So over the weekend I attended the Antioch State convention. It was a wonderful experience fill with awesome people, inspiring talks and great times. It was a weekend off, to take a step back from the rush of normal life, to slow down and appreciate.
Earlier this year I attended a weekend for Antioch and although I was really quite sceptical at first, I went it with an open mind, as always, willing to try something new.
The state convention is basically a larger, slightly less jam packed version of the weekend. There were talks, liturgies and meds on Hope, Faith, Mission, Love, The Rosary, Sexuality and Self-image. Topics that wouldn’t normally be discussed in day to day lives, and not ever mentioned at school, for fear of offending. The talks are done by people around the same age, speaking truthfully without of fear of judgement, as there is none to give.
The people at Antioch all share similar values and they are friendly and kind, open and accepting. It’s really a lovely environment.
During one of these med, in pairs we had to answer some questions, they really got me thinking… because at that moment I really didn’t have any substantial answers to share. So with that in mind here are the questions that were posed to us:
- Tell your partner a bit about your life aims
- Describe a relationship you would like to try and improve
- Share a goal you have for the future. Concerns? Plans?
- Gifts that you have that you feel a call to share.
- How has your mood been lately? What struggles will you need to return to after the Convention?
- What gifts would you like to have?
- Share a world issue that concerns you. How can you use your gifts to make the world better?
- Name someone who inspires you… what gifts do you see in them?
I’m not going to lie; I did answer some of them, not to the extent that I wanted to. Some I was not able to answer because I genuinely didn’t know what I could say.
So I’ve decided that an aim that I want to achieve is to be able to answer these questions with clean decisive answers.
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Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Thursday, July 29, 2010
Sorrento...again...
So again we went back to Sorrento, to our winter house, Teewah.
The weather was a bit shit but that doesn't matter, because we had heat floors! I love the kitchen, it has a huge island bench, a open layout dining room and sitting room. Thelounge room is located a few steps up and then the bedrooms are off from there. I always have a fab time, very relaxing, with good times always. We also went to the Sorrento Day Spa, which was fabulously relaxing, five pools of different from 37 Degrees up. Definatly worth another visit.
What I like most about these trips is that even though we don't really see the people too often, it's always comfortable.
The Peeps!
Straight too it.
Yumm.... Lemon!
Artistic! Plus No double chins.
Me, Nique and Millie..being HAPPY!
Totally Pimping it.
Wait wait... make it straight...concentrate.
Jenga TOWER!
=)
The weather was a bit shit but that doesn't matter, because we had heat floors! I love the kitchen, it has a huge island bench, a open layout dining room and sitting room. Thelounge room is located a few steps up and then the bedrooms are off from there. I always have a fab time, very relaxing, with good times always. We also went to the Sorrento Day Spa, which was fabulously relaxing, five pools of different from 37 Degrees up. Definatly worth another visit.
What I like most about these trips is that even though we don't really see the people too often, it's always comfortable.
The Peeps!
Straight too it.
Yumm.... Lemon!
Artistic! Plus No double chins.
Me, Nique and Millie..being HAPPY!
Totally Pimping it.
Wait wait... make it straight...concentrate.
Jenga TOWER!
Artistic.. with booooooze!
=)
I < 3 Teewah
Monday, June 21, 2010
Pretty Girl Blues
From Tales of the Bad Years by Kerrigan and Lowdermilk, Love their stuff love this song... Also 'The Bad Years' and 'Two Strangers'...*love*
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Sorrento
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
It's that time again...
Where we make promises that are made to be broken, say things will change welcome what is yet to come, move ahead and step foward into the new year.
I like this time of year everyone is still laid back and freindly from Christmas, the nice weather is extremely inviting and generally there is a chiperness in the air.
So 2009,a good year I suppose, first year uni, new friends, old friends, family. My year summed up in eight words. Wish it was that easy.
Of course there were disappoinments and down times, but I choose not to remember those times to move foward to carry on and it really frustrats me when people can't do that.
Should I am resoloutions... probally but I'm not gpoing to write them here. In saying that I think I've done well with the resoloustion I made last for this year.
Ohoh, Life goes on. Things will be okay.
So to 2010 I say hello.
I like this time of year everyone is still laid back and freindly from Christmas, the nice weather is extremely inviting and generally there is a chiperness in the air.
So 2009,a good year I suppose, first year uni, new friends, old friends, family. My year summed up in eight words. Wish it was that easy.
Of course there were disappoinments and down times, but I choose not to remember those times to move foward to carry on and it really frustrats me when people can't do that.
Should I am resoloutions... probally but I'm not gpoing to write them here. In saying that I think I've done well with the resoloustion I made last for this year.
Ohoh, Life goes on. Things will be okay.
So to 2010 I say hello.
