tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-182604512011-12-14T21:01:33.814+13:00Because you can't really call it science anymoreShttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11358008470558124726noreply@blogger.comBlogger3811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18260451.post-40713480250585966312011-12-03T18:00:00.000+13:002011-12-03T18:00:06.066+13:00

There are a lot of things in life that are difficult to accept when you are young.... 1) That you are not uber smart and have many awesome original thoughts every day and if only someone would recognise you for your brilliance and pay you simply to share the amazing ideas you have. - I'm pretty sure that I did have amazing ideas at one stage. I look back at my university essays and wonder who

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I'm learning to crochet, I'm starting with granny squares, these are a bit flower power. Another couple of designs. I'm not super driven to create, I am more of a consumer of culture, but I always enjoy learning a new skill. I've done 9 squares and I hope to have enough to make a blanket eventually. There will be a mixture of flowers and plain white squares, its going to be proper

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So I knew I had an evening home alone and fancied cooking ...uh er.. I mean making something a little different. First stop, the butcher. I went to the butcher in Milford just down the road from the hospital. Eye fillet was selected and a piece cut from a whole fillet. 133 grams worth, which was actually quite a lot. I would probably use only about 100g next time. Once home I finely diced

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View from the tenth floor More stair climbing in my break. This is the view from the main stair well on the tenth floor. You can go up another floor but it narrows to single file and  some nurse was trying to have a private conversation on her cell half way up and by the looks of things didn't need my heavy breathing ruining her day. My calf muscles are a wreck. Stairs fuck you up. big

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View from the top! So in my break, instead of lounging around drinking bad coffee and listening to the inane gossip about princess beatrice getting married and OMG dan carters groin and didn't she lose a lot of weight blah blah blah (woman's magazines should be banned, I'm not for book burning per say but I would be happy if I never saw another woman's day, new idea or woman's weekly in the

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A friend of mine is doing a wee project for 100 days. 100 days of Alfred Mao which is a cat by the way and who doesn't love cats?! Weirdos, thats who. Anyway, I am encouraged to do my own 100 days project. I like the idea of trying something consistently and how much is a 100 days really? I mean I probably spent that much time alone on the internet just looking at crap in the past year.... I've

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A good friend recently directed me at a NZherald article which pointed out that due to our low fat dietary choices many adults are missing out on essential fat soluble nutrients (mainly vitamin A but probably D,E and K as well!) I've been reading lots about fat over the years and its not the big evil doer its been made out to be. There are a lot of benefits to be gained from fats, eliminate

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I've taken up jogging again. I dream of being athletic and having confidence in the fitness of my body. I dream that one day I will be able to join that spontaneous game of volleyball, that last minute hike through a national park, a fun run will be fun and at no point in time will I drop red faced to the ground gasping for breath pleading for everyone to "go on without me". In the pursuit of

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My gym is far too crowded at 3:30pm. DON’T ANY OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE JOBS! I want to lift heavy, heavy weights. So this new gym I joined has a weight room, but its full of bro’s. Am I the only female in there? yes. Scary. Any who,  when they showed me my program it was only demonstrated to me on this one adjustable rack, and today it was being used, I wandered around and looked at the other

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After completely forgetting how long we'd been married we finally figured out (after digging up our old Vegas photos and looking at the date tags) that we have been married for 5 whole years. So off for some fine Japanese dining to celebrate. Musashi in Milford is a small bustling restaurant with excellent food and service. Where else can you get your grilled eye fillet nigiri torched table

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Many moons ago I got some vouchers on grabone for 1/2 price Waiheke ferry and lunch at Stonyridge winery. My dear Nina also jumped on this deal so we were all set for a girls day out on Waiheke, Sadly the lunch vouchers were only 1 voucher for two people, so we were stuck with an extra voucher. I'm on a ferry So we're on the 11am ferry and Nina (an ex waiheke native) runs into some friend and

