Tonight I was reading a book to Lyla and it had a map of New Zealand and Australia. She pointed to Australia and said "I want to go there." Great idea! I have actually never been there. What?! No!! Really? Really really. The only countries I've ever been are Samoa and New Zealand, and since pretty much everyone in Samoa has been to NZ, it doesn't really count, right?
So I'm thinking this year I will cross the ditch and finally make my way to the Land Of The Big Red Dust (that's Australia, by the way. Does it have a pre-colonial name, like Aotearoa?)
I'd have to get a new passport though, as the current one I have is "defaced", thanks to my lovely daughter deciding on one of our flights to kick her cup of water which tipped directly onto the pile of passports, where mine sat proudly on top defending the others and sacrificing itself in the process. So where was I? Oh yes, that's about $200 right? Or maybe even $300. For a Samoan passport. Why not an NZ one? Because I'm not a citizen yet. Sssh. I really should put my application in. Then go in to the citizenship ceremony, sing the National Anthem and declare my allegiance to the Queen and my love for Camilla. I hope no one I know is there to bear witness. Ha! I jest. I would love to be a NZ citizen (in case I'm caught up in some Middle Eastern country drama and need rescuing and I'm not sure Stui has the sway or care to get me out). So starts my list of mini-goals for this year, which are not a must, but a nice-to-have.
1: Apply for NZ citizenship
2: Get a NZ passport
3: Visit Australia (finally...and without all the hassle of having to get a visa)
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Sunday, January 15, 2012
Wednesday, January 4, 2012
Feeling Good
It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life for me, and I'm feeling good.
Yep, this is it, the big new year's post. With the resolutions. Except this year, I have no resolutions. Oooooh, what a rebel! I do, however, have goals. What? That's just the same. Not to me. I have made many a NY resolution, high on the hopes of what promises to be the biggest and bestest year of my life. And I have to say I have probably kept ... oh, about ... zero of those resolutions.
So now I set goals. Things that have been on my mind for a while, things that I already want to do but have not gotten around to making a commitment, things that I want to better myself in. Yea ok, still smells like a resolution. And now they are also public. Eek.
1. Be gone, Bejewelled Blitz!Having wasted a lot of last year playing Bejewelled Blitz in a half-daze, I have decided to remove it from my life. The app is now gone from my FB page. Now here's to making sure it stays off.
2. Reach my goal weightI am on a weight loss journey at the moment. My aim is to reach my goal weight (no, I'm not telling), and once I reach it, to maintain it for 12 months. One can only hear "Ua e lapo'a a" so many times before committing murder.
3. Improve fitnessI'm dreading this one. But I will make use of the steep hill we live on to do interval hill walking. continue to thrash the hubby at handball. Do Round the Bays. Drive less and walk more.
4. Holiday
I'm not usually good at taking proper holidays, ones where you leave your house, and do not log into your work laptop once. This year I will try to do it twice. Wish me luck.
Yep, this is it, the big new year's post. With the resolutions. Except this year, I have no resolutions. Oooooh, what a rebel! I do, however, have goals. What? That's just the same. Not to me. I have made many a NY resolution, high on the hopes of what promises to be the biggest and bestest year of my life. And I have to say I have probably kept ... oh, about ... zero of those resolutions.
So now I set goals. Things that have been on my mind for a while, things that I already want to do but have not gotten around to making a commitment, things that I want to better myself in. Yea ok, still smells like a resolution. And now they are also public. Eek.
1. Be gone, Bejewelled Blitz!Having wasted a lot of last year playing Bejewelled Blitz in a half-daze, I have decided to remove it from my life. The app is now gone from my FB page. Now here's to making sure it stays off.
2. Reach my goal weightI am on a weight loss journey at the moment. My aim is to reach my goal weight (no, I'm not telling), and once I reach it, to maintain it for 12 months. One can only hear "Ua e lapo'a a" so many times before committing murder.
3. Improve fitnessI'm dreading this one. But I will make use of the steep hill we live on to do interval hill walking. continue to thrash the hubby at handball. Do Round the Bays. Drive less and walk more.
4. Holiday
I'm not usually good at taking proper holidays, ones where you leave your house, and do not log into your work laptop once. This year I will try to do it twice. Wish me luck.
Friday, May 20, 2011
Shuffling along
When we decided to move from Auckland to Wellington earlier this year, I was quite excited. I had big ideas of how my lifestyle would change, how I would become "artsy", how I would work less and take things slow, how when asked about the weather in Welly I would chirpily reply "You can't beat Wellington on a good day!"
Four months down the line, and I realise that I haven't progressed much down the planned route. In fact, I can't really remember all that I thought I would be doing by now. I mean, I'm awake working/blogging/Facebooking at 12:30am. That's still very much the Aucklander me.
