Monthly Archives: November 2007

Message from a hard-working Kiwi

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Michelle totally agrees:

Message from a hard-working Kiwi

I work, they pay me. I pay my taxes and the government distributes my taxes as it sees fit. In order to earn that pay cheque, as I work in the timber industry, I am required to pass a random urine test, with which I have no problem in passing.

What I do have a problem with is the distribution of my taxes to people who don’t have to pass a urine test. Shouldn’t one have to pass a urine test to get a welfare cheque because I have to pass one to earn it for them??

Please understand – I have no problem with helping people get back on their feet. I do on the other hand have a problem with helping someone sit on their fat ar*e drinking p*ss & smoking dope all day.

Could you imagine how much money the state would save if people had to pass a urine test to get a WINZ cheque???

Please pass this around if you agree or simply delete if you don’t.

Hope you all will pass it along though, because something has to change in this country, and soon!!!

A bit of everything

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I haven’t done in any food shopping in a few weeks. Well, the odd trip to the dairy for bread and milk. And it’s because we have so much food in our pantry. About 60 or so cans in there, easily… I have my fridge, stashes of bottles of coke in the linen cupboard and also the freezer in the kitchen plus the big freezer in the garage. And then I show Oyn my pantry and he says it isn’t much o_O I wanna see in Oyn’s pantry! I think they have tons of food if they have more than we do. That’s amazing!

Last night I went mountain biking again. It was awesomeness. I felt the burn, FEEL THE BURN! Yes, feeling the burn. I was a little bit wobbly, and a whole lot dirty and sweaty when I came home. I figured that I’m dropping kg’s with my different eating, and I really need to do more exercise. Plus, its mega fun to go for runs walks and bike rides. And BMX and motocross and all those other funky things I love to do. I’m never going to take up frootbooting though :p

I’m a little bit tired though -_- I think I need some sleepies. I got eight hours last night, but it wasn’t enough…

/me hides in Hexie’s bed under the blankets and goes to sleep…

Smurfy stitches

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Ok, someone here at work took a photo for me! :D Please don’t look if you’re not into things like this. Or bitch and moan cos I grossed you out :P

I woke up with no bandage on it last night, someone was all rough and ripped it off >_< Okay, it was me. But still, here's a photo of my stitches.

See? It's not so bad. It looks cool. I have THREE uberbloo stitches.

/me giggles…

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The questions below about Australia are from potential visitors. They were posted on an Australian Tourism Website and the answers are the actual responses by the website officials, who obviously have a sense of humour.

Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia ? I have never seen it rain on TV, how do the plants grow? ( UK ).
A: We import all plants fully grown and then just sit around watching them die.

Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? ( USA )
A: Depends how much you’ve been drinking.

Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney – can I follow the railroad tracks?
( Sweden )
A: Sure, it’s only three thousand miles, take lots of water.

Q: Is it safe to run around in the bushes in Australia ? ( Sweden )
A: So it’s true what they say about Swedes.

Q: Are there any ATMs (cash machines) in Australia ? Can you send me a list of them in Brisbane , Cairns , Townsville and Hervey Bay ? ( UK )
A: What did your last slave die of?

Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia ? ( USA )
A: A-fri-ca is the big triangle shaped continent south of Europe. Aus-tra-lia is that big island in the middle of the Pacific which does not… oh forget it. Sure, the hippo racing is every Tuesday night in Kings Cross. Come naked.

Q: Which direction is North in Australia ? ( USA )
A: Face south and then turn 180 degrees. Contact us when you get here and we’ll send the rest of the directions.

Q: Can I bring cutlery into Australia ? ( UK )
A: Why? Just use your fingers like we do.

Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys’ Choir schedule? ( USA )
A: Aus-tri-a is that quaint little country bordering Ger-man-y, which is….oh forget it. Sure, the Vienna Boys Choir plays every Tuesday night in Kings Cross, straight after the hippo races. Come naked.

Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia ? ( UK )
A: You are a British politician, right?

Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round?
( Germany )
A: No, we are a peaceful civilization of vegan hunter/gatherers. Milk is illegal.

Q: Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can dispense rattlesnake serum. ( USA )
A: Rattlesnakes live in A-meri-ca which is where YOU come from. All Australian snakes are perfectly harmless, can be safely handled and make good pets.

Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia , but I forget its name. It’s a kind of bear and lives in trees. ( USA )
A: It’s called a Drop Bear. They are so called because they drop out of Gum trees and eat the brains of anyone walking underneath them. You can scare them off by spraying yourself with human urine before you go out walking.

Q: Do you have perfume in Australia ? ( France )
A: No, WE don’t stink.

