The Wednesday with lots of work on

 Hi,

Such a busy day. I meant to go to Spin after work with Juliet but our final meeting of the day went longer than expected leaving us no time to change and run there. Waaaaah.  But it is getting into my routine again - so that is good.

New charger holder from Shane's 3D printer - not for my bike light. For our EV at home.

Shane and I enjoy the sunny morning with an iced latte

Here it is, a bit closer for you

Then Mike got me one too - I am powered by caffeine today

Mike went for a run after work then collected me from my late meeting and we went to Otto together. Enjoy beers and a burger (ok - no beer for me) and then headed home on the bus.

Evening view over the harbour

Dinner at Otto with Mike

We were in bed and asleep by about 8.45pm so I am not really sure if Mike and I have some sort of weird virus we're fighting off or not. Weird to go to bed so early two nights in a row. 

Mike was up to head to town for his PT session with Quentin and I had mine with Quentin in the garage gym.  Deads.  80kg.  3 sets x 4 reps. Felt good.

Then I had a concerted  effort to find my missing keys from my bike ride last Friday. And I eventually found them in the bag I searched first because that is where I put them. But - they were in the helmet holding part of the bag. I would never put anything tiny in there - so I never checked it that first search time.

But desperation made me just check there - and there they were.

I found my lost keys - in the bag I knew they were in but missed the first search

Thursday is a stunner here

I have not found my snapper card though. So Mike is going to buy me one today.  :-p

Off skiing tomorrow to Chc. But Toby is in bed sick today. Not sure we will see much of him over this weekend. Poor wee guy.

Have a great day. And a better weekend. Unless you are Toby - in which case:  feel better soon.  

Love,

Angela

The Tuesday with work

 Hi,

Busy week - so sorry if I've missed things.  My brain was definitely full by about 10am yesterday. Hahah. I was smashed when I got to work after gym. Quentin had said to make sure I eat. I didn't. I showered and was still jittery. Told Maureen. And she said to eat. Must be a real thing! Hahah. So I ate my lunch sandwich Mike and I got from French Kiss cart and I felt much better.

Guns by QBPT

French Kiss cart

Catch up with Gokila

Caught up with Gokila in the afternoon at the work cafe. Good to chat to her. She has a dance competition at the end of August I want to try and see. How cool is that?

Tim and Toby

Chatted to Tim at the end of the day and met his dog, Toby. Beautiful chocolate lab.

Rode home. Mike bussed home. Mike made me soup. And we were in bed not long after that. Feel much better today so goodness knows why we were both so tired.

Rode in this morning. Mike went to the gym. Big day at work for me.

Spin after work with Juliet.

Enjoy your day!

Love,

Angela

The Monday WFH and spin after work

 Hi,

Worked from home like most Mondays. The cats were happy. Got groceries delivered so that was good.

Cats in the sun

Seeing off Tenzing

Spin

Drove to Spin at 18:00 and also ran on the treadmill afterwards. Then picked up Mike from his meeting in town.

Sourdough

Got home. Baked bread. Had some tea. Watched You Tube. Chatted to Toby and Tessa. Went to bed,

Up to ride in this morning,

PT session,

Then a big working day.

Have a good day.

Love,

Angela

The weekend with date night on Saturday

 Hi,

What a whirlwind of a weekend.  Friday was so lovely - after a string of wet Fridays. Maureen was keen for a ride so after I walked into town and back for an appointment in the morning, I headed to Tetahi Bay boat sheds on the inlet and waited for Maureen.

Cats find me warm

ready to ride

She arrived bang on 12.30pm and I got her older bike ready for me to ride. And we took off anti-clockwise around the wee peninsula. Pretty flat but the path seems to have disappeared in places and it got a little sandy and loose (ok - that seemed to be just me - Maureen never even slowed up).

So ready!

View across the harbour to Sally M

Waved at Sally M across the Porirua harbour. It was such a calm day. So many people out enjoying the sunshine. After poking into some rock pools we rode up the hill to the really huge mast. Had a great view over Mana Island, Kapiti island and to the South Island.

Such calm seas

I want to jump in! With a wetsuit.

