we're all in the mood for a melody.

does anyone know any good, cheap wedding photographers?
or just regular photographers who are able/want to take photos at a wedding?

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should i get a facebook?

haha!
while doing some last minute cramming, i stumbled across this website:

http://www.ugr.es/~lquereda/henry_sweet_and_american_structu.htm

don't click the link. it's really boring. but the first line is:

"If there is one word which best summarizes Sweet's work, this word is pioneer. This is, at least, what Bolton and Crystal believe. They claim:
'Sweet was a pioneer student of the English language who did much to further knowledge of both its history and its living structure.' (Bolton & Crystal, 1969:8)."

bolton and crystal! what are the chances.

i'm supposed to be studying, but my dad and i spent the morning reminiscing about american fast food outlets and cracking up over msn.

some favourites:
http://www.biscuitville.com
http://www.applebees.com
http://www.ljsilvers.com
http://www.popeyes.com
http://www.lubys.com
http://www.arbys.com

but THIS was the worst:
dad: you've got to see this one http://www.dqtexas.com/
six: oh no
six: dairy queen...
dad: is it just me or is the ad design really colourful and over the top ?
six: those salads are enormous
six: yeah, it's too much
six: chick'n salads?
six: why didn't they just put the 'e' in?
dad: more downhome feel!
dad: ho-made
six: hahaha
six: !!
six: oh i'm crying with laughter
dad: i know you want to join the blizzard fan club. you can drag yourself down there in your elastic pants everyday and get one. no wait don't get out of the car just go through the drive through.

my mind feels like an essay.

i'm desperately craving hanging out and doing not much. or a holiday. preferably both.

i have


SO


much uni work.

help!

hi!

so england is nice. brown bricks and yellow flowers and surprisingly sunny for what england is meant to be like in my head.

my grandparents all got here yesterday. i was expecting huge amounts of tension and weirdness as my grandmother (divorced from grandfather who is here with his wife) has recently become a widow, and it was always civil, but never warm between everyone. it's been better than expected. i just have to ignore a lot of the subtle backstabbing and petty family politics going on.

but far OUT i've never felt so young in my life!
i'm not mid forty-ish like my dad and janet and their siblings, and i'm not late sixties like my grandparents, and i'm not a kid like my brothers or nieces and nephews. so i'm feeling truly out of place for one of the first times in a long time. when all the "adults" are sitting around talking about who's going to be elected the next american president and swapping stories about their children, i find myself with my foot slung up on the chair, fiddling with beads in my bracelet, looking like a 13 year old. it probably doesn't help that my grandmother is still treating me like a child. fair enough, she hasn't seen me in 7 years so i am still a kid in her mind. it's just frustrating to have her keep pulling me on her lap or playing with my hair or whatever. argh!
(and how is she/are they going to cope when i'm making real adult decisions?)

this is a parallel universe. these aren't the family reunions we were attending 10 years ago. and even though everyone is getting along SO well, and i'm sitting here hearing laughter roaring from the kitchen, it just feels kind of wrong. my mum's not here. i'm not little. this isn't the place it's supposed to be.
but of course it's ok. i think this whole ordeal is just making me think about some things for the first time.

oh! what's weird is that my grandfather (dad's dad) married a janet (my grandmother)and had my dad. they got divorced and my grandfather remarried another janet. and now my dad has just married a janet.
so we got a photo of all three janet boltons.

so that's really all i have to say. i miss home incredibly. i love my family, but this is all a little too surreal.

u-k to-day!
(it rhymes)

bye all, see you in two weeks. xo

i go to england on thursday! and see my grandmother who i haven't seen for seven years, my other grandparents who i haven't seen for about a year, and my immediate family who i don't see nearly enough.
and i don't have to pay anything! as much as i complain, i'm really so, so blessed.
if you hear me complaining, please tell me to get a life. :)

hey there's a postsecret event in australia in december, does anyone want to come with me?

i read romans 6 this morning.
do not offer the parts of your body to sin, as instruments of wickedness, but rather offer yourselves to God, as those who have been brought from death to life; and offer the parts of your body to him as instruments of righteousness.

also, it was dave and my one year anniversary on saturday! (i would do another smiley, but i've already done one in this post and two's a bit much.)

there's something about the winter in the air that's making me really excited!
is it doing the same for anyone else?
i feel like something's about to happen (apart from england and moving house). otherwise, it's like i'm being reminded of something that was too massive to just be something that happened in my life. you know? (no.)

and so it's also unsettling. i just get too attached to feelings or smells or places and the way they remind me of the way things were (whenever). i can't look through any old paraphernalia- bits of paper, tin boxes, socks, notebooks- without feeling complete desperation. so you know, packing will be fun. it all just makes me fall in love with my life in this world.

but the fact that i'm feeling this disconnectedness...i'm so ready for heaven! where there's such unity, and relationships are forever, and God reigns supreme and there's never a time when i'm trying to fight that or undermine His authority.

fruSTRAtion. (and what do i expect? this is how i will feel until the day of Christ.)