Don’t know. I am so excited! I am heading to bed now as I have forgotten to make an important phone call and do some washing (uniform for work in 8 hours, for a start) but thought I would write a quick note.
Today my friend Dave has been here all day. We played Audiosurf to various amazing bands like Dragonforce, The Soviettes, Strung Out etc etc. If it was noisy, we played it. We also played a very weird classical song (Gaussian Blur, either 1 or 2, by Charlotte) and Dave stealthed it. He is a promising young Audiosurf player, for sure. We watched a load of crap on YouTube and, thanks to help from Tomasz, watched Lech Poznan draw 2-2 with Udinese in the UEFA Cup. It was an amazing game, played in a blizzard! Lech Poznan should probably have won, although Udinese dominated the second half, going 2-0 up before capitulating to some last minute pressure. However, they should have done better as they have been playing football for the last month or so, whilst Lech Poznan haven’t played in 2 months. This still hasn’t solved my Polish football dilemma, but I like the Lech Poznan fans - they were very vocal and demonstrative, in spite of the snow!
So today I have listened to the aforementioned bands as well as: Sum 41, Anti-Flag, The Epoxies, Alkaline Trio, The Descendents, Iron Maiden (thanks Ros!), Seryoga, Edo Maajka, Zhanna Friske, Authority Zero (just coming on now)… in fact, I’ve been a Caroline style musical dustbin. I’m also about to print the words to Vatreno Ludilo and CRAM THEM! I want to be able to sing it on karaoke by Saturday!
I feel very excited about life in general. I feel a bit bad cos I haven’t made much time for God today, but then I haven’t had much time. I have asked Him for help with important things - and I could writing this as important. I try not to write things I don’t think He would want me to write.
Anyways, I’m off now to do my essential tasks. Dave is picking me up before work tomorrow, but that means I have to be up even earlier than usual, but don’t have to cycle. I’m sure that will somehow make it easier to get up in the morning. Is that something to do with interdependence? I can’t seem to do anything under my own steam.
Bye guys, and if I don’t blog again before Croatia, have an amazing week or so and leave comments telling me what you want me to buy you! Love and hugs to everyone.
I am off to Croatia in just 3 days! The trouble is, the telly is full of stuff about plane crashes atm. I don’t like flying, so am a little bit scared. Please pray for me!
Speaking of which, a wonderful lady prayed for me in church the other day, and I have been a lot happier since. I am starting to enjoy changing my life with God’s help, even though it’s happening slowlt and I still get very translated. Hvala lijepa, Boze!
Here is a recipe Adrienne and I invented at uni. Caroline and I have now actually tried it!
Topless Gallas
Serves 3.
3 Gu chocolate pots
3 mugs of milk
1 red chilli, deseeded and chopped
3 shots Tia Maria
3 shots vodka
Warm the milk in a saucepan with the chilli. When it’s warmed throughout (about 5 minutes: don’t try to do it too fast or it’ll stick) microwave the chocolate pots for around 30 seconds to create a sauce, as per the packet instructions (you may need longer if your microwave is like ours). Pour this into the milk mixture. Remove from the heat and add the alcoholic beverages. Pour into three mugs and serve immediately!
Hope you enjoy that. I should probably go. There’s loads that I want to share. I don’t have all of it due to leaving my phone at home. Here’s a song I discovered I like.
And here’s a song I always knew I liked.
Check this out as well, it’s the same guy. He has his song in 30 different transliterations so you may need to search for Seryoga or Cepera.
And finally, I can’t do this as a poll cos I did a similar one recently which was very indecisively answered. But… who do u think I should side with in the infamous Wisla Krakow vs Legia Warsaw debate, and why? I need to know! Annoying Tomasz seems a good enough reason and Legia would serve that purpose, but I can’t support a team ONLY to wind my friend up and keep Archie happy.
Anyway, I think that’s it for now, although I know I’ve forgotten something important.
I may have pressed a few wrong answers. I corrected a few, but don’t really want to do the whole thing again. Caroline found a personality testing thingie and this is my result:
It doesn’t cover all the random manifestations of my personality, but is quite accurate. It also said I should be a journalist, musician, or in Public Relations, which covers everything I’ve wanted or been told to do in my life, apart from politics and humanitarian aid. Chopping and changing from one boyfriend/project to another, being able to verbally justify anything (me gone wrong would be a manipulative political spin doctor!), and having many talents are more areas I can identify with.
