Globes are Globey.

Hello again Blog.

I'm sorry I have nothing relevant to say. I just have dumb photos to publish.

Anyway, when I was holidaying in Papamoa (or as me and Steph used to call it when we were younger; Papamoamoa) there was a globe in the house we were staying at.

I liked the globe, that I had to take photos. I took a record amount of photos that week that my hard drive is now overflowing.

I also think that Paeroa should have it's self on the map. After all, it is World Famous in NZ!

PS 10 Days! :)

Resignation Letters

I was searching google for resignation letter examples the other day because I didn't know what to write. Anyway, I stumbled across this one and thought you might like it for a bit of a laugh! It cracked me up.

I have written my actual resignation letter now (with the help of a few others I found) but I am also going to include the one above because I think my boss would love it.

Oh man, 5 days left! :(

dessert time

Okay, so it's family tradition right throughout Wood history to have dessert.

Steph made a delicious dessert tonight, and it looked so good that I just had to take a photo.

a bunch of warped thoughts that don't make sense to me.

I wrote this last night, but forgot to post it, so here it is now.

Hello Blog,

I am currently lying outside in a hammock. It’s cold and it’s raining, and I’m thinking. Thinking about Jesus. Yes, Jesus was a man; a man who came to earth to save us from our sins. He was a man of many great characteristics. In fact, a man of ALL great characteristics. And that includes all the fruit of the spirits. Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness and Self-Control. Thats a pretty long list. I often wonder what it would be like if Jesus was walking this earth right now. To further my wondering, I wonder if females ever took a romantic liking to Jesus when He was on this earth. I mean, those qualities are all qualities a girl couldn’t resist. With those characteristics, I wonder if he was a gentleman. Okay, so gentleman these days might be different to what females thought of being a gentleman back then, but I can’t help but wonder. I understand He treated females with respect.

I believe you can be a gentleman without having any romantic feelings for the girl. One of my work mates (who by the way is happily married) opens the door for me at work and lets me go first. He carries stuff for me when I have my arms full. I arrived at work one morning and my boss (who is also happily married) was standing on the other end of the carpark. He went out of his way and walked right over to me and opened my car door for me as soon as I stopped. Little things like that really do make my day, and I believe that’s what a gentleman is all about. Maybe guys disagree. I don’t know. Did Jesus do things like that? Seems like just kindness to me.

Though, these days, some guys kinda creep me out. Earlier this evening, I was walking along the beach at Papamoa. It was pretty much stranded and I was a fair bit away from the beach access and a creepy looking man came along and started following me. Yeah I made it home safe, but he scared me. That guy didn’t show any of the things Jesus would show or any things of a gentleman

Jesus was/is the master of Love. After all, God IS love. He died on the cross for me. Love screaming loud! If I ever found a guy that would die in my place, wow! What a darling.

Jesus was/is the master of Joy. An inner happiness that you just wanna yell loud and proud. When guys have an inner joy (ie the joy of the Lord), they are very pleasant to be around. Now, Jesus had the optimum amount of this. He must have been outstanding to be around. Attractive much?

Jesus was/is the master of Peace. Who wouldn’t want to hang out with a guy so calm and peaceful? Jesus was calm when things didn’t go as planned.

Jesus was/is the master of Patience. Love is Patient. God is love. Therefore, God = Patience.

Jesus was/is the master of Kindness. He healed people who were sick, helped people etc. Huge Kindness. Kindness is attractive.

Jesus was/is the master of Goodness. ‘God is good all the time. All the time God is good.’ This one kinda links in with the kindness one. Hope you get my gist.

Jesus was/is the master of Faithfulness. What girl wouldn’t want a faithful husband. In today’s society, they are becoming less and less faithful (and yes, not to be biased, so are girls).

Jesus was/is the master of Gentleness. Gentle? Man? Gentleness? Yes?

Jesus was/is the master of Self-Control. Girls weren’t a stumbling point for Him. He wasn’t easily angered. If I find a guy with a 100% self-control, he will woo me.

If I met a guy today that was high up on the scale of all the fruit of the spirits, I think I would fall head over heels in love with him. So what would have stopped girls taking a romantic liking to Jesus when He was walking on earth. He knew how to handle those crushes. What a dude! Just so you know, I’m head over heels in love with my Jesus!

PS I do realise meeting a guy high up on the scale of all the fruit of the spirits is impossible. I am not oblivious to that fact and do not expect my future husband to be perfect. Flawed please. BUT, when a guy strives to be more like Jesus every day, it’s a huge turn-on hehe.

fun at the mount

Mike, Steph and Myself saw Avatar in 3D the other day and after watching the epic movie from equally epic seats, we headed to the Mount for the one and only famous Copenhagan icecreams. The line was out the door and down the street so we decided to go for a long walk along the beach at sunset and take some photos.

Oh, I love summer!

pianoooo!

I've been on holiday at Papamoa for a measly week (as in away from home and my precious piano) and I have to say I've never missed my piano so much.

I'm going so mad that I had to google images of piano's to get the feel. I've even resulted in tapping away on my knees and tables pretending I'm playing. I know, crazy.

So, I've decided that you should buy me this piano below and I will love you forever.

And these keys? I seriously want to reach out and touch them. Ahhh.

summer

This picture is summer.

