Still tired. Neighbours had a party Saturday night and departing party-goers were yelling their heads off as they left at about 3am, waking me up. Cat did his usual 5am wake-up call. Early this morning he miaowed once – at 4am, but it was enough to wake me up, as did the heavy downpours.
Today the [...]
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Fatigue
Posted in interests, tagged belly dancing on 14 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A little more settled
Posted in home, interests on 9 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Things are a little easier at home. Daughter has started talking to J and not being so abrupt. J’s mother is going to put some money into his account so he can go home to the South Island for a few weeks. He intends returning to PN to flat with friends when he can get [...]
Update on Morrowind
Posted in interests, tagged Morrowind on 7 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
So, I had 7 ash vampires to kill before tackling the big evil lord below the volcano. I prepared myself by training in blunt weapons and grabbing a few spells and potions. Then the long trek to the spooky Ghostgate and marking the Redoran hostel as my base. It took a while to find the [...]
A game to pass the misery
Posted in home, interests, melancholy, tagged videogames on 3 December, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been playing Morrowind lately – a computer game that I used to play a couple of years ago. I even blogged about my progress in the game back then.
It was a good time to re-start it as it takes my mind off home and family issues which are just bringing me down. Oh for [...]
100 best novels
Posted in interests, tagged books, novels on 6 November, 2009 | 3 Comments »
I looked at Time’s 100 best English-language novels (from 1923-present). My reaction was basically “pfft”. I’ve read 9 of those 100 and tried to read a couple more from the list (without success – just too awful). Of those 9, I only enjoyed 3 and one other was ok but I wouldn’t rave about it, [...]
There is a Sun!
Posted in home, interests, visits, work, tagged belly dancing, Denny's, gardening, Wellington on 28 October, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
It’s true! I saw it in the weekend. Three glorious days of warm sun – bliss!
I headed down to Wellington on Friday night and was pleasantly surprised to walk out of the apartment building and NOT FEEL COLD!!! I was momentarily shocked and after hesitating at the doorway, proceeded to park the car where it [...]
More ancestor-hunting
Posted in interests on 27 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Got robbed of an hour of my weekend, thanks to daylight saving. It’s dark and miserable. Summer seems a long way off.
I spent Saturday at the Latter Day Saints library looking up Census returns. Had lunch with friends beforehand and they followed me, wanting to do their own family research. I had success with finding [...]
Organisation
Posted in interests, tagged genealogy, organisation on 17 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I know I’m in need of some organisation in general at home but more particularly with my family tree stuff. I came across a Netguide magazine which had a guide about searching – I needed such an article some time ago. It recommended all sorts of methods including writing everything down in a book so [...]
Addendum
Posted in interests, tagged genealogy on 14 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I had forgotten to add that my brother also gave me four small framed paintings that my maternal grandmother had painted – part of a set. I already had one at home of a Victorian woman in a long blue dress seated at a writing table. My brother had been given the rest by my [...]
Pleasant weekend
Posted in home, interests, visits, tagged de-cluttering, genealogy, hoarding, photos, settlers of catan on 14 September, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Well, I had a lovely weekend, taking the Monday off (my first day off since May). I left work a half-hour early on Friday, ready to get going to my brother’s place near Masterton. Unfortunately I hadn’t counted on my forgetful daughter who was still in town and didn’t appear until 7pm (armed with fish [...]
