The Royal Wedding

Now, I'm just going to stop you before you think I've got anything exciting to report about Kate and Will's royal wedding. I just couldn't think of anything to name the blog, and since today is the day of the wedding I thought that it would be fitting to name my blog after "The Royal Wedding."
The days are a little mixed up with me being in New Zealand and this blog thing being American or European, so the blog date might be for the wrong day, but don't get worried and think I've gone crazy, its April 29, 10:16pm over here in NZ.
So, we just watched part of the Royal Wedding. Mother and I just wanted to see the dress that Kate was wearing. Mum had formulated what it was going to look like, same as the lady at the video shop, but I hadn't really thought about it. Turns out both of their ideas of what it was going to look like were wrong anyway, so a bummer for them.
Since this is such a grand day in history for them, I think I'll put a photo of the married couple on here. And I pray that life will go well with them, and that they will stick together through sickness and health, through everything, until death does them part.

Now, onto my life. I'm sorry that its not as exciting as a royal wedding, but one day I'll get married (hopefully one day soon, because I plan to marry young and have a bundle of cutie pies running around) and then I'll be able to report that not-so-royal wedding on here, if I'm still using this blog.
Today I babysat for this couple that is reasonable new to our church. The girl is the niece of my old school teacher who goes to our school. They have five kids and have number six on the way, and I babysat two of the kids today while the others were out shopping and at kindy. It was fun babysitting.
I finished babysitting about half an hour before I had my actual job at the supermarket, and then I went onto my work and got there with plenty of time to spare. I had forgotten my locker key, but I got my spare one from the office and used that while I was at work then returned it after I had finished.
There is this guy in the Butchery who looks like a cross between Weekly Chris of You-Tube and Justin Beiber. Canadian's are so picture perfect. Well, teen boys with dark brown hair are, anyway. I wonder if Butcher Boy is from Canada. If hes working in an NZ supermarket and hes only a youngen (in his teens) I probably think not. But hey, I could always ask... NOT!
Nice chatting, and now its time to get on with my not-so-exciting story that I'm trying to lighten up.
Ruby.

Thursday Blog

Hey guys.

Today I did... I did so much stuff. In the beginning, ha-ha, that sounds funny, but anyway I started work at the Christian Book Shop at about five to nine in the morning. I finished work there at one, then went over to New World with my skateboard. Mum had given me a grocery list, and I was to go to the supermarket and collect all the things at one to when she got there at about one thirty and then she would buy them. It was good when she came because we got lots of yummy things. And I got a hot dog and chips. Then I got some tomato sauce. Unfortunately, just at the checkout, where they were scanning everything, I dropped the little pottle and it spilled onto the floor. After cleaning up what had come out onto the floor, there was a lot less in the already mini pottle than there had been when the lady at Deli got it for me.
I was devastated.
Despite this sad news, there's a bright side to this story, because there was enough sauce for me to eat the yummy hotdog happily, and the chips tasted so good that I didn't need sauce on them anyway. So I had a great time in the car eating my treat. After getting the groceries, Mother and I drove home (her behind the wheel, and me in the passengers side singing along to a Skillet song.)
When we got home I ate some salmon and cream cheese crackers, then an avocado with salt and pepper cracker, and then I called up Ian and asked him if he wanted to go on a bike ride. He agreed after a bit of persuading and said he'd meet me outside at three.
Three came around and a bit after we were off riding along the riverbank, heading to a destination mostly unknown. I had planned to go to one of the rowing clubs, both of which are quite far away from the road which the two of us live on (I mentioned that we're pretty much neighbors, right?) But, it was a good ride, and for the most part I didn't have to worry about Ian's crazy driving.
More happened today and tonight, but I can't be bothered sharing everything. Ian came over and him, Dad, and I watched a pretty average action movie.
From Ruby.

Something About Me

  Here are a few facts about me that you may not have known:
  1. I'm a hopeless romantic. While I don't actually fall in love, I love the idea of being in love and I'm constantly liking someone. At least I've learned not to date, otherwise I would be leaving a trail of broken hearts behind me as I go on through life, and my heart would be torn into small pieces, each guy I dated getting a little bit of it as I travel. My hope is that by the time I'm old enough to court somebody I will have matured in this area of my life.
  2. I love to write. This brings me to the next thing I want to talk about, my writing. At the moment I'm going back over this novel that I wrote a couple of years ago and redrafting it or whatever its called, to fix the rough parts, kind of like sanding a piece of wood until its beautiful. The story's going to take a while, seeing as the main crux of the story doesn't fit, but I am working on it. My story is about a girl who runs away from home because her boyfriend broke her heart. That's the part that doesn't fit, which I need to work it. Got any suggestions of things that might make a teenage girl run away from home. Just keep in mind that it doesn't have to do with her parents, that's not a subject I want the story to have in it. It has to be a problem that a teen girl would face.

My Dream

Despite what you thought you may have been getting yourself into when you began to read this blog... I am not telling you about some inspirational, or even a general, dream that I had, while being asleep that is. Its more the type of dream that could be referred to as a hopeful goal. Something you wish for. Now that you understand what I mean by "My Dream" I will carry on.
The dream I have is to travel. All my life I've wanted to travel, to see the world, and especially my home country of New Zealand, but over the last few recent years that wanting has grown in me, so that it is not an yearning that I have to want to travel.
There is a picture in my mind that makes me want to cry, when I think of travel and my age, and how it is unsafe for me to just... walk. I haven't seen a picture that totally captures it, but one that is helping to at the moment holds its place as my desktop background. The picture is a country road. There is something about country roads that seem to tell me of adventure, things that may come if I go for a walk on a country road. A novel waiting to be written, a song ready to be sung, a movie ready to be captured, if I could only find that road I'm looking for and travel it.

