I watched The Animatirx with David last night. It was pretty good, although I haven't seen so many women in underwear in an animated film ever. Perhaps not even in any kind of film. Mind you I only ever watch American animated films so that could be the reason. Arial never wore much.

My cousin got "FAR Q" put on the back of his year 12 jersey. It took the school 3 days to figure out there was a problem with it. I think that's pretty cool. I like stories like that.

I'm trying to make a flyer for TOOBSC and I'm having real trouble. I've spent the last two hours trying to figure out what to write, trying to figure out how to sell the show so to speak.

Ooo, I just had an idea...

I just saw a man in his front yard wearing pink pajama pants and I thought to myself "Good on him."

Silence is a very hard word for me to spell.

I usually write scilence. It just seems righter.

I just remembered that the Sparkly Bee folder had the e-mails I sent when I created a whole e-mail list, regular e-mail thing just to create an opportunity to e-mail the girl I liked. I need to get those e-mails back. They're history.

It worked too. She e-mailed me back. We had many an e-mail conversation. Almost our whole relationship was through e-mail. But she invited me to a party once. That was exciting.

Those were the days...

I'm at college. Mike rang me this morning at around 9:tooearly am and Mum said I was asleep. Then he rang back at around 10:notasearly am and Mum came in and gave me the phone. Mike asked if I was going to college, and for some reason I said "Yes". So now I'm here.

I photocopied some stuff, now I'm sitting around. Maybe I should photocopy some more. That will seem productive. Maybe I should go have a sleep on the couch.

I'm wearing my "Zac" t-shirt today. Everyone at McDonald's Rockdale thought I was the bomb. The all asked me where I got my shirt. And I got a round of applause when I left for wearing such cool shirt. That reminds me that I should give those shirts out.

We have some shampoo in our shower from a hotel which says on it: "Hair Shampoo". I see that and think to myself, "What other kind of shampoo are you going to find in a hotel bathroom?"

I just deleted a folder in my e-mail. That's a little annoying. I deleted the Sparkly Bee folder. I meant to delete just the e-mail about making your own dvds at home (that's a laugh) but I accidently did the whole folder. Doesn't matter, I think I have a back up of most of the important e-mails that were in there.

Ryan asked me the other day what sort of person I'd like to marry. I can't remember much of what I said. They were generally nice things I think. I do remember that I said, someone who loves God more than they love me. And the more I think about that the more I agree with myself. I think God focused marriages are much better than other people focused. And hugely better than self-focused ones.

And loving Jesus is very attractive.

Now for Sunday. Perhaps that's fresher.

I had a very stressful few hours. Trying to get the DVD burnt for The Opposite of Being Self-Centred. Worked from 6pm on Saturday trying to get everything done, up till 1:45pm today (Sunday, I'm still awake). The computer was being dodgy. I told David that everything would go wrong and then it would come good at the last minute. God would provide. And he did. But He was very last minute. I had to get David to come over to get the DVD burnt. I'd been trying for hours after many hassles and different programs, bad renders, blue screens of death. But I think I remained pretty calm, a bit stressed, but mainly calm. It's been good seeing God work on this film, so I figured He'd keep it up till the end. And yay for Him. And yay for David for being so helpful. He was my tech support all week. Fixing my computer. In contact with me all yesterday and today seeing how it was all going. Champ, that's what we call him.

At church we did a dress rehearsal of TOOBSC and it came off well. Quite messy, but it was good to see. David, Mum, Dad and Hannah arrived half way through to drop off the DVD and the DVD player, after David had got it working with his sweet whispering to the machine.

The credits I found out were missing people, and I spelt a last name wrong, and one person I gave completely the wrong last name. I'm not sure how I managed that.

Tonight we did TOOBSC in church and it was really good to see. It went really well. Seeing everything fit in. The dance, drama, video, it fitted nicely. Lots of talent went into that show. I'm especially fond of all the people that helped with the film (actors and crew). It makes me feel like we're all part of one big happy family.