Thursday, August 13, 2009
Out on the Town
This is mostly for Claire, so if you are reading this and you don’t know who I’m talking about, sorry.
So I have this friend, let’s call her… Susan… Her boyfriend broke up with her 2 days before her birthday, she cancelled her big party and was going to spend the day mopping but she decided to have a small gathering at a pub. This pub ended up being a sports bar, which is basically 90:10, men:women ratio, which would be fine except, the median age was about 37. ‘Susan’ was dressed quite scantily already being the revenge stage in the seven steps of grief, there was some really nice live music on and the cricket was on so I was quite happy being there, ‘Susan’ wanted to dance so we danced, while ‘Rachael’ and ‘Jess’ went outside for some air, Sam had to leave early as she had work the next day.
So ‘Susan’ then proceeded to hook up with a decent looking guy, he wanted more, and she told him to go fly kite, then about 10 minutes later, she chatted up this guy who was about 40, while I talked this guys mate and his wife. This 40 year old guy was really having a bar of ‘Susans’ advances so she eventually gave, up not before, ‘Rachael’, ‘Jess’ and I gave her dirty and disapproving looks. Moving on, ‘Susan’s’ supposed best friend was no where to be seen, she was at another party a friend of her boyfriends and she didn’t rock up to see ‘Susan’ until 2 o’clock, that’s pretty indecent, but she has always been unreliable. ‘Susan’ was angry and thus bitching ensued. Until I left at 12.
The next day ‘Susan’ messaged me asking me not to put the pics of her hooking with randoms on the net, not like I was going to do it in the first place, but I’m glad she came to her senses, or so I thought….
So on the Tuesday she met up with Don, this guy she met on Schoolies…. A major toolie! Like by 12 years… figure it out… and then proceeded to the nasty things in his car. Then she told her ex about it. She then changed his DP on Facebook to him kissing some chick. Then ‘Susan’ rang me absolutely furious that he had done that. Um, Please Explain, it’s all very confusing. So that is the haps with ‘Susan’ enjoy!
So I have this friend, let’s call her… Susan… Her boyfriend broke up with her 2 days before her birthday, she cancelled her big party and was going to spend the day mopping but she decided to have a small gathering at a pub. This pub ended up being a sports bar, which is basically 90:10, men:women ratio, which would be fine except, the median age was about 37. ‘Susan’ was dressed quite scantily already being the revenge stage in the seven steps of grief, there was some really nice live music on and the cricket was on so I was quite happy being there, ‘Susan’ wanted to dance so we danced, while ‘Rachael’ and ‘Jess’ went outside for some air, Sam had to leave early as she had work the next day.
So ‘Susan’ then proceeded to hook up with a decent looking guy, he wanted more, and she told him to go fly kite, then about 10 minutes later, she chatted up this guy who was about 40, while I talked this guys mate and his wife. This 40 year old guy was really having a bar of ‘Susans’ advances so she eventually gave, up not before, ‘Rachael’, ‘Jess’ and I gave her dirty and disapproving looks. Moving on, ‘Susan’s’ supposed best friend was no where to be seen, she was at another party a friend of her boyfriends and she didn’t rock up to see ‘Susan’ until 2 o’clock, that’s pretty indecent, but she has always been unreliable. ‘Susan’ was angry and thus bitching ensued. Until I left at 12.
The next day ‘Susan’ messaged me asking me not to put the pics of her hooking with randoms on the net, not like I was going to do it in the first place, but I’m glad she came to her senses, or so I thought….
So on the Tuesday she met up with Don, this guy she met on Schoolies…. A major toolie! Like by 12 years… figure it out… and then proceeded to the nasty things in his car. Then she told her ex about it. She then changed his DP on Facebook to him kissing some chick. Then ‘Susan’ rang me absolutely furious that he had done that. Um, Please Explain, it’s all very confusing. So that is the haps with ‘Susan’ enjoy!
Back to the Grind
Three weeks late, my first week back at Uni!
It was nice to get back to uni my chair was staring to get a permanent imprint of my butt. All my classes are new and they are Accounting and Management for Entrepreneurs, Leisure Industry Enterprise management, Leisure and Tourism Marketing and Accommodation Operations Management. How fluffy do they sound! Fancy names does not equal fancy subjects, for instance, Accommodation Operations Management involves making beds. Two of my lecturers are not the most riveting people, and I have a 8 hour Monday which from week 8 is a 10 hour Monday, but I’m not really complaining gets it all out of the way for a four day weekend! Tuesday I have one 1 hour Tute and Wednesday is 11 – 4 but with 2 tute and one lecture that usually finishes early.
After some confusion with the enrollment, my friend Qantas is now doing my course, which is fun, more people to talk my nonsense too!
