One of those days

One of those weeks even, weird mix of ups and downs.
So.

Monday I was sick and tired, literally not figuratively. Stayed at home, did bugger al, couldn't really concentrate on much at all.

Tuesday, just another day ending in y, the only thing of any note was that I received another Christmas present for my sweetness. I think that's everything that I've ordered so far so it's looking good.

Wednesday, not too bad a day at work, was still glad when it was over. wednesday night I went to salsa practice with my sweetness and V. V was crazy happy again as usual, she was rather happy with her Bday presents, a fine selection of carefully selected $2 gifts from whitcoulls and a weird little birthday card that said something to the effect of 'may each year be a feather on the glorious chicken of life' very weird, kinda funny.

Salsa practice was better than last week, we went over what we'd learnt again and I picked up some of the moves a bit better than last time and then when we got on to the partner moves that we hadn't done before, I wasn't too bad. They were pretty easy but I think I did ok. V and Miss C seem to think so, so it's all good :)
Next Wednesday is the 'point of no return' where we have to commit to doing the Cuba St Carnival or not. I'm a bit apprehensive but I'm thinking I will. It's all good fun.

And today has been a mixed bag, woke up tired, my own fault, didn't get enough sleep.
It's actually improved as the day has gone on, and it's going to be even better tonight because i gets to see my sweetness again. Don't quite know what we're doing yet but I don't particularly care, as long as we're together it's all good.

Tomorrow! tomorrow afternoon is the work Christmas party. We're all off to syn bar for beer, pizza, and pool.
It should be a laugh, at least there's pool there, work is paying, and it's not work.

Well that's a short post, not particularly interesting but I thought it was about time to post, got to keep in the habit of posting.

TAFN readers, hopefully something a little more interesting tomorrow so stay tuned.

TGIF

Well last night my sweetness came round, we said hello and then we were off, me nursing a chocolate cake and her weaving through traffic :)
We went and saw V at her dad's menswear store out in lower hutt and she was as happy as a hyper asian jumping thingee. She's a laugh and Miss C's best friend. They're quite a pair when they're dancing, or drinking, or anything together :)
Then we said our goodbyes, leaving her jumping up and down behind the counter, smiling like a cheshire cat. We went to Queensgate and looked for clothing for my sweetness, found a top that looked nice but wasn't any good when on. Dissapointing but you never know till you try.
We got some tank juice and walked around the mall for a little more. Then we left and drove home.
The sky and water were FREAKY cool.
We hung out a while, talked, about the craziest stuff, as usual.
It was a nice evening.

Then come today and I've been in training all day and poor Miss C has been in HELL all day.
She's working with people who don't follow the basic concepts of their faith and are generally just crappy people some times.
She's also had a metric f**k-ton of work on her plate so has been busy too.

She's coming round tonight and I hope I can cheer her up again

Right now I'm going to finish my lunch, and yes, it is 4.35......

Smoke and mirrors

I have a vivid imagination. My subconscious can do all sorts of weird and wonderful things with that imagination as well. Most of the dreams I remember are very vivid and if not crazy then at least strange.
I had a dream last night that was so vivid that when I awoke to find it was never actually real, well, it put me in a funk.

The dream.
I could go into long boring detail on it but just the gist should suffice. I dreamt that I won a competition and the prize was an all inclusive round the world trip, all expenses paid kinda deal. You know, once in a lifetime thing. It was brilliant, I got the phone call and was flabbergasted, exhilarated and SO excited. That's about all I can remember from it now in the waking hours but believe me, that was enough.
When I woke up to the harsh light of reality it was a bit of a kick in the guts.
I think I half woke up at some point this morning and because I didn't quite wake up properly, I BELIEVED that I had won. I think that's what's made it quite so crappy.

So yea, I woke up to the disappointment of not having won my trip.

Then on the way into work on the bus, some stupid old lady randomly starts shoving me (well before we're even near a bus stop LET ALONE come to a stop) and when I tell her that if she'd only looked behind her she would have seen there was a door RIGHT behind her without several people standing in front of it (as was the case on her trek to the FRONT door) she got all shity.
I ended up just letting the stupid cow make her way to the front of the bus, disturbing everyone in her path, sound in the knowledge that at some point she would probably be snuck up on in a field, while sleeping, and be pushed over (as most cows do at some time in their life). Cow tipping, it's a fact of life for stupid cows.

