Archive for 20/03/2008

To Do List

31/03/2008 Joh holidays

I made a huge ‘To Do’ list this morning. I woke up feeling the holidays were melting away too quickly and I wasn’t getting things done in time. I have been pottering around all day on a number of things but when I checked tonight, I had barely touched anything on that list!

How did that happen?

Ah well tomorrow is another day! I had a good day though. I made some decisions that are pleasing to me. I did lots of little things I promised people. I wish I had put those things on the list actually and then I would have been able to put a line through a few things and feel a sense of achievement. I’m almost tempted to add them to the list and then cross them out just to remind me I did get something useful done today. There’s no more room on that page though!

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Lack of Thought

31/03/2008 Joh holidays

Victorian school holidays this year, seem to have been determined without much thought or regard. We have a term one that lasted roughly 8 weeks and then go back to a long wintery 13 week term. Doesn’t make sense to me.

The Australia 2020 Summit has been impossible to organise for our students because the last week of term is always so busy and the remainder of time in the three week opportunity, is during the school holidays.

Who decides these things?

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Family Catch ups

29/03/2008 Joh family

Yesterday I was back in the big smoke for another session. It went great. I had lunch with my beautiful daughter, cause I wanted to get home last night and not have a sleepover. I visited my baby sister at the backpackers where she works in the city. It was great to see her in action. She is really in her element there. I must admit I love the vibe of backpackers and youth hostels – even though I’m no longer a youth, physically at least! It’s a real feast of different people. I could actually camp on one of those grotty couches with a book and secretly watch the comings and goings all day I reckon.

It’s my Aunties birthday today, so I’m about to go off and catch her. She’s only 9 years older than me, my mum’s youngest sister. I idolised her as a child and remember being heartbroken when she moved to Malaysia with her Air Force partner when I was a kid. When she returned I didn’t see a lot of her and yet the past few years we have spent more time together and got a lot closer and I’m happy about that. She’s great. She’s making me a gorgeous patchwork quilt – which I will put a photo up when I get it. It’s the next best thing to making it yourself :-)

Happy Birthday Jude!

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Splinter

27/03/2008 Joh learn, relationships

Letting go of people who are no good for you is just like a removing a splinter. It hurts to take it out, but at least you know once it’s out, it’s only going to get better.

Some splinters you don’t notice until they start getting infected and then you look at your finger and go, geez, there’s something in there, its getting all red. Wow, on closer inspection, you notice something dark, that doesn’t belong there. How did that happen? What is it? Sometimes you never find the answers, you just deal with it. You take it out. It might be messy, but it heals and before you know it, you’ve forgotten all about it.

Sometimes it involves some digging to really find it. You have no idea what it is. Sometimes it’s so hard to find, or get out, that you have to leave it for a while, or you wonder if it really exists. You can still feel it there, but you try to ignore it. Once it get’s infected enough, it comes out easy though. Other people sometimes get them out for you if they are really tricky, but I actually prefer to get them out myself.

 I feel good this week because I have removed a splinter. How’s that for telling you my personal life without going into details. For those who know me, be careful about trying to guess who it is, because I doubt you will. Be happy to know I feel very happy and light and splinter less.

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Online Toys for Angsty Days

26/03/2008 Joh random

The life clock image, does it for me when I’m about to sit around and feel sorry for myself for a couple of hours. It puts my life into perspective. I really should have one on the wall, but fear it limit my thinking around my lifespan. Perhaps it is that I am at the exact halfway point on that clock. I am lately feeling very midlife crisisy.

If you are worrying about something specifically you could try creating a little animation on Let Your Worries Go and watch them float away in a hot air ballon as I enjoyed today, although some of my biggest worries aren’t represented there, I just renamed the images in my own head! They make a donation each time you let go. A truly win/win situation:-)

Once you have your life back in perspective, you may like to write a quick note to your future self on FutureMe. I have attempted to do this a couple of times, but I’m really not sure what to say, “sorry about the time I wasted online, when I should have been getting things done” perhaps!

These toys were found via Josh Spear.com and The Crossroads.

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Driving

25/03/2008 Joh travel

This morning I left in the dark to drive to Melbourne for an all day appointment. It was interesting seeing the sun light up the sky slowly. There was a lot of cloud, so I couldn’t see it actually rise, but it was still beautiful in a different way.

Tonight I drove home as the sun set and the sky was spectacular. I followed a ute with a dog on the back. The dog spent most of the trip up on it’s hind legs on a toolbox, looking over the top of the car, with it’s face to the wind. Then it started to rain. Big ploppy drops of rain, on an angle and the poor hound couldn’t get out of it. It curled up into a ball, this time using the toolbox as a wind break.

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Vivid Dreams

24/03/2008 Joh work

Last night I had the most vivid and clear dreams. I woke up thinking I was in a totally different life. One that was quite alien to me, with people I don’t know. How bizarre!

I had a nap this afternoon and had another vivid dream. I dreamt I went to the school tuckshop and ordered some dim sims. The woman who was serving me was really grotty and everything she did made me feel like I couldn’t eat those dim sims when they finally arrived. I wanted to just walk away, but she was really trying to be so nice, I felt like it would be rude. I was starving hungry as well. I asked her if she was a volunteer because I was hoping she hadn’t been employed, which I would never do, because I appreciate the mum’s who help at the tuckshop.

When I woke up I had to have dim sims. I couldn’t eat them in my dream. There was a hard peice of wood sticking out of one of them. What was all that about?

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Chocolat

24/03/2008 Joh reading

The perfect Easter movie is ‘Chocolat’. I often think of that scene where the mayor wakes up from a chocolate coma in the window of the Chocolate shop. I just love it. It is delicious and the perfect accompaniment to the excesses of the Easter season chocolates. Let’s face it, you can’t watch the film without having some, so when it’s such abundant supply, why not dig that movie out and go with the flow. The book is amazing too!

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Good Friday – Is It?

22/03/2008 Joh holidays

Is Good Friday ever really good? Well, in my experience, not that often. I wonder if I am conditioned by the Catholic upbringing to feel grief and sadness on that day. I remember actually being quite horrified by the whole crucifiction idea to be honest. It’s pretty full on really. It could be because I am tired or equinoxy, full moon type things, but it was intense for me and today has cleared up as the day has progressed, but I am tired. There were some great moments yesterday though, and as is my inclination, I think I’ll focus on those.

I went back to the lovely ‘Camel’s Hump’ for coffee with my parents and got to chat with the affable owner, Kevin, whilst being served that scrumptious coffee. I really love the water there too. It’s just perfect. I had several glasses this time because I wasn’t alone, so I stayed longer. I indulged in the citrus tart once again, usually I like to try new things, but I just know how great that tart is, so I couldn’t avoid it! I bossed my daughter/waitress around too, which was fun, and balanced out my parents adoration of her. She told me a pretty funny waitressing story too, which I might share another day when I haven’t got a wonderful warm bath waiting for me to climb into.

Speaking of my wonderful daughter Asha, I stayed at her house. She is so like me, she had to give me my Easter egg, because it was great and she couldn’t wait. I love that, we are hopelessly unable to wait, both of us. The great thing is the egg was in a lovely large ‘Desperate Housewives’ coffee mug. Now whilst I think I am like Susan cause she’s so clueless and generally harmless, others in my life believe I am like Lynette, so Asha chose a mug with Lynette “touch me with those MESSY hands, I will cut them off” – as if I would! I hate blood:-)

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Awareness Test

20/03/2008 Joh learn

Thanks to Rodney Olsen for bringing this to my attention. I find it quite powerful. Enjoy!

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