Sold Out

so here i am, sitting in our office listening to In Christ Alone by Newsboys and munching on pringles(original flavor) and thinking about what to write. sorry it took so long to get my thoughts in order.

we got back from cairns on the 19th, which is much earlier than we thought. (i would have been getting back today, by the way). the doc said that i did not tear my meniscus! (woohoo) but…..i have a genetic abnormality inside the cartilage which i have had since i was born(apparently). he sent me home, telling me to bike ride and swim(ha!) for 3 months, and then get back to him. if it is not any better, when we go on furlo, i will most likely have to have arthroscopic surgery, along with a cartilage transplant! dude…like major surgery. anywayz, so we are praying and hoping that therapy(which at the moment is riding a stationary bike but i hope to move to a real bike this week, maybe?!) will help my leg to strengthen and help the problem to not bother me as much, because this sort of thing, doesnt heal. (well, duh its genetic). so, as anyone who knows me will know that this is very discouraging, as i HATE sitting around watching all my friends run around….especially since in PE this term, they are doing basketball, which just happens to my favorite sport. WWWAAAHHH! ahem. so yah. or like today, when it was pouring rain, and my friends were running around in the puddles and mud… totally not fair! but anywayz, moving on!

i think im just about used to waking up around 6:30 or 7 every day…school is alright, busy and tons of homework. but hey. such is life, eh?

today is exactly 2 months until my 14th birthday and today is also roughly 21 days until i am an aunt! (the relative kind, not the insect kind.)

well, just a bit of news from me, sorry its been so long again, its been hard getting into the swing of school again, but i think i finally have!

remember to live life to it’s fullest, and never underestimate the power of laughter.

cheers!

~the buzzing angel

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Well…i am now going to auzzie on friday! as in two days from now…the 12th. for surgery. i have an appointment with the doc on monday the 15th and i will have an MRI and then surgery will either be tuesday or wednesday with another week or so of recuperating(howeva u spell that) and rest and therapy?? maybe. and all in cairns. i know, so sad right i have to sit in a nice air conditioned room watching tv and eating real icecream. totally torture i know. well, actually we won’t be buying tons of stuf because of all the medical trips we have already taken in the past year. wow. but anywayz still i get to go look at all the stuf i want to buy as opposed to having to imagine it all the time! : o )

im not really looking forward to surgery but im not really dreading it either its just kinda one of those things….but i am looking forward to walking and running without pain after 3 months of walking only and sometimes not even that!!! man…you really don’t realize what you have until you lose it, right? so do me a favor, when you run into your house because of the rain or you think a dog is going to attack you(haha) or you just feel like jogging, think of me, ok???

I would also really appreciate your prayers for a quick recovery and a smooth surgery and all that jazz.

oh and by the way, we finished watching Lost season 2 a few days ago….OH MY GOSH! i love that show….its insane…amazing story writers, i could never come up with half that stuf…but thats just me….

hey and i got my braces on thursday. they are annoying especially because i can’t eat all the food i used to(including GUM!! aaahhh) and plus i have a little bit of a lisp : o ) its pretty funny. anywayz!

alright, thats enough for now. see ya in about 2 weeks….

~the buzzing angel, buzzing downunder

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Heylo everyone well guess what? ITS THE NEW YEAR! yup u heard right. its 2007 ya’ll!!!! lets party it up!!!! totally kool, huh?! well i had a smashing (don’t ya love that word) good time on new years eve hangin with friendz!!!! we made a whole ton of noise at 12:00pm and totally wore our voices out. : o ) but its all good. then i went to ma friendz’ house and stayed up even later and partied!!! hehe. lots of fun.

then new years day i went to the river with ma gurl friendz. it was so much fun! hehe. there is this one place at the river where you jump into icy cold water and then its like this little lagoon thingie…well, sort of. anywayz! one of ma friendz brought a gumi (also known as a big rubber tube) and we spent our time trying to get us all sitting on it without it tipping over. very hard i must say, especially when we are all laughing and acting retarded. but thats another story. we also swam around and floated in the current and then we made a mud slide but it was actually made out of clay which is very slippery when it gets wet. anywayz, it was actually totally fun being a real mk for once. i mean, its been forever since i have gone barefoot or gotten dirty or muddy or just laughed and had fun being stupid. so it was good. and the scenery of cows on the waters’ edge was very nice and it was kool watching the pngean kids laughing at us making total dorks of ourselves : o ) silly white kids.

so today ive just been chilling at home, baking, burning myself on hot pans (ouch!!!!) and watching lost. we just borrowed part of the second season from the local video store (ha!) also known as a childrens’ home. anywayz! (i hope this is making sense to u all….). so yah life is good.

i hope u all are having an awesome new years…aint it good to start fresh?!?! i love u all tons!

forever,
the buzzin angel

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Christmas has come…and gone once again.

