Moojaguffer's Bobcorn

Don't look it up you won't find it in the dicitionary.

I have a good friend called Dina. I often call her Deen Deens and she often replies with Lish Lish. But after having deep conversations with her about dirty people and clean people (otherwise known as clean freaks, people who fight against bacteria and grime - Katie Reid, Matthew Gluyas) this last weeked just gone past, she has earned herself the name of MOOJAGUFFER. A word i invented which means popcorn licker because i said so and here's how she earnt that name.

I am a dirty person. Get your mind out of the gutter, not THAT kind of dirty. I am lazy and i don't like doing anything (mind you, since having a flatmate i've noticed how tidy i am, not necessarily clean). Not liking elbow grease creates all sorts of problems, but not that i'm worried. It means my clothes are not ironed, i wear them creased. It means that my house is covered in dust. It means the dishes pile up and i only wash them when there are none left (or buy new ones - haha, no, no i've never done that!). It means that my bathroom is scummy. It means that my house becomes a downright mess!!!!!!!! (please do not preach at me about where in the bible it says not to be lazy - I KNOW!!!). I realise that this poses a serious health threat and also realise that this blog could have the health department knocking on my door!!! But alas, i am still alive and not looking as though i'm going to be pushing up the daisies anytime soon.

But i like being lazy and i love getting messy!!! I'd love to get in a mud wrestle and i love getting out in the rain and being soaked through. There is something about being cleaned completely that makes it fun to get dirty, that sentence would sound really bad if i were to put it into a spiritual context so let's not do that!

Anyway, my hair was all greased up on the weekend and so i asked Dina if she'd mind doing it up in pins and to my astonishment, she agreed!!! She also, like me, doesn't mind getting dirty!!! A good wash can get most things clean and that's the pattern of thinking i assumed she also had.

But i didn't understand the complete extent of exactly WHAT she meant until Sunday night. I'm not sure i even believed she was a dirty person.

But then, lo and behold, on Sunday night, i threw her some bobcorn (as the Gypo's say) and it didn't quite reach. So she scooted on over to it and to my delight (and Kt's disgust), and to prove how dirty she really is, she leaned down, opened her mouth and scooped it up with her tongue OFF THE DIRTY, DUSTY FLOOR!!!!!! I squealed with delight and applauded her magnificent game play?! What a catch!!!! What a trooper!!!!

So, Moojaguffer, welcome to my band of dirty people, you have passed your initiation (which didn't really exist until you proved yourself?!) and now have earnt a place high amongst the people who don't care about grime and know the true value of a good bath and what it is to be clean?!

Q: What is the rear entrance of a cafeteria?
A: Bacteria!!!!

Tink xoxo

PS: Moojaguffer, you will be pleased to know, you are my grand 40th post!!!

Always and Forever - Come just as you are

The title of this blog is a song. A song from a Planetshakers album. I hate the tune. But i love the lyrics.

One phrase got to me while i was singing it....

And when my world is falling down
In you i will be found
I'm staying in ur arms today
Always! always and forever

It is good to know that God reassures you that he is there when you feel like your whole "world is falling down". Something i seem to be experiencing a lot of lately. It' s almost like a hot, sweaty, thirsty person crawling and groping their way through the desert and being shown a mirage of water to help them go just that extra mile further. God understands my life no matter how desperate i seem to get at times, no matter how much i scream out to God saying i'm drowning, he already knows about it and used a simple phrase like that to reassure me that he is all supportive, compassionate, understanding and comforting. He wants me to come to him like that because he is my source of strength, his wings, his arms, his embrace are my comfort, he is my source of inspiration and revival; SURVIVAL.

There's another song that i LOVE, i think it's called Now Is The Time To Worship because even though i am an imperfect person with all my huge, nasty sin blemishes, right now, God says, is the time to come and worship him, just as i am, sin stains and all. When i feel that I can't come to God because of how filthy and dirty my slate is, ashamed of what he might think of me and ashamed of what the world sees me as, he stands there saying "come, just as you and worship me" he says "don't allow the enemy to stand in between you and me, come just as you are, exactly who you are and exactly how you are." Don't let the world tell you how spiritually clean you need to be before you come to Jesus....just come to him, worship him!!!

Tink xoxo

Hallelujah!