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Tea all the way from London. My previous blog post was a bit depressing, I blog so little these days and I had largely put the post out of my mind, when in the last week I received an unexpected phone call and a long distance old timey actual hold in hand letter. Two old friends, one I am lucky to see once a year and another whom I haven't seen in a very very long time. I was deeply moved by

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I'm really struggling with the use of certain painkillers at the moment. On days that I take them I find I am relaxed, happy, pleasant towards my co-workers. I feel as though they let me be my normal happy self, free from the constant pain that otherwise leaves me irritable tearful and generally unpleasant to work with. Some days I don't take them. I do this very deliberately, to see what its

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A repetitive movement at work, that I have been doing for 11 years now finally caught up with me. It caused a burning pain that just got worse and worse. Constant stabbing and burning, no position would relieve it, many sleepless nights were had. Through the Occupational Health dept  I was able to get a couple months respite from doing the movement and treatment to heal the injury. I busied

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A well know fact about internal travel is that it's actually faster to fly to Wellington than to drive to Auckland airport. I allocated 1.5 hours to make the journey and yes we made it on time (just), but the traffic is so unpredictable that every halt on the motorway was, In my mind, a delay dooming us all. Cursing my husbands every navigational decision, sometimes out loud and often in my head,

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Over winter I grew a few salad greens in containers on my front deck, this was surprisingly successful. With all the rain no watering was needed and I could pick salad greens any time. Winter also means almost no pests! Well certainly no aphids, there were a few brave snails. These can be dealt with by hand no nasty chemicals needed. I bought the plants as seedlings on sale at kings plant barn.(

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My house is old. 1960 old, well, er, *cough* thats not that old really. erhm. Anyway. This winter the condensation has been particularly bad and the amount of mildew and mold growing in the place has just been a nightmare. Washing the windows and net curtains is like an exercise in level 1 decontamination. I JUST COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. So I went hunting for a dehumidifier, they were

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The other day at work I mentioned that I got a voucher in the mail for some free KFC, it had been years since I've tasted and I was moaning that the Potato and gravy wasn't as good as I remembered. Someone asked where the voucher came from and I mentioned that I was a shareholder and it came included in the annual report. So one of my co-workers scoffed, "How can someone who claims to be poor own

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I like browsing Trademe for cool stuffs, like this. Recently Trademe has upped the Gallery price to $0.75, this means a lot of awesome $1 reserve items like the one above are being listed without a photo.No photo's until you click through to the auctions makes for slow tedious trademe hunting. You'd be surprised how many "awesome" and "retro" things are just crap and ugly when you click through

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I rescued him from trademe, he was being sold as a green owl. But I think he's a Kakapo.

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Bruichladdich produce some very interesting whiskies. The other night we got to try 6 of their new releases.Two stood out for me. 1)The quadruple distilled 3YO. Legally you can't call it whisky until its three years old, so this is the earliest they can sell it as a whisky (visa-vie a grain spirit). Its the closet to how whisky would have tasted hundreds of years ago. It was 63.5 % alcohol and

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My electronics exploits with the Funway kit from Dick smith. Now I need a magnifying glass cause the labels on the transistors are soooooo TINY!

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Damn it, winters approaching and The Deal has to go and announce a sale on faux possum winter throws. But I am in savings mode right now, plans are for a big midwinter party to celebrate Zed's (and my) big number birthdays. All up we're 80. So the big temptation is to have an 80's party. But costumes tend to freak people out, so maybe everyone can just RSVP with their favourite 80's song and

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superb starling, originally uploaded by Musicaltone.Starling of disapproval disproves of your bird watching.

