-258 Inspiration via Procrastination

Attempting to spend a day on my final Masters assessment today ( and tomorrow and for the remaining nights this week I might add ) I've been struggling with my inner need to procrastinate to the very last second and then do my "best" work. Unfortunately I know how huge this assessment is and how very little information has been given in order to complete it. So "Future Mrs365" ( the grown up version of me that lives inside my head and even when I am a Mrs may still never surface as a fully fledged grown up - lol ) in me keeps reminding me somewhat loudly to "Get on with it Missy!"

But on one of my little rebellion trips today on The Dating Website That Shall Not Be Named someone posted a link to this video. And I watched it. Now it's your turn before you read on....

...and I got inspired.

So in desperate need of caffeine-ation I walked to a local cafe and did this....

Photo by Miss365 & some picnik-ing

...read the next section of readings and drank my coffee.

As I was walking home I saw this.....

Miss365 and her iphone

I am so appreciative of the fact that even though I procrastinated a bit today I would never have seen those beautiful colours reflected in that sunset. I would have been shut up in my flat trying to find the motivation to keep going. I had the opportunity to just once again be reminded of the awesome beauty of God's creation and to more importantly thank Him for it. 

So it's time to get back to the assessment. *sigh*

xMiss365

-360 Friday nights alright

Photo by Suat Eman

Well fellow 365'ers - we'll get back to how I found God's hand in my unexpected friendship with The Real Ex in the not to distant future. I promise ;)

But here we are on our first Friday night together. Yay! Someone to share it with! 

No it's not that bad really. Until recently I was part of a team that lead a Kids Church in a low socio economic area every Friday night during school terms. For reasons I will never discuss on here I reluctantly stepped down and found myself free on a Friday night for the first time in about 8 years. My closest friends ( both geographically and friendship-wise ) are still involved so Friday nights are just me and the TV. 

Tonight I am :

• Catching up on reading some blogs I am following
• Cooking dinner - Chili con carne & salsa, fresh strawberries & diet mousse for dessert ( yep diet city here )
• Currently watching Better Homes and Gardens and getting inspired for Christmas Eve at my place
• Waiting to hear if my 92 year old Grandmother has been operated on yet. She fell and broke her wrist at 9pm last night and still hasn't been seen yet despite being incoherent and thrashing about in pain so bad she cannot have a drip in her arm. Prayers would be lovely if you are reading this now. 
• Also waiting on a phone call from a friend who incorrectly put the date in her phone for my birthday celebration last week and did not show up . We are going to have lunch tomorrow instead. 
• I am going to catch up on TV shows I have IQed
• Also going to ignore the washing up and put a load of washing in the washer/dryer. 
• Go to bed at about 11pm as I have a 9am appointment that I have to be up at about 7.45ish for.
• I have randomly burst into song at various points during the evening and The Cat Empire has been fed and has been "put to bed" in the spare room as he was running around like a mad thing ( I thought the TV was going to be knocked over!)

And there is my night. Not particularly amazing. Oh and I adore my new lounge! Love love love love !!!!!! Worth staying at home for !

xxMiss365

-365 So what's a single gal to do?

Photo by Chris Sharp

"To the unmarried and widows I say that it is good for them to remain single as I am" 1 Corinthians 7:8

But what makes this verse even harder to work around as a single Christian gal ( and one that has been single for quite a while btw ) is that it isn't a single ( no pun intended..ok perhaps a very small one  )  verse in a Chapter on singleness. Or even a paragraph. It's helpfully in a Chapter on marriage and the very next verse states.....

"But if they cannot exercise self-control, they should marry. For it is better to marry than to burn with passion." 7:9

Fabulous. But how does it work in 2010 when exercising self control is a lot more intense than exercising self control than in 1010, the population has grown but the Christian community (sadly) has over time diversified into other gods, religions and disbelief and you get to the age as a single Christian woman living in Sydney feeling like the choice of being married has been taken away from you for many different reasons ?

I was talking to Miss Chicago last night ( pretty much the last single friend I have left actually and she is a good 8 years younger than I am *sigh* ) about how I celebrated my birthday the day before yesterday and I admitted that I actually spent it alone that night. Now I had organised to do something nice the next day with a whole bunch of women/chicks who are all wonderful family members and friends & little people and pretty much every other year since my last relationship ended I've spent the night at my parents place where Marvelous Mum has made me my favourite dinner. But since I had the Saturday event planned, Friday night was just me. So I ordered some nice Thai food, bought a cupcake and a candle and blew it out after saying a heartfelt prayer to God that this be the year that I meet someone or that He take away the heart yearning, sob inducing desire to have a husband and kids.

I've been reading and been inspired by a few other people's blogs recently and after to talking to my friend last night I started to wonder if I had something to offer here to the 'blogosphere'. So here I am trying to find inspiration in this season in my life ( that is seemingly going on forever ) and staying faithful and trusting God but wanting to be honest too about what it's like to be a single, Christian woman in Sydney in 2010. 

Hence this blog. You'll get to know more about me as we count down the 365 days, my online and hopefully offline dating adventures ( and I shake my head as I write this as there have been some doozies ), some of my dreams but hopefully the good, bad, tissue grabbing, independent adventures and just boring Friday nights just me and the remote. If you've worked out who Miss365 is - please don't feel bad for me or out me ( for now anyway ) just add me to your prayer list that I get my hearts desire or He gently helps me alter that desire so that I don't want it anymore. 

See you on Day -364

xMiss365