My Christchurch Trip

Well while I have some time I thought I would quickly write a blog about my trip to Christchruch, New Zealand.

I was running tight on time, as I had been in the city for Orientation for Uni - I got home about 5pm giving me only an hour to get the rest of my bags packed. It was raining when I got in the car to leave but had to make a trip back home because shock horror I left Eddie Bear behind!! He was not impressed with that as it was his first time on a plane....and he's still holding it against me not taking him to Blenheim let alone Taupo and Feilding...

So it was rushing to the airport, checked in then went to my gate gave my car keys to my mum hugged and kissed her goodbye and went through the gates - of course I had the gates beeping as I walked through - I forgot to remove my belt I always forget to do that. Then it was off to the boarding gate for my plane - which was 10-20 mins late for boarding...I had a pregnant lady checking my tickets as i went on board who said Eddie was soooo cute! I said he doesnt have a ticket - she said that was ok and that he will have his own seat. Which he did on that flight.

The flight into Wellington was delayed due to leaving Auckland late - so therefore it was late into Christchurch. My friend Anne and her husband John picked me up from the Airport - I was so tired. We sat down and had hot chocolate and Anne presented to me with a birthday present - I so wasnt expecting that she has sent me a card in the mail with a magnet for her cats she breeds. But what I got I love! Its a seahorse wind chime. There was also a present there from her son Robert. He had asked me previously what gemstone I liked and I told him. Then he told me he got me a present. But she wouldnt give it to me wanted him to give it. After talking right into the night until 1am and looking through each others scrapbooks we retired to bed.

I was to go for a Helicopter ride the next day, but that didnt happened...I waddled out into the dinning room where Anne said I could open the present from Robert - he got me an Amythyst Gemstone Pendant...its very pretty....its on a waxed cord so I have to wear that wax layer off so it the knots dont keep coming undone! Anne did a bit of cuttlebugging but gave up on the tiny things she was working with. Having watched her fiddling with this die - I would be more than happy to help make her the things she was trying to make. I was just so tired from all the early morning starts I went back to bed and had a nana nap and woke up about 4pm - I spent half my first day there sleeping! Lol. Anne was making dinner when I woke up and then two of her sons - Robert and David came home from milking...I spent the night watching Sincity on DVD in Rob's room - lol how many times have I seen this movie now?? I mean Ive seen the whole thing now - with out falling alseep or missing the start or doing something else that I wont say lol - I watched the whole movie...though I still dont fully get the movie its still one of my faves to watch.

Friday was spent going to Lyttleton - I was going to find my ex but my attemps failed - for the first time in my life I got travel sick, all I wanted to do was stop....I wanted off the summit we were driving up...I wanted off the bendy country roads...I wanted so much to say OK IM GOING TO BE SICK I THINK!! Thankfully we stoped at a cafe and had a hot chocolate - my travel sickness went away a bit after that...We almost had an accident I was texting Robert at the time and my text ended up with OMG WE ALMOST DIED!! Lol - basically the back wheel slipped on the icy road and in a quick move and with good breaks i guess we missed the sign on the bend we were on and stayed on the roa - I said ok I dont want to go to Work tomorrow but I do want to go to Uni!...from here we stopped in Lincoln and had something to eat at another cafe - this is why i dont go out because i never know what to eat Im fussy as anything Im a big consure with my hot chocolates and meals (working in the industry does that to you) - so out comes my breakie on a small plate with a dry cold yucky hashbornw which I couldnt be bothered making a big show and dance about it so covered it in salt and pepper and tomato sauce and ate the yuckyness before getting into my bacon and eggs...

We looked at a gift store - it was one to look and not touch and walk out with your hands stuck deep in your pocket - it was almight expensive. It was back home from here - to which John tested the breaks out again in the car by almost taking the garage out hehehe...

