As of soon, I will have no internet for 11 days! Argh! Conversation. With people. For almost two weeks! Oh I hope there are some nice surly Christians on the team to be friends with me! Why on earth is my screen name yay when I am so surly? Lots of Surl just doesn’t have [...]
Archive > December 2003
I’m dreaming of a coool Christmas
Well. Weather report as at 5:34pm Christmas day – 35 degrees C. Cloudless skies. No sign of a thunderstorm to cool things down
Today I discussed the possibility of air conditioning in the church with the assistant minister. He is keen. Will God smite us for getting aircon instead of fixing the leaky roof? [...]
Listerine Junkie
For the last 10 months I have resisted buying those Listerine strips… the one that come in the little green thing and they dissolve "instantly" on your tongue. I have resisted because they seemed to be something I could become addicted to. For two reasons – 1) my obsession with oral hygiene (related to my [...]
Mmmmm baklava
A customer brought a box of baklava in for us today. It was really very good. I’m not sure if there’s etiquette regarding the eating of communal Christmas presents when you only started working at said place in the last week and couldn’t tell the giver from a bar of soap. Well, being in the [...]
Yay – International Smuggler
Today I received a parcel as part of the UK Tour Site secret santa. It’d been opened by customs! This was quite exciting – just think! Me, a threat to national security! I realised why when I looked at the who it was addressed to – Lots of Yay, the customs declaration of contents – [...]
Yay Lord we greet thee
On the way to church tonight I was struck by the amount of yay in Christmas carols. Like the one mentioned above. Isn’t that great? Would anyone notice if I went through all the hymn books and changed the spelling? I’m guessing not as being an evo church we use powerpoint and/or handouts. So… my [...]
Late night
Ahhhh so tired! Was up til all hours working on the newspapers for beach mission. Finally finished them this arvo with the help of some recycled puzzles from previous years. I was going to have a limerick section but was too tired to think of many words that rhymed with circus or the location [...]
Naturally paranoid.
I have issues with companies that take a PERFECTLY edible and tasty product and decide it needs to be all natural. The most recent confirmed casualty was my favourite range of jelly lollies which were absolutely tops. They were so good. Now they have been replaced with a "No artificial colours or flavours" range. Which [...]
How long is 2 hours?
Today I bought a new gadget – a Palm Zire 71 (and please don’t comment on the transient nature of Palm products… maybe mine will be an exception to the rule and make it to its first birthday and beyond!). Being a bit impatient I decided to do all three first steps at once – [...]
Aching legs
When I’m dehydrated my legs ache. This is useful because I can tell when I’m dehydrated. But I have never met anyone else who experiences the same thing. Maybe I should write a paper on myself.
Another thing that makes my legs ache is working. I’m starting to think that I’m not a big fan of [...]