I buy Maureen a coffee because I lost a bet

Back after an hour and 10km to the car and into Tawa for a coffee at Offering.  This is where I paid out on my bet. Maureen has a black fingernail from a hammering incident and I was sure she would lose it. She has not.  Well - NOT YET!  Hahah. But the best was a month.  So I lost and bought her coffee.

Pear tart post ride treat

She thinks I should feed her

Saturday saw us up super early. Like 5am the alarm went off. Ate our porridge and drove the Subaru out to Greytown. I had to drive because we had the mini golf courses in the back and so the seats needed to be racked right forward to make them fit. Hahah.

Saturday drive to Greytown - very cold

Halfway along the park run

Greytown Park Run was so good.  0C was quite cold. But no wind or anything. I wore a merino long sleeve top, a t shirt and my running hoodie. And my tights.  I actually ran with my hoodie up and gloves on. It was just right.

Frosty

Post park run iced latte

Back to Clareville for some brekkie and coffees. Then onto Masterton where we dropped off the mini golf courses at Shane's place. We met Pepper - she is such a gorgeous dog. And then headed back to Wellington. Our quick Wairarapa adventure completed!

Bussed into town for our 3pm Float session. So nice. I am sure I fell asleep in there. All clean and relaxed afterwards and headed to Joe's Garage for some early dinner.

 

Post-Float Joe's Garage dinner

Went to see Superman at the Embassy at 18:20.  It was in one of the little cinemas below the big main screen. I really enjoyed the movie. Not the usual fare - and the most recent Superman movies have been a bit dire, I reckon. This one captured the Man in Superman and rather than the Super. Well worth it.

Uber home and into bed.

Up Sunday and Mike made me eggs while I watched an epic Women's Euro game. France v Germany. Drama! Germany down to 10 players and 0-1 down after 15 mins due to a brain fade moment where someone pulled a French player's hair in the box! Idiot. France slotted that penalty. Then in some crazy moment of brilliance Germany equalised. And it stayed like that for regulation time and into extra time. Then penalty shoot outs where the German goalkeeper was probably the biggest difference. So there you go!

Sunday garage clean out

Best save in the WEuro France v Germany game

We cleaned up some of the garage and got our ski gear ready for next weekend. Took our carpet offcuts to Epuni, ready to see if we can get that laid in the vestibule area at Polly's wee unit. Back for lunch with Sally and Andrew turned up as we ate our lunch.

Back home and Mike got a migraine in the afternoon. So he went to bed. Elly came and we did a garage session. Bench. 40kg. She is so strong.

Wally arrived to grab the Subaru for moving some furniture. Good to see him and Jason. Mike got up and headed to the James' place for dinner.

Garage gym with Elly

Moxley was so happy to have Jason's lap!

I made lemon cake

And I made lemon cake with the lemons from 40WLW. Yay! Mike got home and we ate lemon cake with yoghurt in front of the TV, watching a terrifying megavalanche mtb race. And we went to bed not long after that.

Mike made it to his Monday morning gym session - I hope he is not too woozy after his migraine.

It's Spin for me after work today. Woot!

Enjoy your day. And the week ahead.

Love,

Angela

The Wednesday with a Flight experience and dinner

 Hi,

Mike came into town after midday after he felt much better while working from home in the morning. I managed ot go for a run at lunch time with Juliet. 3k. And I was hopeless. But as Mike said, I did better than him. He ran out of time to go for a run after work - before our Flight fun.

Mike and the Flight container

Me and the Flight

All of us - and the Flight

Yes, what is the "Flight fun" I hear you ask.  These containers have been set up to give you an experience. Wellington have two - Seance and Flight. We chose the Flight one.

Mike and I had a drink at Macs - and Janine and Kara joined us.  Then off to queue for Flight.  We probably had about 12 punters. The container is set up as the inside of a plane. 3 seats along one side of the aisle. You get headphones that block all sound and they turn out the lights and you cannot see a thing.

They play a story out through very good use of sound through your headphones. It was actually quite well executed. Not as scary as I thought it might be. More of a commentary on philosophical views than anything else. Short.  In and out within 30 mins.

Went to tea  at St Johns.  Wed night is $28 for steak and chips. Kara, Janine and Mike enjoyed that. my food was good - sides of cheesy cauli and bruschetta and some crispy potatoes.