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I don't know anything about electronics and it fucking annoys me. So in the weekend I went to Dick Smith and bought....... Yeah, that's right. And some batteries, it says on the box that everything battery operated. I guessed AA batteries.You may think Funway is just for kids, but YOU ARE COMPLETELY WRONG. Its also for misguided 30 year olds who suddenly realise they've missed out on vital

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I love learning new things, that combined with my short attention span has lead to many half arsed projects in my life. I can only go so many weeks of enduring mindless work followed by mindless after work house cleaning and TV watching. (which sometimes happens, swings and roundabouts, sometimes all I want to do is shut my brain off completely). But when I want to hear about new things, this

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The french martini was invented by the good folk who make chambord, in an effort to popularise their liqueur. (Isn't strange how you have to enter your date of birth, just to read about alcohol on the internet). Anyway, I don't require your date of birth, but your credit card details will be just fine. Chambord is a raspberry and blackberry liqueur, its relatively low in alcohol (16.5 %) and

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I'm back!! Did you miss me? No? Well at least my cat did. I kept waking up in the middle of the night to loud purring and a cat snuggled up on my chest and the mouse heads on the stairs were obviously a welcome home gift. That's true love right there. We left in a bit of a hurry and the place was a freaking mess to come home too, I've got a ton of cleaning and washing to do. BAH. Sadly I hurt my

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Some friday nights you have some beers and don't want to get up too early the next day. So at 2 we set of for the WHY.TACKS. The hills were covered in mist, my ears popped as we climbed higher through the swill. At last we reached the Fairy Falls track. Step one, disinfect shoes. There is a nasty Kauri virus going round. Step two, begin descent. Its a decent climb down to the falls, many many

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An early tide meant a somewhat early start, but the calm reflective early morning waters were just reward for getting up with the birds.We spotted plenty of birds on the trip, Pukekos, Herons, Shags, Kingfishers, Tuis and ducks galore. When we got closer to the sea the slight onshore breeze generated a bit of chop, but overall its an easy trip. The river is tidal so the kayak hire place only

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Zed and I enjoyed lunch and walk around the waterfront yesterday. We walked from Mission bay back towards the city. It was a glorious day, sunshine, heat and an ocean breeze to keep us from overheating. And to top it all off, parked outside Kelly tarltons was the Sharkbus! I'd never seen it before so I took a photo.

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Just north of Torbay is the Okura Scenic reserve, a chunk of native bush along an estuary. The fool hardy can also undertake a 10km hike through said reserve and along a beach to visit a tiny historic brick cottage. The Okura track is promoted as easy, and its not too bad apart from a couple of steep climbs which my calf muscles are still recovering from, but the track is in good condition and

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This year, I have to stay sober for Christmas. I'm the on call technician, so I be sober and clear headed to have the wits about me to "turn if off then on again". My favourite low alcohol beer is Clausthaler. You can get 4 packs at Foodtown and Countdown for around $7. there are 0.5% alcohol each. I can drink ten of these before reaching the equivalent of one standard beer. You may be

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I bought myself a christmas present today. A heavy stainless steel fry pan. I keep killing those teflon ones. I do have a great cast iron pan, but there are a little bit of a hassle to clean and season each time (but absolutely the best thing to cook with) I watched this video over at Houseboat Eats about the water test in a stainless steel pan to determine correct cooking temperature and why an

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I got an A- in my exam, I am stoked, i only had a B+ heading in, so I really nailed that sucker. heh heh. Such an adult student now. Been wandering around the neighbourhood, I stole 3 miniature rose blooms and stuck them in my hair. Bought a coke, sauntered up the hill in the setting sunlight. Been reading lately, using the library online request system is the bomb. I browse for what i want,

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Got up, ate avocado on toast for breakfast and a cup of tea.Checked my shares. No change. I still suck at investing. (Except for the stock Dylan told me about. It was up)Worked, had the $5 Chinese lunch from across the road because someone said it was good yesterday. I was average. Worked some more, slacked off in the afternoon. Cleaned my slide drainer. It was quiet.Drove home. Opened my parcel

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God damn husband, being older than me.He'll be retired while I'll still be slaving away, 8 hours a day working for the MAN. Although technically working for the government is a pretty good gig in this country, work is work, is working for others gain and a minimal wage.So I've got to get a plan, somehow I need to retire at the same time as my husband, then I can dedicate my time to pottering

