The QweenKaren Chronical

So much on the internet, most of which i can't be naffed with.

Sorry folks, I confess to only reading some of your posts, in a sparatic occurance. Some days i will check in, others not. No longer do I have the time or inclination to read my friend page at work - too busy, and always a pile of stuff to do. And my comments are fewer and further between.

there was going to be more, but i've run out of time - party tonight, much to do today!

friends - well, I always love my friends - you are all awesome in your own ways and you variances are what make you interesting :)

It's a Wonderful Life - I finally watched this today, after watching american's bemoan this movie on sitcoms, I hired it out and loved it ALL - it is an awesome movie - ok so I don't have to watch it every year at Xmas - but still can easily see why it is a classic!

Strawberries - these are so yummy right now

My boyfriend (yep I'm using that word). A few weeks ago I lent him my Pink Floyd - The Wall DVD, I think this is an amazing piece of imagery & music - If you have never seen it, and can appreciate symbolism, the music or your brain - please make an effort to see this. He obviously watched it over the last week & he made his costume from this film for the halloween party we went to last night.
In addition, he also came over, picked me up, took me to my ex's then back to my place all because I locked myself out of my house on my way to go and pick him up.

Work - busy but fun - yah!

My daughter - she has so much awesomeness it's crazy!

Been ages since i updated - well it feels that way anyway.

I am well, and have been. Ditto with Samantha.

Party went well, there was much merriment & a lot of singstar - including Queen, and just once, because I banned it, my work mate chose to attempt Bohemian Rapsedy, & fast realised why I had banned it. At 4am, the PSII gave up and I decided that it was time for my guests to leave. a couple of people made use of the spare beds and then went and caught buses at horrible times in the morning - 8am ick!

Not enough cherios were eaten, however the left overs have been repackaged & frozen for school lunches. And i have copious amounts of alcohol in my liquor cupboard now - woot!!

Work is work - tough at times, consistently busy, and i am making some progress although it seems a bit slower than we need. I am really enjoying my weekends!

I have Xmas sorted, mostly anyway. :)

ok, so perhaps the heading is an understatement. I'm pretty much twirling with anticipation & excitement!

Why?

I'm actually moving things with Dr MC forward, not pushing (I don't think) but gently coaxing things along.

Today Samantha, DR MC & I are going bowling! this will be their first meeting. Look I'm acting all grown up!!

They don't even have to like each other, that is not actually important, I figure that if I'm letting some guy in my life on a regular basis, then my daughter has the right to know who he is.

Ok, so now i better get the rest of my day going, but before i  do, I will leave you with one last photo - taken last Friday night for a "Heavy-metal vs Rap" disco:

then here is your invite!! to my Spring Party. - If you are on FB - check my events, accept the invite, or let me know you are in Wellington.

The  "Cocktail Sausage* Cocktail Party"

Where?  My house - if you don't know the address - ask.
When? 12th September from 7pm

Why? 2 reasons: 1. it's Spring, 2. Cocktails should have Cocktail Sausages*.

( For more info NSFW )


Cocktail Sausages* will be provided, but please bring ingredients for your favourite cocktail(s). If you are a vegetarian, please incorporate the dodgyness with Peaches.

*Cocktail Sausages are also known as 'Cherios' & as 'Little-boys-penis'

WINZ. that should be enough said really. Except... I have seldom had problems with them.

I'd like to avoid the queue and go online... but I need a UserID! grrrr.... so sick of being stuck in a leaky boat, nice they play kiwi music... but the same tracks everytime you ring??!! and I have tried calling them about 6 or 7 times today!!

I'm feeling a little stressed right now as well, with mounting work and mounting responsibility - starting Monday, with litle direction as to how everything will be organised, I feel like I'm about to flip out!! Oh and the issue that i have to present my "Fabulous" fundraising idea to the school BOT tonight... arrrrrgggggggg!!!!!!!!

I have to admit our corporate stress balls are pretty good - I can see why our customers like them :)

and after 13minutes on hold, finally got through, got an online userID etc, & will have 'my' money within 2 days! awesome!!

