Save the light

It's been daylight savings changes over the weekend.  I am glad because it's finally feeling like summer.  I'm tired after getting up an hour early!  I truly love the change in seasons when we're heading towards summer.  There is a change in the feel of the sun - at the moment it's clear and crisp and warm in the sun, but it's moving into heat in the earth and warmer general feel.  That means that summer is coming.  If it wasn't for the cold winter, I wouldn't really appreciate the sun.  When I lived in brisbane, I lost the appreciation of the warmth - it's so hot that the sun is a bad thing.  I am so tuned into summer that I wake up happier on sunny days.  Thank you universe!

it's full of iron, is that why people don't like it - me(n)tal!

My fabulous flatmate gardens in the garden.

While she's been away I've been enjoying the fresh spinach in the raised bed, and only found out too late that the broccolli had gone to seed!

I miss growing stuff - pots are great but don't have quite the same capabilities!

Still... only til I have enough saved for my own house again :}

Karepokee

Those of you who know me at all will know I love to sing.  You can always tell when I'm happy - you'll hear me coming :}  So when my friend Karen asked me over for a spot of singstar I was there!  Thanks to karen, Cat and the girls for a fun night of kareoke and chitchat.  (thanks to karen for the photo of me taken on my camera too!)

Two for the price

Two posts today to cover the last couple of days.  Above - Cat Cam!

Although i think this blog thing is a great idea, it's not always easy to come up with something interesting in an average day.  So after a fairly normal, if full-on, day at work and blobbing out in front of the TV, I took a few photos around the sitting room, thinking "what do i appreciate today" and I have to say I have the best couch in the world!  It is really comfortable, supports your back, is deep enough for me to not have half my legs sticking out, lightweight even though it's solid, long enough to sleep on and has zany fabric!  This came from the middle east, a gift from my father when he left the country and I have appreciated it more and more over the years.  Thanks Dad.

day 4 - visual illusions

I have a great daily gadet on my toolbar which gives me a new visual illusion every day.  This is a classic.

Day 2 - data conversion starts without too many hitches

Today was the first day of the 2-week countdown to going live with Phoenix (the application we've been building at TLC).  I'm really glad that we only had a small hitch - things could have gone alot worse!.  We got the log-ons sorted out for the 6 ladies doing the data entry, and we were away.  Already 200-odd of 950 records are in the real system - awesome!

Even better, I am up to date with all the stories (functions) in the current iteration - it was worth a few hours on saturday.

Day one - a day out

I went for an awesome walk today from Te Aro, where I was visiting my friend Marcel's plot of land, to Karori, where I spent the afternoon in the sun on my friend's balcony. On the way I saw this cool building and couldn't resist. In wellington we have some of the most amazing buildings possible. I think our builders must be some of the best in the world! given some of the things you see around town.