Interestingly, the last paragraph says I can use my gifts to “fulfil themselves and those around them”. This is in sync with the only clear prophecy I’ve ever received, telling me to give God my passion, and He will direct my life so that I glorify Him and fulfil myself. I’m trying to do this now. I hope it works, but I don’t have a lot of faith in God’s ability to change me, nor a lot of desire to change. Or I do want to change, but don’t want to work as hard as I will have to in order to change. I will try a bit, though.
Anyway, here are my 2 ideas this week:
1) start women’s football sessions at our local leisure centre, for allcomers, and try and develop it into a coherent team for next season, if others are interested because I might not be there:
2) open a bar which has 2 themes and specialities: football and continental lagers on one side, and cocktails, wine and girly stuff on the other. The name of the bar would be One Way Or Another (unless anyone comes up with something better). The “boy’s” side would have a menu consisting of pub food and British classics, and the “girl’s side” would have a more continental, health-conscious menu with wider vegetarian options. The girly bar would also sell continental chocolates:) I need another word for continental! The girly side would host feminist political meetings and debates. The other side would show as much football as possible. I would invest in Polish TV etc. so I could show Legia Warsaw vs Wisla Krakow, etc.
If anyone wants to help me develop either of these ideas, especially the first one - or wants to nick the second one, I’m easy - please let me know.
Anyway, our holiday is shaping up. Unfortunately I won’t be able to do the thing I most wanted to do in Croatia, which is go to Hajduk v Dinamo. There has been some massive ticketing problem which means we can’t get them. Zvone is going to explain it to me when we go out there. However, we are going to Pula, Rovinj, Rijeka and Opatija (I think there is a carnival going on in the latter two places). So that will be brilliant:) I can’t wait! I’m not looking forward to the whole flying thing though. I hate it. I can’t relax until it’s over. I think I’m going to die.
Here is a row which I don’t understand. How is it worse to pay something back automatically than have to pay for it manually? I’d rather have it done automatically so I don’t forget, or feel like I’m losing any money.
I wonder if the stupidly cute guy at work who nearly made me fall over today by reading the name “Hiddink” off the pack of the paper reads my blog?
In church on Sunday, we had confirmations, and I silently prayed that it might be my confirmation. I got confirmed at 12, but was’t very aware of what was going on - I wanted to do it because i couldn’t ever see a tiime when I didn’t believe in God, and it was the appropriate age to do it. I don’t know if this is a bad thing or not. I believe in accepting anyone to baptism or confirmation who wants to do it, based on the “Let the little children come to me” verse, and also “He who comes to me I will in no wise cast out” or something. I also think you just shouldn’t reject people from coming to God, because they may well say “well, if God doesn’t want me I don’t want him either” forever. So on Sunday, I prayed that everything would change. I think a lot of stuff has, but I’m not doing very well. God is, though:) I wish I wanted to know Him more when it wasn’t church!
Anyway, I should really put the poor computer down now, and turn it off. It looks tired.
But he should watch out. There is a plot against him! Fortunately, this plot involves me becomign a hired assassin, which isn’t going to happen, not even if the person who tried to make me do it says HHHH very nicely. I only kill people in terrifying dreams, like last night’s!
It has just occurred to me that this work yummypants might be in league with PoK. I mean, he is a Man U fan, and Pok has attracted otherwise nice people in the past. Here is the summary of Chris Perry’s activity from *ahem* Wikipedia *ahem*…
Chris Perry’s career has unfortunately been blighted by rumours of criminal activity. In 1999, Perry was first associated with a crime spate including an Isle of Wight ferry hijacking. This situation was resolved peacefully with the co-operation of local people, including - allegedly - Southampton footballers. Perry was never arrested for this, but rumours persisted of his involvement in organised criminal activities. An incident in the cellar of Charlton’s Valley stadium was the first of these. Perry was then accused of involvement in a large public disorder incident outside White Hart Lane football ground, as were a group of other Spurs and Arsenal players, including Sol Campbell (then a Spurs player) and Martin Keown (Arsenal). This incident was believed to have occurred over a dispute between Perry and Sheffield Wednesday’s Benito Carbone.
