The World Of Jadeey: December 2007



Keep it up Stanley and you'll lose New Year's

Monday, December 31, 2007
Here it is, my 300th post. It also happens to be my last post of the year. I like that. Of course, I can’t get on the internet from here so I’m just writing it in Word and it’ll get posted online tomorrow or the next day.

For this post I’m going to make some lists summing up my year. These lists are all made up from memory while I’m also watching Lemony Snicket with my nephew so I reserve the right to make changes at a later date if I think of better things. (all of these are in no particular order)

Holly’s favourite films of 2007
1. Enchanted
2. The Prestige (I actually saw this a couple of days before 2007 but it didn’t come out in NZ until New Years Day from memory so it still counts)
3. Transformers
4. Hot Fuzz
5. Eagle Vs Shark
6. Superbad
7. Simpsons
8. Knocked Up


Holly’s best days of 2007
1. All the days in Perth
2. Going to Spookers
3. Going to Snow Planet
4. Going to Justin Timberlake
5. Going to Crowded House
6. Going to the Wellington Phoenix soccer match with David Beckham
7. Watching Justin Timberlake on the cinema 1 screen
8. Going to the Warriors
9. Getting a poster signed by Jason Behr
10. Hanging out in Taupo with Ingrid
11. Many different nights hanging out in my flat with Kat
12. Many different days having lunch with Corrina

Holly’s favourite tv shows of 2007
1. The Office
2. Scrubs
3. Hells Kitchen
4. Heroes
5. Sensing Murder (scares the crap out of me!)
6. Shortland Street (I’m hoping my love of this show ends if Craig Parker gets killed off)
7. Gossip Girl
8. Friday Night Lights
9. House
10. Full House (rewatching it on DVD)


Celebrities Holly met or saw in real life in 2007 (that I hadn’t met or seen before)
1. Justin Timberlake
2. Craig Parker
3. David Beckham
4. Jason Behr
5. Oliver Driver
6. Neil Finn
7. All the Snow Patrol guys

We had a funeral for a bird

Sunday, December 30, 2007
My boss died on Friday. I guess technically, since I left the company a week ago he wasn't my boss anymore. But I still consider him as such.

He died from stomach cancer and we knew it was coming. A few weeks ago he was given 2 weeks to live and I think it was only down to his ridiculously strong-willed, stubborn personality that he made it past Christmas. It's such an awful thing. He was still young and had very young children. It makes me very unhappy that people who want to live die when there are people out there who are desperate to take their own lives. It seems very unfair.

Moving on to happier topics. I'm just waiting for my mum to come and pick me up then I'm off to stay at their place for a couple of days. This means that there will probably be no online blog tomorrow because there is no internet up at their place. There is dial-up but at the moment the house is too full of people for me to be able to comfortably sit and use the computer anywhere except my bedroom and there is no phone jack in my bedroom which means no internet. I will, instead, write my blog on my laptop and post it when I am next near an internet connection.

Tomorrow's post promises to be EXTREMELY exciting as it is both the last post of the year AND my 300th post. I better make it a good one!!!

No, no, 'cuz the ice melts, and then it's like second drink

Saturday, December 29, 2007
I learnt something very important tonight. I learnt that I cannot take Ingrid anywhere.

We decided to go to a restaurant for dinner. Not a flash restaurant, but a little better than McDonalds. I commented once we had sat down that the table was quite big for a table for two and I couldn't even reach the whole way across the table. Ingrid then decided to prove me wrong by practically lying on the table to reach my side.

Following the table escapade she decided to open the bottle of salt in preparation for her meal. You see, unlike normal people, Ingrid cannot just sprinkle salt on her meal from the bottle, she has to open it up and POUR it on. The salt lid was apparently a little tight so she had to get her knife and use it to pry the lid off. Next thing we know the lid is sailing off the bottle and landing somewhere behind her.

As if these two mishaps weren't enough, she also went to the bathroom and turned the tap on far too hard, drenching the floor... Hmmm yeah, I don't think we'll be going anywhere too fancy in the near future.

I'm just kidding. These things all did happen but they didn't bother me in the slightest. I found them pretty damn funny to be honest.

Today was a really great day. The weather was really nice. It's days like these that remind me why I love Wellington. In Auckland, a nice warm day actually means a stiflingly muggy day. In Wellington it's too windy to get very muggy. Today it was warm but with a slight cool breeze (and I do mean breeze - it wasn't bad at all) to keep it from being uncomfortably hot.

