fast cars and freedom

I saw the leaves changing and falling and it's only the end of AUGUST! I am blessed to experience my favourite season twice in one year! When I woke up the other morning and felt that Autumn nip in the air I was immediately transported back to NZ... where I had my first Fall this year:

It is kind of exciting and kind of sad when seasons change, though. I always greet a new season with a mix of anticipation and disappointment. Especially the Fall... oh how I love it, bringing a time for sweaters and coziness, fresh smells and colours, but then winter comes and I seriously miss summer.

Well, since it's not going to be warm and sunny much longer, I decided to clean the inside of my car...for the first time in almost a year!... yes it's been a year! sick, i know.

Chantel and I spent about 2hours if not more scrubbing, vacuuming and sponging down the inside and the outside and it now looks great:



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before and after...

we had all the high-tech tools too!

Chantel was a great help!

my little blue beauty...Diego Fuego ... ¡Qué limpio y guapo!

Tjor

Still no word from the job i applied to. Apparantly it can take weeks... that means i am still in the 'don't know anything' zone where I wait and see what happens... carrying on with life, as best as i can, as I know it now, expecting that it can all change in an instant... that's how i should always be living, isn't it?

It has given me the opportunity to really think about what I want to be doing this upcoming few months... I am leaning toward working and getting more involved with ministry at church, really throwing myself in hardcore into both areas. THis excites me.
Taking school at the same time, might cause me to go and spread myself thin again, so school might just be out this year...
saving money is NOT a bad thing. especially if school costs a million and I want to see more of the world!

anyways. guess what i did this weekend? I drove a manual car for the first time!! My dad took me out in their little Kia something or other...a cute little SUV tjorretjie (afrikaans for little car)and i drove STANDARD!! I only freaked out once, when I turned onto a highway from a halt, and I had to speed up to 80km in seconds only! because of the traffic....only the car made the most horrible sound and wouldn'move!! Then all of a sudden I realized that 3rd and 1st gear is awefully close together on the gear shift. hahahaha.
i started out in 3rd gear by accident, REVVING REALLY high, the poor guy behind me probably thought............what the deuce?!
I made it home safely... and i am looking forward to the next time...and the next until I can do it with my eyes closed...or well...you know what I mean.


as an aside, it is awesome to see how many people use a search engine to find a remedy for taking JELLY fish out of HAIR! and end up on my blogsite... thank you site meter for endless amusement.

my love of java

I decided to use a coffee press instead of using the coffee maker this morning… and MAN OH MAN! It’s like every little bit of flavour in the grinds seeped into the boiling water! I thought, why stop at this? So I grabbed my ghetto little $2 milk frother and whipped up some frothy cream to smoothly top it.Too bad it’s a mini one-cup press, because my last sip definitely tasted like ‘more’…

That’s ok, I need to drink less coffee anyways, but if my one cup a day is going to taste THIS good, then I’m contented.

Namib Desert

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Today, I had this memory of being here.

I hope to return to Southern Africa one day. We had so many cool adventures when we were kids. I'm thankful for growing up in an exciting place that.

Days off

Today is HOT! It finally feels like what summer SHOULD feel like. It is 36 degrees outside! I am so slow in everything I do today, because it feels like my body just wants to melt haha.... it's taken me 3 hours to do laundry, eat lunch and clean

.... I watched some John and Kate +8 and Friends in there too, lol.

I had a wonderful 9 days off!

I got to experience some of the summer festivals our city has to offer, go to a Leadership conference which confirmed a lot of things and helped me reflect on the things God is doing in my life, and just have a lot of fun hanging out....

Taste of Calgary!

I went with Karyn, Sarah and Julie. There was some REALLY good food there. We even got suckered into signing up for a 3 month subscription to the Herald to get 40 extra food tickets. Man, i'm regretting it now... this morning I came into the kitchen and our table is covered up in perfectly folded newspapers... I don't think any of us have actually read any of them!!

It was a lot of fun!

I ate this delicious creme caramel desert and the butter chicken and naan from Taj Mahal was awesome too.

Julie P, Karen, Erica and I took a spontaneous trip to Big Hill Springs to have a picnic one evening:

I hung out with the boys as they watched UFC :

All in all it was very relaxing, just what I hoped for .

I'm now back at work.. not too sure whats going to happen when September comes around. I applied for a new job, but I'm waiting to hear about an interview...more on that later as things unfold.
In the next 3 weeks i'll decide if I'm going back to school again, while working part-time, or taking the year off from school, to work more and save money and maybe get a bit more involved at church.

All in all, I feel like God is really teaching me how to relax into being in a relationship with Him.
He's showing me an awesome side of Himself and our relationship. It’s amazing how the Holy Spirit teaches us. God has placed me a in a spot where I can build relationships with those who are not in a relationship with Him...it's been a while. I feel blessed to be a part of His plan.

I'm also learning how to be a leader, at church in a position of leading worship (something I've been TOTALLY scared of! and NEVER saw myself doing!) and at work.
I'm learning what it is to align my heart with God's and to rely on His timing and it definitely doesn't always come naturally…

“’For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,’ declares the LORD. ‘As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.’” Isaiah 55:8-9

Life's pretty exciting these days.