sleepless

A little tired today after a somewhat sleepless night, there is so much going on in my little head at the moment. It's all amazing, freeing God stuff. Have i ever mentioned that i think God is awsome - well i do and He really is.

A phonecall from here has really had my head spinning. i dont know what's round the corner just yet but i'm so excited.

to blog or not to blog

i know i should blog and i'm sorry but i'm feeling quite uninspired at the moment. Anythng i write wouldn't be very interesting today. Not that i'm not interesting but my blogging is, i'll hopefully have some good stories to enthral you all with soon, or at least some musings or photos.

blessings

Revive

Revive in the north is gonna be amazing. Camping with my church and all the other vineyard's in the north. Hurray! Come on God! So excited!

Full report and photos on monday, just have to get through work today...

Owen's out

Owen ruled out for several months
Michael Owen is out of the World Cup and flying back to England after rupturing his anterior cruciate knee ligament against Sweden.

Bugger.

Home is where the heart is?

Been in Oxford this weekend for my mum's 50th birthday. It's been pretty chilled out depite a few scraps with Squiff over who gets to use the car. It is SO terrifying that he is learning to drive.

I've probably mentioned before but i really dont fit here in Oxford at all, within seconds of stepping off the train all my teenage insecurities come flooding back! How sad is that?! The town centre is just so so different from Hull, i feel much more comfortable Humberside. You know what though? As cheesy as it may sound, and i'm told i'm often very cheesy, heaven is my home. It doesn't matter where i live here cos there's a battle to fight everywhere! ha ha London's gonna be fun!

Ps just like to draw attention to Australia's valiant game against Brazil today, they may have lost 2:0 but they played brilliantly. Come on you Socceroos!

Ozzy Ozzy Ozzy Oi Oi Oi

We did a sweepstake in our office for the world cup - I was gutted because I got Australia! However after the 3.1 win against Japan yesterday I’m feeling very optimistic and am getting more addicted to the World Cup. What is happening to me? I’m finding myself watching as many matches as I can! The football bug has well and truly bitten me.

I love the way that it has united the whole country, every shop down Newland Ave has an England flag - it’s brilliant. Maybe one day we will all be as united in Christ, I’ll keep on praying.

Gonna watch Thursday’s match at St. Andrew’s back home. I love it; massive screen, bbq, stacks of people and Christians trying to be on their best behaviour!!

SHEFFIELD!!!!!!!!

Went to stay with Amy and the Walls this weekend in Sheffield. It felt like i was on holiday,who knew sheffeild could be so beautiful? we had an amazing time, one of the best weekends ever it consisted of;

SUNSHINE!!!
England v Paraguay (plus EVERY other world cup game on saturady, thanks Jimmy!)
Minimilks
Sing Star
Buzz
Star Wars Trivial Pursuit
Chicken Dinner
Sweat
Short shorts
Very funny Wall family photos
Alot of talk about boys late into the night
Church
Bare faced bottom burps
Paper rounds
Amy's mum

What a weekend! and those were only the highlights!

Ps HAPPY BIRTHDAY MUM!

Unfailing Love

Went to the album launch in Nottingham last night. It was in the Hard Rock Cafe which i have to say was a slightly bizare venue for a gig. Then again it wasn't really gig but i'm not entirely sure what it was. I guess the best way to describe it was a show case of new worship songs, i found it weird because in a room of about 350 christians no one was really sure whether to worship or not. i worshipped anyway although got very hot and sweaty so spent most of my time catching up with Ste and Sharon.

I went travelling round the Balkans with Ste and Sharon last summer with 24-7 prayer. It was really lovely to be able to catch up again, always very refreshing and alot of fun. Got chatting with Ste about the Big Conversation in Blgrade and how things are going in Macedonia and Belgrade. I really love those places and i desperately want to go back to Macedonia next summer - fancy coming?

x x x

Another Sunny Day

I guess alot of british blogs at the moment will be about the weather and i intend to make mine no different...
I love walking to work down Newland Avenue, it's so beautiful and Cottingham Road is gorgeous when the sun is shining like it was this morning. Already seen Tommy and Jordan this morning as they were setting up Planet Coffee. At 8am i was already a bit sweaty cos the sun was so hot, i'm excited about summer.

However summer is also exam season. I thought that my days of exams were finally behind me. Because of the AUT strike i had to invigulate a three hour marketing exam yesterday. I thought taking my own exams was bad but watching other people take theirs is far far worse. I had to sit still and in silence for three hours. Oh my goodness i'm so glad the strike finished last night. No more invigilating for me!!

Off to the new Trent Vineyard album launch tonight in Nottingham. I'm excited because 'Unfailing Love' is an excellent album, more on that tomorrow.

The album that changed my world

Today is a very stressful day work - consisting of a lot of mail merges which I have discovered I hate. God’s been throwing spanners in the works for next year again but I’m used to it by now, it’s all His after all. It makes it all so much more exciting!

Been trying to distract myself by thinking of the album which has had the biggest impact on me. I came up with Radiohead’s ‘The Bends’. I’m sure it’s quite an obvious choice but in some ways it totally changed my life. I bought it in the summer of ’96 because the boy I fancied at youth group loved Radiohead. I played it on repeat all summer, well not repeat but I kept turning the cassette over and over! It made me see what real music was and that there was so much more to life than Brit pop and Boyzone. I’ve never looked back and I love them to this day.

So what’s yours?