Celibate and Sane: Back to the Radio After Six Weeks Off

February 1, 2011

Back to the Radio After Six Weeks Off

It was three more weeks off than I expected, but I will be returning to the radio station next week to once again present the breakfast show.

Six weeks back, just before Christmas, the station was put onto automatic scheduling while the office was closed and moved. I had arranged for my show to be prerecorded and pre-programmed and aired for 4 weeks. This was a week longer than I thought it was going to take to move the station. As it turned out, it took double that time because of transmission issues from our new temporary location and other issues.

As most of us are volunteers and still work in paying jobs, it's tough just to find the time amongst family and other commitments, to do what we already do, let alone move an entire office and station! They're a great bunch - the regular volunteers out the back, the ones no-one hears on the air, are the ones that keep the station going. Without them, I wouldn't be a radio presenter!

Fortunately I did not have to help with the move - my weak shoulder, knee and back do not allow me to do much physically nowadays.

But it seems so long ago that I was last on the air, and now we have an entirely new premises to get used to. I'm sure the first couple of weeks I'll muff things up occasionally until I get used to where everything is.

It's going to be tough to find the time to manage everything, especially when I commence on the job training in a month or so for my current course. But I'm hoping to be back into the routine by then and somehow regain a little energy!

That's about all my news for now. I'll be spending some time tomorrow doing homework again. Yippee!

Catchya soon.

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Personal Quotes from Vicki-S

"Occasionally I find my breakfast a little bitter, and sometimes it's difficult to chew and swallow; though at other times it's sweet, but it’s very satisfying and always sustains me. My most important meal of the day, is feasting on God’s Word and drinking up His presence."

I love me, because God loves me. It's not that God doesn't see my flaws, they are like blazing torches in His eyes, but rather that He sees past my imperfections and still loves me. And who am I to argue with the perfect God that I am worthwhile, that I am worthy of love, and that He accepts me and wants me to be His child, His beloved daughter? When I understood this, I began to accept and embrace His version and His vision of me, and not the world's.

"The silent treatment and sulking are simply two other weapons in the arsenal of the manipulator."

"Often people use the metaphor of a butterfly emerging from its cocoon to describe how we can grow from difficult experiences, but what they don't mention is the fact that at first we start off as an ugly caterpillar."

"We so often just get caught up in trying to just get through each day, that we forget to pause and be thankful for the fresh one that is presented anew and untouched each morning."

"Contrary to what we might think, forgiveness isn't so much about healing our relationship with that other person, but about healing our own broken heart."

"The purpose of school reunions is to show off how much you've achieved in life, to laugh at the once popular kids who've aged more quickly than you; and to wince at the guy who was a bully in school and who aptly became a policeman."

"I've found in many organisations where volunteers are needed, including the modern-day church, that 80% of its people sit back and let everyone else do most of the work, then there's the 10% who actually make the place run, and the remaining 10% just like to whinge about the 10% doing the work, especially about how they could do it better."

"When traced back to its source, every sin, every despicable act, and every war was motivated by someone's selfishness."

"I do not want to think of man, for that would distract me from God. But if I focus on God, I cannot help but think of my fellow man, and each day God keeps the scales balanced so that I have enough within me to do both."

"Overcoming depression isn’t about changing ones attitude, or just ‘getting on’ with things, it’s like removing one’s personal black shroud one thread at a time, with ones teeth.”