The Thursday with a few things on

Hi,

Last post for a while.  Mike and I leave for a holiday tomorrow.  Woot!  So excited.  See you on the flip side.

Thursday iced latte

We needed some passport photos for trekking permits.  I had photo paper from Jessops in the UK in the closet.  Fished it out and hoped it wouldn't break the work printer.  Took a few goes to find the right tray it used.  Hahahah.  But it worked!

James is astonished my printing worked

Inception iced latte pic!

We get to finish the last minute packing tomorrow (ok - Mike has to start packing, and then finish it) and make sure things are in place for the successful operation of the house while we are away.  Toby has plans and funding in place.  And a whole heap of people ready to help if he needs it.  Mike's Mum arrives soon anyway.  It should be good for him.  Looking after the cats and getting himself off to school.

If the cats tear any visitors to shreds when they step in the door because they are starving, we'll know if Toby can handle it.  :-)

He'll be fine.

He might be living in dirty clothes - that's the only hassle.  The washing machines washes - it just doesn't spin.  So you can wash - but you need to hang out fairly wet clothes.

Hope you have a good break from my blog.  Happy birthday to Dad for when we are away.

Love,
Angela

The Wednesday working from home

Hi,

Happy birthday, Iona.

So confused with working from home yesterday.  My days are merging into a huge blend of days.  Work, eat, sleep.  That kinda thing.  Hahahah.

Was this Tuesday?  

Wednesday I got up early to go to Spin.  My favourite instructor was sick.  But still had fun with the replacement instructor.

Ok - this was Wednesday

Headed home again and waited for:

Toby to head to school
Washing machine repair people to arrive (the reason I was working from home)
The cleaners to finish (I didn't know they were coming)

When the repair people arrived, it was chaos.  And me trying to work through it all.  Actually, I have great powers of ignoring things around me.  Always have. Sometimes it isn't quite a good thing.

Lunch at home.  Yum!

What the cats do at home

The cats spend a lot of time sleeping during the day.  Because I was home, they could get outside.  In the pic above, Smudge is prowling the deck while Moxley sleeps in the sun.

Washing machine is well and truly on the blink.  They said we need to get it fixed under warranty.  So now we need to find the details and try our luck.  In the meantime, the washing machine washes, but doesn't spin.

I told Toby he'd need to take his dirty clothes and visit Aunty Sally while we are away.  He looked at me funny.  Headed off to school.

He must have ruminated on this all day as the first thing he said when he got in after school was:  I think I should walk to Karori laundromat and do my washing there for $5.

Ok.  Didn't think of that.  Probably because I wouldn't contemplate that.  Karori seems far away to me.  And $5 might wash clothes, but it won't be enough to dry them.  And carrying wet clothes all that way back home?  OMG.

Let me try and dig out the warranty info tonight!

Cooked tea for Toby and Mike hunted for his wallet. We hunted a lot.  Couldn't find it.  Found other things lost under the bed though.  Hahah.  Mike gave up and ate his food.   As I got ready for my working day, I found it.  It was in the closet on the floor.  It had fallen out of his pants as he hung them up.


Anyway - off to bed.  Slept well but 4.30am was a hard slog.  Walked in.  Gorgeous day.  The best day.  The sort that makes you want to get on your bicycle and ride somewhere.  Anywhere.

Thursday morning

Cardio session nearly killed me.  Sled push.  80kgs.  Then box jump.  x 12.  Then run.  He made me do up and back 5 times.  And told me to do it under a minute.  Then squats - with a kettle bell weight.

Three times.

As a reprieve, I got to do leg extensions at the end.  Oh - yay.  :-p

Two more days and then we're off.  Woot!

Have a great day.

Love,
Angela

The Monday with Toby sick

Hi,

Well, that was an unusual Monday.  Trucking along like normal.  Caught up for an iced latte with Andrew.  So far, so good.

Monday morning iced latte

In a meeting from 9 - 10 and got texts and a call from Mike.  Toby is sick and Mike was worried.  So I sorted out my day and headed home to look after him.

He was sick, so I made him toast.  But by 5pm he had perked up and wasn't feeling sick.  So we went for a long walk.  Talked lots.  Mike met us while we were out and about and we all walked home.

I went to bed early while the boys watched TV.

Up early and into boxing then spin.  Mike at the gym.  Toby in a much better space.  He has an appointment to talk few a few things.  Let's see what happens.

A few things on today.  Inbox has exploded.

There should be a word for that feeling you get when you close down your PC at the end of the day, and you find an open window in Outlook, with no recipients and no content.  And you go:  what on earth was I going to write?

Enjoy your day.

Love,
Angela

The weekend with exercise and rugby

Hi,

The weekend!  Oh, you were so fine.  And yet, so short.  Friday I hauled myself home after a hard week and sat like a pudding on the bus.  But the evening was ok - I didn't cook.  Yay!  Fell into bed and slept a great sleep.

Friday iced latte

Up for fundraiser session at Spin @ Habit gym.  8.30am start.  It was full.  Well run.  I had an hour booked.  I also won a spot prize - which Toby has claimed as his.  A Shoe Clinic water bottle.  He is "Shoe Clinic Man" apparently.  He says kids at school think his parents work there.

Met Mike at 10am at Quentin's group session at City Fitness.  Abs workout.  Oosshh!. 

Saturday @ The Lab

Hayden and his iced Americano @ The Lab

Off to The Lab for lunch with them all.

Moxley packed for Nepal

Started packing for Nepal - mostly.  Moxley packed herself.

Mike walks to the stadium

 Sunday was wet, wet, wet.  So we went to the rugby.  I knew about the Farah Palmer Cup match between Wellington and Counties Manakau.  So we went there and bought tickets.  $20 early bird special tickets.  But oddly, the tickets were showing another game on them - 2:05pm match between Wellington and Otago.