Summer is awesome.

My summer is awesome.

You are awesome.

This little light of mine...

Matthew 5:16

In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and praise your Father in heaven.

Jeremiah 29:11 I say this because I know what I am planning for you says the Lord. I have good plans for you, not plans to hurt you. I will give you a hope and a good future

Bring on this year! Bring on my future!

PS in the making of this photo, I spilt wax all over my Bible. Whoops.

new years

First up, Happy New Year to you all. 2009 was relatively a great year for me. Have to say it had it's high's and low's as I guess every year does, but have to say it was a goodie.

My new years though = odd. Very odd.

30th December, filled the van with long tables and off we travelled to Strange road. Had a reception to set up for Hadassah and Jack as they asked me to be the co-ordinater for their wedding :) The view from the reception was incredible. No actually, that's an understatement! Pretty much the whole of the Hauriki! These photos don't exactly do it justice.

Spent about 7 hours straight setting things up. Did a huge bush walk at some stage to get some silver ferns. That was a work out in itself. So hard and then hauling them back up the hill. Exhausting! Got home at about 8:30 and I wanted to collapse.

31st December (Wedding Day).. I awoke at 9am and within 30 minutes I had had about 5 phone calls from the bride getting me to do more things she had forgetten to tell me. And so the stressful day began. Arrived at the wedding venue and found I had a cake to decorate (the way I wanted it done! So much fun!), had to set up afternoon tea (so many journeys walking up and down the hill. Enough to make anyone fit). Bit of a mishap with the drink. Another lady was on drinking duty and she arrived when the wedding was pretty much underway. Grr. And then the cheese went missing, and we couldn't find the urn. And And And... it was windy. Our little gazebo thing blew over and our food covering things were blowing all over the place. But that part of the day seemed soooo simple and stress-free! Here's two of my little helpers (Steph and Vicki (Rachael not shown)). They were awesome! :)

As I was kinda working, it was a little difficult to go around taking photos, but I did what I could.

Jack arriving on a horse :) The horse walked right down the isle. Such a beauty of a thing :)

4 Beautiful bridesmaids. Broken bones represent!

And you wouldn't believe it, but Haddasah arriving on an ATV. Yeahhh! Farm styles hard :)

Hadassah and her father.

Just a bit of back ground info while I'm here. I know Hadassah as she was a staff member at Capernwray. When ministry weeks came to our town, Hadassah was always the staff member to come with the students every year for as long as I remember. 2 years ago she finished up at Capernwray. I was gutted as I was hoping she would be there when I go. Anyway, recently found out that she is returning this year (with Jack) to work back at Capers! Woohoo!

After the cerimony which seemed lovely from the glimpes I saw of it, I took off to the reception. I have to say it was just not any journey. An extra careful journey. A journey that involved transporting the wedding cake from the wedding venue to the reception! Talk about pressure. What if I dropped it? What if it fell off the seat? Man it was scary. Way to many hills and corners and bumpy roads.... and not to mention the crazy driver Stephanie Anne! hehe. But thankfully, it arrived safe and sound. PHEWW!!

Here is the cake table I set up with Karla. I think it looks gorgeous! So proud of it. As you may notice, this was taken before the cakes had arrived hehe :)

So, cakes arriving nicely, it was time to get to work. I had name tags to place on each table (so gutted I didn't get a pic, cause the tags were so awesome! Such a time consuming job though. Half way through this we had the MC's turn up, followed by guests. They just wandered right on in to the tent. They werent meant to be in there. Grr! So hard to get things organised when theres people everywhere. I was freaking out because there were still no chairs. They were meant to arrive straight after the wedding as they all needed seat coverings and ribbons attached around them (Also gutted I got no picture.. too busy working). I had random person after random person after random person come up to me asking me all these questions about things they wanted to know. Ahhhh. It was so stressful sorting people out. How they knew I was Mel Wood the co-ordinater I shall never know. My guess is that Hadassah told them it was the girl with the blue cast. Not hard to spot. hehe.

Food still hadn't arrived! Haddasah's brothers lost the matches. It was all turning into a distaster. I thought it couldn't get any worse. hehe. But the food turned up and the matches turned up and it was fine... well if people crying is fine, then sure.

Each table (as pictured below - this is the non-finished product by the way, they looked cooler when they were complete) had a cooker on it (the guests were to cook their own food) and as these were lit, the whole tent was a smoked out disaster. People were crying from the heat and smoke. Some people couldn't even stand it so they ended up eating their meal outside. I couldn't last more than a minute in there, it was sooo bad! hehe. Much to be a wedding I will never forget.

Getting all the food onto plates was hectic (it was all raw and some so frozen I couldn't get it apart) but have to say it was fun. So good to have helpers. If I didn't have them, I would not have accomplished it.

Haydennnn! So yes, I met Hayden (well for the second time actually) and he was stoked I'm going to Capers. Was a Wedding full of Capernwray staff! So cute :)

Kay, so other than that, I guess it was a pretty normal wedding. Being on my feet the entire day was quite hard, and working like 13 hours was equally hard. Wayy harder than a normal day at work.. Weird having to work on New Years but I'd actually do it again if I was asked. Came home and slept for aaagges! Well deserved.

Hello first post for 2010 :)