australian adventures...or just stuff.

a week ..in the life of jillian leah friesen.

OH before i forget, techinically this is LAST week, nikki (from work) took me to a footy game (first ever!) and it was a hoot & hollerin' time...besides the men behind us that were cursing at the players...it was lovely....haha.
(to the left, is myself and nikki...at the game...way too excited, maybe?...nah!)



we went to a small group at tim & nerida's house this past tuesday and it was wonderful. the people in our small group are genuinely great. tim & nerida are the leaders of the small group...the have kids of their own and the rest of us in the group range from ages 18-28 (i think). anyways, their dog had puppies! maltese/shih tzu mix...3 of them. it was the cutest, ever. (to the right, is Blaire, holding a pup).

i went for a little shopping trip on wednesday at my favourite store here, supre. i got 2 tops, some skinny leg jeans and a sun dress! here are some photos:
on wednesday night we were invited over to a couple from church's house for dinner. Chris and i were picked up and brought to their house (Mike & Julie is what they were called) and we had a nice dinner on their patio with their 2 sons and daughter. there were really great and the conversation was all good...and chris and i got on well with their 2 sons.

thursday we went to a bbq to our friend eva's. we had some lovely lamb chops and sausage with some salads...and the company there was nice. (hah, short, but sweet response.)

friday we had our church and whatnot and then we had some people over to watch "robin hood - men in tights" unfortunately i fell asleepabout 20 minutes into it...but i had a laugh prior to that.

on saturday(st pattys day! & jayjay day), julie and i intended on going to see these things called the pinnacles in Nambung national park...but it is 250 kms up north and we cant rent a car and our friend who told us we could probably use his car, sold it...so that didnt end up working out...instead...we went shopping at Karrinyup mall and oh what a joy it was!


we went to...big W which is the equivalent to our walmart...i have no clue why they chose to change the name..but keep the slogan?


later that night it got semi-eventful when we went skating at 'skaters on ice' and it was our friend, scott's 2nd time EVEr going...poor guy...he fell and ended up with a concussion. i actually havent heard from him today, but i'm trusting that he's doing okay. we took him to the hospital last night and left him in the care of the doctors and his brother.

and now the week is done! another week is beginning...(this is a dumb blog, im thinking...but i'mnot going to apologize...b/c if you werent interested, you could have stopped reading...easy enough.) OK. i'm done.

blah blah blllaahhhh. i talked to my step mom and dad today and it was nice! yessssss!

blah.

posted by jillian @ 4:19 PM 4 Comments

its really simple..

God revealed this simplicity to me today:

"if a Man died for you...

posted by jillian @ 4:53 PM 3 Comments

Lila.

a couple days ago, i did my bi-daily walk around the building, giving away the bread i get from work and i went up to unit 312 and a malaysian lady, probably mid-60's comes to the door, who is so so little and she has really bad reumatoid arthritis. i give her the bread and she is so thankful...and invites me in...so i go in...and hang out with her for a little bit. she asks me which unit i live in and i tell her i live in unit 12, on the ground floor underneath her. she asks me about our bbq and how come she never smells any meat being bbq'd? i tell her that meat is expensive...and ya...
and she said, well, i'll shout you a round of meat.
and i said no no no no thankyou but no.
after me trying to refuse mulitple more times she says that she is doing this from her heart and that when i can afford it, i can do something similar for someone.
she gave me 20 dollars to buy meat, and then i ended up just chatting with her for about an hour. i left her my mobile number and told her if she needed anything ever, to call me.
so she made my whole life. she was the sweetest little thing.
this is what came of lila's generosity:mmmm good eatin'.

today i got a lot of good emails from good people. it was nice.

posted by jillian @ 5:01 PM 2 Comments

annette's craziness.

this is something that annette told me happened to her:
(read annettes part with a thick swedish accent)

setting: walking dogs in a dog park.

guy: hey, how are you going?
annette: great! you?
guy: oh good, today is my partner & my 1yr anniversary & we'll be going out for dinner tonight.
annette: oh nice! so, i assume you are gay?
guy: (taken aback) what?! no!
annette: well, i just figured b/c you said partner, and well, you look like you are gay.
guy: i said partner b/c we have both been married before and we only had a ceremony celebrating our love, not a wedding.
annette: okay. well, i guess its not that bad, b/c this is probably not the first time someone has thought you were gay.
guy: no, this is the first time.
annette: (getting nervous) ok, well, see you later, dont tell your wife about this!

oh my gosh.

i love her.

yesterday pete gave us each a scone, and they were so so good, and annette says, "oh, peter, these are 10 of 10"
yesterday she also says to me, "oh wow, you are a vacuum"

alright. thats it.

posted by jillian @ 3:06 PM 5 Comments