A thought.
It is very inconvenient to have insomnia when you also have a little baby and a toddler.
Really, I should be going to bed pretty soon after the girls do, but it's not happening. They've been asleep for 3 hours already, and I'm wasting precious sleeping time! Now the more I think about it, the more awake I feel.
This itunes thing that I did.
RULES:
1. Put Your itunes, windows media plyer etc on Shuffle
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS
IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY?
"King of Fools" by Delirious?
(Man, I'm really mean!)
HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE YOURSELF?
"Time Ta Jam" by DC Talk
(Oh yeah, I can bring it!)
WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?
"Dream of You" by Citipointe Church
(As long as I have a dream about him, he's fully in)
HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?
"Stealing Time" by Delirious?
(Hmmm, I don't know what to say about that. Oh well)
WHATS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?
"The Time has Come" by Hillsong United
(Does that mean I'm fulfilling my life's purpose right now? Because yes, probably)
WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?
"Introduction" by Westside Christian Centre
(Great motto)
WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?
"Fire" by Youth Alive Qld
(I'm on fire, like passionate? That'd be good. Or maybe I'm HOT!)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR PARENTS?
"I've Found Jesus" by Delirious
(They're Jesus-like? Awesome)
WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?
"Why Not" by Hilary Duff
(I'm very spontaneous, I guess)
WHAT IS 2+2?
"Goodbye, Goodnight" by Antiskeptic
(I'm not even answering that question! I'm just running away!)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?
"Big" by Youth Alive Qld
(Personality-wise, my darling husband!)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"To You I Sing" by Planetshakers
(Aww, how sweet)
WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?
"Come Fly With Me" by Michael Buble
(Just flying through life)
WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?
"I Will Join" from Today's Worship
(Join what? The army? A book club?)
WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?
"Still in Love" by Brooke Fraser
(That's sweet. Five years together, and still going strong!)
WHAT DO YOUR PARENTS THINK OF YOU?
"The Dance of the Cucumber" by VeggieTales
(Whoa, my parents must think I'm weird! Or vegetarian)
WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?
"Doubt - Epilogue" by the HVY Band
(Wow, so not true! Anyway, we didn't even dance at our wedding. So there)
WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?
"Echoes of Eden" by Steven Curtis Chapman
(Nice one)
WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?
"Sovereign Hands" by Hillsong
(God is my interest? Absolutely!)
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST FEAR?
"He Lives" by Lakewood Church Choir
(That doesn't frighten me one bit!)
WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?
"Sway" by Michael Buble
(I have been known to sway a bit in my time, even {attempt to} dance a little! Now you know)
WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?
"Theme from Mission Impossible" from Mission Impossible
(Ha, that's pretty funny! Kristy, if you're reading this, you're just impossible!)
Who was high?
Check this out:
The biblical Israelites may have been high on a hallucinogenic plant when Moses brought the Ten Commandments down from Mount Sinai, according to a new study by an Israeli psychology professor. Writing in the British journal Time and Mind, Benny Shanon of Jerusalem's Hebrew University said two plants in the Sinai desert contain the same psychoactive molecules as those found in plants from which the powerful Amazonian hallucinogenic brew ayahuasca is prepared.
The thunder, lightning and blaring of a trumpet which the Book of Exodus says emanated from Mount Sinai could just have been the imaginings of a people in an "altered state of awareness", Shanon hypothesised.
"In advanced forms of ayahuasca inebriation, the seeing of light is accompanied by profound religious and spiritual feelings," Shanon wrote.
"On such occasions, one often feels that in seeing the light, one is encountering the ground of all Being ... many identify this power as God."
Shanon wrote that he was very familiar with the affects of the ayahuasca plant, having "partaken of the ... brew about 160 times in various locales and contexts".
He said one of the psychoactive plants, harmal, found in the Sinai and elsewhere in the Middle East, has long been regarded by Jews in the region as having magical and curative powers.
Some biblical scholars were unimpressed. Orthodox rabbi Yuval Sherlow told Israel Radio: "The Bible is trying to convey a very profound event. We have to fear not for the fate of the biblical Moses, but for the fate of science."
Um, okay, sure. I especially like this part:
Shanon wrote that he was very familiar with the affects of the ayahuasca plant, having "partaken of the ... brew about 160 times in various locales and contexts".
Like when he was writing the study?
Another thing.
I don't think I mentioned this in Isabella's birth story. When the contractions were getting really painful, and it was about 20 hours after my waters had broken, I was crying. As you would! About an hour before, I was 5cm dilated. When the nurse noticed I was crying, she said that was a good sign that I was getting closer to full dilation! When she said that, I was terrified, thinking that I was actually going to give birth naturally. It is really scary, especially since I'd had a caesarean last time, so was in unfamiliar territory. Turns out I was still only 5cm dilated though, so it was probably more the being awake for two days straight and in huge amounts of pain that made me cry. :o)
I've started walking again (the exercise kind). I've walked to the local shops and back (about 35 mins), with the girls in the pram, every day this week. Except for yesterday, when I was moving a huge recliner from the garage into the living room, and pulled it onto my toe, and it bent my big toenail back, and it was bleeding, and I was in heaps of pain. It's fine now, though. No bruising or anything. No battle scars, which is a bit sad! All that pain, and nothing to show for it. But I did get the recliner into it's new position, which is good.
And yesterday I also changed around the 'nappy room', which will soon be Isabella's room when she moves from the cradle into her cot. I made it all pretty looking. Man, anyone would think I'm nesting! I didn't really nest when I was pregnant with Bella, so maybe I'm making up for it now.
