29/05/12 - I'm back!!

Hi guys! It's Melissa, I know I haven't blogged for around 3 weeks but that's because I've been so busy it's not funny. There are so many assignments due and my average sleeping time is at 1 now :( and I moved houses this weekend! But there's actually no Internet and the only reason this post it is up is because I'm typing it on my phone and texting it to Joanna.
AND MY PIANO EXAM IS ON FRIDAY. IM BARELY READY. oh gosh, if it's this stressful I will soon start suffering from depression due to stress and lack of sleep. Sorry for this pretty short post, it's too hard to type much on my phone.
I promise I will do a nice long one.... When i get Internet.....
Yea SO BYE!

Love Mel (& Jo)

28/05/12 - Afternoon teaaa

Found this raspberry, strawberry & loganberry tea in the cupboard so I've decided to try it. Got home early today and I guess gonna try to start my afternoon off with God which will hopefully help me to use my time my constructively.

I also plan to clean my room. I know I always plan it but it's never done but I'm determined to waste my whole afternoon cleaning. Haha so we shall hopefully get some good result.

Xx Jo (and Mel)
Ps must admit that I think I'm improving with this photo business hahah

27/05/12- Barbecue Hair

Lots happened today. Basic recount youth group where I LOST the game. (still very very very devos about that) had a mental breakdown i guess you call it, lunch, baptism, church service and then dinner before heading home. 


I guess i will mentally clear my head by trying to talk about my mental breakdowning ahhaha which i still dont quite get. i guess its once too much gets to my head + my current dodginess leads to everything piling up, if that makes sense which then lead to my realisation that i crave exercise (dont ask) and also to my dodgy emotions and needing to clear my head. but for all those there i am all good now cos like everytime i have one of those moments i .. LOVE IT. as weird as it seems its what reminds me that im sorta powerless and dont have control of lots of things and its then that i'm able to remember Gods in control and that i can give him all my problems and concerns and he does it for the best. 


One of the highlights of my day was going to watch a baptism cos im probs gonna get baptised soon. everytime i think of baptism i think of this vs from Matthew 3:11

I baptize you with water for repentance. But after me will come one who is more powerful than I, whose sandals I am not fit to carry. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire.

I should probably get onto the barbecue bit cos after all this is meant to be about barbecue hair. so basically one of my best friends, Betty,'s sister got baptised and we were having dinner with them after the service at a korean barbecue place. Me and my sis arent really a fan of that cos well basically i dont know if its just our unluckiness but like always after korean bbq our clothes, hair and basically everything we take in stinks like meat and bbq. As much as i love meat i dont know i just dont like smelling like it. (actually i really wonder if dogs are attracted to this bbq smell) 


My worst korean bbq experience was when  sat next to these people having korean bbq while we werent and they kept burning they're meat so basically by the end of the meal when i was going half my head smelt like korean meat while the other half smelt fine. this was really confusing for me, cos i didnt know whether to wash my hair cos like its only half and its a lot of effort for half.


Lets just say since then i havent really been a fan of this korean bbq business and well im typing now with my hair smelling like meat and my clothes all in the wash also smelling like meat.


Carnivorous as always,
xx Jo (and mel)


ps. mel moved house and remember the girl we were having issues with? well she got fb. now we are madly deleting comments, wall post and stuff

26/05/12- Shopping Nightmare

I've made a promise to myself that I won't rant about other people and they're business like some people do in their blogs but shopping with my sister what can I even say.

Let me just start by saying I'm currently sitting outside a change room with my sister walking circles around me, making faces and I don't even want to know.

She was never the shopping type unless your buying her stuff or toys which makes her a pain to go shopping with. So basically today my mum decided to go shopping cos there's a sale at myer.

In a bid to get rid of the 'I'm hungry I want to eat and the are we done yet or I need to go to the toilet' from my sister she sent us away to go look at our stuff.

Unfortunately that means doom for me as I try really hard but sadly can't concentrate with someone following me around. I don't know I just can't do anything so we end up wondering aimlessly before I then retire to a chair and she begins the circling and criticising. A shirt near is label as burnt orange and thus begins her criticism of how burnt orange should be a black colour not reddish orange.

Well where going now but yeah worst person to shop with... My sister.

Verse to remind me of patience which I really lack in.

A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict,
but the one who is patient calms a quarrel. Proverbs 15:18

Finally going now.
Xx Jo (and mel)

23/05/12- SHOCKING NEWS!!!!

