30.08.09

Today I played Saul of Tarsus in a drama at church. It was "Extreme Makeover Soul Edition" and boy did I need one. Cathy had assembled a costume that made me look like a smaller Hagrid or Sith lord John the Baptist. It was awesome. I had two lines totalling four words because I'm new to church drama. I don't think they wanted to throw me in the deep end because I'm obviously not ready. They even cut one of my lines. I got a hip hop makeover complete with a giant Star of David and associated bling (which i gave to the Bayly's for their birthday). What really stuck with me though was that I didn't feel any different in my heart afterwards; certainly I was more fashionable, but deep down I was the same monster. This was registered in my stone cold expression slash vacant stare, and in my static unmoving body. Sometimes it is good to be reminded that it takes much more than a makeover to change who you are on the inside, and that it is the inside which really matters. Too often I fall into the consumerist trap but Jesus doesn't buy it for a second.

29.08.09

Welcome to the disco zeppelin
get down all night!
up in the Rhineland

follow the smokey trail
through the paranormal door
to Leviathan mountain
and the echo lighthouse house

slipping orange lanterns
into the watercooler;
you're methamphetaMINE!

28.08.09

There is nothing particularly remarkable about water in my ear but it is frustrating that it still hasn't come out. As far as I know. I swam 46 lengths this morning and am thus rewarded. I had a nap before and when I woke up I had a mint headache; I think some of the water has leaked into my brain.

I don't even want to think what the chlorine is doing to my frontal lobe. Everything is muffled.

We're doing a sex talk at youth tonight and Josh is coming along because he's curious.

27.08.09

I went to the Relax cafe today but I didn't buy anything. Jon bought some food but I ate several pieces of fruit from my bag instead. And I didn't even feel guilty. The old me would have felt guilty but I've changed. I don't know if I have become more easy going or more of a cheapskate...
At Creative Team meeting there was a strong push from within the group to make September "commemorate Michael Jackson month". Expect AT LEAST 2 tracks in sunday services. Also: the Berlin wall.

26.08.09

Today I had pork chops cooked in a slow cooker. It is the first time mum has used it, having bought it on sale from Briscoes: it is part of the Abbey Lane collection so I know it must be good. I have to say though that I am not entirely sure how it works.

I like to think of it as a small sauna, with less sweaty men and women, and more onions. The contents are cooked excruciatingly slowly in their own juices for a number of hours, like when you leave a loaf of bread or a cake out in the sun and you return to find it all sweaty. Get a part-time job, go to the movies, because you have nine hours to kill before dinner. The whole process seems very inhumane, especially when you stop and put yourself into that situation. Did anyone ever tell you at school that you can boil frogs without them even realising if you increase the temperature of their water very gradually? This is essentially the same thing. I wonder if the pork chops knew or if the seasonings suspected, that the end was coming, if they even felt the heat as they were slowly scorched. Maybe realisation came upon them all at once towards the end, as they slipped into unconsciousness and onto my plate. Maybe they are more observant than frogs. Certainly they're tastier.

25.08.09

i have been robbed. tonight at smallgroup we had a smoothie making competition and mine was the best by far. no. question. but i didn't win.... because the good guy can't win every time. that would be boring. i made a smoothie with ginger nuts and iced tea and hazelnut spread and coconut rough and vanilla essence and cinnamon and icecream and a banana and no milk because that would have made it too runny. there were probably other ingredients. anyway, it was the most delicious smoothie in existence. but i didn't win because Zane was one of my judges and she doesn't like ginger nuts which must be a South African thing? also Kim was judging mine. but she's a nutritionist.

props to Zac for taking it out, your smoothie was pretty awesome too.

24.08.09

blogging is really about who you know.
if you know people, then you'll make the dough.
maybe if you get enough hits people will want you to advertise for them,
and they'll send you packages of stuff to keep;
biscuits or magnets or actions figures or whatever.

anyway... i'm excited because today a major blogsite gave me a shout out.
expect page views to increase dramatically.
you may in fact be unable to get on here due to the traffic :(

I'm doing this because other people are doing it

It has come to my attention that everybody is blogging
and in the future
people without blogs will not get any food stamps
so i made one for me.