I do miss Auckland though! Especially living with Kat!!!! :(

Maybe you could play a song on your recorder

Friday, December 28, 2007
No list today. I'm too tired.

We've spent all day alphabetising our dvds. For most people this might seem like an easy task. For us it is not. My stuff is finally beginning to get sorted out and the lounge, at least, is almost habitable again. Our dvds look really good!

Tonight I am going to see some movies. National Treasure 2 and I am Legend. Should be good. On the agenda for tomorrow is not a lot during the day and I'm not sure what during the evening. So, in other words, there isn't much on the agenda for tomorrow. On Sunday I'm going for a picnic with the family. I like picnics with the family!

Ummm I don't have a lot else to say.... So I might just leave this here.

Awesome lessons part deux

Thursday, December 27, 2007
Kat just pointed out a very grave mistake I made when creating my previous awesome list of awesome stuff that is awesome....

All of my friends should be on that list. I'm not going to list you all one by one in case I inadvertently miss someone. But you are all amazingly awesome!!

if you don't know why that's awesome, then you need awesome lessons

I have decided that I really like writing lists and I do not write enough of them. My Christmas lists were good but I think I can do better!

Holly's Awesome List of Awesome Things That Are Awesome

1. My lounge-suite. It contains the most comfortable couch in the history of the universe AND the two most comfortable recliners in the history of the universe. No joke
2. The fact that I used the word awesome 3 times in the title of this list
3. John Krasinski
4. The Office (TV show, NOT the office I worked in until 7 days ago)
5. That I no longer work at the movies!
6. My nephew
7. Mountain Dew
8. John Krasinski (he's awesome enough to deserve multiple mentions)
9. House (the TV show again)
10. Hells Kitchen (okay, gotta stop listing TV shows now. I do have a life! Honest!)
11. Toast (I haven't eaten yet. I'm hungry and dreaming of toast)
12. Kitset furniture from The Warehouse (if I had more money I would buy better furniture and no longer think this is awesome. But I don't have much money so I think it's pretty bloody awesome actually.)
13. That there was a tiny bit of snow in Upper Hutt yesterday. Some families had a white Christmas (sort of) in the middle of summer!
14. My DVD collection
15. My family (this list is not in order! I would never put my family down so low)
16. My friends
17. John Krasinski
18. John Krasinski
19. John Krasinski
20. John Krasinski

Sorry about the repetitiveness of the last 4. But he is! And I wanted to get to 20 but I got tired of thinking of stuff.

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Yankee Swap is like Machiavelli meets Christmas

Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Hopefully tomorrow I'll move on from the Christmas quotes, but since today is Boxing Day I thought I could get away with it.

When I was a kid I had no idea why the 26th of December was called Boxing Day. I thought that it must have something to do with the sport of boxing. I always wondered why I never saw any boxing matches on tv on Boxing Day. It made no sense to me. Eventually I wised up and realised it has nothing to do with the sport either. Ah, children, we are so literal.

I'm home alone today. It's been a pretty good day so far but also a bit annoying. I decided to do a big clean of the flat, try and earn my keep a bit since I'm not paying any money. So, I started off with the bathroom. Now, normally I hate cleaning the bathroom but I also love having a clean bathroom so thought it was a good place to start. It's a glass shower and it looks like it hasn't been scrubbed in a long time. It's clean but very soap scummy on the glass. I scrubbed and scrubbed for a long time and was pretty proud of myself. I then waited for it to dry (cos you can't tell if you missed parts when it's wet) and saw, to my utter dismay, that it doesn't look any different. Clearly the shower looks clean because it has been cleaned often enough but that soap scum just ain't coming off. I have a few other tricks up my sleeve so I'm going to tackle it again once I finish writing this.

While I was waiting for the shower to dry I thought I'd do the toilet. Alas, there does not appear to be any toilet cleaning stuff in the flat. So I decided to vacuum. The vacuum cleaner is broken... This cleaning thing just isn't going my way today!!!

Okay I'm off to brave the Boxing Day madness and buy some cleaning gear. Wish me luck!!

Nasty Christmas x 2

Tuesday, December 25, 2007
I'm still using the nasty Christmas quote because I don't have a lot of time so can't go looking for another Christmas Office quote. (Although I'm sure there are many)

First off - Merry Christmas!!!!!!

