Being Busy Is Distracting

School, School & School.

It’s seems bad and it seems stressful. The idea of being overloaded with assessments. But honesty, I’m more stressed without them. When they’re not in the next few days I’ll put them off and spend my time bludging.

Bludging: for me consists of checking me email and Facebook every two seconds. Playing piano or guitar and writing depressing blog posts. :P

But now that I’m busy. I feel so much better. I don’t have time to mope about the house. I don’t have time to reflect while strumming out a chord progression. All I can think about it ‘drive here, drive there’, ‘speak to this teacher’, ‘write this speech’. I feel so much better when I am busy.

Busy means having no time to join meaningless groups on Facebook, having no time to write a blog that requires me to dig deep. Being busy means being happy. Having a purpose.

But being busy also means I need God. Have you ever felt too busy to stop, read your Bible and pray? Have you ever heard that saying, ‘I’m too busy NOT to pray’? It’s true. I’ll find myself wanting to go to sleep without doing my devotions when I’ve got plenty of time and I’m lazy. But when I’ve been motivated to get stuff done I tend to be more keen on getting that important part of my day in.

So yeah I’ve got my head in the books at the moment and to be honest. It is not at all a bad feeling. Haha and the marks that come out of it are encouraging too so it’s worth it :)

 

Finally Found ‘Dear John’

I have been waiting so long to get my hands on this book! Here’s the story:

I felt this random urge to go shopping last night so Mum and I went up the road to Kmart (gud ol’ 24/7).  I checked the clearance wrack for some bargains… nup. No great dvd bargains, no shoes, no bags, no nothing. Trust me pretty sure I raked that shop through. Anyway we were about to leave. I’d decided I must make do with ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ dvd for $9 when Mum and I were walking to the cash register. 

I have no idea what happened. It was like my brain was in sync with my body… but my mind was totally unaware. I found myself skidding across the aisle, swiping up a book, clutching it to my chest and spinning round in circles. I suddenly ‘came to’ and realised what I was doing so I half tip-toed, half high-tailed back over to my mum all the while screaming under my breath. Yeah you know… that thing that you do when you wanna scream but you’re in public so you like whisper-scream.

Yeah anyway you’re probably wondering yeah great… ok so what was the book?

Dear John.

Yeah I personally rekon that Nicholas Sparks is the modern-day Shakespeare. How his mind comes up with what it does I have no idea. if you don’t know who he is… you might have heard of Notebook, A Walk To Remember, Nights In Rodanthe. And possibly the new movie based on his book Dear John with Channing Tatum and Amanda Sayfried.

Yeah so I’m pretty excited. The movie hasn’t come out in Australia yet though and there is no way I am seeing the movie without reading the book first.

So I can’t say I recommend it because I haven’t actually read it yet. But I’m sure it will make me smile and make me cry. Nicholas Sparks doesn’t disappoint.

I’ll get back to you for sure :) maybe you should check it out yourself.