Nice Day, Shame About the Job

What a beautiful looking day.

As I left the house this morning, and proceeded to walk up my street, I was overcome by how fantastic it all looked.
What a shame I'm now on the bus, heading to work.
Saturday was lovely, too.



Lilly and I ended up having lunch at a lovely little cafe overlooking the beach. I ordered an oven baked gnocchi, and Lilly a garlic prawn, fetta, and sun-dried tomato pizza.



We then went to the beach, saw some whales (both actual and figurative), went for a swim and a walk, bought a smoothie, and then took the scenic route home (by this stage I was getting sleepy, so I also had a nap in the car...).
It was all so beautiful that we decided to move up there in the next year.
Nice.
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Easy Mornings

Easy Mornings
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I think my little trip away last weekend has really refreshed my mind.
I don't know if it's now also because I am waking up to music again, but I'm getting up earlier than before, and having no problems doing it.
Then, to make my morning that much better, our favourite kitty was on the neighbours lawn, asking to be played with.
Things are really cool right now.
Let's hope I can maintain this positivity while I do my final assignments.

Listening to: Tool - 10 000 Days (it's been far, far too long since I treated myself to a bit of Tool. I just wish I had better headphones).
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NZ!

Hey people!
I'm currently in an internet cafe in Lake Taupo, NZ. The trip is going great. The Noth Island is totally freakin different to the South that I went to 2 years ago. I think I prefer the South to tell the truth of it. New Years was about as big a disappointment as is possible. We spent it at Mt Maunganui (sp?), and it seemed when we first arrived there that it would be a massive party. Nope. Well kind of I suppose... but not a good one. We were aware of the total alcohol ban, but we weren't aware of the fact that there are only a handful of small pubs at the Mt., and that they were all full, and they weren't near the beach anyway. There was a temporary pub open near the beach called the Sand Bar, but there was a big queue to get in, and the beers were expensive. We ended up walking around the Mt. looking for a pub for 2 hours, and then just catching a taxi back to the house we were staying at at 11:30pm. The tick over to 2006 was a mediocre event, and I was in a shit mood anyway. We did let some fireworks off, and Doug (Boggle's 1st cousin - he lives at the house we were staying at) brought out his potato canon, but I went to bed at about 1:30am, a little happier than I was at midnight, but not pleased with my New Years. So yeah... disappointing.
But Taupo is pretty, and today we are planning on going out kayaking across the lake.
Yeah, that reminds me, I wanted to go skydiving coz it's cheap as chups (haha) here. But I have to weigh under 100kgs. That fucken sucks. So we'll try and make some enquiries and see if it's possible.
But anyway, I can't stay long, I have to have breakfast and we have to go adventuring.
Post later,
Simon