Invisibleness

I haven’t written anything of substance lately so let me try to do that. What have I been up to lately I ask myself to which I reply that that is a fantastic question of which I do not have a fantastic answer but I will give the answer I have anyway. I have been contemplating what the future might hold for me. I am a very curious person. I like to know information. I would love to know what is in store for my life and what might happen in the next couple of months and years and such. I am excited thinking about it! Sometimes I like to imagine but I try not to do that too much so I don’t give myself the opportunity to be disappointed if stuff I want doesn’t happen. Whatever is meant to happen, will happen and I pray I would mess things up to hinder that!

I am going into my last semester of my fourth year at uni which is unfortunately not my last year and I still have no clue what I am going to do with my life. I know what I love doing, but right now I just can’t see how that fits anywhere. I know that He will show me in due time and I will continue to try to be patient and wait until more of the puzzle pieces become clear.
Ahh, I just received my fitness magazine in the mail. Its funny to think back at when I used to do those competitions. Carrot! Lol. Wow, that would have been 5 years ago now! In some ways, I would love to do that again. And in a way that probably only I will understand, that leads me to my next topic of thought – invisibleness.

Sometimes I wish I was invisible, sometimes I am invisible, sometimes I wish I wasn’t so invisible. They all have their unique moments. But I think to actually be invisible would be awesome! That and being able to read people’s minds – that would be a scary one, especially if people could read my mind! Haha. When I used to sing at my old church, I would always sing on the worship team which would be placed on the floor while my bro would lead from the platform. I was totally happy and comfortable singing on the floor so the attention was not on me. I would have much rather preferred to be behind the curtain and singing so I could be out of sight. Then whenever I would sing a solo, I would have to go onto the platform and would get rather nervous. That’s just me. So I was at Crew the other night and asked for thoughts on something, I felt myself turning so red because I wasn’t prepared to talk in front of people! I’m silly like that and I hope I will get over that eventually. Then at the end of the night, Ben asked me to pray and I had no problem doing that. When I pray though, its just God and I, no one else. I think I need to think about that more when I’m singing so then I won’t get as nervous. Problem with that is then I like to close my eyes and that isn’t good stage presence. I will learn to talk in front of people easier eventually!

I wonder…
I wait…
I pray…

So I should be cleaning my room and finding someone to work for me when I go to Snow Camp and doing anything but sitting in front of this computer – something I do waaaay too much but oh well! I’m on vacation. Its been a nice vacation: I’ve slept so much more than normal, I’ve eaten waaay more than I need (but mmmmm food is excellent!), I’ve gone shopping 7 out of the last 12 days but am totally content to just window shop and I’ve played too many games of Sudoku (why is it that I find a game that I enjoy and no one likes to play with me like Blitz and now this! awww poor me :-p ).

If anyone wants to watch a good movie and doesn’t mind dancing movies, you must watch Step Up!! It is a fantastic movie and has made its way to the top 2 favourite movies of mine. My brother even thought it was a decent movie! And he doesn’t watch movies but he actually watched it with me too!

Ok I think that is enough pointless blabbing for a time. I will continue my evening of being unproductive and enjoying not having homework to accomplish at the moment. Only 4 more days of it so I am going to try to do as much non-school stuff or as much nothingness as I have time for!

More pics finally!

So I finally got a couple more pictures on here! The first three are from the Crew Christmas banquet on Saturday. The last four are from family Christmas on Monday. I was going to add some pictures of my relatives that are visiting from South Africa but I didn't really like any of those pictures. I know there are a lot of family pics with me but you see, my family isn't really a picture family and so I was totally impressed with myself for getting so many!

The lovely ladies (notice the colour co-ordinated positions - yes, we are women so that was planned):

Dave trying to be as tall as Ryan and Dan:









Ben and the ladies:












My bro and I:

My mother's cousin's son that isn't as innocent as he looks but oh how cute!










My mother and I: (I can't believe I actually got a picture with her!!!)












My dad and I:

Busy but wonderful time of year

It has been a little while since I’ve updated...my excuse is that it’s a busy time of year! This is what I have been up to in the last little while.
Last week Friday we had a family dinner for my grandfather’s birthday. Saturday was prayer meeting in the morning, work in the afternoon, straight to curling with some friends and then our surprise dinner with friends. We have been having these ‘surprise dinners’ with these friends for a few years now. The mother’s are a team, the father’s are a team and Ryan, Janelle and I are a team. We each have to come up with different courses of the meal and make them without sharing what we are making with the other teams until it is set on the table. Since these dinners started, the mother team has always tried to do a flambé which has never worked. So this year they decided to pass the torch on to my group which was rather fitting since we had the pyromaniac. So we decided to do something called steak diane for our flambé. To make a long story short, it worked beautifully! The steak was on fire, the table was on fire and Ryan’s hand was on fire! But oh what a beautiful blue flame it was! That was very exciting. And now to continue on with the weekend…last Sunday afternoon/evening was my dad’s side of the family Christmas. Monday evening we had some friends over for dinner. During the week, it wasn’t too busy except for me going shopping every single day Monday thru Friday! That was enjoyable. Then Thursday evening I got together with some high school friends - good times.
Saturday, I went to Bramalea Baptist at 10am and started decorating for the young adults banquet that evening. I really enjoyed decorating! Some of the guys tried to do a bit of decorating stuff with myself and Arlene but I had to send them back into the kitchen. Here is a picture of the decorating we did on the stage:

