Cosy Rain

We had such a great weekend even though I was absolutely shattered! I woke up on Sat feeling like nothing on earth and then Joy txted me and said that she, Grandma, Em and Aunty Sherrill had all prayed for me to have a great day - and then it all started happening! I mean I was still tired but I had a fantastic time. I walked out into the lounge and we had received an awesome gift from someone who shall remain nameless and then I ran into Rennee in the supermarket and so Matt and Andrew (our hubs) went to this stag do and she and I went to Bayfair and had a blast! We Christmas shopped and got Wendy's and had a really good chat. She's really awesome to hang out with.

Today it's pouring and it's meant to be summer but at lelast it's cosy here in our little wooden house :) My LifeWorks coach is coming to see how my course is going so I'm a but nervous. Usually it's me doing the tutoring, now its someone else!

Annie :)

Andrew cartooned me :)

This is me :) Well, a cartoon of a photo taken on our honeymoon three years ago in Rarotonga. It was also the best week of my life. Thanks, Andy, for giving me that week :)

Wow - what a crap day!

I never realised just how crap a day could be for seemingly no reason. Well, I am definitely sick with this stupid virus - AGAIN - and although my health hasn't been great these last few months with the CFS, it was so much better last week, I was so much happier! But yesterday morning I woke up all ready to go to the hairdresser and it suddenly just hit! I had to go straight to bed and ended up sleeping right through dinner time until 8.30. Then this awful depression sets in and all these movies I've watched parts of or all of like Donnie Darko and Twin Peaks all start reeling through my mind like some kind of crazy film melange. Those movies fascinated me but they are also the exact types of programme/film I shouldn't watch. They just freak my vibe, they take the soul to a dark level - a place I don't want to be, no matter how great the twist or how fascinating the mind games are. I think I must have a bit of a temperature or else it wouldn't be affecting me like this. I looked at my arms today and thought "what are those things?" Hmmm....definitely a temperature I think :)

On a good note...ummm....? I did a crossword puzzle which I seem to be good at and I got nice emails from Joy all day. Suddenly I just seem enjoying the more quiet and seemingly boring aspects of life like puzzles and well puzzles really :)

Life's a puzzle isn't it? I hope the last piece isn't missing.

Over but not out,


Anna :)

Sewage Works Affect Speed!

I noticed that I subconsciously speed up over the bridge from town because the sewage works right nearby stink so badly! If a cop pulled me up and tried to give me a speeding ticket, I would absolutely and convincingly make that point. I think I'll write a letter to the paper.

... :)

Had a great chat with Emmie today (one of my best friends) - was so good to just have such an awesome d&m without feeling like you have to get really intense, I love those moments when it all just flows out. We didn't chat much until she walked me out to the car. We just got vhatting and in the end she was sitting on the tarseal and I was sitting in the car with my seatbelt on, ready to go. 1 and a 1/2 hours later I drove away.

See you tomorrow.

Bepuzzled! There's a first time for everything

I just completed my first ever puzzle which proves I have changed a lot because I didn't used to be able to complete a lot of things or sit still long enough to do anything like that. And I know it's just a simple thing like a puzzle but I really enjoyed it plus it meant Andrew and I could just hang out and do our own thing in each other's company. Don't ever underestimate the soothing and healing qualities of a puzzle :) AND...it wasn't just any puzzle, it was a Bepuzzled puzzle which is a mystery puzzle. You read a short mystery story (in my case, my fav author Agatha Christie) and then you complete the puzzle. The puzzle helps you solve the mystery so then you read the rest of the book to get the answer. How cool! Truly people, I never ever thought I'd be doing puzzles. Once upon a time when someone asked me "what's the most boring thing you could do?", I would have said unhesitatingly said "a puzzle."
God works in mysterious ways ;)

Some more great pics

Me and Andrew engaged :)

Some Random Pics

This is a photo of Andrew and me when we first met :)

Cool New Retro Couch and other stories

Wow, we finally got rid of our other couch! Yay, it was hori old thing, all faded pastels, very early nineties/late eighties. The couch cover was worth five times more than it was! And it went because we find another new-old one! It was at Sally Army for $195 and they had a 1/2 price sale that day so it was down to $97.50 plus $10 delivery and when they came to drop it off, they took away the other one (minus the couch cover) for free :) Woohoo, what a great feeling. I can't tell you why but I wa sgetting obsessional about the other one. it just so didn't fit in with our decor which is quite retro. It's for olive green upholstery and is made of brown wood and folds out to a double bed. It was mad ein the 60s but is in such good nick.

Jamie came over, he and Andrew (my hubs) have been working on his CD 'Jamie Strange with Oneday Someday). They printed 50 cd covers off today which looked awesome - really pro on Andrew's new computer. I told Andrew that I thought Jamie wouldn't notice our new couch (he's very very focussed on his creative projects - they both are) but it was the first thing he noticed! Good for boys!

Ok well I'm gonna gop have a wee sleep, feel a bit fluey. For those of you who don't know I've had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome for 8 years (since I was 17) and although I'm heaps better, I get really tired easily. Books and DVds are my friend :)

See you all soon,


Anna :)

Mysteries of the Universe

I went to Lorelei's last night and we started talking about deep healing versus superficial healing and behaviour management. We agreed that we often need to be healed of things in our childhood before we deal with current issues as one so majorly affects the other. It was so interetsing because I'm a Christian and she's not but we both understand so much of the same things, more so than a lot of Christians do. We talked about Theophostic Ministry which is an amazing healing ministry my Dad uses to help people and how I have so benefitted so much and how my life is just 100x times better than it was and how it's released me to be more unselfish, to not feel so controlled or want to so be controlling,how it's set me free from many of the fears I carried around my whole life, etc. It's amazing to think that people really can change. I arrived about 4 and left at 12 and we were talking about it solidly for pretty much 4 hours!! What a great night - just McDs and a bottle of Sparkling grape juice and great conversation but isn't that so what life's about sometimes? It is for me.

The Kestrel and the Pigs

Ok, well yesterday my sister, Debs (who's an amazing and beautiful person) took me out to The Kestrel for dinner. It's a beautiful old boat like on Death on the Nile and we had a window overlooking the sea. We were in one of those moods where everything just seems hysterical. We both laugh at the most inappropriate times, I think it's becausae you're thinking "now would be the worst possible time to laugh" and so the tension builds and you just lose it. Well the waiter came over and he started pouring our bottle of *Sparkling Grape Juice* as if it was a thousand dollar champagne and it was going trickle, trickle so slowly down the side of the glass (and it reminded me of something else) so I felt my shoulders shaking and I looked over at Debs and her face had gone red and her shoulders were shaking too and then she just spat out her laugh all of a sudden and we errupted into hysterics but the guy just went really shy and pretended that nothing had happened so we felt terrible! :)
Today I took Wilma, Elspeth and Martha Stamfordis (guinea pigs) to the vet for their "cheesy ears" (mmm....nice), went to the library and had lunch with Andrew at Encore which is a nice, fresh new cafe right in the centre of town and then I went to my tutorial and supermarket shopping then home! Now I'm going to go and read a Ruth Rendell book.
God bless you all, all you people who won't read this blog :)

Annie :)

Welcome to the World of Princess Annie

Hi everyone! This is my very first blog - yay! In the World of Princess Annie you will find creativity, warmth, poetry, God-stuff and the ramblings of a random mind :)
Well, I can't think of anything clever to say so I think I'll go and read my Taggart Case File Book :)
Annie :)