Uber home just after 20:00 and fed the cats, got ready for Thurs and went to bed. Up early for me. 5.30am. Got ready and headed into town. PT session. Bench. 52.5 kg.  Eccentric bench press. So good.

Then brekkie with the wider team. 

No friends - except Roanne was lurking just out of shot

Everyone - except Kris

Weekend beckons. Date night this Saturday.  Park Run. Float. And a movie. Woot!

Have a great weekend.

Love,

Angela

The Tuesday with dinner with Adnan

 Hi,

Tuesday - I can't keep up with the week days.  Hahah. What did I do? Worked from home to avoid pestilence at work.

Baked sourdough. Did kitty litter too. All the important things.

Sourdough

Andrew popped in after his hand checks and we had a cup of tea before driving into town. Me to meet Mike and Adnan at Otto. Andrew to meet Sally (and probably others) at Bin44.

In loc at Otto

Hey Mike and Adnan!

Saw Kate at Otto too. Good to have a quick chat to her. Then enjoyed dinner with Adnan. Grilled him about his life and work. Sorry/not sorry Adnan.  Hahahah.  Top bloke. Lucky to know someone with his head screwed on just right.

There was some sort of incident on the trains in the Hutt at Waterloo, so we drove Adnan home. Bit wet and rainy too. Then drove back and grabbed some urgent groceries on our way home.

Tucked ourselves into bed.  Up for a spontaneous gym session because Mike didn't feel well enough for it. He has since come right! I did 95kg deads with Qunetin. Oosshh. 1 rep x 4 sets. Repping next time!

And now at work. First te reo level 2 lesson s starts today! And my parents are in Barcelona. Woot!

Have a great day!

Love,

Angela

The Monday with spin after work

 Hi,

Smudge was so happy I was working from home yesterday. She spent a lot of time next to me. So cute.

Smudge sleeping next  to me

Completely relaxed

Then she moved positions

Spin

I put on some wild lamb to slow roast in the oven. 4 hours later and the lamb was still tough as an old boot. 

I went out to Spin and did R30 at Thorndon. Then did a wee run on the treadmill. Went to work and waited for Mike. He had a run and then a late meeting (juggling timezones for people in Singapore,  Sydney and Wellington). Took him home and then we tried to eat the lamb. Mike said it must have been the wildest, oldest lamb known in the country! 

Well, it definitely is not a juicy fresh lamb that somehow fell over the farmer's fence into wild lands. We are going to try to slow cook it now as a stew.

Watched some YouTube. Went to bed. Mike was up for a brekkie meeting and I did garage gym with Quentin.  Bench.  40kg 5 reps x 4 sets. Then squats.  40kg 5 reps x 3 sets.  And some adductor work.

Back to the house to shower and get ready for the day.

Meeting Adnan for dinner tonight after work. So I will drive in and park and meet them both somewhere. Maybe Otto?  :-)

Have an amazing day!

Love,

Angela

The weekend with so much happening where do I even start?

 Hi,

Big weekend. I will probably forget all the things in relaying the details. Let's see...

Friday saw me walk into town - and I avoided any rain so that was good. I went to Spin and enjoyed a R30 class there at lunch time.

Smudge moustache

Walk to Spin

At lunch Spin

This is where I made a big mistake. I shazamed a song on the spin playlist. It did not find it. So I checked google with a lyric line. Found it. Checked it was correct on Spotify.  

So far, all good. Right?  Walked to the library after spin.  In the rain. Phone screen was wet. Tried to ping Mike to see if he was around. Gibberish went through to him.

Stuff phone into my pocket.  Get to the library. It is packed. I find a good book and a spare seat and sit down. Only to hear some obnoxious person playing music softly but loud enough to hear it. Weird. Terrible taste too. Dance music. What even is that?  An older woman sat opposite me. Surely she would be cross with the person playing music?  My watch pings me. Message from Mike. I check my phone.

OMG!! It is me playing music. Spotify must have decided I needed to listen to music like the Shazam song from Spin. So I did not recognise the songs. And it was me. I was the obnoxious person. 

I stayed to read and slowly the people around me changed so no one left there knew I was a goose.

Little did I know it was not the only dork moment of the weekend.

