Future Ramblings

This time tomorrow Kirsty and I will be married and heading out the “cottage” we’ve rented for the night. The next day we fly out to Fiji. So yeah … next time you hear from me I will be married!

It's hard to believe that my life is going to be completely different in six days. The obvious one (and the most important in the eyes of some of my rellies) is that i will no longer be living in sin. It doesn't bother me but i know some of my aunts haven't appreciated the past six years of sinning on my behalf. Of course as is the case with this kind of thing one of these aunts disappeared off north in disgrace when she was 15 to give birth. Nothing quite like hypocrisy huh?

Forget that though ... I'm married in six days!

I will be married in just over nine days.

How fucking huge is that!

After ten years with my beautiful Kirsty we will finally be married. I'm amazed, scared and excited in one. It's so close that I can taste the moment and it’s finally starting to seem real. Up till now it has seemed like this far away event that is an age away. Now with only a few days to go it’s impossible to ignore - not that I'd want to!

There's still a whole lot of things to organise (like writing the vows) but here's a couple of piccies our photographer took at the venue of K and me:





Now I just need to shake the bug that’s been affecting me for the past couple of weeks. It’s tied into the campylobacter I got last October but the doctors can’t figure out what’s going on despite a battery of tests. Sigh. It’ll be right – at least that’s what I keep telling myself.

Nine days to go … that’s what matters :)

PS Campbell Live (a NZ TV show) is running a competition to win a trip to a luxury Fiji resort. The resort? Malolo where we’re going for our honeymoon! Booyah!

Whoah! Long time no write.

What have i been filling my time with? 

 
Did you miss me? 

EDIT: forgot to add that despite the fact i work in an IT centre with 15 computers i haven't been online much at all - i guess its the old thing of if you do something for work the last thing you want to do is do it in your free time. At least that's the way it felt like to me. So yeah I haven't been keeping up with anything or anyone. I'm a bad man 

We still haven’t settled on a venue for the wedding. We’ve narrowed it down to Romfords, a yacht club on the waterfront with a magnificent view of the harbour and the Hunting Lodge, a restaurant out in the wops that is attached to a winery and is also fantastic. I’m leaning towards having it at Romfords simply for the amazing view. When we were there there were fish swimming off the pier in crystal clear water! How freaking cool is that?

 

I had my job interview on Monday. I think it went ok – I have this sense that I’m a front runner, hell I’ve been doing the job for months already! The big boss has been really indiscrete since then and said ”when” you start before correcting herself with “if”. She’s fucked people before over jobs so who knows…

 

Oh oh oh! K got her engagement ring  back on Monday and has been wearing it everywhere! It looks sooooooooo cool :)   

Holleee ...

a lot has happened since my last post - mainly wedding related. The wedding in Fiji is off :( Mum decided that she wouldn't be going to the wedding if her sisters weren't going. Now she didn't actually know they weren't going - she just had a weird little "inkling" but that was enough to convince her that no she wouldn't go. So we had to back out. Pussies huh?

BUT ...

this means we honeymoon in Fiji *bounce bounce bounce* and we should have a lovely time :)

in the meantime we've been checking out wedding venues around Auckland and cringing at prices. Sigh. Weddings are expensive.

other news? I have a job interview for the Learning Centre job on Monday so i'm getting ready for that. I had some "advice" by the big boss on what to study so i'm not sure if that's a good sign or what... hmmm. She has been known to lie to people.

oh oh oh! i have started writing again which is a good sign :) i need to get this novel published, well first finished then published :)

a kid almost got killed at the library today. We have this mezzanine/second level kind of thing which is about fifteen feet high and looks out across the library. I happened to be in the workroom and i looked up and there's this kid leaning out from it, dangling like it was some monkey bars. I got him down before he fell, but sheesh ... not a good look for the library.

A friend of mine gave me Anne McCaffery's first Pern novel for my birthday. I read them all about twenty years ago but all I can remember are the dragons and descriptions of flying. Anyway the reread is going well even though i find some of the language used archaic. The dragons fucking rule though :)

(coincidentally K got me a bbok for xmas on raising dragons. Dragons fucking rule :))

We bought Ks engagement ring and our wedding bands today :) They're getting resized and i'll post some pics when we get them back. They are pretty though :)

We also started investigating a wedding in Fiji for April. The idea of a ceremony on a South Pacific island just sounds wonderful.

This post makes me sound like a girl

Today at work i was described by a customer as: the man who gave away his ferrari.

I am assuming that is a good thing

I have become completely addicted to Knights of the Old Republic. I knew it was a good game but i didn't have an xbox and my old pc couldn't play it but my new one .... :) it's soooooo good.

Christmas was good. Lots of eating and bizarrely a soccor game next to the beach. good fun :) I had an assist for a goal but paid for my prowess the next day when i couldn't walk due to my calf muscles seizing up. Nice.