Good party on Saturday - cheers anarchangel23 !

My friday consisted of having my girl with me at work, until I took her to the doctors. On Thursday she got a stick poked in her eye - shesh! At the doctors we looked at her eye, and she had a graze on it, so the Doc called the eye specialist & into the Wellington Hospital we went to see them. Had to wait around until about 6pm and Sam is INCREDIBLY lucky no premanent damage was done. I could not measure how close it was though! So we were given a prescription of antibiotic eye drops & on our way again, out to the local after hours pharmacy.
Sam was so good the whole day, with looking where directed and being very tolerant of Doctor lights etc.

So, no hockey on Saturday morning, but off to Bob's for work, where I made an easy $30 off an other Real Estate agent :) Then home for a couple of hours before dropping Sam off to her Dads for the night, then home... ahhh bath :) then off to DR MC (where i caught him watching the X-Files! - shock!) & party time!!
It was great to catch up with several people I hadn't seen since about New Years. Rock band was fun, yet not invasive so people could have conversations & the nibbles put on were grand!

I have to admit my Sundays are turning into very lazy days, and I'm not altogether comfortable with this, although I find it very hard to get my arse out of bed!

Yesterday I had to take Sam back to the eye clinic, & her eye is healing very well, she has her sight back as well (friday it was very blurry through the affected eye).
Today is my 2 year anniversay at my work - which is very cool! I was in town for half the day visiting customers and getting ready to take over from my work mate when she leaves - next week.
I made a carrot cake for work, and while away got a text from Ants saying how awesome my cake was :) then I came back and indeed it is awesome!!

This afternoon I got all the details regarding the work trip to Auckland in a feew weeks - loads of fun & I have to make a mask for the evening event.... oooooo cocktail attire & mask! I shan't be making another out fit... but i'd like to see what I can do with mask creation. Just have to get passed my crafty-swap tomorrow night, Sam's birthday next weekend... uh oh, not much time!

Email 1: "I have half made a cup of tea and there is no milk. Can you fix this dilemma for me?"

My Reply.....................................................................................................................

Email 2: "That was not the answer I was expecting."

This was an internal work email.

I'd like to see your guesses over the next 24 hours, then (if anyone actually plays my game) I will post the actual reply.

A lady came into our shop earlier and asked if anyone would like to buy some fudge, as i actually had $5 i thought why not?? and selected a bag of Russian fudge. I was going to wait until later in the day - like 3pm or 4pm, before having a piece, but the bag kept looking at me, so I selected a small morsel and OMFG! this has to be the best russian fudge EVER!! better than the Fudge Cottage in Chch, yes, I said it! BETTER!!!! It just melts in your (my) mouth arrrggggg.



now this bag is tucked away in my drawer, i really hope I can make it through the day without devouring the entire lot!!

Shhhhhhhh!

I was just wondering if any of you readers wanted an update on anything I have previously mentioned???

FYI: I kept my job, my colleague handed in her resignation, so that is going to lead to some very interesting and busy times. I think I can handle it though. I'm actually looking forward to it.

Dr MC & I are still seeing each other, and having some fun times. I'm not ready to leave a tooth brush at his place though. He did however lend me some electronics :) this has also made my daughter happy.

I had a good weekend - busy. Went to a flatwarming on Friday which was awesome - fabulous people, fabulous digs. I was sober for the evening, and was pleasantly entertained. I took Dr MC along, and it was nice to be out, & chat as well as be around others. It is nice getting to know people and in different environments too. We left town at 1am, and I got home at 9am, then had my usual busy saturday then got a nap in the afternoon, before taking Sam to her dad's and me getting ready to go out again. The Dr & I spent the night watching a DVD tho - nice and quiet... pretty much.

Right now though I feel like I need a weekend off to recover from my weekends - well, my body feels this way, my brain is telling me to get hard and step up!

one of the first things that makes me so angry is Spousal Abuse - wither mentally, physically, against male or female. People who abuse others are cowardly bullies, and I would really like to just smack their arse into next month. (yeah, yeah violence is not the answer)
Secondly, people who see it going on and do nothing to support the victim or tell the abuser that what they are doing is wrong.
There are (unfortunately) many other forms of abuse that are just as bad and even worse, but what are WE doing about it?? I don't think it is ok just to sit back, and say "not our problem" let the police, judicial system & government try to fix it.

