My Weekend

I mentioned in the last post that I had an enjoyable weekend, so I thought I might blog about it in more detail.

Saturday was good because I visited a friend I hadn't seen in a while and we played video games, and it was a lot of fun! And then I went to the Saturday church service.

Then on Sunday, in the morning I went to church. The service was a good one. The plan was to afterwards go out to lunch somewhere with Gem from church, but then Yew* was there and he was trying to gather a few people to go out for lunch as a group, so Gem and I decided to go with them, and then another guy, Meerkat said, come to my house instead and I'll cook a heapload of chicken for you!

So a bunch of us went to Meerkat's house and most of us stopped to buy something to contribute to the meal on the way (Gem and I bought bread) and once we got there, we all had a job to do, chopping vegetables or slicing chicken or whatever... (I was slicing chicken) and we all sat down to eat and talked and it was heaps better than going out to eat because it was cheaper and because we all contributed to the meal it was really cool. There is a lot of significance in sharing a meal together, particularly for Christians, and especially when everyone had a part in preparing it.

But because of all that cooking Gem and I were late for the next part of the day that we had planned, which was to go to the synchrotron open day! (and it didn't really make any difference that we were late because the open day lasted all day, just that we had planned to get there by 1:30 but instead we got there by 2) so after lunch we left to go to the synchrotron, and we did a self-guided tour, and we ran into our friend (also from church but not from the morning service) who works there, and a couple of other people also from church who just also happened to be interested in coming to the open day! All the sciency stuff was cool but don't ask me to explain it to you.

Then after that Gem and I met up with a couple of other friends and we went to the movies and saw Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, which I have to say, I loved! And then again, we went straight to evening church. (Yes, I did go to church three times during the course of the weekend, what of it?) Evening church was good and we had the commissioning of one of our members who is going to go to Spain for ministry purposes, so that was a little bittersweet.

There was also soup and cookies and party pies at church.

So yeah, it was a good day! And when I wrote my last post I did mention dad almost ruining it, but he didn't. Because now when I think about my weekend I don't think about dad being grumpy. I think of all the fun I had.

And now... I should probably go to bed.


*(who I should mention I am no longer infatuated with, I have successfully moved on, and he has started dating this other girl who is a totally cool person and there's nothing about that relationship I can criticise.)

Just stuff

I feel like updating, but not really sure what to blog about. Well, one thing I could blog about is this game/story-telling program that I'm really getting into. I won't explain what it is, here, but you can check it out at this site. I'll tell you one thing, it's really fun! Also, time-consuming when I should be doing my myths and symbols homework, instead.

Church has become the highlight of my week. I've only really been going recently since the end of last year, to be honest, I went through a phase when I was being really lazy about church for a few years before then, there were a couple of reasons, but not really ones that were "good enough" to not go to church. I have always known that church was an important part of my relationship with God, but it's too easy to get lazy about it. Recently I decided to stop being lazy about it, and I'm glad because that decision has been bringing me a lot of joy.

So... yeah, church is basically the highlight of my week. I remember when it was the highlight of my week before my "lazy period", too.

There is a birthday party I'm going to this weekend, which I'm looking forward to. And then another one a fortnight from then.

I'm trying to not like a certain fellow so much, (not that he doesn't deserve my interest, but that he doesn't seem to share it, and I don't want to go through that whole "unrequited infatuation" thing that has always been my lot in life.) It's hard when he goes around being a remarkable person and then when a group of people decide to go out for dinner after church (it's an evening service) the one person there who knows about my feelings is all like, "Oh, you can sit on the couch bit if you want (metaphorical wink)," which happens to be right next to where he's already sitting. Hmmf.

Lots of people are having babies. Or have just had babies.

I should probably be doing homework right now.

Until next time.

I'm a Winner!

I still remember the first time I ever won something. Or, at least, it's the earliest memory I have of winning something... but I do remember that, at the time, moments before I won the thing, I was reflecting on how I never win anything. Then, I won it... it was a card of the Hamburgler, I think, one of those things that you put in the oven and when it comes out it's shrunk and turned into this hard, thick, plastic thing that, if you wanted to, you could put a piece of string through the little hole at the top and tie it around your neck or something? I even remember how I reacted when I won. It was just like, "Oh, ok, I didn't really expect that to happen."

Considering I was about ten years old at the time, it seemed silly how I lamented how I never win anything, since I hadn't really been alive for that long to have had many opportunities to win a whole lot. Still, I suppose ten years feels like your entire life when you're only ten years old.

Today, I went to this church social event for women, this Women's Movie and Dessert night or something. Brought a couple friends with me and had a nice time. They had a free raffle... now, I never win raffles when I pay for it, but I have some uncanny luck when it comes to free raffles where I get a ticket just for turning up, like at, say, church events. I have an "Admit Two" pass to Pinewood Shopping Centre. I already know what I want to see. I want to see "Bran Nue Dae." The question is, who do I want to see it with?

There's a part of me that wants me to ask Yew again, give it another go, but I already know he's not interested and I'd just be embarrassing myself. I'll probably just ask one of my friends.

A good day... almost

Today was mostly a good day, but... you know you have those days which the whole day was good except for maybe one thing and right at the end you feel kind of melancholy, still? Or... a day where everything goes wrong except you find at the end of the day, you're somehow, miraculously, in a good mood, anyway? So today was a good day, I suppose, for the most part. Had my second "Small Press Publishing" class today. When I first signed up for that class I wasn't sure what it'd be like but I'm REALLY enjoying it so far, it looks like it could be a lot of fun. We get to publish at least two, possibly up to four magazines, plus a book. It's pretty exciting and it'd feel great at the end of the year to actually have those magazines and that book, physically there, that I can say I, personally, was involved in the production of.

Afterwards I visited my friends who are having some troubles with their marriage, and while I was there my hand, without consulting my brain, sent a phone message inviting this guy I know, (I'll call him Yew) asking if he wanted to have lunch on Saturday. I was relieved when it didn't send because of bad reception, up until my rebellious hand just went and resent it. It sent the second time. I didn't have the opportunity to immediately freak out, though, because I was still with my friends.

When Yew replied, it was a rejection and, I won't say that I wasn't disappointed, but I think I was okay with it. I was kind of expecting it and it's not like I wanted to slit my wrists or anything, but I guess I wasn't very chirpy, either, because my friends kept asking me "What's wrong?" and "Is everything ok?" even though I didn't think I was acting that differently, except maybe that I was a little distracted. I told them I was tired, which wasn't a lie. (I don't open up to them about boys anymore since the last time... that hour-long lecture I got was, although well-meaning, also a little bit painful.)

I said I'd take the train home but my friend said he'd give me a lift, and he did, and I tried to be a good listener as he opened up to me about the troubles in his marriage, which were a lot more serious than my troubles. I kind of feel bad that these friends of mine seem a lot more ready to open up to me than me to them, but it's not like I pressure them to open up to me, they choose to do so out of their own free will. But I don't like the way they feel "sorry" for me if I open up to them, nor do I find their advice or insights about these sorts of things all that helpful. Anyway, their marriage involving a child potentially breaking up is a lot more serious than some guy rejecting a lunch invitation, but I was tired and I wanted to be on my own to feel a little bit sad about my tiny little thing.

I find it hard, though, marriages are breaking up all around me, people in Haiti, as well as many other places in the world, are suffering terribly, people are struggling to support their families, people with diseases living everyday with pain I've never experienced even once in my life. Sometimes I find it hard to let myself feel sad about something so little like being rejected.

Looking back I guess my day was, overall, a good day, in that I really enjoyed my class, and it was bright and sunny and nice, and I got a lift home.