Ok - it has finally hit me! I am finally really excited about coming to NZ tomorrow and doing the whole wedding thing. Up until now I've just been looking forward to some time off work! But right now I'm sitting in my chair and I'm almost bouncing! YAY!! Ok that may have a little to do with the coffee I just had - but I'm pretty sure it's got lots to do with the wedding too :-) And it's a vast improvement on yesterday too! About this time yesterday I was having an inner panic! You know the "I know we've done most things but what if there's something really important that we've forgotten rah rah rah rah". You know the drill :-)
Actually, my worst fear at the moment is tripping on my vows! Fr Chris wants us to remember them and I'm really bad at forgetting words just as I need them. So now I'm really worried I'm going to spin out Paul's vows and not mine.
i.e. Ange saying "I Paul take you Angela to be my wife" instead of "I Angela take you Paul to be my husband". I should probably stop jokingly calling Paul my wife and then I might not trip up on the day :-) ha ha ha
RIGHT - back to work Miss Smith :-)
See you all soon!!
p.s. I'm going to the Phoenix home game in Wellington tomorrow night with Shanan and Marea. How cool is that!!!!
Thursday, November 27, 2008
Wednesday, November 26, 2008
embrace your inner geek
Ha ha - I know this is a very geeky "joke" - but it amused me :-) So I thought I'd share it with you. It was in an email I got from Paul - so there you go, my inner geek is catching!
Mwhahahahahahaha
Mwhahahahahahaha
Monday, November 17, 2008
I'm famous
See - told you it got onto the front page :-) Wahoo - go me. It's been up for 50 mins now
A major storm
Yesterday afternoon our area of Brisbane got smashed by a major storm! I've never experienced anything like it in my life! Our rain gauge recorded 76 mm in about half and hour or so! And to top that off there were about 3500 lightening strikes recorded and major winds!!
We had windows flying open on in all the bedrooms and rain pouring in them. They wouldn't stay shut so I was standing there holding them shut while Paul ran around finding things to tie the windows together so they'd hopefully stay shut. Then we went into the back spare room and the curtains were blotchy. I pulled back the curtain and was hit by heaps of water. The rain was literally pouring in through the top of the windows even though they were fully closed!! So we were madly moving all of our storage to the other side of the room out of the way of the rain. I tried holding a towel up to the water pouring in for a bit, but that was pointless as the towel was soon soaked. So there was nothing we could do but put down some towels on the floor and mop it up afterwards.
Further down our street it got all flooded out! I'm glad that we're up higher! Apparently the area that flooded used to be a creek back in the day. The lady on the pother side of the road from us has lived there for about 55 years - so she'd know :-)
We had windows flying open on in all the bedrooms and rain pouring in them. They wouldn't stay shut so I was standing there holding them shut while Paul ran around finding things to tie the windows together so they'd hopefully stay shut. Then we went into the back spare room and the curtains were blotchy. I pulled back the curtain and was hit by heaps of water. The rain was literally pouring in through the top of the windows even though they were fully closed!! So we were madly moving all of our storage to the other side of the room out of the way of the rain. I tried holding a towel up to the water pouring in for a bit, but that was pointless as the towel was soon soaked. So there was nothing we could do but put down some towels on the floor and mop it up afterwards.
Further down our street it got all flooded out! I'm glad that we're up higher! Apparently the area that flooded used to be a creek back in the day. The lady on the pother side of the road from us has lived there for about 55 years - so she'd know :-)
This photo (with the car) got on the front page of the Brisbane Times website with my name and everything - I'm famous!!
The power was out all night - so we were using candles for light :-)
Fortunately we have gas so we could still cook dinner
Fortunately we have gas so we could still cook dinner
Friday, November 7, 2008
Our new freezer
Last night after work Paul and I went shopping. Our mission was to buy a little chest freezer as the freezer in our fridge is just a joke. We figured with the current financial crisis that shops would be pretty keen to sell a big item, so we should be able to get a pretty good deal.
We had 3 stores in mind to visit - The Good Guys, Retravison and and Clive Anthonys. I jumped on our old bus, the 333 route, and met Paul after work (he drove). We went along to The Good Guys first and to be honest I wasn't that impressed with their selection. They only had 5 and that was for a range from 150 litres to about 700 litres. The prices weren't that great either. The freezers around the 200 litre mark were marked as $419 for a 207 litre Hisense brand (say what?! It's a cheap Chinese model apparently) and $529 for a 220 litre Fisher & Paykel one. We asked what their cash prices were and they would only give us $30 off. Not satisified with that, we decided to move on.
Next on the list was Clive Anthonys. I'd never heard of them before and definitely hadn't been there before so we didn't know what we were in for. The range there was definitely a bit better. They had a range of Fisher & Paykel and Westinghouse freezers. On first glance their prices were more expesive than The Good Guys with the 220 litre F&P one marked as $589 - but of course you NEVER pay full the asking price in Aussie - they're just starting price for bargaining :-) Initially they only offered us the F&P one at $529 - hell no - we could get it much cheaper down the road. So we put on our "hmm - that's not good" faces and Paul said that we could get it from somewhere else for $480 (they only offered it at $499 I think). So in the end they dropped the price to $470 - wahoo :-) Done deal!!!
