Hello Again

I feel as though I have neglected this blog since starting One Remarkable Year. Here's my own ORY project.

Anyhow... onto more pressing matters.

I've come to a point in my life where my IRL life and URL life are mixing into this unfamiliar, uncomfortable concoction. My URL life started off with Youtube and then spread from there up until this point where I have signed up to almost all the social networking websites you can imagine. In my repertoire there is: Youtube, Blogtv, Dailybooth, Favtape, Iminlikewithyou, Tokbox, Twitter, Skype, not to mention Facebook, Bebo, Myspace, Blogspot, MSN Messenger which I had beforehand.
Does anyone remember HiFive, that annoyingly simple networking site which was replaced by Bebo eons ago? Yeah. I had that too.

The point of all this is that I have been utterly dragged in by this whole social networking storm that has utterly overthrown the internet as a tool for education and replaced it with a frenzy of commenting people's profiles and finding a way to combat the spam which eventually infiltrates each website.

I have some friends that I've made through the interwebz but I'm not tight with them as my IRL mates. I just seem to be a bit on the edge of things with them. It would be cool to be more involved but I'm cool with it.

It's kind of weird that now some of my IRL friends are getting Twitter and blogs though, or at least following mine. It's sweet. It's just weird.
Katiedid536 used to be an alias for my internet persona. I could say whatever and no one who actually knew me would find out. Not that I ever utilised this freedom, but it was felt nonetheless.

I'm coming to terms with having my 'actual' friends see how much of an absolute geek I am. In a way I think it's cool. Maybe. It's definitely fun and I hope some of them come to see that and start to branch out a little further than Facebook.




In other news, my brother has been told to practise these tongue twisters to improve his diction for the production he's in.

I'm not the pheasant plucker, I'm the pheasant plucker's son. I'll be plucking pheasants till the pheasant plucking's done.

Mrs Rumble Bumble has a rough cut punt, not a punt cut rough, but a rough cut punt.

Say them really fast out loud in front of your grandma. I dare ya.

He or she?

BAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

0% of the 47709 people who have taken this quiz are like me.

I took the 43 Things Personality Quiz and found out I'm an Extroverted Creative Self-Improver

Skype

I found a new bandwagon to jump on.

1. You seem like an awesome girl. Your videos are so creative and you crack me up.
2. I love you an incredible amount. There is no way I could wish for a better brother. I don't know what the heck I'd do without you. If I ever need a laugh or a hug you are always there.
3. You are very entertaining. I don't know you all that well though.
4. You called me an alien and we haven't spoken since.
5. I enjoy and look forward to our conversations so much. You make me feel like I'm worth getting to know. Many a late night has been spent chatting and wondering where the time went.
6. You are so friendly towards everyone. I love that your outlook is that everyone at least deserves a chance to get involved in the community.
7. I really treasure your friendship. I can't believe how long I have known you. I love that I have been able to see you develop into who you are today.
8. I really wish I knew you better. You seem so flippin cool. Sometimes I feel like you are almost too cool for me to associate with.
9. Woah. You are one awesome, incredibly talented young lady and yet you are so modest. I think you and I would get on just fine in real life.
10. I don't know you as well as I would like to. I'd love to talk faith and life with you. You seem like someone I could do that with easily.
11. Your wit and eloquence are unmatched. Every update has me in hysterics.
12. I love your enthusiasm for ORY. You write extremely well and reading your blog is always entertaining.
13. I don't think I've ever talked to you on Skype. It's ok though because I would much rather talk to you in person so I can see your gorgeous face.
14. We are so different and sometimes you frustrate me but I count you as one of my closest friends because we have come through so much together.
15. I don't really know you. Sometimes I just cringe at what you do and say. I'd like to talk more so I can understand you better.
16. You are never online. I like your music, but I do think you are slightly stalkerish.
17. You are cool. Sometimes you take matters too seriously though.
18. I love you to pieces. I would appreciate the truth though. You need to understand that people love you no matter how exciting your life is and despite all of the make-believe.
19. Who the heck are you?
20. You are one of the most talented people on YouTube and so young! Your videos are so arty and creative. I wish we talked more.
21. You seem so aloof and you are slightly intimidating. I don't know why. You are perfectly nice and it would be awesome to chat more often.

Christmas

It's the one day of the year you just can't get fat.
Candy canes
Chocolates
Cake
Rum balls
Turkey
Ham
Lollies
The list continues.

One Remarkable Year

The year 2008 is fast approaching its conclusion. Christmas is just around the corner. Malls are putting up tinsel, Christmas promotions have started and very soon horrible dangly Christmas decorations will adorn the ears of festive middle-aged women wishing to look like Christmas trees. I want to get in quickly before the holiday spirit truly sets in and God pushes the fast-forward button on mankind so that December is over before it even began and he doesn't have to look at the human race running around like frantic ants, collecting all of their Christmas gifts in the massive sales.
As I reflect on this past year I struggle to think of something remarkable that has come out of it. Sure, there have been some awesome experiences and moments along the way, but nothing completely life-changing. I can tell that 2008 will just be another one of those years that passes me by, kind of like Year 3 and 4 at Primary school. I might remember it as the year I started university, but further than that it will be lost. We all have those years that we can't remember much about as we look back over our lives so far. We don't have to anymore.
I don't want to let another ordinary, forgettable year go by. I want to be living a remarkable life.
This is why I have created a project. Next year I will document in a blog one remarkable thing that happens each day. I am hoping that what next year will teach me is to appreciate the small things in life, to be grateful for the simple pleasures. Whether it is walking by a patch of freshly cut grass and breathing in the wonderful aroma or doing something unnecessarily special for someone else, I will document it.
I would love it if you would also do the same. I can't even begin to imagine the change that would happen in this world if each person decided to do or appreciate something remarkable each day. So start your own One Remarkable Year blog. You don't have to do exactly the same as me. You could decide to take a photo of something remarkable each day, or paint a picture, just be creative.
I am so excited about what next year will bring. Hopefully it will begin a trend which will continue for my whole life of being grateful for what I have and willing to help others however I can.
Start your own and spread the word!

Click on the title of this post to go to my One Remarkable Year blog.

My life

I wrote this late last night.

NEGATIVES
- My house just had a power cut
- I hate the dark
- My laptop is about to run out of battery
- Mum’s having a cow
- Boys are confusing
- People are dying
- I feel like I can’t do anything
- I want my friends to believe
- I need to be more courageous
- Procrastination is the worst of all evils

POSITIVES
- My God is a God who saves
- He is bigger than any circumstance
- He loves me
- I just need to trust Him
- If that really was all the positive in my life at the moment I’d know that everything would be ok.