The church liked the show too I think. Laughed in all the right places. I think we had the advantage of playing to a home crowd. I had almost two rows of visitors. Two girls from my youth group last week came to see it and I wasn't expecting them. That was really nice. And Anmol came. It was good to see him too. Plus the fam. Some extended.

I think this is all a little train of thought like. My brain isn't quite there.

After church a bunch of us went out to Manly for Sal's birthday (Happy Birthday, Sal!) which I didn't know was today, but that was good because I couldn't forget it. But that was fun. I sat around and had general useless conversation.

Graham and Liam from College came walking through Manly while I was there, which excited me. I said "G'day" and had general sillyness. Graham noticed I was wearing my "daggy" college jumper, which I refuse to wear at college. It was good to see them. I like Graham and Liam. Top blokes I say.

We stood around in the end of the car park and had a bit of "Tom Time" (I never really mean to have "Tom Time". I guess I just tell stories. Got it from me Mum I'd say. Oh well. As long as people stop listening to me when they don't want to.) I told everyone of my ordeals today and yesterday with the DVD. That wasn't a very interesting story. But I think I needed to get it out.

Drove home. Followed Sal as she dropped of Matt, Rachael, and Liz, so we could have a race to her house. She won. Beat me at the lights near her place. 10 seconds. We met outside her house, had a de-brief through car windows, and I drove home and spilt my Coke that I had bought in Manly.

Now I am home. And I think I might go to bed.

But I'd just like to thank, publicly, bloglicly, all the everyone who helped with, and inspired, and worried about, and prayed for The Opposite of Being Self-Centred. So many wonderful people in my world. It's made my day. God's made my day. And my life. Thanks God.

It's been so long since I've properly blogged. Probably because I've been full on TOOBSC-ing since Tuesday night.

But I don't really feel like doing a big sum up.

Highlights of the week:

-Filming on Wednesday with Matt. Good stuff got. God provided. Low stress. Was fun.
-Steve Bevis on Wednesday. Fun outing. Much sillyness. Steve and his boys sounded the bomb. Wore a t-shirt till 3am.
-Making music with Matt and Chris. Progress made. Song sounding good.
-Youth group. Did a simulation of the Prodigal son with Louise stealing $13,000, convinced the kids that it was real. Then got Louise to arrive at youth group and we threw her a party. Some kids got very angry at Louise. I felt bad for lying. But we appologised at the end. 5 kids said they wanted to become Christians.

Next time I go to a fancy dress party...



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I finished editing the film clip last night. Now all I have to do is the credits, colour correction, put the sound on, put the music on, render it to mpeg2, and burn it to dvd. Let's see how the computer handles all that.

That post below was meant to have lots of stuff about Wednesday in it. And perhaps Thursday. I just haven't go round to it. So I'll leave it at that.

That quote was from a converstation on Wednesday night where I got picked up for my bad quoting of lyrics. But it wasn't as bad as I thought. I'm pleased I was kind of close. I think I said "I like to dance in brown pants in the comfort of my lounge room in suburbia".

I might fill in the blanks. Chances are there are some bits filled in on other blogs. But I want my own record.

This week has been a week of noticable God provision. I said on the train on Monday that God would have to provide this week because I have no-idea how everything was going to come together, and He's doing well as usual.

Exciting youth group night, too. But no time to talk. I have a film clip to edit.

Hey, Hey.

For the record:

I'd rather dance in ugly pants in the comfort of my lounge room in suburbia. - Regurgitator

It's been a long day, always ain't that right

But a good one.

Now it's time for bed.

Today is the last day of shooting for TOOBSC. That's exciting. I have till Sunday morning to get it finished.

When I was 11 I made up a word. I wanted it to go into general usage. The word was: Sindermenderic. It meant weird. You'd say something like "Dancing horses? That's sindermenderic man!"

I can see why it never caught on.

Yesterday was my first all shorts day. Wonderful. It was meant to Sunday but it was raining in Bathurst so I changed.

Today was my second all shorts day.

It feels like summer again.