Delta- 21st August 2008.

Ok, so it sure took long enough, but here are a few pics and a clip of Delta singing "Believe Again", from her Parramatta instore (Sorry about bad quality- I was using my phone.) The day, for me, consisted of waiting for about 9 hours in total, along with a lot of people from her forum. Delta arrived at about 5.15pm, sang In This Life, I Can't Break It To My Heart, and Believe Again, chatted a bit, and got to signing. By the time I met her (4th time meeting her for me, 6th time seeing her) it was about 8pm and I was so tired I couldn't think of anything to say. I said everything last time. So in my half asleep state, I decided to say nothing. Yep. Nothing. Luckily, she's good at coming up with things to say, rather than having us just stand there in silence! I later found out she actually stayed until 1am, there were so many people! I find that so amazing because a lot of artists would never bother to do that for their fans, and she always takes the time and makes the effort to be so sweet to everyone.

Just a quick update...

I have inevitably begun to suck at updating LOL. The past few weeks have just been so busy, in between work, staff meetings, job applications, church, church group, shopping, optomotrists, dentists, hairdressers etc. I've been using every spare minute to try to keep up with all the Celine stuff going on in Quebec, taking care of my babies, and trying to find time to write and sleep! Anyway, now it's 11.30pm and I have to be up for work in 7 1/2 hours. I saw Delta again last week and I have some pics and stuff to share, but I'll do that when I have a little more time. The past few days have been crazy, Mum and Matt have been very sick and Opa has been readmitted to hospital. Hopefully he'll be home in a few days though. Alright, bedtime for me.
Bonne nuit oxoxo.

The expression says it all...

This is my little birdie boy, Valentine. I don't think I've posted any pics of him on my blog before, so I am now. He had just had a shower, in this picture. By 'had a shower' I mean, jumped on me while I was trying to wash my hair- 5 times! Annoying, but he's all cute playing under the tap, he goes all fluffy, and boy could he make 'singing in the shower' an olympic sport!
Anyway...not much going on with me. Still wishing Winter away. Stayed home yesterday, on a Saturday night, 'babysitting' my 70-something year old Grandfather. He was fine, but I almost fell down the stairs, accidentally ate paper, and burned my dinner. Who needs a babysitter, now!? Lol. It's strange though, the circle of life. He used to help me with all that stuff, like putting on shoes, and now I'm helping him...

Widget....

Well I don't know what a Widget is. I would have thought it was some kind of bug. But I was instructed to put this in my blog, and since I love Celine, I will. I don't know what it does, though.

Anyway. I guess most people are blogging about the Olympics today? Not me...I've never been interested in sports at all. I do have a new found facination with Google Earth and Street view, though! I was up half the night on there and now I am TIRED!

Edit: Ahh it plays music videos...that's actually pretty cool, check it out!

Try...

I've been in a bit of an emo cranky mood the past few days. I think I'm coming out of it now. But a whole lot of controversy on Celine's forum, arguments with people I love, etc etc haven't been helping. I was listening to this song tonight, and a few lines towards the end just really made sense to me. It's "Try", by Nelly Furtado. I don't listen to her music often, but I like this song :)

"All I know
Is everything is not as it's sold
But the more I grow the less I know
And I have lived so many lives
Though I'm not old
And the more I see the less I grow
The fewer the seeds the more I sow

Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is Try
Then I see you standing there
Wanting more from me
And all I can do is Try

I wish I hadn't seen all of the realness
And all the real people are really not real at all
The more I learn the more I cry
As I say goodbye to the way of life
I thought I had designed for me

All of the moments that already passed
We'll try to go back and make them last
All of the things we want each other to be
We never will be
And that's wonderful, and that's life
And that's you baby
This is me baby
And we are, we are, we are, we are
Free
In our love
We are free in our love."

Church...with Dad...

I try to go to Church every week. I don't always end up going- too busy/cold/tired/sick/don't-want-to, sometimes. Truth is, it makes me nervous. I always feel kind of judged and stared at, as soon as I walk in. I don't think God intended for it to be that way. But I've been going lately anyway.
I was raised Catholic, but I really don't find the denomination important, I think it's more about Jesus and being a good Christian. My parents had me baptised simply so I could go to a Religious school, and neither of them ever talked to me a lot about God. Therefore I usually go to Church alone, and it was weird this morning, when Dad came with me! He came because he's interested in getting a job in a Catholic place and wanted to know more about it. Maybe not the right reason, but it's a start! Of course, he had to be himself throughout the mass, asking me if I'm cold, and if I had a sandwich with me. How mature. *Sigh.*
But, in the car on the way home, we actually had one of the few real conversations we've ever actually had. He told me that at one time he planned to become a Priest, but decided against it because of the hypocritical Church leaders he knew as a kid. I never knew that. Interesting.
He also told me he believes in something, though he doesn't know which religion of all the ones practiced in the world, is the right one. Thinking about it, I understand that- I guess they all have their positive features, and they all can be bad if people take them too far (i.e. wars starting, etc.) I don't know why Christianity just makes sense for me. It's the only one I've ever known. I believe in it completely and don't plan to change it, but I don't necessarily agree with everything it has to offer either...why we're told not to kill, and then there are Bible characters instructed by God to kill. Animals not having souls? I just completely disagree with that in every way. That gay people deserve to go to hell? If the worst thing they did was love- is that so bad? Anyway, the point of this blog wasn't to criticise my faith lol, so I'll stop now. I can also say that it's brought a lot of meaning to my life and helped me through the bad times. That's why I'd rather believe, even if in the end it's all for nothing. If nothing after life exists, maybe I'll never know- but at least life will have been better while we were blessed to have it!