I bought a blanket today!!!!!!!

From the Salvos!!!!

Thank God for the Salvos - Still providing blankets after all these years!!!!

Tink xoxo

PS: Hallelujah is a very strange word!

Countcha Blessings Baby!

I realise i have been blogging a lot of God stuff quite a bit in recent days but i guess that's because i've been hearing God whispering relatively clearly into my ear lately - and i LOVE it!

I had random lunch with a friend today and just by speaking with her, God revealed to me how blessed i am.

I was just whinging about my crap week (i KNOW it's only Tuesday) and being all self-absorbed and pathetic and telling her how tired i've been this week and how much (bad) attitude i seemed to be having and she was just listening, nodding her head, doing all the typical friend things friends usually do.

At one point though i got all excited about how i randomly saw her and how we randomly had lunch and how good it was that i was going to see lots of people this weekend and how good it would be hearing the preaching at Flayva and how this was the best wee........and then it hit me, how much blessing i was receiving from God this week. I felt so disappointed in myself and so ashamed that 2 seconds before that i was whinging and complaining about my crapola week.

Sometimes i think i am having a much worse time than i actually really am and that's when i need a swift kick up the bum from someone to let God take over instead of me. I need to stop taking hold of the reigns coz God can do a much better job at the controls than i can. I guess my attitude and my tiredness has also given satan a pretty stronghold in my life this week, which is never a good thing. I've agreed with him that this week is horrible, i've allowed satan to shred every blessing God has showered me with and it's wrong and i'm going to make a concerted effort by God's help not to let satan ruin my week anymore than what he already has!

I asked another friend if her day was getting better and she said it was, she commented how Good God is and how blessed she is and i couldn't agree with her more!

Before i blogged this, i quickly opened an email from a friend about Verse of the Day and i'm not usually a fan of these sort of websites but i disciplined myself to read the passage on the front page. There was a prayer at the end that caught my attention which said this...

Dear Father, you have blessed me with so many wonderful blessings. I thank you for each and every one of them. At the same time, dear Father, I do long to be brought into your presence in glory as your child. The pain and heartache of the world, the fragility of my body, and my frustration with my own vulnerability to sin keep me longing for the day that your Son returns in glory. Until that day, help me as I try to be your holy child. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen.

I thought it was so powerful and so cool. I guess it may have only been meant for me at that specific moment but things that God is sharing with me are too good to keep to myself in case he plans on sharing them with someone else as well.

Tink xoxo

Strange Dreamin'

Wow, this is a little delayed but something that i really wanted to blog about because it is totally warped and something that i thought was fun. A lady in my office had a good little chortle about it so i thought why not, blog it!

It's about a dream i had. I dream a lot and i can always remember them, which i very much enjoy because sometimes, like this one, they are quite the story?! Too many people often tell me that they either don't dream or the can't recall their dreams and you know what i say to that?!

SAD SAD SAD or as Derryn Hinch would say SHAME SHAME SHAME!!

Anyway, i know you're all just sitting on the edge of your seat just WAITING for me to share my dream with y'all, huh?! Rightio then.....

I'm pretty sure the location was at the Collaroy Centre, for those who don't know this place, it's a conference accommodation place run by the Salvation Army overlooking the beach, it's a really nice place.

Anyway, there's a whole half of the dream that i can't remember so i won't try and even attempt to share it with you!

So i will pick up from where the dream starts....which isn't the beginning....i had one of those squishy stress stars from the starlight foundation and it was my pet but it was actually alive, it was the darn cutest little thing! Anyway, for some reason and i don't know where i got this from, but i had a little mole costume and when i dressed my star in the mole costume, it actually turned into a tiny little mole, it fit in the palm of my hand.

The strangest thing was that it had an anteaters snout on the end of it. So i tried to teach my star/mole/anteater how to eat ants that were crawling up the side of a tree in a little ant line and it snorted up the first ant with no problems and i was so proud of it but it snorted up a second ant and choked. It was starting to die so i hurriedly took off the little costume and was trying to give it CPR. Bear in mind that this ....thing..... was no larger than the palm of my hand.