Then when I get into work I'm accosted after only just starting a conversation with my sweetness.
Not the best start to the morning.

I can however say that I have started to perk up, mainly after reading my girls blog :) It was really nice :)

So, onto the events of yesterday

Work was fairly uneventful so I'll negate that, no one really wants to hear about what I do at work, not even me!

At lunchtime I walked down Lambton and met up with my sweetness to go buy cookie cutters (of all things!). We went to the Kirks Christmas store and Miss C purchased her ornaments (as is a Christmas tradition of hers :)
After that we checked out Country Road to see if there was anything worth using a 30% off voucher on, turns out there could be but I find myself constantly asking the question "but do I need it" and it was a case of, well, not really.
We went into Farrys to check out their suit sale and there was a really nice pinstripe suit that I tried on, very sharp, but again it was a $700 suit that I don't REALLY need at the moment (even if it was really really nice)
We parted ways but it left me happy having seen my girl in the middle of the day. It really brightens up a mundane hump day I tells ya.

After work we had the first salsa practice for the Cuba St Carnival. It was interesting to say the least. I started getting the hang of the moves but when we started doing it all from memory I started butchering it up at the end. I think I need some more practice before I'm ready to do it in a carnival. My sweetness seems pretty happy to practice with me so that's all good. She even said she has the music, bonus :D

So tonight my sweetness and I are going to surprise Miss V with a cake 'n flowers, sounds like a nice idea to me :)
Plus I've been invited to her BDay party on Sunday so I can accompany my sweetness :D

Perking up already.

Right, back to work people, nothing to see here
Move along.

Cyanide and Happiness

The Children of Man, or 'Manchild' if you will

So we went to The Children of Man last night and it was a great movie.
It was all about humanity, 20 years from now, a bleak future where women have become infertile and the world is pretty much left in ruins and the degrading society that lives in it is fast running out of time in a self destructive spiral of despair.
Basically there's one pregnant woman left on earth and she's pretty much 'a modern day miracle' and these people are trying to get her to a drop off point for a group called 'The Human Project' who are going to whisk her away to safety and save humanity.
It's a great movie, with some dark humour and some great acting. A very engaging movie that we both really enjoyed. It wasn't a movie where you were sitting through parts waiting for something good to happen, it gripped you from the begining and you were watching it all intently.

After the movie Miss C came back to my place for a little while for a cuddle and random conversations (2 of the things we do best) and then left so she could get to bed at a respectable time for a monday.

A great evening if I do say so myself.

It's a beautiful day out there today, I might try to get the tire changed on my bike and go for a ride this afternoon, it's certainly nice enough for it.
Other than that I have nothing but painting planned for this evening. My sweetness is going to accompany her V to Scopa for dinner. It's actually just an excuse for V to perv on the hot guy who works there but we'll just keep that on the down low ;)

Time waster for the day

Here's today's time waster. A missile game where you have to guide it through a tube and there are rotating gates you need to aim it through. Kinda addictive.

What's better than going to see a movie?

Going to see a movie for free of course!

So the weekend was pretty damn great. I spent all of it, from Thursday evening even, with my sweetness. We had her flat all to ourselves you see so it was nice to just
play house and have a very relaxing weekend.

Friday night was great, we did a bit of late night shopping at Jonsonville, I picked up a pair of pants and a shirt and Miss C picked up a couple of very nice tops. After that we went and got some supplies for the weekend ahead, we were on a bit of a health trip so it was mostly just healthy stuff like peanut M&M's, gourmet jelly beans, choc milk, you know, really healthy stuff. Then on the way home we got Chinese takeaways and they went down a treat. We watched When Harry Met Sally, a classic which Miss C hadn't ever seen. It finally gave her some reference to the whole 'I want pepper on my poppycosh' line, not that I think it's really any clearer. Just as well I never used the 'I would like to partake of a piece of your pecan pie...

Saturday we went out to Petone for some shopping and brunch. We brunched at Caffeind and had bacon and eggs. We both really enjoyed them and I got inspired by some of their paintings they had on display. They've often got some really nice art pieces on display there that you can peruse at while munching on some foods.