So there you go - it will be delivered to the store on Monday or Tuesday for Paul to pick up. And we managed to talk to price down from $589 to $470! Not bad aye! When I first moved over here, I wasn't so good at the bargaining thing - it's just not natural for a kiwi (and to be honest, if I get too excited about something then you can just forget bargaining - I'm too obvious). But in general Paul and I are much better at it now :-)
So if you want to have a look at our freezer then it's on the F&P aussie website at: http://www.fisherpaykel.com.au/refrigeration/?productUid=648B748A-055D-29E8-967B7A75FE6BFE88
Also here is a pic of it
We had 3 stores in mind to visit - The Good Guys, Retravison and and Clive Anthonys. I jumped on our old bus, the 333 route, and met Paul after work (he drove). We went along to The Good Guys first and to be honest I wasn't that impressed with their selection. They only had 5 and that was for a range from 150 litres to about 700 litres. The prices weren't that great either. The freezers around the 200 litre mark were marked as $419 for a 207 litre Hisense brand (say what?! It's a cheap Chinese model apparently) and $529 for a 220 litre Fisher & Paykel one. We asked what their cash prices were and they would only give us $30 off. Not satisified with that, we decided to move on.
Next on the list was Clive Anthonys. I'd never heard of them before and definitely hadn't been there before so we didn't know what we were in for. The range there was definitely a bit better. They had a range of Fisher & Paykel and Westinghouse freezers. On first glance their prices were more expesive than The Good Guys with the 220 litre F&P one marked as $589 - but of course you NEVER pay full the asking price in Aussie - they're just starting price for bargaining :-) Initially they only offered us the F&P one at $529 - hell no - we could get it much cheaper down the road. So we put on our "hmm - that's not good" faces and Paul said that we could get it from somewhere else for $480 (they only offered it at $499 I think). So in the end they dropped the price to $470 - wahoo :-) Done deal!!!
So there you go - it will be delivered to the store on Monday or Tuesday for Paul to pick up. And we managed to talk to price down from $589 to $470! Not bad aye! When I first moved over here, I wasn't so good at the bargaining thing - it's just not natural for a kiwi (and to be honest, if I get too excited about something then you can just forget bargaining - I'm too obvious). But in general Paul and I are much better at it now :-)
So if you want to have a look at our freezer then it's on the F&P aussie website at: http://www.fisherpaykel.com.au/refrigeration/?productUid=648B748A-055D-29E8-967B7A75FE6BFE88
Also here is a pic of it
Thursday, November 6, 2008
One month till the wedding
Wow - it really is November 6th today. Exactly one month until Dec 6th and the wedding. Argh!! There's still so much to do - Looks like I shall have a very busy weekend! At least I finished painting the boards for the vege garden last weekend, so now I can devote my time to wedding planning while Paul continues with creating the garden borders. Although maybe God is on our side at the moment as the weather forecast for the weekend is rain and thunderstorms. That's much more condusive to wedding planning than gardening.
We're also going to set off a few bug bombs in the house tomorrow morning before we go to work. So that should kill off all the bugs before mum arrives. No more spiders or ants or cockroaches etc - YAY :-) I hate bugs!! Although to be honest, I'm a lot better about them now that I used to be - lots of exposure I suppose. However I still hate spdiers, especially the big ones - big ones make me freak out and cry! Very embarrasing ;-) te he
Right - back to work. Oh one last thing. It has to be said after all - how cool is it that Obama got elected president yesterday! What a day to be alive aye!! Let's hope he does a lot great things for the US!!
We're also going to set off a few bug bombs in the house tomorrow morning before we go to work. So that should kill off all the bugs before mum arrives. No more spiders or ants or cockroaches etc - YAY :-) I hate bugs!! Although to be honest, I'm a lot better about them now that I used to be - lots of exposure I suppose. However I still hate spdiers, especially the big ones - big ones make me freak out and cry! Very embarrasing ;-) te he
Right - back to work. Oh one last thing. It has to be said after all - how cool is it that Obama got elected president yesterday! What a day to be alive aye!! Let's hope he does a lot great things for the US!!
Tuesday, November 4, 2008
Crash, Bang, Flash
What a night aye! First I did one of my 'waking up screaming & running across the room because there was a super size spider' nightmare things (on Friday night there were 2 hanging from the light shade - last night one had created a big web between my beside table and the curtain). Fortunately last night I woke up before I turned on the light though. On Friday night I gave Paul a hell of a fright when I turned on the light in the middle of the night - whoops - stupid nightmares!!
Anyway so you'd think that was enough excitement for one night right! Wrong! We got woken up about 3am by a massive storm outside. There was major lightening bolts that were lighting up the whole room (through our "black out" curtains too), followed by lots of loud crashing and banging thunder. Crazy stuff! I forgot to check the rain gauge when I got up this morning to see how much rain we had with it. Some parts got 23mm - but Brisbane gets storm cells so you can be fine while a few suburbs over they're getting hammered.
Anyway - so just thought I'd share that excitement with you. I'm sure when mum's visiting that she'll get to see a storm or 2 :-) They're pretty impressive aye!!
Anyway so you'd think that was enough excitement for one night right! Wrong! We got woken up about 3am by a massive storm outside. There was major lightening bolts that were lighting up the whole room (through our "black out" curtains too), followed by lots of loud crashing and banging thunder. Crazy stuff! I forgot to check the rain gauge when I got up this morning to see how much rain we had with it. Some parts got 23mm - but Brisbane gets storm cells so you can be fine while a few suburbs over they're getting hammered.
Anyway - so just thought I'd share that excitement with you. I'm sure when mum's visiting that she'll get to see a storm or 2 :-) They're pretty impressive aye!!
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