Jordandchan

have a roaring good time with the boys!!!!

lots of love

A reminder of a Christchurch morning.…

given the internet and the amount of ourselves exposed to cyberspace - there are many differening opinions about what you should say and how you should refer to others on the world wide web…
this is a long winded way of saying im not sure what to write to welcome our newest friends to the world via the internet.
so i will just say - WELCOME BABIES (E&J) and congrats to M and R and T and R and Congrats to all associated families and friends.
Perhaps if you are our friends and are pregnant or have kids - you could let us know how to refer to you and your offspring.

i finally had to by an umbrella today. i have wet socks

The last few weeks – or more honestly, months – i have been forced to deal with friend-ships / relation-ships / acquaintance-ships ( i know thats not a word)  and try to make decisions about each of them that are healthy for me as a person, healthy for those i am interacting with and mutually beneficial.
I have been labelled anti-social for closing my facebook account, had the darker side of technology thrust on me, spent some face to face time with people i don’t hold the largest amount of respect for, and have made and broken some of the “ships” i have referred to.
i have had to face up to some hard truths about people in general and have been emotionally rollercoaster-ed into dealing with others. There really is nothing like moving countries to help you discover the “ships” that will stand the test of time – and those that sadly wont/didn’t. There are those that keep you up at night, those you need to let go of, and those that are worth fighting for.
I often get myself so emotionally invested in everything that it blurs the lines of any kind of reality and i often beat myself up over things i should have done differently or things i could/should of said or done.
I expect too much of people – this is a hard truth i have come to learn over that past 20 something years. I too easily trust and more easily feel hurt. I am damaged at best, and this is what i have to offer. Sometimes this feels like enough, most of the time it doesn’t.
I think that all of us at some point want to be the exception to the rule of interaction. Where your self worth is boosted by others, not torn down. Where your inboxes are full of affirmation rather than empty with whispers of loneliness. Where you don’t feel like the carrier of a hundred one sided “ships” that it impairs your views on others. Where you can be yourself and have that be enough.

Unearthed buy

My name is Channah… and these are my thoughts.

Last night the girls were doing exciting things at our house, so I vacated the premises and headed go lukey’s place.
A couple of other guys were heading over too. One of then walked on the door carrying, of all things, a nintendo entertainment system.
I don’t think I had played a NES since primary school. But I still had the feel for Time Lord, and Super Mario Brothers was as good as I remembered. Awesome fun. 

I’m somewhere between annoyed and angry at the music industry today.

As someone, who until recently never had to worry about reading music, i often thought that it went like this – if you play an instrument, you like a band, you buy their sheet music and you play it along with your CD or record.

Unfortunately – it would appear the artist goes, ok – we have written the song, comes time to record it – oh i know – lets put up or down a few notes, change the key its in or any other manner of whims… but do they change the music that printed and sold “as music from the album” of COURSE not.

Who would assume that people learning instruments my actually want to know the right notes to play once they go to the trouble of LEGALLY obtaining sheet music… who would have thought that people might be discouraged when they are unable to play the songs written and performed by the bands they like. And who would WANT to go through all their music with a pencil and transpose all the music just so they can actually play and understand the notes.

Humph!!!

He was perfect. Despite being convinced something horrible was going to happen - it didnt and all was well. i think mum and dad had a good time out and puff certainly enjoyed his dinner and bath with uncle jordan. Hopefully just the first of many happy puffsittings.

One of the better things about being back in the land of Oz is that we are able to celebrate with people their birthdays and other special occasions.

This one is special - not only do we get to celebrate with dave - we also get to babysit puff tonight… everyone is a winner.

anyhow - happy birthday big brother - hope its everything you wish for.