From there I went to get a haircut and enjoyed some pampering. I was going to meet Mike after his presentation at work and possibly go out for a bit. But he got a migraine 7 mins before his presentation. So he postponed it and came and waited for me at St Pierres where a miso soup did him a lot of good.  Caught the bus home and we were in bed by 1730.

Moxley snuggles

Garage session with Mike

Up late Saturday for a garage gym session. Mike helped me try 50 kg on bench. Did not make it. But I am so close!

Maureen came at 2pm and we cooked some late lunch or early dinner.  Oh. Wait. This is where I explain my second dork moment. So.  Friday night in bed, I was wondering why Elly was keen to organise a shared trip to the rugby. I had recently bought two tickets for me and Maureen. Something was niggling at the back of my mind. I checked my inbox.  No - only had tickets for me and Maureen.

Wait. Was there a chat with Elly?  I checked that. Yes.  In April Elly asked if I wanted to go. And I said get me 2 tickets. Someone will come with me.

And I forgot.

So... I asked around. Mike was keen. And Andrew was keen. So yay!  I got punters for the tickets.  Glad the tickets with Elly were a lot cheaper than my recent tickets. She paid $43 for each of hers. And I paid $183.

:-o

Waiting for the bus

Here we go!

Wrapped up in Row Y.  

The rugby was superb. Black Ferns v Aus. FOllowed later by a bonus All Blacks v France game. Bus got us in at 4pm and it was 4.15pm by the time we got there. Gates had opened at 3.45. There was quite the queue. So we missed the anthem and haka.  But saw the first kick when Elly pulled us into the stadium at the first gate.

Watched the first half there. Then we split up to sit in our assigned seats. Maureen and I had a great view - up in the second last row. Wow!

Black ferns won handily. But not as easy as they should have.  Ruby Tui was called into the squad late to cover injury and got a try. Yay!

All Blacks were much more convincing against France. So - also yay!

Tom kindly came to pick us up from the New World after the rugby - thank you Tom. And thanks everyone for a great night and rescuing me from my ticket fiasco.

Sunday brekkie

Up Sunday for trap line day. We had brekkie on our way to get Andrew. And then met Callan at the Sunny Gr road end. Nice and early too.  Away by 9am. Mike and Callan set off to do UTS 11 - 7 and KAT 4 to 6 and I did SG1 - 8, UTS 1 to 6 and KAT 3 to 1. Andrew also set off with Mike and Callan - but to clear track on McKerrow.  

I take a photo of Mike's UTS points

View from the top

It took me a while going up Sunny Grove doing the traps by myself. 1 hour 40 to the top. I got about 4 rats here maybe? Misty at times - but no rain to speak of.

Saw Andrew clearing track on McKerrow and he suggested I got back and do UTS 1 to 6 and then come up KAT to find him. So I did just that.

Found UTS1 without much bother. Then followed pink tape and found all the others. It was wet underfoot and the stream was a little high. I got into knee deep water a few times. Bit of a log jam here and there that meant I had to climb a bit.

Found all the traps. Found a lot of rats. From UTS6 I checked my screen shot of Mike's UTS points. They did not show KAT but I could see the spur I had to climb. Started up directly from UTS6 - but it is about 15m downstream from UTS that KAT starts. I saw the pink tape off to my left as I tackled some steep wee bits. Yay!

Once on KAT it was easy going. Except I had 2 rats on these 3 traps. What!!!  And KAT2 has no grab piece. Just an eye. You have to grab the trap to set it.

A lot of dead rats

In UTS

KAT

Crown fern

Back to Andrew and I ate lunch while he chatted to a hunter and cleared more track. It looks like a different track where he has cleared. So good.

Walked back down with him. Admired the channels he has engineered too.

Mike and Callan were 20 mins behind us.  Said goodbye to Callan and dropped Andrew off and then went to charge the car at Z Vivian St.  Had my first F'real. Coffee one. Very nice.

Mike and Callan finish

My first F'Real

Monday morning wash did not work

Home to clean up. Wash clothes. Wash ourselves.  Into bed.  Mike was up Monday for gym. And checked the washing. So dirty! I took the pants out to soak. Will try again soon.

I will walk and run at lunch time. Then head to Spin after work. Yay!

Enjoy your week ahead.

Love,

Angela