My 22nd Birthday

For all of you who are asking here is the full run down of my birthday:



I had the Golden Key International Honour Society Honorary members breakfast with the ECU Chancellor, Vice-Chancellor and other honorary members plus the committee at Observation City. This year we had it in the stunning Ocean View Room a beautiful venue. It was a great event as usual thanks to Kim Beckett's organisational skills. Our Administration Advisor spoke on marketing and it was really interesting, he had a few case studies about businesses in Perth over the last few years. I also got to see some of my friends wedding photos!



Mum and I then headed to Koorong and managed to get a parking spot right at the front door. As Perth people know this is quite an accomplishment. We then headed to Harbour Town for a bit of shopping. I got a lovely pinstriped jacket for work, some new sunnies, gloves and a couple of shirts.



In the afternoon I cooked a cake to take to work. I was also present with two handmade cards from Lauren and Caitlin.



I had a great day on Thursday too - but ended it by slamming my head in the door of the car. OK, what actually happened was that the car door closed while I as getting in (I still have a sore head 24hrs & three Panadols later!). Never mind!

Good Friday

We had a great day today, we managed to remove the sliding door to the laundry and put in our new washing machine - it is so quiet!



Nan and Pop came over for lunch which is also fun. Showing them the new things we have got in the last few months just reminds me how blessed we are! Of course lunch was delicious we had hot cross buns (plain and chocolate), Easter eggs and cake for dessert. We topped it off with a walk to the Helena River. At the moment there is one puddle - never mind, winter is on its way.

Another great weekend! Saturday night I went out with Amberley to the inaugural HerNight at Whitford.



Sunday morning we had the One for All big band playing, then Lauren's friends over for lunch (part of her late 13th birthday celebrations!). Mike and I then went to see the Passion of the Christ.

What a beautiful day we had on Sunday the 22nd of February.



We spent the whole day with Sarah and Miriam (our cousins) and Miriam's friend Naomi. They are currently over here from Wagga Wagga, NSW. It was a great day - we spent the whole afternoon catching up and talking about everything from career prospects to music to state of higher education!

During the past few days the Golden Key International Honour Society - Asia Pacific Conference has been held at the Sheraton in Perth. My small part was 4 hours - setting up the Chapter Cafe Display, about the dual award winning newsletter (what else?) and included breakfast plus a discussion forum on the Constitution & Chapter Standards (which honestly was very interesting). It was great to be there even for a short time, I met so many interesting, inspiring people.



I've put some photos online now. Look out for the report in our next newsletter! Thanks to Ainsley :)

Exciting news here, though somewhat more trivial than my last post:



A. My brother is a genius (we already knew that!)

B. My new computer is working

C. The two are not connected



To expand on B. I bought a new computer from Discount. It is quite nice: 3.0Ghz, 1Gb RAM, 120Gb HDD, 17" LCD monitor. It was going really well until I booted it up on the second day, after leaving the Adobe Acrobat Professional 6.0 installation CD in the drive. The computer would not boot from the hard disk and after a lot of testing here we figured that the Master Boot Record was corrupted (we could access the drive as slave but couldn't boot from it). So, I now have a new HDD in the new computer.



The only side effect? (Apart from 1 week without my nice black & silver computer.) I had to activate Windows XP Professional over the phone!



So that is my little story, hope it didn't bore all my non-techie friends. I'll have a nice human type blog in the coming days, I'm sure.

I has such an inspiring time at PlanetShakers. I went to the night sessions from the 7th - 10th of January. This year, for the first time, it was held in Perth (usually PS only runs in Adelaide). On the last night we had 5 000 people jammed into Challenge Stadium, they even had to open up seats behind the stage. You can see some photos here.



More than the music of the legendary PS band, the excellent speakers (Russell Evans, Reggie Dabbs, Jurgen Matthesius and Glen Berteau and more I didn't get a chance to hear), I loved the feeling of being among so many people who are totally devoted to the One they serve.

Ok I apologise profusely for the fact that this has not been updated for such a long time - what have I been doing?



Well, apart from working full time and studying 1 subject part time - I had 2 21st Birthday parties, 3 work Christmas parties, Christmas, Boxing Day, plenty of shopping and visiting with friends New Year's Eve party, plus I have also been able to play keyboard at Church (Whitford).



The latest news? Kyleigh is back in the country!



I will write again soon! (Hopefully)



Melissa