A Job! And Baking. And a funny movie.

So I got the job that I interviewed for on Monday.  I’m pretty stoked, but not overly surprised.  Which makesme sound a bit full of myself, but I’ve worked there before doing the exact same job that I’ve applied for, most of management has known me since I was 13 or 14, and I know the [...]

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Netball. And other stuff (mostly grumbles).

I guess it wouldn’t take a genius to work out that I am not happy about the netball results thus far!  We lost the first game on Monday versus the World 7 by 4 goals, and managed to top even that lacklustre performance with a 9 goal loss tonight.  It was just infuriating, watching the [...]

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Music Monday: ‘Honey Honey’ – Feist

I actually have a Feist CD somewhere that a friend copied for me.  I’ve never listened to it, but off the back of this song I think I might have to dig around for it.  This is another youtube fanvid discovery; one of two that I couldn’t choose between.  I don’t like this song as [...]

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Music Monday: ‘One Girl in a Million’ – Jennifer Beals

Because I am currently in love with Jennifer Beals, she is my Music Monday this week!  Found this song randomly on YouTube, it’s a scene from a 1991 movie called Blood and Concrete, which I now really want to see but which appears to be so obscure that even Alice’s doesn’t have it lol.  Oh [...]

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A good day and yellow things.

Today I am having a quite-good day.  Very good considering that I didn’t go to sleep until about 3.30am and my dad decided to wake me up at 8.55 (despite having previously told me that there are no wake-up calls on weekends) because there was a Johnny Depp article in the paper and apparently it [...]

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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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Music Monday: ‘Walk of Life’ – Billie Piper

Yeah I know – same person two weeks in a row, but this really is my song of the last week.  I’ve had it on my iTunes for maybe 3 weeks and have listened to it 91 times (mostly in the last 7 days).  This is more than any other song on my iTunes, by [...]

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A New Word and Finding Things to Do.

I woke up this morning with the word ‘austipagia’ (pronounced OS-tih-PAH-zhee-a) in my brain.  Apparently in my sleep I had decided that this was an actual word, and derived from ‘austere’ and ‘page’.  Austipagia describes a book whose pages are not filled to capacity.  For example, the Edmond’s cookbook uses its page space well, but [...]

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Weirdest Compliment Ever. And Movie Day. Also, I Hate My Work.

I remembered this recently and thought it was worth sharing because it is so very odd, and also because I want to know whether any of you have ever had a similarly weird compliment!
I was in 6th form at the time and in French class.  Another girl and I were sent to the oral room [...]

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‘In the true spirit of the public holiday’

Last night my Guiding district had a sleepover camp.  11 leaders and 44 girls ranging in age from 5 -16 crammed into a church hall and played games (including launch the chicken!), learnt sign language, and sung around an electric campfire.  The purpose of this was to march in the ANZAC day dawn service parade [...]

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