The assignments are space nicely and I’m going to
Thursday, July 23, 2009
Avenue Q
So the Awesomeeness of Avenue Q came to Melbourne.
I went on the 18th of July and it was great I loved every moment, even the really weird but fun to watch puppet sex. The puppeteers were great as were their voices, top notch on both the singing and the accents. I thought i twas going to be hard to concentrate on the puppets, but my eyes were instantly drawn to them. Especially there is one scene where the same actress is the voices for two of the characters on stage, I hardly even noticed with the perfectly timed puppeteering and change of tone in the voice. Amazing stuff!
Princeton - Could really see the naivety in the character, Fun to watch, very easily relatable.
Rod - Played by the same actor (Mitchell Butel) as Princeton, was great as Rod, extremely flamboyant, and whiniy fitted the character really well.
Nicky/Trekkie Monster(Luke Joslin) - I liked his voice, thought it was very good, but my friend thought it was wasnt monster/ Erine-esk enough.
We had the understudy for the Kate and Lucy the Slut i think her name was Natalie Alexopoulos, she was fantasic, great voice, fantastic acting.
The only character that I had a little bit of a problem with was Gary Coleman, she was a bit to, lets face it,white, and the ac6ting seemed a bit forced. Maybe it had to be, becuase some of the jokes that were centreded around Gary Coleman weren't really got by the Australian audience.
Thats another thing, although i thought it was fine, maybe becuase I have watched so much of it on youtube, was the americaness of it. I know that sound pretentious, by my friends asked me at interval, why it was called Avenue Q, and I had to explain about Alphabet city and other things like that. Although I must say they did try their best to make it more realtable, especially when they changed the words in For Now, from 'Geroge Bush', to 'Swine Flu' that defiantly got a laugh.
My mates that went with me, hadn't really heard much of the soundtrack, besides the songs they heard when I was obsessed with the musical. They loved them, thought they were very witty and cleverly done. Crude, but good crude, spoke the truth. One of the songs called "What do I do with a BA in English" at interval, Nick turned to me and said what do I do with a BA, as that is what she is studying in Uni. 'The Internet Is For Porn' was a definatly crowd pleaser but caused a problem when signing it in public, as is the song 'Everyone is a little bit racist', although when someone accuses me of being racist I do break into song. Schadenfreude is very true!
And the song For Now helped me get though last year, becuase I knew it wasn't going to last forever only for now!
I deifnalty walked out of the theatre with a smile on my face!
I went on the 18th of July and it was great I loved every moment, even the really weird but fun to watch puppet sex. The puppeteers were great as were their voices, top notch on both the singing and the accents. I thought i twas going to be hard to concentrate on the puppets, but my eyes were instantly drawn to them. Especially there is one scene where the same actress is the voices for two of the characters on stage, I hardly even noticed with the perfectly timed puppeteering and change of tone in the voice. Amazing stuff!
Princeton - Could really see the naivety in the character, Fun to watch, very easily relatable.
Rod - Played by the same actor (Mitchell Butel) as Princeton, was great as Rod, extremely flamboyant, and whiniy fitted the character really well.
Nicky/Trekkie Monster(Luke Joslin) - I liked his voice, thought it was very good, but my friend thought it was wasnt monster/ Erine-esk enough.
We had the understudy for the Kate and Lucy the Slut i think her name was Natalie Alexopoulos, she was fantasic, great voice, fantastic acting.
The only character that I had a little bit of a problem with was Gary Coleman, she was a bit to, lets face it,white, and the ac6ting seemed a bit forced. Maybe it had to be, becuase some of the jokes that were centreded around Gary Coleman weren't really got by the Australian audience.
Thats another thing, although i thought it was fine, maybe becuase I have watched so much of it on youtube, was the americaness of it. I know that sound pretentious, by my friends asked me at interval, why it was called Avenue Q, and I had to explain about Alphabet city and other things like that. Although I must say they did try their best to make it more realtable, especially when they changed the words in For Now, from 'Geroge Bush', to 'Swine Flu' that defiantly got a laugh.
My mates that went with me, hadn't really heard much of the soundtrack, besides the songs they heard when I was obsessed with the musical. They loved them, thought they were very witty and cleverly done. Crude, but good crude, spoke the truth. One of the songs called "What do I do with a BA in English" at interval, Nick turned to me and said what do I do with a BA, as that is what she is studying in Uni. 'The Internet Is For Porn' was a definatly crowd pleaser but caused a problem when signing it in public, as is the song 'Everyone is a little bit racist', although when someone accuses me of being racist I do break into song. Schadenfreude is very true!
And the song For Now helped me get though last year, becuase I knew it wasn't going to last forever only for now!
I deifnalty walked out of the theatre with a smile on my face!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Sorrento
So two weeks ago I went back to Sorrento for a bit of a Holiday, relaxation after exams. I ahd an amazing time.
