The Thursday with working from home

 Hi,

Yeah - you all know when I work from home, I do not take many pics. And it was super busy for me at work on Thursday. Sigh.

Mike also worked from home. He got me some leftover pizza for my lunch while I worked through. And cooked dinner for me when I finally finished. 

He has finished the migration of photos. I can now get to every photo we have ever taken (even some film ones that have been scanned) in google. Wow. Well done. He has learned to code in Python too.

What else did we do? The valuer came around to see the house. It was in a very messy state. Oh dear.

That was it really. Work. 

Today is another work from home day. Quentin was coming to drop off the water blaster and tools - but he did that late yesterday when I was working.

Saturday might be parkrun for me. And beer mile for Mike with Callan. Hahahah. And a lot of work around the house.

Take care of yourselves.

Love,

Angela

The Wednesday that surely was Friday already

 Hi,

How long can 3 days possibly be? Why isn't it Friday already? I did see Tim at work - yay for him being back from paternity leave. We went for a coffee and exchanged news. Fair bit on each side, tbh.

The Lab with Tim

Went home with Madeleine and lifted some not-so-heavy things in the garage gym. She's been sick so we took it easy. Worked on form.

Dropped her home and heading back decided to drop into the Nepal information evening being held at work. Good to meet the other people on our trip.

Went to Bin44 afterwards for dinner. Lucky I had fed the cats already. Back home and off to bed. Up for car drive to gym. Deads for me. 92.5kg 3 x 3. Then Mike's turn. But I headed to Brooklyn to have brekkie with R.

Caribe with R

Discussed work and the looming election. Great conversation - thank you. Then back home to work for the day. Valuation person coming this morning. 

Oohhhh.

Have a great day. Surely it is Saturday tomorrow?

No?

Gah!

Love,

Angela

The Tuesday with quiz

 Hi,

After a tough day at work, it was nice to get to The Green Man for a late dinner and quiz. Ange and Angie were there - with Mike. The 3 Anges. :-D

Tied for second - but lost the tiebreaker

Final results shows us in second place

Angie was on fire. And Ange and I bounced off each other in boss mode. We ended up tied in second place, just one point behind the winning team. And lost the tie breaker. We guess 350 tube stations on London's underground. The other team guessed 242. There are 272.

Ange dropped us home and we fed the cats. I did remember we forgot to mention Moxley's adventures the previous evening. Mike let her out at 7.30pm when he did the rubbish. Set a cat timer. Smudge even went out for a wee while. Smudge came in. Mike set another cat timer. And forgot. He came to bed around 10pm. And then we realised there was no Moxley. And Mike got up, wrapped a towel around himself and checked outside.

In the freezing weather. No sign of her. Odd. He came back to get dressed and fetched a can of Fancy Feast and wandered around the perimeter of the house calling for Moxley. Nothing. I pulled a hoody on and also went out to call her. Then Mike thought to check the garage. He looked in the door window and saw her cross little face saying: why have you left me in here?

So Moxley had snuck in while he was in there sorting out the rubbish and Mike missed that. And locked her in. 2 hours in the cold garage probably wore off.

We fed the cats and went back to bed. Hahah.

Last night Moxley was happy to cuddle under the duvet below my legs. Probably glad she was not in a garage again.

Have a great day.

Love,

Angela

The Monday with working from home

 Hi,

I forgot to tell you about Floorball on Sunday morning. I went to Akau Tangi and watched Erin's daughter, Pippa, play in the NZ U19 game against the NZ women. they held their own for half the game - then got a bit smashed. Lost 7 - 3 in the end. 

Floorball was fun to watch. Like ice hockey a bit. 3 20 min periods. 5 players with a goalie. Sticks and a light plastic ball. All good fun.

Floorball at Akau Tangi

Christine came as I mentioned and picked up some of her stuff. We will see her again this weekend for the rest of her stuff.

Then Epuni to do a few things. See the new handles?

New handles on

Work was a tough gig. Mike made me a delicious dinner and we watched some YouTube. Slept much better than the might before. Yay.

Up early for bus to town. PT session. Squats 70kg 4 x 4. Bench 45kg for 1 rep.  Then 35kg 8 reps. And done.

Tuesday morning with Quentin

Bench

Brekkie with Reimer

Mike did a run on the treadmill while I was with Quentin. We wandered to Margies and met Reimer for brekkie. Good to catch up with him. He has an op to remove something from his neck soon. But he seems pretty fit and keeps super busy. Will sort out another catch up soon.

Hope your week is continuing to be awesome.

Love,

Angela

The weekend in Wellington with tramping and other things

 Hi,

I'm not sure why I can't load photos this morning. You might have to just imagine things from my excellent prose.