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NIV

 loving that verse and how it talks about how there is hope in the future and how we fix our eyes on what we cant see cos we know that its better even if we cant see what that is at the moment.


Now onto  the shocking news. it may not actually seem that big but to some of you this may still be shocking. No matter how much i stress that im not a bad cook some people still believe that i am. Surprisingly im actually decent even though i did blow up microwave food but i can tell you now its not hard at all!!!!!! just get a bowl thats too small and microwave food for too long. 

Since im talking about food as always planning on making this sometime. Tried it at a party and it taste amazing. hahah this will be next week though cos my friend, Tash ( the one who prompted this post cos she said that i sucked at cooking but yet wants to try my cooking ) is coming with me to my youth group and like i normally bake but ive decided to try this!!!!!


Assessments and tests now
as always 
xx Jo (and Mel)

22/05/12 - Toilet, Here I Come

So I'm back to regular blogging again and I've been dying to type this all day. Apparently this story is sorta gross but it is VERY VERY funny!!!

Before my story. Excursion today to opera house to watch and outback version of Romeo and Juliet. Let's just say I have a very short concentration spam and it was getting quite long and I was getting restless and quite confused.

Now onto my story. I apologies for all those disturbed but I'm sure many people will understand my situation. So it all started at the end of recess. The bell rang and I was like to one of my friends, Tarania I really need to go to the toilet so we put our bags down and went. First to the toilets closest to the room which for some reason was full then we went to another one outside by now I was like full on busting. We were about to walk in when the janitor dude goes 'girls. You two.' we like looked at each other and were like ummm is that us.. Then we looked around and there's like no one else so like we re like awkward it is us. He's like sorry girls that toilet needs repairing so we awkwardly walk half way across the school to go pee which by now has turned into a dump. So relieved when I finally get to dump (I'm also getting toilet paper for my nose cos its runny) then we here the janitor dude from outside the toilet. 'is anyone in there?' so awkward again and were just like ummm yeah... And he's like 'hurry up. We're waiting outside'. Then begins the quick toilet finishing and the rushing out. So awkward cos he's standing outside with the construction people. Anyways we make our way back to our class where I then realise that my butt doesn't feel right like I haven't wiped properly. So quickly I then make it back to the closest toilet again and basically rewipe my butt.

Haha that's all for know
Xx still sick jo (and mel)

21/05/12- Aftermath

We have different gifts, according to the grace given to each of us. Romans 12:6

Don't know if I've mentioned this but over the weekend we had our duke of Edinburg bronze practise hike. It was two days of adventure as we got lost bush bashed ( a term we made up for how we randomly walked through the bush to get back to the track. By randomly I don't mean random walking I mean like random walking in a direction squishing plants etc. ) and camping.

Well basically let's just say the aftermath of all that is bad for me. Not only the sore body but I seem to have developed a cold so here I am at home taking a break from sleeping. This is probably the only day off school I'll get this year. Sadly I shall need to sleep through the whole day with no texting. (order from my mum) must say its really hard to stop my instinct so I guess it'll just be less texting.

Back to sleep now.
Xxx Jo (and mel)

16/05/12- Cooking Time

But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. Once you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; once you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy. 1 Peter 2:9-10

It's officially been ONE month!!!!!

So NAPLAN this week which has been hard and made me realise I REALLY CANT SPELL and i have a REALLY REALLY short attention spam!!!! One more day of NAPLAN to go and strike on friday that officially means this has a been an awesome week with little work.

Since it's officially been a month ive decided it's time i shared a few of my recent cooking fails. before i continue just like to say that im actually not that bad at cooking it just seems like i really really suck.

Let's just start with today. Basically i decided to channel my inner asianness (it does exist although many people dont believe me) and make asian pancakes ( i dont really know if thats what you call it but its the pastry thing thats pancake shaped that you fry ) so i oiled the pan etc. it was going lovely until i had to flip. I never really like flipping stuff, especially when things which are frying and theres oil which is hot but i still did, probably from too high up. Then the oil splatters out and in my speed i run backwards almost dropping the pancake but its all good cos it lands back in the pan. Well in the end I look around and oil is everywhere which is fine but THERE WAS LOTS OF SMOKE!!!! It's then i quickly open the window and madly fan the air around me. Well it took a while but now the smoke is still going and later i found out that it's cos oil was burning in the pan. yeah im not the BEST chef but im still not that bad.