So after a quick memory job (really quick, like half a minute) here are my unfulfilled Wellington goals:
1. Buy clothes - How I am still squeezing into my pre-childbearing work clothes I do not know. Actually, I do. I can only do that for a couple of tops which were really loose fitting and are now tank top looking. I'm getting grossed out just thinking about it as well, don't worry, I'm not offended that you are.
2. Go to the museum - I mean, isn't that what artsy Wellingtonians do? I have no idea. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
3. Spend more time at the park with Lyla - My excuse is the cold wind, which is quite a legitimate reason, except for the really warm sunny days when quality family time still consists of me on my laptop, husband on his laptop, toddler watching TV.
4. Sleep at least 7 hours a day - Ha! Funny, how did this make it onto my list.
5. Save money - How do you go from a single income family to being a double income family and still not have money? It boggles the mind. One day when I decide to look through our bank statements I might be able to find some answers.
6. Join a life group - This is due to 100% slackness and a multitude of excuses (which I can't remember now, so don't ask). But I guess I will have to get a life first, then I can share it with others.
7. Shave my legs regularly - I reconsidered this goal, and then realised that since I never show my legs/tree trunks anyway AND it's freezing cold here, why should I?
8. Buy a Smart phone - So it's got nothing to do with Wellington, but I want one, and I don't have any other lists at the moment so here it is. I guess it's related to goal #5 which was supposed to feed into my shopping account.
9. Stop having road rage - Is there special road rage counselling? I drive like I'm in a mad rush to get somewhere really quickly that I'm late for. The majority of the time if I stop to think about it, I'm just driving to work. Why on earth am I nearly killing myself to get there? Then I'm driving home, where washing, cooking, cleaning and more work is waiting. Again, why the rush? Still working on it. So if you're late to go when the light turns green, when you give way to more than one person while you're in front of me, if you switch lanes unexpectedly without indicating, if you don't merge like a zip, or if you keep going through the intersection and then stop midway because the other side is all queued up and you block me going the other way and I miss my green light - if you do any of those things and you get beeps and glares and hands waving in the air and fingers pointing to the head (translated as "use your brain") from a brown female someone in a black Mazda wagon...there's a good chance that would be me. I'm a work in progress.
Those are only a few that I can remember and have the energy to list. Maybe I'll think of some more later. Or maybe not.
Sincerely,
Same old me
Four months down the line, and I realise that I haven't progressed much down the planned route. In fact, I can't really remember all that I thought I would be doing by now. I mean, I'm awake working/blogging/Facebooking at 12:30am. That's still very much the Aucklander me.
So after a quick memory job (really quick, like half a minute) here are my unfulfilled Wellington goals:
1. Buy clothes - How I am still squeezing into my pre-childbearing work clothes I do not know. Actually, I do. I can only do that for a couple of tops which were really loose fitting and are now tank top looking. I'm getting grossed out just thinking about it as well, don't worry, I'm not offended that you are.
2. Go to the museum - I mean, isn't that what artsy Wellingtonians do? I have no idea. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
3. Spend more time at the park with Lyla - My excuse is the cold wind, which is quite a legitimate reason, except for the really warm sunny days when quality family time still consists of me on my laptop, husband on his laptop, toddler watching TV.
4. Sleep at least 7 hours a day - Ha! Funny, how did this make it onto my list.
5. Save money - How do you go from a single income family to being a double income family and still not have money? It boggles the mind. One day when I decide to look through our bank statements I might be able to find some answers.
6. Join a life group - This is due to 100% slackness and a multitude of excuses (which I can't remember now, so don't ask). But I guess I will have to get a life first, then I can share it with others.
7. Shave my legs regularly - I reconsidered this goal, and then realised that since I never show my legs/tree trunks anyway AND it's freezing cold here, why should I?
8. Buy a Smart phone - So it's got nothing to do with Wellington, but I want one, and I don't have any other lists at the moment so here it is. I guess it's related to goal #5 which was supposed to feed into my shopping account.
9. Stop having road rage - Is there special road rage counselling? I drive like I'm in a mad rush to get somewhere really quickly that I'm late for. The majority of the time if I stop to think about it, I'm just driving to work. Why on earth am I nearly killing myself to get there? Then I'm driving home, where washing, cooking, cleaning and more work is waiting. Again, why the rush? Still working on it. So if you're late to go when the light turns green, when you give way to more than one person while you're in front of me, if you switch lanes unexpectedly without indicating, if you don't merge like a zip, or if you keep going through the intersection and then stop midway because the other side is all queued up and you block me going the other way and I miss my green light - if you do any of those things and you get beeps and glares and hands waving in the air and fingers pointing to the head (translated as "use your brain") from a brown female someone in a black Mazda wagon...there's a good chance that would be me. I'm a work in progress.
Those are only a few that I can remember and have the energy to list. Maybe I'll think of some more later. Or maybe not.
Sincerely,
Same old me
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