waiting waiting waiting...

Computers... God love 'em. My boyfriend sure does, but I'm not sure I'm inclined to give them the same level of affection. Perhaps it's me, and not the computer, but I'm telling you my laptop always decides to slow down the day before a 9am deadline.

And that's what I've got, ladies and gentlemen; a 9am deadline.

To equip me for this wonderful all-nighter that I am destined to pull (yet again), beside me lies a jar of Nutella, a box full of Lindt chocolates (God bless Edwin), a bag of almonds, and a bottle of Coke. (and today's $289 splurge on a WACOM graphics tablet... yeah!)

And no, I'm not procrastinating. I'm trying to get a DVD burnt for Mark (whose birthday happens to be today).. and the RAM on this HP is slowly fizzing away, purring into its usual status: a crawl.

On a much more positive note, I think I'm slowly easing out of this rut. I'm a bit apprehensive about writing that, since I'm prone to jinxing myself... but enough of that pagan rubbish. No jinxes here: God's infinite mercy and grace is at work.

Eeecckkkkshhhh... I'm beginning to cringe at my own Christian jargon. I don't mean to say that as if my words are empty... but I wish there were better ways of expressing just what it is that God is doing in my life. I guess the problem is it's still all a mystery to me... which is probably the reason why I can't effectively write about it. Give me a month or two... I'll look back in retrospect and know why I had to get dragged through what feels like a year worth of *!^(!*#. Can't preach about it til you've experienced it I suppose.

On the work note... time is ticking away... and I don't feel any closer to having finished this video. Why is that?

Hmmm... what to type, what to type?

Well... I had a pretty awesome weekend. Had a tear or two on Saturday night... (exhaustion gets me so emotional - I hate it), but all in all, it was great.

:: Watched Guy Sebastian at the Opera House on Friday night with Eddoes... he bought me the tickets as a surprise after I'd said I was way too broke to afford tickets to the show. And I luuuurved it!! Not only did I sit there letting the Philharmonic Orchestra seduce my eardrums, Guy Sebastians voice made me melt in my seat! Poor Eddoes... had to sit there listening to me sigh with admiration as my favourite Aussie Idol blew me away with gospel songs, all his top album hits, and his unbelievably romantic tributes to Nat King Cole... my hope is I'll meet him in a few months and ask him to sing at my wedding... (hold on.. what wedding?)

:: Saturday morning... drove to Sizzler in Carramar with Ivy, Cheche and Nina, and the rest of Edwin's family. Stuffed my face with steak, salt & pepper calamari and mashed potato... :)

:: Saturday afternoon was a fun and fulfilling WYD Presentation with the CWL - all of which were supportive and absolutely beautiful. God bless them... they won't know just how thankful I am for making me feel like my job was worth doing - even if it meant missing dessert at my boyfriend's birthday lunch, just to get to the venue on time.

:: Saturday night - Roanne & Nina ventured to Hordern Pav to watch Dave Matthew Band, while Eddoes & I scored free ice-cream and coke at the Entertainment Quarter before we watched Spiderman 3. Awesome movie, nice company... and much like the night before, I fell into deep sleep on the drive home.

:: Sunday - a sweet and thoroughly entertaining celebration of Jonna & Redell's engagement. Those two are so sickeningly in love it's gorgeous! And the advice that all the people wrote on their boards was pretty good... (might apply it all now, even though I'm no where near getting married). Catching up with the usual YFC/SFC crowd was good fun - it always is with Ian, Nez, Sav, Edz, Tree, Mary, Aimelle, EJ, Harry, Ryan, Jane... hmmm... there's a hellavalot of people I've forgotten to list - but I'm sure you won't get offended.

:: Sunday night - a sad but uplifting moment.. seeing hundreds (and I do mean hundreds) of people from our Parish Community stick around after Mass to farewell the best priest of all time: Fr Warren Edwards. No joke.. this is the man that introduced me to a full and profound appreciation for our Church, God's clergy, and everything I've learned about youth ministry in the last 4 years. He is unbelievably passionate, down-to-earth, holy, real and one of the most sefless men of God I've met. I could go on and on and on about what type of love he deserves... but not here: he deserves to hear/see it.

I'll just say it was great to see SPY again - it always is. They make me laugh, give me hugs, witness God's love in his young people... *sigh* if I could've stay 20 and been a parish youth worker all my life, I probably would've - it's by far that best job I think I'll ever have...

And that concluded what was a pretty eventful and awesome weekend...

Oh.. and the DVD's done! Woohoo!