I started dinner around the time David got home and i was finished and ready to serve by the time Robert got home from work. Rob and his dad and I spent the night watching the Kickboxing - not something I like but it was fun making out own commentations on what the boxers were saying...based upon what they were wearing and how they were boxing it was a big laugh....I then went and joined Rob in his room to watch DVDs again - Shaun of the Dead along with Jay and Silent Bob - I was watching Shaun of the Dead when it grew upon how much the guy who played Shaun looked like my boss.....(of course you know how I was thinking the next day at work I was thinking Zombies and other stuff from this movie when i saw my boss)

I was up and early Saturday morning to get to the airport - Anne gave me a big hug and then they left - I checked in and then went and brought postcards - fulled them out and then board my plane - lol which said it was on it final call...The flight back was delayed by 20 mins and it was a horrible rough one at that....but I made it through with only a bit of sickness - when i say that i was really dizzy....

But given the events from yesturday at the doctors I think all that sickness may be related to something else...but thats a story for another day...

So that is my trip in a nut shell!

Update

Hey everyone - I will post a better blog later - Im just uber busy this week full on with Uni and Work...havent got time for anything else.....but will tel all about my trip away and share photos and what not later...

Off to Christchurch

Just a short note letting you all know Im off on my Annual Winter Holiday

July 13th - Happy 26th Birthday

Well Yesturday - the 13th of July - was my sister karee's 26th birthday.

Now I love my sister but I also loath her at the same time. But I guess you get that sometimes in families. Its not just something you see in movies and on TV programmes or read in novels - it really does happen in real life. But I wont go into details about why I have this love hate realtionship - but I will how ever share my fav photos from 22 yrs ago - since thats how long we have been sisters for - and some from now....lol...

Notice whos the "big" sister now...hahaha you may be 4 yrs older than me but Im taller than you now...

Yesturday also marked 22 yrs since I last and first saw my late granfather. My poppa passed away when I was 25 days old - but I will save that blog for in a couple of weeks time when its his anniversary :o)

Meanwhile - Happy Birthday Karee aka "wee-wee" (I didnt know how to say my sisters name to start with so I use to call her "wee-wee" hahaha)

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2008

Crop Night and Need some input please..

So I went to my first crop night in a while - I havent been since June...so in over a month. I sat down - no wait it was while I was driving to there I felt it that I felt like I just wasnt interested...I was texting my best friend Shane we was at XLan or FDLan - one of the cyber game thingies he's in...I dont know which one because I cant be bothered checking the websites....I just know there was one on because I asked him some time ago when it was and if it would mean he would miss my birthday again..

Anyway...

As I was saying I felt like I just didnt want to go - I should have just run and cancelled and let someone else have my place but I went...I didnt take half my stuff with me thats how not into it I was the other night - I mean my scrapbooks are packed in the suitcase because Im taking them down to Christchurch so Anne can look at them and the photos only do so much justice to the pages in reality. But I only took my tool tote and carry bag with some other things in not my stash of paper or cardstock - so I spent $10 on paper and cardstock and Ive started one single page and two double page layouts....One is half finished...the other are 1/3 finished.....mind you one of those double page layouts is actaully two single page challenges (they are old challenges I couldnt be bothered doing at the time) combined together...Im using photos from the same day so kill two birds with one stone - one challenge called for a song to be used as the title and the song lyrics for the journalling....and the other was a movie for the title and well i just cant think!! I have so many songs ive said ok going to use that then change then I use different movies and then change....

Soooo if anyone is reading this I know a few of my friends do - I'll post you some photos of me and 'Berto at the Auckland Domain that im using for the layout (they were taken in 2006)...and you give me some ideas....I dont want the page to "love" focus - because though he's my bestest friend in the WHOLE WIDE WORLD - he is also my estranged partner of four years...haha...(and the father to my Angel baby if you wan to throw that in too...) - so I dont like making the pages with photos of us to love focused I like it love friendship kinda....but this day these photos were taken we were friends at the time i took them but upon going home we were giving a relationship a shot again...lol.