Another story from a while back which i havent told you all yet is my chocolate milkshake incident. So basically i always have fruit milkshakes (still havent tried mandarin but I WILL DO IT ) and i decided it was time for a change. Thus the chocolate milkshake. basically the plan was simple. hot water. chocolate powder. make a liquidy thing.  add ice cream and milk and blend. lets just say i didnt even get to the liquidy thing part cos i couldnt boil water. Turned on the kettle when it had no water and didnt realise till it started steaming. Then i tried to put water in and ALL THIS STEAM CAME OUT!!! it was pretty bad so then i just gave up. It was too much for one day.

i think thats enough before i loose my dignity and no one trusts my cooking. IM HONESTLY NOT THAT BAD!!!!

thats all for now. Thanks for reading.

xx Jo (and mel)

13/05/12- Toilet Trouble

Always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:20

It's been a while but its mothers day today. I always grew up having a mothers day store at school so i didnt have to buy a present. Just got given money by my dad and told to choose stuff at school but now me and my sis are officially out of primary we had to go shopping for a legit present. Anyways we brought stuff cookbook and a travel mug.


So now quickly to the reason about my toilet trouble cos i really need to do my work hahaha. let me say before that is a fail story about my life. It all starts like the good kid i am going to mothers day lunch with my mum and sis. So like its all good and we are eating away until i need to go to the toilet. (dont worry i dont randomly pee everywhere) So i go to the toilet. I dont know if this is just me but i have a problem when the toilet paper flap (the bit you pull no idea what you call it) is against the wall. So being the kind and considerate person i am i decided i would help them so i skillfully pulled the roll out and was just turning it around when my hand sorta slipped. and well basically the toilet roll ended up in the toilet.  Then began my crap now what. so i subtly grabbed the toilet roll out of the loo. (it was like half a toilet roll so like it hadnt all gotten soggy yet if you know what i mean. basically i didnt touch toilet water) then i put the toilet roll subtly on the sanity bin and went off. It was all fine till my sis said wonder what happens when the toilet roll dries and someone tries to use it. so now im worrying....


Back to work for me now
xx Jo (and mel)

09/05/12- Running like the wind

“All people are like grass, 

    and all their faithfulness is like the flowers of the field.

The grass withers and the flowers fall,

    because the breath of the Lord blows on them.

    Surely the people are grass.

The grass withers and the flowers fall,

    but the word of our God endures forever. ” Isaiah 40:7-8 NIV

Athletics Carnival today. As much as you expect this to be a recount of how i epically won in the 1500m race or how i threw a javelin 15m, sorry to disappoint but this has none of that. Im a lazy kid and basically I'm more of a cheerer. as much as i enjoy sport i only like group sports basically because you can socialise and talk through it. But i guess i should recount my athletics carnival. Which is basically eating, talking, card games and cheering. Ate around 10 packs of lollies, chips and mega tim tam pack. Learnt a new game jungle speed which is a very intense and stressful game where everyone has to fight for one dog toy sorta thing.
Also today went to ISCF (inter school christian fellowship) with mel c and tash. Was awesome to start the day off thinking about God as our centre. It was a lovely start to the morning besides the fact that Tash told me the wrong train time and we arrived 30mins earlier but this turned into a lovely DnM time about lots of things. Really love DnMs.
Another thing that im planning to try is quiet timing in the afternoon before i start my homework. (hoping that by blogging about it, it will help me remember) It worked well besides the homework bit. Im trying (well ive been trying for a while to read through the bible from the front to the back cos well i think its time i tried.) and im up to the fourth book Numbers. Wish me luck.
On another note i may be officially going mad. I've started today on one of the world's worst mood swings. HAHA i may have even depressed a year 7 and annoyed a girl from 10hours of my face today. Lesson for today (maybe, my lessons may be dodgy) that i will never be brilliant or perfect. Not even a mastermind as much as i like to believe that i am. (people think im crazy) Well anyways through my dodginess and mood swining it has been an awesome day of fun, friendship and trying to put Jesus first.

xx Jo (and Mel)

08/05/12 - About To Pass Out

"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." 