I think it's time to say "No". I'm going to start saying "No". no more PJ wearing slobs at the mall - not ok! No to the abuseing wankers. No to people who are too timid to stand up for what they say they believe in.

I think all that needs to be done is a simple & quiet "That's not cool" said more often to more people. They obviously dont know!

In other news: Apparently NZ is becoming one of the fattest nations in the world. I was not too surprised after seeing how concerned we are over Cadbury chocolate changing their recipe, size & location and the Gingernut plight. things that make our news headlines!!

I find my self thinking about Dr MC more and more. Most of this is due to the interesting and creative conversations we have had. He likes to invent stuff, and he has a lot of the practical know-how (he has a "laser-guy" at work!!!) where as I just have inventive ideas. I'm also still excited by the fact he has a circular saw... I was relaying this to a RL friend recently and went all high pitched.

Also it appears I've lost just a little bit of mass - due to me locating a long lost skirt today for skirt-wednesday, and I actually fit it! Yah!!

Work... um, yeah. So work... things are picking up in terms of dollar values this month, however my boss has got to the point where he is going to have to make one of us redundant. Might be me, might be the other girl. The local mall has a position going for an office manager for the same salary I'm on now - might work out!?
I did tell my boss I can go down to a 4 day week, due to the money I currently get from Bob, and luckily I have 2 more shopping jobs this month. So far I haven't had to spend any of my shopping money either. it's nice to slowly get savings again.

I wish I had a "laser guy" at work!

on Wednesday, one NZ website was offering mystery $10 packages... so I checked my account & wooo hooo my tax return came through!!

And so today I got this:



so now i have an apple for my apple - I love it!!!!!!!!!

In other news I paid some bills and got a little less debt.

Today My girl had her end of term "Funky Friday" todays theme was Kiwiana.

Here she is as the "Interislander Fairy"

 

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YouTube - ANZAC Day 2008 - Last Post at Gallipoli
 

One day i would like to go to Gallipoli to honour my grandfather. Of course I would also like to go to Egypt, where he was stationed as an ambulance driver.

I'd like to end this month's posting with thanks. Thanks to my family & my friends who make my RL more real, more fun and more interesting everyday. Thanks to my online friends too who have read & commented & shared. I've enjoyed making so many posts, and have found a few more people to add & be entertained by. From here... the world is whatever i make it, but I shall continue to post, just perhaps not quite so often as this month.

nearly there, although technically today is my last day. Hence this will be the first of 2 posts (all going well) today.

Today at work (yah work) I has a legitimate reason for calling my friends and asking them about painting war figures (actually it was polystyrene). Several good things involving orders came through today - yah!
Unfortunately Samantha threw up at school & I had to pick her up at 10:30am, so she has been here all day, mostly good but in the last hour or two, driving me crazy!!
By this she should be perfectly fine for school tomorrow!!

I finally found the game that a friend of mine rated as pretty good, and so have been playing that since yesterday. :) Still only day two, we'll see if it still holds my attention after a week. Evony is the game. I first saw it advertised here on LJ, but then by the time I was ready the ads had gone.

Having yesterday off was nice, although I was somewhat concerned that it only took me about an hour to catch up a whole days work!!

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Here is a post nice and early, due to sickness in the home... damn school spreading germs & building immune systems!

At least once a fortnight, at about 7:30pm on a Sunday, my mother calls, & we catch up for the week. Not much really changes... we keep busy, but it's just what we do. Due to the fact that she always calls me before she calls my little sister, I thought I better tell Mum I'd been seeing someone - not that it's all that serious, more that it is nice to hear these things from the horses mouth (so to speak).

