Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Rush

Hi all. Have been flat out and been in Auckland every week as well. Had a great weekend at home (which made a nice change) and checked out some very cool buses.

Flying to Auckland tonight, then to Adelaide tomorrow. My sister there is having her 50th party this weekend.

Update with pics after that!

Friday, March 12, 2010

Can I get some applause over here?

Oh yeah, great first four weeks with the new trainer. Not only do I feel sooooo much better, I've lost 3.4kg and 24cm. The measurement thing is new to me - but boy does it make you feel good about your progress!

Just don't tell Craig about the 2cm gone off my boobs.

Fairly big weekend planned - drive to Taupo tonight, off to the caravan show in Hamilton on Saturday, Saturday night in Rotorua and then home on Sunday.

Phew.

Work continues to be a fairly major source of stress. I reckon this is the busiest start I've had to a year for the last 10 years. And it looks like staying pretty much this way until the end of May! At least I now have a new person starting in Auckland next week to replace the one who finishes today.

Still, this isn't like the old days - I don't just live to work anymore, I work to live.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Parties and tsunamis

We've had another lovely weekend.

Went to the caravan on Friday night and woke up to a glorious day on Saturday. Walked for a couple of hours in Queen Elizabeth Park - trails we normally mountain bike. Craig is learning to use the walking poles I bought him for his birthday. We are planning to do the Tongariro Crossing at Easter, so I think they will be a great help to him.

Then Saturday afternoon we hitched up the caravan and went to Levin for a 60th. How cool to be able to take our own accommodation with us and park it on the lawn!

Woke up to a text from Mum on Sunday morning, worried about where we were - our house in Petone is only 100m from the sea, so she needed to know we were well away from any tsunami effects.

Back into the city Sunday afternoon to go to Apollo 13:Mission Control - one of the Festival of the Arts shows. It was lots of fun!

And now it is my 45th birthday and I am at home with the flu! A birthday present from my body?