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I'm a grumpy old woman now.Officially. I never thought 29 would be the end point, but what can I say, I'm over it.I'm over loud obnoxious music being piped into the restaurant.I really don't enjoy shouting at my friends for 2 hours or crappy service.Monsoon Poon is a restaurant that thinks its a nightclub, with their policy of sending everyone to the bar to spend money on drinks first and pumping

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Some 21 year old guy was asking advice on reddit on how to like beer. 21 is pretty late to learn how to enjoy beer but I'm sure it can be done. In order to give the guy some decent advice I reflected on why I enjoy beer so much.I think alcohol enjoyment is a learned cultural phenomenon. While in the past unsafe water supply was mitigated with the production of alcohols ,today we enjoy clean safe

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I was buying a tomato plant at Kings Plant Barn in Porana road when my husband had a hankering for coffee, thanks to the trend of installing cafes in garden centers I was able to oblige and whilst waiting I admired the mosaic of the queens jewels.I bought cucumber and tomato seedlings so I hope the cold weather is finally at an end.

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http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10599620 Stolen from the Herald! Visit the above link for original article. Bakers start producing bread with iodised salt this weekend. By law they must now use the ingredient to introduce iodine to New Zealanders' diets and help to overcome the risk of iodine deficiency. Only organic and unleavened bread will be excluded from the

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One hypothesis on how early man got the jump on the neanderthals is seafood. Early man took advantage of the sea's bounty, eating shellfish seaweed and fish. The extra omega 3 is thought to have fueled brain development giving them an edge over their large mammal eating cousins.But maybe its not just the omega 3 that increased the brain power, Iodine may have played a role as well. Iodine

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I'm nearly 30 and I pay $17.83 a fortnight for Health Insurance. $463 a year for Hospital and Specialist care.Sure I can get treatment for free at any public hospital, but there are waiting times to consider.And if I have to go to hospital, I'd like a private room and not have to listen to the person next to me crying out in agony all night in a vain attempt to be given some morphine.So is it a

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This popped up on MY facebook page one day, I was not impressed. Okay well actually I laughed, then posted the image on zeds facebook page telling him he was in big trouble. Some of his facebook friends thought I was serious (they haven't met me). Facebook has the option to allow/disallow use of your picture in adverts. For the sake of your loved ones please disallow use of your picture in

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So pretty, so shiny, so luminescent! We need more shiny to brighten up the winter days.

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Ah the joys of extramural study....... oh hang on, there are none. I miss lectures! I don't miss undergrad labs though, they always seemed so pointless.Okay I lie, one benefit of extramural study is being able to lie in bed on a cold night doing your required readings on your laptop because you managed to find a "copy" of your text book and journals online. Joys. Or emailing the course

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BEFOREI'm not known for my tidiness, but man look at my desk! Its just a general dumping ground for bills and other crap I don't know what to do with. I just cleaned all my junk out of the car, I suppose I should do my desk as well. It does NOT strike me as a fun Monday night activity. Drinking beers and then falling asleep reading my book in bed sounds much better.AFTERAh sweet clean desk, now

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Its like flybuys for the internet. Shop at certain online stores, get points. Its a simple loyalty reward system.With Smile City you trade those points for cash or goods. I get about $120 a year without going out of my way to buy anything extra.Some online stores that you earn points through arePharmacy Direct, Fishpond books, Liquor King, Foodtown, Duty free stores, Airport parking, City flowers

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But some days, I am rewarded with beautiful sunrises across the hospital car park. Of course co workers give OMG crazy lady alert glances when I stop to take such pictures at 7am.

