{"id":164,"date":"2004-12-08T01:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T14:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/napiza.com.au\/?p=164"},"modified":"2004-12-08T01:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T14:46:00","slug":"its-been-awhile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/?p=164","title":{"rendered":"&#8230;it&#8217;s been awhile&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, I&#8217;ve been slack with the updates. Been somewhat busy of late. My bad!<\/p>\n<p>Well Christmas is fast approaching, and my friends are returning home one by one *sigh* Mollie, departed on Saturday morning. It was sad to see her go, even though I know she&#8217;ll be back, it was the start of what was to be inevitable&#8230; the girls going home.<\/p>\n<p>Meeting Katie and Lisa at Discovery more than a couple of months ago has been such an awesome blessing. I am sooo glad I met them, and it&#8217;s been fun hanging out with them. Meeting Mollie shortly after that made it a lot more fun. From Songs of Praise tapings, dinners @ Fridays, Planet Hollywood, Colour Conference, etc, etc&#8230;I think in each other we&#8217;ve found great friends. I know I&#8217;ll miss them dearly.<\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s December. That I have been here for almost six months. It&#8217;s BIZARRE! I think I&#8217;m in denial about the whole not being home for Christmas thing. I&#8217;m sure I will be a blubbering mess once it hits. Hehe. At the moment my plans are: Jenna staying over for a couple of days, we&#8217;re going to Midnight Mass together. Christmas Day there are dinners and lunches going on @ Hillsong so we&#8217;ll probably go to one of those. New Years Eve is the same, there are parties going on. In saying that, a part of me wants to just have a quiet day. Sleep it off! But that would be silly. So I am bound and determined to do something on those days, as I am sure I will be homesick!<\/p>\n<p>I am still awaiting my care package from home. Totally looking forward to it. Thank you to those who contributed. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s in there yet, but I am told a couple of you guys made a contribution. Grazie! I was hoping it&#8217;d come today, but it&#8217;s tomorrow. Or at least that&#8217;s what it says in the FedEx tracker.<\/p>\n<p>A little over than a week ago my friend Cristina came from Italy for a few days and it was an AWESOME reunion. Our first encounter included a lot of yelling and jumping up and down in the middle of Picadilly Circus. We were a sight! It was soooo good to see her. It was like seeing an old friend. She was still the same Cristina. We had dinner, and we shopped! Nothing has changed.<\/p>\n<p>Last night Sid and I watched the Incredibles and it was so funny. We were going to watch Bridget Jones but Incredibles won. It was pretty good. So not a kids flick!<\/p>\n<p>This Friday we&#8217;re having Christmas Dinner @ James&#8217; house with a few other friends. Which should be nice.<\/p>\n<p>Anyways, I better go. Lunch over. Hope all is well with everyone. Miss you all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know, I know, I&#8217;ve been slack with the updates. Been somewhat busy of late. My bad! Well Christmas is fast approaching, and my friends are returning home one by one *sigh* Mollie, departed on Saturday morning. It was sad to see her go, even though I know she&#8217;ll be back, it was the start &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/?p=164\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8230;it&#8217;s been awhile&#8230;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/napiza.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}