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Sarah xo
Will You Volunteer? August 7, 2007
As you can see I’m getting nowhere in fixing up the mess I’ve made of my blog.
So I need someone to help me. Someone who’s experienced in using Blogger and HTML and who might be able to help me bring my profile back up to where it should be and basically make my blog look as it did before. I’m just getting way too angry and frustrated.
If you’d like to help, then I please email me at seddyed at hotmail dot com. I’d be very grateful if you could and can even offer a reward. It’s save me the frustration and disappointment of losing over a year’s worth of posts and comments.
If you email me, I will email you my login details. Once you’ve finished, let me know and then I’ll change my password.
Please help….please
Urgent help! August 7, 2007
I’ve tried editing my template in HTML in an attempt to get my sidebar back and look what’s happened. It’s a total mess. Can anyone help now?
Help! August 7, 2007
I’ve royally stuffed up my blog this time.
Since I managed to copy the Thumbs Up logo onto my blog, everything’s gone haywire. That post keeps coming up with error messages saying there is no matching div tag or something or other. Now whenever I try to create a new post, it’s permanently stuck on ‘Edit’ mode instead of ‘Compose’ and everything’s in HTML. I hate HTML! I can’t change it back despite going to the Settings tab and trying to fix it. It keeps saying it’s already in Compose mode but it’s not.
Now some of my previous posts have no left margin and everything looks squashed. There’s no double spacing between lines either.
Can anyone help?
Go Simpsonize Yourself August 7, 2007
Whether you’re a fan of The Simpsons or not, you will love this website. Now you can ‘Simpsonize’ yourself. Yep, all you need to do is upload a mugshot of yourself and see what you would look like as a Simpson.
This is me. Am I hot or what?
Have a go. Visit the Simpsonize Me website.
Thumbs Up! August 6, 2007
Rodney Olsen over at The Journey blog wants to accentuate the positive and has rightly identified the negative vibe which often comes with the blogosphere. See the post here at his blog.
When thinking about what I’d like to do this week, I decided to follow the same idea as Amanda from Amanda’s Musings and thank a couple of bloggers whose blogs I’ve really enjoyed reading for a year and a bit.
Before I name them, I just want to say what influenced my selections. There are tons of good blogs out there but I particularly like reading blogs that are real and gutsy, where you can actually get to know the blogger (as much as you can ‘online’) and find encouragement from hearing their joys and struggles.
I meet up with a Christian friend every Wednesday after I finish my writing day and currently we’re reading through A Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren. The last chapter we read really struck me as it was about the real meaning of fellowship. Too often in churches we don’t really get to know each other and the word fellowship has come to mean mere social chit chat. Fellowship is much more than that. It’s about sharing honestly and being transparent as we bravely open up to others. It’s about dropping the masks we wear and letting others see who we really are. And often when one brave person admits their struggles, the others who have kept quiet find the encouragement to do the same. The blogosphere is often just as littered with fakeness and inauthenticity as the ‘real world’.
So I want to thank Bek from Longfur and James from Middo’s World for their contributions to the blogosphere and for being authentic with their insightful posts. Often the only contact I have with Christians during my day at work is through the blogosphere. Guys, I am really encouraged by your passion for God and for mission. Keep blogging! That’s a big enthusiastic two thumbs up from me!
(P.S. I can’t believe I managed to include the logo in this post. It’s a miracle!)
Friday Funny August 3, 2007
Mwahahaha! The next Western Derby is on Sunday and I’ve been looking forward to it just so I can post this Friday Funny. It was emailed to me by a workmate (and an even bigger Eagles fanatic than I am) a few months ago.
Go Eagles!!!
EAGLES AND DOCKERS
West Coast trophy cabinet
Fremantle trophy cabinet
Diary of a Wedding Planning Machine: Reception Venues August 1, 2007
He’s proposed, I’ve accepted and now the wedding planning begins. This is my new series that you’re sure to read lots of as the countdown begins until the BIG DAY!
Obviously I’ve never been married before and neither has Dunc so it often feels like we’re stumbling along in the dark when it comes to planning our wedding. I’m very grateful that I was living with Emma when she was engaged so I got observe the process up close but that’s nothing compared to doing it yourself. That’s why we need YOU! If you’re married (particularly if you’ve been married in the last few years) or even if you’ve been to a few weddings recently and really admired the reception venue, food, photographer, wedding dress, cake etc then I’d really like to hear your advice. Often word of mouth is a powerful influence when it comes to wedding planning.
When it comes to planning our wedding, I want to be super organised (well as organised as I can be). Since I don’t handle stress very well, it’d be good to have as many of the things out of the way as soon as possible. I don’t want to get to two months before the wedding and we still don’t have a photographer.
