Wellington Summer!

Finally took some pictures of Oriental Parade (I mentioned before that it is Wellington's equivilent of Mission Bay). My friend Row and I walk the Parade sometimes after work when it's a nice day. Here are some pics I took ...



It may not look like it, but this is actually a Man-made beach. Meaning that two years ago, it wasn't there. I have no idea where they got the sand etc but it looks pretty real and it is always chocca with people enjoying the sun. This picture was taken after 5pm, so it was still pretty hot by then.



A shot of Wellington from the waterfront. The big black building in the centre is where I work, the State Insurance Tower. The view from the breakout room is amazing as you can porbably tell.



Some school kids swimming in the harbour. It's dragon boating season so all the school kids are normally there every day training for the big event. I have no idea why I took a picture of them but at the time it seemed like a good idea.



Here is a closer shot of the State building taken from the bridge. If you look closely you can see that it says www.state.co.nz, how is that for advertising!!!
Wellington really is a nice place when it is sunny, it's just the winter that I am not looking forward to because I know it's going to be brutal!

Well that's it for today, I hope you enjoyed my snaps!!

Laters :)

Cameo Time!!

Thanks to Garmaine for the picture! LOL Sonny gets to Cameo this week. Doing his hot boyband pose in Auckland proving that he really doesn't do any work! hahaha!

Other points of interest. I got to ride on a segway for the first time. It looks easy, but it take a while to get us to it as it is very wobbley. Here is a picture of Row on the segway that was in her office ... yes, we rode it around the office when everyone had gone home LOL.



Nothing else to report this week, was pretty boring as it's off pay week (hehe) so will probably have better stories for you then.

Chao :)

Happy Valentines Day!!

<--- Classic I know! Sonny sent this to me via email (well to a bunch of us, no I'm not THAT special! LOL). I couldn't stop laughing ... talk about honesty, trust Sonny to find something so fitting for valentines day!

A lady at work got serenaded by a barber-shop quartet her husband had sent her for Valentines day. It was very sweet! The entire office practically froze just to listen (not like it was hard to ignore, they were awfully loud). She seemed pretty embarrased by the whole thing but she was thankful. I bet he's gonna get some tonight! LOL.

Other than that it was pretty much just another normal day. Nothing interesting apart from the quartet happened in the office ... don't worry, I'm not complaining! I took some random pics of Wellington today. Here are some of my findings ...



This is Syn Bar. The most happening spot on Wed nights. You should know that Weds nights is student nights, which means half price drinks. Never a dull moment at Syn.



I know there is are several Wishbones in auckland, and probably all over the country, but this one is different. Well different in a way that it is MEGA huge. You walk inside and you think that's it, but there is a seating area and the food shelves go on for miles (well not really but you get my drift) it wasn't just one of those one-stop shop Wishbones, it was a real cafe type thing, which I found really cool!!



This was a random shot of a stranger that I thought could be Chris Maslen's twin, he looked so much like him, even down to the way he walked. I had to document it so put my sneaky ginger spotting skills to work and managed to snap this photo of him. I even sent it to Chris so he could see he has a Wellington Twin! LOL

Well that was about it for me today, I will take more random pics soon and post them up as I go. Oh wait, there was one more ...


This is Token, at her desk. I said she could cameo on my blog today.

Well that's all from me, I am going to go away now and carry on me & Joy's valentines tradition of eating pizza and watching "The Notebook"!

Have a great night :)

Mondayitis

<---Rosalie sent this to me via internal mail. It was hilarious! I hung it on my wall at work. It's now safe for me to work seeing as I have a hot permit to allow for my hotness! LOL. I have had several items pop up via internal mail from my very good friends up in Auckland. People here are going to begin to think I am some kind of internal mail whore, or something equivilent to that nature. I don't care, it makes me feel special :)I love recieving things in the mail!

