Saturday, 26 July 2008

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!






Monday, 21 July 2008

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...

Wednesday, 16 July 2008

Off to Christchurch

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

Monday, 14 July 2008

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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Sunday, 13 July 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...

Wednesday, 9 July 2008

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.

Monday, 7 July 2008

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...)