I was a bit apprehensive at first because half the people that were going I had never met before, but they turned out to be lovely!
First night we played the drinking game kings, which will always end badly.
The second day Millie, Sam and I went for a walk to Sorrento, and got caught in a torrential downpour, which soaked one side of our clothes. The third day Millie, Sam, Chris, Russell and I went to Rye to get souvlakis, which were fabulous and hit the spot. At night we drank way to much and definatly felt it in the morning.All in all a great time would definatly do it again.
The house was lovely, 4 rooms, 2 with ensuite, massive kitchen, nice loungeroom, and a deck.
Some pictures of our adventures.I was a bit apprehensive at first because half the people that were going I had never met before, but they turned out to be lovely!
First night we played the drinking game kings, which will always end badly.
The second day Millie, Sam and I went for a walk to Sorrento, and got caught in a torrential downpour, which soaked one side of our clothes. The third day Millie, Sam, Chris, Russell and I went to Rye to get souvlakis, which were fabulous and hit the spot. At night we drank way to much and definatly felt it in the morning.All in all a great time would definatly do it again.
The house was lovely, 4 rooms, 2 with ensuite, massive kitchen, nice loungeroom, and a deck.
Group Picture
Souvlaki
Messy House
NINJA House!
Happy Pic, Millie, Sam and ChrisWednesday, December 24, 2008
Schoolies, Toolies and so much more...
I'm going to post it in days, becuase I'm lazy.
Love to all.
Sunday: An early wake up was not too much of a hassle, but upon arriving at Reneés house it’s quite obvious that it is a hassle to everyone else, and their huge amounts of bags and extra belongings. After a very pleasant drive down to Sorrento with Sinea an hr family, there was a very delicious lunch, in the band pavilion/ rotunda/ gazebo. Finally getting to the house, we were greeted with a extremely agreeable abode, choosing our sleeping accommodations and settling in was our first task, next was the shopping.
The shopping trip was most eventful as not everyone was in agreement of what to buy, it was most hilarious and highly amusing, even more amusing is when Mel thought it was a brilliant idea to ‘borrow’ one of the trolleys from IGA and then proceed to swap it for a bigger one at Foodworks, and wheel it home, what a site!
Unpacked and ready to party, is exactly what we did! Well it was slowed by the old man who told us to turn down the music, at what 9 o’clock; hmm at least he didn’t bother us for the rest of the week. There were 9(?) girls there the first night
So that night was highly eventful, we peaked a bit early as there was a lot of drinking and a lot of singing and a lot of… silly behavior, and a large amount of swearing from grace, which I was most impressed with, and a bit of puking…. quite a bit. I won’t o into great detail, but some people just need to learn to hold their drink, I mean seriously, either that, or you know stop drinking when you feel sick. It was not a pleasant experience but an experience to look back on none the less, what I have learned. 1) Don’t get stupidly drunk and pass out on the bathroom floor then on the mattress affectionately know as Mel’s mattress. 2) I don’t really squirm at the sight of other people’s vomit, which to popular belief doesn’t always contain carrots.
Love to all.
Sunday: An early wake up was not too much of a hassle, but upon arriving at Reneés house it’s quite obvious that it is a hassle to everyone else, and their huge amounts of bags and extra belongings. After a very pleasant drive down to Sorrento with Sinea an hr family, there was a very delicious lunch, in the band pavilion/ rotunda/ gazebo. Finally getting to the house, we were greeted with a extremely agreeable abode, choosing our sleeping accommodations and settling in was our first task, next was the shopping.
The shopping trip was most eventful as not everyone was in agreement of what to buy, it was most hilarious and highly amusing, even more amusing is when Mel thought it was a brilliant idea to ‘borrow’ one of the trolleys from IGA and then proceed to swap it for a bigger one at Foodworks, and wheel it home, what a site!
Unpacked and ready to party, is exactly what we did! Well it was slowed by the old man who told us to turn down the music, at what 9 o’clock; hmm at least he didn’t bother us for the rest of the week. There were 9(?) girls there the first night
So that night was highly eventful, we peaked a bit early as there was a lot of drinking and a lot of singing and a lot of… silly behavior, and a large amount of swearing from grace, which I was most impressed with, and a bit of puking…. quite a bit. I won’t o into great detail, but some people just need to learn to hold their drink, I mean seriously, either that, or you know stop drinking when you feel sick. It was not a pleasant experience but an experience to look back on none the less, what I have learned. 1) Don’t get stupidly drunk and pass out on the bathroom floor then on the mattress affectionately know as Mel’s mattress. 2) I don’t really squirm at the sight of other people’s vomit, which to popular belief doesn’t always contain carrots.
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