Mary gave me the DVD of "The Holiday" today, it's the holiday romance movie with Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet, Jack Black and Jude Law. I wasn't sure what to expect but it turned out to be a really, really good movie. Something was wrong with the end of the DVD (damn black market!!) so I didn't get to watch the ending, which of course was the most important part!! I was guttered - but I think, even though I haven't seen the full movie (or the last 5mins of it) it's already making it's way onto my list of favourites!

Not much to report today. Work was dull as usual except for when I recieved my maiul (Yippee!!) - Only one thing I can remember clearly is that I got angry at my coffee cup. Why would someone make a cup that was not round? Yes, I said NOT round! They irritate me because they don't feel normal on your lips when you drink from it. I had this experience today when Mary made me a coffee in a cup that had several sides like and octagon. Why someone would invent cups that have corners I will never know. It's not natural and is another example of things that are a waste of reasources ... like the massive calculators ... what is the world coming to?

Well, I guess I will sign off here. Toodles :)

My Weekend Rundown

Weekend has been pretty full on. Didn't go to work Thurs and Fri coz I had major period cramps (which was unusual because I don't normally get them) But I was so sick of being stuck in the house that I had to go out Friday night. So when my friend texted me and asked if I was interested in have a few drinks at her place I jumped at the oportunity.

We drank at home for a while then decided to move the party down to the beach. This may sound strange but it was majorly hot and drinking indoors wasn't cutting it. So we packed into the car and cruised down to Oriental Parade (Wellington's equivilant to Mission Bay) and chilled out there for a while. Drinking wasn't agreeing with my tummy so I decided to stop and sober drive instead.

We entertained ourselves with the Dreamgirls soundtrack, singing and dancing on the beach. It was funny as, those girls are real characters! Then around 1am I dropped them into town and one of the girls and I sat in the car and caught up. Then we got bored of sitting so we drove up to Mt Vic and sat there and continued talking. Hours later we went to pick up the girls and took them home.

Sat was even more fun. My friend Rowena texted me to see if I wanted to catch up. So we had brunch. So we went to the Rhelm which serves the best brunch menu and had some food and conversation. After brunch we went to our hairdressers (as we both share the same one) and I got my roots done again (thank goodness!!) Then we cruised into town to have a look around at the shops ...

I bought some sunglasses and Row bought a singlet and the same sunglasses. The after shopping we went to have coffee at a cafe called The Office. After coffee we went to the warehouse to look for a lock as I needed one for my room. We walked around looking at the signs to see where we would find locks when I saw it...


The evidence I needed to prove to the peeps here that CONDIMENTS is a real word, and a word that is used by others than just me! LOL. Is it just me or is the Warehouse like endless hours of entertainment? I mean, I was walking around the stationary section when I saw these MEGA calculaters! Who in their right might would use such a thing? It's MEGA huge and wouldn't fit in a childs schoolbag? Why on earth would they waste resources making such things? Then it came to me and I just had to do it. It was like teasing me, I couldn't resist...


We laughed about it for a couple of minutes until a lady and her son rocked past and we had to hightail it outta there. So after the warehouse Row dropped me back off home and I laxed out. Watch some dvd's Little man & this British teen movie called Kidulthood, which was not only hard to understand because of their annoying accents but it made it worse because they were suppose to be gangsters. Try figure that one out?? It was an ok storyline tho. Then watched 'The Notebook' again for good measure and went to bed. Was a pretty full on day but it was nice and relaxed.

Today I didn't do much, I just laxed out at home and then went to pick up my friend from the X-air games then we went and had a bite to eat at the Maritime cafe in Lyall bay. Then drove around for a while then dropped her off home. On the net now, wasting time till Joy logs on so we can chat via Gmail. Haven't been able to text her because I didn't have credit but topped up today and texted her to say I was going to be online tonight, she texted back saying she would be on too. So can't wait. CSI Las Vegas is back on tonight, can't wait, there is something about the original that is better than the others. I know that was random but I'm in the living room watching TV with my mother and the ad came on.

