Coffee Like No Other
Time Start : 13:09
20 August 2007
Well, I suppose it often happens in life that things do not turn out the way that you planned. Take my blog for example, after having a look at other blog options, I took my sister Julie’s advice and began the move over to WordPress.com. It has taken a considerably long time however, just to line up the images attached to each of my blog entries thus far. I have created some Albums in FaceBook and have actually linked from my blog to the images there, thus saving on having to have photos set up in more than one place.
We recently had another church conference; Pastor Sandra Turnbull came over from the USA again, as did the “Baltimore Ladies” as they are called, Linda and Caroline, they are, as you might have guessed, from Baltimore in the states. Wayne was unable to attend the conference as he was attending a Hemophilia conference in Johannesburg. It was a lovely conference though, it consisted of 5 sessions, a lunch meal of lasagna and plenty snacks, I especially enjoyed the chocolate brownies supplied by Tirone’s mom, Beaulah. About 16 of us attended the conference; we undertook an international EMI (Encounter Missions International) ACTS Institute (Apostolic Center for Training & Sending) course entitled “Ministry of the Believer”. It covered everything from Generational Curses to the Deliverance Ministry, along with an interesting segment regarding how you can speak in tongues whilst doing everyday tasks and your spirit will be in tune with God, even if your mind is elsewhere.
In other news, my sister Julie, her hubby Tom and little Jonathan are doing just dandy. They discovered that he does in fact have what is classed as severe hearing loss in his right ear, no worse than his dad however. He is getting along well and will have an operation performed on his cleft lip once they have returned from their trip to South Africa in October. For more news on baby Jono and the Brazier family, visit Julie’s Boggle. Also, surprisingly, even Julie has conceded and has finally joined the realm of FaceBook, hehe.
Speaking of relatives overseas, my step brother Clinton, his wife Sarah and their daughter Pamela recently came by to visit. They lived out their stay at my folks place and we all partook in a lovely family braai together. In other family news, my step sister Karen and her family are due to move up to Jo’Burg shortly, her hubby Justin was recently transferred up there.
Wayne recently located a long lost friend of his, Paul on where else, but FaceBook. Wayne visited Paul when he attended the Hemophilia conference in JHB and Paul is do to come down to Durbs and visit us in early September. With Wayne being preoccupied with Paul and myself trying to squeeze every spare moment in getting the mighty Blog migration underway, our wedding planning seems to have come to a standstill, or well, the invite making at least.
To help keep track of things however, I set up a nifty Wedding website at MyWedding.com.
Time Start : 13:02
21 August 2007
As for the Weigh-less thing, well that didn’t pan out so well. It has turned into more of a charity for fat people which I donate toward every month. Things are getting better however, I’m trying my best to stay away from the office chocolates and am starting a regular gym routine.
In other news, I submitted Melissa’s CV on the 30th July and our manager gave it a bit of a shove through on the 17th August, so we will wait and see what develops. 
I have been doing a Photoshop course on Monday’s at TrainingMAX, it is the first one that they have run and will be doing another in October. It has been interesting and I learned a few more handy tips and tricks. Looks like Wayne is going to have his hands full for a while however.
Last, but not least, our dear tenant Mike, who moved in on the 30th June announced top us on the 15th August that he wishes to return home again. Yes, he is going to move back in with his parents, apparently he left them on bad circumstances and moved in with a friend. From there, he moved into the flat and since then, sadly, his gran died and now his parents want him back home, apparently, they didn’t like the way he was living either… probably surviving on 2 minute noodles or something. He also seemed to misinterpret the concept of a “3 month probation period”, which was for us to ask him to leave if he didn’t turn out to be a decent tenant, however he seemed to understand this as, if he wanted to pack up and go right away, he could do so in the first three months… riiight… 
On the bright side however, God never closes a door without opening a window and this situation is no different. All this happened around the right time when our friend Branded was beginning to look for a bigger place to live. So yes, the wheels are turning and we are well underway to having Branden as our new neighbour, as of the 30th September 2007. Praise God!
Anyway, I suppose that is it for now, perhaps the next time you hear from me, I will have my blog all moved in to its new WordPress home.
NOTE ADDED : 16th September 2007
I am pleased to announce that the main migration of this blog was completed today. The rest of the photo albums will be coming along shortly.
Time End : 13:27
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