In 2000 events took a sinister term as a number of people, many of whom were involved in football, came down with mystery illnesses. Perry was accused of involvement in a plot to cause a public health crisis, and of targeting players he had had a dispute with. A team of scientists from Southampton resolved the health issues and once again there was no prosecution.
Rumours of Perry’s criminal activity then died down for many years, but resurfaced in 2006, when a startlingly similar health crisis to that of 2000 arose. These are just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the wacky rumours that have been flying around about Chris Perry, the latest concerning an alleged attempt to deposit harmful materials inside Arsenal’s new Emirates Stadium.
It would be interesting if one of my work friends WAS involved with PoK. I have a sudden urge to make an RPG or something, all about fighting PoK, but I wouldn’t know how to do it:)
Anyway, tis all for now, I was asked to blog something, so I did. But if you asked me to jump off a cliff or assassinate Cesc Fabregas, I wouldn’t do it.
Anyone seen those little stickers which have appeared over London, and any other city with lots of immigrants? People seem to be in the habit of sticking them on bus stops and in train stations. I was talking about them recently, and my uncle Paul suggested that I take photos of them and Google the words on them.
So here is my first one:
I foound this in Cockfosters station before church on Sunday. I didn’t recognise the language at all. I’m still not sure what that X is doing there.
A lot of Wiki and YouTube-ing, not in English, revealed that Indar Gorri are the firm of Osasuna, the Spanish football team, who apparently have had just a few UEFA Cup runs in their history including a semi final appearance against Sevilla in the 2006-7 season. They have a Spanish Wikipedia page. If anyone who reads my blog speaks Spanish and would like to translate it, I’d be grateful, and so would all the rest of those who puzzle over these wall installations!
I think most of these stickers are Polish. I might keep photoing them and see if i can learn anything about good HHHH teams and their lovely fans:)
Incidentally, Dino Drpic is even naughtier than I thought:)
I joined this group on Facebook ages ago and now it’s made the Telegraph! I don’t send many emails though, so maybe I should send her my web history.
This is an article from Socialist Worker about why “British jobs for British workers” is not a good slogan. I assume that everyone who saw the BNP van driving around the unofficial strike knows perfectly well why it’s not a good slogan, but I’m glad there’s some intelligent reporting going on.
Anyway, my ego took a major boost today. I was going on about how Zvone has consigned me to travel to Split with 48 Croatian men, possibly because he loves me. Tomasz asked if I could handle it. I said “yes, but will THEY be able to handle it?” He then said, “You are strange, Jenni. You are a dangerous woman!” This was highly amsing because Ivo calls me a dangerous woman all the time.
Seriously, before I went to work today I was reading a bit in Proverbs about the dangers of adultery. I often pray, then open my Bible and read whatever’s there. It then crossed my mind at work that if anyone else (particularly cute, married people!) observed that I was a dangerous woman, there could be a problem. One hour later… I’m not too worried about it yet though; just enjoying the moment, trying (not very successully I might add) to avoid sexual fantasies, and making up my mind not to do anything with anyone I shouldn’t be doing it with, even if they do say “hhhh”. Of course, even thinking about it is adultery, according to Jesus, which I find really hard to remember and obey.
Trivia: Every day at work, I see this symbol. I thought the company might be Croatian, but no, according to Wikipedia, it is supposed to resemble a tablecloth and is part of a self help guide! How very strange.
This guy, Arton Baleci, thinks if he can get himself fit enough for the Premier League, he can use superlearning to gain the necessary skills. See his website. I hope he succeeds and doesn’t go play for the T team. Too many people seem to think that’s fun. Fortunately, Arshavin isn’t one of them. Yay!
I went to chuch on Sunday and realised I really have to work on this letting God in thing, but don’t really want to, so for a start I have told Jesus I believe in Him and asked to being the journey with Him in my life, and decided to try and do more selfless things. I don’t really get why it has to be so hard. Like you have to expect things to be difficult and be worried when things are too easy. I am one of those annoying creatures who make people like Dawkins think believing in God just makes you miserable. I am happier than when I tried to live without God. Can I tell atheists not to look at me at the moment? I’m just having a rough time. Thousands aren’t.
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