And time slips away like melted butter (only with less cake)
Today is my last day of leave; back to work on Monday. As much as I enjoy mucking around and doing nothing in the summer, it's probably time that I started using my brain again. The hard part is going to be knocking my sleeping patterns back into whack - I have become accustomed to going to bed around 1.30am and getting up sometime around 10.00am for a leisurely breakfast. I could try starting tonight, but I'm not sure it would work.
I haven't done much with my leave since I got back to Wellington. My parents will be most disappointed - they kept asking me what I was going to do in Wellington and I felt I had to keep coming up with yet more things to do and I haven't done any of them. Well, I went to see Tangled in 3D (which was fun and Disney although I'm still not hugely fond of 3D) and went out to callie's for house stuff, but that's about it. I said I might go out to the Wairarapa for a day trip and planned to go to the beach at least once.
Oh well. I tended to already have plans for the days when I would have wanted to go to the beach and not feel like it on the days when the weather wasn't so good. And there was one completely blah day (fortunately the weather was also blah). I did manage to do some house things and went out to see some friends who recently had a baby (their little girl is adorable). I've read a lot. At least it was cheap?
I did manage to go for a few walks and take some pictures (colour for the Northern-hemisphere folks) under
Flax flowers at the bottom of the path up to our house. The tuis adore these.
Some sort of honeysuckle, I guess. This is from a huge plant near the bottom of the driveway.
Flax seed pods from a huge plant further up the street.
Fern leaves unfolding - on the path up over Te Ahumairangi Hill and in the town belt.
Wellington the other day, from further up the hill (see, I do take some photos that aren't close-ups).
Back to the close-ups - pohutukawa in flower from the deck and the valley behind today.
And the bumblebee comes in for some sweet, sweet nectar. This and the next few are a series, I guess - I just followed this one bee around.
However, I do feel relaxed and ready to face another year. More or less.
I haven't done much with my leave since I got back to Wellington. My parents will be most disappointed - they kept asking me what I was going to do in Wellington and I felt I had to keep coming up with yet more things to do and I haven't done any of them. Well, I went to see Tangled in 3D (which was fun and Disney although I'm still not hugely fond of 3D) and went out to callie's for house stuff, but that's about it. I said I might go out to the Wairarapa for a day trip and planned to go to the beach at least once.
Oh well. I tended to already have plans for the days when I would have wanted to go to the beach and not feel like it on the days when the weather wasn't so good. And there was one completely blah day (fortunately the weather was also blah). I did manage to do some house things and went out to see some friends who recently had a baby (their little girl is adorable). I've read a lot. At least it was cheap?
I did manage to go for a few walks and take some pictures (colour for the Northern-hemisphere folks) under
Flax flowers at the bottom of the path up to our house. The tuis adore these.
Some sort of honeysuckle, I guess. This is from a huge plant near the bottom of the driveway.
Flax seed pods from a huge plant further up the street.
Fern leaves unfolding - on the path up over Te Ahumairangi Hill and in the town belt.
Wellington the other day, from further up the hill (see, I do take some photos that aren't close-ups).
Back to the close-ups - pohutukawa in flower from the deck and the valley behind today.
And the bumblebee comes in for some sweet, sweet nectar. This and the next few are a series, I guess - I just followed this one bee around.
However, I do feel relaxed and ready to face another year. More or less.