I just want to add a couple of things to yesterday's list of things Holly hates about Christmas. (I can't remember what number I was up to so I'll start from 1. Sorry if I repeat anything.)

1. When you have beautifully wrapped a present then realise that you left the price tag on it.
2. When you then open the beautifully wrapped present to take the price sticker off only to discover that you did, in fact, take it off prior to wrapping it the first time.
3. When you have an oddly shaped present and you just cannot get the wrapping to look good no matter how hard you try.
4. When you accidentally rip a hole in the present you just finished beautifully wrapping.
5. When you run out of wrapping paper.
6. When the wrapping paper just isn't big enough to wrap the present no matter how hard you try.
7. When all of the above things happen to you when you are wrapping presents!

In my family we call it nasty Christmas

Monday, December 24, 2007
I love Christmas. I really, really do. Buying presents for people, as long as you know what you want to get them, is fun. Receiving presents is super-fun and looking at your wrapped presents wondering what they are going to be is exciting. So, overall, yes I love Christmas. There are, however, a few things I do not love about Christmas and that is what today's blog is about. (Yes, it's list time again.)

Things Holly hates about Christmas

1. Not knowing whether or not you should buy a present for someone
2. The awkwardness of not buying for someone and then finding they bought something for you
3. The awkwardness of spending a disproportionate on someone compared to how much they spent on you (more or less, both are equally akward)
4. Receiving something you don't like and trying to pretend that you love it
5. Giving something the person doesn't like
6. When someone is not a good enough actor to pretend they like a present they actually hate
7. When someone doesn't even care enough about your feelings to pretend
8. Giving someone something they already own
9. Receiving something you already own
10. Knowing what you want to buy someone but not being able to find it anywhere
11. Not knowing what to buy someone that you need to buy for
12. The days and days of stress and cleaning that come with being the host for this year's Christmas
13. Christmas cake (I just really don't like the taste)
14. Pavlova (ditto with the taste thing)
15. The madness of the shops leading up to Christmas
16. That shops are closed on Christmas day yet I ALWAYS end up needing something

Oh, parents are here. I'll stop now and might add some more soon

No time! That's what she said

Sunday, December 23, 2007
No, no time! But it is.

You'd think someone with no job would have plenty of time to blog.... But I do not. I've still got Christmas shopping to do and I'm meeting a friend for lunch in an hour. (I'm poor so he's paying. I'm sure this paying thing is going to get old for my friends REAL fast.)

I haven't actually seen my parents yet. Until I get a job and move back into my flat permanently I'm living between my parents house and my best friend's house. My brother arrived in Wellington yesterday (from Hamilton) so my mum was going crazy trying to get the house tidy. It seemed best to stay away. I'll hopefully get up to see them tonight. It doesn't help that they live up a big hill that is pretty scary to drive up during the day. 4 people have driven off the side this year - that scares me!

Hmmmm so what have I done since I've been back in Wellington? I've caught up with lots of people, hours and hours of talking. I've watched a dvd, and fallen asleep part way through it. I've been to a movie at my old, old work, and almost fallen asleep part way through it. I've been Christmas shopping, and wished I was sleeping at the time. (Getting the feeling I'm sleepy?) I've spent tons of my 2000 txt messages txting friends from Auckland that I miss terribly. I've fallen in love. With a puppy. In a pet store. That I'm not allowed at the flat I'm staying at OR my parents house. :(

Okay, it's Christmas shopping time so that's all you're gonna get from me today.

Home

Saturday, December 22, 2007
It's good to be home. It really is. At the moment I'm still feeling the residual sense of loss that comes with giving something up, but it's still very good to be home.

I'll be posting the posts from yesterday and Thursday later tonight probably. I wrote them in notepad since I didn't have access to the internet so just need to copy and past them in. I'll also hopefully write something a little more interesting for todays post but I'm about to head out the door so don't have time right now.

Let's go home, get the car Dwight

Friday, December 21, 2007
It's Friday. I still can't get on the internet (although I should be able to later tonight) so I'm blogging in a text document again. As I type this I'm checking my prepay balance. I spent $14 yesterday on my cellphone.... Wow, I miss my Hoyts (completely free) phone!!! I'm setting up better plans for myself right now. Luckily Vodafone have some pretty good plans on their prepay service now so I should be able to cut down how much I spend.

