Looks like I'm getting back in the swing of regular, albeit weekly, posting. This is a good thing!

This past week has been full of nice stuff - all weeks should be this pleasant, I think.

When I went with Alex to the hospice social day (Opening Doors) on Tuesday, I received a lovely facial and hand-massage - the trainees from International ( Read more... )

This week's post is brought to you by the image of me dancing across the living room to 'They Might Be Giant's (Flood), in order to kiss Ben on the nose.

The media thing worked well last week, so here's something sort-of similar. My week was a lot more social and a lot less media-full, though.

So:

Media of the week
~ BOOK: The Queen of Air and Darkness ( Read more... )

Books I've read this week:
Sebastian, by Anne Bishop. I've enjoyed her writing for quite some time, and have read most of her books (while owning only a few). ( Characters are mentioned. Spoiler alert! )

Number of schools driven past on my way to work this morning: six
Four primary schools, one high school, and one language school. Not including where I work, which is also a place of learning. I can drive different ways and skip some out, but often that just means I go past different ones!

Number of excellent kiwi films seen recently: one ( Read more... )

I was thrilled to see the other day that the website for the upcoming movie The Golden Compass (based on Northern Lights by Philip Pullman) is now up - and this morning I found out that I could discover my Daemon ( Read more... )

Ganked from all over the place, including from zoethe and theferrett.

A. Pick 16 of your favorite movies.
B. Then pick one of your favorite quotes from each movie.
C. Post the quotes in your journal.
D. Have those on your friends list try to guess what the movie is (without Googling, 'cause that's cheating, mmmkay ( Read more... )

I've just been up to UNITEC to get some colour printouts for RPL, and damn, but I'd forgotten how much I like the campus. It was really nice - parking up the top by Entry 4 and walking on down through the quad and past the library and over to the copy centre. Lots of green. Very peaceful ( Read more... )

So we saw the NZ Preview of Serenity this evening, along with many hundred excited and geeky Aucklanders (and Hamiltonians who drove up). Not to fear, there are NO SPOILERS in this post - y'all can read safely ( Read more... )

On Hospitals and Visitations
I am becoming quite well acquainted with Auckland Hospital, especially this week. On Sunday we went in to the A&E Department as we took my brother bigtaz in with another unpleasantly placed Pilonidal Abcess (poor bugger) - and this after he was in three weeks earlier with the first one. And then last night I went in again, ( Read more... )

It's only 7:30, and I'm having a bad day. Which I don't intend to take out on my readers, but I figured fair warning was the way to go.

NightmaresDreamed about Mum last night. Or rather, she was in my dream - and really not pleasant to be around. Gah. It's been a while since she pissed me off that much too (I think it's time for another Letter ( Read more... )