Well that was my weekend. Pretty full on and spent lots of money! LOL but had a good time!! Back to work tomorrow, first full week in a while!

Summer is HOT!

More boring stuff ...

I found this picture and it made me laugh. It is so true how some relationships just make you tired! A true example of this is on TV right now - Grey's Anatomy. Yes, I am refering to TV again but that is only because I have nothing else better to do tonight and I love this program!

I know it's only a program and none of it's real but sometimes there are situations on it that seem a little too close to home. Like the Married man/woman having an affair, the inter-office relationships. Death. It's not real and real at the same time.

Today's episode is filled with flashbacks. I wish time could stand still long enough for me to have flashbacks. I don't know why that is important, but it would be pretty cool. Why do TV people get the best of everything? Ok, now that just sounded sad. I know none of it's real so before you try and commit me to a psyciatric ward just remember that this is the closest thing I have to drama in my life. This is a good thing because right now, there is so much drama flying around here that all I have been doing since returning is trying to dodge it. Which is not as easy as you may think!

Well it's over now, good episode today. So after two seasons Meridith still hasn't made a decision on weather or not she wants to be with McDreamy ... yup, it apparently takes that long. Who knew?

Oh no! My friend just texted me to say that the Boys II Men tickets for their concert tomorrow sold out this morning. So sad! We really wanted to go and thought that it would be fine to purchase tickets today, well we were wrong and now we miss out! Sadface.

Sorry I got sidetracked.

Boys make me tired. This statement is true. Emotionally tired. I just don't have the time or the willpower to handle one right now. You may think that comment was random but I have a reason behind it. I'm getting mad texts from a guy who keeps asking me what I am doing ... same thing I was doing 5mins ago you moron!! I have stopped replying to him, he is obviously drunk, or stupid...or both!

I think I might go to bed now. I didn't go to work today because I havent been feeling that well over the last few days, must be the sun. So if I try getting some sleep I have a chance of making it to work tomorrow. Hopefully I will have something more interesting to write about next time rather than what is on TV.

Fingers crossed ...

The sun is my enemy!

I was wrong ... I did get sunburnt and it hurts like hell!

Today was not such a good day. It was HOT again and our office has an air conditioning problem so rather than it being nice and cool in the office, it was 28 degrees. It was a horrible day!

I want to go to sleep, but my body is not responding to my brain. Happens a lot.

Hayley, Kimberly & Rosalie at the cricket
Kimberly sent me this pic the other day, lucky gals got to soak in the sun and drink alcohol on the company! I miss IAG Auckland! Yeah so we have the Wellington Sevens but we don't get to go for free, it is so unfair!

That was pretty random huh? Yeah, I think the antibiotics are kicking in. I had to pop a few coz I wasn't feeling so hot ... it's effecting my chain of thought!

"...Come into Hardy's, Hardy's in your neighbourhood, when you shop at Hardy's ytou walk out feeling good..."

The Hardy's ad is on ... everyone knows that song, I know this is true because everytime it come's on, no matter where I am, the people in the house sing it...it's catchy.

ER is on. It reminds me of Joy. Only because I never use to watch it until we began living together and now...I am hooked. Just one of the many things that remind me of Joy in the everyday life, and trust me there are many!

A mystery is unfolding in my house. I have a copy of the book "The Pursuit of Happiness" (yes the one that inspired the movie) and I swear it was on my bookshelf but now ... it is missing. I have no memory of moving it and everyone in my house swears they never touched it. Strange huh? I will be doing my CSI to try and figure out what happened to it ... we shall see how the mystery unfolds!

Ok, got to go ... my eyelids are getting heavy. Hopefully tomorrow will be more promising. Talk aboutn ups and downs this week!!

My sunburn hurts :(

Finally, a good day!