We're in Taupo at the moment. We're going to spend the morning here and head home in a few hours. Since I hogged all the driving yesterday, Ingrid is going to do the driving today.

We've organised with some friends to go Christmas shopping when we get back. Lucky we've organised this since I haven't done ANY shopping yet!!! I don't have a huge number of people to buy for so it's not too bad though. (Lucky, since I now have no job and really have to watch my spending!)

Ok I have to go now. Ingrid is out of the shower and it's time for us to pack our stuff and check out. Catch y'all tomorrow!

In the event of a crash, the driver always protects his side first

Thursday, December 20, 2007
I have to write this in a text document since I have no internet connection at this motel. (unless I pay for it, which I don't want to do.)

I'm currently in Taupo. We're staying in a pretty nice motel. It's not super-nice but for $93 per night I'm not complaining. We went to dinner at the last dine-in Pizza Hutt in New Zealand tonight. It was exciting. Of course, we ate "The Works". Life is good.

The drive was pretty good. There wasn't any traffic so it was easy. I'm thinking tomorrow there will be quite a bit more traffic so it probably won't be as pleasant. However, we'll face that problem tomorrow.

It's really sad to have left Auckland. I feel like I'm on holiday at the moment, except that I keep having random bouts of sadness. I'm really going to miss the people there. Of course, I'm happy to go back and see my friends in Wellington, but it's just as sad as when I left Wellington. I didn't really see that one coming when I left for Auckland at the beginning of the year. I sort of thought coming home was going to be real easy.

Okay, I'm going to leave this here because I want to spend time with Ingrid rather than stare at my computer all night. (Also we're gonna watch a couple of episodes of The Office and then the movie Click, which I've never seen)

Too irritated to even find a quote

Wednesday, December 19, 2007
My movers STILL haven't arrived. So, they were supposed to be here yesterday. By 4.30pm they still hadn't showed up OR rung me back. I rang them again and refused to be called back - I said I had plans and needed answers straight away. (which was true) They weren't going to be able to get to me until at least 7pm so I switched it to 8am today. (Turns out it was actually more like 8.30pm when they finished at the other place so lucky I switched it!)

It is now 11am on Wednesday and they still haven't shown up. I've spent 45 minutes on the phone to them and failed to get any kind of answers. I gave them an hour, called back and spent another 20 minutes on the phone. FINALLY I got an answer - they'll be here in 45 minutes. Seriously, if they don't show up by 12pm I'm going to throw my toys completely. I was supposed to be at work by 9am so this is fucking ridiculous!

I will be writing the company a letter and demanding a discount that's for sure. However, I will wait until my stuff has arrived in Wellington before I get all angry!Holly on their asses. :P

Are you going to Angela's cat party on Sunday?

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
Party number 1 is over. 2 to go.

I got pretty drunk last night. It was a good night. I'm now waiting for my movers and have been all day. It's getting ridiculous. They couldn't give me an exact time so I've been up all day waiting. It's now 3.30pm - I have to leave here at 5.20pm, and they still haven't arrived. I've called and left messages but they haven't called me back. These guys are certainly cheap but I don't think I'll use them again.

Back to the party last night, it was a bloody good night. I hadn't had much to eat throughout the day/evening, so the alcohol hit me pretty hard and pretty fast. It helped that I wanted to get drunk and just enjoy it. Unfortunately, mine and Corrina's alcohol got stolen at about 11pm or midnight, so that was the end of drinking. I don't know why I say unfortunately actually since it meant I had a great night but sobered up by the time I went home. No hangover either which is a huge bonus.

Damn it. I just thought I heard the movers and got really excited. But it wasn't them. I'm seriously running out of time now. They better hurry the hell up! Also, it's starting to rain so my stuff is going to get wet as it gets loaded. Boo. :(

Pam and Karen!

Monday, December 17, 2007
I am ordering you to cease and desist all party planning immediately

Today is the day of my surprise party! (Not that I know anything about that of course!) Exciting!!!!!!

Prior to party-time I am having some Justin-time!!! Woo!!!!!!
Justin + cinema 1 = fan-fucking-tastic!

Unfortunately, after Justin-time and before party-time, I also have to have work-time. That's not fan-fucking-tastic at all. In fact, it's the exact opposite.

The real reason that I went to Stamford is that I wanted to be not here

Sunday, December 16, 2007
Well, I've almost finished packing. I've still got heaps of cleaning up to do but the majority of boxes are filled. I am allowed 5 boxes on the truck but, so far, I've only filled 4. I've got quite a few blankets that would take up heaps of room in my car though so I might as well pack them up into a box. Yeah, that's what I'll do.

