Final RSVP Day

So today is the last day that folks can officially RSVP to the wedding. Of course not everyone has yet - however after today I get to email the remainders and go "nag nag" :-) Te he. As of last night the attendance list is sitting at 83 - so that's a fair whack of people, whether the remainder come or not :-)

Today the temperature here in Brissy is meant to get up to 29 degrees. To enable me to fully enjoy the summer weather, I am wearing my new bright blue ninja earrings that my very clever friend Teresa made. They're hard to see from the pic - but if you click on the image, it will open a larger copy of it :-) I bought 4 pairs of earrings off her a few weeks ago and they're fantastic - I have so much fun wearing them :-) And at $5 a pop you can't go wrong :-)



Ha ha - Ben is going to love me for putting this photo up. Ben & Mike went in to book in some waistcoats for the wedding and I'd asked them to send me a photo of what they looked like (yeah I know, I'm mean making them wear waistcoats :-) but I like them!). But I think Ben got a bit excited as you can see in the photo below. Fortunately the wedding colour is not orange :-) And someone really should buy the man a top hat ;-) te he :-) The photos made me crack up when I saw them :-)


The other exciting news that I have heard through the grapevine is that the first bridesmaid dress is pretty much complete. Very exciting! My lovely friend Kat has been working her butt off to get them made before she goes to her brothers wedding in the states in just over a week. So if anyone sees Kat then you all have to give her great big hug for me :-)
Marea is due in Wellington today sometime so now Kat gets the joy of making a maternity friendly bridesmaid dress. I wonder if we can ask No 1 (the sprog in training) to not grow for the next 5 weeks so that Marea still fits her dress :-) Ha ha - good luck.

Righto - better do some work now. Paul and I are off to vote at 4pm this afternoon so I have to finish early. We are able to vote any time up until the day before the election I think - but we thought we'd get it in early. I hope that you are ALL ENROLLED!!! Anyone is doesn't vote in the election is forbidden from grumbling about anything government related for the next 3 years!

Right right - really going! Have a great weekend! May the sun shine again in Wellington like it did on Labour day on Monday!!

2 days left

Well there are only 2 days left for RSVPing to the wedding. We're doing not too badly at this stage - we have 81 confirmed guests and we're expecting 90 - 100 all up. It'll be good once we have final numbers as then we can move onto tasks like seating plans, confirming how much of things like alcohol, snacks, catering, hired glasses etc we need. We can also organise things that depend on how many tables we'll have (tablecloths etc).

I'm looking forward to this weekend. We're going around to the Hodge's place to watch the rugby with James and whoever else is home. It's been about 6 weeks since we've caught up so this seemed as good a reason as any. It's on at a much better time in Brissy than in NZ - 6:30pm :-)

Righto - busy as so better do some work. It is muggy as today as it rained pretty hard very early this morning (woke Paul and I up). So we'll need to turn the aircon on a colder setting I think.

Have a great day all!!

The Importance of being Earnest

So about a month or so Paul and I reinstated our "date night" policy for Tuesday nights. We figured out that since we moved over to Australia, we were actually doing less together. So far we have been to the movies, been out for dinner, had dinner on our deck, and had a lazy night in drinking a few wines (that week coincided with my birthday).

Last night we were very lucky and had something different to do. Paul had received a couple of tickets from his work to see The Importance of being Earnest at the Playhouse Theatre. I go past the theatre on the way to work every day, so I had seen it advertised for a while and really wanted to go. However I didn't mention it to Paul as I thought he wouldn't be interested. So when he emailed me on Monday and said he had tickets, well I was pretty excited!

It turns out that Paul's work must sponsor the theatre or something so it was a bit of a hob-nob night. But that meant we got free food and drinks before the show, during the interval and after the show. And all we had to do for it was talk to some work related people and their friends/partners for a while. Not too hard now aye ;-) ha ha.

So ... the play. It was fantastic! I totally recommend it! I'd only ever seen the movie with Rupert Everett, Reese Witherspoon etc in it - and that came across more as a chick flick. But as a play it has much broader appeal - it was very very funny! Paul was chuckling away the whole show too and really enjoyed it - so it wasn't just me :-)

For anyone based in Brisbane I recommend you go along. For anyone elsewhere, if you see it being put on locally, then you must get yourself some tickets.

Right ... so enough of that. Back to work now :-)

Ange

p.s. 6 weeks and 3 days and counting ......

51 days and counting

Hmm - I've not been so good on the updating front lately. Probably because I used to update my blog in the mornings when I got to work, before I actually started working. But these days I'm cycling to work so don't get to my desk till much later - and also need to leave for home a lot sooner. I think I need to start a new habit of updating it at night time :-)

Can you believe that it's only 51 days until the wedding - ARGH!!! *breathe*
Right - no more lazy nights in front of the telly. Time to get working on order of service booklets etc. *sigh*. If only they would create themselves ;-) ha ha. In fact - although the wedding is in 7 weeks and 2 days - I leave for NZ in 6 weeks and 1 day - so that's even less time!!

