The Thursday with aikido and grocery shopping

 Hi,

When I checked my pics on my phone to see what to load into the blog post, I only saw the biscuits I baked yesterday.  But given how badly I messed up with my iced latte pics with Theresa, I also checked my camera roll folder.  

Made biscuits

Hahahah.  Turns out I only took pics of the biscuits.  So all is right with the world.  Made those in my lunch break.  At least covid has given me some skills.  Nailing these hokey pokey biscuits.  They are super easy, mind you.

After work I chatted to Iona for a while.  She had PC woes.  Not that I helped.  She did say I had a calming influence - but none of my suggestions did a thing.  Even the one where I asked her to pop the machine in the freezer.  Hahah.  But after I tried to talk Iona through several things to try to get into safe mode to have a look around, it just rebooted and was back to normal.

So yeah.  Beats me what was going on.

She left to get ready for dinner out with some colleagues and I left to collect Celia and head to the last session of aikido.  The sensei was there - with some other students that have been going along for between 3 years and 1 year.  It was fun.  They are lovely people.  We did have to do a lot of dropping and rolling.  Turns out I am not so good at that.

But we did get to hold a knife and attack and defend with that.  It was wooden.  But still - kinda cool.  Celia is keen to try it out now the course has ended and she can attend some of the classes.  The dojo is very close to her house.

I might wait until AFL is done for the season and see if I can fit something in.  

Anyway - we also got cake at the end of the session that Brenda had made.  Mmmmm.  Wandered off home and dropped into Thorndon New World to get some groceries.  Home to put them away and climb into bed with Mike.

He had used the skilsaw in my absence to cut up a log of wood and the handsaw to finish off bits.  Glad to find him intact.

:-o

I'm sure it was completely safe

Right.  Time for the day to kick off.  This weekend is huge.  Mike has a half marathon on Kapiti coast and I have an AFL game.  I think Mike is going to get a PB in this one.

Have a lovely weekend.

Love,

Angela

The Thursday with aikido and what was I thinking?

 Hi,

Mike and I both worked from home yesterday.  The cats like it when that happens.

Curled in the tightest of tight balls

Sleeping next to us as we work 

The solar panel salesperson came to talk us through installing solar panels.  We got a lot of material and a quote by the end of the day.  $12k (and another $18k for a battery tower).  We will definitely think hard on this.

Artist's impression

After work I headed to Celia's place at 6.30pm to pick her up for a women's course in beginners aikido.  She showed off her bathroom.  I took a picture of her linen cupboard because it is aspirational.

Celia's linen cupboard is amazing

Celia and James are propagating triffids

Celia and I drove to the aikido dojo.  We parked in a street where we could seethe dojo across the park.  Turns out we probably were closer from Celia's house.  Hahahah

The aikido course was such fun.  It's in a dojo in York Park ( behind some houses across the road from Zany Zeus).  There would have been about 20 women, from early 20s to maybe my age.  The woman running it would be 10 years older, maybe.  Not sure.  But it was hilarious and fun.

We learned a few steps and moves and tried some rolls.  Turns out I am really quite hopeless at this.  But I might have finally got the hang of a few things.

Dropped Celia home and popped in for a cup of tea at Sally and Andrew's place.

After aikido cup of tea

When I got home, Mike was staring proudly at the new downlights in the stairwell.  They haven't worked for about 5 years.  They were really bright.

You need sunglasses in our stairwell now

I need to take the carpet up now I can see how yucky it is.  Hahah.

Weekend is coming fast.  Boot camp.  Epuni plastic work.  My eyebrows.  Then Sunday is AFL day.  Woot!

Have a great weekend.

Love,

Angela