Friday: Finish exams.
Sunday: Last Church service for a month.
Monday: 8am, meet movers in Dural. Move a bunch of stuff to our NEW FLAT. Clean for most of the rest of the day & move a little stuff from College too.
Tuesday: Move some stuff from Shona’s & then do a couple of trips to College. Sim & Bec came before lunch & did a lot of setting up stuff with Shona in the house. Sim makes a fabulous lunch! That evening, swing into college, planning to pick up more stuff, and end up taking everything, cleaning the room & being officially OUT OF COLLEGE.
So that is me at this point. I am sitting at the college internet cafe, typing in a blog before I head “home” where I get to sleep for the first night. It will be quite different being there all by myself. At the same time, it’s all very exciting. This time 4 days from now, I will be a married man.
This time about 6 days from now, timgoldsmith.com will go back to a short stint as a travel blog!
1: God is Cool. He gives me strength when I feel like I have no idea about things, so exams are coming along OK. We have plans for the wedding that just fall into place and generous people who pop out of nowhere & deliver the very things we need to feel secure.
2: My friends are cool. It takes someone with an awesome sense of perspective to be walking to lunch with you and say “I really enjoyed my exam this morning when I remembered that I am writing about great truths.” and can follow up with “I am not sure I passed the exam, but I know I learned a lot from the course”. Nai is cool.
Matty is also cool. Involved in putting together my bucks day. It should be a hoot (Mexican, Wii, Barefoot bowling and Pub food!) plus he gets to stand next to me in a week and a half.
3: My family is cool. It was fun to be at C’s third birthday on the weekend. Always nice to see my immediate family & also a pleasure to see the O’Briens, my brother’s inlaws who are awesome & treat me like family too. Phil, as usual, is always enthusiastic & happy to step above & beyond the call of brotherhood, helping out with bucks stuff, invite stuff & lots of other little things he probably doesn’t have time for, but does anyway.
4: My fiance is cool. Well you know she has to be patient to go out with me in the first place, but she continues to put up with all my eccentricities as we spend more time together. She’s thoughtful in a hundred different little ways. Weddings are supposed to be this gigantic stress that tests the mettle of any relationship. If that’s true, I think we could be on a good wicket. I know it has been stressful & incredibly busy (I’d say moreso for Shona) but it has been great for us. I am sure the next 10 days are going to be even worse, moving house & final prep & all that jazz, but I’m also sure we’ll get through it OK.
5: So there you have it. Life is cool. I have to say though, if I am enjoying exams, being in marriage limbo, and having too many things to do with too little time. How good is it going to be in 11 days, when wedded bliss and Bonny Scotland arrive!
I hope you’re looking forward to some photos!
After all, I am getting ready for a wedding. I also had sermons & bible studies to write before getting some essays out of the way too!
Still, I know I should be doing better than this. I’ll try & get some posts up over the next couple of weeks. All I have in the way is three exams & then moving house!
Dude, two weeks till I am married (actually under!)!!!! Who’d have thunk it.
Well, there really isn’t much I can do to fill you in on all the crazy happenings over the last month. Dinner with Nic & Pete, Lunch with Ads & Dan, lots of fun times in between. A birthday party (for Ads again) & a whole pile of stuff I can’t even remember. I had several ideas for blogs, which all got cut off when I invested my emotional energy into either church or college.
I haven’t even taken that many photos over the last month. I did take some after the last week though. Please enjoy some more “people shots” portraits of one sort or another.
A cute kid is always a great way to start some pictures. This is my gorgeous little “C” at her 3rd birthday party. Tell me she isn’t adorable & I’ll call you a liar!
Ads had his birthday last week & we went in for a surprise dinner at the “Lowenbrau”. Ads is a holy guy, so I was keen to give him a Halo. One that is actually advertising beer is even cooler!
“J” shows us one of the 9,500 cans, or general foodstuffs that were collected by our parish (some from us, lots from the local community) for our annual food drive today. It goes to Anglicare to help people in need over winter.
I’m ending with Dylan (or “the Canadian Hobo” as I call him at college) who is looking up at all those photos that have come before. him. He gets a lot of photos these days because he is expressive & always happy to get photographed. What a dream combination!
OK, back to study for exams. Let’s see if I can resist the temptation to post a picture of my study stuff like I have done every semester over the last 2 1/2 years….