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I'm a big fan of trying recipes I found on the Internet. I'm a daredevil like that. Tonight I'm trying heroin wings. 4 lb chicken wings (I'm using chicken nibbles) 1/2 cup butter 1 cup grated Parmesan cheese 2 tbsp dried parsley (I'm not using this, blech!) 1 tbsp dried oregano 2 tsp paprika 1 tsp salt 1/2 tsp freshly-ground black pepper (I'm adding garlic powder baby!) Roll your chicken

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I had a whole morning to myself as husband was on a song writing course and stepson didn't finish rock climbing until 12, so I thought I might get up early and check out the Farmers Markets in town.But who can drag themselves out of bed early on a cold winter morning? No one, thats who. Except those freaks who like jogging in a chill factor of minus one. Really you guys? You like that stuff? My

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A calorie, is a calorie. All that matters is how many you eat.Or so I thought.This book examines the deeper metabolic interactions of our food. Did you know insulin can affect your blood pressure? So eating that doughnut can raise your blood pressure! Or that low cholesterol is linked to higher incidences of strokes, so by taking all those cholesterol lowering drugs you could be at greater risk

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What the frack is an Omega 3 anyway?Okay we are going to have to go into a little chemistry here (and not the sexy kind unless you're a biochemists who specialises in lipids, and if you are, well I'm already married so that ship has sailed my friend!)Omega 3 refers to a whole family of fatty acids, not just a single compound. An omega 3 fatty acid has a double carbon bond c=c in the third (n-3)

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This tasty flaxseed muffin is so quick to make and is perfect for breakfast of afternoon tea!I've stared eating linseed aka flax as a better way to get omega 3. I have been taking fish oil tablets, but I occasionally get reflux from them (ew fishy burps!) and apart from bad breath there is a concern about mecury in fish, so I'm trying a plant based alternative. This healthy treat is gluten free

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Books, I love buying them from the Internet, you know what you are getting and there are no fears of wrong colour, size, or poorly made products.Now that the NZ dollar has fallen back down to reasonable levels, purchases from Amazon are no longer as cost effective and most bargains are lost with the extra postage costs.So what options are available for Buying Local, who has competitive prices and

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The north shore is a pretty calm place. The most scandalous thing thats been happening here is the "Supermarket Wars." Two rivals battle it out for customers and will go to insane length like court cases and appeals that take 20 years. All over biscuits and cheese. Groceries must be big bucks.1)staff on minimum wages2) ?????3) profit!!!!I got a free coffee so that was all good, it was a bit of a

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Apparently you can cook whole meals in the rice cooker. I got the idea from a Bento food blogAdd rice and water as usual, then throw the following on top, sliced chicken breast, 1/4 cup teriyaki sauce, A big massive pile of mushrooms ( I used brown field and oyster mushrooms).If you look carefully you can see that I used free range chicken! Yes, chickens that got to go outside before being

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This is me after running 5km. I look rather chipper if I do say so myself. We are all hanging round for the prize giving. Run Auckland events are awesome. If you win your race, you get a box of powerade. whopp de doo. But the spot prizes are awesome! The emphasis is on participation, getting auckland off its collective butt.I ran a rather slow pace. But I finished, next race is in three weeks

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Of course during periods of crisis on must stay strong. Stiff upper lip and all that. So a Sunday afternoon was spent listening to Jazz at Sale st in the city. Just above glengarry wine shop near Victoria park, this surprisingly large bar has a really nice outdoor area/garden bar kinda thing. Very cool for the inner city.Of course it was a cold grey Sunday afternoon when we went, but you get the

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Oh man, I have been disconnected for so long now! Hanging on to the Internets by a small thread, of slow work Internets and Zeds laptop. All thanks to this little bastard. Crummy old motherboard. Oh and crummy old power supply.So my motherboard was dying and corrupting my hard drive with it. It wasn't going down alone. Thanks to genius husband and apple computers all my data was saved! (though

