Saturday night excitement...

umm... ok i have to tell the truth. It's not really that exciting. Actually this is what I hope to be doing soon:

But I'm trying to finish some study before I can :(

This is my nephew if you're wondering. But the photo was taken almost 2 years ago... he's much more grown up now ;)

Hospital choice of TV

Well, I didn't find my letter but I did find where I should be and go. It was all fine. Actually it was incredibly easy, after all that worry.

And then it was incredibly boring. A whole afternoon waiting for the next person to come and find me for another 5 minute session then another long wait until the next 5 minutes. If I'd realised I'd have taken some good reading.

Meanwhile the TV had the Ellen Show on (daytime TV :( bleuch!) and it made me want to actually pluck out my own eyeballs and poke random things in my ears so I didn't have to have it inflicted on me any more. Sadly when it came to the crunch though, I lacked the courage to do either of those things. So I simply had to endure it. I can only hope that I get some choice when the operation happens...

Slightly manic despair...

I can think of now other way to describe it but slightly manic despair... the paper remains stubbornly hidden. I am going to have to call the hospital in the morning and confess my inability to remember where I should be.

Oh the shame.......

Tayari bado

Ok so usually I am a little bit cluttered in my approach to things... as in piles of stuff around the place. But honestly and truly I always know where everything is and the piles of stuff is pretty much organised...

But now I have an appointment at the hospital tomorrow morning and I need the piece of paper that tells me which building to turn up to. And I have looked in all the places it should be. But it isn't there :(

I'm getting to the point where I feel like maybe I should start calling to it so that it can tell me where it's hiding. In Tanzania they have this game of hide-and-seek that is a bit different: the seeker calls out "tayari? bado?" which simply means "ready? not yet?" and the kids call "bado" and this goes on for several minutes until finally the answer is "tayari" and they are ready for the seeker.

I wonder if my paper wants to play?

Inspiration

I have been away from doing any blog or being even interested in sharing my thoughts... but I was online the other day and came across these wonderful amazing creative girls with the most beautiful blogs ever, that I had to start again. So now to make this look even half as pretty as theirs and then let them know how much they have inspired me :)

Corny movie fun

Watching Speed on Monday night at the end of Labour Day holiday :) What a fabulous end to a busy but relaxing day!

Classic corny acting, classic lame one-liners. It's from back in the day when Keanu Reeves was absolutely the hottest actor around. Nobody worried too much that he was totally incapable of delivering his lines with any real feeling. He just had to show off his arm muscles and well let's face it muscles generally...

Sandra Bullock of course is the perfect girl-next-door that everyone loves. With absolutely perfect hair.

Ah, it takes me back to watch it :)

Storytelling

Listening to examples of the power of telling a story well. So impressed by Kym Lardner's storytelling that I'm listening to on a CD while I type... and only just managing to type between laughing so hard!

At the moment a fantastic woman who is part of the current storytelling block course being run here is staying with me. She's letting me listen to her CD of stories. Her resources for the course are really cool.

The point of the storytelling course is to help people going to far off lands use storytelling as a way to tell those they meet about Jesus. After all there are very few people who don't like a good story. The Bible itself is full of them. Some of the best stories are in the Bible. I'm pretty jealous I can't sit in on the classes.

But I wonder how much we are trapped in our mentality that stories are only for kids... frankly I've always enjoyed kid's stories hugely. I love cartoons, picture books, fairy tales. The world of imagination is just so exciting. That's why I've always loved the Bible as well. As a kid it seemed like the ultimate treasury of stories. And there was always another one to find, one that was only half remembered, or a favourite to re-read.

Hence my excitement (and jealousy!) at people learning how to tell stories really well. Jesus is exciting, so let's share Him in an exciting way.