The Wednesday that felt like Thursday

Hi,


I know this blog makes my day look like iced latte dates are all I do during the day.  But these are from multiple days and different people.  And I don't drink coffee at any other time during the day.  So - there!  No judgement!

Wednesday morning

Sally (work Sally, not family Sally) took me to the City Art Gallery to see the Semiconductor exhibit at lunch time.  I loved it!

City art gallery - Semiconductor exhibit

Very cool

Also got away for a spontaneous coffee date with James.  Woot!  The Lab - an excellent iced latte.  So long as I hold the shot of caramel.

Yum!

With James G

Thurs morning iced latte

Did get a brekkie with Mike and Andrew this morning after the PT session.  Woot!  Finalised the weekend plans.

Bring on Friday!

Love,
Angela

The Tuesday with more packed work day

Hi,

I managed to get away for an iced latte yesterday - but didn't get enough time for lunch.  Waaaaaaahhhh!  What sort of crazy is that?

Iced latte goodness

I got home with a few groceries and the house was devoid of life - apart from two cats that were very happy to see me - and so starving.  Not been fed for weeks.  Or so they said.

I fed them.  They love me now.  They don't care about Mike or Toby anymore.  Bwhahahah!

I made my favourite salad and then lay on the couch and read.  Perfect evening.  The wind was pretty strong - so I turned up the heat pump and pretended I was in Samoa (I am reading a Pasifika author and it is set in Samoa - lots of tropical food, freshwater swims and warm evenings).

Mike got home after his session for booking duties (he is upskilling others) and we went to bed fairly quickly.  I was a bit comatose.  Toby got home and I barely woke.

Off to Spin this morning.  That was good fun.

Toby has a day off - teachers strike.

Have a great day!

Love,
Angela

The Monday back at work

Hi,

Oh - it was lovely to see Kaustubh think of us and bring home spices from India for us.  Chuffed.    I got my very own sari!  Woot!  To me it looks like the colours of the Indian flag.  So - I like that!  What a cool present.  We also ate some Indian sweets. 

Spices!

I pinged Anjali and now we have a project to tackle over the next few months.  Get the sari ready for me to wear to something.  Turns out it needs other bits and pieces (a blouse and some under-skirt thing).

Yesterday was busy, besides the spices and sari interlude.  I never even managed lunch.  :-(   I did see Toby at 4pm and we tried the chemist to see if they could tell us what was wrong with his upper lip.  Looks like a reaction to me.  But - the visit was inconclusive.  We'll keep an eye on it.

But - I did go to Spin after work and then headed home where Mike was just finishing up my dinner.  Ooohhh yeah!  I won, big time!

Went to bed and was exhausted.  Toby came home and I barely registered it.  Up this morning for Spin.  Let's see how that goes.

Have an awesome day!

Love,
Angela

The weekend with many things happening

Hi,

What a great weekend - seriously busy though.  Saturday had Toby out filming and we had the painters around finishing the outside of the house.

Our house looks so much better now.  :-)

Warren Miller - ski film!

Sunday snooze

Mike chopped down some trees in the backyard ahead of the landscapers coming in to make the backyard look prettier.  That kept him busy.

Then Toby came home with mates in tow and they had a sleepover.  Mike left to have tea with Lesley and Wally (yes, I was jealous - but couldn't  leave all those teenagers alone).  They brought me home a key lime pie.  And it was good!!!

Sunday saw a brunch at our house (I had to go get supplies) with teenagers forced downstairs while adults sat upstairs.  Sally, Andrew,, Lesley, Wally, Philippa and Dean.

Philippa stayed back with Paddy the dog and we went for a long walk around Otari bush.  Mike and I probably easily covered 10 km (maybe even more like 11 or 12 by the time we got back home).  2 hours.  Such fun!  We got to Karori cemetery and saw the 800 year old rimu tree on our way.

Walking in Otari bush

Mike, Philippa and Paddy

800 year old Rimu

Iced goodness

Went to see Warren Miller film at the Penthouse (Tessa came too) and enjoyed that.  Dropped her home, collected my bike and fell into bed!

The week ahead beckons.  Enjoy yours!

Love,
Angela

The Thursday with stuff and stuff

Hi,

Ok - I found all these pics of me having iced lattes at Machete.  Theoretically it is from Thursday.  But I really don't remember having that many coffees yesterday.

Mind you, yesterday is a bit of a blur.  Hahahah.

I think one of these is from the previous day.  Honest!

I met Mike (I think) in the morning (number 12 with scone - I will title that pic).  Andrew joined us.

Machete

Ok - this one below I have no clue.  No number so probably not Andrew.  I missed Celia all day - so not her.  But I do look rather happy with my lot in life so obviously I was happy to have an iced latte in my hand.

Machete 2

I did go out with Davy (new to work this week), Yosan and Khemry.  Woot!

Aha!  Pic above is from that!  Khemry took my pic on my own before we did the group selfie stuff.  Hahahah.  Phew.  Glad I am not going mad.

Blurry Machete 3

Machete 4

The painter is making our house look amazing!  Look!  Well, ok - it was dark.  But, I hope you get the gist.

House getting painted!

Time to get stuck in for the day.  Friday.  Whoop, whoop!  Lesley and Wally arrive tonight for a weekend getaway.  Triple whoop!  Hoping to get a brekkie date (or more) in there.

Have the best Friday ever.  And a jolly good weekend too.

Love,
Angela

The Wednesday with dinner with Roz

Hi,

What a crazy day - rinse and repeat.  Such is my life.  My back seemed to grumble a bit more that the day before.  Lucky I have an appointment later today (Thursday).

Weird photo this morning

But I was keen to taste it!

I did pick up my re-soled boots and they are great!  They are slightly different and I scuff the soles as I walk - but I will get used to that.  Yay for having them back.

I went out with Roz for dinner.  Burger Liquor.  Gayan was also down for business, so we caught up with each others' news.  It was good!

Mike picked me up from work afterwards and I fell into a comatose sleep!  Woot!

Have a great day!

Love,
Angela

The Tuesday with a Te Papa fossil lecture

Hi,

Tuesday - wow.  You came out of nowhere and slammed into me, didn't you?  Before I knew it, my working day was over and I was rushing to Te Papa for a lecture.  Woot!

Always with the fork for stirring

I was rather excited to attend a Te Papa lecture after work on "The give and take of biodiversity" and New Zealand's fossil record by Professor James Crampton.  He is a VicUni lecturer and it was a great session.  An engaged audience listening to his awesome talk.  He tried to answer some open questions that no one really knows the answers for sure.  Over the eons of geological time, there have mostly been microbes on Earth.  But in the last 20% of the Earth's entire history, we ended up with complex life forming.  And there have been quite a few explosions of life through the complex life era (along with some mass extinctions). 

I had a lot of time waiting for the bus to get home so I started to write up my notes from the talk while waiting.  :-)  Bonus time management win!

Got home and Mike was taking people through the booking processes.  So I made some toast as I was starving.  Went to get ready for the next day and Mike wrapped up his meeting.

Slept right through to my alarm.  Wow!  First time in ages.  Drove in so Mike can take his empty bottles to fill up from his brewing session a few weeks back.

Got dinner with Roz tonight - woot!

Bring the day all on!

Love,
Angela