Singular Scene

So Singular in Each Particular

Saturday

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Is quite possibly the best day of the week.

A whole 15 hours to be filled with just the things you like (Thankfully I don’t work in retail…) It’s 9.30am and I am still in bed and I am meditating on what to do with the rest of the day.

These are the possibilities…

1. Get coffee from Zero (#12 below, will knock of #13 as well!)
2. Go to the Maritime Museum (not my usual haunt on a Saturday but researching and getting inspired for a book I’m writing).
3. Get ready for party tonight, need to wear Indian type costume… thinking might just settle for stacks of bangles and a jewelly thingy for my forehead… but if time permits will explore possibility of purchasing sari type fabric. Looking forward to a good curry… Actually add that to the list below.
4. Tidying my room. (This is way low on the list)
5. Laundry. TOTAL Bummer; washer is dead, so have to go the the laundromat… Low on the list but imperative due to lack of clean knickers…
6. Ring Mum.
7. Get up…Hmmmm that should be at the top of the list or I’m not going to achieve anything today.

That’s What I Like… In No Particular Order

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1. Crime Fiction (on paper or celluloid).
2. Hot Baths with thick bubbles. (Desperate for water shortage to ease so bathing is guilt free)
3. Red Wine, Cab Sav Merlot preferred.
4. My Doona (Duvet – translated for the non-Australian).
5. Singing Praises.
6. Filling blank pages with well chosen words.
7. Breathing.
8. Roast Lamb and Gravy.
9. Cheesecake.
10. Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut (Made in NZ, of course, not that Australian rubbish unless its all you can get, which is most of the time… let’s face it, I live in Australia).
11. My niece and nephews. Totally edible.
12. Breakfast at Ground Zero (cafe) on Saturday mornings.
13. The first skim flat white of the day.
14. Knowing my place in the world.
15. Looking at the world through the lens of a camera.
16. The company of good friends.
17. Watching the All Blacks win against Australia.
18. Watching the All Blacks win against the rest of the world.
19. Kids with red hair.
20. Taking off in a Jumbo Jet.
21. Walking along the waterfront.
22. Arriving home from work.
23. Driving a luxury car (At least, I think I would like it a lot).
24. Sleeping with the window open a crack.
25. A cat curled up on your lap.
26. Fragrant Candles burning.
27. Hot Chocolate (see below).
28. Steak and Onions, baked potatoes, tomato and peas.
29. Finding a Rhema word.
30. Getting my hair cut (actually I just get it done for the scalp massage).
31. The sound of music.
32. The Sound of Music.
33. International Exploration, with the camera.
34. Fresh flowers (Daisies, Alstroemeria, Tulips)
35. Brown Eyes.
36. Hi Fidelity Sound.
37. Close harmony singing.
38. Laughing uncontrollably.
39. Sailing.
40. Pulling on my favourite jeans straight out of the wash.

(There’s NOTHING on TV tonight and I’m bored…)

Comfort Drink

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Mmmm Hot chocolate …

– Fill one generous sized mug with milk … preferably full cream.
– Add one capful of Bailey’s Irish Cream (actually, cap is a flexible measure… relative to the kind of day you’ve had).
– Spoon in 2 heaped teaspoons of chocolate powder (or 3 … ).
– Add 5 marshmallows (my preference are for white ones… pink ones should go to the bottom of the bag).
– Stir a little bit but not so much as to dissolve all the chocolate, it’s better if it sticks all over the marshys (yum).
– Microwave for 2 minutes 30 until the mallows are all melty and sticky …
– Sip the milk slowly through the marshmallows until you can’t stand it any longer and have to spoon out the marshmallows and gobble them all up.

Sleep well….

Procrstinate …. Procrastinate …. Procrastinate

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I should be marking assignments… I taught a worship class to 65 students last semester and now I have a pile of pages telling me what worship is all about. I am more than halfway through but have hit a bad patch of markers block… I thought you might like to see some of the funnier passages I have had to give a grade to…

“Whatever it is in our heart is going to our brine, Our heart is like a keyboard, and our mind is like the hard dick. Whatever we type in our heart will go to the mind and it will analyze inside of us and then we produce.”

“Worship is an essential part of the Christian Life as a whole. Whether it is in an individual setting or in the formal setting of a church, It has the power to move God and bring his presents in a room”

Needless to say it has been an entertaining project…

No news on the job front. The last week has been turbulent as I process a lot of very heavy stuff I have been subject to this year. Feeling more objective this week and hope to be back on the level once my boss arrives back in the country. One day I will write the work story … Still a bit tender on it at the moment.

No news on the new job front … very little response to applications sent which has been disappointing, I mean, can’t they tell from my resume how fabulous I am???
Hmmm maybe not! Might have another look at it… maybe I could put a picture on it… Must remember to put the picture up the right way though… saw someone’s this week which was forwarded around by a recruiter friend… Lovely picture, wrong way up … Would you hire them???

Signed up with another G.O.D.S this week … not finding them very inspiring but looking for fodder for blog rather than life partner… Figure the next step might actually be to write to some of these “advertisers” rather than waiting for them to contact me… seems to be the only way to get mail…

Will let you know who replies…