one day you will be mine, jack lloyd.
November 30, 2006
an impulsive yearning for a brussels griffon brought about by a chance pet store encounter today
one day you will be mine, jack lloyd.
24 Sleeps Till Santa
So, being as I haven't written in QUITE A WHILE, I thought it best to jot a few things down this evening. Things have been humming along here. Life is busy with work and just recently with Thanksgiving (which turned out really well, thanks for all the support and recipes).
cornbread #1 before I tripled the recipe - that's an apple slice for scale
the kumara and pumpkin whip actually tasted remarkably like sweet potatoes YAY with cashew crunch in the topping instead of pecans
the thanksgiving table - note the touch of harvest orange with gerberas and embroidered cloth
Christmas is coming soon and I will be sending out a few cards on Monday (handmade, so a very few).
I dropped Sean off at the airport this morning. He will be in Christchurch at a beach called Taylor's Mistake over the weekend as Chief Instructor at Senior Guard School. I don't know about you, but I'm impressed. ;) Anyway, after I dropped him off I went to Newmarket to pick up a couple of gifts/shop while I was on the other side of the bridge. I found a pair of jeans that fit really well for NZ$90 on sale for what the salesgirl and I found out was, to both our amazement, NZ$14! EPIC. I also bought some "Bob Soap" (get it - Bob Hope; there's also a glittery bath fizz called Bling Crosby) soap from Lush. It's a Christmas relase and it smells like orange, cinnamon and cloves.
my piece doesn't look this flashy
Got a burrito a little after 11. I think I was their first customer (since they open at 11). It was tasty as per usual. All in all, it was a good morning. It was my first time by myself in the city and crossing the bridge alone! Baby steps. Hahaha. I've only been here 3 months.
Some other recent purchases -
cotton and dark brown/grey leather with metal button and buckle/buttons closure reverses to wool and rusty leather with teal button and same closure
a handmade reversible purse for NZ$190 (YIPES)
some mismatched melamine cups and plates from the Hospice Shop about NZ$3.50
a turquoise bangle about NZ$5
set of sheep paperclips NZ$2 (the sheep clench the papers with their buns - hence the fart joke)
and a pair of canvas ballerina flats NZ$25.
My next/last two weeks at work will be spent taking pictures of the children for Christmas in the hope that their parents will buy a few. Hey, if it makes me some extra money and I don't have to sweep chicken fried rice off the floor after lunchtime, I'm there.
cornbread #1 before I tripled the recipe - that's an apple slice for scale
the kumara and pumpkin whip actually tasted remarkably like sweet potatoes YAY with cashew crunch in the topping instead of pecans
the thanksgiving table - note the touch of harvest orange with gerberas and embroidered cloth
Christmas is coming soon and I will be sending out a few cards on Monday (handmade, so a very few).
I dropped Sean off at the airport this morning. He will be in Christchurch at a beach called Taylor's Mistake over the weekend as Chief Instructor at Senior Guard School. I don't know about you, but I'm impressed. ;) Anyway, after I dropped him off I went to Newmarket to pick up a couple of gifts/shop while I was on the other side of the bridge. I found a pair of jeans that fit really well for NZ$90 on sale for what the salesgirl and I found out was, to both our amazement, NZ$14! EPIC. I also bought some "Bob Soap" (get it - Bob Hope; there's also a glittery bath fizz called Bling Crosby) soap from Lush. It's a Christmas relase and it smells like orange, cinnamon and cloves.
my piece doesn't look this flashy
Got a burrito a little after 11. I think I was their first customer (since they open at 11). It was tasty as per usual. All in all, it was a good morning. It was my first time by myself in the city and crossing the bridge alone! Baby steps. Hahaha. I've only been here 3 months.
Some other recent purchases -
cotton and dark brown/grey leather with metal button and buckle/buttons closure reverses to wool and rusty leather with teal button and same closure
a handmade reversible purse for NZ$190 (YIPES)
some mismatched melamine cups and plates from the Hospice Shop about NZ$3.50
a turquoise bangle about NZ$5
set of sheep paperclips NZ$2 (the sheep clench the papers with their buns - hence the fart joke)
and a pair of canvas ballerina flats NZ$25.
My next/last two weeks at work will be spent taking pictures of the children for Christmas in the hope that their parents will buy a few. Hey, if it makes me some extra money and I don't have to sweep chicken fried rice off the floor after lunchtime, I'm there.