So I decorated from 10am – 4pm then Arlene and I went home to get ready and came back an hour later to do some last minute preparations. The evening went well! Here are a bunch of pictures from the night.

This is almost everyone. A bunch of people left before the evening was over so they did not make it into the big group photo.

I would add more pictures except they aren't uploading for me so maybe in another blog I will do that or ask me if you want to see more.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Car Accidents

Life is so precious. Every single moment is one we should not take for granted. Life can be taken from you at any point in time with no warning. That realization is just becoming more and clearer to me especially in the last couple of weeks.

I wrote in a past blog about a friend being in a car accident and a lady dying in that accident so I won’t rewrite about that. Then last Saturday I think it was, I went to prayer meeting as I always do. When Lawrence got there after me he said, “Good, you are here”. I didn’t know what he was talking about but he explained that on his way to prayer meeting he saw a little red car that had gotten into an accident and was totally smashed up. It must have happened just after I had passed and I was thinking, that could have been me! I could have slipped on ice and spun out and gotten into a car accident and had my little red car smashed.

Just today I found out that a friend who I grew up with and went to school with for 9 years died in an accident early yesterday morning. It’s very sad.

I have taken quite a bit of time lately to just thank God for His protection on my life. I could be any one of those people who died. My time on this earth could be over in a split second. But I’m still here. God has allowed me more time on this earth to accomplish His purpose. As for the specifics of His purpose for me, I wish I knew but guess I just have to be patient and stay close to Him so I can be ready and listening when He reveals it to me.

I’m sorry if this is a bit of a depressing blog to read because of all the death and car accidents mentioned but that seems to be the major theme presented in my life lately. I don’t really understand why, I just know that I don’t have time to be wasting my life doing trivial things. No one knows the day or the hour that He might choose to take you home or when He will return in all His glory.


“Therefore keep watch, because you do not know on what day your Lord will come.”
--Matthew 24:42

Stats is excellent!

So as I was doing some review for my motor learning exam, I was reading through the class discussion board and came across a really good post! Motor learning has many aspects of stats incorporated into it. I really enjoy stats! I think stats is a fantastic subject and I wish I could take more stats courses! Maybe I'm the only one, who knows, I just know that most people are not very fond of that course at all. So anyway, a classmate posted some stats jokes which I found to be quite entertaining! I thought I would share a couple of them with whoever might actually read this thing!

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Three statisticians go deer hunting, and as they're going through the
forest they discover a magnificent buck standing in a clearing. The
first statistician aims and fires, but his shot goes just to the right
of the deer. It hasn't moved, so the second statistician aims and fires,
but his shot goes just to the left of the deer this time.

So the third statistician jumps out of the blind and shouts "We got him!
We got him!"

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A stats major was completely out of it the day of his final exam. It was
a True/False test, so he decided to flip a coin for the answers. The
stats professor watched the student the entire two hours as he was
flipping the coin...writing the answer...flipping the coin...writing the
answer. At the end of the two hours, everyone else had left the final
except for the one student. The professor walks up to his desk and
interrupts the student, saying: "Listen, I have seen that you did not
study for this statistics test, you didn't even open the exam. If you
are just flipping a coin for your answer, what is taking you so long?
The student replies bitterly (as he is still flipping the coin): " Shhh!
I am checking my answers!"

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A famous statistician would never travel by airplane, because he had
studied air travel and estimated the probability of there being a bomb
on any given flight was 1 in a million, and he was not prepared to
accept these odds. One day a colleague met him at a conference far from
home. "How did you get here, by train?" "No, I flew" "What about your
the possibiltiy of a bomb?" Well, I began thinking that if the odds of
one bomb are 1:million, then the odds of TWO bombs are (1/1,000,000) x
(1/1,000,000). This is a very, very small probability, which I can
accept. So, now I bring my own bomb along!"

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It is proven that the celebration of birthdays is healthy. Statistics
show that those people who celebrate the most birthdays become the oldest.

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And just for the update, I have 1 more day of class (3 hours worth of lectures), 1 paper due Monday (which is done in rough and just needs revising), 2 final exams and 15 routines to go!