| Something in the Air |
[Mar. 30th, 2008|12:09 am] |
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I figured I haven't logged in here for a long time and it is time for an update..
I have officially got Proactive Consulting up and running and things are going pretty well. I'm enjoying officially being my own boss and while I have done a fair few things for friends/family etc, I have several very well connected and fantastic business mentors and consultants helping me along the way. Essentially I provide health and safety solutions and training for people. So here I suppose I really do need to thank both Tuck and Phil who have been fantastic and gave me the inspiration to turn my semi-hobby in to a full time occupation. And the list of people to thank since this time is growing by the day, from people who spend hours doing work on websites etc, to those who look after Liv so I can go to a meeting/seminar/etc and all of you who just say something every now and then (mostly via msn lolz) to brighten my day.
As i've spent the last few months with Liv all day and working all night, I'm also pleased to announce I think I have found a place for Liv for childcare too. The great thing about this is that I will be able to work during daylight hours and maybe even spend some time relaxing and socialising.
I'm almost over the glandular fever now, and next week I have a meeting with my specialist about my back where I need to convince him that surgically fusing the lower part of my spine together is not the option I think is best. Thankfully he seems a pretty reasonable type of guy.
And with the injury/illness section of my life subsiding, I have great ambitions to recommence my sports-jock lifestyle and get back to the size 10 I was prior to my major back injury in 2005.
I have a new flatmate, and she has been quite amazing too, having never had a female flatmate before (okay so i did once, briefly, prior to having Liv) I was a little sceptical at first. But really, couldn't be happier and it is nice having someone else around, well an adult at any rate.
Liv is super amazing and I love her more and more every day. I wouldn't mind if she would stop waking up about 11pm-12 to take her nappy off, pee everywhere and thus require a bath/change/new linen on the bed, but hey, she gets up, has little cuddles that are so so warm and soft and crashes again.
On Friday, 18th of April it will be officially 6 years of being in New Zealand... So i'm going to have drinks up here.. so book it in and don't make/cancel other plans.
Tomorrow all of my office furniture arrives and i'm so excited, from working on my small and tiny little desk, I will now have proper work space and somewhere to lock away all of my stuff that Liv is so efficient at destroying.
All in all i'm super busy, and baerly have time to think, but lately i've had a lot of people put in a lot of effort to see me, and each and every time it brightens my day. And it works in well with my new years resolution to be more social this year.. So thank you to all of those people too.
Hmm the codeine is clearly starting to kick in and i'm starting to rant and ramble.. I should probably take advantage of the chance to have an 'early' night.. |
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| Need some extra money? |
[Jan. 24th, 2008|02:15 pm] |
Well i'm fantastic and i've hurt my back again! :/
However, ACC has approved 7.5 hours of assistance at the blah pay rate of $11.28 per hour. Basically this is someone to look after olivia when i go to physio appointments, and give her a bath, and put her toys back in to the toy box she keeps pulling them out of, do the washing. Basically pretty low level stuff but its about $80 that i'd rather pay to a friend than a random stranger..
The good news is that ACC can either pay me directly or you! which means that while of course you need to sort out your own tax.. whether or not you tell IRD/WINZ/ANYONE ELSE about it is up to you.
so yeah.. um.. let me know if you are interested asap!
dem |
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| new year and all that |
[Jan. 18th, 2008|02:28 pm] |
well i haven't posted in a while..
so here it is
take THAT!
so one of my resolutions was to be more social this year.. being 3 weeks in i realised i hadn't bothered so much with that.. so tonight its quiet drinks time..
and coffee next week with ms jaz, and soon after a girlz night with bex, and and Heidi and Anthony's engagement party coming up, and Mr Jared will be getting much much older this year.. so yay..
i shall revert from my hermit-self back to a socialite in no time..
other than that, ive hurt my back again and have glandular fever.. so hey, im tired and agitated most of the time but i'll get over it! |
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| feedback please |
[Oct. 28th, 2007|02:21 pm] |
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Well now that uni is over, i've been encouraged to think about some sort of businessish thing to keep my occupied and hey.. money isnt bad either.. (ps ty tuck!)