I don't expect anyone to understand these feelings of mine when even I, Ruby, myself, cannot understand them. But getting them out into typed words helps me ventilate the tears of my heart that want to cry for a reason I do not know. Its the confusion that adds to my sadness, because I don't know why I have such a longing. The not knowing of it all is what hurts so much.

Face Your Fears... Head On

Lately I've been overcoming my fears, with the help of God. Hes been teaching me that I don't need to be scared of things, because He has given me His authority, which is above everything- nature, animals, spiritual beings, the enemies plans.
I used to be scared stiff of wasps, bees, hornets, bumble-bees, and anything that buzzes really, and for my own sake I couldn't think of any good reason not to be scared of them. But then I got thinking; what if someone was in trouble and I needed to face my fear of buzzing insects to get to help them (they were hurt near a wasp nest, etc). I know that I would help them despite my fear, but I thought that I should start to get over that fear now so that I would hesitate less to go to help that person, when it is asked of me.
So, I challenge you today to seek God and ask Him to help you face your fears, if not for only your own sake, but if for the sake of someone else, and what God may want to do through you to help someone else.

Ruby.

Ben Morven Track Bike Ride

Yesterday Ian and I went for a bike ride. We went along the road, and Ian hit into a parked car while he was trying to check his breaks. Seriously, I'm a bit worried when I go biking with him. But the car looked fine and he was fine, so we carried on, despite the fact that it was slightly spitting (slight rain).
We traveled a long way and then I finally figured out where the Ben Morven bike track began (it was both mine and Ian's first time on the track). And we went down the trail.
I really enjoyed biking on the trail and I was going fast as a manic and then we came to a small river thingy that we had to cross to carry on with the trail. So we chose the shallowist part and then pushed our bikes across. I managed to get across without getting my shoes very wet, but Ian's shoes looked pretty soaked by the time we were over the other side. I shook my head and laughed and then we carried on.
The vineyards that were on either side of the thin track looked beautiful with on one side you could see the full sky above them, and on the other side of the track you could see the vineyards with the Wither Hills above them. It was a really nice sight and I was kicking myself that I didn't bring my camera. But I asked Ian if he would come with me again on Tuesday (tomorrow) on the Ben Morven track.
Didn't really get back a proper answer back from him, and we carried on. There were some massive (well steep, not so tall though) hills that we had to push our bikes up, and the second one was so bad that I was almost slipping back down the gravel every step I took.
But anyway, the bike-ride was great, and we got home safely. We stopped off along the way and ate some walnuts (there was a tree), biked up some very steep hills, went past a golf course, stopped for a break while Ian tried to fix his breaks, talked about God a little (well, I did, but he was pretty closed to it), and then went back along the main road past Fairhall to B Town Massive. I had a good time, and I'm sure that I'll get lots of leg muscles from it.
Where we came out from Paynters Road there was a golf course and I think it was just before the Ridge, aka the best skateboarding place this side of B Town Massive. Its a whole new subdivision with loads of good paved hills that skating on is both very risky and fun. So, I'm taking my board next time we go.
From Ruby.

The Rocker

Oh, the movies to prove what a bad-ass I am. Thats on the Ferry (from Wellington to Picton) and I was being pretty crazy!

The Rocker would have to be my all time favorite movie. Even though there is bad language, and other stuff in it, and I'm a Christian, this is just the one movie that I can't help but love it. But on almost all other movies if there's bad stuff in them then I can't be bothered. Its got like everything I love in it, and yes, the guys a bad ass drummer, which helps. One drummer to another kinda thing (yes, I'm a drummer, in case you were wondering why I just said that and couldn't figure it out yourself.)
So, what is your favorite place in the world? I love Rockhampton, Australia (Q.L.D). And where would you love to go? I wanna go to the Yosemite National Park, in the USA. I think that's the right place I'm thinking of. ATM I'm planning a trip to America when I'm 20ish (which is 5 years away). I've even got a non-open-able money container (its tin, and when you open it you can't close it, kinda thing. You have to cut it open), and I've probably got about three dollars (NZL) in it. Crazy, hey?
Anyway, that's enough for now.
Nice chatting,
Ruby.

Photos

Here are some of the photos I took while in the North island.

Saturday Days

Okay, this is a slight joke (the title) to do with my other blog, so you won't get it on here.
I work at a supermarket. Anyway, I was on checkout all day and then I was going to pack for three hours before I finished, and I would pack for my friend like normal. But then they finished early. I was so annoyed. Annoying.
Anyhow, atm my Singaporean friend is looking over my shoulder. Tomorrow we are going on a bike ride to a far away land. It shall be exciting. I like going places., especially in the country. My Singaporean friend, Ian, is in the photo with me on my blog.
From Ruby.

Saying Hello

You have no idea how many blogs I have started in my life, well actually its probably only the tenth, but I am only fifteen so that is a bit of a milestone in my life. My interests include, just so you know some stuff about me: skateboarding, although I haven't been out on the street skating properly in a while; reading, I'm normally a bookworm but lately I've been slacking; asking questions, I love to learn everything about you. And those are just a few. I am a Christian, follower of Jesus, and reader and doer of the Bible, so now you know that you can ditch my blog or be my friend, its your choice.
Nice to meet you,
Ruby.