It's been a pretty sad day actually. I've been feeling over-sensitive for most of it. Packing to move is SAD! In many ways this move is a lot sadder than my move from Wellington. It's also a lot more over-whelming for me. People said I was brave leaving almost everyone I knew and moving to a new city. I guess that was brave, it was certainly braver than pretty much anything else I'd ever done. But, this seems even braver to me. I'm going home to my family, sure. But I'm still leaving plenty of people I know. And, the big thing, I'm leaving a job I've been doing for over 6 years. I'm going to nothing. I have no job....

Hoyts was my first proper job. Prior to this I'd worked in a supermarket, as an admin assistant for an accountant, as a lifeguard at a swimming pool and as an usher at the stadium. None of these were really proper jobs though. They were all part-time, and were all pretty damn unskilled jobs. Hoyts started out as part-time, not very skilled, job but morphed into something more. It was a job, it could have been a career if I'd wanted it to be. But I don't, and that is why it's time to move on.

Driving back down to Wellington in 4 days is going to be pretty brave as well. I've never driven that far before. Heh I probably won't be so excited about it while I'm in the middle of it!

Okay, I better leave this here... Got some tidying up to do and I need to check that everything I plan to take down in the car will actually FIT in the car. Unfortunately posts will probably be pretty short for the next couple of days. I have tons to do so don't have a huge amount of time to blog. Rest assured I'll be thinking about you all though!

Who has two thumbs and hates packing?

Saturday, December 15, 2007
Okay so that's not the exact Office quote but I think it's pretty clever anyway. It's actually 'Who has two thumbs and hates Todd Packer'. But, see, packing is a play on the fact that his name is Packer... And, also, I really do hate packing.

Right. So. I should be packing. Not blogging. Not munching on toast. Not surfing the internet. Not suddenly remembering a book I really want to read RIGHT NOW. I know all of these things are just delaying tactics. But I'm pretty much at a point where I can't delay it any longer.

Kat made fun of me yesterday and said she doubted I would start packing until the very last possible second (late tomorrow night probably.) I tried to defend myself. Argued that, while I hate packing in general, I like packing up all my stuff because I don't have to think about what to pack and what not to pack. I was wrong. I still hate it.

The only thing I want to pack up is my dvd collection. I think I want to pack that purely because it's easy. Kitchen stuff sucks. Drawers suck. Figuring out what crap can be thrown away sucks. Figuring out how much I can fit into my car sucks. Yeah, pretty much all of packing sucks.

I might procrastinate on this one a little longer I think. Perhaps I'll start in the morning instead. Or maybe the afternoon. It surely won't take that long to actually pack will it?

Why did I transfer? Isn't it obvious?

Friday, December 14, 2007
I've gotta start packing up my stuff to move back to Wellington. The challenge is deciding what to send with the movers and what to take in the car with me. It wouldn't be a difficult choice except that it will be a week or so before I get my stuff. Because I'm moving RIGHT before Christmas my stuff probably won't arrive back in Wellington until just after Christmas. This means I need to figure out what stuff I will need during that time. I guarantee I'll want anything that goes with the movers and nothing that comes in the car with me!

I was having a discussion with Kat before, we were talking about me, and others, leaving Hoyts. She said she considers staying less than a year, which is what I am doing, sort of giving up. Now, in case anyone else thinks this as well, I am going to state my case here. I've already stated my case to her but I don't know what the rest of you are thinking so you just have to put up with reading it. (Or not, since you have probably all stopped reading by now.)

I don't consider what is happening me giving up at all. If I had left in July, when I seriously thought about it, that would have been giving up and that's why I didn't do it. I put a lot of thought into the decision to leave this time around. I'm not leaving because I hate the job, I complain about it but the honest truth is that I don't hate it. Not at all, it annoys me often enough but that's to be expected with any job that falls under the category of 'job' and not 'passion'. I hope to one day have a job that falls under the category of passion, if I can write for a living then that will be it. I've never been under any illusions that Hoyts is, and always will be, just a job.