Tuesday we went to King Kong at the new Gold Class cinema's here. Bloody nice and a bloody nice film too :) Nothing quite like watching an epic in a lazy-boy while waiters bring you food and drink :)

Work sucked yesterday but what is new? And that brings me to today and work. Hmmm. Nothing to report there. Work is .... work. People are stressed and the weather's oscillating between brilliant Kiwi summer and Auckland showers.

PS Does anyone have any recommendations for Podcasts? I'm looking for some more...

Things were much better today at work. Good since it's Xmas Eve. I cruised through the shift by making fun of the other staff with my partner in crime Rebecca. Overall it felt like i imagine a shift would do spent in addercat's company. yeah ... nice ;)

Man, it's hard to believe Christmas is tomorrow! Where did this year go? I've been through so much this year, achieved plenty but failed in other regards :( I really wanted the novel to be finished in front of publishers but what use are dreams without struggle hmm?

Anyway, in case i don't post for a couple of days, Merry Christmas everyone!

I have had an absolute shit of a week. Work has been awful and infuriating. there have been a number of issues that have developed into problems which have complicated into disasters. The stupid thing that really makes me mad is that most of them were caused by other people using my profile and i have been left to pick up the pieces. Fucking bastards....

I don't get any time off over Christmas either - only Christmas Day itself. Boxing Day and Tuesday are my usual days off. Fuckers.

I'm seriously hoping that i can leave this place and start at the Learning Centre in february. We'll see. It's been suggested its a given but fuck that i'm not resting my hopes on somebodies suggestion. I miss working at the Uni and i miss writing. The new job and situation doens't lend itself to writing and i've been stuck in chapter 21 for the last three months. Fuck that. Dreams are withering on the vine.

Ho fucking Ho

Before I came to work here I was warned that public libraries are where the freaks come to hang out. Today we had our first *shudder* and last *fingers crossed* paedophile. He was surfing the net looking at pictures of young boys. We thought it was dodgy but nothing that we could strictly speaking kick him out or block him for. THEN we discovered that he was also visiting chat rooms and talking about some fairly sick shit *shudder* We looked further into his “history” and he had been keeping a secret stash of more explicit pictures. Who knows how the bastard got past the porn blocker but somehow he did :( The police have been contacted but we’ll see what they can do about it.

Anyway the whole thing left a sick taste in my mouth today :(

Wheeeeee!!!! We bought a new computer! It’s so pretty :) Of course when I got it out of the box I discovered it didn’t have a printer port so we had to turn around and buy a USB printer. Doh! Still it’s all good and shiny. Now I’m just waiting for our network router to arrive and it will all be shiny :)

I think I’m still a bit crushed from the campylobacter. I get tired really easy plus I still have some of the other less pleasant symptoms :( I would think that I’ve suffered enough by now but the bastard keeps hitting me.

Ks been hammered by script writing work but I’m really proud of the way she’s been coping. Next week will be interesting. She’s returning to the job she got fired from earlier this year. Weird I know. Writing for television is a bitchy fucked up industry where personalities rule the fucking roost. Not ideal and not very pleasant. Still she’s back and that’s a big fuck you to the bitches that messed with her (can you tell I still feel strongly about the situation earlier this year?).

We did manage to go to the World’s Fastest Indian on Tuesday. Bloody good film, actually the best film I’ve seen with a Welshman playing a Kiwi travelling through America ;) We’re gonna try and see Harry Potter this week or maybe Narnia then its King Kong baby. Oh yeah :)

I've decided to apply for the Learning Centre promotion. From what the manager's are saying I've pretty much got the job but it seems they've pegged me for the new centre that is out in the middle of nowhere. Actually that's not quite true but it just feels that way compared to where I currently am working.

I have this inescapable feeling that I'm getting older. K and I hardly go out - I haven't seen Harry potter for god's sake! and I've got free tickets as well! I guess the fact that I'm still excited about Harry Potter is proof enough that I'm still me but I also find myself getting excited by new house/interior and design magazines. To tell you the truth I actually prefer staying in - for some reason it just feels so much nicer.

God, this is depressing me. I'm going to stop writing now.

We had to take Goldie to the vet this morning. He seemed a bit off colour yesterday then this morning we found blood on the sofa where he usually sleeps. We thought it might be a recurrance of his kidney problems so we got the cage to take him down when i discovered his belly was covered in blood. We rushed him down to the vet and found out that he had a fat abscess on his stomach that had burst :( We figure he had been fighting with the neighbours cat and been ripped on his belly. The wound festered until last night when it burst :( The vet is keeping him overnight and might operate tomorrow or Monday depending on whether the abscess settles or not.

Oh yeah in other news: work sucks :(

Oh my god I am now 30!

 

Of course it’s not so much when you believe you’re going to live forever ;)

 

K took me to a luxury suite at the Carlton and we had a brilliant time. I’m going to post pictures later this week and a proper description of it all.

 

addercat  is also amazing. She gave me Veronica Mars on dvd! How freaking unbelievable is that! She’s the best, you all should go and pay homage to her right now :)