Many of you may be thinking she is now planning weddings & baby outfits, but no... I think i have mentioned how fabulous our Mum is. She is normally happier when we girls are single - probably due to the choices we have made, and she knows damn well what rats men can be. So it was with relief that I could say this Dr MC has X job, was at uni with me back in the day, doesn't want to get married, and has never lived with a girlfriend so won't invade my space. The most awkward part was teling her his name, which just so happens to be the same as my "Father's". I did get the "Oh no, well I suppose it's not his fault" response.
While we were talking about other things like this whole swine flu thing & all the pandemic products I've been selling at work, she told me I had become "quite cynical" in my old age!! lol! maybe. But just because I think that buying and using product A is a waste of time & money, doesn't mean I won't sell it to you :)

In slightly related news, another Saturday evening went well, I had lots of mad rushing to get Sam to her Dads, then back home, slight change of clothes, bit of makeup, cook roast, & mostly completed the making of the pie (with my gorgeous apron one) when Dr MC arrived. Lamb was pretty good, but the Black currant pie with cream was oh so good!! and the next day we had some for breakfast... although i suppose it was more like lunch. mmmmm pie!! I made him watch 'Crank', and made him take home 'Meet the Feebles' my DVD playing has decided to stop working & the Playstation only takes region 4. I have never used my playstation as much as i have in the last few weeks!!

There was almost "that conversation" but I carefully shut my mouth at the right times & avoided it nicely. (I think i did anyway) Although I'm pretty sure he no longer considers himself to be "single". It is nice to have conversations with someone and not be allowed to dumb myself down, the only problem I have with this, is that I have spent so much of my life dumbing myself down, or taking slightly complicated things & dumbing them down for others, that it is a little draining. poor wee brain, actually having to work! lol!
And before anyone gets the wrong idea, I don't mean that I have to dumb myself down for my friends, but at work I do alot of technical explaing into layman's terms, and most of my previous relationships haven't been with smart men (incase you couldn't guess).

I am an internet stalker. It's true. Personally my own name is so common, that anyone can google me and not find anything due to the sheer mass of people with the same name. I don't even bother to hide much online, I'm careful mostly about photos I put on in regards to my daughter & information I put about my friends. So I come up with little psuedonyms for them.
Finally (after 2ish weeks) I have one for my new friend... "Dr MC". He's no hip hop DJ though, no sir! Through my ability to Google & Bing, I have found out his middle name and he has a doctorate. I also read one of his papers and surprised myself in that I could mostly understand it.

Yesterday, I was looking into the number of times I have posted here.

In 2007: 166 posts
In 2008: 81 posts
So far for 2009 : 54 posts - 26 of these have been this month.

In 2007 I was new to Wellington, and felt it necessary to keep my friends up to date with what I was up to, lately however, I've obviously slacked off, not sure whether i have been too busy, too boring, or lazy. can't blame FB either, I've been there since 07...hmmm anyway, I would have thought that with the slack posting, I would have found 30 in 30 a lot harder than it has been.

This could be really boring so I'll cut it (sorry for not cutting all my jobs the other day)

( Read more... )The weekends are very different, & often things happen during the week which will chage my evening - this week I had 'Dad' come & visit on Monday night, where he cooked tea, last night we had Parent Teacher conference (our girl is smart - in case you had doubts), tonight I have to clean my house properly for the weekend's influx of possible people, and tomorrow we'll be grocery shopping for the weekend. these things don't change things alot, but the timing is a bit different. (Samantha has already volounteered to clean the bathroom & toilet, she hates vacuuming, but suggested we both tidy the kitchen :) )

There are some things in life that are good, and there are some things that make things better.

My AA (automobile Association) membership is one that makes life a little better. I don't ring them very often, infact in the last 2 years I don't think I have had to call them once. I have been a member (this time) since 2006.
I got my first membership with my first car when I was 17.
It's like an insurance policy really, cause i don't have friends with tow trucks.
they also have a loyalty programme, I get points, which i use to make my membership cheaper. At the moment I get 10% off at BK too.

Currently it is cold (something to do with winter) and Wellington is not used to frosts, so it feels extra cold. My car sits outside, so the most amount of work my AA card is currently getting is scraping the ice off the window.
It's nice to have versatility in a membership card :)