I was getting incredibly upset because my star thing was dying and i thought it was nearly dead, it was a traumatic experience but at the last moment, as i was almost about to give up trying, my star pulled through. I held it upside as it started chugging out water (by this stage i had the impression that it had drowned and had now turned into a water bottle). Hurrah, it was still alive. i raced up to the dining room to show people (KT Reid being one of them) that it hadn't died afer all.

That was the end of my dream.

Tink xoxo

No Tomorrow

Last night i got so in a tiz about how many people actually don't have any faith in God and about actually where they might be ending up in the next life that i went to bed a little bit depressed and with so many things sifting through my head.

Twice in the last two days (if you do the math as Sandra Ryan calls it, that's one person a day) i have heard two people express their concern for just how many people will be perishing in hell and i have to say, i feel exactly the same way. One man even went as far as saying to me that he had been sitting at the cricket on the weekend and had stopped to think that the entire stadium or arena or whatever you want to call it, could end up spending eternity in hell. That's a very vivid thought but one which could be so real. It sort of increases the need to be reading the bible more and to be speaking words of God more. But it got me thinking and my mind went straight to a verse in the bible about judgement. It's not for us to judge who's going where, even though the obvious can seem a little depressing, Jesus will take care of that when he comes back. It's up to God via us to be making sure that people are heading in the opposite direction.

On the train in this morning i was reading my bible, like i have been indulging in for a while now, and this verse was shared with me by God....

"There is only one Lawgiver and Judge, the one who is able to save and destroy. But you - who are you to judge your neighbour?"

James 4:12

The crazy thing about it is that something else i went to sleep pondering was the crazy revelation that there is in fact no tomorrow! After i realised it, i was so shocked by it.....it's true, there is no such thing as tomorrow!!!!! It's a word that we as humans have created to make sense of something and express something that's not even there, there is no such thing as tomorrow?! It's a word we use for a day that's not even there!!!! I know i sound a little bit excited but why do we put everything - and i mean EVERYTHING - off until tomorrow??? There's no such thing, when tomorrow comes, it's TODAY!!!! So in effect THERE IS NO TOMORROW!!!! IT'S JUST A WORD?!?!?!

As i sat reading James this morning, after a long praying session, God opened another passage following straight on from the last one. It wasn't something i had to flip through to find (which is how i usually read the bible) but something i simply opened up to and started reading. Two passages, one after the other relating to two of the the exact same things i had gone to bed continually thinking about!!! I hadn't even realised that these verses had come from the same part of scripture until i went to blog about the things i was spewing with in my mind last nite and so here are the verses....

"Now listen, you who say, 'Today or tomorrow we will go to this or that city, spend a year there, carry on business and make money.' Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes. Instead, you ought to say, 'If it is the Lord's will, we will live and do this or that."

James 4:14,15

So don't live your life as if things are going to happen or start tomorrow, in fact erase that word completely! Live your life as though things should happen or start today because they should!!! Don't worry about who's going to heaven or hell because through God we can be planting the seeds in people's lives which can enable them to spend eternity with Christ in heaven!

LIVING IN TODAY - NOT TOMORROW!

Tink xoxo

Taking back what's rightfully God's!!!

I'm so incredibly sick of the enemy having anything to do with my friends lives, i'm over it like you would not believe and i'm not going to stand for it anymore! I'm tired of taking it, i'm tired of agreeing and accepting the things that he makes the world believe are normal. I'm tired of accepting the fact that "that's life" and believing that that's how it's always going to be.

I'm tired of the enemy pulling the wool over the eyes of the people that i love. It breaks my heart when they don't want to believe, it rips me in half to watch them getting sucked under while satan convinces them that it's normal to be like that?! What is it that they're not getting? Why can't they just open their hearts, why can't they just accept the things of God instead of listening to the lies and the rubbish that satan throws at them?! Why does it seem like they enjoy living in that kind of a life when there is so much more to live in a life that God has intended for them?!

You know, when Craig preached on Sunday night i realised there are so many things that i'm "giving in" to, that i'm seeing as "normal", there are so many things that i am simply just accepting and believing that nothing is ever going to change. But i'm right, I can't change anything because I'm not God, God has to do that and i have to believe he will do that, i have to trust him to work through me because doing it on my own isn't going to work!