After brunch we went to Briscoes and then for a perusal of Davis Trading.
After THAT we went out to Farmers on Cuba and checked out the new Illicit store, kind of cool, not quite as cool as the Christchurch store though.
No sooner had we gotten back from that little excursion that I got a TXT from the X saying I could go round and pick up Audrey. We raced on back into town and picked her up and dropped her back at my place, all cozy like :)

When we got back to Miss C's she taught me some more salsa moves, I picked them up reasonably quickly but was still feeling a bit self conscious to go to the salsa ball with her that evening. It was fun practicing with her any way :) and now I knows a few extra moves ;)

That evening my girl prettied herself up (and boy was she looking pretty) and left to go dance up a storm.
I stayed behind and watched the tube, painted a little, did some stuff on the puter and generally veged out.
It was 12 by the time my sweetness got home and we had both had a fairly good evening, made even better to the fact that both of us were looking forward to the fact that we'd be falling asleep in each others arms again.

Sunday was a particuarly lazy day, we didn't get out of bed till late and then sat on the couch with the left over food (and some FABULOUS sweet chilli bread from Brumbies) and watched Breakfast at Tiffany's.
We both laughed at the chased kisses and the 'old school' humour.
It was great.

Then the 'other' flatmate came home so we departed for my place. We sat there for a little while and said our goodbyes and then she went home. We both did some washing and other fairly mundane things, both painted a bit more, wound down in anticipation of the working day that waited just around the corner.

And after a short sleep, the brings us up to the here and now.

I managed to sneak out of the office just before 11 to pick up some free tickets to a preview screening of 'Children of Men' tonight for me and my sweetness. Looking forward to it as it looks like it could be a great movie :D

And now I'm here, typing up this entry.

Dad just messaged me before saying 'something's happened' and for some reason my mind just started expecting the worst, someone's been in an accident, something like that. Turns out the something was IE opening new windows as tiny little screens rather than normal windows. Meh.

And that's all for now, will write up a little review of the movie tomorrow, hopefully it will be a rave review.

Getting close to lunchtime and I feel like I need it.

TAFNR

Always and for Evermore, yours

Well my sweetness and I went to the Evermore concert at the San Francisco Bathhouse last night and it was Awesome.
Pluto opened for them but surprisingly enough they weren't all that shit hot live. The lead singer looked like he was high on acid, his eyes were trippy and his hand gestures were a little too much even for a freak-deaky stage performer.
They cleared off and then about half an hour later Evermore were on stage.
I have to say, they ROCKED.
They are excellent live and in such an 'intimate' setting as the Bathhouse, it was great.
It was all the better for being there with my girl, and EVEN better that she was well enough to enjoy it :D

She then came back to mine and we talked for a while, ears ringing and all.
It was after 12 when she finally left to go home and then it was after 1 when I eventually nodded off.

So as you can imagine I'm a little tired today, a little fuxxy (no that's not a typo...)
I got some nice things for lunch to make myself feel a bit better, I'm sipping on a happy juice right now but I'm still pretty out of it.

I had another delivery this morning and I had no idea what it was. Turns out I did a pre order of a bunch of games like a YEAR ago (must have been drunk) and one of them came out today! I quickly sent through an email to cancel any others.
Luckily enough it seems to be a good game and has gotten rave reviews. Would have preferred that it hadn't happened this close to Christmas but hey, a game's a game ;)

It's taking a turn for the worst outside, the wind is picking up, there's drizzly rain coming down, but hey, I'm not complaining. It didn't rain on us last night while we were waiting to get into the concert so it's all good :) Lemonade moments and all that.

There's a comfy couch out at reception and I keep telling them they need to order a nice big LCD tv to mount on the wall so I can just sit out there and watch TV or something other than work.
I don't think they're listening to me! how rude....

Bambi? no stupid, the other Dear

My poor sweetness isn't feeling so hot still :( she's stuck at work feeling awful.
Thing is, she works in a place where the people 'should' be nice people to work with, they're God's children you see. But it turns out they're a bunch of, well, for fear of retribution from above, 'poo heads'.
Don't get me wrong, there are some nice people there, they're few and far between but there are some there. It's just the majority that are either self obsessed power freaks or ignorant asses.
I hate it that she's treated so badly in her job.
It makes me angry.

What ever happened to the whole 'treat others as you would have them treat you' part of BEING HUMAN?
I walk down the street and clash shoulders with people because they're completely blocking the footpath and there's no where else to go. When did people stop being at least civil??

I have to stop this post now before it becomes a rant about how fucked up things are in the world
I'm not in a happy mood.

When life throws you lemons...

Throw them right back at the bastard!

Well I haven't blogged in a fair few days now so updates you shall have. Mmmm, chewy delicious updates.