Albert Einstein

Hi guys. So not much happened for me. Except that there was school yesterday (Monday) argh. So what happened? Nothing. Apart from the rollerblading, being left off early and then sneaking off to Eighty Ate, a really nice yet expensive cafe that is a minute's walk from the school. The sneaking was pretty funny because my and my friend (ALSO CALLED MEL <3) did this thing where we hid behind cars to avoid groups of other girls and their teachers coming back from various sports. And then, every Monday arvo, I volunteer at Vinnies, yeah, I sound like such a good smaritian, but truthfully the only reason I waste an hour of my life touching second hand crap is because of Duke of Ed....

Then I have Va that is due 'today'. So last night I stayed up till 3 doingit, which leads to my today's story. I was so crapped up, I skipped scripture and went to Eighty Ate 9again) to get Moccha.Howevero that boost of caffeine in my system had no effect on me whatsoever. Which meant once again I was stonered due to the 4 hours of sleeep.  But yep.I slept through nearly every class there was, except for history, beucase the teacher's such a bitch, and there were only like 10 people. But still it's only logical to sleep early the next night when u've had little sleep the night before. Yes? Well I'm stupid because I'm pulling another late night, this time for no reason. Jks, there's a reason, but... It's like 11:35 and I am literally going to pass out, but this reason is all that keeps my eyes open. 

And finally, I'm not actually on my bed, or on a table. I'm lying on the floor, on a yoga mat, in a sleeping bag (at home yes). The story is, Ok, I still share a bed with my mum because firstly, I live in a unit (I'M MOVING IN 3 WEEKS THOUGH!) and secondly, no one wants to sleep with my dad cause he snores and since there are only 2 beds in the unit... But anyways, the thing is, my mum's bestie came from china, and she's coming for a 2 day sleepover, so my mum made me 'dedicate' my side of the bed for her bestie, so they could talk all night... Leaving me with the floor. Its prety warm and homelike though. I would take a picture and shit, but then again, too much effort required :/

From, Mel (and Jo)

Oh coincidentally, as i'm signing off, my reason to remain awake stopped as well. Ok I will faint out of exhaustion before I fall asleep... 

06/05/12 - Coffee Kick

"God our hope. He has overcome. All our failures and all our fears. God our love. He has overcome. All heartache. All our pain. God our healer. He has overcome. All our burdens and all our shame. God our freedom over come. All our troubles and all our years. " one of my favourite songs. Take heart. Hillsong.

So since like few hours ago I have done quite a lot. Had my fourth coffee in four days. That's heaps for me some one who normally has one a month or close to that. Always wondered why people would bother to be so caffeinated but omg I think I'm turning into one of those caffine addicts. Seriously hoping coffee doesn't make you fat. Haha
Another thing earliest I've gotten home for a while. Finished sport at 2:40 and after talking to people and stuff left at 3:00 to get the earlier train. Here I continue passing around the house to wear down my hiking boots. Two weeks to go before the hike.
Xx Jo (and mel)

07/05/12 - Sickly

But I will restore you to health

and heal your wounds,’

declares the Lord,

‘because you are called an outcast,

Zion for whom no one cares.' Jeremiah 30:17

Sick today. So here I am blogging in the quad while watching mel and other people do sport which for this term is rollerblading.
Today in my sickly state I have been convinced to buy a total of $3 on chocolates and $7 on hot food. It's cold today even for me. I realise now it's very very easy to convince me to buy stuff.
Hmm not much else. Sports done and now I shall wait to get home and get warm!!!!!
Xx Jo (and mel)

5/05/12 - A Quick Something

I don't know what this is. But basically I guess it's something for me to quickly say something without the usual pic and verse.
So today netball. Good game for me. First quarter was crap 11-0. Then we won every other quarter to win in a close 21-23
Also today shopping. Finally brought my mothers day present. A small cook book with sweet stuff and a mug with I <3 my mum. Yeah me and my sis suck at this present buying business.
So tired today from netball and camp. Looked like a retard at woolies cos I wondered around the whole store twice and couldn't even rememeber what I was buying. Even with a mocha. Brought like a years supply of food including 16 bottles of pasta sauce, 4 boxes of shapes and like heaps of other food.
Shall figure a way to name these short post things with mel later.
Xx jo (and mel)

