Archive for the ‘Wellington, New Zealand’ Category
Thursday, October 25th, 2007
As those of you who know me understand, if there is in chocolate in the house I have to eat it - now! Preferably dark, good quality chocolate, but in desperate times, any chocolate will do. I remember the first time I met my brother's wife, they were visiting ...
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Friday, March 2nd, 2007
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Yesterday I finished work. I don't know when I will work again and I am hoping that it might even be never! To be honest it was a bit anti-climatic, so long anticipated, people running around a bit because I wasn't actually going to be there Monday.
It seems ...
Posted in Corporate Wasteland, Travel General, Wellington, New Zealand | 2 Comments »
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
It’s the little things I enjoy. I have been working at my current employer for nearly 12 months and every 6 weeks or so you get annoying message when logging into the system, “Your password will expire in 5 days, would you like to change it now yes/no” – ...
Posted in Corporate Wasteland, Wellington, New Zealand | 4 Comments »
Sunday, February 25th, 2007
Well we are out of the house, staying with friend's and its almost like being on holiday! The weather is glorious and we are staying at the beach which certainly helps too! Everything got packed (well 99% anyway) - the tenants are moved in and happy. My partner finished ...
Posted in Real Estate, Travel General, Wellington, New Zealand | No Comments »
Friday, January 19th, 2007
The house is rented ! All signed up from 19 Feb to Dec 2008. So we now know our budget! We may be back before Dec 08 but at the rent we are getting we can afford to rent somewhere reasonable ourselves if necessary. So out of the house by ...
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Monday, December 18th, 2006
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I guess Christmas is a big deal if you have children - but at the point I cant get a park at the local supermarket at lunchtime on a Saturday - I am well over it! In fact of course there are free parks (literally and financially), just outside, but ...
Posted in Christmas, Wellington, New Zealand | 1 Comment »
Saturday, November 25th, 2006
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This is one of my favourite dresses and I have never actually got a photo of it - so thought I better before we go away and I loose lots of weight and have to get a new one made - damme!
We are dancing the NZ Masters Games in ...
Posted in Ballroom Dance, Wellington, New Zealand | No Comments »
Saturday, September 30th, 2006
Oops haven't posted for a while - but currently I am procrastinatiing about developing my website so here I am ! So given that it's the start of the month here is my to do list !
Stop saying yes to contract extensions at work - my success with this ...
Posted in Goals, Self Employment, Travel General, Wellington, New Zealand | No Comments »
Wednesday, September 20th, 2006
Well the townhouse I mentioned a couple of posts ago which we saw on Sunday had a sold sign on tit by the Tues. So no we wouldn't have got - I am sure it went to an owner-occupier who would have paid that little bit more.
Distracted this week ...
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Saturday, September 9th, 2006
Tempted into a looking at a couple of open homes this afternoon. One was in a neighbouring suburb - 2 bed standalone ex-State which had been nicely tarted up and landscaped but was significantly over-priced.
The other one was more interesting - on our street a 2 bed 1970's townhouse - ...
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