Q: I have developed a new product that is the fountain of youth. Can you tell me where I can sell it in Australia ? ( USA )
A: Anywhere significant numbers of Americans gather.

Q: Can you tell me the regions in Tasmania where the female population is smaller than the male population? ( Italy )
A: Yes, gay nightclubs.

Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia ? ( France )
A: Only at Christmas.

Q: Will I be able to speak English most places I go? ( USA )
A: Yes, but you’ll have to learn it first

Girls and cars?

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Y’know, I have always been a car enthusiast as long as I can remember.

Here I am at approximately 1-1.5 years old trying to steal a mini, followed by me admiring this lovely red Porsche when I was 9 years old. I was probably drafting up a plan to steal it on that pad of paper there.

Don’t even get started on the red socks, or why I had them pulled up like that. I had absolutely NO sense of style when I was a child. Unlike kids nowadays who panic if they don’t get to wear what they want.

That mini was my mums. We were so dang funky. It made me draft up a list of cars that I have owned.

In 1997 I had to buy my mums Toyota Corolla off her because I wrote it off. It cost me NZ$3500. I got to sit next to it for one day as my car, but it sat on the car trailer the whole day, then went to the rubbish tip. It was a cool DX as well, mid 80s, in mint condition.

Same year 1997: bought my first Mini. It was just the round nose model. Was metallic blue, only went for about 2 months then died. I held onto it anyway, put it in the garage.

1997: I got my Nissan Sunny 1986 model. WOW. Gunmetal grey ;) This car then got tuned at a performance car shop and went FAST. I owned that car until 2000.

1998: I bought a new Mini, it was a Mini Clubman. I kept both minis. The Mini Clubman went awesomely, and had widened rims and little fat tyres on it, this was grey.

1999: I got another round nose Mini, this was red. And another one which was yellow. I then took the lid off my blue one and turned it into a convertible, and then took it up the top of Norrie Grove and rammed it into a bank after doing some drifties. About a week later I got a Ford Escort from a mate for $50 and it had no petrol cap, so I drove it up to Tip Road and did some drag racing, and wrote it off, so I left it up there.

2000: I got rid of the red Mini. And got rid of my Mini Clubman. Kept the yellow one. Bought a green Holden, and painted it metallic purple. It had an OOSH engine, went like snot. It was an oldschool Holden Commodore, the classic mid 80s style. I painted it up, then trashed it for a few weeks. It didn’t last. Thank God the entire time I had my Nissan Sunny as my reliable and road legal car ;) Ditched the Holden.

2000: bought a new Nissan Sunny as the body on my one was no longer WOF-able. Got a new Nissan Sunny for $200 which didn’t go, swapped my engine into it and huzzah, another year bought. At the end of 2000 it was getting kinda tired. Sold the Minis that was left.

So mid-2001: sold the Nissan, well, for free. Gave the Nissan to this hooker friend of mine and bought my Mazda Familia 1993 Interplay model. This was a great little car, went like snot – and my first nearly-brand-new car. It was only imported about 2 months before I bought it!

2005: 2 gear boxes and engines later I sold the Mazda Familia, and purchased my Subaru Impreza. Yay, Impreza ftw.

You can see the car I love most. The classic Minis are just PHAT! I really wouldn’t mind getting another one.

I wanna go to the Big Day Out :(

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Hayden and his ticket:

I’m so jealous -_-

There have been some great announcements on the Big Day Out website.

We’re supposed to be going together, but I haven’t got my ticket yet! And I don’t know if I can afford to, because I’m saving up to go and annoy Hexie for one month. But I’m thinking that I am going to go to the Big Day Out anyway, because Rage Against the Machine are playing, and when will you ever get a chance to see them again? They aren’t even together anymore! (I don’t know how that makes any logical sense).

The arse thing is also finding somewhere to stay. If you plan to go up you’re supposed to have booked your accommodation about 4 months ago, they go really quickly. And it’s arse to find your way around Auckland! Parking etc. What a shit hole of a city.

The good news? They are going to host a rock concert called Rock2Wgtn at our stadium next Easter weekend. TWO DAYS LONG! And Kiss are one of the headline acts. And more announcements are to come. YAY. Finally the stadium levy on my property rates are going to pay off. Yeah right – I pay a few hundred a year for a stadium I have been to once – and I had to pay $40 just to see a lousy game of provincial rugby (and we didn’t even win). Eww.

I was made for loooving you baby…

Gardening and creepy-crawlies ftw!

