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18 October 2006
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Wednesday morning
Wednesday 18 October 2006 - 9.32am
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I have been at work for just on an hour and so far have mangaed to:
- opened the mail
- check my emails
- make a cup of coffee
- hide under my desk so that my workmate who I was supposed to go walking with last night doesnt find me and eat me for breakfast
- leave comments on all the recent journal entries (except the damn spammer!)
- gossip with one of the other admin girls
- become filled with foreboding whenever I think about my walk home tonight (6kms!  )
- suruptisiously eat a yoghurt covered musili bar at my desk
- answer the phone
I am so productive!
Music: Me slurping my now cold cup of coffee
Mood:  Lazy
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17 October 2006
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Nothing Much
Tuesday 17 October 2006 - 6.35pm
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The sun is shining, the birds are singing...stay out of the bitterly cold wind so fresh off the Antarctic you can still smell the pengiun fart and you could be forgiven for thinking that Spring was here!
It has been a good day though, work is busy and keeping my brain challenged and occupied as well as providing free fresh mangos (odd but true), I finally managed to acquire the new Snow Patrol album (which is a gooduns!), bought a seriously cute (and cheap!) handbag on TradeMe this morning, recieved thecutest email at work from my boy and my house smells deliciously of the apple cinnamon muffins I baked last night. Best of all, this weekend is a long one and I am going to Napier to visit my best friend and indulge in Hot Chick and Jaffles 
Music: Snow Patrol - You are all that I have
Mood:  Good
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10 October 2006
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Got the slippery little suckers...hopefully...
Tuesday 10 October 2006 - 9.08pm
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Two months on from my car accident and I am still doing battle with my insurance company over the $1000 excess that they have yet to pay out to me. This has made me somewhat grumpy as after initially paying the bulk of my car value out within 4 days with exceptional service and kindness, they have done nothing but procrastinate, whinge, moan and wriggle out of paying me the excess.
The problem lies with the fact that the guy who caused the accident had no insurance and did not own the car he was driving. Oh and the fact that he has now left the country, returning to Scotland and I'm pretty sure will never be seen in NZ again. That means liability shifts to the owner of the car, who also did not have insurance. Honestly, are these people courting trouble or just plain dumb? Anyway, it seems the owner of the car is an evasive wee customer and has failed to respond to any communication from the insurance company to accept liability (funny that since I probably would try my best to get out of it too). Admitidly the insurance company havent tried very hard = they have sent two letters and thats it as the car owner has no listed phone number and they dont seem terribly interested in digging very deep to locate her. I guess because to them a thousand dollars isnt much money and more to the point, I get the feeling they just dont really care.
Basically it all comes down to the insurance company having dug their toes in and said that even though the Police report clears me of any blame at all (just a case of wrong place, wrong time) they will not pay the excess until they have an admission of liability from someone. Even the insurance broker I have hired to deal with this (because I am sick to death of dealing with this - I just want my monies damnit!) has had very little joy.
So there I was, toodling home from the Supermarket tonight and happened to drive passed the site of the accident, as I do most days, and what do I see parked on the side of the street? The car that caused the accident up for sale (Pale blue/green Mitsi Mirage, 1987, Reg and WOF, $700 on Botanical Road if anyone is interested) with (and here's the important bit) contact phone numbers for the owner! (and thus reinforcing my belief that these people arent very smart). My insurance broker was quite excited at my playing detective and is going to bollock at the insurance company tomorrow morning. Fingers, toes, eyes and internal organs crossed that finally, finally, please God finally I will be paid out my excess asap...and then I am changing insurance companies.
 State Insurance are evil and should be avoided at all costs
*goes away to vent her frustrations on the cool memory game she found on the interweb today...I did do some useful stuff at work today, honest  *
Music: Katie Melua - Mockingbird Song
Mood: Optimistic
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9 October 2006
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I got..
Monday 9 October 2006 - 6.36pm
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Another freaking parking ticket today 
When will I learn to feed those money munching meters?
Mood:  Annoyed
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8 October 2006
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Bathurst
Sunday 8 October 2006 - 3.55pm
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So its 3.50pm on a Sunday afternoon and I am at the LAN, watching cars go round and round a race track on the telly (or not go round and crash off, alot, as the case may be).
Am I bored?
You betcha
Are my chocolate chippie biscuits universally loved?
Of course
Am I actually watching the race?
Not on your life
Am I, in reality, alternating between stalking the journals and reading my book in the semi darkness, causing premature wrinkling and/or blindness?
Uh-huh
Ah, the things I do for love
One third of the race over...its gonna be a long afternoon
Time for refueling; Vanilla Coke and Grain Waves
Music: The Vroom! of the cars round Mt Panaroma
Mood: Lazy
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7 October 2006
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Where are you hiding?
Saturday 7 October 2006 - 1.00pm
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I miss  francis and his biting and insightful witicisms and social commentaries.
Please come back!
Viva la witicisms 
Music: Katie Melua - Crawling Up a Hill
Mood: Sad
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Computer Widow
Saturday 7 October 2006 - 12.08pm
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This weekend I have to compete for the affections of my boy against a mistress that has the complete upper hand; a new computer game (Company of Heros) and a LAN or; a group of guys in a school hall with their computers all linked together, playing games and drinking beer ALL FREAKIN WEEKEND with the added thrill of the Bathurst 1000 tomorrow on their big screen and projector  for which they have stolen my VCR/DVD player to run the sound system through 
Since I am severly lacking in friends in PN these days (damn you for moving away Leah!) it shall be a very quiet one for me I think; lots of reading, writing, playing of Sims 2, keeping warm, thrashing of my Katie Melua MP3s and haunting of the journals site on my agenda. Maybe if the boy is lucky I might bake for him and his friends at the LAN (which I am ashamed to admit would be more about me looking like a wonderful girlfriend than actually wanting to cook for random guys with nicknames like Hippy, Viking, Inspector, Snake and Skuzzlebutt) 
Mood:  Sigh
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5 October 2006
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Mini Break!
