Christmas

So, here's the skinny. Jeremy's cousin, Casey, and his girlfriend Terah are here for 2 weeks. They went with Jeremy and 3 guys from our church tramping across the coromandel. They loved it. Jeremy came home with loads of blisters and swollen ankles and feet. Poor thing. We also have had them wondering the city and had dinner at the sky tower on wednesday. the previous wednesday, the day before their camping trip, we celebrated terah's birthday at muriwai having pizza. we watched the sunset, which was cool. plus, it was really really windy. it was the best black sand pizza ever! we're having a nice day today, Christmas! i made cinnamon rolls, pumpkin pie, and pavlova for today. we're grilling out for dinner tonight. it's a beautiful day. we're in shorts and hanging out watching past offices that casey and terah haven't seen. pictures will hopefully follow soon.

Survivor

Not only can I say I know a person on Survivor, I can now say, I know the winner of Survivor. Crazy...

Hmmm...

I have time to post something...and I have nothing to post. I am working my bum off. I have most of our training prepared. We have no idea when we're going to do it. We have a meeting with the others in charge of different databases in early December. I think we're the furthest along. Yea me! It may have something to do the fact that I haven't been given too many responsibilities yet. My time will come, I'm sure.

Jeremy's cousin, Casey, and his girlfriend, Terah, are coming for Christmas. Jeremy has big plans to do a big tramping/camping trip. They will be gone 6 days. They're going to the Coromandel, like we did with Brook and Mike. They're ferrying over to that peninsula and bussing anything they're not walking. I have to have the car for work, so it only makes sense.

New show I enjoy: Glee. I find it humorous. Of course, it's cheesy, but it's still good. Any thoughts?

We're doing Thanksgiving on Friday night with a bunch of Americans and few kiwis in West Auckland. We're looking forward to it. Speaking of Thanksgiving, we have been here for 1 year this week. Yea! We still love it and don't regret doing it.

Christchurch Pics

A pic of the Southern Alps

This cool alley that has a cafe called Toast

Some of the beautiful tulips at the botanic gardens

Punting on the Avon, naturally this is not us as we can't take a pic of ourselves on the boat

One pic of the arts center that is an old school

Update

Ok, Tim. Here is your update. :-)

I have now been working for 3 weeks. I have done most of my computer system training. I have yet to read the policy book. It is expected to be done on your own. Turns out, no one has actually read the whole thing, just bits they need to know now and then. Funny. I will read it...at some point. I've been too busy to read anything out of it so far. I've already been asked to train others. I'm going to be training my branch on some databases...and maybe other branches too. I'm pretty excited about this. I like training. My "buddy" (person in charge of my training) is going to be putting in a word about me liking training and having experience to the people who do the software training for the library system. So, we'll see what happens with this. By the first Saturday, my energy finally kicked back into gear. Most days I do pretty good. Two things I've remembered..no...unhappy about..maybe...anyhow, not sure about the feeling, but two things. 1. My nails/cuticles/hands aren't too thrilled about me working again. 2. I can't count the number of people mad at me (or rather the library system in general), but they don't outweigh the people that love me and my help. :-)

On another note. Mom is here. She's been here for 1 week now. 3 more to go. We're going to Christchurch on Sunday-Wednesday. This will be fun. Hopefully, pics to follow soon.

New Day

Today was the first day of my new job. I am tired. :-) It's going to be cool once I learn things. I really hate say, "I don't know. This is my first day. Let's ask this gentleman/lady." Soon enough, I will know things. I actually go for training on the computer system next week. That makes things more fun.

Time change has already happened here, so we're 6 hours apart now. When yours changes in Nov, we'll be 5 hours.

Hats

So, I keep forgetting to put up pics of the hats I make. Here's the turban I made for Shana. This isn't the actual one I made. Mine was tan, but you get the idea.

These are the 4 caps I just made this weekend. They're for those who signed up on my "Made By Me" note on facebook. So, if any of you are reading this, you get to see these before you get it (since it takes a week to get there), but you don't know which one's yours. :-)

I am now onto starting Bobby and Lisa's baby blanket. It's pink and cream. I start work next Tuesday, so I'm hoping to get a lot done before then. I've loved looking at patterns for this and the new patterns Rebecca, Jer's sister, sent me. Thanks Rebecca!! Truly, I loved them and am looking forward to sharing them with my friend Callie here.

In other news, after I posted about my birthday, I had another party. It was a surprise. On Wednesday night, Jeremy had the young adult group do a birthday surprise for me before the lesson. He had bought me flowers. I got a beautiful white bouquet of star-gazer lillies, roses, and other fragrant stock flowers. It's so nice!! The smart man he is, even took our vase from home to the florist so he didn't have to buy another one!! I love him. He also bought a scarf to go around the vase, so I have a new scarf too when it's done on the vase. Everyone at the party had paper masques on and pulled poppers w/confetti when I came it the door. It was great! I loved it! Lael, our new intern girl, even made me an apple cake. We had lasagna with as well, along with my puddin' wiches that I had brought with me not knowing about the cake. While everyone else had paper masques, Jer had bought me a special plastic one that is purple and decorated nicely. Now, I have a cool masque for any other occasion.