Im just not feeling my scrapping at the mo - Ive had this before when I was at the hotel I didnt do much scrapbooking till after I went on sick leave....and even when I was at the cafe I didnt do much scrapbooking - I guess Hospotality takes over and Tech too....sometimes.

Looking forward to your inspiration for this page...

Happy 1st Birthday ABBY!!!

Well today - 9th July - is my puppy Abby's first birthday!! Wow cant believe she is a year old already. I got her last year when she was 6 weeks old - her parents owners didnt want the liter of pups - to which I say you know what you have to do to your pets if you dont want unwanted litters...Well this lady went up North and picked the litter of pups up and put them up for sell on Trade Me - which is when I found them...I was missing my late puppy Betsy soooo much since I came back to Auckland, and after not moving south after the baby died....and this was what I did....

Its been a interesting year watching Abby grow up...I email the mother to the lady I got Abby from - out of interest for her grandkids who missed the pupps alot when they left, and I promised them I would keep in touch...

My baby girl has learnt so much in her 12 months of life. From the vitals of "Potty" and "sit" and "down" she also knows "twirl" and "play dead" and "paw/shake hands" and "roll over" and she LOVES giving hugs and kisses to everyone - I sturggle still trying to get her to stop this habit of licking peoples faces and jumping up on people...but then I also struggle with the heel work - I dont walk her enough....oops.

Anyway enjoy the pics of her from when we first got her at 6 weeks of age to now at 12 months of age.

Hate being sick!

I hate being sick!! Being sick hinders the mind and dulls all the senses.....I cant do any scrapbooking because I feel like utter turds...lol.

Why is it that when you go to the Chemist knowing what you want - in my case I wanted a cough medicine that had something to dry the nose.....and yes I know there are sooooo many brands out on the market and there are different coughs and such - but when you find the one you want and the chemist person comes up and tries selling you something else - for me it was cough medicine and a nasal spray - and they dont hear you say NASAL SPRAYS DONT WORK! Seriously they dont - for starters you have to breath in when you spray it up with most of them and its hard to do that when your nose is blocked as it is and you cant breath in throw the nose with out pain shooting through your head and stuff.....and I know its upselling and I know they are looking for their money but NO...I dont want that I want the cough medicine....no I dont want any lemsip thingies no lozens and drinks...I make my own lemon drink at home...I just want my cough medicine and of course once youve got that through to them its are you sure you want the smaller size and not the big one?? Do I look like Im made of money on a cold wet winter Monday morning??? I got my cough medicine by the way if you wanted to know...


Im in alot of pain in my joints and stuff from this cold thingy - PMS dont help that either....lol. Oh well Im sure I can battle this unaided from antibiotics and with my doctor away till the end of the month. Though the way im feeling is reminding me of how I felt last year when I was pregnant and when I lost my baby...


I guess one thing is if i look positive - I should hopefully wont be sick when i come back from down south next week and when I start Uni....coz I hate studying when Im sick...(mind you I hate working also when im sick but my job is one where Im on my feet unlike study when your sitting down and it opens you up to falling sleep on the desk...)

Presents!!!

Ok so my bday went well till I had to go to work and remember how i said I feared going in to work.....see this is where the ESP kicks in....I knew something would be bad - and I knew I would be either on front section (outside smoking tables) or runner (running meals out and stuff...) - and yea I was Runner - I was late to work - traffic was banked back to Otahuhu (I work 45KMs away from where I live - its a 30 min drive on a good day on a bad day like it was on Thursday it can take up to an hour if not more, I remember when I was coming home from my interview at work it was Easter it took my 3 hours to get home....)


My mum has it set up on the landline so I can call home free from my Telecom mobile, and I ring her when Im late for work because I dont have credit on my phones to be able to make calls only to text..so mum rang to say I was going to be late (sometimes I ring before work and let them know im leaving...this we have started after I got my first warning at work for being 10 mins late I wasnt to know I would spend 30 mins once I got to work trying to find somewhere to park) So mum rang and said I would be late and my boss was really rude to her on the phone....and I noticed that he was in a faul mood when I got in and asked him if he wanted me to clock on - I always ask if they want me to clock on....