I got some really fun presents but the best one of all was being able to talk to all 3 of ma brothers. 2 of them on the phone and one on chat. I admit, i cried. yes, i miss them lots but it was awesome being able to talk to them. later we headed off to 2 friendz’ houses to eat lunch and i got stuffed on ham, mashed potatoes, and lots and lots of pie!!!! it felt like thanksgiving all over again, but hey christmas and thanskgiving are the two holidays you are actually allowed to get totally stuffed with food
: o )

hope you all had an amazing holiday and i hope you remembered the real ‘reason for the season’.

cheers!

~the buzzing angel

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merry early christmas everyone!!! wow…i still can’t believe it’s nearly christmas. it’s so much easier to get in the mood of christmas when you are in civilization because everybody is playing christmas music and everything is decorated to the nines and everyone is talking about christmas….but here, it’s not that way. i mean, sure we talk about christmas but it just isn’t what it’s like in America. So, yes it’s 2 days till christmas, but it sure doesn’t seem like it!

lets see…on christmas day we will open presents, then we are going to a friend’s house for lunch and then another friend’s house for dinner. then on new year’s eve we are going to a major party. dude. yah so we will eat and listen to music and paaarty! and stay up till midnight and watch all the motorbikers ride by ( a tradition that we ukarumpians do: at midnight, everyone rides around uka on motorbikes making lotsa noise and waking up all those party poopers who go to sleep before midnight, i mean like come on who goes to sleep before midnight on new year’s eve!!!!) ahem. anywayz!

yah and then around the 7th or something, i will fly off to auzzie with ma parents to have surgery on ma knee. fun fun! actually yah because then i can go shopping…right…like i’ll get to buy anything! hehe. my knee was getting better…well, a little bit and now it’s gotten worse. sad. so yes, i will be getting surgery to (hopefully) fix it! yah so ill come back around the 20th or something, missing the first few days of school. then hopefully, with time, i will be able to work up and be able to run again!!!!

well i totally lost my train of thought so i guess ill stop writing nonsense…

i love u all tons and tons! hope u guyz have an amazing christmas!

~the buzzin’ angel

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Happy late thanksgiving!!! it didn’t really seem like thanksgiving, seeing as i had to go to school….but we went to dinner with friends, talked about football and ate pumpkin pie so that kinda makes it thanksgiving…doesn’t it???

school is winding down for Christmas break. 10 and a half days left!!! score. then im FREE for 5 weeks!!!! i can’t wait. i plan to sleep the whole break. well, ya know i might get up out of bed a bit…

my knee is about the same….getting a bit better maybe but it still hurts…blah! the doc said i probably will have to wait till January untill i can run. humph. but hey, im trying to be optomistic!!! (i don’t think its working). we were so, um, blessed here to get an orthodontist so guess what…i get braces!!! ha! once again…so excited. ahem. at least ill have straight teeth….

my dad is still recovering, and has been able to go back to work and most of his usual activities save for tennis and such. he hasn’t climbed any mountains yet either, but he’s getting there.

in social studies, we have been studying medieval times. i think it woulda rocked to have lived during medieval times. besides the fact that i would be dead, it woulda been awesome! you get to wear really cool dresses (even though i hate dresses) and you get to do all these cool things, plus there are such things as knights in shining armor and princes and stuf!! i also shoulda been born in the 60’s or 70’s. i am so into music from that era and it woulda been so cool! people like john lennon….aaahh…i woulda loved to meet him!!! it was just such a cool time…hehe….it woulda been cool to be a hippy too! jk!

anyways, now that you know that i wish i was born ages ago…

i love gazing at the sky. the stars and the moon are so beautiful. i love looking closely and seeing the man in the moon smiling down at me. have you ever seen a shooting star? it’s magical. and guess wat! i’ve see the southern cross. something lots of people i know in America have never had the privelege of seeing with their own eyes. i personally think the sky is so much prettier here than in America, but maybe it’s just me.

ok i don’t know what is with me tonite but i am really in a random mood! well, before i weird you guyz out too much more, i’m gonna go tackle some homework!

i love you all so so much. remember to wish on starz and have fun being a kid! (unless you are an adult in which case i hope that you can remember what it was like being a kid, because, its awesome!!!!)

