i am kristy

MY SISTER IS GETTING MARRIED!!! I'M SO EXCITED I CAN'T HELP BUT WRITE IN CAPS! WOOHOOOOO... I ACTUALLY STARTED CLAPPING MY HANDS WHEN I FOUND OUT "IF YOU'RE HAPPY AND YOU KNOW IT, CLAP YOUR HANDS" haha

ok I have calmed down from the excitement a little, I can't wait to hear how he proposed... hmmm... so when's the wedding? I dunno, that's k cuz she's getting married and whenever is good. This is the first marriage out of us, I guess since there's only 3 of us, 2 which have boyfys, and now one that's engaged! hah we used to always joke who would get married first... and Jaime always said it wouldn't be her BUT IT IS! haha

This is the highlight of the year and it's even better cuz her fiancee Tim is such a great guy and he's so perfect for her, so that makes me happy!

(happy) sigh... :)

Jacinta's word at 180 last night was definitely a word in season for me as Abbey e-mailed and said pretty much the same thing to me! Basically just doing a spot check with God and where we are at with him. So many times we can continue doing things the way we've always done them (cuz they worked) and not realise that it isn't what God wants for us now, so we need to regularly tune ourselves to Him.

Personally coming back to that place where I can know and feel His presence and just BE with him. I don't have to do anything, say anything, bring anything... all He wants is me just as I am. And for that I thank God for his loving grace, cuz honestly I'm not worthy.

When I was younger I used to think that when your heartbeat was in sync with someone, or if your timing of your breath was the same, or your walk and stride were in step it meant you had a special connection with that person. SO I used to always try and get in step with my parents when I walked alongside them, or when I was sitting close to them I would try and control my breathing to be that of theirs... and it should be the same with God. I just want to be so close that I can feel His heartbeat and breathing and align myself with His so we can have that special connection.

It's such a conscious thing and I know so many times I try and rush ahead, or lag behind putting me out of sync with Him (esp being in HK) and all He's asking is "be still and know I am God"

breath in...

breath out...

I started texting Abbey cuz I missed her and I'm so excited that she's going off to Rome today to meet Lyds&Em!! And I just couldn't sleep so picked up my guitar... omg it's been sooo long, I can't even remember when I played last. Poor neglected thing. I realised how much I love it haa and was remembering all these random songs like this one for my sister's birthday and I woke her up singing it to her...

Sarah so many years have pasted us by
Sarah you're twenty-one already
oh what a great age to be
you can buy your own tv
sarah my sister sarah

Sarah so many years have pasted us by
Sarah you're twenty-one already
and I will keep our memories
in my heart for eternity
sarah my sister sarah

haa it's so cheesy, I love it. Finally went to sleep cuz my wrist was sore, it's been sore most of the week... maybe from carrying an umbrella hmmm

I'm working at home today, which is nice for a change... so I'm giving myself little breaks like going into the kitchen for something, hmm might do some baking later yumm slice

Alright get back to work, oh wait gotta hang the clothes first

physically and definitely spiritually...

Last week my body decided to give me a wake up call and suddenly I was in heaps of pain. Ironically I was in a shop's changing room at the time and just had to half sit/lie in the small cubicle. Neens happened to call and was trying to comfort me and telling me to stretch etc. ha looking back it is kinda amusing, half dressed me on the phone, lying on the floor, going mehhhh and in pain... after being kicked out the shop (they were closing) I had to stop and sit on the side of the road before I eventually made it to 7-11 to get some drugs&water. The lady behind the counter kept saying "ho tung ah...(very painful?)" Yes was my pitiful reply and I hung off the counter for awhile... not a fun night

I realised I had been neglecting my health as I "adjusted" to this new lifestyle... my main meal of the day was lunch which usually is a sandwich, and in the morning it's only a piece of fruit, and hardly anything at night cuz I don't like eating before bed (9:30-10pm by the time I get home) no snacking either... SO that's obviously not very good. This is one area I definitely need to manage a bit better, proper meals and stuff.

