Loving long weekends take two

How good of the Queen to have a birthday this weekend! Just what I need after an EXTREMELY stressful week.

So far I have done a lot of grocery shopping at many different places - bargains!!! (Like 99c Brunch bars and 99c flour...) And two batches of baking and two loads of washing. Exciting, I know.

Oh, but what WAS exciting...

Super 14 Final last night!!!

Now, I'm not normally a huge rugby fan...but it was the final, and McCaw AND Carter were playing. And it was Robbie Dean's last night as coach...it was bloody good game. I don't think there was a MOMENT in there where you felt not-tense. And the results...


Favorite part of the coverage was when McCaw looked a little tearful at his interview at the end. Awww...

We ran out to the street so we could see the fireworks from the stadium - one of the pluses of watching at the boy's parents' house.

Am reading up on how to look after plants. We got given a rubber plant for our engagement and am looking at repotting it as the pot seems very small. We also have a yucca (we the flat) that looks as though it is slowly dying outside as the leaves are all yellow and it actually seems to be shrinking...It's not mine so to speak. But I do feel like we could look after it a little better. Especially since they are supposed to be easy plants to look after!!!

Am also re-reading Harry Potter, as is my yearly activity. Up to book three, so am really churning through them now! (The long weekend probably helps!) Book four is one of the big ones though so that should take me a wee while longer!

Queen's Birthday

I enjoy the fact that the Queen has a birthday in June. It just means a holiday for us - which I appreciate. Basically, I'm being paid to be at work now. YES!

I bet you it's not actually the Queen's birthday - just some obligatory term for us needing a holiday in June. But I'm not going to complain.

It has been the weekend for birthdays though. On Friday Mel and I headed to the Dux for a couple of drinks in celebration of Soraya's birthday - even though it wasn't till Saturday. But it was fun times! There were quite a few of us and Raya was getting quite happy on wine so it was pretty entertaining.

I'd also invited myself over to Mel's for tea earlier - but that's a whole nother story! Lol. I'm so rude sometimes...

When we got there she was considering making self saucing pudding!! Luckily we talked her out of it!!!! Crazy woman! But I love her, she's awesome!

AND...yesterday was Wolf's birthday. His parents had RUDELY (j/k it was a completely legitimate reason...) gone to Rotorua so we shouted him lunch after church. Complete with birthday cake!! (Yes, we are "o" for orsome...) And candles!! And after 545 Lou and Mel were going to shout him tea but (for some reason) we all ended up back at the flat with four pizzas and wedges. (Mmm...home made wedges...) And also a tub of "deep blue sea" ice cream - an intriguing "tropical flavored ice cream with lemon sorbet and fish shaped jellies". And yes, more cake because we didn't finish it all at lunchtime.

Fun times...we are such children sometimes. We all sat there in the dark giggling because we were pretending to hide while Wolf was in the loo...

Haha...

I'm so glad I don't have to go to work today. It's *FREAKING* freezing. My hands are cold because they are outside of my blanket. And firefox tells me that it's -2 degrees at the moment.

Brrrr....

I don't know what I'm doing today - I think the two student flatmates are studying and the other flatmate will probably go to her family's. Isaac is also studying. Students are boring when you're not one of them... We've officially been in the flat a year today though!!! Crazy isn't it??? Who would have thought we'd last this long!!! :)

And when the smoke clears...

Awwww...