My reasons for leaving are as simple as my reasons for coming here. Personal development. I didn't move to Auckland because I had any desire to live in Auckland. I moved here because the job I wanted to do happened to be in Auckland. If it had been in Dunedin I would have ended up there. I don't feel like I'm leaving after less than a year. I'm actually not. It was never about the city for me, it was about moving as far with the company as I possibly could. I've now done that. In my honest self-reflection a couple of months ago I admitted to myself that there is no more up for me in this company. I'm not cut out to be anything higher than I am now. My skills lie in other areas.

I was talking to Corrina earlier today about how much I admire people who can admit that a job paying a lot more money isn't as well suited to them as a job paying less. It's a hard thing to do, to admit you don't have the skills, or the ability to learn the skills, to really do a job well. But, I have admitted that I don't have the skills to be anything more in this company than what I am now. And, now that I have gone as far as I can, it is time to get out. I've been with the company 6 years, that's a significant amount of my working life up until now, it's time for me to move on. I'm going to miss it, that's for absolutely certain, but I am absolutely making the right decision.

I have no idea what I'm going to do next. I have a few options but no firm plans as yet. While I find this the most terrifying thing in the world I also find it the most exciting. I have a chance to do ANYTHING. It's very exciting.

I have itchy-bites. They suck.

This is the smallest amount of power I've ever seen go to someone's head

Thursday, December 13, 2007
Powertrips are funny things. When people get on them it's, obviously, because they think they are super-fantastic. In fact, they think they are more super-fantastic than everyone else around them. The funny thing is that usually everyone around the person power-tripping can see what's going on and actually tend to lose respect for that person.

I can think of a handful of people at work who are power-tripping at the moment. It's driving me insane! I want to tell them to get over it, but the thing about power-tripping is that people don't usually see it in themselves and don't believe others when they point it out. In fact, it's more likely the person will think you are jealous rather than taking the advice on board.

The people at work at the moment are amusing me at the same time as driving me insane. For all of them the increase in power is tiny yet their egos have become huge. It's funny to see even as it's painful. It makes me hope I've never power-tripped. I can't think of any times that I have but I've not really ever been in the situation where it would so I might be yet to find out that horrible fact about myself. Although I am high up in the company I work for and have had a number of promotions, most of them have been promotions to a new set of staff. Not exactly the right circumstances for a power-trip since it, if no-one knows me, it's not really like an increase in power.

Guess what!?! This time next week I'll be in Taupo. Woo! (And also boo... very sad to be leaving.)

I cry myself to sleep!!! JIIIM!!

Wednesday, December 12, 2007
False. I do not miss him.

It's really awesome to arrive and find that your flatmate has cleaned the flat. Not just cleaned it, but CLEANED it.

I've got a lot of things I should be doing tonight:

Epilating my legs
Doing some washing
Starting to pack, or at least plan my packing
Finishing up some work I brought home with me but haven't touched yet
Sleeping because I haven't had a lot of sleep the last few days

Instead, I'm probably going to watch an episode of House, do a bit of surfing and not do any of the above things. (Well the sleeping I will eventually do but far later than I really should.) I'll regret it at some other point in time but for now it sounds awesome. I'm becoming addicted to the 4th season of House. I put off watching it for ages because I knew once I started I wouldn't be able to stop. I was right. It's as addictive as it always was.

This morning I got up early to go down to work and watch a DVD of Justin Timberlake's New York concert on the big screen. It was fucking fantastic! I'm watching it again on Friday it was so good. Wow, it was just awesome.

Final thing, my car clocked 100,000 kilometres yesterday. It was an exciting moment.

Yeah, this blog has been fairly disjointed. But, at least it wasn't lame like my Monday's blog!

Computers are about trying to murder you in a lake

Tuesday, December 11, 2007
Does it make someone a bad person if they are laughing at a tv show or film that should be making you horrified and crying? Cos, if it does, I am a horrible person.

I'm watching Sensing Murder and it's about a little girl who was raped and murdered in her bed. It's truly awful. But, we can't stop laughing at the awful New Zealand accent! We're not laughing at what happened - it devastates us. But the accent on some of these people is awful. Normally I don't mind the New Zealand accent too much, I certainly never notice it in myself or my friends. In this show right now it really sounds horrible though.

Sensing Murder really scares me. I'm not 100% certain how I feel about psychics. I think there really are some people that have abilities, this programme has certainly convinced me of that fact. I think there are more so-called psychics that are fake though. I went to a psychic once. She was full of crap. She started off on the right-ish track. But, she went further and further wrong. For some reason I agreed with her when she started going wrong, I think by that point I was not believing at all so wanted to see where she would end up. I wasn't disappointed either. She ended up thinking I was being beaten up by my boyfriend. Funny.