i have a couple of ideas and i'd love some feedback.. for my mum and my bro i'm putting together a combination fitness/other use diary.. i've had a wide variety of fitness diaries over the years.. and i always had the same issue.. i couldnt actually use it for work or anything else, and none of them have ever had enough space to write in other things i wanted to keep a track of, appointments, annual leave, etc etc etc.
so for my bro and my mum i'm putting together a calender dated diary for next year, as mum needs to get more in to fitness for her health and my brother is quite the athlete (he organised a charity ride from sydney to canberra and came in hours before anyone else).. but both of them work in the corporate environment so a simple to use no stress diary might just be the thing.. and i can design and make it myself (i have a lot of printing contacts so it will be done professionally)..
for a more of a business thing, i'm thinking a shorter - 3-4 month version (undated so you could use it anytime)..
info i'm including - so far at least will be the ability to track:
exercise, food, water, sleep, mood, stress levels, appointments, other things (eg maybe you want to track numbers of cigarettes and compare to your stress levels that day), as well as being able to reflect on each day, plan for the next day.
also a lot of information sections - given that i was a professional coach (thats right.. i got paid for it) and did a degree in science, a lot of the health, nutrition etc things.
but also other tings like - public holiday, where the moon is, yearly calender, finance area (it was amazing to work out how much i spent on junk food and cigarettes!), quotes of the day/week (havent worked out which yet) personal info, measurements and recordings sections, etc etc - obviously some wouldnt work for a generic diary), personal bests..
so.. feedback i'd like..
if you had one, would you use it? what things would you like in it? what things would you not want/use?
at this stage i'm planning on printing them a5 size, spiral bound, and while the covers will be thick enough to be durable, i'm also thinking of making them their own little bags or something.
my ideas for marketing include the obvious online abilities and taking it to major sporting chains like rebel sports, and bookshops like whitcoulls, borders etc
but first, i need to develop my prototypes and iron out any issues.. :-p
haha and let me know if any of you would like such a diary for next year, i'm talking to printers in the next couple of days to work out pricing.. but the more i get, the cheaper it would be..
oh.. and my other business thing that is more likely to make it, is producing health and safety plans for aussie companies - given my previous work associations here it would be hard in nz.. but given that i've already had one contract to do so and they were 'bowled over' by my flash of genius, i have the potential to infiltrate their subcontractors for a potentially lucrative side project to raising liv! |
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| help! |
[Sep. 21st, 2007|08:35 pm] |
does anyone have a spare graphics card i can borrow to put in to my computer to test it? apparently my current one might be a little rawr! and so.. before i pool my pennies together and pretend i can afford a new one, i need to borrow one to work out whether it is my graphics card or my motherboard..
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| the last 12 hours |
[Sep. 9th, 2007|10:12 am] |
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of its been fun!
olivia wakes up at 11.
olivia wakes up at 2
olivia is awake from 3-4
olivia wakes up at 6am and doesn't go back to bed.
while making olivia breakfast, she pulls all the books out of the bookcase and rips the back cover off one of my favourite books
olivia refuses to eat said breakfast, make alternative breakfast, still refuses to eat - teething
play with liv
decide it is cigarette time
while rolling cigarette olivia knocks over breakfast.
put cigarettes down, go to rescue floor from 'apple berry blast'
turn around, find tabacco all over floor
pick up tabacco
hear a SPLOOSH
find remote in the toilet
have cigarette - i really wanted one by this point
hear bookcase being systematically removed of all items - again
know she is just a baby, take deep breathes, and still go insane! |
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[Aug. 28th, 2007|09:52 pm] |
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liv turns 1 tomorrow!
i'm so happy.. and a lil scared!
wow..
times goes fast |
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| Olivia's First Birthday! |
[Jul. 30th, 2007|11:49 pm] |
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Olivia is 11 months now!! though this pic was taken at christmas!
Her first birthday party will be held on Saturday, 25th August from 2-5pm at our place! We will have fairy-bread, pinatas and cherios and LOTS of cake!