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Sometimes a girl has got to treat herself...... yes treat herself to 15 minutes of agony. Treat my arse.Anyway sometimes I get my eyebrows done, its $18 but I always feel a million bucks afterwards so its a good investment. If I look a little shiny in this photo I must admit I have been slaving in the kitchen making spinach and ricotta cannelloni. SLAVING. I'm actually having people over for

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Polarised lenses bitches!These I officially saved up for. I bought them, then had to wait weeks and weeks, but finally they arrived. Shiny new prescription sunglasses! I have uploaded a variety of poses. All self shot because darling husband ain't home yet. And check out my awesome "work" hair. My job, it is scienticiany, and I can't have loose hair dangling down all over the place y'know!!!! My

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When we got a mortgage the bank didn't like the idea of us having two credit cards, so we cancelled mine and got a joint account. AND I HATE IT.It never shows who bought what, and you can't tell who made what repayments.Also I am crap at managing it. I think a part of me ignores the small purchases I make thinking my husband will pay for it (wishful thinking), however when I had my own credit

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In my books it really rates as a sport. Anything I can do sitting down without moving my legs has always rated highly with me. But kayaking is outdoors, in fresh air and could actually count as exercise!For my birthday we paddled the calm waters of the Puhoi river and Wenderholm estuary. While I'm sure ocean kayaking is no where near as relaxing or pleasant, it is something I would like to have a

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Oh I've been tired and feeling sorry for myself.My wisdom tooth decided to retreat below the gums, and who can blame it, my mouth is hardly the party central it was in my youth. I'd take a peek and go back to bed and my nice wamr gums too. Anyway bastard thing got my gum infected and I had to go to the dentist. Consequently I'm having the tooth ripped out in two weeks. Meantime I shall raise

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On Sunday we were having a totally hot, sweaty, non relaxing time in mission bay and it was beginning to make my husband grumpy. So I thought we could remedy the situation with a beer at a local cafe. This is what we got..........Mmmmmmmm Beer served in a glass with ICE and a wedge of lemon. I mention the fact that there was ice in the beer to the management. And that I find it a little

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Work work work, its not enough that I give them a third of my day in exchange for cash, no, now they want me to be healthy too.As part of some sick twisted brainstorming session in conference room one (basement, windowless under gastro) it was decided that the workforce must be healthier. So we are all taking part in the corporate version of the 10,000 steps plan. Everyone gets a free pedometer!!

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My squash, a bit late planting (okay waaaaaay late) but its gone berserk. Lots of little squashes all spilling out on to my lawn. Apparently I am supposed to put a tile under each squash ( I want to call singular squash a squish), this stops them rotting on the ground if you have some damp weather and lets face it, its Auckland, we know damp. So it the hope of actually maturing some squash before

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Nothing says "I Love You" like pancakes and bacon. Opting for a brunch date at the paper moon cafe was excellent idea. We chat and I have a cup of coffee and two cups of tea to Zeds single latte. I harass him about joining kiwisaver, he smiles and tells me how gorgeous I am. Its love all over again.I have long dropped the idea that Valentines day requires some kind of super date or extreme gift.

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Yeah its hot, and we're ALL sick of hearing about it, so this wont be a post about how sleeping with the fan causes my husband to dream about hurricanes, or how every time I leave air conditioned work I feel like I'm walking through a sauna to get to my car or how I drive the car the LONG way home to sit in air conditioned comfort for just a few minutes longer.No this post isn't going to be about

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I'm always blogging about dinner. But I love cooking, and look! I eats my vegetables! I'm not just all about the meat. Although I did have lamb with this meal (Lamb back strap, cheap tender, lean. Rub with garlic, morrocan spice, smash some really ripe cherry yellow tomatoes on it. Grill, eat.) My lettuces are not growing as fast as I would like, so tonights salad was all herbs and bits and

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No zoomMAXIMUM ZOOM!

