I Heart Summer!!

(Paradise, Tasmania. Photograph, 2006, Alex Archer)

Woop Woop!! So it's summer, and atm i'm both excited and disappointed.. excited because i have plenty of things i could be doing these holidays and disappointed because i havent done any of them yet. AND because i have not yet been to the beach. So what's happened so far?

Well on sunday (the 20th) we had our Chee Christmas dinner. It was fun and all, and it was really great to hang out with my cousins yet again, though it always is. However there were some missing which was a bit of a disappointment. it was freaking awesome when we had twelve of us in the loungeroom at the same time and we were playing Guitar Hero 5 together, which we bought that day. We've now got a drum kit, two guitars and a mic, so we can have a full band. its freaking awesome!!

Most unfortunately however, on Mum's side of the family there's been yet another two deaths around this time of year. My Great-Grandmother, Great Aunt Lil and Great aunt Ruby all died in December over the past few years, Aunty Lil most recently about 4 years ago or something like that. Then this year, Mum and Nan's cousins Bill and Lil Hatton. It's a real shame, they had just moved to Bowral a month before when Lil went into hospital. She died in hospital and then when looking in the obituaries we find out that her husband Bill died two days later. It got me thinking, could they have had such a strong marital connection that God chose to take them so close together and save Bill the pain of having to attend his wife's funeral? He works in mysterious ways.

Christmas is three days away and that will be good. I'm going to invite my family to come to church with me so prayers that they might come with opens hearts would be greatly appreciated :) Today my car's been taken off to get serviced which im extra excited about. I'm looking forward to having a nicely tightened car. I just wish i knew someone who'd respray it for free, unlikely, but if only. It's also in time for when i go to Forster. I'll be up there for two and a bit weeks AND much to my joy Tim and James will be joining me. I'll be driving up, possibly by myself, on the 9th or 10th and then mum and dad probably the 12th. Tim and James will then catch the train up and join me, ill pick them up from Taree.. FUN!!

ALSO Tim's family friends are Christians and one of them works at this Christian Conference Center. He invited me to this camp which goes from the 2nd to the 8th. It's a senior camp (years 11 ands 12) and its sorta directed towards training in leadership and stuff. Should be good, i dont know what to expect but i'm totally up for yet another opportunity to meet some nice Christian girls ;D amongst other things of course.

NEW YEARS EVE! We're all going over to Tom's again this year for a night filled with Pizza and Fireworks and Fellowship and stuff. Shall be great, last year was! Speaking of fellowship, on Wednesday, thats two days before Christmas, we're hopefully having a hangout with the MAC youth. We're all meeting at 7:30, heading to MAx Brenner to indulge ourselves in Chocolatey goodness and then driving through Davidson, St Ives and such looking at Christmas lights. I hope people can come, it will be fun.

So a lot to look forward to! And just as a treat, here's some Calvin Harris for you, because for the moment this song's kinda my Summer Anthem in a way. The beginnings hektik but the middle bit sucks a little.. STILL.. enjoy!