One of those weeks
My blog has been a little neglected of late. I've had one of those weeks - you know the ones, full of little incidents that are not exactly positive. For starters it contained six nights in a row of being out, which is not my preferred modus operandi. On Sunday night I scratched my car in the church car park, after two and a half years of not scratching it (this is the first incident). I think this was a case of pride coming before a fall as on Saturday I had parked in the car park with a friend to attend an Ordination service and they had remarked on my skill in reversing into a "small car only" spot with seemingly effortless skill. I thought of that remark half a second before I scratched the pole on Sunday night.
On Monday night we had a BBQ for bible study leaders, which was a nice relaxed evening as we ate and discussed a few things for the year. On Tuesday night we launched the bible study groups, which was a really good night, of eating yet again (Christians are always eating aren't they?) and being reminded of the importance of meeting in bible study groups, and I am excited about being part of the Military Bible Fellowship again this year. On Wednesday night I have dinner with friends Archie and Ainsley and their children, which was nice, as ever. On Thursday afternoon I fainted, for only the third time in my life, creating a small fuss and making a spectacle of myself (this can be the second incident). Fainting is quite a disconcerting phenomenon to someone of robust health who likes to maintain self-control in public. Then when I gathered my consciousness about me and made it back to the car I discovered that I had parked in the wrong spot and received a fine of $179!! (this warrants being the third incident). That was actually what really topped off the week. The car scratch I don't care about so much as that side of my car is scratched already, and you actually get so many dings owning a car in Sydney that you give up fixing them.
After the latter two incidents I had to drive to Chatswood, perhaps in a dangerously vague state, for the first lecture of the Moore College Evening course on the New Testament Epistles. It looks like it will be a really good course, but, given that we have about an hour per book, it is going to be a fly-by essentially. Lastnight, after the introduction, we started, and finished, Galations. As a consequence of the parking ticket episode and my economic rationalistion efforts I refrained from any book-buying frenzy while I try to figure out which is the best option.
Anyway, after that sort of week I have nothing I feel inspired to blog about right now except the fact that I am looking forward to going home today (incident free) and my latest craft project: a "scarflet" (see the photo, which is me trying to use my mobile phone and take it in the mirror - I must get a digital camera if I am going to do craft blogs). It has a hole in one end that you poke the other end through. I made this on Sunday, before my week went awry, and was quite chuffed with myself. I'm going to send it to a friend in England, and hope she appreciates having my first ever scarflet.
One of the other highlights of the week was actually receiving a wedding invitation from a very sweet friend in Germany. It was a little unusual, because for starters the wedding is in August, so that is very advance notice. Also, I know most people like to do something different for their wedding, and it's always interesting to see what sort of invitation you are going to receive as an expression of the people getting married, but this invitation is as different as they have come yet. It's a pop-up invitation! I opened it and up popped a Volkswagon car, of all things nicely German (Volkswagon means 'car for the people' - I like that), with miniatures of the bride-and-groom-to-be inside on their way to the "Kirche". It says "Zu unserer Hochzeit laden wir ganz herzlich ein!". I was quite amazed.
But now I am just going home.