The good...

It was flatmate, Liz's birthday on Saturday. She was away on a camp all day until late so jo and I spent the entire day planning this whole big surprise for her. We had decided that we would fill her room with balloons and leave her present in there for her. First we had to tidy her room, so at least she would be able to find her stuff and everything wasn't still on the floor under all the balloons. Here is the final result:

Jo made a kick ass chocolate cake and iced it like a soccer pitch. She did an awesome job:

We got Lizzie an electric blanket. We put the blanket on her bed so it was nice and toasty for her when she got home. She has been finding it a little cold since she got back from home. Look how excited she is!
Lizzie is in there somewhere:
So, Lizzie came home about 10:30. Jo and I had turned off all the lights and we hid in the kitchen when we heard her come up the stairs, then when she opened her bedroom door and saw the balloons, we brought the cake out singing happy birthday. It was so exciting. Lizzie said it was the best birthday ever!

Music: Alanis Morissette - At That Particular Time (Album: Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept)

Freakin' cool!

This is me and Carly Binding, taken after the gig the other night. The show was freakin' awesome! Abby and I got there early and Carly and Donald were just there having dinner, so I caught up with Carly (we met a couple of years ago when she was touring with the theatre show of Blood Brothers). The show was really laid back, just Carly and Donald on acoustic guitars, singing each others songs. Between songs they would just tell jokes and take the piss out of each other. It was hilarious.

The highlight for me was the encore, they did a kick ass cover of The Pixies' 'Where Is My Mind' (It's the song from the end of Fight Club. I wanna post the original song here but I don't know how to.

Madison's birthday on Saturday was fun, I love kids birthday, she was so cute opening her presents. This is a photo I took a few weeks ago. Ain't she cute?



Kat left for Malaysia this morning. I miss her already.

Music: Anna Nalick - Breathe (2AM) - you know the song when Meredith pulled the bomb out of that guys chest.

The world is good again

Yay, I'm not working this weekend after all! This is my happy face.

Music: Alanis Morissette - That Particular Time (Album: Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept)

Hope deferred makes the heart sick

I'm sorry Jesus if I totally messed up the title.

It's been a while since my last post. Not much has been going on really. I went to see 'Pirates of the Caribbean 2' on the weekend. I'd heard mixed reactions to it but I really liked it, I think I almost enjoyed it more than the first one or at least the same as the first one.

Liz got back on Sunday night, she bought me some twinkies, I've always wanted to try one, their not bad.

Well, in relation to my title, this week has taken a really stinky turn for the worst. I have been looking forward to this weekend for ages, I have tickets to Carly Binding & Donald Reid at Arc on Friday night (a concert I've waited 2 years for, the last time Carly toured, the South Island leg was cancelled) and Madison's 2nd birthday party on Saturday morning but I found out on Monday that all the wananga dates have been moved so I have to work this weekend. It sux! I will still go to Carly (I hope) and try and make an appearance for Madison on Saturday but you know it's really hard to relax and enjoy something when you are watching the clock the whole time and it just means a lot of running around and trying to fit a 40 hour week into 36 hours. So not very happy this week.

Music: Bright Eyes - Four Winds

Nuffink new

Bored bored bored bored, bored bored bored bored!

Not much to say really. I finished work early yesterday, finally got to train a staff member how to use the new coffee machine, how I miss Azucena's machine, so much nicer to use. You can't make coffee with instant!

I'm at work, it's boring. I need new glasses, the computer screen is a little blurry, my eyes aren't good at team work, if I close one eye it is better. Must go see the optometrist soon, not this week.

Music: Something from Gatecrasher)

Kick ass weekend!

WARNING!!! I use the word 'ass' a lot in this post.

So obviously, I had a kick ass weekend, what was so kick ass about it you make ask, well:

Kick ass haircut - Dana cut my hair for me on Friday night (fanks Dana!), now my hair doesn't suck anymore.