Thursday night we went out to Lower Hutt to look at glasses, there wasn't a better range than in town so I will get them this week. On the lemonade side however we did manage to get Miss C some new walkin' shoes. They're all white and very nice. We even got some socks, well Miss C got me some socks, sweet girl that she is. And they're really great too! like walking on soft white puffy little clouds :D

So the weekend ended up being quite good. The picnic that was planned was a bust, but the lemonade side of it is that I ended up with my sweetness in my room, all alone eating picnic foods and watching a funny movie.
My room with my sweetness is my favourite place to be bar none. No, scratch that, me with my sweetness anywhere.
She even went away and then came back again. It was nice :)

Monday was OK, pretty uneventful my poor girl had to go home halfway thru the day because she was feeling rotten. Poor girl is still not 100%.
The lemonade side of it however is that she has finished her mum's painting and has started on another Gir pic which I can't wait to see :)

Yesterday I was in training all day, got to txt my sweetness a little at lunch but apart from that it was all Sharepoint Services and bla bla bla.
I got home and ate my lunch (didn't eat during the day 'cause I just didn't feel like it)
I then got online and chatted with my girl, only most of the chat revolved around my ex in one way or another.
The lemonade side of it is I started on a Gir painting while I was chatting with her and I think it's coming along really well.

I went to bed, tossed and turned, and here I am now.

I'm hoping today will improve, we've got the Evermore concert to go to tonight, I'm hoping that will cheer us both up a bit, I hope my sweetness is feeling better by the end of the day so she can enjoy it.
Lol, I read her blog from last night and it turns out that her friend V told her that she'd go to the concert with me if she wasn't up to it. Apparently she noted a predatory tone to it. Hehe.
If my sweetness wasn't up to it I think I'd be giving away the tickets to someone else and be going round to cheer her up. Yes ladies and gentlemen I loves her that much.
Anyway, I have to get back to work now, well actually I have to reboot my pc and THEN get back to work.

Come to think of it, what are you doing reading my blog? shouldn't you be working right now too?! don't you have anything better to be doing?
No?
Oh, OK then :D

TAFNR

New words and terms for 2006

I know this isn't really a proper blog post but I thought them too funny to let you all miss out on.



TESTICULATING.

Waving your arms around and talking bollocks.



BLAMESTORMING.

Sitting round in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.



SEAGULL MANAGER.

A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.



ASSMOSIS.

The process by which people seem to absorb success and advancement by sucking up to the boss rather than working hard.



SALMON DAY.

The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die.



CUBE FARM.

An office filled with cubicles.



PRAIRIE DOGGING.

When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on. (This also applies to applause for a promotion because there may be cake.)



SITCOMs.

Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What yuppies turn into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids or start a "home business".



SINBAD.

Single working girls. Single income, no boyfriend and desperate.



STRESS PUPPY.

A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.



PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE.

The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.



ADMINISPHERE.

The rarefied organisational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the "adminisphere" are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve. This is often affiliated with the dreaded "administrivia" - needless paperwork and processes.



404.

Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested document could not be located.



OHNOSECOND.

That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake (e.g. you've hit 'reply all')



GOING FOR A McSHIT.

Entering a fast food restaurant with no intention of buying food, you're just going to the bog. If challenged by a pimply staff member, your declaration to them that you'll buy their food afterwards is known as a McShit with Lies.



AEROPLANE BLONDE.

One who has bleached/dyed her hair but still has a 'black box'.



AUSSIE KISS.

Similar to a French Kiss, but given down under.



BEER COAT.

The invisible but warm coat worn when walking home after a booze cruise at 3am.



BEER COMPASS.

The invisible device that ensures your safe arrival home after booze cruise, even though you're too drunk to remember where you live, how you got here, and where you've come from.



BREAKING THE SEAL.

Your first pee in the pub, usually after 2 hours of drinking. After breaking the seal of your bladder, repeat visits to the toilet will be required every 10 or 15 minutes for the rest of the night.



GREYHOUND.

A very short skirt, only an inch from the hare.



JOHNNY-NO-STARS.

A young man of substandard intelligence, the typical adolescent who works in a burger restaurant. The 'no-stars' comes from the badges displaying stars that staff at fast-food restaurants often wear to show their level of training.



MILLENNIUM DOMES.

The contents of a Wonderbra, i.e. extremely impressive when viewed from the outside, but there's actually naught in there worth seeing.



