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Wednesday, 23 May, 2007
This week was shaping up to be so stressful, I deliberately did not go to church on Sunday night after the church house party. My ministers were very understanding, and so I stayed home, did the week's laundry, cooked spaghetti bolognaise, did CASE work, watched Law & Order and went to bed at 10.
This week is, once again, Briefing week, and I started the week two days behind schedule. It's a double issue (aarggh! Twice as much to edit!). I think I'm on track, though I will probably overshoot the layout deadline by about a day because, of course, there are two Bible Briefs.
This week I also (once again, very foolishly) volunteered to cook for Bible study. Please note that I volunteered to do this about a month ago—I thought it would be fine because I normally work for Greg in the morning and leave just after lunch so it's not a problem to go to the shop, pick up stuff and cook. But this week I swapped my CASE day to Friday for when the Human Need and Christian Care conference is on. So I did grocery shopping on Monday after work and spent the evening chopping everything up. Yesterday I left work promptly at four, went home to pick up everything, got to the church by five and just threw it all together. It was Peter's recipe for chicken soup. I made two very big pots for about 25 people and the lot pretty much just went.
I've been keeping myself on a (more or less) strict diet of eight hours of sleep a night but it's been hard. It meant walking out of Bible study at 9 pm even though we hadn't finished going around and praying for each other. This morning I woke up at four and couldn't get back to sleep again for about an hour. Tonight will be a challenge: Elsie, Rosey and I are going to see Katie Noonan at The Vanguard and it doesn't finish until 11.
And I am still in two minds about whether to go to women's fellowship on Friday night after the conference. I can hear my counsellor saying in the back of my head, “No—have a Mental Health Day” but at the same time, I think I've been rostered on (note: rostered; I didn't volunteer for this one) to do supper. No one's spoken to me about it, though, so maybe I got taken off. Hmm.
Picking up on my previous post that had a bit to do with make-up, this blog post in the SMH makes interesting but disturbing reading. With all those chemicals, I'm glad I don't make a habit of wearing the stuff.
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Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Katie Noonan!!!
I was going to go see that but it clashed with bible study!!! :( i’m hoping she has a gig that’s not on a wednesday!! :/
have heaps of fun~!!!
you are wise woman with the discipline to leave biblestudy at 9. most tuesday nights after biblestudy my sleep pattern is appalling and i think its because my brain is to active after 9 and i don’t give it enough time to wind down.
Argh, just apologise and get out of supper. I reckon after Human Need all day you’ll need some non-human self time!
I reckon you’re right, George. I’m going to get out of it.