~the angel with buzzing wings

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greetings all

IM OFF MY CRUTCHES!!!!! score. life is sooooo much easier being able to walk. ha, ill never take walking for granted again! it was only a month, but still. a month is a long time not being able to walk. im still doing therapy and its kinda hard walking cuz im not used to it, but im getting there.
my class did plays for the community this weekend. we had been practicing for about a month and we had costumes, make up, hair, the whole deal and we charged everyone to come see us (or make us stop). it was pretty fun but im glad its over. im sooooo tired and it will take a while to catch up on sleep.
well, most of you already know this, but while coming back from Lae after his village trip, my dad was in a really bad car crash. he was driving with Uncle Neil (who went with him on his trip), and they hit a pothole, starting fishtailing, went off this side of the road and flipped before coming to a stop. Uncle Neil was unconcious and my dad was trying to wake him up. while they were lying there helplessly, a pmv (big truck with lotsa people) stopped and robbed them of everything they had, save for their clothes basically. it was bad. they couldnt even do anything about it! then a man stopped by in his car and took them to the hospital where they stayed overnite. Uncle Neil was in pretty bad condition, with a broken collarbone, bad scalp lacerations, and several broken back vertebrae. he is in Auzzie right now having surgerys and stuf. we still don’t know all of his permanent injuries but lets just say that he will be out of commission for a while. my dad came out of it with only a few cuts on his arm, hands, and head and a blood tumor thing on his head. after a week, he is still suffering headaches and is very tired all of the time. but God has been good in all of this. he has given us all a peace that i don’t even understand and everyone in the community have been amazing and i can totally feel the love.

school is beginning to wind down, just a few more weeks to go. the school year is nearly half over!!! aaahhh!!!!! and its almost christmas. so weird. ah.

life has been crazy for the past few weeks, but its winding down now which is good.

lotsa love to all ya’ll!!!!!!! smile lots, laugh often, remember to have fun- life is too short to throw it away! go do something weird or insane or crazy or just plain fun!

~the buzzin angel

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Well, Carnival has come….and gone…

it was ALL day yesterday and i am exhausted! our booth, icecream, was a huge success with all the kids, PNGian and white skins. it was pretty fun serving icecream all day and then, when it got dark, we turned on the Christmas lights and had a nice icecream shop effect. it was koolio! actually, all of Carnival was a success! the ferris wheel (great invention by the way, no matter what my ferrisfobia friends say), face painting booth, photo booth, all the food booths including Asian, Italian, and French, and the games booths were awesome! oh yah and i can’t forget cotton candy and funnel cakes!!! the once of the year, taste of heaven….aaaahh. wonderful stuf. it was so much fun seeing all our friends come out for a day of lots of fun and relaxing and to be able to serve everyone in the community. we had music playing all day and even had a jazz band mini concert during lunch and a puppet show. it was loads of fun and i am sooooo tired! plus we have to go school tomorrow. waaah. i think i might fall asleep in my classes tomorrow….

i had therapy on thursday and my therapist (not mental, thank you) thinks that i should be able to walk on wednesday. i have an appointment after school with the doctor on wednesday and i will know for sure so i will definitely keep you posted. i pray i can walk very soon because i am getting sick of being on crutches!!!! but then again, ya never know…but a gurl can dream, can’t she???

well i think that’s all but i just wanted to update you on Carnival and stuf, even though you might not have wanted to be updated on it, now you are! ha!

cheers everyone!