MONKEY BATH.

A bath so hot, that when lowering yourself in, you go: "Oo!Oo!Oo! Aa!Aa!Aa!".



MYSTERY BUS.

The bus that arrives at the pub on Friday night while you're in the toilet after your 10th pint, and whisks away all the unattractive people so the pub is suddenly packed with stunners when you come back in.



MYSTERY TAXI.

The taxi that arrives at your place on Saturday morning before you wake up, whisks away the stunner you slept with, and leaves a 10-Pinter in your bed instead.



PICASSO BUM.

A woman whose knickers are too small for her, so she looks like she's got four buttocks.



SALAD DODGER.

An excellent phrase for an overweight person.



SWAMP-DONKEY

A deeply unattractive person.



TART FUEL.

Bottled premixed spirits, regularly consumed by young women.

bEatch

The lyrics 'Don't know what you got till it's gone" ring very true for some people. Not me, I know exactly what I've got and I ain't giving it up for anything or anybody.
It seems though that my ex isn't in the same boat.
I got a few emails from her yesterday and they basically involved telling me that just because I'm happy in my current relationship (absolutely and completely happy) doesn't mean it's going to last and that *we* (yes, that's exactly how she typed it) had good times together as well.
Basically she laughed at my relationship and made it seem like she wanted me back.
To make a long story short I told Miss C (just because I have nothing to hide from her and we pretty much share everything) and she was understandably miffed.
This girl (the ex) has never met Miss C but thought it appropriate that she pretty much insult her. Without cause, without warrant.
It definitely seemed like she's wanting me back. No, scratch that, not seemed, I'd say it's pretty certain. She was about as blunt as a bic razor.
I don't know quite what she thought she was going to accomplish by insulting what I have, how could anyone think that would make someone want them back?
Basically it really annoyed me because it really did get to my sweetness and I don't like it when anyone upsets her.
Her flatmate is a dick as well.
He flat out accused her of stealing $40 from his wallet. They've been living in their flat for 2 years and she has never been anything but a wonderful flatmate to him and then he turns around and does that.
He's a f**king dickhead.
If anyones a thief in their flat it's him. He's constantly helping himself to her stuff. The weedy little git.
It makes me mad.

Enough of that though, screw these little people who try and make the world revolve around them. We know better.
The world is not flat.
The Earth revolves around the sun, not an individual person (unless that person were standing on the sun but then again the surface of the sun is liquid magma so that doesn't really make sense. It's also too hot of course...)
And a witch does not weigh the same weight as a Duck (contrary to some Monty Python believers)

So after work last night I went and got my hair cut, back down to a nice short length, I like it that way, much more manageable. I also got more product. I had run out and the 'backup' stuff that I have is crap. It's some organic rubbish that has about as much effect as putting your head under the tap.
The hairdressers at George Jannis are a laugh. Ivor is growing a mo for Movember and for Prostate Cancer Awareness. The girls were giving him shit saying he looked like a Pedophile. There were comments like "Oh I don't worry about Ivor any more, I'm too old for him. Yea, I'm more than 12 ;)"
Ah good times.

After the haircut I walked towards Courtenay Plc. While walking there I saw Lisa and Rodney's car pull up at a red light. Rodney hadn't seen me so I crept up beside the car and quickly opened the passenger door. Rodney had a rather bemused look on his face, he didn't quite know what was happening for a second. That was some fun.
The as I walked through Manners Mall I realized that I hadn't gotten a Big Wednesday ticket so I went to get some money out.
While I was standing at the cash machine I got kicked in the back of the leg. I turned around to see Stu standing there with a smirk on his face. Talked and walked with him then went and got a Big Wednesday ticket. It was up to $10 million dollars PLUS all the extras! man, that would be the ultimate.

I leisurely walked to Courtenay Central where I met my sweetness in Whitcoulls.
We went off and had kebabs for dinner. They were good, haven't had one in ages.
Then it was off to the Ballroom for a few games of pool. I still had a loyalty card for a free hour so we didn't pay a thing.
We had a few good games, we're surprisingly even which is REALLY nice. I hate it when one person is good and the other isn't quite as good. You know that only one of you is REALLY enjoying yourself.
Her stupid flatmate called while we were playing, his stupid bike stopped working and he needed C's toolkit out of the car. The guy's an ass, he didn't ask if he could please come and borrow it or anything like that, he was just 'i need it'.
The guy's just an insensitive jerk and a dickhead to boot. Enough of that tho.
Luckily he had a key for her car so we didn't have to see him and left him to it.
I had a nice big hug with my sweetness in the Ballroom, she obviously needed it and I'm more than willing to show my affection for her whenever, where ever.