November 16, 2006
Dear Thanta Clauth,
It's that time of year again. It's hard to believe, but Thanksgiving is a week away. Yipes! And believe you me, I am totally screwed up as to what time of year it is. See, it's still rainy/windy most days here, so theoretically I should feel all cozy and wintery and ready for Christmas. Then I think to myself, hey, it's acually spring here and Christmas is going to be in the summer. Also, I have to take into account that for the past couple of years at home I haven't really even felt like it should be Christmas. But, be that as it may, I have been compiling a small list of things that could be procured for me if the mood should strike. As follows:1. Comptoir Sud Pacifique Vanille Bananae $49 2. Williams Sonoma Gingerbread Spice Waffle and Pancake Mix $14 3. Speedo Sprint Goggles $6.99 4. TYR Durafast Workout Bikini (in black) $60 5. Nixon Small Player (dark wood) $150 -note- I told Sean I wanted this so don't get it for me just in case. 6. See's Candies Nuts & Chews from $14.10 7. Kangol Colette Cap (navy) $54 8. Nars Russian Doll Lipstick $23 9. Fresh Magnolia Mist Lipstick $22 10. J.Crew Hudson Hoodie (in dark lake -shown- heather carob or heather graphite) $88 11. Hard to Find Lip Smacker Holiday Collector's Kit $18 12. Hot Shot! Camera Ring $10
November 8, 2006
Goodness me
. . . we're not in kansas anymore! This afternoon has been extrememly blustery. I'm glad that I'm now inside where it's safe and warm. Went out to the mall and got Sean another Christmas gift and a turquoise plastic bangle for me. I also purchased some brown packing paper to decorate for wrapping gifts. No word yet as to how I'm actually going to decorate it. I also got some semi-ribbon wire that looks quite interestingly modish. Like how a christmas soundtrack from the sixties might look. All red and silver wavies.
Last Saturday, Sean and I went to Otara Market. It's like a smaller OCC Swapmeet except substitute Mexicans for Pacific Islanders. And Asians. I told Sean that I expected to hear "PASALE PASALE PASALE" being yelled down the aisles, but I was not to be so privileged. Didn't buy anything except some nectarines, but we came quite late (around 11:30 and it ends at 1, which you know means that some are packing up at 11). There were some deliciously dodgy looking food caravans, but we did not partake. P.S. I've decided that if I ever have a caravan it will be painted turquoise like this one:
and it will be called the Turquoise Bean.
After that we went to a couple of antique shops and then to One Tree Hill (which is now tree-less after an act of vandalism {socio-politically motivated, of course} by a group of Maori guys). I had completely forgotten that we went up there until I looked at my photos. Oh, how the days go by.
Sunday was also Guy Fawkes day, and even though fireworks had been going off randomly for the last few days, we turned off the lights in the house and watched a few being lit off on Milford Beach. God, who was, of course, not to be outdone by the pyrotechnics, gave us a beautiful full moon.
This week at work was alright. I was scheduled for Inside/Art, which meant I made play dough and drew lots of pictures to color. I stapled a bunch of black paper together to make a big surface and a few kids painted the "night sky" with white and yellow paint and some glitter. And I tried to do a project where the kids blew thinned paint around a piece of paper to make a tree, but the kids that participated were mostly younger and didn't really listen, so it was paint splatter mixed with spit (because that's what happens when little kids try to blow through straws) and some glued on feathers and cardstock circles. I was going for "bubble trees" but hey, splatter and circles is still just fine for two, three and four year olds. Went wakeboarding Monday evening and was able to stand for quite a long time, which is pretty cool. Didn't do anything fancy, but I did alright, so I'm happy. My back KILLED the next day, though. I'm sure it was partly wakeboarding and partly bending over short tables and sitting on tiny chairs all day long. Work is fine for the most part, and I'm finally getting paid now that I have an IRD number. Which is so much better than working at that place and NOT getting paid. Hopefully I'll start to feel it's worth it outside of helping those kids. Which is basically why I'm sticking around. At this point I don't see myself going back after Christmas. That's fine, though, since I haven't committed past the beginning of December. It's just too much for too little, but I am learning a lot, and I will be sad to not have a positive impact on those kids (which I hope I'm imparting now) after I leave.
P.S. I didn't actually try the Smoked Kahawai (a kind of fish) Pie that was made for the kids' lunch on Tuesday, but, umm, NO.
But, all aside, I have no idea what I'll be doing this weekend, besides church on Sunday. Sean has a bouy setting training thing at Mairangi Bay on Saturday and maybe Sunday too. Anna and Graeme will be in Tairua. So, it might be more Christmas shopping for me. Or I can just figure out what I'm going to put on that brown wrapping paper.
ta.