I used to say “don’t go there,” but that’s lame

Monday, December 10, 2007
Wow I'm tired. I went to bed pretty late last night (me and Kat were hanging out) and got up early for work. (Stupid work)

I ordered DVDs from Amazon.com AGES ago and they still haven't arrived! This makes me both sad and mad all at once. At this rate they won't have arrived before I leave. Grrrr

I want a mountain dew. I think I might go get one. Oh! And a bounty bar. Yum.

Due to a lack of things to say today here is a word of the day and it's super-awesome definition:

Pornfolio:

The mass of porn that one has stored on their computer, generally in a separate folder.

Damn dude, I got 117 porn mpegs in my pornfolio.

That is all. This post has to be, hands down, the worst post ever!

Christmas is cancelled

Sunday, December 09, 2007
Or, It's a screenplay starring himself - update

It's a sad update to the writers strike I'm afraid people. There were talks throughout the week and it looked like it was all going to go well and we'd have shows back on air by the middle of January. Unfortunately, on Friday, the talks broke down.

There are no more talks scheduled until February. Essentially this means the seasons of everything are pretty much over. They might film a couple more episodes of each show if the February results produce a resolution, but there won't be time for many. Actors will already be booked for films during the normal break between seasons so they can't just work right through and create a normal-length season.

What a sucky Christmas present! I want The Office back!!!!!

It's like with firemen. You don't leave your brothers behind

Saturday, December 08, 2007
The most awkward thing in the world? Meeting and falling for your boyfriend/fiancé/husband’s brother. From what I gather this is actually quite a common occurrence. Wouldn’t it be awful! One, it would be horrible for the boyfriend/fiancé/husband if they are left for their brother. It would be like being left for your friend, you’d feel betrayed by both people. Two, it’d be horrible for the brother. If he liked her too he’d have to face the fact that he could never have her because you just don’t do that to your brother. OR he’d do that to his brother, feel bad for the rest of his life and probably be shunned by the rest of his family as well. Finally, it’d be horrible for the girl. No normal person likes to hurt people, therefore, no normal person wants to fall for someone else while they are in a relationship. Falling for a friend or relation of your partner is even worse than falling for a stranger, guaranteed to cause more hurt. Even if you break up with your partner for other reasons, the chances of getting together with the brother are severely diminished, assuming of course that the brother is a decent human being and a good brother.

It makes me smile when brothers are really similar. I tell you what, I could happily go for the boy’s little brother. He’s like a slightly younger version of the boy. He’s a total cutie. Of course, I wouldn’t because, well he’s like a slightly younger version but with subtle differences that stop him actually being the boy. And it is, of course, the boy that I want to be with.

People have asked me why I write the boy instead of the person’s name. No actual reason in particular. I name people’s names on here all the time but when I’m talking about slightly more private stuff I try not to. I don’t know why, anyone who knows me knows who I am talking about. It’s more of an illusion of privacy that I like to maintain. It’s probably a bit confusing though since so far throughout the life of this blog there have been three the boy’s that I have just referred to as the boy. I guess you actually have to know me at least a little bit to be able to figure out where one the boy left the picture and another one entered.

Okay I’m stuck in my room right now because it’s very early in the morning and we have someone sleeping in the lounge. I know it’s my house so I should be able to leave my room and go into the lounge if I want to but my guilt over waking someone up is stopping me right now. I could go in there and she'd never complain. It's purely my own guilt stopping me. Probably not for much longer though since I have spent the last 2 hours awake in here and have pretty much completed every activity my bedroom has to offer. (Don’t be gross – reading, writing until my laptop battery is almost dead, lying down and staring at the ceiling willing the time to pass. I could clean up I guess but I’m not that bored yet!)

Anyway, because I’m stuck here I’m going to make another list of things that annoy me. I’m not as angry as I was the other day but I am stomach-churningly nervous about something and I will become very angry if it eventuates.

