Posts Tagged ‘2008’
New Years Resolutions.
I’ve been thinking and praying a lot about New Years resolutions. I usually will have none of it at all. But I’ve bookmarked a few blog posts in my delicious, which either have concepts on New Years Resolutions, or actual resolutions that I like.So I’ve decided to do it this year, and to set achieveable goals.
My theme for 2009 is: Priority.
I’m sick of doing pointless things, and wasting time. This year I am taking life seriously, and making the most of the time I have. It also involves segregating certain aspects of life- not letting work take up all my time, and not letting the internet take too much time either.
1. Focus on God. I probably say this every year, but I am serious about it now. Luke and I are going on a pilgrimage to Israel in less then two weeks, which will be a great kick start to the year.
2. Love. Spend more time with Luke, just us, spend time with family, and making sure I let people know that I love them. Letting LOVE exude from my character, and showing love even to those people who annoy me. I need to make love a priority in life.
Also, to let work be work and life be life. I work at my parent’s house, so it’s really quite hard to sometimes just ‘hang out’, and it’s easy, because it’s so close, to just spend lots of time there working, and not enough time with Luke.
3. Tell the truth. I like to make stuff up, so this year I’m going to make sure I always tell the truth, even when I’ve done the wrong thing.
4. Be more involved online. I want to spend more time networking, both with my eLearning work, and my personal stuff. This means making the effort to comment on more blogs, maintain my ela blog, bookmark in delicious, post photos to flickr and deviant art, and stay active in twitter, and my personal blogging. I’d also like to make this blog reflect more a ‘whole’ of me- not just the personal side of me.
I’m making a good start to it by being involved in the group twitter365 on flickr.
5. Be healthier. Loose some weight, eat whole foods, exercise regularly, etc. etc. I’m going to go for walks with Pepper, and if I don’t do that, then spend some time on the wii fit. This last month I’ve actually been a lot better at it, so here’s hoping that January is better still!
6. Focus of photography. I’ve found a great site that gives you assignments every week, so I’m going to try to be part of that more, and really learn more about how to increase my skills and knowledge, and learn some new techniques. This means being a regular on Deviant Art, and learning from my photographer friends, like Cam.
So those are my main goals. This year I hope to update monthly on how they’re going, and review them. I also want to spend time doing more crafts and painting if I get the chance, and some more money. 
Thanks for visiting my site again! keep checking back for more updates!
Tags: 2008, 2009, deviantart, ela, elearning, flickr, health, Internet, newyears, online, photography, wii
Who I was in 2008…
New year, so it’s time to reflect. If you haven’t read my Christmas letter yet, it pretty well updates 2008 for us. You can grab it here.
In 2008 I was…
a prac teacher
on a mini blog hiatus
building a house
moving
celebrating
an online shopper
a movie editor
a married woman
finding myself
filling new shoes
a uni graduate
tired
suprised
a twitter addict
a facebook addict
an employee
a wife
unemployed
stalked
a leader
irritated
annoying
supported
lavished
blessed
an artist
a photographer
uncertain
a student
a learner
an internet junkie
a bridesmaid
and so much more…
Youth Camp
So this weekend Luke and I have been leaders on Youth Camp. It was a pretty good weekend over all- we were in Tewantin, near Noosa. I was head chef, so I spent a lot of time in the kitchen, but I had HEAPS of helpers, so it was all good!
I think all the kids had a good time. My brother, Amon, was there (the kid with his head down in the picture), and I really liked spending that time with him.
I didn’t have to do ALL the cooking… Kim was a great help leading the boys through the pancake making process… Yes, they used their hands, yes everyone ate them, and yes, they were good!
They had to do challenges, and we also had a speaker who I think really helped out a lot of the kids with some of the issues they had going on. I felt like I learnt a lot as well, so that’s always a good thing!
If I’m going to be completely honest with you, then I’ll tell you that I wasn’t 100% looking forward to camp. But, I would definitely do it again, now that I’ve done it and realise that it’s a really great time to have fun, learn, teach, and just be an example of a ‘regular christian person’ whatever that is. 
Tags: 2008, cooking, food, noosa, tewantin, youth, youth camp