Afterwards, we will continue the frivality at my place at which point there shall be much drinking and merriness! Hopefully my mum will be able to get across and also hopefully take Liv for the night; I should know about that soon; otherwise i'm hoping that Shane might be able to take her so that I get a night off! <3
PS i expect you ALL to be there heheheee. I have pretty formal invitations headed to the printer soon! So send me your address via text if i'm not likely to see you in the next week (021 475 352) and please rsvp to me as soon as you can so that I can make sure there is enough food to go around!
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| Dearest Livejournal |
[Jul. 20th, 2007|02:28 am] |
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I'm awake, and I wish I wasn't. I went to bed hours ago.
Why is it the fates are so cruel as to trick me in to a false sense of security? That is, my lil one had just moved in to a routine I was most pleased with; sleeping through the night. However, now that she is back in my room, she has decided that such a move is no longer for her.
Currently I am filling in time to amuse myself while she settles and gets over her tantrum. Yes, by now the screaming has subsided. Experience tells me however, that a return to my rather comfortable bed would be in vain at this point; I need to waste at least another twenty minutes until her restless sleep becomes a little more peaceful.
In the mean time I am designing a little card/invite for her birthday party next month. Plans of pinatas, fairy bread and cherios and pretty designer fairy dress for her birthday make the waiting slightly less wearisome.
In addition I get to peruse forums for wow and write inane rants to amuse everyone else. |
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| Liv is learning to walk |
[Jun. 26th, 2007|01:27 pm] |
.. its a slow process but she quite often takes 2-3 unbalanced steps, stumbling in my general direction.. and im such a proud mummy!
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| PAINTBALL |
[May. 26th, 2007|09:58 am] |
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well last night was most awesome :-p we played paintball!! (we being myself, bec and ely) and, as a random bonus.. carley, kev, darian and fiona were also there!! haha
i actually have a welt on my leg this morning from one of the bullets.. haha i was shot 3 times.. one of them was actually 'friendly fire' haha i'm a lil worried about that lol..
i managed to belly crawl up half the field haha .. much to the amusement of the spectators.. :-p
oh we were prepared.. we had a beer for courage earlier!! and that was my drinking for the night..
but.. it was only to get better.. as chris had lent me his car for the evening.. and heidi and ant took liv over night.. i have the most amazing night sleep!! uninterrupted.. now this may not sound like much.. but the last time someone looked after liv overnight or me was paula and jared in november!! so honestly.. an entire night of sleep was just incredible!
this morning i'm having a lazy morning and then i'm headed to spot light to pick up some things for my belly dance costume.. so far my pants and skirt are done, but im busy making the bra, and then i have to get the belt made.. (btw the performance is on 23 june and not 22, leilah go the dates mixed up, and it IS at zebos!)
and then im gong to clean my entire house.. again.. something that wouldn't sound exciting to most. but im quite the domesticated lil thing these days and its hard to get lots of the details like cleaning bath/vacuuming done with a lil wiggly thing crawling around and wanting attention!!
so yay.. life is most wonderful at the moment and i'm very pleased!!
yay yay yay!!!. |
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| yay my computer works :-p |
[May. 24th, 2007|11:05 am] |
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well sort of.. it was lagging and had all sorts of virus' (quite the promiscuous thing) but chris came over last night to fix my comp and to un-bind his server to my ip.. he got the computer half fixed and will have to come back re the IP thingy, but but but.. he left instructions as to how i keep fixing computer and TUDAH .. so far so good.. i feel almost geeky!!
in other astounding news... well not really astounding, but exciting anyway.. Olivia's baptism and christening is all set for 1 July (in Sydney) and so i'm going home on 24 june to see my mama and lil bro (who isn't really that lil at 24) for a week, and then i'm going to spend a week in sydney catching up with old friends etc :-p i'm terribly excited haha :-p
my uni stuff is all set for next semester, but still need to organise child care :-( so if anyone can help me out with looking after liv for the following hours it would be much appreciated. i've tried booking her in to the uni creche, but apparently you need to book her in on the first monday of november.. which.. being last year and all and the uni thing being a new thing, didn't happen:
i have lectures:
monday 11-12
tuesday 11-12
wednesday 4-7pm (in karori!)
thursday 4-7pm
friday 11-12
i figure i may have to find 5 or more friends to help me out for next semester.. so far Jen said she might be able to help me out mon and/or thurs, bec said she might be able to help me out for the morning ones mon, tues and fri, and shane is yet to get back to me..
so fingers crossed this might just work :-p
yay!!
hmm what else.. oo oo i'm going to play paintball tomorrow.. and heidi is taking live from 6.30pm for 24 hours!! yay!!! which means i want to find out if there is anything else on tomorrow night, cause it is one of those few chances to PARRRTTTTTTTYY!!
