Well i move on over to blogspot, but no one has updated their blogs for ages... so i thought why not come back here for some reading...  Can't hurt? 

Have a lot and i mean a lot of tbucks left, don't need any of them, if you want them, just say so. 

Here's the deal, i have heaps of T-bucks and i don't use t-blog much so i have no use for them, if you would like some, simply reply to this and i'll send you some. 

Cheers

Well i have decided that i'll move on over to blogspot.  I shall see you over there!

Ok, well i'm worked out how to resize the photos, just now they look fuzzy... but i'll see how they turn out...

That's me and Melissa and below is...

some of the guys, Clinton, Braden and Peter!

Just some of the people that have made my life down here a lil more bareable!  Hmm... have to work on that resizing...

Well what a great weekend it has been, and it's only Sunday arvie!  Saturday was heaps of fun, had a great day relaxing with friends and chatting.  I really am blessed with the wonderful friends that i have.  Even though they may tend to be a lil cray sometimes (hehe) they're wonderful! 

Had a bit of a musical jam with a handful last night, it was great play again with people, it's been so long and i have missed it.  I love playing, but my music teacher used to drill into us that if we couldn't play without any mistakes, that we shouldn't play anything at all, so i'm really shy with my piano i guess you could say.  I'm happy to play in front of my friends, and i know that no one would judge me, but i just don't feel all that comfortable playing at opening or closing sabbaths. 

Well, i tried on my dress from my Yr 12 formal, and it does still fit - relief!  So i do have something to wear to the ASFA awards thing.  I'm sure it'll be a really fun night, and i will continue to try to convince Clinton that he should go!  He's reasons for not wanting to go are quite amusing!

I'm stuggling with what i want to do... i'm not sure if i really want to do psychology now!  But i guess i will finish the course, but i don't know if i really wanna end up in psych.  I really love my animals, and i do have my cert which means that i am qualified to be employed as a vet nurse, so i am thinking that i may go back to my vet nursing.  I really learnt so much, and at the end of the day being able to know that you've helped some animals is really rewarding. On the same way, i really loved doing my geology too. It was so interesting.  All i know, is that i don't want to be cooped up in an office all day, all week. 

Isn't it amusing, we're so blessed, there's so much that we can do! - i just can't decide what it is that i want to do!

Well well well, only 6 more days until uni is over for me! Well, at least for a couple of weeks...

I am a little sore today, did some Pilates with two friends last night, i never thought that much of it, but i was surprisingly impressed!  Then two of us continued on and did 75 (female) push-ups and 75 sit-ups. Now i have to play netball tonight after the last week off!  I think i might be a little sore tommorow... hehe

I have printed off some stuff for my physiological psychology exam, the "this years potential exam questions" are as thick as my thumb! I'm never going to learn it all! Help! Here's a random fact for you:Anxiety disorders such as panic disorder and obsessive compulive disorder appear to have biological causes.

Oh, does anyone else want some tbucks?

Well, that's my ramble for the day.

Anyone want some tbucks? 

I've got some spare, so if you need any give leave me a message with how much you would like.

Gooooooood morning world! It's 12.35 in the morning and i really don't know why i'm still up?! I finally got my last assignemt in for HRMT.  Only one exam left now, which is in a weeks time. 

Well, seeing everyone will soon know about my huge blonde moment at camp, i may as well explain before the story gets stretched tooo far!  Dan and i were burying braden in the sand and we made him into an octopus (he was buried up to his shoulders so his head was stickin out the top).  Braden made some smart comment about making sure that he had the 8 tenticles, and i counted the tenicles on MY half and just assumed Dan was doing the same so i said, yes there were eight.  Then i actually stopped and counted them all and there were only 7!!!!  Now, here's where i should have just snuck around behind braden and made an extra tenticle without any fuss, but instead a sqealed and said "there's only seven!"....

One day i might learn..... :)

Everyone has their blonde moments right? And because i am blonde, i should be entitled to my fair share... (well, that's what i'm going to aruge)

Only two pieces of assessment left! Yay!  One which is a HRMT assignement (due today - not going to be finished) and a physiological psychology exam!

Then i can relax!  Well i have tried to post a couple of times in the past week, but tblog wasn't being nice to me!  I bought a really good CD the other day, Bond --> Classified.  I don't know much about the group, but they are a group of girls who play classical music, but they're really jazzed it up, it's great!

Well, just a quick excuse not to do my assignment, back to uni now.

Isn't it just great how sometimes things just work out great?? God can teach us so much when we least expect it, and he's been teaching me so much over the past couple of months. 