Now I'm feeling a bit sicky with a sore throat, headaches, blocked sinuses etc... booooo my boss was away for 5 days and the day he came back he texted me at night saying "I want to say again what a good job u have done! I dont like to see u getting sick today and u must take care of yourself. I meant what i said and have a sleep in tomorrow and a "wee" break if u need it!" He's great

On the spiritual side, I haven't been spending time with God, in His word or even in prayer. Those really cheap one-liners before I go to bed, or rush out the door don't really count. I mean if I'm not walking with God each day, what am I doing? where am I going? It's so easy to just keep doing the same thing (ha as I was writing those questions I looked at these stickers by our computer which says "Jesus is the only way" "One way to God" "U turn to God" "Walk with Jesus"... nice)

Last night as I was being kept awake by a mossie in my room, I started reading "Lord I want to be whole" by Stormie Omartin and there's lots of stuff I know I need to be dealing with from the past that is effecting life today... (it always seems like we deal with the same things!) so just started praying about that. I know I've been so self absorbed lately and the best way to get around that is to pray for others. So that was 5am...

hmm... so God same time, same place?

Fluid girls (left to right) Wah Wah, Jacky, Sally, Me & Helen 

I guess it can be most of the time, but when you're in HK for summer, it's HOT and it ain't that easy... it's barely even the begining, I don't know how I'm going to hold up? Just pretend it's Fiji baby... hmm I'm trying, so today I wore my swimmers the whole day, I went out without makeup (just to go get a facial), had a mango drink, wore flip flops and sunnies, put on insect repellant... I think that was my extent of living a Fiji life. The rest was just crazy!

Was suppose to go to a Hawaiian pool party tonite (just to end the day right), but while I was preparing for my kiddie's Splash class, I heard something break in the kitchen. I kinda poke my head around the door and saw glass on the floor and then BLOOD! OMG there was so much! My mum had accidently dropped a glass on her foot, and honestly there was blood everywhere! So quickly trying to remember my CSLA classes - RICE! So put her foot up, cloth and compression on the wound, grab some ice and blood is still going everywhere... so crazy. I've always wondered what I'd be like in an 'emergency'... I probably know what to do more than I think I do, cuz I kept saying "I don't know what to do" but did everything that was suppose to be done... and I kept making silly jokes to mum and myself like, blood is suppose to stay in our bodies not come out mum! eww gross mum your blood is EVERYWHERE! Where's that CSI blood detector spray stuff? and I've just cleaned the floor!! yeah I was just getting grossed out by the cut... and ewwww gross blood... (weird, it made me think of Queen's St flat when we had slugs in the kitchen and I'd squat down and look at them and just say eww gross... steph had to take them outside)

To top things off, we were having people over for dinner and they arrived to see me with gloves and a bucket cleaning blood off the floor, chair, table... and mum lying on the ground with her foot wrapped up leaning on a box!! ha bit of a sight... good that mum called a nurse friend of hers and checked how we should be doing things. The worse thing is that we don't even have a first aid kit in the house!! Not even the basics... so crazy, will have to be a bit more prepared next time!

So yes, this past week has been full on! I guess the longer I'm there, the more responsibility I have and more things I'll be doing!One thing I do love about this job is that I can be creative as well - like in helping the designers with projects, and coming up with tag lines and ideas. that's fun. I've also done my first intro presentation to a client, which I will be doing more of, so will have to get used to doing that! I've had several meetings on my own, which went fine... it's good when I get feedback from my boss on what to do and how to improve... and I've eaten lots of chocolate cake! We always seem to have cake in the office!

Coming up... on Monday Jamie & I have to go to a "Search Engine Seminar" oh what fun... and it's at 8am! crazy... we were saying we'll go for the breakfast and then sneak out while the people are talking, only after we call our boss to wake him up and let him know what he's missing haha

Tuesday I'm planning to go hear Whence He Came so that should be good...

Wednesday nite races - we went last week, but I didn't win anything, although Neena & Higgie did. The horses are sooo amazing! We go check them out before we place a bet... they get paraded around in the pit area and then the jockeys come out all dressed up, it's kinda exciting! Neens, after a taste of success wants to go back... she can't stop thinking about it! ha funny.

And of course sat. is Derek&Janice's wedding... and Herb's&James' party is that day/night too so will be able to go to both! umm really should ask for a day off first ay...