Wow.  We scored the jackpot there.  The women's game we wanted to see, and a bonus game with our team.

Westpac Stadium for Farah Palmer Cup - plus some other game later on in the day

Feet over turf

Tickets for rugby

Further away ticket for rugby

And... Andrew turned up for the women's game too.  It was a cracker.  So close.  Wellington by 2 points at the end.  Oosshh.

Stayed for the other game.  And saw Otago thrashed.  Thrashed!  OMG.

Cats on laps

Mike and Toby chilled after tea with the cats on their laps watching The Boys.  I went to bed!

Hope your weekend was as good as ours.

Love,
Angela

The Thursday with date night and jabs

Hi,

Finally got to the doctors for my Nepal jabs.  Yay!  Ended up with Hep A (need to go back for booster in 6 months) and the Boosterix one (whooping cough, typhoid, and tetanus).

Date night - Penthouse

Mike met me there and the nurse (who was locking up and leaving with me as I was the last patient of the day) recognised him from his jabs the day before.

We headed off to Brooklyn on the 7 bus for date night.  Dinner at Penthouse and a movie:  Blinded by the Light.

What an awesome movie!  Go see it!  Brrruuuuuuucceeeee.

From Wednesday night - great fun!

Home late for me on a school night.  We Ubered home from Brooklyn.  Woke up early to walk in.  Spin was great.

Friday iced latte

Fire evacuation iced latte and Khemry's fingers

Speaking of Khemry, I bumped into her this morning (Fri) and she asked why I was less energetic than usual.  I suggested it was my sore shoulders from my vaccine.

She heard:  I have sore shoulders from my waxing

And she started going on about my hairy shoulders.   I was like:  what are you talking about???

Then she gestured under her arms and said:  Do you mean waxing here?

OMG.  I realised the miscommunication.  No.  No I do not have hairy shoulders. 

I dissolved into giggles and ran away from her desk.  She's obviously a crazy woman.  :-p 

Today (Fri) I met Mike for lunch.  Verve cafe.  But as we sat there, almost about to get our lunch cooked and delivered to our table (paid for it already), we had a fire alarm in the building.  Capital on the Quay.  Big shopping centre with offices.

We waited for a while, but it wasn't a drill and fire brigade looked like business.  So I left Mike there to sort out how we get a refund.

As my colleague said:  a red hot date!  :-)


Saturday looms (well, Sunday does too).  Spin fundraiser at the gym tomorrow.  Then group session.  The spa session.

Sunday I hope to do a bike ride with Andrew.  Oosshh.  Let's see, eh?

Right.  As I have been so late with this today, it is nearly home time.  Weird.  Enjoy your weekend.  Recharge well.

Love,
Angela

The Wednesday that felt like Friday except I wasn't wearing casual clothes at work

Hi,

Turns out I have no pics of the dinner we had with my work colleagues.  I must have had photos taken on other people's cameras.  I'll try to get one and add it in.

Fashion statement

I wore my animal print belt for "Animal Print Wednesday".  The fashionistas said it would look ok with my black pants and blue shirt.  I remain unconvinced.  And I think I should agitate to move "Animal Print Day" back to Friday.

Anyway, I did get away with Sally from work to enjoy a vegan chocolate slice at The Lab.  And as it was 3pm, I didn't have an iced latte.  Whole two days without one? 

OMG.  I just got a text from Andrew saying:  when was our last coffee?

See?  I'm not addicted.  It has been a few days.  But ok - I have missed it.  Might be time to rectify that.

Sharing a vegan snickers slice with Sally

She reckons I have a "boy band" hairstyle.  She's not wrong

Sally did say my hair looked like I should be in a boy band - and as it was hanging around in my eyes, I had to agree.  However - it was haircut night.  So - woot!  Perfect timing.

Got to my haircut - and Joelene cut my hair as Sarah had her wee baby - Mila Rose.  Ran out of there to Macs Brewery and met all my work mates for drinks and dinner.  It was a huge group.  We got the chance to meet some of the partners from colleagues.  There had been visa delays - and now most of them had managed to get their spouses in the country.

So good to see everyone happy at being together and tackling a new country.  They all seem to embrace it.  Good on them!

Thank you to all of them for coming in.  Mike arrived and also got to meet everyone.  He just got his jabs for Nepal.  Mine are tonight.  Although I wonder if I need any at all.  He does have a corneal lesion again and is wearing his glasses.  Oops.

My parents got the all clear to move back home after bushfires were close to their place.  Yay for that.

Home by Uber.  Toby had an epic day and decided on chicken nuggets for his dinner and walked to Karori New World.  That's so far away! 

I slept well, got up and walked in for my PT session.  Had a good deadlifts session.  Oosshh!

The day is stunning.  Have a good one, wherever you are.

Love,
Angela

The Tuesday with Jase leaving

Hi,

With the bushfires around Peregian Springs, my parents decided to stay in a hotel closer to Dad's work last night.  I think that was totally sensible.  Good on them.

Maybe I could ask Mike for a night in a local hotel here and invent some vaguely plausible excuse?  I will ponder those opportunities.

It's too windy?

It's too far from town?

Hmmmm - thinking, thinking.

Anyway - Tuesday in the best wee capital in the world?  It was ok.  Busy at work.  But I love the Tuesday starts with walk, boxing and spin.

Gorgeous day here today.  Sunny, no wind.  (So no excuses for a night in a hotel then???  Dang!)

Got haircut after work (ready for Nepal - so I can actually see the scenery and where I step) and then drinks with a bunch of work people.  Woot!  Social - that's me.  Not!  :-p

Hope Toby is better today.

Enjoy your day.  Hope it's a good one.,

Love,
Angela