Of Driving and Imagine Christmas

On Wednesday I finally was stuck in my first traffic jam in Perth. Or rather I would say, got caught driving in a traffic jam. It took me 20 minutes to clear I think a few hundred metres on Shepperton Road. Given that it was peak hour, it took me 1 hour to get to work that morning, for what usually takes me 30-40 minutes driving I was really peeved that morning. But the thing that really topped everything off that morning was not that I had to endure sickeningly long queues first thing in the morning but rather that there was this driver that was behind my car all the way from Shepperton Road to Mounts Bay Road that kept stopping way too close to my car. I know that my car is a hatch back but this lady was coming really really close to my car.

I got quite agitated by her driving. I tried altering my driving just so I gave her time to brake before but nope, she was so keen on driving right up to the back of my car. I remembered that I had brought a camera in my bag (in my resolution to blog with pictures each day) and duely snapped pictures of her.

She’s lucky I didn’t get a picture of her face….Grrrr

I was nice enough to block out her car registration number….But I was so stressed driving to work that morning.

Suffice to say, I wasn’t having a very good day at work. I usually sit at my desk and amuse myself for hours, writing up resource sheets or doing reserach about dementia and related conditions, symptoms and the list goes on and on. I even went as far as looking up Alois Alzheimer on wikipedia. Wikipedia is not my new best friend in the office to look up random facts. And Google Maps are also another one of my favourite sites to look at to amuse myself at the images and how to get to places.

For cell on Friday, we had steamboat and teppanyaki at Joe’s place. We ended up cooking up a storm and had lots left over.

I apologise for cutting off some people from the photo :S

Warning: Photo heavy beyond this point

Imagine Christmas was great! Dancing in front of those people was super scary. While standing there waiting for the music cue to go, my heart just kept beating so fast I thought I was going to have a heart attack. But as the fog machine slowly spat out its fog, I looked at the floor and began praying that we would impress the audience enough to respond to God’s calling and as the music cued in, I walked with a purpose and danced my heart out. Suddenly, it wasn’t about the audience, it wasn’t about how stupid I looked or whether or not I will mess up but I felt myself dancing for God, which made a lot of difference. I don’t have the photos or the videos from the dance yet, but I’m willing to bet it was great.

I guess the one thing I learnt from all this is that I in fact am a people person, however shy I am. I crave talking to people, listening to them and most of all I love hanging out with them. I’ve made friends with people from all the ages groups in church and I’ve renewed some friendships and strengthened others. There was unity in action during the performance and it was inspiring to see. Bits and pieces of things coming together to produce a production. Separately, each person’s part would seem trivial but put together, it is more than it each person’s part.

Here are some photos pre production throughout the day in various stages of makeup. I got a bit adventurous and took photos of myself later that night. I was so beat, I missed the post celebration dinner.

Estee and I

Cel and I

Chez in action

Glorz at work

Mich and I

Simon and I

Me and Amanda

Sally and I

Sally and I

Josh and I

Keith and I

Chez and I

Glorz and I

Glorz and I

Cel putting on eyelashes

The look of intense concentration

Estee and I

Nat

Megan and Liz

Megan and Liz

Joe trying his hand at the ribbon

Post Production Picture Madness

Massive amount of makeup that I had put on. I had already taken some off but I caked so much on it was quite amusing since I had never worn so much makeup in my life before.

I’m glad I took part in the dance for this, I didn’t know I was actually so flexible. Haha….I can’t do a split but I think that it will be my resolution to work towards getting fitter

My back hasn’t given any problem these few days and I’m really glad for that. The pain that I felt the other day was really intense and I already have quite a high pain tolerance. I just need to rest my back for a while till it heals completely. I feel like an old lady at this rate. And I’m only 22.

Well, its now time for me to get going and get some work done before the day ends.

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