25 things about LAUREN!

I was tagged, so here are my "25 things"

1. I love these things. I was excited to be tagged.

2. I wanted to change my name to Kimberly when I was in Kindergarten.

3. I am Ginger Spice.

4. I loved Hanson in High School, and I was convinced I was going to marry Taylor Hanson...kinda glad I didn't :)

5. I met Mick in year 7 when I was 12, but wasn't really friends with him until year 9 (when I started going to youth group), and we didn't actually start going out until after we finished year 12. We got engaged at 19 & married at 20!

6. While every 8 year old loved the all-girl pop group 'Girlfriend', my favourite musician was Eric Clapton.

7. I started playing netball when I was 8. I played rep from 11 & stopped playing at 16. I was sick of the 'politics'!

8. I worked at McDonalds when I was 15 for about 6 months.

9. I played the recorder in Primary School.

10. I have a phobia of deep water.

11. I am also petrified of Magpies. I don't go walking in Spring for fear of getting swooped.

12. I used to love devouring books. I just don't have the time anymore. And by devouring, I mean reading lots & lots.

13. I went on a student exchange when I was 16 to Spain. I got extremely homesick 2 months in & went home!

14. I'm happiest when friends & food are all around me.

15. I wanted to be an Illustrator when I was in early Primary School, and a Physiotherapist when I was in late Primary School.

16. I wrote a play in year 6. It was terrible. I also wrote songs with a friend. They too were terrible.

17. I love the colour pink.

18. I love clouds. Especially with sunrises & sunsets.

19. I didn't go to Uni, and have done quite well for myself!

20. I started my baker's apprenticeship in 2004. I lasted 6 months...I miss it though!

21. I love working in hospitality. I want to have my own business one day.

22. I don't like walking or running for exercise, I find it too boring. I prefer playing sport or riding my bike.

23. My vice is choc-chip cookies. And coffee.

24. I can't just sit & watch a movie. I always have to be doing something else, like Sudoku, or bumming on facebook :)

25. I don't want to live a mediocre life.

Well, there you go :)

Best thing ever!

So the best thing ever happened to us yesterday as we were buying a few items at the supermarkets. We just picked up 1 or 2 things and were then headed for the nearest icecream (it was 35 dgrees outside- thats 95 degree Fahrenheit) when the lady behind us at the checkout asks us if we want some free iceblocks!!!
She and her 2 daughters were getting some iceblocks & as it was cheaper to buy a box of 8 iceblocks than 3 individual icecreams!
So we scored free iceblocks and the moral of the story is that is the best thing ever!!!
Thanks

C.S. Lewis Song

This is my other song for the year:

C.S. Lewis Song - Brooke Fraser
If i find in myself desires nothing in this world can satisfy
I can only conclude that I was not made for here
If the felsh that i fight is at best only light and momentary
Then ofcourse I'll feel nude when to where I'm destined I'm compared

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan as I wait for hope to come for me

Am i lost or just found? On the straight or on the roundabout of the wrong way?
Is this a soul that stirs in me, is it breaking free, wanting to come alive?
Cos my comfort would prefer for me to be numb
And avoid the impending birth of who I was born to become

Speak to me in the light of the dawn
Mercy comes with the morning
I will sigh and with all creation groan as I wait for hope to come for me

For we, we are not long here
Our time is but a breath, so we better breathe it
And I, I was made to live, I was made to love, I was made to know you
Hope is coming for me
Hope, He's coming

Yahweh

I've been thinking about what this year is going to look like, and I could talk about all the things I'm doing, but I think it's more than that. I was listening to U2's how to dismantle an atomic bomb (what a mouthful!) album today & the last song's lyrics struck me. I think THIS is what I'm about this year...quite simply anyway :)

Yahweh - U2
Take these shoes
Click clacking down some dead end street
Take these shoes and make them fit
Take this shirt
Polyester white trash made in nowhere
Take this shirt and make it clean, clean
Take this soul
Stranded in some skin and bones
Take this soul and make it sing
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn
Take these hands
Teach them what to carry
Take these hands, don't make a fist
Take this mouth
So quick to criticise
Take this mouth, give it a kiss
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, Yahweh
Still I'm waiting for the dawn
Still waiting for the dawn, the sun is coming up
The sun is coming up on the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
This love is like a drop in the ocean
Yahweh, Yahweh
Always pain before a child is born
Yahweh, tell me now
Why the dark before the dawn?
Take this city
A city should be shining on a hill
Take this city if it be your will
What no man can own, no man can take
Take this heart
Take this heart
Take this heart
And make it break

Beautiful

I was watching Lily dance this evening & she started spinning. It was a beautiful sight to watch, she had a look of pure joy in her face. Simply beautiful. I hope she never loses that joy!

Waiting still

I'm really looking forward to February! That's when Mick & I start (properly) working & we'll be able to figure out housing arrangements (any pray-ers out there, prayers would be gratefully accepted in that area :)...I guess I feel like things will begin in February.
In the meantime Mick & I are just riding out January, trying to enjoy not being busy, but failing...being stationary is a little frustrating sometimes!
L x

Some recent musings...

Shedding skin, gotta rid myself of this guilt-racked cover life
Can’t win, sticks like glue
Gotta find the one that’s true
Fighting the lies, still some catch me by surprise
Grass is always greener on the other side
Looking at myself in disguise
Not recognising what I see
What’s on the surface isn’t real
But it’s what’s underneath that makes me flee
I’m looking for a lifeline
But what I grab makes no difference
Shedding skin, gotta let you in
Unconditional freedom