these are a few of my (currently) favourite things:
Songs:
Feel this Moment (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlI4uzZGjU) - Pitbull and Christina Aguilera (gotta love the Aha song mixed in on this)
Just Give Me a Reason (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jlI4uzZGjU) - Pink ft Nat Ruess
My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkIWmsP3c_s) - Fall Out Boy,
Books:
I'm loving that I can get lots of books free on my iPhone, which means I always have something to read. At the moment I'm reading "Surrender" by Donna Malane. It's great to read a New Zealand-based story and be able to recognise the places being written about.
Bargains:
Mum is, as always, the auction queen and managed to get 3 (count 'em, THREE) pairs of never been worn, still-in-the-box Kumfs (end of lines) in my size for $100 - this is usually the price of one pair at their end of season reduced sales. Given that we'd been at the Zeira (new name of Kumfs) outlet shop the weekend before and I couldn't find anything I liked for under $230, 3 pairs is an absolute BARGAIN.
Tuesday 26 March 2013
Sunday 24 March 2013
Easter is nearly here!!
Yikes!
Here we are, first quarter in of the year nearly done...I must be getting old, because time is not just flying by, but it's making my head spin as it does it.
We are officially in drought here in the North, along with pretty much the rest of the country...the few light showers we get are merely enough to tease the weeds into taking off.
I've managed to keep the first resolution I made about not buying chips - harder than I thought it might be...as for the gym? Yeah, nah. And organising? Well, that's an ongoing deal.
New Years was pretty traumatic, as the cat was injured on NY Eve...typically it happened at 10pm on New Years Eve. A week later it was obvious that he was injured so badly that his right eye had to be surgically removed. While he is much better now, he is still a bit scrawny and scraggly - it hasn't affected his balance too much though and his latest trick is to wake me out of a dead sleep in the middle of the night by patting me on the arm with his paw. He conveniently forgets to put away all of his claws when he does this, so it is a rather disturbing way to be woken up!
January also saw Mum and I doing a road trip from Riverton (near Invercargill at the bottom of the South Island) back to Auckland.
In Dunedin we stayed at Larnach Castle, where we also got to have dinner in the castle itself. While the room and dinner were great, the shared facilities needed work - far too reminiscent of the primary school bathrooms when I was a child!
The next night we stayed at Jo Seager B&B at Oxford, just outside of Christchurch. What a contrast to Larnach Castle - the B&B was stunning. The room itself was in a French provincial style, with the most comfortable beds we slept in during the trip. It was odd visiting Christchurch, as it was the first time I'd been there since the earthquakes - so many gaps and empty sites...life is returning, but it's going to take a long time.
We then went to Blenheim and stayed with cousins that we worked out we hadn't seen in around 20 years - kind of scary to think it had been that long and we all agreed we need to catch up more regularly.
After a calm crossing on the ferry, we had a night in Wellington (with a stunning dinner at Logan Brown restaurant) and a night in Taupo with very uneventful (thank goodness) driving during each day.
Gotta say, I love road trips!!
Here we are, first quarter in of the year nearly done...I must be getting old, because time is not just flying by, but it's making my head spin as it does it.
We are officially in drought here in the North, along with pretty much the rest of the country...the few light showers we get are merely enough to tease the weeds into taking off.
I've managed to keep the first resolution I made about not buying chips - harder than I thought it might be...as for the gym? Yeah, nah. And organising? Well, that's an ongoing deal.
New Years was pretty traumatic, as the cat was injured on NY Eve...typically it happened at 10pm on New Years Eve. A week later it was obvious that he was injured so badly that his right eye had to be surgically removed. While he is much better now, he is still a bit scrawny and scraggly - it hasn't affected his balance too much though and his latest trick is to wake me out of a dead sleep in the middle of the night by patting me on the arm with his paw. He conveniently forgets to put away all of his claws when he does this, so it is a rather disturbing way to be woken up!
January also saw Mum and I doing a road trip from Riverton (near Invercargill at the bottom of the South Island) back to Auckland.
In Dunedin we stayed at Larnach Castle, where we also got to have dinner in the castle itself. While the room and dinner were great, the shared facilities needed work - far too reminiscent of the primary school bathrooms when I was a child!
The next night we stayed at Jo Seager B&B at Oxford, just outside of Christchurch. What a contrast to Larnach Castle - the B&B was stunning. The room itself was in a French provincial style, with the most comfortable beds we slept in during the trip. It was odd visiting Christchurch, as it was the first time I'd been there since the earthquakes - so many gaps and empty sites...life is returning, but it's going to take a long time.
We then went to Blenheim and stayed with cousins that we worked out we hadn't seen in around 20 years - kind of scary to think it had been that long and we all agreed we need to catch up more regularly.
After a calm crossing on the ferry, we had a night in Wellington (with a stunning dinner at Logan Brown restaurant) and a night in Taupo with very uneventful (thank goodness) driving during each day.
Gotta say, I love road trips!!
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