The Tuesday with painting after work

 Hi,

We saw Chenda and Khemry for lunch at the Willis St food hall. And Thomas popped in and ate with us. Good to hear all the news. We really need to visit Khemry in her new house.

Home made burgers for tea

Smudge being a queen!

I rode home to feed the cats and myself and get ready for painting the final top coat on the back of the laundry. Mike was catching up with friends from his last work.

Tomatoes!

Smudge surveying all she commands

Sunrise Wednesday

Finished the 3rd coat

We got the final coat on. I think it looks much better. Mike stoated about getting things sorted before bed. Had a good sleep. Rode in for PT session with Quentin.  Deads.  82.5 kg 3 reps x 5 sets.

Will ride home after work and pack for our roadie this weekend with Toby to visit Polly in Dunedin. Sweet!

Have a great day today. Enjoy Waitangi Day tomorrow. Think about the unique partnership we have with te tiriti. And have a good long weekend if you are also taking Friday off.

Love,

Angela

The Monday working from home

Hi,

Mike got a migraine yesterday and took pain meds and came home and went to bed. Poor Mike. He's had migraines on 24 Dec, 28 Dec and now yesterday (3 Feb). Hopefully not the start of another cluster.

I did the second coat on the wall behind the laundry after tea.

Before

After

Smudge in her crate as I work

RoboMop made a bid for a great escape

 During my day, RoboMop made a bid for freedom and finally got over the lip to the deck after many attempts since Christmas.  Lucky it had no room and gave up and told me it was surrounded.

To bed early. Up for PT session. 

My bike chain was off when I started. I did not know and pedalled and jammed it in. Took ages to yank it out. Got covered in greasy muck.

Kaka watching me

So mucky

Got in. Left greasy fingerprints everywhere. Including the PIN pad for the back door. Oops. Went to the gym. Did bench on the Smith machine.  42.5kg.  2 reps. 3 reps. 2 reps. 3 reps.

I am dead.

Busy at work. Will need a bucket of iced latte.

Have a great day!

Love,

Angela

The weekend with a heap of Wellington things

 Hi,

We had such a chill weekend. Did not do park run. But, we did fill up the day anyway. And I spotted the first hard, green balls of fruit on my tomato plants. Woot!

Tomatoes have early fruit!

Goodbye my lovely bike

We took my oldest, first New Zealand bike out to Lower Hutt as Freeride was set up at a festival there. In Waiwhetu park.  The festival was T e ra o te raukura and it was fabulous.

The crew made me feel so much better

The Freeride crew were happy to take my bike. I felt quite sad to see it go. Bought it in Dunedin from the bike shop on Lower Stuart St in 1993. It does not owe me a thing. I rode it for years as my commuting bike. Until 2011 or so when I bought my white commuting bike.

We wandered around the festival. Mike was due his covid jab and got one done for nothing. And I checked mine and I was due too. So both sorted. Next to the covid stand was a blood type stand. So we got that done too.

Mike is A+ and I am O-.

Blood type

Bread

My blood type

Listening to the tunes

We did get a run in. 3k. I found it hard work. Down by Seaview. 

Back to do some renovation work. Then out to dinner at Ortega Fish Shack to celebrate Ange submitting her Masters thesis. What a mighty effort.  35k words of goodness. 112 pages or so. There were a bunch of us there. A lot from old Intergen days. And funnily enough Brendan (also old Intergen - and now new CapGemini) was at another table with his wife and friends.

Well done, Ange!

Back yard

Sunday was a slow start for me. Going to bed at midnight is not normal. Got bread into the fridge ready to bake in the evening.

Sourdough

Went for a run in Karori park. Each lap is 1km. That 3k felt a lot better. Got an iced latte after we finished. Mike did 5km and was amazing! Then popped into Shelley Bay Baker after wards to get some yummy lunch.

Mike did a lot of renovation work. Plastered. Got undercoat on and a coat of white behind the laundry. There is a green strip that is not done because it will be behind a cupboard.

Laundry plastering done and first coat on

Good sleep Sunday. Up for Mike to head to town for PT. And I went out to Resene to pick up paint to finish the laundry off.

Might be a painting evening today!

Have a great week. Short one for a lot of us. Waitangi Day is this Thursday. Last year we went up for the dawn service and I think it is safe to say, that changed my life. Similar to how the dawn service at Anzac cove also changed me. And by "changed" I just mean an even deeper connection. Both things have always been something I have embraced as a culturally significant thing in our calendar. But after attending and getting a deeper understanding, something did change.

Enough of that emotional stuff.  There is no Lewis Road iced coffee in the supermarkets again. I think after the shortage when they changed packaging recently, there has been a run on it.

On that note, let me leave you to find your own channels of caffeination!

Love,

Angela