Updating

It’s been a while since I posted here (altho I have been reasonably good on the forum at Oh Baby!). Things are OK, better with bubs than me, but ONE MORE SLEEP and I get to see bubs again. Tomorrow is the anatomy scan. I’ve been up since about 3.30 (it’s now 7.30) with a stupid cold and obsessing about the scan. Sigh. Hopefully tomorrow night or the weekend I’ll have pics for you.

The Fabulous Roger Moore

Last night at the Hilton was great – he’s so funny and witty and his wife, Lady Kristina, is great too. She must be to enable him to do all his UNICEF work, maintain the family and get the book produced. Thanks Chris – the invite is very much appreciated!

Here’s Shanee and myself with Sir Roger.

And the work do later wasn’t too bad either!

so excited!

Today’s Thursday, and in my little world today is the day I get to meet Sir Roger Moore. Which I think is pretty cool!

He’s also at our Corner store (cnr Queen & Victoria Sts, Auckland CBD) tomorrow from 4.30pm.

And the book is (I’m only on page 78 as I got distracted with Wally Lamb’s latest, The Hour I First Believed) pretty damn good. Funny and interesting and not at all back-stabbing – the sort of bio I really enjoy. And one I can safely give to the MIL for Christmas! After all, Simon is named after The Saint…she’ll love it.

a few things…

I haven’t written in a while – life has been quite busy! Simon came back to Auckland to spend last weekend with the kids and we ran around like mad things for three days solid. I even managed to (probably, according to the physio) detatch part of my tendon from my hip. OUCH! Sitting, walking and driving are all a little uncomfortable right now. I’m just glad the second car is an automatic.

Speaking of cars, I still haven’t heard from the insurance company as to if they have found my car as yet. Yes, my poor little Legnum that was damaged in June, then finally taken away in October. I rang for an update a fortnight ago and was told that the file had been closed off. So I asked what the resolution was. Sorry miss, can’t tell you. Pardon? Sorry miss, there’s nothing written down. So, can I speak to a supervisor? No miss, but I’ll speak to one for you. Ten or so minutes of stewing later, she came back online with the same answer. I rang the ASB customer helpline and vented. I have the email of one of the reps in Wellington but keep getting fobbed. I am seriously pi$$ed and once this is over, taking my business and the MIL’s away from IAG. It’s bad enough that I had to argue for several months that I had full cover insurance, to finding out that the agreed value (my bad, I never looked at the papers fully) was about four times the resale value – they tell me that I’m not important enough to warrant a loan car or repayment of any associated costs. If anyone can recommend a company please do let me know. I would really appreciate it!

I finished the cover and major interior pages of my December Daily – I’ll try to remember to post some pics. Thanks for reading!

what an awesome day


I had a GREAT day today – started off buzzing as Tuesday night I won a CD from ZM – it’s Sound of the Underground which doesn’t look too bad – some stuff to sing along to in the car as I live to embarrass my kids.

Then I found out it was my horse that came in first, so I won the office sweepstake. Becs and I ran (well, felt that way in high heels!) up to Borders Queen St and I picked up MOS Annual 2009`(Aussie version, not US or UK) which has me jumping. It was this or Coldplay’s Viva La Vida which I still don’t have. Maybe Santa can put it in my stocking, hmmm?
And Bran was still excited about the photos he took on Monday afternoon. His homework was a photo essay on Spring and it was interesting seeing one of my favourite places from his perspective. Even if I have to laugh – he whinged and moaned about going until we got there and now he’s raving about it. Even sent a collage down to his dad, but NZ Post hasn’t delivered it yet. Bugger. He took about 40 shots overall, both at Te Atatu and in our garden, learning about the zoom & macro functions. I think he did quite well!
And I got to watch a bit of history as McCain conceeded to Obama. I really do hope he makes it to inaugeration as I can only admire a self-made man. Plus he’s giving his kids a puppy. That’s sweet.

a couple of shots

 

this is on the northwestern motorway and probably offends a few – but I find it makes me smile on the crawl home from work

 

and this is from last night – Si and Wayne went out to catch some boy shoot ’em up and ordered the medium popcorn bundle. I would have LOVED to see them explain these away…still, Rach will like them!

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two things…

I’m wearing contacts today for the first time in ages and predictably they are really !#$!%$ing me off.
The Print-on-Demand facility in Melbourne can print me a copy of Clarissa in about 8 minutes (and bind it too so it looks like a normal book, not a whole lot of printed sheets like I’d get if I printed the Google pdf) – this is a week AFTER I found a copy on an internet trading site. Typical.
and I should really have been posting my “Week in the Life” updates but I haven’t even downloaded the photos. Bad, bad girl.

that was three things! Whoops!

Oh – and here’s another – this arrived yesterday. I am holding off opening it until I have updated my pages and at least started creating the album!

scary stuff

Last night’s stabbing in central Auckland is a little too close to home. We’re on the fifth floor, the girl assaulted is on the second. The building is still partially closed off and not to make light of the feelings of the victim’s family & friends, but we’re scared. The office is a lot quieter today than normal and everyone who goes out is going out in pairs.

I hate this feeling. It’s hard to be enthusiastic about anything too, even the Warriors tommorrow night and having friends over. Or birthdays (sorry Doodle, sorry Nicole).

altho if you do want to buy any Cub Cookies, drop me a line.