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March Madness

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Things I can be thankful for/excited about in March:

  • The opportunity to celebrate. I think everyone I know is born in March! That’s probably the first lie I’ve told on this blog because so many people are born in July too. But March is an especially big birthday month for me, which is great, I love celebrating people and birthdays.
  • University. Look, I don’t always love university. In fact, mostly I don’t. But I CAN be grateful for it. I start a new major (I think it’s actually more of a minor but I can never tell with my uni) this year and I think it will be a big challenge.
  • I’m grateful for grace. I think I will need God’s grace this month. So many things, so little time.
  • I’m excited about the Hunger Games movie which comes out in March. I LOVED these books and I think they actually won’t destroy them in the movie. I get goosebumps every time I see the trailer and I’m so glad March is here.
  • I’m excited for sweet little moments. I’ve been having so many moments lately where I am so overwhelmed by life. Someone will let me know how much they love this blog and I just die a little with happiness. God whispers in my ear that he’s proud of me and I die a little with happiness. Someone sends me a text that just makes me laugh so hard that I die a little with happiness.
  • I’m grateful for the last year when I’ve been able to see my brother every weekend. He moves to Sydney this month and our relationship will be long distance, along with my Dad. It really sucks to have half your family live in another state but I’m know I’m still lucky.
  • I’m grateful that once Pierson does move, the 4th bedroom will return to the old scrapbooking/study room that I know and love.
  • I’m excited about COLD weather! Well, not freezing weather, but I’m grateful that the sticky, sweltering Queensland summer is on it’s way out. I love scarves and jackets and I want them in my life.
  • I’m so grateful for how wonderfully happy I feel nearly all the time. I’m excited about life and what all of Autumn holds.. but I will especially appreciate and enjoy March, because it is here now.

Happy March everyone! I hope it’s the perfect mix of warm days and pleasantly cool evenings.

Love and hot cups of tea,

.Steffany.

Wait it Out

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I’ve been neglecting my blog a little bit as of late so for those blog stalkers (yeah you know who you are!) of mine - I’m sorry. I’ll try and be a bit more consistent.

Went to Tasmania on the weekend and for a few extra days. Went for a wedding and a bit of a family holiday. I’ve got a lot of pictures so I might post them next time. Tried my hand a few nature-ish type shots.

Love this photo.

And sit here cold?
We’ll be long gone by then.
And lackluster in dust we lay
’round old magazines.
Fluorescent lighting sets the scene
For all we could and should be being
In the one life that we’ve got

Imogen Heap – Wait it Out

The Cherry Blossom Girl

Does anyone else have the words with friends ap on the iphone? It’s scrabble and you can play with your friends! It’s great!

I’ve got an assignment due on Monday that’s worth 60% of my grade, I started in yesterday. Whoops.

Going to see Paramore on Sunday night with Georgia. Relient K are supporting. Should be a pretty sweet gig. Hope my assignment is finished in time. And that it doesn’t rain.

Love Sophia Bush. Quite the hottness.

“There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is the finger of God on a man’s shoulder.” Charles Morgan

I love Friday’s. It’s so quiet in the office that I can steadily work whilst listening to my ipod, blogging and preparing mentally for assignmenting. Anyone is free to bring me study treats this weekend! I’ll be cooped up in the office at Mum’s for sure.

I’d sooner buy, defying gravity. Kiss me goodbye – I’m defying gravity! And you can’t hold me down! – Wicked

.love.love.

September Wrap Up

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Have been a bit MIA lately and that’s due to busy weekends and busy weeks filled with all kinds of different delights that I might post up soon including some pictures of my birthday and birthday gifts.

Got to catch up with Pierson on the weekend for a bit and it was SO good to see him. Also managed to get some footage of him for my ‘LIFE’ movie. Oh I haven’t told you about that? I’m making a movie of my life. Actually, more like my life lately as I haven’t been filming for the last 22 years. Would really love a better camera for filming.. my camera actually does a great job, but something to do with the format.. I have to convert it to use on my mac, and when I convert it, the quality drops. Not sure why anyone would want to know that?

In the meantime.. please enjoy – if you haven’t already seen it, my Hillsong 2010 movie.

Saw Charlie St Cloud on my birthday. Went mostly cos I love a bit of Zac Efron in my life, and especially on my birthday.