Well anyway the night ended with him giving me my final warning...WTF!??? Saying Im not performing well and stuff...(yea how does one do their job and stuff when you always have me on either Front Section which has little to no one on it....or runner which basically has me just running meals out to tables...) - and to be told that Im out on my ass if i make one more mistake....


So yes now Im job hunting again....I question myself as to why I was so stupid enough to lower my standards and go down the scale with my Job from Hotel to a cruddy restaurant....where Im use to something more higher standards....where I meet people from all sorts of backgrounds with all sorts of adventures....to this place where its the same old same old nothing new nothing exciting....no one famous.....I think everyday of that day when I met Sir Roger Moore at the hotel....how many people can say they were longest running James Bonds actor's waitress..


Anyway...I thought Id post pics of my presents I got...

Claire gave me the refill pages for my albums

Julia gave me the album

Mum gave me the knives and storage boxes

Michelle gave me the Embellishments.

HAPPY 22nd BIRTHDAY

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!!!!!

Today is my 22nd Birthday - and lol my car "Maxine" turnt 12 yrs old today - yes how many people can say their first car is built on their birthday?? lol...yes my poor car that ive spent sooooo much money on this past year having repairs done on her for little things....she's a great car but her age is starting to show in the little bits and pieces that are coming out with Faults....speaking of which i should call Mitsi Motors and ask whats happening with the new switch for my fog lamps - they fixed em with a modified switch that stopped working a week later...

Off to the bank now to grill them about why its taking 2 weeks to put my Over Draft on my account! I will shove my over due speeding fine in their face and scream HOW AM I MEANT TO PAY FOR THIS WHEN I HAVE NO MONEY!!!????? Or should I say that to my boss for not giving me enough hours???

Speaking of Boss' - last night at work we had the BIG boss come in - The Frenchman...as I call him and others...he's French and he's the owner of my work and the other 6 or so locations. He came in and said he didnt want the kitchen to know he was in - he was on my section - I was on front which is the outside section. We seem to up our stuff when he is in and do things to how they meant to be and meals come out faster and better....which is stupid and after talking with him yea I understand what he was saying. He wanted to be treated as a normal person - not for h is status....he was testing the chefs....and his meals were over cooked...and he wasnt happy - said my service was great!! GREAT!!! Yes!! Lol...He said I was a smart girl who knew my stuff...(in regards to hospitality...and the like) - *grins* - though feel really stink about the whole reporting back to him and stuff....so I fear work tonight...

Off's me goes to venture in the horrible weather....

WOW!! Suprise Bday Cake!

Ok I soooo wasnt expecting that! I swear it was a consperacy (cant spell lol) - I told Claire to ring me in the morning to wake me up...I had a odd sleep again..so she rang me telling me to wake up and get my butt over to her house not forgetting to pick up some Lemonaid....which I did....like an hour or so later lol....had my niece with me who was feeling sick....(Im thinking she is being bullied or something at school and is lying to me about it - she hasnt been eating her lunch or anything but will eat at home...)

Anyway...yes so went over to Claire's and Julia hands me over a present....then Claire hands me another present...go the presents lol I got a Breast Cancer Awareness Scrapbook Album from Julia and refill pages from Claire for my ablum - I think I will have a few to last me a bit now....*fingers crossed lol* but then I have a second album to fill up now dont i.....what am I put in there?? Maybe I will make that my travel album...?? Coz you know how much I loooooove travelling and those Craft Co NZ theme papers and stuff...

It wasnt long after that the two of them had gone to the kitchen and got drinks - and then came out with this cake....my whole brain is like wtf....it didnt register at first it was for me....Lol I do love the candles - they had none and used Matches that were lit and put upside down in the wake....haha...So yes photos and I hate blowing candles out on cakes - Im smiling and laughing to much its to hard to blow when your like that! So my niece finished blowing em off...