~the buzzing angel

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hey all!

so sorry it’s been forever since i last posted but the site wasn’t up for a bit and i’ve been so busy (as usual) but finally i have a few minutes to update ya’ll. school has been busy, or at least was. until about two weeks ago when i was at basketball practice and i (apparently) tore my meniscus (is that how you spell it?) anyway it’s a piece of cartilage on the inside of your knee! so um, i am in pain most all day and i am on crutches with a brace with metal bars on the side so that i can’t really move it much. so my life has slowed WAY down as it takes forever to walk or go anywhere but at least i get rides to and from school and everywhere else! : 0 ) however it’s hard for me, a person who hates having to depend on others and someone who hates having to watch others do sports. i wanna just jump up and run off playing soccer or shooting baskets. but i guess it’s a good lesson in patience and i suppose God is trying to tell me to slow down a bit and trust Him. in about a months time (which is in about 2 weeks because it happened 2 weeks ago) we will find out for sure if it will heal on its own. and if it doesnt…..i may have to fly down to Cairns for surgery. but since we don’t have an MRI machine thingy, we won’t really ever know for sure what i did to my knee so we are just going to let it heal. but in the meantime, i am doing a lot of resting…and waiting…and chilling…oh yah and therapy…

our school carnival is coming up this saturday! AAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!! this year the theme is around the world and my booth (icecream) is Jamaica! fun fun. i guess. yah, it will be fun! lol.

so uh….Christmas is coming up!!! wow that seems so weird. like the weather is starting to get extra hot and it’s like…almost Christmas. kinda weird if you ask me.

well, my dad gets to go help a translator out in a village so it’s just me and my mom for like the next weekish. that means i can watch a bunch of chick flicks! muahaha. ahem. so yah. and uh. yah.

ya know, before i started writing, i had so many things i was gonna say but now, i forgot. wahh.

hey my mom bought me some more bilas (jewelry) at market the other day so now i have a new necklace(it’s bright orange) and an anklet thingy that is like blueish. so yah. more bling.(as americans would say.)

ya know something sad? my dad (my awesome dad i might add) built me(and is still building) a basketball court in our backyard and it’s nearly done and i can’t use it because of my knee! how sad is that! and i don’t even have a basketball! sigh…at least my friends can enjoy it while i look on longingly.

well, i guess that is all for now. i have a headache and i have some homework still to do. wow that was weird sentence structure. ok l8er everyone!

“Life’s a beach…enjoy!”

~ me

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“Wishing is good, but don’t ignore today. Every second is precious. Sometimes we aren’t even wishing for the thing we really need… You might be waiting for that thing you always wanted, when that thing you always needed is staring you in the face.”
That was in a book that i’ve read several times now. one of my favorites. that has kinda been me lately. id been having a hard time dealing with being the only kid in my family right now. my brothers are all miles away and i have found myself really missing their wisdom and company. i miss being able to go into the next room and just talk with them. and my dad helped me to realize something the other night. ya know, God totally knew how i would feel when we moved here and phil left. He so knew that i would be lonely and that i would miss them. and even before phil left, God let me have friends and get to know them and develop relationships with them so that when my bro left and i was alone, i would have those friends to turn to. here, i have so many friends i dont know what to do with them all. and they are always there for me, along with my parents, just when i need them. it seems like a really obvious thing, that God placed them in my life for this time, but i was too caught up in my pity-party about being all alone, that i didn’t even realize that they were there, until now! but now that i think about it, it’s really cool to see how God worked even before the need was there. and He must have a plan for me being an only child right now, so im gonna try really hard to stop wishing for siblings, just realize God has a reason for me being all alone, and that what i really needed all along was right there in front of me. (if that made any sense, ill be very happy)
i had a chance to go into Kainantu today to do some second-hand shopping! oh yeah! it was a blast. i got some very cool clothes, candy(including gum : 0 ), nail polish, and even some glow-in-the-dark stars for my ceiling! lol. it was tons of fun!
the rest of the week, i have 3 drama practices. my class is doing a play for the community in November and we are taking advantage of the extra time during break, and then a drama/mime group from school that i am in is practicing too. so this week is a very dramatic week. hehe. (yea lame, i know, but laugh anyway. it will make me feel better)
and after this week, we have monday and tuesday and then back to school, but i’m not even complaining because i’m looking forward to starting school again. i dont plan on being as busy so i am gonna have fun being free-ish. i got my report card for last term, and despite my extreme business i did really well and my parents were pleased so its all good.

cheers everyone! keep smiling - life is good.

~me

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