Was a bit of a strange sort of movie with an interesting (strange) kind of plot line. The character of Charlie St Cloud was pretty believable. Despite the fact that he talks to ghosts, he doesn’t come across as too ridiculous. Wasn’t as sad as I thought it was going to be either. Two girls were chatting about the movie as we left the cinema and one girl was all ‘Wow, I’ve never heard Zac talk so much, didn’t like that at all’. Haha! However I think Mr Efron’s acting skills have definitely improved and I think I’ll love anything he does – BUT I still prefer him as Troy Bolton. You really can’t beat the cheesy over the top HSM.

three stars

In other news, university is kind of crazy at the moment hence the lack of blogging. I realise that I don’t blog when I’m busy, I blog when I’m bored. Mostly finished a presentation off on the weekend, and just got one more big assignment before I’m done with assignments for the year. I think I just have one exam and then I’m done for a while.

I got two pairs of shoes from Blaine and Tegan for my birthday! Below is the pair I could find a picture of online! How lucky am I?

Confessions

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2 weeks ago I started watching Alias and I’m already half way through the entire series.

I’ve been using the work photocopier to print out uni notes.

I actually had a dream the other night about Zac Efron.

Sometimes I worry that I think a lot more about clothes and shoes than I do about Jesus.

But.. I really do love Jesus.

Really going through a stage where I appreciate my girlfriends.

I really enjoy snacking on frozen peas.

I hate most heeled ankle boots.

Right now. I’m loving tumblr more than I love wordpress. But at least I’m honest.

Last week, I think I had a maxibon ice-cream, nearly every day.

I miss reverb.

I miss my best friend.

I honestly don’t like any boys – but am struggling not to flirt with randoms, like the Subway guy.

For the last six months I didn’t display the correct registration sticker

I believe in a thing called love.

I’m yet to complete anything off my List of 100 things to do while I’m still Single.

I listen to the Jonas Brothers.

I’m shocked when I get uni marks back and I did well.

My showers always take more than 15 minutes. Sometimes 20. Every day.

I care more about what is right than what looks right.

I think Laura should be getting paid for her blog and Emily should be getting paid for her art.

I often forget about other people’s feelings and focus on my own.

I like writing about myself.

Learning

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Quite accidentally, I’ve been on a university break for the last year.

I meant to enrol for subjects.. and actually just forgot, twice. I realised that if I didn’t enrol again this semester, I might never do it. I do want to finish this degree – maybe before 2020 – so I made sure I enrolled. Left it to the first day I officially started my degree but that’s not really important.

I think maybe I’ve never really realised how fortunate I am. I mean I have moments when I realise it, during a compassion tv ad or something like that. But I can’t believe that I can so easily educate myself. I think learning is such a valid part of life. If I could afford it, I’d probably be a full time student forever. I enjoy learning. I take a strange sort of pleasure in it.

However, I do not like assessment. I wish universities trusted me enough that I knew the material. Like maybe they pull us in for a conversation over coffee and chat about what I learnt throughout the semester. This post is basically just a warning. Either that I’ll be MIA for the next 6 months.. or you are about to get a ridiculous amount of blogging out of me. Fun facts about Marketing or Crisis Management or an amazing amount of fashion blogging.

Also.. I think I forgot how to reference. Remind me to never forget to enrol again. I could be 2 and half years down out of my 6 instead of just 1 and a half.

University..

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Hi all,

I am currently in my second of six years at University. And I have a confession to make. I have touched my uni at all this semester. I mean really, I should know better, I’ve been caught with weeks of uni work to complete, and then study for, all in the 12 hrs before an exam. I’ve seen the difference between my uni marks with preparation and without preparation. And I definitely need the preparation. So why is it that I haven’t started this year’s work and I’m already 3 weeks behind? Why do we do things that we inherently know are bad for us? Why do we still choose to do them.. it’s more than just uni procrastination, more than just laziness. I think this kind of thing can be found all throughout everyone’s lives. Not just their studies, although this is a prime example. We chase after relationships that are bad for us, we eat lots and lots of fast food and don’t exercise, we speed, we neglect reading the bible.. whatever it is. We know it’s bad, and in the end will lead to our demise – yet we do it anyway? Are we just.. bad people.. who always make bad choices. I think that’s probably actually the case.

What’s that verse about wanting to do good, yet always doing the opposite. Oh yeah, I found it.

 

Romans 7: 18-20 ‘For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do – this I keep on doing. Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it’. 

 

Just an not so biblical thought that turned into one.

Things I love

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I’m naturally a negative person — so every now and then I try and remember all the great things in my life by writing crazy lists like the one you are about to read.

Things I’m loving at the moment:

  • After tomorrow, I only have 3 pieces of assessment left for the end of the year. 1 year down — 5 to go!
  • My mug I got from Jess Greenwood for my birthday.
  • That Designing Women is this weekend — I love it when our church does something really cool
  • http://stufffchristianslike.blogspot.com/
  • Tupperware — my order arrives today!
  • The Office – The American Series
  • The weird but wonderful spring weather
  • Entering competitions – I have to win something someday!
  • Bec Mumberson, Nathan Whitecross & Boardgames

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