I cut my cake and served it up....I must say for a Gluten Free cake it wasnt too bad Julia...even though the frosting/icing was almighty sweet it made you feel a big sick from so much sugar - like when you eat to much chocolate in one sitting kinda thing - I remember doing that as a Kid one day when we got home from shopping - I prayed to the porcilien god after that...hehe...

So I got a page done today - and I did a card - part of Yaritza's challenge she has going on her blog - check it out there is a link to it on my blogs I visit list - she has some great tutorials...

Anyway here are the photos from today - I dont think Julia took any....or if she did they havent been uploaded yet but will add em when I get them... :P

Thanks again you two - your making me feel a bit more better with this whole one year since my M/C thingy....

1 Day till my Bday....! 8 Days till my Puppy Abby's 1st Bday!!!

Fustrated

Ok I hate change - I dont cope with Change well.

So the Fiskateers site has been updated and has some big changes made to it and ive been able to get into it since they opened it back up - only I cant log in...*cries* it doesnt know my username or anything....Ive seen other people I know posting in on it but I cant get in and its not fair....but in saying that the whole thing is really confusing and hard to find things. There is to much on there, and the front page's HTML is all screwed up and yea lol.

Tomorrow Im going to my friend Claire's - our friend Julia is coming over and we are all going to have a little crop day...though Im like no in the mood to be dragging all my stuff around and yea...I wish I had one of those wheelie tote bags - I have a shoulder on and a hand one for my tools and stuff...but when youve got a cuttlebug and couple of albums you like to show off...its hard - and my little plastic cube is overly pratical - and lets say Winter isnt a fun time for cropping - when the weather is yucky...

Next week on Friday I have Crop Night at Scrappin Downunder - boy I havent been to one there for a while....with them all being booked up and stuff... :S Must check with when the nights are and if im booked in for them.

Last night my puppy Abby graduated from the 8 week Domestic Obediance Behaviour class we were doing. Ive been advise to wait a couple of weeks before bringing her back - then we will probably start on the Companion class or maybe the Obediance Comp Level 1 class....dont know yet. But Ive been advise to wait also till she is about 18 months old or so before starting agility - I tell you Im going to have to work hard with her training and obediance first though in order to do the agility - I hate the winter its horrible I dont like going for walks with her. And with work and my insomnia its hard getting out for walks to do my heel work...but yea...

I got an outfit for my Manager's baby she is due with next month and a shawl and a photo frame....I would love to get a plan gift page and jazz it up a bit to match the card I made...lol to put everything in. Im not sure when she goes on Maternity leave though...I think in a couple of weeks. I didnt get on with this manager when I first started - probably because of the fact that after I lost my baby I locked myself away from the world, I couldnt be around pregnant ladies or babies...I had a friend who had a baby and I remember the day I was handed this baby to hold I burst into tears and had to hand her back. I was ok watching her and playing with her...tickling her feet and stuff but holding was to hard - but I managed to hold her one day with no tears - maybe it was because i had my niece there with me that day....and my niece is the best - at 5 yrs of age I can turn to her and talk to her about anything. She's my mini me - my baby girl...my world and the apple of my eye...so when I started my new job and noticed one of the managers was pregnant it was hard - we seemed to be at each others throat alot - sometimes I use to think it was the clashing on the Welsh Blood in us....it was even worse when i had a meeting with her and the HR manager who was pregnant....and made me feel reallllly stink about losing my baby and stuff....but somehow me and my manager on mothers day got on well, and from there we have been fine since. Giving this gift is just another step into my path of healing and greiving...

I have a plan for Friday, I hope the weather is fine - I was going to do this on my Poppa's bday which would have been my baby's due date only my car broke down on my just as i got home with it from the workshop lol. If the weather is fine Im going to head over to Mt Eden and pick up one of my mates - if I cant get him I might get someone else...and there is something I want to do, and I have a page planned for in my mini memorial album.

2 Days till my 22nd Birthday. 8 days till my puppy Abby's 1st Birthday.