saw starsky and hutch where we had many a laugh... t'was fun.
on the way home, almost fell asleep driving, not so fun. driving is a bit shoddy at the mo. almost crashed on friday...

ah my blogs being gay - it tells me it aint accepting my posts, but no, it goes and shows it a few days later and makes me look incapable. well there you go - lauren must be computer illiterate.
well on wednesday i went and visited an old friend called Zed, who also lives in bayview. i was kinda nervous coz the last time i saw him was when he dropped me off at my place after my year 10 formal and i was completely smashed... yes, secrets are all revealed here - well for most of my church friends coz they wouldn't really know much about me from a while ago. man this sounds like some kind of evil Lauren that has only recently been tamed and conformed to christianity... oh well, think what you like. actually no, i don't want to be wrongfully judged - tonight i was gonna go to a friends 18th, you know, the drinking,etc scene, BUT NO! i opted to just hang out with rach, coz she was gonna go to a 21st which i thought was kinda funny coz we were both looking for excuses not to go... drinking is bad, also i only hav a month to go til i mature to adulthood (if you can call being 18 mature or particularly adult-y)...
anyway it was cool to see Zed again. he's a car salesman now - quite funny hehe... he works at the renault place in brooky and oneday hopes to be able to buy a hous efull of apples. i have decided that the next time i see him, i shall give him an apple, just to start him on his way...
i'm getting a cold from last night's small group outting. we took jo's, kaye's and our (becky and mine) group for a picnic and bushwalk to the park near Becky's place. we ate fairy bread, chippies, coke, etc and some of those funny spicy leaves that i tricked the girls into eating! hey before you sue me, i ate them first, and they're completely safe coz you put them in salads and stuff. they just happened to be growing wild where we were playing. and then we trekked down this trail and admirred this pretty waterfall and then it was getting dark so we hiked back up and then played spotto... ah the joys of running with a full belly of coke!
the first thing i noticed th'smornin when i woke was that my clock was dead, then i realised that all appliances were inactive... it turned out that the delivery truck for the soil we'd ordered had come in our driveway and accidently taken out the power lines, so we had to get the elictrical board in. the main issue was that i couldn't use puter, stereo, phone or HAVE COFFEE! but it's all fixed now yay...