A week without...

...phonelines.

Well that was fun. Not! Well maybe a bit...
This last week we moved office from Wynnum to Manly (maybe three kilometres south), and having worked at home on Friday and Monday, and not worked Tuesday, I rocked on up on Wednesday expecting to have to respond to a LOT of emails (they were redoing the phone lines and internet at the new place, and I wouldn't be able to check them).

However...
To make a long story short, two phone guys and the phone company managed to collectively (spectacularly) fail to get our various communications systems working AND managed to stuff up the theoretically simple task of diverting our old office number to our boss' mobile phone while we waited for the land lines to be put in.

My boss, having already been driven way over the limit with some of the guys he had arranged to do building stuff at our new office (it's being renovated from a house) was decidedly unhappy with this extended lapse in business. (meaning: you could see the storm clouds following him ominously around the office, several phone company consultants will have nightmares for weeks and I have learned several extremely effective tricks for when customer service guys try stuffing me around)

All in all a very spectacular fiasco.

So, we got an interim solution for our phones this afternoon, and we might be getting internet next Monday. I kinda live on the phone and out of email, so this is not looking good for the state of my work at the moment - helping estate residents with their covenant enquiries... But I did get a lot of applications assessed cos I wasn't being interrupted by the phone every 5 minutes.

Still, angry and stressed bosses are no fun at all... not cool

So other than that, yay two engagement parties in as many Saturdays, and I have to find presents and smart casual clothes; seriously...

I may need to buy some clothing items...

Oh, and I totally got up at like, 5am to go do exercise. I think my desire to stay asleep was actually still asleep, so I actually managed it this time :)

I'm done :)

Rain

It's raining :)

I've been saturated twice today, so much fun! Once walking to the train station this morning, once coming home from it this afternoon. This morning I had to dry my cargoes under one of the hand dryers at the rest rooms in Central Station. Which isn't weird at all seeing I wasn't the only one :) Haha, some other chick was drying her jeans down the other end ;)

Anyway. I am waiting.

I am waiting for when it's time to leave to go to some women's ministry thing at 7pm ish tonight.

I am waiting on God.

This week, last week and next week are our 21 days of fasting at North Brisbane Salvos. I am fasting after lunch through the week, and all day on weekends - because these are the times that I will be able to put to better use spending time with God. I can't really do that more than I already do in the morning, and at work I don't really get a long enough lunch break. Usually I can' t even leave the office cos it's too hot/rainy to eat outdoors.

So instead of eating dinner, I spend time with God. Weekends are hard, cos I run out of stuff to do. Hanging around the house having run out of ways to spend with God is hard, especially when I don't want to watch tv instead (like there's anything on anyway...) and I am not eating.

It's amazing how much time snacking and eating can use in a day. I don't eat junk, and I'm not unhealthy, but I do snack alot, and I sometimes just snack when I have nothing better to do. Which is frequently. I am out of books and movies.

Grrrr! I wish this God thing was easier!!! If he was here in person, we could DO stuff, like talk or go somewhere or whatever. Or eat. But he ISN'T, and half the time he doesn't want to say anything; I don't want to say anything, but I have nothing to DO and I have given up the only few mediocre things I have to pass the time... So I sit there and I'm like, yep. Hi God. I'm still here. Hmmm. So. Hows your day going? STUPID question, like you'd ask God how his day is going. FINE lets read some more of... Isaiah! That's an ok book!

But I like it better when I get stuff out of it. Which is mostly when God points it out to me. I'm not getting that alot. So now I am teetering on the edge of bored.

But God has encouraged me in my fasting, so I guess from his point of view it is accomplishing more than I can see; more than I can do by myself in my God-time-instead-of-eating devotional time. I don't know what he's doing behind the scenes.

Woot.

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