It's Waitangi Day today. It was mega hot and suprisingly I was up at 9am getting ready to go to watch Samoan Criket (Kilikiti) at McCallester park. It is just like watching normal cricket, boring. They tried to make me play but I keep running away, pretending I had things to do. I could only stand an hour of it so after me and 2 friends went to watch some of the boys play a friendly game of Gridiron.

After soaking in the sun for a while and watching boys sweat and shed clothes (I KNOW!!) We decided we had had enough of watching and went for a drive - mostley because we ran out of smokes and had to go get some more LOL. So we drove around the bays (after stopping at the shop of course) and as suspected the beaches were PACKED with everyone and their dog. It was insane!

Hataitai was also packed because of the Bob Marley "One Love" concert. It happens every year at the Valedrome on Waitangi Day, we all wondered why so I just Googled it ... 6 February is his birthday!

After we got sick of driving we went back to the guys who were just finished up and invited us over to Shawnies place for a BBQ. Now here is the interesting part, Shawnie is only 22yrs old and his partner and him own their own home. Cool aye? It's actually a nice house too located in Karori. So we waited for Shawnie and Matt to cook the meat while the rest of the boys played playstation. I had to keep walking around to keep myself awake coz the sun had totally drained me.

Funny story - I asked Shawnie and everyone else if they had any Condiments to eat the BBQ with. They all looked at me like I was a freak. How is it that no one here knows what that means? I did!!! Joy would have been mortified hehehe. Naturally, the guys thought I was talking about condoms, TYPICAL MALES!!

Finally when the BBQ was ready we forced the guys to turn off the playstation so we could watch TV while we ate, then straight after eating they put the game back on. We took this as our queue to leave as we all wanted to watch Ugly Betty and knew once the guys get back on the game there was no getting them off.

So all in all it was a pretty productive day. No drama's, which was a plus so I was happy. I saw a blue Nissan Pulsar, just like Joy's old car (Katies new car now - hehe) and felt nostelgic. One of my friends asked me today what I would be doing if I was in Auckland, I almost cried!! I miss it heaps, but I guess days like today help ease the pain.

Ugly Betty just finished, good episode today and now I am going to lie in bed and drift off to la-la land, long day today. Totally need to crash out!

Back to work tomorrow. Argh!

Bored, bored ... BORED!

Ok so it's friday night and I am at home, yes at home sitting in my room watching horrible TV. I now realise that they only put rubbish TV on friday nights because no one really does nothing on a friday night do they ... WRONG! I am here and am suffering from 'Crap TV' syndrome and I am dying to get outta here!

But it's not that simple coz tonight, I am on 'MUM watch' which means I have to stay home and look after my mum. My dad normally stays here with her but this weekend he is in Auckland (*I'm so jealous*) to see his family so here I am on 'watch duty'.

Pulp sport has just finished..."MAN LOVE MOMENTS!" so funny!

I'm still missing Auckland badly. I read Joy's blog just before and she is having such a good time in Aussie. I miss her! I can't wait to go visit her, and soon hannah, and of course my sister. I wish my adventures down here were just as fun, sadly they are not, not even by a long shot!

I can't believe I am home on Sevens Weekend!! What is the world coming to? I texted Mary and she was doing the same as me...LOL so funny!!

Things have got to get better around her because I am totally going insane at the lack of things to do around here! I guess it's up to me to go out there and do something about it huh? Can't tonight tho, you all know why!

BLUES beat the CRUSADERS tonight - 34-25. WTF???

Wow, Boyz II Men were just on the news. They are in NZ on a tour (again) and they still sound TIGHT! I'm going to the concert next friday so at least I will something to do a week from now. I notice there are now only 3 members? What ever happened to the bass guy, Michael, I think his name was? I must google that later...

Well, I am contemplating going to bed early just so this agony can end and it can be tomorrow...the more I think about it, the better it sounds! I guess I will finish up here, what a stink way to start off a new month!

Hope it gets better, I really do!