Last Saturday, Sean and I went to Otara Market. It's like a smaller OCC Swapmeet except substitute Mexicans for Pacific Islanders. And Asians. I told Sean that I expected to hear "PASALE PASALE PASALE" being yelled down the aisles, but I was not to be so privileged. Didn't buy anything except some nectarines, but we came quite late (around 11:30 and it ends at 1, which you know means that some are packing up at 11). There were some deliciously dodgy looking food caravans, but we did not partake. P.S. I've decided that if I ever have a caravan it will be painted turquoise like this one:
and it will be called the Turquoise Bean.
After that we went to a couple of antique shops and then to One Tree Hill (which is now tree-less after an act of vandalism {socio-politically motivated, of course} by a group of Maori guys). I had completely forgotten that we went up there until I looked at my photos. Oh, how the days go by.
Sunday was also Guy Fawkes day, and even though fireworks had been going off randomly for the last few days, we turned off the lights in the house and watched a few being lit off on Milford Beach. God, who was, of course, not to be outdone by the pyrotechnics, gave us a beautiful full moon.
This week at work was alright. I was scheduled for Inside/Art, which meant I made play dough and drew lots of pictures to color. I stapled a bunch of black paper together to make a big surface and a few kids painted the "night sky" with white and yellow paint and some glitter. And I tried to do a project where the kids blew thinned paint around a piece of paper to make a tree, but the kids that participated were mostly younger and didn't really listen, so it was paint splatter mixed with spit (because that's what happens when little kids try to blow through straws) and some glued on feathers and cardstock circles. I was going for "bubble trees" but hey, splatter and circles is still just fine for two, three and four year olds. Went wakeboarding Monday evening and was able to stand for quite a long time, which is pretty cool. Didn't do anything fancy, but I did alright, so I'm happy. My back KILLED the next day, though. I'm sure it was partly wakeboarding and partly bending over short tables and sitting on tiny chairs all day long. Work is fine for the most part, and I'm finally getting paid now that I have an IRD number. Which is so much better than working at that place and NOT getting paid. Hopefully I'll start to feel it's worth it outside of helping those kids. Which is basically why I'm sticking around. At this point I don't see myself going back after Christmas. That's fine, though, since I haven't committed past the beginning of December. It's just too much for too little, but I am learning a lot, and I will be sad to not have a positive impact on those kids (which I hope I'm imparting now) after I leave.
P.S. I didn't actually try the Smoked Kahawai (a kind of fish) Pie that was made for the kids' lunch on Tuesday, but, umm, NO.
But, all aside, I have no idea what I'll be doing this weekend, besides church on Sunday. Sean has a bouy setting training thing at Mairangi Bay on Saturday and maybe Sunday too. Anna and Graeme will be in Tairua. So, it might be more Christmas shopping for me. Or I can just figure out what I'm going to put on that brown wrapping paper.
ta.
November 2, 2006
i was just remembering
I read a blog this morning - rosylittlethings- about posessions you have from your childhood, and how your childhood tastes (in things/decoration) can transfer into adult preferences. I wondered if that was true of myself, but nothing came to mind, so my mind flitted on, and it wasn't until a while later while I was in the shower that I recalled the only two book series I can remember checking out of the school library as a six year old. One was Angelina Ballerina,
and the other, the Blaze books - like Blaze and the Grey Spotted Pony.
Now there are many other books over time that have interested me, like Corduroy, the Ramona books, The Boxcar Children books, Trumpet of the Swan and Stewart Little, King of the Wind [one of my favorites-while in college I stumbled across John Cole's Bookshop in La Jolla (now closed and being refurbished by the historical society) and the older lady behind the counter told me something like the Cole's had actually encouraged Margurite Henry to write King of the Wind], Island of the Blue Dolphins, the American Girls collection, and others, but those came to mind and stood out as a general dichotomy of my personality. I realized that I am still much like I was in grade one.
I still love the frilly things in life and I would still love to ride off on a horse into some great adventure.
That is all.
and the other, the Blaze books - like Blaze and the Grey Spotted Pony.
Now there are many other books over time that have interested me, like Corduroy, the Ramona books, The Boxcar Children books, Trumpet of the Swan and Stewart Little, King of the Wind [one of my favorites-while in college I stumbled across John Cole's Bookshop in La Jolla (now closed and being refurbished by the historical society) and the older lady behind the counter told me something like the Cole's had actually encouraged Margurite Henry to write King of the Wind], Island of the Blue Dolphins, the American Girls collection, and others, but those came to mind and stood out as a general dichotomy of my personality. I realized that I am still much like I was in grade one.
I still love the frilly things in life and I would still love to ride off on a horse into some great adventure.
That is all.
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