:-p
yay
and ahhh .. ooo belly dance performance is going well.. we have our first performance 22 June.. i THINK its a zebos.. but ahh i'm quite an unrelaible sourse of information for such things :-p
anyway.. i'm going to go and be a lil more domesticated and then have cutesy play time with my gorgeous daughter :-p |
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| wow.. just wow |
[May. 18th, 2007|10:27 pm] |
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.. and no.. that isn't a reference the world of crackpipe.. although on a side note i am now officially level 70 and have my flying mount and i'm back in one of the top raiding guilds..
but no..
i just mean wow..
<rant>
for no apparent reason i'm on the top of the world. normally there is some significant event that brings us to such a state of elation.. and i guess that is kind of true (see below) but overall, in this case, i've just realised how fantastic my life is.. and that is strange - especially given the last few months of chaos and the realisation that it doesn't always work out how you planned :-p
this evening liv was curled up on my lap having her dinner feed and she looked up at me and smiled and grinned as she re-adjusted herself and snuggled in closer. And i guess that was the beginning of my life-outlook change.
next semester i go back to uni, i have 4 papers to finish my Masters in Adult Education, and I'm also doing a Graduate Diploma in Arts (Psychology). These will both be finished at the end of next year at which point I start a Post Grad Dip in Clinical Psychology. That is a 3 year thing as you do a lot of Practical work too. In the final year of that you also complete your Masters in Psychology.
So despite already having a BaSci (envi, biol and geog) and a Post Grad Dip in Adult Edu, my study progresses and so by the time I'm 30 I'll have 6 pieces of fancy paper on my wall. that may sound a little excessive to some - but those who know me know how much i actually enjoy study; and how that is not that much given my family (my dad had 7 degrees and 4 diplomas).
I'm doing all of this because i came to the conclusion that everyone i know who is messed up was messed up as a child and so, to ensure i end up in a career that i feel contributes to society (rather than just being a pay cheque) i'm adding to my edu quals to ultimately train people who work with kids.. i mean seriously.. how many people do you know who have inadequate out looks on life/relationship/how the world actually works..
so i'm very excited..
and its grand..
so many other aspects of my life are also slotting in to place in ways that i didn't think they would. i have a belly dancing performance on 22 June, its my little brother's birthday in a few hours, last week i had my first ever mothers day (omg YAY), its shane's bday in a few weeks and the following day its my mums and also chris' oldest daughter Charla.. its fantastic looking at people age, knowing everything that they have gone through and being proud of them for who they are, and reflecting on how you've been a part of their life!
it leaves a warm and fuzzy feeling when you work out what you want to do with your life and work out your place in it :-p
and liv is the perfect person to ground me, even at 4am when she has woken with a start and is most upset, knowing that mummy cuddles make her warm and secure and left feeling loved is the most fantastic feeling in the world.. and i know i can't really describe it adequately.. even though i'm ranting in a poor attempt to convey such a perfect reality.
but i'm happy.. very happy.. and i don't know why when nothing is really different than it was a week or two ago.. perhaps its that whole 'fake it til you make it' saying? if you keep acting positive and looking forward in life, then it does happen, even if it takes you a while to believe it!
haha its crazy but WHEEEEEEEE
and.. on top of everything else.. i had home made soup for tea!! home madeeee!!! ahha (chris made extra and mmmmmmmm something about home made when you've had a bit of the flu .. 'just like mama used to make' hahaa
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[Apr. 19th, 2007|05:42 pm] |
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<rant>
i've had quite a few people complain to me lately about the horrors of their lives.. and you know.. when you point out that they have the job/house/friend and girl/guy they want there isn't really that much wrong.
my conclusion is that some people require drama in their lives and if there isn't any, then they still aren't happy and need to complain.
worse than that, they make complications in their lives just so they have something to complain about.
i wish some people would learn to look at the positives in their life. and if there are negatives, sure, talk about it with a friend, but then do something about it or stop complaining.
people are attention-seekers.. it is all about them.
