Moving day tomorrow ( Read more... )

Am starting to vaguely panic about how much stuff I have to shift ( Read more... )

Duck dinner out was delicious ( Read more... )

Many happy things at the moment ( Read more... )

I'm exhausted, and sore, and cold, and sad. I hate Canterbury winters so much it is difficult to describe how much. It's not even the end of daylight savings yet, nor particularly cold, and I'm already dreading/hating it. Ick rain. Ick grey. Ick cold. Ick damp. I want to curl up in a ball somewhere warm and ignore the world, but I have things on ( Read more... )

We found a house. It's hideously expensive, but otherwise perfect ( Read more... )

Of course it didn't come this weekend. Instead we got an email from the lawyer in reply to a request for details about expected time frame that answered no questions, but informed us of her intention to close the office for snow ( Read more... )

Wednesday was not our day, visa wise.

But it did contain a selection of awesome sandwiches, and the finding of a thing I've been wanting to buy and experiment with but didn't know if I could get in NZ (Poachies). Some of the awesome sandwiches were a result of my husband's acquiescence to my demands for afternoon-tea-for-dinner, which is a lot ( Read more... )

Today I'm grateful for sunshine, and loving parents, and a whole weekend with my husband ( Read more... )

Our visa paperwork resubmission happened yesterday, via Fedex, so should be in the hands of the relevant people today. This is A Good Thing, but means we are just.waiting.now.waiting.and.waiting.and.waiting, which is a bit stressful (ha! Like anything lately has not been), especially since as soon as things actually happen, assuming they happen as ( Read more... )