Friday: went to the A&P show with Lisa, Schmoo and Sophie, forgot my student ID making it cost twice the price, got hailed on . But sophie bought me candyfloss, a chocolate-covered apple and lent me her waterproof jacket. She is AWESOME. All in all it was still fun, and the animals were cute and there was a HUUUGE bull. That evening went to Marsden's party and got rascally drunk. Becca gave me and sophie a list back to mine, ta!

Saturday: woke up in time to sort myself out before James came over and we wandered over to the Dean's Bush market. Got loads of delicious things and fresh fruit and veggies. Came back to have fancy sausages and fancy bread and then fancy tart. Sophie and James performed white whirlwind on my house. A few other people came over and we played board games and tetris and charades and pictionary let off some fireworks which SHOT STRAIGHT AT US!

Sunday: Slept in, did excellent shopping,Schmoo made fishburgers using yummy sole from the market. Bought buckets, stakes, and 80 litres of potting mix from the warehouse and put a bunch of lettuce and tomato plants on the balcony. Went to mum and dad's for tea, helped mum discover trademe (she placed bids on a good dozen fancy tops) and planned a fun camping trip to the west coast at new year's.

So Schmoo and I went and saw Faintheart last night, it is a romantic comedy about a Scadian trying to win back his wife while staying at his trekkie friend's house.  It was pretty awesome. They got all the Scadian/steelfighting stuff mostly right and it was funny and heartwarming and had a jerky PE teacher who got his comeuppance. Unfortunately there were only 4 other people in the theatre at teh Rialto so it probably won't be running very long.

I drove from my parent's house to my flat today! (this is exciting because I have only had 4 driving lessons so far.)

After the tutor giving everyone in math262 a big comiseration speech about how the assignment was very hard and most people only got about 50% and how it was impossible to get 100%,  my friend Judith and I got 19/20. Hooray for teamwork and going to help sessions!

I got a chocolate bar in a maths lecture today, for pointing out a small error. The lecturer has to give out about 3 a lecture, I feel a bit sorry for him, but equally wrong notes are so very confusing! If only more lecturers had to part with chocolate bars when they were being sloppy, like the guy who told us that compasses point in the opposite direction to magnetic field lines, which is the exact opposite of the truth!

We're having a pizza night to celebrate the end of exams, Saturday 27th, bring ingredients, we will make bases. From tea-time.

01. Anyone who wants to can post this meme and their current wallpaper at their LiveJournal.
02. Explain in five sentences why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!



This is my wallpaper. Sophie made it and put it on my computer while I wasn't watching. It is a fish. Blub.

It was a nice weekend, despite paying for it now. Friday Sophie and I went to aikido, where as per usual we were quite terrible but it was fun. Saturday was spent with my mum and dad, cos of more family tragedy that is just too depressing to go into. We went to the seedsavers seed swap though, which  was really good. Last one we went to we had had nothing to bring, this time we had two kinds of beans and heirloom giant marrow seeds. We took home some bulbs (perrenial leek, chinese artichoke, and eqyptian walking onions) and some seeds (lots of beans, including haricot for baked beans!) 
On saturday night was the party, got very drunk and embarrased myself multiple times. Also hurt my back! What an old man I am. Seriously, it was like agony to walk yesterday, a bit better today.
Hung out with Sophie on Sunday :) she is cool.

Anyway, good song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-WpgOzW9A

Now, back to Relativistic mechanics.

I just made DELICIOUS CAKE.

It is a greek coconut lemon cake.

 

( Om nom nom recipe!  )

 

Come over on Friday night! I won't be home till 8 but Michael will be here so turn up anytime from 7. We are at 1/15 Dallas St.

If you are hungry bring moneys or ingredients and we will make pizza in a proper pizza oven with proper bases! 

Hey Michael, I love you more than chocolate-dipped girl guide bikkies!

(He is doing the dishes *even though* he also cooked tea!) 

I haven't posted for what seems lie forever, and last time was bad news so I better remedy that!

BTW thanks for all the supportive comments and hugs, it's nice to know you are all so lovely :) 

Erm, missing Beast's flatwarming because I feel like going to bed and never getting up. I went to aikido last night, and oh MAN it HURT. You have to kneel the whole time (when you are not calculatedly falling over) and now my hamstrings hate me. This one guy did this thing to my hand that made me go from grabbing his wrist really hard to lying on the ground, and then showed me how! It's very cool and everyone is really nice and friendly and patient even though Sophie and I sucked so bad, and giggled a bit. I am going to go again next Friday and then EVERY MONDAY AND FRIDAY AND MAYBE WEDNESDAY until I rock!
Then we went home and drank beer.

Today I had to get up and go the aquarium with niece Bella, and help dad with his ENGR101 assignment. Teeheehee. Actually some of the modelling stuff was quite hard and made my brain hurt with the hangover-thinking.

That's it. Bed now.



 

My uncle was recently dignosed with bone cancer. Last night I wrote him a letter for my mother to take down south with her as she planned to go see him Thursday.
He died today though, so I guess I'll throw out the letter.
The funeral will probably be on Friday so I'll skip uni and go down to Gore for the weekend.