After our free hour we called it quits and retired to my place where we snuggled and reaffirmed that we still love each other very much. After the day's events my poor girl needed cheering up so I made sure she knew just how much I love her.
By the time she left for the evening I think she was quite reassured that she was the only girl I want and that my love for her is endless.

I kissed her and saw her off at the door and then I went and made today's lunch before I went to bed.
I drifted off quickly and slept like a baby all night.
It was 12.30 before I got to bed last night so I'm a little tired today, I've put a couple of happy juice's in the fridge so I should be set.

And that brings me to this morning.
I'm sitting at my desk, messaging my sweetness and finishing this post.

I'm having an eye exam at 10 to see if I really do need glasses and then depending on wether or not I need 'em, I'll be going out to the hutt to have a look at frames at the big opsm in the new mall with my sweetness.


I like Thursdays.
Especially ones where I gets to see my love again :)

Hump Day!

Welcome to Hump Day ladies and gentlemen, at lunchtime today you will begin the smooth descent towards the weekend. And I for one will be quite happy to see the weekend again, she's always treated me well.

So yesterday I met up at lunchtime with my sweetness and we went and look at some glasses. Turns out 99% of the glasses in the '$299 package deal' are all crap. They look like old nanna glasses!
There were 2 pairs of glasses that would be good, the best of which were Calvin Klein (who knew!) but they were $350 just on their lonesome. and there I was thinking I would get away with some cheap glasses, nope, sorry to burst that bubble.
Thank goodness Thursday is payday, although 99% of that will be going towards paying bills, my AMEX and the like. The next 2 weeks are going to be a bit threadbare. Just as well I've already bought the tickets for the Evermore concert! :D
I can't complain though, I have gotten a fair few Christmas presents etc so it's all good.
At least (with any luck) I won't be broke over the Christmas period so that's ALL good.

I even got to see my sweetness after work! :D
She came round and we snuggled all evening. I must say, we are very compatible kissers, that is, we like the same things in a kiss, so it's always been rather good even if I do say so myself ;) But the thing is, we've been together over 4 months now and the kissing is STILL spectacular. Last night was no exception. I love that.
I've never gotten quite so much enjoyment out of just lying there with someone, kissing.

Then at about 10.40 my sweetness snatched up the pool cues for tonight and raced home to bed. I made my lunch for today and then drifted off to sleep.
I had a rather weird dream last night, I dreamt that I was a teenager again (i think) and I was fighting with my sister and Dad told us to stop (i think) and one thing led to another and Dad and I had a fight. It was all my sisters fault (no it really was! shut up! I'm telling this dream!) and it caused a big rift between me and my dad. Very weird, not very nice, it even woke me up. Oh well, I'd mostly forgotten that by the time I woke up this morning and I'm feeling pretty good really.

On with the day!

If this were the 1930's, I'd be a raging homosexual!

Yes well last night I was at a loss for things to do so I ended up being domestic and did some ironing and cleaning, hence the title of this post. If it were the 1930's I'd be knee deep in butt sex and leather. Or something like that....
Anyway, moving right along.....

I am now set for the rest of the week, I've got nice clothes ironed and at the ready. I have a fairly busy week too. Today at lunch I'm hopefully going glasses shopping with my sweetness. Yes, I think I may be long sighted so I think I might need glasses for working on the pc and stuff like that. I guess I'm just getting old huh.
I've got an appointment on Thursday to have me peepers tested so I'll know then. Figured I might as well get it all over with while OPSM have their $299 exam frame and lenses deal going. I also have a $100 voucher so that makes it a little more easy on the pocket.
And then tomorrow I have a hair cut. It's getting long again and I've run out of hair paste so it's pretty good timing really.
Tomorrow night I think my sweetness and I are going out for dinner and pool again :)
I think we'll try a different table this week, the one we were on last time was a bit messed up in places. Can't wait to break in the new cues a bit more :D

I even managed to get to bed at a respectable time last night so I'm not toooooo tired. I did need my happy juice at 9am on the dot, mostly to stave off a headache that was heading my way but I did need a little waking up too.

And that's me so far today, nothing particularly eventful, just a bit of a grey misty day today, things r ok at work and my sweetness is in and chatting on msn. All in all not too shabby.