Ass kicking - I kicked Kelsi, Tish, and Aaron's asses at Buzz. I love that game, I kick ass at that game, it's almost too easy. I guess that is what you get from listening to a lot of different kinds of musics, reading trashy magazines and my ability for holding an amazing amount of useless trivia that I will never need (except playing Buzz)

Kick ass movies - I went to see 'Take The Lead' on Saturday night with my friend Abby and her mum. Kick ass movie! Love the dancing! Totally recommend it! Now I wanna take up ballroom dancing and hip hop (plus find a cute boy to dance the tango with :-P)

Kick ass bass playing - Worship rocked on Sunday morning, I had so much fun. Matt was drumming and he just goes hard (shot Matt!) so I go hard too. It was the first time I've ever not screwed up 'Indescribable' (at practise not during worship but it was alright).

Yeah that's about it. Kick ass!

Music: A Perfect Circle - 3 Libra's (Album: A Perfect Circle - Mer De Noms)

Freezy morning

It's a cold one today, I defrosted Kat's car for her this morning and it was already freezing as we drove to work. I envy Liz over in Denver summer, oh well the joke's on her, she has to come back to Dunedin winter.

I'm still waiting around to teach some of the staff how to make coffee, slightly annoying having to be on someone else's beckon call which takes ages to come.

I'm possibly going up to the Pierces tonight to kick Kelsi and Petra's butts at Buzz and the lovely Dana might give me a haircut. I'm kinda gutted that I have to cut my hair because it is finally at a length where I can tie it up without bits falling out and getting all up in my face. Damn punk hair, but I have the hugest split ends, it's really gross.

Anyways, better get back to work.

Music: Led Zeppelin - No Quarter (Album: Led Zeppelin - Remasters)

Stuff n' nonsense

Well, I'm at work. My laptop has been taken away to install Microsoft Office on it properly since I have been running a test drive, so I'm back to PC for the moment. I still haven't taught anyone how to make coffee which makes my week kinda long, not doing much else cos I'm waiting for other people, hence why I worked half an hour longer than usual yesterday.

Here's a fun thing which I pinched from Neill's live journal (http://pelliondance.livejournal.com/). So, take random song lyrics, in Google Language Tools, translate said lyrics from English to German, then translate them from German to French, then from French back to English, post them on your blog and see if your friends can work them out:

1) Everyone knows this one:

Over a hot summer evenin on a train for nowhere jumping, I met the player; we were both too tired to sleep. Thus, we were caught exceeded rotations starin the window with blackening with the trouble and started to him outside to speak.

He said, wire, Ive cultivated a life readin faces of people outside, and knowin that its charts were him besides, held its eyes. Thus, if you do not worry about my sayin, I can youre ate to see outside. For a taste your to give sick to Whiskies you some councils.

2) And this one, minus a few obvious lines:

feet in engagements of the loves, in Thy our voices hear, we meet us to ask, a god defend our free country. The Pacific of triple protection star, of the waves of the polemic and the war, it which forms praise which is heard remote

3) a personal favourite of mine:

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Ho hum

I'm just at work. I like my job and my laptop. I'm enjoying music from someone else's itunes library. Does anyone know how to "right click" on a mac laptop? I only have one button to click. I was gonna put a picture in here but I don't know how to "right click" to save it. I was supposed to be teaching the school administrator how to use the new coffee machine this afternoon but that has been moved till tomorrow, which makes today shorter but makes tomorrow longer. I'm quite looking forward to it. I miss making coffees. I made the chocolate fish (Azucena's signature drink) at worship team potluck last week, it was a lot of fun. One day when I have my own house I'm gonna buy a coffee machine just so I can make espressos for all my guests, and hot chocolates for myself.

Music: Baiterspace - Projects (Album: Baiterspace - B.E.I.P) Apparently this genre is 'industrial'. Interesting!

Quality Time

Well, it is university holidays now. Kat and I are home alone, Jo went home to Pleasant Point to snow and no power, Liz flew home to Boulder on Thursday to hot weather and air conditioning. So Kat and I have been enjoying some quality time. We went to the movies on Friday night, 'The Breakup'. My recommendation is to wait for the DVD, it's alright, a bit slow though, most of the funniest stuff, you've already seen in the trailer.

We went to the farmer's market on Saturday morning, mmm, bacon buttie and truffles!

We had dinner with Olivia and Glen on Saturday night and dinner at Tom's last night.

Monday is such a let down and I managed to leave half the stuff I need for my second job at home, good one.

Music: A book on CD - Michael Moore: Stupid White Men