Friday we left later than intended for pour Friday night tramp (meetings). Callan, Zoe and Lisa had already left by the time we got to the road end with Wally and Andrew. Poor Wally had to wait for us as we tried to leave our house. But we still got to the hut in daylight - woot! Weather was good for us too. Warm, actually.

The seven of us snuggled into the hut - Zoe lit the fire inside and Callan did charcoal cooking outside. So much meat. We made venison kebabs and he had pork and beef. So delicious. Lots of coleslaw and other bits and pieces.

Kebabs

Table

Food

Beautiful meat courtesy of Callan

Unwrapping the kebabs

Chatted away for ages - well past my bedtime when I went to bed. 23:00 or so. What? I slept ok. Up lazily the next morning. Made French toast and that went well.

Tidied the hut and away by 10am or so. Andrew decided to go a different way and I went along. At the Turere bridge, we basically went straight up a steep hill to a flat bit of ground where the map had a structure. Nothing left of any building there though. The others did the Big Bend trapline and got 8 rats for their efforts.

Iced latte

Bye Waerenga hut

Crossing the river

Shoes off

In the clearing with no structure left

Part 1 of the walk - to top of KAT for lunch

Andrew and I walked up to a ridge and followed TR trapline until we hit West Whakanui. And then out via the usual route to the end of UTS. Ate some lunch above the finish of KAT. And back to the usual car park where we walked out to meet Mike coming back from Catchpool.

Off to Eastbourne for O'Malley's WOAP offering. Sally joined us for that. Then home. Wally headed away to his place. Great fun even if it was a short overnight only tramp.

Sunday saw Christine come over to chat a bit and tell us her news. She took some of her stuff out of the garage and next week will come get the rest. Then we went out to Epuni with Sally to sort out a lot of things there. Light fittings. Cleaning. That sort of thing.

Andrew joined us to help us fit cupboard handles. But we decided to do the 28 or so at home that needed a hacksaw to the right size. So to 40WLW for dinner. Hell Pizza. And then home for us.

Up Monday for gym for Mike and treadmill for me. Then met the real estate agent to get the house here on the market.

And now work.

Hope your week is a good one.

Love,

Angela

The Thursday with some comedy and dinner out

 Hi,

I had a good catch up with Celia at work - she went on a huge holiday in July to Europe. And her eldest got her learners yesterday too. Woot!

Iced latte with Celia

Mike and I went out for tea with Jessie from work and her flatmate, Alex. We went to Saigon Delights in the old Lido space. Everyone had a WOAP burger and they had an Impossible meat burger patty for my version. Good food. Good mocktail - lychee. My mother would have loved that one.

Then off to see Atsuko in her Big Bowl tour. Referencing her haircut, I believe. Supported by Ryan Harper Gray - an Aussie comedian that Jessie has seen several times. What a great event. We laughed so much. Ryan was great - they were candid and funny. Good comedy. Then Atsuko shared her brand of excellent comedy mixed with a lot of pathos - her home life is not easy. Both different yet very similar. I really enjoyed myself - thank you Jessie for suggesting this as something we could go to together. Nice to meet Alex too. Atsuko found it funny that we stomped our feet when we applauded at the end. Hahah - funny.

Saigon Delights

In the Opera House, with anticipation

Atsuko

We caught a bus home from just outside the Opera House. Home by 9.30pm. And the cats were happy to see us.

Good sleep. Up for working from home. Tramping this weekend - but curtailed. We're going in after work today and coming out tomorrow. The rain forecast to come in might get the river up and the rain is forecast to stay until Thursday. So out we come tomorrow afternoon.

That does mean we get some tasks done on Sunday - so swings and roundabouts.

We also bought that townhouse in Chc yesterday. The offer was accepted. Well done Toby and Tessa for their groundwork and Mike for negotiating hard on the offer.

We will soon really need to sell this house. :-O

Have a wonderful Friday - and an even better weekend.

Love,

Angela

The Wednesday with just work really

 Hi,

After we got home yesterday, we had some tea and watched YouTube. And I made a dough to get a loaf ready for the weekend.

Gym session - squats. 40kg 6 reps x 4 sets

Brekkie

Brekkie + 1

Off to bed and up early to run on the treadmill ahead of my gym session with Quentin. Squats again. 40kg 6 reps x 4 sets. Was hard.

Brekkie with work mates. Then to work for the day. Got a comedy show tonight with Jessie and Mike. Dinner out first for a WOAP burger.

The comedy act is a US based person - Otsuko. Should be entertaining. I will let you know.

Have a marvellous day.

Love,

Angela