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So, I got too drunk to cook one night (not tonight, tonight I am pleasantly sober) and ordered Hell pizza, delivered. One pizza with dessert. I ordered two ice creams and they sent ONE fork. I don't even begin understand the logic of sending out cutlery on a home delivery. As I understand it, most households now have spoons. But incase we were cutlery free.....they thought they would send a FORK

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While watching "The United States of Tara"Me: You're kind of like the Husband in that showHusband: uh huh, Long suffering.sigh.

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Via text, we are the same roomMe: Do you love me?Husband: Yes luckily I do :o) Making me Coffee would increase factor by a million x x xMe: Who is this?

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Upon seeing my husband this morning with a pained expression on his faceMe: Are you alright?Husband: I just woke up.......Of Course I'm not alright.He's just not a morning person.

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Theres a LOT of fun to be had BBQ'ing cherry tomatoes. I have so many now I have to eat them all the time! Little bastards rolling all over the hot plate, but very delicious. Red peppers, grilled, yum. Chuck on some home grown corgettes, cook till also delicious. (A little greek spice doesn't hurt here)Let husband cook steak, also very delicious. The marinade does tend to blacken a little but I

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Damn.No friskies or whiskas for my kitty, fussbum. Oh well, anything for a happy snuggly kitty kat. Yes, a snuggly kitty kat who demands smooches and chin tickles at 5am. Not food, just affection. Sigh, I am waking earlier these days.In the meantime bitches be checking out my tomatoes! I have many, many cherry tomatoes. I have discovered that acid free tomatoes are a brilliant sacrificial crop.

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First wee radish, so young, so tender, so ready to be devoured by me, NOM NOM NOM!Radish are super easy to grow, I bought a packet of mixed radish seed, so I never know what kind I'm going to pull out of the ground, this one looks like traditional radish though.My lettuces and spinach are taking FOREVER to grow, I'm sure I planted them months ago. knowing my attention span it was probably only

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It actually saves you the pain of open abdominal surgery!Yes you can now get your appendix removed via your vagina!That's pretty awesome.And now you can fit a KIDNEY down that sucka! Yes kidneys out your Va-jayjay! Great news for female kidney donors.Less pain, almost no scarring, safer for obese people and faster recovery times!Its part of a new surgical trend Removing stuff through natural

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Ah New Zealand. Auckland even, the 'burbs. No pretension here. Glenfield ain't Ponsonby bro.I was buying a six pack of beer, on special only $9.99Clerk: "Do ya wanna bag for that?"Me:"Nah"as receipt printsClerk:"do ya want this shit?"Me: "Nah"I leave storeEnd sceneI like beer, I often keep a bunch of low alcohol (0.5% Clausthaler) around for drinking at times when alcohol would be inappropriate,

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Last year I attempted composting. It didn't work too well as I had too much dry material, mostly garden trimmings. Problem was I found composting kitchen scraps to be such a hassle. Stinky buckets, cleaning said bucket every time, going down to the compost bin every night in the cold miserable wet winter. It was not fun. So I ended up with a cup of beautiful compost and a bin full of dry twigs.So

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Summers the only time to eat salads. You got to eat so many that you are really sick of them by the end of march and are really looking forward to some steamed broccoli and roast veg. So here I treat I you all to another photograph of my dinner. Its becoming a theme I know, but at least my mum can see I'm looking after myself!My shrimps look a bit insipid because I only had frozen cooked shrimps.

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Good ol quinine, malaria prophylactic and tasty beverage all in one. While it would take huge amounts of tonic water everyday to get an antimalarial benefit, some people have found that drinking tonic water helps reduce chronic muscle cramps. While the side affects of too much quinine can include temporary deafness and renal failure the only side effects I've had are cool refreshment.Quinine also

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Okay I'm not about to come down on anyone for obsessing over books. (I have a major Robin Hobb fandom thing going.)However I saw Twilight and I was puzzled. The major attraction of Edward to Bella seemed to be that she smelled delicious and he wanted to eat her. In fact, he had to run out of the room to avoid taking a bite. Kind of like me when there are free doughnuts at work. Anyway so Bella