Janell is coming along with me for a fitting of my dress this weekend - I'm getting the hem taken up as I'm such a short arse ;-) I have to get the hems taken up on almost everything I own! Debz has to look after the kids as Lance is on call so she can't come this time. But it's very cool Janell is coming along. Depending on the weather situation we might go for a cruise on one of the citycats up the river and go for a coffee etc. Should be good :-)

So last night Paul and I got home from work not long before a pretty big storm hit us. It was definitely the best one since we've been in Brissy! We had 50mls of rain in just over an hour (we measured it in Paul's rain gauge). Crazy aye! And there was a hard out lightening and thunder display going on. It went right over the top of our suburb so it was like *flash* *bang* *flash* *bang* really close together. You could see lightening strike hitting the ground in the suburbs around us - it was awesome!! We even lost power for a minute or so before the backup kicked in :-) But we survived with no trees falling on our house so that's good. That's the one thing about storms over here - you worry about your big trees! Heaps of them fell over in storms last summer as they were weakened by the drought! But we use grey water from the washing machine to water the one at the front - so it should be ok. And the mango tree looks ok at the moment - probably because it rained so much last year. But we really should get a pump for our water tank so that we can give the mango tree a good watering sometimes.

Well - enough of my rambling, I have work to do.

Have a great day!!

Last day of 27

Today is my last day of being 27! From tomorrow onwards Paul can officially call me a nanna as for the next 8 months or so, I will be older than him. See - I have me a toy boy ;-) te he he :-)

So it'll probably be the most uneventful birthday day of my life. I don't think I'll get a single present on the actual day of my birthday :-( Ha ha - that's not to say I haven't or won't receive an presents at all - just not on the day.
Paul's mum was very nice and bought me 3 new pairs of thunderpants when we were in Martinborough for my hens do (Martinborough being the home of the Thunderwear store!).
Mum asked me a while ago whether I still wanted her to send my birthday cheque or whether I wanted to wait till I saw her around the wedding. So I said wait until she comes to Aussie and we can get something together then. We're taking her to the Eumundi markets up near Noosa, so I'm pretty excited about being able to buy something there. The Eumundi markets are very cool! If you ever come to the Brisbane area then you have to go there (Eumundi is about 2 hours drive north of us).
And finally, Paul is giving me some money towards buying a new cell phone - I desperately need a new one! My phone is so old that half the time it can't actually receive text messages from newer phones - there must be some encoding in new phones that make my phone have a fit. So I'm very excited about getting a new phone.

I want Paul to come with me to get the new phone so that we can discuss the merits of various models (generally mobile phones are much cheaper here than in NZ - you get way more bang for your buck!). I'm not really that interested in a camera on the phone as I have a good handbag sized digital one that a cell phone will never beat (as in fits in your handbag - not the size of a handbag :-) te he). But I would like something that has a "planner/calendar" type of thing on it that you can sync up with your computer. Also I would like one where you can record more than numbers against people in your address book (my NZ phone is good for that but my current one is useless). Plus, very importantly, it must have an mp3 player and expandable memory so that I can use it as an mp3 player (yes yes I know - it's shocking that I don't have one yet). But phone shopping will have to wait until next weekend as this coming weekend, Paul is away on a St Johns course the entire weekend. The course is being held here in Brisbane, but the hours are so long that they have to stay on site. Apparently it used to be a 2 weekend course that they've now squeezed into one weekend. So on Friday night it goes from like 5 till 10pm. And then on Saturday it goes from about 9am till 9pm I think and similar on Sunday. So if he had to drive the 45 min trip either side of the course then he'd be knackered!

So on a different note, after what I wrote on my blog yesterday, I did actually end up cycling home! The trip into work took me about 1 hour 15 mins - but I did get lost for a few mins on the way in (whoops) and when I got into town, I ended up going through the middle of the city rather than around the edge, so that took a little longer too. But I was very happy when the trip home only took me 1 hour and 10 mins :-) It's a harder trip home for a few reasons really - it's more up hill on the way home and also my legs were pretty tired.
Today I decided to catch the train in to give my body time to recover. But suprisingly my muscles aren't really sore today - they're a bit tired, but not sore. I did do lots of stretches, had a hot shower when I got home and iced my knees and back - so that must have had a good effect. But tomorrow I'm going to cycle in again to see how I go. It's easy to do something once - it's the 2nd & 3rd times that are the hardest.

Right - enough waffling from me. Back to work (well I need to have breakfast too - currently I'm running on coffee - *buzz* *buzz*).

Oh yeah - I saw this website advertised in my 3 news update email today. It's got lots of discount vouchers for around the country. Could be useful if you're interested: http://www.vouchermate.co.nz/public/

Have a great day everybody!!