Bob - the Fluid cat 

My mum found an old box of mine outside in the storage place! It’s been so crazy looking through my stuff from over 10 years ago, the memories, smiles and laughs they brought back was just like it was yesterday – cliché, but true! I can even remember wearing those clothes, and what was happening during those times, just being able to re-live those situations. I guess sometimes that can be good, others not. Was reading through a diary from ’93-96, high school years, I really can’t believe life was like that! Mostly about who was with who, who liked who, what happened on the weekend etc. And for a lot of the time I was really sad, depressed (or thought I was), it was a rather negative, lonely time – but we never want to remember the bad things, only the good, but so much of it makes us who we are today. hmm

Anyways, here’s a few excerpts from my past -

1992 – Poetry
The Man Inventor (that's not even a typo)
A mad inventor lived above me,
He asked me to come to his house for tea,
The cookies tasted bad,
The inventor went mad
I walked out the door,
When he crashed through the floor.
I ran down the stairs,
To find that he was dead.
Now there’s no inventor up the stairs.


School Reports – ha have I changed much??

Summer, 1990
Kristy needs to become more confident in her own ability.
She’s looked upon as a mediator and unbiased in the disagreements which occasionally occur in her friendship groups.

1990-91
She is quite shy and reserved…
She works well as a member of a group as she prefers to communicate within a smaller unit.
She has excellent powers of concentration and is able to read silently for a prolonged period.
She works with great delicacy and care…
She is a quiet, sensible and extremely hardworking girl. She always sets herself the highest standards in all she does.

July 1, 1992
She likes to speak in small groups or in a one to one situation.
She enjoys the challenge of making something out of junk…
She is well balanced and sensible and can always be trusted.


Achievements
Swimming 5m (I actually have the badge!!) and I did go up to 1000m, Grade 4 in ASA-ESSA Water Skills award, and Personal Survival Grade 4 - I didn’t even remember I had these!

Other items in my collection include movie stubs - Some didn’t have dates, so just put them as they were in order:
1994: Speed, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, The Specialist…
1995: Time Cop, Legends of the Fall (11 Mar & 12 Mar – yes it’s that good), Nell, Outbreak, Boys on the Side, Pocahontas, Batman Forever, Waterworld, Tank Girl, French Kiss, Crimson Tide, Assassins, Murder in the First, Seven (27 Dec), The Cure (28 Dec), Nine Months (29 Dec) – must have been bored during those hols!
1996: Dangerous Minds, Ace Ventura-when nature calls (12:40pm & 5:55pm on the same day! – don’t ask), Babe, The American President, Jumanji, Sense & Sensibility, The Birdcage, Primal Fear (Richard Gere), MI, The Juror, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Independence Day, The Rock, Jane Eyre, Courage Under Fire, The Frighteners, Sleepers…
1997: Jerry Maguire, Shine, Star Wars, Scream, The Fifth Element, Romeo&Juliet, The Lost World, Batman & Robin, Hercules, Men in Black, Speed 2, Face Off, Mr Bean, The Jackel…
1998: I know what you did last summer, Titanic, Replacement Killers, Full Monty, Alien Resurrection, Good Will Hunting, Spice World, The Man in the Iron Mask, A Life less Ordinary, Godzilla, Sliding Doors, Mulan, Armageddon, X-File, Rush Hour, Wedding Singer…
1999: Episode 1, Gen-X-Cops, Tarzan, Mask of Zorro, Enemy of the State, Mod Squad,
2000: Toy Story, Three Kings, American Beauty, Skulls, Shaft, Payback, The Story of Us, The Faculty, Shanghai Noon, The Patriot, Chicken Run, Sixth Sense, Deep Blue Sea, Keeping the Faith, Gen-Y-Cops, Anna & the King, Autumn in New York, Romeo Must Die, Where the Heart Is, Patch Adams, The Beach…
2001: What Women Want, Aaron Kwok Live on Stage, Vertical Limit, Vanilla Sky, MI:2…

ha.. where were you when you watched these??

I had a massage yesterday and it hurt! I can still feel the sore muscles now... but during it, no matter how much it hurt, you know it's good and to be able to just put up with the pain for the moment, you know you'll be better off. I'm trying to draw some parallels in life here... hmm

Sometimes you just need to push those buttons, climb those stairs, bake that cake, float that boat, flip that coin, walk that mile, sing that song, read that book, dial that number, wear those shoes... regardless of what you feel like doing and your fear of the outcome.

ok don't really know the reason behind this post, I'm tired and need a nap. yeah for sunday arvo

Your #1 Match: ENFJ

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