One of these days, my car is going to give me a stroke. She had her service today, which went fine, despite a cracked somethingorother hose that needed replacing. Then, this afternoon, she starts clicking. I kid you not ( Read more... )

So, when setting up house off Trademe, I bought a dining suite. Now, the seat covers of said dining suite are hideous (horrific pinky, yellowy, browny mess). "No worries," thought I, "this is easily fixed with some new fabric ( Read more... )

And the second case I pick up in my new patch becomes a CYF notification, that chews up 3 hours and several trees, and which CYF, ultimately, is not interested in.

Moved stuff up from Tauranga yesterday, which is where I was storing all the stuff I didn't sell before we left. Of note, I was pretty sure I'd sold the dining suite, but not the heater or bookshelf, so on trademe I have bought a dinging suite, but not a heater or bookshelf. Turns out that the opposite was true. *grumble ( Read more... )

The past 48 hours have seen the acquisition of a fridge, washing machine, dryer, vacuum and bed for the grand total of $451 to date.

Turns out I'm a bargain hunter ... who knew?

Edit: And a nice big solid wood table for the computers for $52 *grin*

Ah, the wonderful ambiance of a Christchurch pea-soup night :)

Is there a party this weekend?

Lucifer (aka the criminal - seriously - bitch we call a landlady) has backed out on our final inspection today. So now we have to do it tomorrow morning.

I really just want this over.

My mum calls on Sat, and informs me that my immediate presence is required in Chch for the weekend of 12/6 for a family reunion. So I'm flying there for the weekend, and then back here for one more week of work. WTF ( Read more... )

In Gosford. Which is like way the hell that way.

Regardless of which, it was fun. I did my little 90's shuffle, drank lots of bacardi, watched the kids (we had no less than 3 20-year olds) throw up and pass out by midnight, drank more bacardi and eventually crashed at 7am.

As a result of all this, I am currently feeling somewhat geriatric.

Epic win!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I can has job!

GSE Pakuranga woohoo!

Start date to be negotiated - they want me on 29/6, but that is just not going to happen ... I'm moving countries, for God's sake!