I choose to pray harder for my friends, knowing, believing that God has the power to completely alter and change their lives, i choose to believe in a God who can break the chains of captivity, i choose to believe in a God who can break down all barriers, religious, ethnic, cultural, whatever, i'm choosing to believe in a God who is more powerful than we give him credit for. If this is a God who can create humans using absolutely nothing, why are we believing in anything less, why are we putting limits on God?

God hasn't just created one city, he created the whole universe, why are we believing in anything less? God doesn't create just one cell in our body he creates us more complex than doctors or medical scientists can ever understand and yet we refuse to believe that he can do things just because they're not things we can understand?!

i am pleading with you, pray harder, believe more earnestly, have the kind of faith in God that can move mountains, don't just accept things for what they are, question them, don't agree with anything that satan tries to trick you with, he's good at that and if you let him walk all over you, he will!!

I'm not going to lay down and die and give up without a fight and particularly when there is greater, much more powerful God fighting for me, i'm not going to let my friends go to hell just because satan thinks he can get away with it! God has plans and purposes and all the rest of it not only for me but for every single friend i have, every one of them?! He loves each of them more dearly than i ever will, he created them and has full ownership over each one of them, not satan!!!! I'm not giving him the satisfaction of believing that ANYMORE!!!

It's time to stop giving satan any unnecessary power that we're giving him by accepting things the way they are. Start believing in a God who has his best interests in you, start believing that he can do things in your life and he will. Unless you open your hearts to it and believe and saturate yourself with who God really is, it'll never sink in! Take off everything that seperates you from God, come to him completely surrended without any hidden agendas and he will bless you and empower you and equip you and he promises not to leave you and he promises to do incredible things, if you just let him?!

My prayer, God, is that you would empower me to stand against anything that satan would tell me is normal, that through you, he would be banned from my life and each and every person's life that i love. Protect them Lord Jesus, protect me God and equip me with the necessary armour that i need to fight with!

Tink xoxo

Nightlife

For those of you who enjoy My Sims Sagas, you will notice that this blog appears on that site. I thought this was a good enough blog to put here for those who don't take the time to enjoy my sims the way i do!
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Typing in the date for this blog i realised that today is the official day that Nightlife is released, i am SOOOOOOOOO excited, but i won't be able to buy it til Thursday when i get paid and also after work - EXCITEMENT PLUS!!!!

But funny story...(well sort of)

I was out during late night shopping last week (Thursday night) and strolled past EB (Electronique Boutique) and did a mad u-turn and headed on in.

I picked nightlife off the shelf and without much hesitation at all i headed on over to the counter to pay for my prized possession (scolding myself the whole time, that little voice in my head saying NONONO)

The little boy behind the counter told me "woahhhhhh steady on, you're jumping the gun a bit" i said "why?
and he replied with, "well, because you've picked up a box from the coming soon section"

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i had seen new releases (well actually my friend pointed it out) and just bolted to pay for it.

Silly me, i was all disappointed.

But TODAY it is time to play!!!!

Tink xoxo

Advertise THAT?!?!

This page now comes with the all new

WORD VERIFICATION

So....

TAKE THAT you stupid advertising mooncalves?! Hmmmm....i think i need to get over my obsession with that word, i just really like it! It's a fun word to use!

If i get one more genuine advertising comment i will blast those twirly, stress things into oblivion that KT sent to me.

Tink xoxo





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Always repeating myself

UPDATE: Please don't be worried about me (pffft yer right), there is nothing wrong with me, I am
a-ok, i am just a mooncalf. Yesterday i was having difficulty with my LG and had to restore the factory settings, this also reset my time and upon resetting the time, i accidentally got excited about daylight saving and set the time an hour too fast, i noticed it this morning when i arrived at work at 9:55am. It gave me a second fright, thinking i had been early for the train but late for work....hehe....yea, anyway, mooncalf!

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Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh this is just ridiculous?!

Repeat of a previous blog.

I'm sitting here AT HOME this time, not in my car, at 7:20am because i miscalculated the time AGAIN!!!!!!!

What is wrong with me i am such a MOONCALF?! rarrrrrr.....

*sighs* Goodness me....

Tink xoxo

Less of me, more of you

A lady in my office recently revealed she paid $1.37 for her petrol. I wasn't surprised because I had heard people at the snow buying petrol for $1.40 and suggesting to me that it would soon reach $1.70 here in Sydney.

