Exams must be coming...

... I feel an insane urge to tidy my room like never before...

Evolution of dance

The evolution of dance

Thanks Clare for this one!

Will take a while to download, but quite funny if you have the time to wait! If you don't have the time to wait, then you're just too stressed and you'll spend the 6 minutes too worried about what else you could be doing to notice that the guy is scarily good at hip isolation....!!

Look at them now!!

Here are the twins, at 17 weeks. Aren't they so cute!!! I think the yawner is Rohan and the smiler is Ashar, but I can't be certain.... They're starting to look alike and like normal people, not the prem boys they were before!!

Hooray Hooray!!

Thanks for this Imo (K)!

Albino Black Sheep

Very cool! Give it some time to load, and it's worth it!

The Tasman Bridge

This was taken at the Hobart Regatta earlier this year, at about 8:30pm, while we were waiting for the fireworks! That's the Derwent, our river, with the Tasman Bridge, and lots of boats, also waiting for the fireworks!

CrossEyed...

CrossEyed is our youth group/ministry at BayWest. It's all very cool, we went disco bowling last week, I pretended it was just like golf, lowest score wins...

The website's just been updated, all looks very cool... Check it out... There are pics of us smashing the car there too...!!

Learning to pout...

I emptied my camera just before, if you're wondering where all these photos are coming from!!

Like us learning to pout....


Sexy....














Is this a ... bad... photo of Ruth? It's a miracle!












Don't give me that look Kath!












Of course you're innocent...














Pucker up Ruth...













Yes... georgeous














And textbook pouting...

Oh dear...

My niece...!

:-P

Some pretty pics!

Here are some pretty sunset pics I took recently, of 2 different sunsets... They were just out off the verandah and the upstairs window...

Both were pretty vivid sunsets... I love a good sunset...

Is busy an emotion?

"How are you?" anyone might ask a friend. "Oh, busy, and yourself?" might be the reply. And what does that tell us? Is this person happy that they are busy? Stressed? Uncomfortable? Is there a reason they're busy? Are they avoiding something or just taking too much on?

Why do we treat business as an emotion, as something we should aim for? Everyone knows that people generally are taking more on to do in a shorter amount of time, but does that mean we forget about emotions? That busy and not busy are the only emotions we register...

Usually when I ask 'how are you' I don't mean "how occupied are you?", I mean "how's it going? how are you as a person dealing with your environment? Are you healthy?"... And Busyness isn't really an answer to those questions...

Now people can argue (and arguing is good, it takes your mind off that busyness for a moment, giving it a break) that replying 'good' to the question is just as non-emotive, and I can't quite think of why I prefer being told that than 'busy'... Maybe someone else knows...

So busy as an emotion... It's just a thought, reminds me of Newspeak somehow, actually all of Orwell's Oceania... No actual emotions, stating only the facts... Are we going to be called to Room 101 if we state "yeah, I'm alright, feeling a little tired, but that's just because i'm horribly tired"?

I don't know... My point really is just that it seems crazy that busy has now become an emotion, and it's one of those emotions that if you don't have it, there's obviously something wrong. Unhappy people are questioned on what's wrong, should we do the same to people who don't say they're busy?

"Hi! How are you?"
"Yeah, not bad thanks, just getting over a cold. And yourself?"
"So you aren't busy then?"
"Not particularly, just handed in all my assignments, so I'm alright."
"Hmm.... you need a job... and why don't you volunteer at this function for lame kids... and shouldn't you be studying for the exams? Would you like to play in my hockey team?"
"Well not really... I need a break after those assignments... Yeah, I know, exams... I'm getting there... What are you up to these days?"
(said with pride)"Oh, keeping busy.... uni, exams, sport, work, church..."

What's wrong with taking some 'down time'? What compels us to announce proudly that we're
'keeping busy'?

Anyway, this isn't a snipe at someone in particular, just a rant at the answer I received several times today to one of our most commonly asked questions... Please just think what you're saying next time you answer, think about what the question's asking and why it's so 'good' to be busy....