Peace

Car keys and stupid walls...

Yes i've done it again. I locked my keys in my car...for the 500th time. I can't remember if I've said this before but i think i may hold the world record for locking my keys in the car.
This time it was at my friend's house in oakleigh. We'd just gotten home from the movies and it was about midnight. I reached into my bag but couldn't hear the familiar jingle of my keys. I started sifting through the contents and with evey second that past i became more resigned to the fact that i had again locked my keys in my car. Upon inspection of my car this was confirmed by the sighting of my keys sitting in the ignition- bugger!
There is never a convenient time to lock your keys in the car but midnight, in oakleigh when its freezing cold and you don't have a jumper, is a particularly inconvenient time.
Lucky my friend Matt (diff matt to fiance matt) was very helpful. We set out in his car crusing the streets of oakleigh in search of that nylon tape that is wrapped around boxes.(you use it to jimmy your lock open) This of course meant going through bins. I must say a particular thank you to matt for doing the bin scab job. After searching the bins at someone's house, the milkbar and seven eleven, we struck gold at the dumpmasters at safeway.
Returning to Matt's house we,well actually he (i sat in his car because it was very cold..yes i know i'm a princess) managed to jimmy the lock open. YAY!
Oh an while i'm on the topic of cars i backed into a wall at work the other day. Its a stupid wall. A big stupid brick wall that is way too close to the car parks. I used to not park there because i was too scared i would back into the brick wall. But then i guess i got lazy and a little to confident in my ability not to back into a wall. Stupid wall.

Weddings and stuff

Last Friday was my cousin Hayden's wedding. His bride Susan looked lovely in her pink gown and all my cousins looked very spunky all dressed up (see photo below). A particular highlight was the fish and chip run in between the ceromony and reception. I'm trying to work out a way i can get some potatoe cakes and steamed dimies at my wedding (I think we may have to do a fish and chip run in between the ceremony and reception again).
I've been doing lots of wedding stuff- i had a dress fitting today and tomorrow i have my hair trial. Its getting closer-less than two months to go! Wahoo!
Well i've got to go as I'm in the middle of watching sex and the city-i love that show! Hope you're all doing well!
Peace Out
Betho

Party time

Last night we had our education faculty end of year ball. It was good fun and vast improvement on our last uni ball experience (no-one stole our bread roles, the table didn't have red wine spilt all over it when we arrived and there was no-one throwing up into a cardboard box on the table across from us!)
Mind you teachers really can be a bunch of dags when they all get together- this was proven by the conga line around the dance floor while the dirty dancing theme song was playing!
So after getting to bed in the early hours of the morning, i now have 3 more assigments to do by tomorrow! Better get to it....okay maybe i'll just have a nap first and then i'll make a start!
Ps the photo is of me and my favourite uni friends- Chris and Matt! They are lots of fun- i will miss all the laughs we had at uni! (mind you thats really probably the only thing i'll miss about uni)
PPS Just in case you were wondering i am not nude, the photo just chopped of the top of my dress!

Ch-ch-ch-changes

Hey, sorry its been so long. I'm on teaching rounds (its my last week!) and i have a heap of assignments due at the same time and am feeling a bit overwhelmed. On the plus side, this time next week i will have finished uni forever!!!!
Life is always changing. Sometimes subtlely and gradually so that you only realise that something has changed later on. Sometimes its jarring and unexpected and it takes months (even years,) to re-adjust to.
My life is changing. Some of it has been gradual, some of it is a bit jarring, but it all seems to have come to a head at this point of time. Its not just one part of my life, it seems like its every part!
This is challenging for me. I don't really deal with change very well. I like stability. I like the known.
So for now, i take it one day at a time. Wondering about what next year will look like is too much for me. Now, its just one step at a time.

A bit of a 'Beth Day'.....

I had a bit of a 'Beth Day' on Sunday. For those of you who don't know a 'Beth Day' entails me doing something stupid-usually accidental in nature,typical of Beth (me!). My sister once gave me a Winnie the Pooh card that she said reminded her of me. It said something like 'This is Winnie the Pooh. He is always doing silly things...but its ok because things usually end up alright..'Thats me.
In the afternoon i decided i needed a break from study so i thought I'd go for a drive. As i was driving i decided to stop in at a house inspection. I got out of the car and walked up to the verandah. I was already feeling a little awkward as i was on my own and worried that the agent would look at me and think i was actually 15 (i can look quite young for my age) and wonder why i was wasting his time inspecting a house when i hadn't even finised my VCE.
Anyway the agent came out of the house and shut the door, telling me that he had to keep a dog inside. I went to go inside and the agent stopped me and asked me to take my shoes off. Great- i had odd socks on. And not just two odd white socks but one was green and one was red-typical! So i quickly tried to slip my boots off so he wouldn't notice my odd socks but anyone knows that when you're feeling awkward and trying to hurry it only makes things worse- especially when you're trying to unzip a knee high pair of boots from under a pair of pants while at the same time trying to cover your legs because due to the winter weather your usual regular leg wax hand been slipped back a couple of weeks-okay maybe an extra month.
Right so after looking postively foolish i walked inside to be greeted by the dog.... and the rest of the family sitting in the living room infront of the teli. WHO DOES THAT? And it was an open plan house too, basically there was no where i could go to get away from this family. Plus i was the only person inpsecting so i had the agent trapsing around after me the whole time!
Needless to say i got out of that house pretty quickly.
SO i continued on my SUnday drive and decided to go to Helens Hills winery(where matt and my wedding reception is being held). THe car park was full- the only space left was right next to the entrance so i pulled up into my VIP parking space. I got out and enjoyed the views of the yarra valley. Breathing in the fresh air i went for a bit of a wander. As i came back to my car I searched for my keys only to look into my locked car and see them in the ignition. FANTASTIC. I had locked my keys in the car. Seriusly i have locked my keys in my car so many times its ridiculous- i've done it in the church car park, at katies house, at work, at dairy bell, at surrey hills church and more! So then i had to ring my sister to get her to come and rescue me with my spare key while i loitered in the car park. Of course i had parked right next to the restaurant door so basically every person that left passed me standing there next to my little 87 corolla hatch trying to look like i was just pausing for a minute to check my phone messages when in actual fact i had been standing there for 20 minutes and was getting rather cold!

Compromise

Compromise. Probably one of the most important ingredients in relationships with people (after love and forgiveness). I looked it up in the dictionary, it means '1. a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands.'
There are some things that are easy to compromise on-
What movie shall we see?
What do you want to have for dinner?
Which piece of pav do you want-the one with the most strawberries?? (okay i admit thats a pretty tough one)

Then theres the things that are a lot harder to compromise on. The things that are really big. Perhaps the things that you feel are important to you but for whatever reason your family/partner/friend/pastor/boss thinks differently about.

Then it gets even trickier when you bring God into it. I know a pastor that had to step down from his church because what God was telling him was the opposite of what God was telling the leadership board. Who's hearing correctly???

Yet where is the line between compromise and actually losing yourself or what you believe in? See compromise has two meanings
-the first one as I stated is basically two people coming together and MUTUALLY making an agreement
-the second one is a negative term; 'A concession to something detrimental or pejorative (eg a compromise of principals)'

I don't think its always clear which kind of compromise someone is making. Often in a compromise one person seems to be compromising more!
Sometimes a compromise(type 1) is to compromise (type 2)!?

Its tricky hey?!