Home from the shops now. I'm still getting into this blog thing.
I don't think my house is going to burn down. I have friends who's houses are a lot closer to the fire than mine. I can see smoke though. In the papers they keep saying that these are the worst fires in 400 years which I don't think is true. It might be but it seems that in the past 10 years there have been heaps of big fires, times when the whole country has been burning down and all of them have been called the worst fires on record. So I don't know. I figure when my house burns down then it will be the worst fires ever. I'll be willing to give the fires that title. Un-till then all the other fires get tied second place while we wait for the bush fire that's going to burn down my house.
No one has turned up for Bible study yet. Hmm. Maybe Haggai will have to wait a week. They were meant to be here 20 minutes ago. My other Bible study got canned because of the bushfires. Doesn't matter. I can still have a youth group meeting.
I saw an artical in the paper today about the best way to lace your shoes so I relaced my left shoe. Once to make it look like a skate shoe, once to save lace, and once because the other two were stupid. Now my shoes are laces in the strongest way recommended, scientifically proven. I would hope that my life would be better as a result, and I think it is. My left foot doesn't feel any better, but psychologically I know that my left shoe is laced the best that it could be. Now I might begin work of my right shoe.
I went to a Christian Studies Seminar Day at a girls school today. It was fun. Got to hang out with lots of youth ministers from the area and run a discussion group with some year ten girls, who were very talkative, but friendly. And they were happy to answer the discussion questions and the like. We got to talk about Jesus too. That's always fun. I don't know why but I think I'm at my happiest when I get to talk about Jesus. And God, and the Bible and stuff. It was cool.
Well, Fires in Sydney. Yay. Bit of excitement. I was just talking to Mum and Dad and we were discussing how frightfully unprepared this house is. Our roof is covered in leaves and we don't know anything about fire safety. The bush next to our house is full of leaves. If the fire decides to come our way we may have problems.
It's funny because Mum didn't think our bush was connected to any others. She just thought we were in a small patch of bush in a vast sea of urbabninity. But Dad pointed out that the bush behind our house connected to the bush that is burning in Glenorie and Dural where they have lost 20 houses or something. If my house does burn down I think I'll take the dog, the computer and my Lord of the Rings Extended Edition DVD. Maybe my Superman shirt too. And my Bible. I like my Bible. It looks very worn an used. It has book marks and tabs. Makes me look like I'm going to heaven quicker.
I just finished writing the Bible Study. Yay. Now I have to go do the washing up.
Writing Bible Studies is really good. We've been doing obscure Old Testament books at the moment and each one (Obediah, Habbukuk and Haggai) I read and went, "Riiight". I had no idea what to do with them. And usually I would just skip past them if reading them for myself, but doing the BSs has been great. It's really made me figure out what is really going on. For instance Haggai 2 was utterly perplexing for me, but now through guess the Holy Spirit and some online Bible Commentries it makes sence. It's all about Jesus, and God's covenant fulfilment and our attitude to God. I think. I may be wrong and teaching heresy in the Bible Study, but that's what I got out of it. Even in the obscure books, when I look it makes me go "Damn the Bible is good."
From what I've seen of Blogs people moan a lot. "I feel terrible", "Life could be better", or "Today was pretty boring". I hope I don't do that. I'd rather not whinge. My life's pretty good really. I am constantly connected to the internet, how could life not be good? How many people in the world are always connected to the internet? Not many. So if only for the internet I should be happy. But there are many other things to be happy about to. I am happy that Jesus loves me. Really. I'm not preaching. That just makes me happy. I was sitting in my quiet time the other day, moaning, and then I realised that, and thought "well at least that's one thing". That's one damn good thing. It's good to be loved. And I'm a bastard, and I'm still loved. Yay for me.
Maybe one day I'll become a famous writer like Phillip Yancy. I doubt it. But maybe.
Write Bible Study
Call Becky
Call Barry
Organise Church
Write e-mails
Clean Room
I've done none of them.
Oh well.
Post Reg Letters
Organise Church
Ring Barry
Ring Paul
Clean Room
Return DVDs
Write e-mails
Discern will of God
I did four of them.
I'm meant to be getting a computer soon. It will be a phat computer for editing on. But we just found out that Robert's camera is going to cost $1000 to fix. I don't really feel like getting a computer if I can't make any films. I'm not sure what to do. Maybe God doesn't want me to have a computer at the moment. I'll think about it. Pray about it.
I just got back from Jack's Island and no-one turned up. Kaia had a sleep then sprayed me with a water pistol. I got wet. I tried to play Patience but couldn't because the cards were working against me.
This is the kind of thing you are meant to write in a blog.
Well this blog template stuff sucks. I have, at the moment, this stupid olive coloured one and I can't get rid of it. I'll slap it soon. Maybe that will fix it.Oh well.
I think my first ever post was true. I think this Blog is languishing on the web. I guess the only reason I'm interested now is because it excited me to know that on the 2nd of June I rang up lots of posh Eastern Suburbs schools. I thought, "Wow, I remember doing that". I love dates and times, and statistics. As long as I don't have to thing too much. Anyway, must leave. I have a BS to write.
At the moment, I am a little distracted. I am meant to be writing a Bible Study on Haggi chapter two for tomorrow, but alas, I have found my blog. I looked at this last night but I couldn't post anything, and now I can so I'm very excited. Maybe I will bother to update this more often. I doubt it though. I'm not very good at remembering things right now.
I am listening to the Harry Potter soundtrack. Yay for Harry.
This Blog is regularly updated. I guess I just haven't done much between June last year and now.
I went to Ryan's tonight to play LAN games. I wasn't very good and them. It was fun. I like the shooting but my computer didn't have any sound and I think the sound of the gun shooting is my favorite of Counter Strike.
I got to ring a whole lot of rich schools today and ask for their fax number because David wanted to fax them an invitation to book Bondi Cinema out and watch "Pearl Harbor". It was kinda fun. I have a problem at work that I spend most of my time standing around with nothing to do. I always feel like I should be doing something but I don't know whether it's best to stay in the candy bar and answer the phone or try and find something else to do. I opt to stay in the candy bar, it's the most passive option.
I have also stopped taking a book to work because I think I could spend the time more constructivly. If I remember I pray. That's always a good past time. It gets stuff done while you don't seem to be doing anything. Often though I forget to do it. I often forget to pray before a session. This is not a good thing. If I don't pray, I don't balance. Well that's not fully true. But if I do pray, I do balance and that is true. If I am $15 over or $8 under or any amount really, it pretty much means that I didn't pray before a session. It's always just a quick prayer, but that's how it works. I used to put heaps of effort into my prayers of protection (over the ticket box), but now it's much simpler. And it still works. I think maybe praying for my mathematical ablilities is not that big a job.
I'm not sure why my last name doesn't have a capital.
Well, here I am. Blogging. It's a shame really. Ryan has told me to do it at least eight times, maybe even six, and I didn't really plan on doing it. Maybe I won't. Maybe this will just languish in the web somewhere and no-one will ever see it. I don't know. I don't really care. If I like doing this, I'll do it. If I don't, I won't. You see, it's very easy. And I am in complete control. I'm not planning on posting all my secrets on here. I'll just write what I want to. If I do post a secret, I'm guessing that it won't be a secret. This blog will not be the deepest, darkest Tom. Probably just the boring texual Tom. But hey you can't blame me if the trips boring, you got in the car.
I am so bored with the Sydney Olympics. Would they just hurry up all ready? And the GST, who's idea was that?
Other than that I'm in year 11. I have way too many pimples and my braces are embarrassing.
