Alphabet Survey

So I was tagged to fill this survey in next...

[A is for age:] 20
[B is for beer of choice?] Eeeew... I'm really not a beer person... ciders are cool though :)
[C is for career:] Not a great time to be answering this one... my heart and head are in a bit of turmoil about this at the moment... focusing on the dream right now :)
[D is for your dog’s name:] Sadly both our family dogs passed away last year but mine's name was Mischief
[E is for essential item you use everyday:] My hairbrush
[F is for favorite song at the moment:] 'Jealous Kind' by Jars of Clay
[G is for favorite games:] 30 Seconds, Royal Snap
[H is for hometown:] Joburg... born and bred people, born and bred
[I is for instruments you play:] My piano playing is super rusty and I haven't practised in a while but I play the violin too
[J is for favorite juice?:] Orange juice and Cranberry Cooler (obliviously it's berry!! hehe)
[K is for kids?:] God has completely melted my heart for kids in the last few years, love them and can't wait to have my own :)
[L is for last hug?:] Sam... so lovely
[M is for malls:] Not overly fond of them when i'm in Joburg, but man i miss their convenience when I'm trekking up and down Gtown's High Street
[N is for name of your love:] Jesus... completely the Lover and Love of my Soul
[O is for overnight hospital stays:] When I was little... they had to take a bone marrow sample... praise the Lord for General anesthetic!!
[P is for phobias:] People chewing ice and the icy bits you find in re-frozen ice-cream, snakes, not a big fan of injections, doctors or dentists
[Q is for quotation:] "Hope is to hear the music of the future, faith is to dance to it now" Gavin Swanepoel, a His People pastor from Cape Town
[R is for your race:] I'm not really a big fan of athletics :p
[S is for status:] Single and content :)
[T is for things you like:] My family, books, English, people (esp friends), hugs, laughing, good coffee, visiting people's new digs', U2, Switchfoot, Tree63... really i could go on for ages, this is a decidedly un-specific topic
[U is for Useless thing you tend to waste time on:] Eric, my computer (the Net)
[V is for vegetable you love:] Green peppers, spinach
[W is for worst habit:] Many... getting obsessive about my room being neat... especially when there are other people in it, a sharp tounge, laziness, forgetting to take my vitamins etc..
[X is for x-rays you’ve had:] Many dental X-rays, but otherwise i can't remember any... i'm sure there must be some somewhere??
[Y is for yummy food you like:] Rusks, roast chicken and potatoes, chocolate, custard slices and lots more that i can't think of right now
[Z is for Zzzz ~ your ideal bedtime:] 10:30 pm

Okie dokes... the person I tag to post their version of this survey on their blog next is Brigitte ;)

I wanna hold Your hand...

I don't usually post lyrics on my blog, but i have had the two songs from the HLP slideshow that was shown at church in my head pretty much all week, and the amazingness of the words keeps bringing me revelation after revelation, so i wanted to share

The first one is from a Tree63 song called Be All End All from their album "The life and times of absolute truth"

Be All End All
Start me finish me

I'm absolutly in pursuit
Of something absolutly true
And all around has come undone: You're the only one

... that phrase "i'm absolutely in pursuit of something absolutely true" has reminded me that no matter what is happening in my life at any point, i am hoping in one constant and absolutely true thing - God.

The second one is a song by Starfield entitled The Hand that Holds the World
I've just added the verses that spoke to me the most, but the whole song is basically great :)

No greater joy
Is there than this
To know for what
We're meant to live

I want to stand before the King
Join in the song that heaven sings
I want to hold the hand that holds the world

Your daughters sing
Your sons rejoice
They gather here before Your throne

You are, You are
The author of creation
We are, the chrildren of your heart

God is just the most amazing teacher... i am blown away by an increased revelation of God's gentleness... He cares enough to hold us in His hand when we could flit past His pinky like a speck of pollen... we are beyond tiny compared to Him, but He holds us in His hand... by choice.

p.s i know the pic isn't exactly of holding hands, but it's a beautiful example of gentleness and basically i just thought that it was a ridiculously delightful pic! :)

The Dotty Ladybug

So... today officially marks the month anniversary of my last blog post. This is SHOCKING! And for all you regular blog checkers (Fish i know you're out there) i appologise for the unrewarded hits to this little slice of cyberspace (i especially apologise to D who is SO wonderfully faithful with her blog... check it out here).

What has inspired this (eventual) blog post was my observation of two very dear little ladybugs on the Drostdy lawns on Friday morning... the more i watched them the more i felt deliciously inspired to write a random story about a ladybug named Minnie... then i lost the plot of my story but decided that it was still high time that i wrote a blog post :)

Some funny things that I have heard this week thus far (and it's only Monday)

Fish sent me an msn today saying "can you hear the musical sounding music?"

My sister e-mailed me (a very happy thing to recieve) and was talking about someone being on fire for God (i often say 'sold out for God') but my sister typed it as 'souled out'... it was so delightful i laughed till my neighbours must have thought i'd gone mad.

Yesterday the girl who is going to be Mary in the Nativity play at church was being told by Charlie that she was going to play the role of Mary, and her response was "I'm going to be a fairy?" hehe... gotta love kids! :D

I'm starting to feel that this post is irredeemable as anything except twaddle, but will publish it for your amusement (hopefully). I hope that the week ahead goes super well for all and that amongst all the crazy work which seems to be looming, there is the time and space to be refreshed, to feel loved and to love :)

God Bless :)

This pic is a monument to the ladybug Minnie whose tale remains untold... and plus it reminded me SO much of myself when i was little because for dress up parties i always used to go as a ladybug and my sister as a donkey... the photos are quite something to see! (plus i was also blond when i was little... just a(nother) random fact... hehe)

Very Punny

I was doing one of my cartoon site checks and found some very punny ones that I felt like sharing

this one is specially for Derralyn 'cause of how much she hates the movie 'Snakes on a Plane"



















These Madam & Eve one's are deliciously amusing, although some of them are a little old in terms of context:
(if you can't read the strip cartoons so well then just click on them and they will come up bigger in a separate window)

i laughed outloud for a long time when i read this one









this one is so relevant to the journ course that I'm doing at the moment about Semiotics (part of which involves studying the meanings and connotations of words)









this one is just a classic :D

City of Gold

Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee everybody i'm off to this wonderful city to spend some time with my fam, do some work and CHILL! :D Hope u all have a good vac... see you in ten days.