Officers Fellowship - June 08

We're all [in the snow] together...

Saturday was a day marked on my calendar for a very long time .... along with Shelley, Reuben and several of the youth from Christchurch City, I was going to see Disney's HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL ON ICE!!

The day arrived ... I wrapped up warmly and picked up Shell and Reubs for the big event of our week. Now I know I am a grown up, but when it started (despite cheesy American announcer guy) ... I was flippin' excited!!! I tapped my toes, bopped my head, clapped in time with all the others ... and even thought ... if only I'd taken up ice skating ... (there are many reasons that didn't happen!)

And would you believe that in the intermission ... between Breaking Free and You are the Music in Me .... Shelley, Emma and I were all texted to be told it was snowing outside. Very exciting news for us northerners who had never lived in a place where it actually snowed before!!

But trust me, the moment we stepped outside the doors of the Westpac Arena, we were very much greeted with a temperature that had told us it was the truth. And there was snow on my car!! (Unfortunately I had forgotten my camera.)

Ever so slowly I drove out to Belfast to drop of Shelley and Reuben ... and it was a miracle keeping Reub in the car, let me tell you .... someone was very excited by the white stuff all over the trees, plants, cars ... and it only got heavier the closer we got to Belfast.

Alas, at my place, there was just a very heavy frost. Something about being too close to the ocean :( but I managed to snap some photos on the way to, and at, church the next morning (though it doesn't look half as impressive as it did the night before!) ....

The Belfast Sallies
At the Belfast corps
Sim the drummer

At Northwoods


Reuben
Snowfight: Jessica (?) and Micah

A Little Catch Up On Life...

To all my superfans out there who keep coming to check out my blog ... I apologise profusely for my apparent slackness in keeping you up to date with my world, but things have been a little crazy as of late.

I guess I should firstly mention the new arrival at my abode of Juanita, my flatmate (We are pictured to the left). Ai, she finally caved to the pressure and moved in her belongings into one of my spare rooms (or, as Mr Tumnus would call it, Spare Oom.) We are still talking to each other three weeks later, so it appears all will work out well on that front. I'm enjoying having another person around the place, and I have attempted to make her feel like part of the family by talking her ear off every night and jumping on her every morning to make sure she makes the most out of her weekend.

I have also got my car back, nice and fixed, though through some stupid law, it turns out I was at fault at the accident, so I had to pay the $500 excess. I was not amused.

Work has been really busy, and I kind of got a little too stressed the other weekend, so added to some dodgy spaghetti that I digested, I ended up very sick the other weekend. At least until I vomited. Then I felt a whole lot better, outside of the fact I had to change my sheets. (Just what you want to hear, I know!)

I've also been exploring new parts of Christchurch ... and learning faster ways of getting around town, which is thrilling. I'm feeling way more at home - though I refuse to don any red and black gear unless yellow is in the get up also - GO CHIEFS!

Anywho with that, I better get back to it. Laters.