Back in Kiwiland

So it’s three weeks since I landed back here.  Here’s what’s been happening: Started work (3 days later). Climbed a glacier for 8 hours (4 days later). Rode to the lake and back (24kmish, 9 days later). Joined the gym (also 9 days later). Went to gym (multiple times… cannot remember days.  Am giving up [...]

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Zombies, Vampires, and Names.

I learnt an interesting phrase the other day – ‘zombie crush’.  I heard it on skepchick.  It refers to a crush you have on someone for their brains.  I LOLed.  Then I tweeted it.  Luke asked what the opposite would be, if you just fancied someone for their looks/body.  I decided that it would be [...]

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Weird Dreams and a Job and Maori Names.

Well, I seem to have accidentally found gainful employment on the West Coast!  I wasn’t really looking, but the people who own the motel next door to my house (who are also my stepsister’s father and stepmother – the Coast is a bit incestuous like that) have just had a receptionist up and leave so [...]

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Hair and DVDs and Sunday Theatre. Also, more clothes!

I have been trying to decide for a while whether I should get my hair cut.  Not just trimmed (I do that myself with the First Aid Kit scissors), but cut off to just-longer-than-chin-length.  It’s been that long 2 or 3 times before, mostly when I’ve gotten sick of my long hair and have entreated [...]

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Cat names and Spam. And a WTF.

Last night I was patting my cat and remembering a cat I used to know called Mandu (Cat/Kath-mandu, geddit?). This turned into a long conversation with my mum about good pun-names for cats.  We decided that Zinzan would probably be called Atonic if we’d named him with a pun.  Now my pet fantasy is to [...]

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Hospital Visits and Names. And Mills and Boon.

Recently I had occasion to be visiting someone in hospital (they are out of hospital and fine now).  The patient was feeling pretty nauseated and the anti-nausea drugs weren’t helping much.  I left the hospital for lunch with my dad and stepmum and as we got in the lift (which was not a Schindler’s Lift, [...]

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Prank Calls and a bit of Woo. And Names.

I was at work the other night before any of the other wait staff got there and got a few strange phone calls, asking different questions, some silly, some not so silly.  Because there were 3 or 4 of these, I began to think that maybe a group of people were sitting around at home [...]

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Music Monday: Something Right – Westlife

I downloaded this song the other day and it’s SO CATCHY.  And happee.  I was tossing up between this song and another one that I’ve been listening to a lot lately but this one won because of the epic boybandness of the video clip.  Confession:  When I was a tweeny fangirl, I had an epic [...]

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Earth Hour and watching stuff and cleaning and a name. Oh and DWTS.

So tonight we had Earth Hour at work.  Trying to serve people their food in the dark aided by only a few candles is not the most fun.  At least I wasn’t wearing a black tshirt this year!  Sadly we also didn’t have glowsticks   We do however have wax drips all over a couple [...]

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Biscuits and the Near-Square Merger. And your opinions on yeast spreads.

All of a sudden, Biscuit Week appears to be upon us!  I am of course referring to Girl Guide Biscuits.  This has been lots of fun for me since I pretty much have sole charge of my unit now, and wasn’t actually around for Biscuit time last year so I’m kind of going off what [...]

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