I Love this comment on news.com.au’s “Ask Bossy” about weight issues and self image:

Sometimes just considering change is the hardest thing. Sometimes when people say something that suggests they would like us to change, we are hurt and withdraw. This is natural…at first. But so is change. Sometimes we cling so tightly to the idea of who we are we are unable to see the golden opportunities to be gained by embracing change.

The “faithful wounds of a friend”.

It’s so important for our friends to speak into our lives… to allow our friends to speak the hard things that they see, that we don’t see, that in a small way seek to impact our lives for the better.

I just bought my Mum an iPod Touch 8Gb for her birthday.

She loves it.

Mum’s a bit of a digicam geek so I uploaded all 8,500 photos to the touch for her to show off to her friends.

It only left 1Gb of space on the device for songs, but we will take a few of the albums off to free up some space. The optimisation of the images took 2.5 hours on her 1.6 Ghz dual core Toshiba laptop.

I also added Michael Bublé and “here I am” by Nataclie Goucci and she added Darlene Zchech’s latest album to her iPod on the device using wifi!!

Fun.

Now I *really* want one! Such a slick interface, Safari is awesome, I’ve never seen web pages look so good on the small screen, it just needs a mail application and she would be very happy.