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So yesterday was totally action packed huh? After biking I came home and talked to my lovely for a bit. Then I went to the mall for afternoon tea and to buy some socks. Then I came home and went and did my gardens. If you’ve seen photos of my kitchen you’ll see that the bay window is shielded from the neighbours by a huge jasmine vine on the fence. My neighbours decided to paint their side of the fence and when they did that they managed to disconnect the fecking trellis from the fence and my vine fell over! o_O #$*(&^! So I went out and decided that I didn’t need the vine where the window wasn’t so I got in there and I cut the fucking thing to bits. And I was totally terrified -_- I bet some big spiders live in that thing, it’s been there forever. Anyway, there was only about 1.5m between the house and the fence, so I had to get right in there and I ripped it off the fence, ripped the trellis down and had to cut it all up and drag it around and stomp it into the wheelie bin. Then go back and reattach the trellis and vine that should be there.

Y’know, I didn’t get inside until about 3 hours later, didn’t feel like 3 hours? And I haven’t even started on my lavender garden or anything else o_O Next weekend is going to be so busy again!

The good news? There were no spiders that I saw. The awesome news? I found this mega cool weta :D

He’s a nice big one too! He went up the wall to the eave (I think it’s the eave? Did I spell that right?) And I had to grab a stick and poke him back down. He wasn’t happy… He got all angsty and started hissing. But I prodded him a few times and he fell down, and I dug around in the garden but I couldn’t find him. Thank God eh? Mum would have had a fit. I think they’re kinda cute. He would have been a healthy 10cm long, not including his feelers and back legs n stuff.

I’m scratched to fuckery, but I had a damn good time!

Girly girly girls

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I’m trying to grow out Charlottes fringe, it’s getting longer, but she wouldn’t let me tie up her hair until a few weeks ago. I had to cut the very front of her fringe, and hope like hell the sides start to grow. So random, on the temples she has bugger all hair.

Anyway, she lets me tie up her hair! I didn’t realise how hard it is to do someone else’s hair. o_O Doing my own is no problem, I’ve been doing it for years. It’s so much easier when you can put your hands behind your head and just not have to look. But tying up another person’s hair is so difficult. Especially when they don’t really like to sit still, and as soon as you brush it and get it up they grab the hairbrush and brush their hair and make it all messy >_<

I hope her hair gets thicker like mine, it’ll stay up better. At the moment it’s quite thin and is more like Mum’s and Abbeys hair, which is thin and stuff, doesn’t tie up very well, falls out of clips etc. Thick hair all the way!

Anyway, this was our first attempt at tying it up in pigtails and I think it’s really cute -_-


Such a little angel -_-

Y’know, I think I would like a son, I wouldn’t get to do his hair, but it’d be nice.

Shoe shopping, me? Nooooo

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Okay, maybe just a little bit ;) But give me some credit, they had a MASSIVE sale at the mall. So I got four new pairs of jandals. Which I DO need, for the summer :P And I got a good brand so that I would be able to wear them for a few summers. I don’t know if I’ll be near a NZ jandal store next year :P But no, they had buy-one-get-one-free on all jandals just for the night, so I got two and got two free. So I got pink, black, black and grey and purple. But they have patterns all over them and the black one has skulls, so I can be an emo jandal-basher.

Please tell me you know what jandals are…

Charlotte is only 19 months old and already she’s a size 6! So I had to buy her a new pair of sneakers (the whole point I went there) and I got these little small sketcher looking shoes, sooo cute. And she looks fab in them. And they are probably the most expensive shoes in the house. But it’s important she has well supported feet :P I still have this row in the cupboard of baby Adidas shoes -_- So cute.

And when I spent that much on shoes, what did I get? Any other pair in the store for $1 :o Oohhhhhh baby, I nearly wet my pants.

And look what I chose…

;)

(crap, my jeans are all worn out and Charlotte has a dirty face)

Now THEY are hot. And you’re probably going “EWWW THEY ARE BROWN/BRONZE, AND MADE OF GLITTER”. I already own red shoes, I didn’t want red ones. I think the colour is awesome and they go really well with some of my skirts and look great with black skirts and black pants. They even look quite good with dark jeans. But I wear black with jeans, or white. I don’t know, it depends on how I feel.

I love my new shoes. They are a nice healthy 10cm tall. And comfortable, which is the key. The only weird thing is when I’m wearing shoes this high (and I’m wearing 4” black today), my work desk is only just above my knees when I stand…

Mum said they were cool, the girl at the store was jealous because I took the last pair in the size she wanted. She has 80 pairs and said working at a shoe store was pure hell! I couldn’t have agreed more. We had a good talk about all the things we have in common.

And when I got home Dave called me a whore wearing whore shoes… O_O