Monday, Monday

Well Monday has rolled around again and the weekend dissapeared all too quickly. Friday night was a quiet night in with Miss C.
She came round with a surprise for me. She'd been feeling down all day and thought she had been taking it out on me (which she really hadn't) so she gave me something that was meant to be a Christmas present. I got some DKNY cologne, it's really nice, a bit 'sweeter' than Jean Paul but I think I likes it even better. She also picked up some Lanyards for me which are part of a Christmas present I'm organising which was just the cherry on top for me :D. I felt bad so I gave her a couple of things I had as Christmas presents. It was a great evening of gift giving :D.
For dinner we got's our favourite China Grill takeaways, Chic Fli Lice wid Sweet n Saar Pok and some won tons on the side. It was a glorious meal accompanied by the movie "The Benchwarmers" which actually turned out to be much better than I expected. It was a good evening followed by bouts of falling asleep.

Saturday was good too. Miss C had picked up yet ANOTHER thing for me, a box of Fraise. At $10 a bottle I thought it was a pretty sweet deal really. After a lazy start we drove round to L&R's to drop off some fireworks, wine n old clothes, oh and to see the olds and Little A too of course ;)
That was a nice lazy afternoon, we sat around, there was a lot of talking about nothing in particular.
We then came home, went to the boat and then all walked to Satay Kajang for some Malaysian for dinner.
One of these days I will learn not to order the satay, rice n roti combination. It never EVER all comes at the same time. This time I got roti and rice, which by themselves isn't a very appetising meal, and by the time the satay came out they were cold. Never mind, it was still good and filled me up nicely. Little A was entertaining with his Mee Goreng, stuffing them into his mouth with both hands.
We then all walked back to the boat for drinks and fireworks.
The display this year was really good, especially the finale, it looked like a giant willow tree. The explosions were great and the lights were amazing. It was especially nice to be cuddled up next to my sweetness while watching them.
We then retired home and got an early night, a couple of nana's we are.

Sunday Miss C had to go up to Palmy to go through all her stuff as her parent's are moving. It took her a lot longer than she anticipated but it's all done now. She also picked up some stuff from Ezibuy for me which was great :) she's very good about things like that, always offering, always wonderful really.
For me Sunday was a day of getting nothing much done.
I kept touching up the sky in my painting, did some laundry, plated some GTA: SA but that was about the sum of things.
Miss C came back round after she'd driven back from Palmy, we snuggled and that was the way my weekend ended.

So yea, not a very productive weekend but for the most part very enjoyable.
Is it bad that I'm looking forward to the next weekend already? It's only just gone 11am and I'm already wanting the week to be over. Oh dear....

I got into work this morning, tired and without my savory scone from NW, I think someone was as tired as I am and hadn't done the baking on time this morning.
I got a nasty headache just after getting in too, I think I'll attribute that to the absence of my scone.
Damn you hung over NW bakers! Look what you've done!
At least the bakers at NW Thorndon got their act together and my sweetness is munching down on one as I type.
I think I need an apple....

Fireworks go Boom, Big Bada-Boom!

Its friday, it feels like it's a few days late but hey, it's finally here so it's all good.
Last night was good, worked late and went and met up with my sweetness, had some really nice satay for dinner. I had been craving rice and it hit the spot nicely
Then we went out and christened the pool cues. They're a real nice cue to play with, just the right weight I think. We had some good even games but then it kind of fell to pieces, I wasn't feeling it and poor Miss C started getting a sore tummy so we called it a night.
We went back to my place and just cuddled up on the bed.
All in all not a bad night apart from the sore tummy.

And now it's Friday with the fireworks to look forward to tomorrow. That reminds me, better get my fireworks tonight or risk missing out! I likes to stash mine for Boxing Day and let them off up at the farm :)
Good times, good times

Apparently my Sweeter than Chocolate girlfriend found another Christmas present for me last night, and it's already been wrapped! Exciting, I can't wait to see what it is :D
She's already gotten one of hers because it simply couldn't wait but the rest are going to be a surprise :D
Speaking of surprises she's just logged back onto MSN :D

Lol, Paul the librarian came round and we were talking about Dr Evil, so I went online and found the "Dr Evil Soundboard" and started playing out phrases loudly, it was great, everyone was cracking up.
Ahh, definitely a friday...