Thursday 5 October 2006 - 9.56pm
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After just one day back at work, my post mini-break glow has all but died. It was nice while it lasted though! So I shall try to recapture that inner buzz and tell you all about my weekend in Taupo
Sat
We set off at the sedate time of 11.30am in our friends borrowed van, sans smells of fresh paint this time though thankfully but with lots of interesting rattling sounds from the go-karts and related paraphenalia packed in. The weather, as is standard, turned to utter shite once we hit Waiouru and I had visions of a soggy and sorry weekend ahead. We decided to do a couple of touristy things before we checked into the Hotel; firstly to Huka Falls where we were almost the only 2 people without cameras slung around our necks (I kid you not) and then on to The Honey Farm just down the road where we tested and tried lots of honey and skin care stuff (well I did, the boy just wandered round aimlessly) and then indulged in quite possibly the tastiest Mochachino I have ever tasted. I cannot explain what was so damn good about it; prehaps it was merely due to the fact it was my first coffee of the day (and at 3pm was well overdue) or it was the perfect way to unwind after a slightly uncomfortable journey..or maybe that I didn't have to pay for it. What I do know is that I would highly recommend it, and their Ginger Shortbread biscuits.
So to the hotel - so gorgeous! Lush animal prints and beautiful shinning wood as far as the eye could see. The only downside was the teensy tinyness of our room. Because of the rail theme it was based on a rail sleeper cabin and consisted of wall, gap big enough to fit a book down, double bed, 1.5m walking area, wall. It was so tiny it was comical - one of us had to be sitting on the bed while the other got dressed! The bathroom was equally itsy - everytime I turned round in the shower my lard arse would knock the shower mixer and either turn it up to scolding hot (which would result in my squealing like a live pig on a spit) or turning it off all together (which would also result in my squeling like a live pig on a spit)...much to the amusement of Michael and probably the annoyance of the guests in the next room. We relaxed in the bar before going out to dinner at the delightfully named “Mole and Chicken.” Then back to the hotel room to relax, watch some crappy telly and catch some Zzzzs in preparation for
Sunday
for a full on day of awesome racing at the Kart Track after an obscenely early start, not helped by Daylight Savings kicking in (Grumble grumble). One upside to the crack of sparrows start was we were first to the Hotel Restaurant for the sumptuious breakfast feast that awaited; two different types of bread for toasting, muffins splits, crumpets, pikelets, an array of cereals, fruit of both canned and fresh varieties, yoghurts of every flavour under the sun, juices, teas, coffees and the site that brought joy to my heart; crossiants, pastries, muffins and danishes of every description to make your mouth water and your wasitline expand. Better still, we got to feast again the following day!
Racing was awesome (even if the weather threatened to come down on us throughout the day) and left plenty of time at the end of the day for drinks in the hotel bar before dinner I am ashamed to say that I was comaed out before 10pm that night; I just could not keep my poor little eyes open after the early start and busy day (over 13,000 steps on my pedometer that day; my new record!).
Monday
was pure crappyness weather wise in Taupo, but we braved the showers, and the school kids on holiday and did the shops, watched some Asian tourists throw themselves off the Taupo bungee (mad!) and then beginning a slow mosey home via a lovely secluded beach on the edge of Lake Taupo to collect some pumice...and that is not a euphamism...for maybe it is  ...and then a visit to the Army Museum. The display on the 150 year history of the Victoria Cross was pretty special and if you are heading through that way I would recommend a stop. Lastly we detoured out to Gravity Canyon (damn, that is a loooong way down) just outa Taihape (where the tumbleweeds blow and the skanks abound, right thewickerman? ) and finially arrived home around 5pm having had to crash start my beloved's car when we swapped the van back over as the starter motor had finally died on it.
And thus, the mini break was over and it was home to feed and cuddle my poor neglected cats, do copious amounts of accumulated laundry and get driven slowly madder and madder (like a twisted variation of Chinese Water Torture) from the dripping of rain through the still not fixed hole in my ceiling.
In the words of that grand early 90s movie, before Wynona discovered her lack of shoplifting ability : Reality Bites.
Music: Pulp Sport on the Telly - Love ya Bill and Ben!
Mood: Over It
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2 October 2006
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I'm Baa-ck!
Monday 2 October 2006 - 8.26pm
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Hey y'all,
this is just a very quick entry to say Hullo! I am back from a fantastical mini break in Taupo, am dog tired and pledge to write a proper entry telling you all about it (whether you want to hear it or not) just as soon as I get some sleeps ... and my cats stop harrassing me for attention for more than 5 minutes, the poor neglected unloved mammals (or so they would have you believe)
PS: To Miss  chrissy and Ms  heather, my phone battery appears to be pooched and refuses to hold any charge atm hence no texts so is not snubbing you! Hope to get that sorted tomorrow because Yay! I have the next two days off work as well!!!...just a pity its school holidays as well really, I so cannot stand hoards of obnoxious loud children (specifically annoying little shits who run around screaming like banshees in the Waiouru Army Museum while their ineffectual excuses for parents attempt to control them by saying such weak, new age hippy crap as "sssh, we have to use our inside voices" ...but that is tomorrow's story).
Night!
Music: Split Enz - History Never Repeats
Mood: Exhausted but so damn happy
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