Dunc and I have agreed that we want a simple wedding. We don’t want to spend truckloads of money to make the day special. What will make it special is being surrounded by those we love. Dunc has a big extended family and mine is small so we’re looking at a guest list of around 150-200 people. Painful attempts to cut loved ones off the list didn’t work so we’re looking at going el cheapo for the reception.
As you can tell by the title of the post, finding a reception venue is our top priority at the moment. That’s because we’re planning on getting married in Perth and April is a popular month so many venues are booked well in advance. Because of our large guest list, we need a venue that will hold at least 200 people. And we need it to be fairly cheap. None of this $100/head business. If we did that, then we’d be looking at paying $15,000-$20,000 just to feed people at the reception. We don’t have that kind of money and neither do our parents who are graciously helping us out. I don’t want to exclude a friend just because I can’t afford to feed them. I’d rather go cheaper and have everyone.
So what we’re hoping to do is hire a yacht club, surf lifesaving club or similar venue and have caterers. The wedding will be held in the afternoon and then have an afternoon tea/cocktail reception which will finish earlier than most receptions. Some potential caterers that have already been recommended to us are:
But we still don’t have any recommendations for venues so if anyone has any suggestions for those and for additional catering companies, please leave a comment.
The sooner we get a reception venue, the sooner we can announce our wedding date to everyone!
Photo Friday - ‘Loud’ August 1, 2007
I wanna be a rock star!
L-R: Vira, Sandy, me, Marcus and Ben.
Taken at one of our weekly church suppers in 2005.
Two Big Shocks in One Weekend! July 28, 2007
As you saw in my previous post, Duncan and I are engaged.
But it almost didn’t happen. In fact, had God not intervened, I might not have been around for Duncan to propose to. You see, on Friday night, I was travelling to Duncan’s place in Buntine with our friends Jill and Bek, when I nearly had a car accident.
We were no more than five minutes from Duncan’s place when my car started swerving all over the gravel road. I struggled to regain control of the car but I knew it was best not to over correct or brake too suddenly. Somehow I managed to slow down and bring the car to a safe halt.
I was in shock that I could have killed myself and my friends and now I’m determined to do a defensive driving course and not keep putting it off. I was still in shock for the rest of Friday night and was shaking a bit.
The next day, little did I know I was in for a shock of a different kind. After driving around the farm and patting the pet lambs in the morning, we headed back to Duncan’s place for lunch and to watch the Eagles game. Well, as you know that was a fiasco. They didn’t even put up a fight! I was asleep by the second quarter and at half time, Duncan woke me up and suggested we go for a walk. Jill was asleep and Bek had already gone out for a walk by herself, so I agreed. It was a walk that would change my life.
So there we were, ambling along a dirt road in Buntine, me jabbering away like a monkey in a tree when Duncan suddenly turned me around and I thought he wanted to go back to the house. Then he got down on one knee and proposed!!
You’re probably all going to think the worst of me when I tell you what I said. I was in shock though and so many thoughts were racing through my head that I can’t properly remember everything that happened but I said the one thing I swore I’d never say should I ever receive a (serious) marriage proposal.
I don’t really remember but Duncan said as soon as he started getting down on one knee, I screeched “What are you doing? What are you doing?” After he proposed, I couldn’t control my big mouth and I said, “Are you serious?”
The poor guy, there he was kneeling down on a dirt road and oh so very nervous and I go and say that. Then I had so many thoughts swirling in my head like a fog, all I could think was Think carefully Sarah, this answer is one of the biggest answers you will give in your whole life. Then I said ‘yes’.
I think I was so shocked because the whole thing was such a surprise. I’d told Duncan months earlier that I’m not easily surprised and can be very suspicious. I thought we’d be together for at least a year before he proposed. Duncan obviously decided I was the woman for him and that the time was right right now. I knew he was the man for me as well, but I often struggle with desires to dictate and control and had mapped out in my head exactly when we were going to get engaged. Suddenly all my well made plans were thrown off course because I was determined to do things MY way. Why wait if you know that you’ve met the person you know you want to marry? That was a big lesson for me. I’m not saying jump into marriage recklessly or thoughtlessly but there’s no point in dating for years and years, if you know you’re with THE ONE.
We didn’t tell anyone at first except for family and the bridal party because we planned to announce it to all of our friends together at Duncan’s birthday last Saturday. We were pretty excited about all the screams of surprise and delight we got and are now getting stuck into planning our wedding which will be held sometime in April next year.
Both sets of parents are thrilled and have now met each other last weekend in Perth. They got on really well which is a big relief. It’s ironic because the majority of Duncan’s family are Christian and mine are all non Christian (except for me of course). We’re praying that God will be using us to witness to my family so they might come to know him.
I have apologised to Duncan repeatedly over botching up his proposal. My big mouth just ran away with me. So I let him propose again 
Poor guy but I have never made things easy for him and he still wants me anyway. Bless him
I love you Duncan. I thank God for you and I can’t wait to marry you in eight and a half months. You are the only fish in the sea for me xoxo
