monday morning
I think it is a symptom that my weekends are too busy when I am exhausted on Monday morning. I seriously thought about starting at 8:30 instead of 8 this morning. Or is everyone like that on Mondays?
Roleplay on Saturday night was hysterical. I enjoy playing characters that breeze through oblivious to everything. My character had a chirpy one-sided conversation about fish. Andrew came, and proved that you don't have to have every roleplayed before to be the sharpest in conversation. Wow.
Duane drove me to Lynette's. SLEEP. Then in the morning Lynette gave me a surprise late birthday present... or should I say presents? She made all these lovely coasters and pot holders for me, painted with the designs that I loved from the jars she made and with the fruits of the spirit on them... and a dessert cookbook.... AND THE VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK I'D BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR! Apparently she went looking everywhere too. The love! I'm not much of a home-made present person, but when it's obvious that the person has put a lot of thought into making something that you will actually like and use it's a whole different ball game. :)
So she and I went to her church and then we had lunch at a couple's house before doing some chores. Then we packed up some reading material and blankets and went and sat in a field of long grass and shade to read.
Then I hear this rustle behind me. I turn. Can't see anything. Figure it must be from a house or something. Read. Hear it again, closer and more consistantly. So I scan the grass and realise that there is a travelling line of movement coming towards us. Pause. Decide from the pattern that yes, it is definietly snake. It keeps coming, and passes within fifty centimetres of where I'm sitting, close enough for me to know without a doubt that it's a red-bellied black snake, the kind that killed one of our dogs. I quietly and calmly tell Lynette that there is a snake very close to us but it seems to be passing on. She gets all excited cause she wants to see the snake. We stand on the blankets and watch it head off in the direction we have to take to go home. Lynette was a bit disappointed that it didn't stick around cause she wanted to watch it. We think for awhile about what to do, and then we decide to leave by STOMPING so it gets scared away.
Teh drama.
Went to a cafe with Helen and Bree, then went to church. Church was great, seeing everyone again, and the sermon was challenging. So from the morning's sermon I shall only boast of God, and from the evening sermon I will pray that I get to share my faith with a non-Christian. A dangerous prayer, as Seumas put it. He and Alli gave me a lift back to Sydney which unfortunatly did not get me back any quicker than the train would have.
Hence my tiredness.
Roleplay on Saturday night was hysterical. I enjoy playing characters that breeze through oblivious to everything. My character had a chirpy one-sided conversation about fish. Andrew came, and proved that you don't have to have every roleplayed before to be the sharpest in conversation. Wow.
Duane drove me to Lynette's. SLEEP. Then in the morning Lynette gave me a surprise late birthday present... or should I say presents? She made all these lovely coasters and pot holders for me, painted with the designs that I loved from the jars she made and with the fruits of the spirit on them... and a dessert cookbook.... AND THE VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK I'D BEEN LOOKING EVERYWHERE FOR! Apparently she went looking everywhere too. The love! I'm not much of a home-made present person, but when it's obvious that the person has put a lot of thought into making something that you will actually like and use it's a whole different ball game. :)
So she and I went to her church and then we had lunch at a couple's house before doing some chores. Then we packed up some reading material and blankets and went and sat in a field of long grass and shade to read.
Then I hear this rustle behind me. I turn. Can't see anything. Figure it must be from a house or something. Read. Hear it again, closer and more consistantly. So I scan the grass and realise that there is a travelling line of movement coming towards us. Pause. Decide from the pattern that yes, it is definietly snake. It keeps coming, and passes within fifty centimetres of where I'm sitting, close enough for me to know without a doubt that it's a red-bellied black snake, the kind that killed one of our dogs. I quietly and calmly tell Lynette that there is a snake very close to us but it seems to be passing on. She gets all excited cause she wants to see the snake. We stand on the blankets and watch it head off in the direction we have to take to go home. Lynette was a bit disappointed that it didn't stick around cause she wanted to watch it. We think for awhile about what to do, and then we decide to leave by STOMPING so it gets scared away.
Teh drama.
Went to a cafe with Helen and Bree, then went to church. Church was great, seeing everyone again, and the sermon was challenging. So from the morning's sermon I shall only boast of God, and from the evening sermon I will pray that I get to share my faith with a non-Christian. A dangerous prayer, as Seumas put it. He and Alli gave me a lift back to Sydney which unfortunatly did not get me back any quicker than the train would have.
Hence my tiredness.