There's this teeny tiny spider I found on my desk this morning so I took a picture of it and blew it up. I then started showing it to people saying 'look what I found on my desk this morning" and they're all like "Oh my God! where is it?! is it dead?!"
I swear, sometimes it's just tooo easy...

I found some really good nude pictures on a drawing website that I'm going to print off at lunchtime so I can start drawing them. I would like to get better at drawing people, especially faces hands and feet so I figure it's a good place to start :)
I also won a auction on trademe the other day for a drawing book from the London School of Art so that should help as well, all 250 pages of Londonie goodness.

Well hows that for a bitsy post, little snippets of nothing of much substance.
Never mind, it is Friday after all.

Sultans of swing and Sharks of pool...

Well today didn't start off the best, woke up tired, could have stayed in bed all day really, well maybe if I had woken up with someone next to me I could have...

It was a kind of Bleh morning as well, groggy in the head, trouble concentrating on something, yes I know, sounds like any other workday but no, a bit heavier than that.
But it's after lunch now and things are looking better. I've had lunch, watched a bit of 'Flightplan' on my MP3 player and feel a lot better than I was this morning.
I've installed and had a little play with Scorched Earth #D, an updated version of a classic tank game. Adjust the height and direction of your tank's turret, set the velocity and try and nail other tanks. A lot of fun, and the new version even has network ability so you can play with other people, er, um,,, at work? ;)

I heard from Miss C that she went out to lunch with her friend and found a Christmas present for me! Yay! how cool is that!
Now I can't wait to find out what it is. Luckily there's only 50 days till Christmas so I THINK I'll be able to hold out, no promises...

Tonight me and my sweetness (screw the grammar checks) are going out for a cheap n cheerful dinner and a few games of pool, with our new cues no less!
Hopes we have some good games and that they prove a hit. They're really nice cues so I hope they improve my game ;) nothing else seems to be at the moment...

So yes, now I'm counting down the hours, waiting for work to finish so I can go off and play pool with my love. I might try and initiate a network game of Scorched Earth with Alan hehehe......

I know there were other things that I had to blog about, like my painting which is coming along nicely, my sweetness who is sweeter with every passing day and the myriad of other things that make up my waking hours but I'm still a little foggy today so I'll leave that to when I'm feeling more myself.

TAFNR ;)

Fairy Nuff

Read Miss C's post today, her Ex wants to meet to say how sorry he is that he basically treated her like crap (at least in the end. oh, and on Valentines day, oh and at least several other occasions, not that I'm pointing out that the guy was a jerk or anything ;).
Thing is, she doesn't feel like giving him the self satisfaction of telling him she forgives him and "it's all ok", which i think is fairy nuff. He just doesn't want that on his conscience only because his relationships since haven't exactly gone how he planned them and he's the one who's now left all alone (apart from a stalker that is...)
Oh how karma works some times is just priceless....

So I got the first of Miss C's Christmas presents yesterday and I decided to give it to her early. The reasoning behind this was 2 fold. Firstly, I knew that there would be plenty of times that it would have come in handy well before Christmas. The second is that I got this feeling, you see, both her and I are so in tune, so in tune that we finish each others sentences, say the exact same thing (and I mean RANDOM things, things that you wouldn't even find scripted into an episode of friends) and that sort thing. So this feeling boiled down to "Oh dear, I know she's going to be thinking the EXACT same thing". So I had to give it to her early or risk the fact that there'd be 2 of the same present sitting under the tree.
So last night, when my sweetness came round, I presented her with her first present. She opened it, having no idea what it was (she thought it was a flute hehe) and was surprised to find a collapsible pool cue and hard case :)
Now I was expecting an almost 'practical' enthusiasm to the gift but I got much more. She was really excited and had that mischievous look on her face that said "hehehe, I have a pool cue".
I liked that.
I was glad that I gave it to her early because just as I suspected, she had been looking at buying me a pool cue of my own, THAT VERY DAY even!
So that was last night, gave her a present, we had salad and teriaki pork steaks for for dinner and then cuddled up and completely forgot about the strawberries we had for desert. We ended up having something completely different for desert in the end.

So this morning I arrive to work to find 2 more packages awaiting me at reception. A gift for me and another 2 (count them people!) gifts for Miss C.
I have a feeling it's going to be a great Christmas :D

It's a beautiful day out there today too, glad I wore summery clothes today, I think I'm going to go out and sit in the sun at lunch, wonder if my sweetness wants to join me....