I’m taking my first proper annual holiday from tomorrow and heading up North with Dave to see my grandparents, who live at Lang’s Beach in Northland (the real one, not the Wellington one). As the office is moving again when I get back, I don’t expect to blog until Monday next so hope you have all have a fabulous week!
Ciao!
One of my favourite movies is Love Actually, I can’t explain why . . . I just really really like it . . . anyway my all-time favourite scene is Hugh Grant as the British Prime Minister dancing to Jump (For My Love) by the Pointer Sisters. I guess, working in politics, you realise that MPs are incredibly human and it just strikes me as the kind of crazy thing they might like to do occasionally. Anyway, it turns out that the Hungarian Prime Minister agrees.
In February this year, a video made it onto the internet (in the way that videos do) made by the Hungarian Prime Minister as a wedding video gift. According to the PM, “it has been a habit for quite a few years with my friends that we watch a Hugh Grant movie on New Year’s Eve, more precisely at dawn on New Year’s Day, either Notting Hill or Love Actually“. In the spirit of this movie watching, the PM’s video shows him dancing around his study as Hugh Grant in Love Actually. What PM could resist the urge!
Much to my great disgust, Spain have just been evicted from the Football World Cup for losing to France 1-2. I thought Spain were quite good.
This was a horrible game for me, I support Spain as a team because they’re Spain and therefore great but my favourite player is from France. Very frustrating!
In other news, this morning’s DomPost “retail edition” is running late AGAIN this week . . . but the Herald’s arrived so I might read that. To be honest, I prefer the Herald at the moment, what a Wellington traitor I am!!
I am leaving in 83 days and I have already sent my trunk of textbooks across to my hall in London. It will take it 3 months on a boat, which is kinda funny when you think about it because it will only take me a day on a plane. That said, a day on a plane is a VERY long time! Lots of water and walking is the way to get through it. Anyway, I digress . . . in many ways I am quite scared about leaving, time seems to be flying and I haven’t saved nearly enough and I’m no where near ready to get rid of most of my stuff.
The thing that’s helping is that I have been looking at the amazing things that have happened in the last year and I’ve realised how much has happened and everything that God has taught me and given me. I currently have an awful lot to be thankful for and I don’t spend enough time thanking God. I thank God for (in vague order):
Thank you God (and family, friends, flatmates & Dave)!
Dave has uploaded CU ball 2006 photos and I appear in a couple of them . . . *shock horror*! For those who missed my ball appearance/my scary dress (which luckily isn’t shown in full here), here are two photos of me at the ball.
Someone decided it was a good idea to take a picture of me as I arrived . . . it appears I am a red-eyed zombie . . .
Indonesia raised the alert status of Mount Merapi volcano to its highest level again after it spewed hot clouds on Wednesday, a day after it lowered the warning.
Merapi in central Java, near the city of Yogyakarta, had been on the highest alert level since mid-May until Tuesday when a volcano monitoring centre said decreasing activity had made it less dangerous.
This is the same Yogyakarta as the place of last month’s Indonesian earthquake. Definitely an interesting place to be right now.
Just in case you haven’t seen the front page of today’s DomPost, here is a satellite view of the South Island on Monday 12 June. Beautifully glorious!
If you’d like a full size copy of this photo, leave a comment and I’ll email it to you.
The House is sitting and so I am still at work at 5:43pm.
I have a lot to be thankful for though:
Goodnight everyone (yes I know, what a boring post).
I love to hate this video because the man is mocking my all-time favourite euro-dance-pop song. It’s got to be good, it’s in Romanian. But he looks happy and I feel happy so here is . . .
drum roll please
. . .
what is popularly known as
. . .
the Numa Numa dance
Just remember that the important thing is that the song is called Dragostea Din Tei and this version is by O’Zone. None of this numa numa business. Oh and to watch the movie you need to click the “Watch this movie” link, which I can’t link to. Meh. YAY for Friday. Enjoy your weekend people!
This graph was made by blog.com to show me how many people have come to visit my blog each day. I’m impressed that people continue to visit even when it isn’t updated very regularly. But I like the graph, it jumps around when I first see it but I can’t show that caus I can’t catch it in time.
I have been just a tad busy doing stuff and have neglected my poor blog, how will it cope!
On Monday it will be 99 days until I run away to London and I have had to start getting ready already. I’m shipping (as in “on-a-boat-shipping”) my textbooks and other non-essential items across and it will take approximately 3 months to get there I am told so tomorrow I am putting the box of stuff together. Must remember to take textbooks off work bookshelf and put in bag for taking home tonight!
Work keeps me quite busy, but that is why they pay me I think.
In other news, early Saturday morning (very early) is the beginning of the World Cup (the football one) and I am trying to work out whether I’m too tired to get up and watch opening and opening match or whether my level of excitedness with a fair dose of caffeine could get me through. I am playing Pick the Score and TVNZ’s Virtual Football and I should like friends to play with so please sign up and join in . . . there are cool prizes!!! ooh and let me know if you sign up and join in . . . it’ll be fun, honest!!
I like Fridays, because they’re Friday, and they’re usually the day we go out for breakfast AND it’s also the day I usually go out for lunch with mum. And there’s group-of-twenty-somethings-gathering-at-ARC. Sheer brilliance! Have a lovely Friday and weekend everybody!!