*sigh*
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| 5 years |
[Apr. 18th, 2007|02:49 pm] |
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well today is the official 5 year anniversary of me being in New Zealand.
5 years.. 5.. count them 1, 2, 3, 4, 5!!
and so i thought i might reflect and recap on them..
in very brief format..
*met a boy
*had my heart broken
*had appendicitis
*had glandular fever
*finished my Bachelors in Science with three majors (biology, geography and environmental studies)
*fractured my back
*met a boy
*had what was left of my heart broken
*finished my post grad dip in adult education
*had a baby
*met up with first boy
*was reminded that heart was already broken
*found myself pregnant a second time
*had miscarriage
*started studying for 3rd and 4th pieces of paper at vic uni!
i should probably mention that i have met some wonderful people along the way and had some unforgettable times that i shall treasure always!
i've traveled on tour with blind spott and with fly my pretties. been to some incredible gigs. had some very drunken memories - and some not so memories from said drunken times! i've continued to move about continuously. had mummy lunches with Bea and Elora and generally had a fantastic few years!
im kind of proud cause i feel like ive actually achieved a fair bit since ive been here including the all essential maturing that we are all supposed to go through.
so tonight im taking myself out to celebrate.. i thought i might go and have a nice quiet dinner somewhere. i want to go to shadowplay tonight, but me thinks ely already has plans to go to that gig so i shall watch tv and write more of my soap opera book on the workings of our corrupted social circle :-p
and for the next 5 years? well study and look after my beautiful little girl.. she has two teeth now! and answers to her name and has learned to grab peoples hands when she wants cuddles..
heheee
ain't life grand? |
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| its broken |
[Apr. 14th, 2007|07:42 pm] |
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i just did this silly thing.. but the graph is broken.. and given that i've only DATED two people on my LJ list.. (chris and shane) these were the numbers i got..
friendly: 100%
promiscuous: 100%
random: 87%
wise: 100%
cool: 100%
hard to get: 0%
shesh!! i mean give a girl a break!!
but the graph shows this..
Find my LJ Mojo!
quite a difference..
but i do suppose i should stop teasing scott about his lack of hard to getness!! haha |
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| Randomness |
[Apr. 14th, 2007|10:28 am] |
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i was surprised.. this only actualy took 2-3 mins to fill out for ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) nefarious_deeds so here you guys go!
1. Can you cook?
2. What was your dream growing up?
3. What talent do you wish you had?
4. Favorite place?
5. Favorite vegetable?
6. What was the last book you read?
7. What zodiac sign are you?
8. Any tattoos and/or piercings?
9. Worst habit?
10. Do we know each other outside of lj?
11. What is your favorite sport?
12. Negative or optimistic attitude?
13. What would you do if you were stuck in an elevator with me?
14. Worst thing to ever happen to you?
15. Tell me one weird fact about you:
16. Do you have any pets?
17. Do you know how to do the macarena?
18. What time is it where you are now?
19. Do you think clowns are cute or scary?
20. If you could change one thing about how you look, what would it be?
21. Would you be my crime partner or my conscience?
22. What color eyes do you have?
23. Ever been arrested?
24. If you won $10,000 dollars today, what would you do with it?
25. What kind of bubble gum do you prefer to chew?
26. What's your favorite bar to hang at?
27. Do you believe in ghosts?
28. Favorite thing to do in your spare time?
29. Do you swear a lot?
30. Biggest pet peeve?
31. In one word, how would you describe yourself?
32. Will you repost this so I can fill it out and do the same for you? |
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| random! |
[Apr. 13th, 2007|10:06 am] |
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The Dante's Inferno Test has sent you to Purgatory!
Here is how you matched up against all the levels:
Take the Dante's Inferno Hell Test |
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