Mon
Oct
18
“ I loved a good high. And if you stay up, you get the songs that everyone else misses because they’re asleep,
~ Keith Richards
Mon
Sep
24
OK so I’m slack, I know!
10 weeks and counting!
So much has happened in the last 10 weeks, I’m not going to go over everything. Needless to say, the 10 weeks is equal to one school term. So the kids are back on holiday now. Of course the first day today it rained! Well I was at work so it didn’t affect me too much except that by the time I got home they were a little stir crazy.
A brief overview of what has been happening is as follows:
• I started my new job at CPIT - it’s awesome. I absolutely love it.
• We’ve shifted house and are now back in the city and very happy with that.
• The sale of our house has gone through and so we are now mortgage free - but back renting.
• All but Rie and to a lesser extent Jim got hit by a rather severe flu bug during the term. The 2 other girls were off school for over a week and Ang and I took it in turns to get sick. It caused the postponement of my birthday by a week.
• Oh yeah I turned 41 back in August.
In the world of Apple, we’ve had new iMacs released - new 24” screens. Also a new line of iPods including an iPod nano that does video and a new iPod touch based on the iPhone.
So that is pretty much the gist of the term.
Hopefully I’ll get some regularity of posts happening from now until Christmas at least.
So until the next one, take care and God Bless (via Intercourse Down Under)
Sun
Jul
15
It’s the end of the holidays and 2 weeks since my last post. I finished that one with ‘What a difference a week makes’, well things keep on changing.
The best news of all is that we have finally sold our house. We switched to a local agent, they had one Open Home last Sunday and we had signed an unconditional contract by about 6pm. What that actually means is that the first contract we signed which was conditional on the buyers selling their own house now has its clause come into effect. This gives them 7 working days to go unconditional themselves. So come Thursday we’re expecting to find out whether or not we have sold our house to the first buyers which would mean settlement date is the 3rd August or the second buyers which would mean settlement date is the 7th September. Either way IT’S SOLD!!!
Now we just have to find a place to rent inside the school zone that our daughter is wanting to go to next year.
So that’s been the major news of the holidays, other than that it has been a case of finishing off school stuff, clearing out my classroom, giving back my PowerBook and iPod (sniff sniff!), trying to find a place to rent, checking with the bank and lawyers that all documentation has been filed, and spending time with the kids.
To that end we went on our ‘Mystery Drive’ on Friday. Thankfully the weather turned it on for us and it was a beautiful day. We headed inland to Darfield before making our way through the Rakaia Gorge and onto Methven where we enjoyed lunch in the van consisting of hot chippies, muffins and mandarins. The kids enjoyed being so close to the snow-covered mountains and there was even snow lying on the side of road left over from the previous week’s dumping. All in all it was a great way to finish off the holidays.
And tomorrow I start my new job. Who knows what exciting adventures that will bring? I gotta say I can’t wait to start, I’m like a kid on Christmas Eve. Bring it on! (via Intercourse Down Under)
OK so Gregor Paul in Herald on Sunday starts ratting on Eden Park and how it is an embarrassment to NZ and it