I am outraged because I am already too poor as it is.....i cannot afford to keep hiking up my petrol budget because of the world's low oil supply....or something like that....

There is only so much oil in the world. I remember sitting in a class in high school once listening to a teacher proclaim that one day it's all going to run out, it is not like water! God is not going to shower us with oil (although i'll keep praying for it)! Wouldn't that be something?!

I keep saying to people, before you know it, we'll be sitting in carriages towed by horses again!

I received an email today telling me that apparently on September the 22nd everyone is to boycott petrol which means not buying petrol on that date. It works for me but the lady in the office reminded me that sure, it works for us middle class citizens and even the lower class citizens who can't afford this ridiculousness but what about the upper class people in society??? It's not going to be as important to them because they can afford it and so what, who cares if anyone else can't?!

Well as the email stated at the end, Australia is saying "enough is enough" but i'm not only talking about petrol here! I'm saying enough is enough about being selfish! Rich, poor or in the middle, we all need to be working as a team to help each other, we ALL need to boycott petrol for this whole idea to work. It's not good enough for the lower and middle class people to say no to high petrol prices, it's time for the higher class people to be saying no as well. It's the rich people that need to be helping the poor people not just middle and lower class people helping each other.

Why is life all about ourselves? Why is it all about what we benefit from??? I'm as guitly as the next person of being selfish even more so and we're all self-absorbed just as much as the next person but it's time to break that cycle and start a flippin' revolution of thinking about each other instead of always thinking of ourselves.

Less of me, more of you...that kind of thing.

Tink xoxo

PS: Don't buy petrol on the 22nd September 2005!

Maids of the Bride

Here is a few piccies of the wedding i was in recently. Tara looked absolutely smashing, so was sooooooooo beautiful. It was such a special day and just really heart-warming.

So Tara thanks for having me as your bridesmaid and as Shandri said in her speech(not quite in these words), it would be my pleasure to continue our friendship for as long as i live. Anytime you need me, i'll be there! My friendship is not just for the wedding it's forever. So when it's all over, my frienship will still remain!

Anyway, enough of the tear jerker babble.....

It was a beautiful wedding and obviously the love Jeremy and Tara share is as deep as the ocean and as wide as the sea....sounds like a song......I was so honoured to be apart of it.

Now the pictures.....

Tink xoxo

Christian Hairyness

I'm going to make a few blogs about my weekend because i thought it was so good - mostly. I was a Bridesmaid for a wedding on the weekend and this one's about the hairdressers experience i had while we were having our hair done for Tara's wedding.

We were all sitting having our hair/make-up done when a funky, upbeat version of "The Power of Your Love" came over the radio. It was a pretty good version we all thought.

I for one was pleasantly shocked at two things.

1. The fact that it was "some Gospel Channel" according to my hairdresser. (She made it sound like Foxtel radio or something!)

2. The fact that it was playing in such a public place.

It was a great touch for the wedding day because we got there at 8:00am. It was as though God himself was sending us all his very own personalised good luck signal for the day hehehe.

Some of the other girls must've been as equally as shocked as me because they asked them why have a Christian radio station playing when there are so many to choose from. They replied with saying it was good music and not too many ads or talking (obviously the sermons and mini talks are at night and on sundays i'm guessing!). You are also guarenteed the reduction, if not the elimination of any rude or derogatory comments i suppose.

After hearing that we all knew the song from church, one of the hairdressers was quite amazed. She was surprised because it sounded so modern and upbeat. Yes, sometimes Christians actually can rock!

The fact that even if no Christians step inside that salon all day, they are being witnessed to via radio was the most fulfilling thing and i pray that from now on through that media some of them or at least one of them will come to know Jesus and God in a most personal way. That would be the most wonderful thing to know that my hairdressers (whom i go to all the time, not just for weddings) were saved.

It was a fab way to start the day!!!

Tink xoxo

What does it mean??

Today i looked up a new word because i actually didn't know what it meant and in the process of educating myself with words i discovered a new word and it was really cool.

I found the word "mooncalf". It's a fun word but I'm not going to tell you what it means, if you want to know, look it up yourself!

Let's just say it could come in very handy over the years to come for my life!

Tink xoxo