He's been teaching me to trust in him fully.  Even just with the little things, that i say that i've given to him but haven't...  It's amazing just how everything works out for the best.  He's given me the courage to stand up to someone who i shall not name... I'm so thankful that he's lead my family to Cooranbong, because i've met some truly amazing people who have each taught me something, whether big or small. 

I've always been a Christian, just i don't think i've been living it until the last couple of years and much more in the last year.  Things just seem to be working out so much better for me.  It's great! It's great to be able to feel God working if your life and to truly have a passion to share him with your friends and family. 

Let the crazyness begin....

The next 3 weeks are full of assessment!!!  I finally finished the one due at 7pm last night and now i move straight on to the next one... let's go and time how long 12 rats walk around their cage... fun stuff...

Don't you just love it when at the last minute you have to change your essay topic because there is nothing on what you wanted to do!?!  And don't you love the way by the time you've finished doing an assignment on a topic that the lecturer has no idea about and doesn't answer your questions, that you never want to hear about it again!?

I really don't care about the effects of caffeine on open-field behaviour of rats... and after watching and recording every behaviour for 3 mins of 12 rats... i never want to see a rat again!  Of course, it doesn't help that our lecturer hasn't really looked at the manual that he's given us to work out of, because there are things that are supposed to be there that aren't, things he's supposed to specify that he hasn't, and articles to find that no longer exist! 

So, now i've got roughly 4000 words to write on personality over the life span by tommorow... joys!  Just to make me feel even better, i've worked out that because i'm doing spring/summer term, i'll get a total of 3 weeks holidays before i start that term, then 1 weeks holiday before we start off againg with first term next year, oh, and i do get a week off around Christmas and New Years....

Well, now that i've had my grumbling session, i'll get back to uni work!

Last night while i was lying in bed thinking, my mind wandered to something that happened a couple of years ago now....

I was away cooking at a summer camp when my mum called.  She told me that one of the wife of one of our church members had gone missing.  She was in her 60/70s had severe diabetics and had taken her dog for a walk and had never returned.  Now, i had never really gotten to know her, but i remember her husband helping us and spending lots of time with us when we were building a house down at Emu Park (QLD, Australia).  I used to call him "Big bad Jim", i used to love him, but at the same time he kinda scared me cause he was sooo big but so gentle (i was only 5 at the time)....

Anyway, Jim and his wife Beryl lived in Mt Morgan which is an old mining town in QLD.  It is very small, but has a huge open cut mine which is now filled with toxic chemicals and the such.  A huge seach was organised for Beryl and the dog, but nothing at all was found.  Some have said that she may have fallen into the mine, others say she met foul play... either way, it's horrible to think that such a family has to live not knowing what happened. 

Some say that she may have become dis-orientated and become lost, and even if that was the case, she was so dependent on insulin that she would have died in a day with out it.  I find it hard to understand why the dog didn't return home, or why no one saw anything at all.  No one recalls seeing her walking... and being in such a small community... *sigh*

I just find it hard to comprehend that such horrible things can happen to such lovely people... the family looks forward to when they are all reuinited in heaven, but i don't think i would be able to cope not knowing happened if it was me in that situiation...

Well, our big day at the SAN was great!!  The girls did an awesome job at organising the day, there was plenty of food and it was just really relaxing too!  I did do some uni work, which made me feel better.  We played pool for a while, it was quite funny actually... Liss and I played against Braden and Peter and we won!!  hehehe!!  Pretty funny, cause Liss and I really aren't that crash hot, but we beat them each time! But, i must admit, when it came down to chasing the eight ball around, we weren't playing by the "rules" all the time...

*sigh* it's soo nice to have my computer back!  It makes things just soo much easier!  Only 4 weeks of uni left (then an exam) and i'm half way through my course!! That is a scary thought!! And, i still don't really know what i want to go into in the end... *sigh* I'd still really like to work with youth, but i really don't want to be stuck in a building all the time, i've always wanted to be part of summer camps or something like that too, but who knows where i'll end up!  It's a really nice day outside, and here i am stuck inside doing uni... how typical! lol

I really can't afford to take this entire weekend off, but oh well!  Friday, had First Church, which was good.  Today we had Sabbath School and Church, then went on the science picnic, then went back to college and closed Sabbath, sat around for a little while and now i'm really tired and should be in bed already.  Tommorow, we're off to visit the nurses! That'll be a great day!  But i am taking some uni work to do so i don't feel soo bad... even though i'll probably only do a tiny bit!  hehe

It's really great to have a couple of close friends who can understand you!  But... on the other hand, you can't hide anything from them either!  Braden dropped me home tonight (parents had taken off with the cars) and he could tell there was something on my mind... he wouldn't believe me when i said that nothing was up.  And then there's Clinton... well what can you say!  He's great quality!  - and a great laugh!  And of course, Melissa!  She's wonderful!  The whole group is really great!!