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This morning I woke poor Zed up before 8 and packed a picnic breakfast. Then we took the winding drive out to Piha. I'm glad we went early, the roads were empty, the beach was quiet and it wasn't deadly hot yet. We sat on the beach watching the early surfers and ate our ham and egg sandwiches. Then we walked piha, grabbed a coffee and drove over to Karekare. Jeebus that road down to Karekare, how

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Chicken, marinated overnight in honey, ginger and a wee bit of lemon juice. I may have over cooked it a wee bit getting a little more caramelising than necessary, but still very tasty. I will look back on this picture in winter (when I am eating my turnip stew) and remember the bright fresh tastes of summer. I'm sure all my London friends suffering the cold drippy weather are blue with

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I have many many apple cucumbers to get through over the next couple of weeks, apart for the usual chop and throw in salad method of eating cucumber I thought I would try something different.Thick cut slices of fresh just picked oh so crisp cucumber, sprinkled with fresh herbs from my garden and topped with a light mustard mayonnaise. Yummy.

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Oooooops. I may have accidentally imbibed too much beer and consumed too much crap over the holidays. I prefer not to cook when I'm on holiday and Zed prefers not to cook. So we ate out, a lot.Now its come back to bite me on my rather large arse.So its back to home cooked meals and one alcohol free month, barring any social functions of course. No more drinking beers in the garden at 11am just

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I mostly planted cherry tomatoes this year, a yellow variety and a red one. They are just starting to ripen on the plant now, but for the last week or so I've been picking any that show the slightest hint of colour and they ripen fairly quickly on the windowsill in my kitchen. Only problem is every time I spot a ripe one I eat it! So I've never managed to build up a decent stash of them to put in

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Highly ineffectual.That's how I would describe my feelings on all world situations I disagree with. Apart from donating to the Red Cross or Women for Women International every time a war breaks out, what can I do? Just feeling bad about it doesn't really cut it. How does my pity and sympathy help anyone in these terrible situations?The history of Palestine's gradual demise (invasion) is not

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Star Wars: Retold (by someone who hasn't seen it) from Joe Nicolosi on Vimeo.

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Okay so i started digging up the lawn for more garden space, and then I had a thought.The lawn mower man.He mows with out prejudice.So I got a build on and made a frame for a raised garden bed. I was going to use macrocarpa sleepers, (non treated and don't rot so quick) but then I saw they were $22 each! So I just bought some cheap arse pine instead. So that's my garden frame for less than $15

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My mother, bless her, got me this book for christmas because I was moaning that I only had a pathetic little square metre to grow my veges in. I felt like I couldn't do much with it. But this books changes that! I love it so much because it makes me believe I can be a gardener all year round growing heaps of food. I seriously take it to bed and read it to get all inspired for more digging and

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Load obnoxius ad that plays when I land on your site and EVERY time I bounce back to the homepage?NO! No! Bad Internets! NO! No traffic for you!

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Summer; where you can hop in a boat late afternoon, zoom to an island for a swim and dinner and zoom back before it gets dark. What could be better, it was part of a perfect little holiday up north which included visiting my mother, entertaining the teenage stepkids and visiting my grandparents.I love being up north, my grandparents bach is a great place to chill and my mums place is surrounded

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Yesterday was hot, todays hot. The first real hot for me this summer anyway.I'm drinking some oyster bay sav blanc, but its not really helping. The stuff is almost warm by the time I take my last mouthful and the condensation caused by the excess humidity is killing my desk.I'm sweatin' too. I quite like getting a sweat on, makes me feel like I'm alive! Nothing like getting all stinky to remind

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I just made a batch of soba noodles for lunch, now carbohydrate digestions demands sleep.Since I am on holiday I will be taking an afternoon nap whilst I direct my husband to go to the supermarket to buy a box of beer for tonights festivities.In other news I got a free painting of a cabbage today. Savoy cabbage.That is all.

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