5/05/12 - The After Effects

"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life." John 3:16

HI GUYS. :D
BACK FROM CAMP YAYAYYYERS. Anyways, so since my mum went to China like at the beginning of this term, she came back, the morning I went to camp, which meant I packed EVERYTHING by myself. Surprisingly, I didn't forget anything! Well ok, I'm just going to skip the beginning bit cause Jo already told you about how we did the giant swing, high ropes, caving and alpine rescue. Oh but on my side, I loved it! I love that feeling when your falling (aka, I like rollercoasters). Anyways, so we went camping. Which is pretty amazing, cause it's my first time. We had no showers, no lights, no furniture, no toilets. So when we treked there (3km) it was still around 2pm. So the group I was in went absailing. IT WAS SO SCARY. I mean, I don't easily get scared of heights or anything, but I've never absailed and I crashed twice. I mean, it's crashing into rocks. I've got 2 bruises on my left hip, and like 2 on my right arm, and the bruises on my leg literally makes my entire leg/knee purple.
Then it was night, and we ate dinner, in, the, dark. PRETTY COOL YEAH? And then we had fun singing around the campfire, and had these competitions, AND WE GOT TO ROAST MARSHMELLOWS. Seriously, I just set mine to fire, every single time but they're so nice. And then, we went back to our tents and stayed up playing mafia, big 2 and cheat. And yea, I've got a 6th sense in mafia. Like 70% of the time, I am right aobut who's the mafia. And at 12:30 we started a cheat game, and I won that round so I like just watched the last 3 people battling it out. And guess how long that round lasted for? 1hour and 15 minutes! And it didn't even finsh, they just gave up.... Heaps of other stuff happened, and because the toilets are the ones with a hole in the ground, I really couldn't go in those, becuase I retch every time I smell it, so I peed in the bushes. That was pretty cool :D
And then. I'm exhausted. So last night, I slept so much. THEN. Today we had netball, I don't know how Joanna went yet, but the team I was in lost to another NSG them. 14-4. IT WAS A GREAT GAME. And you know how you have to wear skirts when you play netball? I felt so awkward becuase the skirts are above the knee, and like all my bruises were showing :/
But yea... I'll go and play the piano now. Beucase my mum says so. and becasue my exam is in. 27 days. FML.


Mel (and Jo) ;)

03/05/12- Tenting!!!

Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you where ever you go. Joshua 1:9

Hey (no pics yet)
So currently in a tent. Like real one with mel and many others. It's the second night of our camp aka camping day. As always no camping would be complete without ghost story which of course I can't take and now mel is basically dieing after the story.
Brief recap of camp so far is that we've been Cabining for one night then now we will camp. We've done many activities such as high ropes, caving, alpine rescue and giant swing the thing that makes me crap in my pants and basically lose my voice.
Most stressful moment of this camp has been giant swing. I hate the feeling of Roller coasters basically everything.
Anyways playing mafia.
More stuff soon.


Xx Jo ( and mel who now thinks she has a 6th sense for mafia )

01/05/12- A Little Adventure

For in this hope we were saved. But hope that is seen is no hope at all. Who hopes for what they already have? But if we hope for what we do not yet have, we wait for it patiently. Romans 8:24-25 NIV

What more to say but i've spent most of my afternoon today on trains or at a platform. I guess some people would call it an adventure but i would call it more finally realising how cityrail is really shittyrail.  Today powerlines died on my train line so basically there were no trains. I guess this is sorta hard to explain cos it involves talk about train lines but in simple form i had to catch the train to one of the major stops chatswood. From there it was a good 30mins of hard decision making about whether to try and catch another train and return back or to wait for my right train which may or maynot ever come. In the end me, mel c and tash caught a different train to another major stop and caught another train back to our stop. Overall it was a tiring very hectic and squishy. Also required a lot of patience which i dont have any of. 
After getting home an hour later than normal in my hunger, i decide to make continental four cheeses pasta and sauce instant thingo. So i shove it in the microwave and cook it for 10-12mins but sadly i forgot about how my bowl was too small and i ended up with a mini explosion and dried herbs on a bowl and sauce all over the microwave. After cleaning the mess i started again. It has taken me 3 hours today to get home and eat and i feel so tired from nothing much.

My half cleaned up explosion. Ohh the things you can do with microwaves. 

In other news its camp tomorrow (which i am yet to pack for because of course i was stuck on public transport) It shall three days of fun stuff. I dont know if i should say this but anyways the girl i have an awkward problem with, well she cried today apparently cos she thinks im kicking her out of the group. Not much else to say but i have no idea what to do and everyones like i shouldnt talk to her or it'll make it worse. hmmm at least i only have one issue compared to other people. 


xx Jo (and Mel)