While we were at the beach for the science picnic, it was nice to just sit on the rocks and just listen to the waves crashing on the rocks and watch the waves rolling by.  It was really peacefull... i'd love to have a house by the sea, and be able to just sit and listen.  Well i'm going to go and sleep now, i need it! O.o

Well, really got nothing to say today...
Got one assignment in and (thankfully) our class got an extra 4 days for the other one. 
Oooh! I did get invited to go to the San in a couple of weeks! *yay*!  It'll be nice to see the place where those poor nurses live!  It shall be a great day out! 

Well... what can i say... just one of those weeks...
First, last Sabbath was the ADRA appeal.. now don't get me wrong, i support ADRA 100%, just i personally hate it when people come to my door or ring me up trying to sell or get me to donate something.  Anyway, i did the appeal, and felt horrible for the people who couldn't donate (legit reasons or not) because i know how annoyed i can get. 

I have an exam tommorow... for which i have had no time to study (yeh, yeh, i know... but i'm typing in between studying at the moment) because i've been driving people around, doing all my other uni work and probably not puting enough time aside for it.  So here i am, trying to cram 8 chapters of 'Into to human development' in... THEN, i have a 3000 word essay due monday, which i will only be able to work on sunday and monday (until i have to post it at 5pm)...

On top of all that, my cousin has a brain tumour and i was informed tonight that she has gotten it back (after 3 other operations to remove it) and the pain was too much so they have put her into a coma and given her 2 hours to 2 days to live... *sigh*  Not to mention that my grandma died about 3 weeks ago now...

Thank goodness tommorow is Friday... i really thank the Lord for the Sabbath!  Let's hope next week looks better (crossed fingers)....

"For males, emotions are processed in the limbic system, which is a primitive area of the brain and more likely to be linked to action.  For females, emotions are processed in an area of the brain close to the speech centre, making it easier for girls to talk about their emotional reactions”  (Newman & Newman, 2003, ‘Development through life: A psychosocial approach', p. 216).

Got that out of this weeks reading in my physiology textbook, what are your view own that one.  I think it could explain alot! 

Argh, assignments and exams are starting up again!!  Everyone is just starting back at College, so there's heaps of social things happening and i'm stuck studying for exams and stressing over assignments! 

Two of my friends have just gotten engaged in the past 2 weeks, i'm so happy for them!  Their both fairly young, but their happy!  We're all waiting for another one of our friends to get engaged... we all reckon it'll happen before the end of the year! 

I really should be studying right now... but it's over cast outside and i just can't seem to find the motivation right now... But with an exam and a 3000 word essay comming up.. i guess i have no choice!

Everyone is back at College now - and it's great! It's so wonderful, it was extremely quiet and dull when everyone was gone!  My boring weeks are over - i think i've got something to do everyday now... and no, it's not uni work!  That isn't going that well... i'm starting week5 and assignements are due in 1-2 weeks and i haven't even looked at them yet! *eek!* Oh well! Such is life!

Life...

We start off dependent on our parents for care... to strive for independance from them... have our children depend on us... then we end up depending on others to care for us as we get older. 

Isn't it a funny little cycle?  Sort of reminds me of the 'fashion trends', they come and go, and come and go again. 

Most of us start of thinking that our parents are heroes, they can do anything.  Then suddenly, their not so cool, they cramp our style, become 'unreasonable'.  Next, we want their advice and value the time we spend with them.  Then they become our role models and heroes again. 

When i think about it, lots of things are like that.  Not necessarily over the whole life span... Take the opposite sex.  You go from just being play mates, to the girl/boy germs state, to chasing them, to being frustrated with them (does this stage really end? :oP) and a whole heap in between! 

Looking at it from a larger scale... there is evidence that points toward vast knowledge yonks ago (ie, the pyramids being built), and it was lost.  I've been told that there are thoughts that there were planes way back too.  What happenend?  Why the loss of knowlege?  Some say that they were at the peak of their knowledge and it was wiped out, does that mean that when we are at the peak of our knowledge, it'll all be wiped out again? 

Hmm...