This week has been another one of those "oh my goodness, how did this get so hectic?" weeks.

Our landlady and her parents have decided to sell our house. We think that they're selling because they really need the money from the sale, as they brought the property as an investment place to develop in 2007, when the property boom was near it's peak. ( Read more... )

Found a marvellous website for ideas for victorian and 1920s costume:

http://www.antiquedress.com/gallery.htm

It has really good photos of actual womens dresses from those periods!

 Time to make another post!

Today has been a pretty good day. We have very large trees growing at the back of our house, so I spent some time standing outside watching tuis bouncing around in the trees and eating berries from a smaller, unidentified tree. And listened to them singing and scrapping. We tend to get a few native birds around our place ( Read more... )

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow ( Read more... )

 Well, New Zealand has gone and elected a right wing government ( Read more... )

Me and Porl are looking at moving house.

To a flat in an undisclosed location which might just be very close to Nikki's.

Wow, it's scary having to sort out all the paperwork and bond payments and negotiating the contract and stuff!

But we signed the tenancy agreement today, and managed to get what we want on the agreement: periodic tenancy, ( Read more... )

....Me and Porl got engaged. Squeee!

I've been shamelessly flashing my ring at people all week.

He proposed in the rose gardens in Hamilton. Very romantic, especially at a bit past midnight. Ironically enough, we were down there for a wedding of a couple of our friends.

We haven't set a date yet. All in the fullness of time.

 I'm sure it's about time I posted again.

I've just come back from a 3 day tramp in the Coramandel. It was with the Auckland Uni Tramping Club- my lovely flatmate
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   We had a Christmas party for bellydancing yesterday. Went on a mystery bus trip to a restarant in Greenhithe. 
   Apparently the bellydancing school has very risque parties. Very fun ones though. The theme was from K'rd to Cairo, the idea being that you could dress up as anything from what you would find in K'rd to what you would find in Egypt, ( Read more... )

 This week has, on the whole been a very good week.

- work has gone well, found two mutations in my cancer cells. Also did lots of protein extractions so feel that the week has been very productive.

-Spent morning taking lots of junk left over by previous landlord out of garage and taking it to the tip. Now we can actually put cars in the garage! ( Read more... )