dragon cross-stitch When we first moved in, a friend put together a hand towel with “Congratulations” embroidered on it. Though never a fan of my nickname for my wife – “dragon” – today we received another cross-stitch with this dragon. I’ll tell you some more about it a bit later.
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21,532 steps
hakea According to my pedometer, I’ve put in 21,532 steps since getting up about 18 hours ago. It’s been a good day: a day of spending time with people. First, a breakfast in Oatley where the food was good, and the conversation better (the decaf didn’t really rate). Then, after only ten weeks of postponement, …
two weekends in bullet point form
friday night 1teppanyaki (caringbah) saturday 1early morning flightgold coast growers’ marketsvisit friendsstand in an empty swimming poolregret not photographing it, as it would have helped explain john the baptist for next weeks’ sunday schoolmexican food in the gold coast hinterlandflown homereconnected with an old friend sunday 1early wake upbreakfast at grindsunday schoollunch at bowen island …
things I’ve learned about high schoolers
When I signed up to do Sunday school teaching, I thought that I would simply be able to project my own high school experience on the high schoolers of today. To some extent, this is true: the experience of going to high school is much the same, even if the class sizes, timetables, and schools …
back on the horse
It’s been an unusual couple of weeks. While trying to upgrade my internet connection, instead of being upgraded, it was completely broken. What would I do with no internet access at home? As it turns out, many useful things. I take on more of the housework, I have the spare mental capacity to think about …
long silence
Why haven’t I posted in a while? Because Telstra can’t seem to get its bigpond broadband service working at home: I’ve just been told it will be another week before they can send out a technician. Thanks, Telstra.
curry night
The Christmas present that worked the best was last weekend. Keen to relive the curry night, and share the knowledge, I spent Saturday evening teaching my little brother how to make curry. He hadn’t done much cooking before, and so it was a bit of an experience putting him through the paces. He was an …
grace at the coffee shop
It’s never happened before, it probably won’t happen again. I was visiting a cafe I’d never been before, I placed my order, but I didn’t have enough cash in my wallet (I was a dollar short). I searched my bag for stray coins – nothing. I wasn’t sure where the nearest ATM was, or I …
happy new year
Between studying and other commitments, the break between Christmas and New Year has actually been the longest time off work that I had in 2007! Despite any complaining you might read in the paragraphs that follow, it was really an excellent break. Thinking that I was playing the piano on Sunday night (before Christmas), we …
nine months
It occurred to me today that it’s been nine months since we moved in to our own home. Nine mortgage payments; nine months of train travel to and from a new train station. Nine months of putting bins out (something we never had to do while living in units). In that time, we’ve had friends …