1. Being stuck in my room due to my own guilt about waking someone up (It is MY guilt stopping me though - not the person in the lounge's fault at all. She wouldn't complain in the slightest if I went in there. So it's only me I'm annoyed at here. Just thought I should point that out.)
2. Spending money when I shouldn’t have to
3. Making plans and then having them ruined by someone else
4. Having to work on a Saturday
5. Having to work on any sunny day
6. Actually, just having to work!
7. Knowing that sometime in the next week and a half I have to pack all my stuff
8. The fact that I've worked in one of the best cinemas in the world for the past year and I’ve seen hardly any movies
9. The fact that I haven’t even seen many test-screenings. Some of this is my fault, a lack of wanting to be tired the next day. Some of it is not my fault as I don’t get invited to many. Back in Wellington my best friend used to go to every single one and always invited me, even though she knew that most of the time I wouldn’t go. She knew I liked to be invited anyway. Kat is the same, she invites me to the test screenings she does and most of the time I don’t go but the invitation cheers me up. But she doesn’t do most of them so I don’t hear about most of them. It then REALLY annoys me when other people are talking about it and I’m like, wow why wasn’t I invited? (Kat forgot to invite me last night but she had a good excuse so I don't mind.)
10. I desperately need new shoes but am pretty much out of money between now and when I get a new job
11. It’s a great washing day today but I start work in a few hours
And, the thing that has me stomach-churningly nervous right now and is also the thing that annoys me most.
12. When stock I order well in advance doesn’t show up and we go into a busy weekend with nowhere near enough stock. (I’ll know in about an hour whether or not I’m thoroughly screwed.)

Edit: I wasn't. The stock showed up. Phew.

You can't fire me, I don't work in this van!

Friday, December 07, 2007
I learnt a new word yesterday. You see, I have become a little addicted to Urban Dictionary. It's a great site. Seriously, go and look up your name. People can write their own definition to whatever words they want so some of them are hilarious. The top definition for Holly is "forbidden sex". There is also one that is so me that it's scary - I'll copy and paste it here:

Holly:

To not understand your whereabouts and to backtrack to get back to your original location.

Two parallel streets. You go east on one street, north to the parrallel street and west. Rather than go south to get back to your original location, you go east, south, west. You pulled a holly.

So true! I get lost ALL the time. Ask anyone who's ever been in the car with me!

Anyway, back to my original story, I learnt a new word. That word is sexile. Sexile is defined by Urban Dictionary as:

To banish a roomate from the room/dorm/apartment for the purpose of engaging in intimate relations with one's significant other/sex partner.

This makes me laugh. I think most people that are flatting have been sexiled from their flat at one point or another. I love that there is a word for it now! :-)

As for news in my world, there isn't a lot. Work was crappy today. It started off well, up until lunchtime it was pretty great. During lunch I got a phonecall from my boss and things just snowballed from there. I got lists of things to do then, even worse, a VERY important delivery didn't turn up. I spent hours on the phone trying to chase it up. At this point we have to do without it tonight (which shouldn't be the end of the world) and it should be there in the morning. It better bloody show up! If it doesn't then I've gotta say it's lucky I've already resigned because I'd sure as hell be fired! (It's not actually my fault but that doesn't matter - I'll still get the blame.)

TUNA! ARE YOU KIDDING ME!?

Thursday, December 06, 2007
Most people who know me know that I have a pretty obsessive personality right? Heh I can practically hear the calls of "well duh!" right now. :-) I obsess over anything, a person, a tv show, a song, some kind of activity or a type of food. Once I am in obsessive mode I can't get enough of whatever I'm obsessing over until I get bored and move on. There's usually no moderation for me. For instance, I can't just watch The Office once a week when it's on tv. Instead I watch episodes multiple times, read everything I possibly can about it, talk about it and even buy dvds of other things the actors from it have been in.

At the moment my food obsession is tuna. Seriously. I can't get enough of it. When I think to myself "hmmm what should I have for dinner?" I don't think pizza, fish and chips, Oporto or Red Rooster. I don't even think that I shouldn't have takeaways because they're bad for me and I should save money. No, I think mmmmmm tuna! I sit at work and think about the tuna I'm going to have for dinner. It's crazy. Soon I will get sick of it and won't touch it again for, probably, a couple of years. But, for now, I'm obsessed.

Actually, I've just realised that my tuna obsession is already very evident in my blog since I have blogged about it so many times I'm actually running out of tuna quotes from The Office! That's just lame!

Wow, this time in two weeks I'll be in Taupo. Scary. The time is passing mighty quickly. I am very sad to be leaving. (Not sad to be leaving work, but sad to be leaving the people and my flat.)

Right, I will leave you with this - strudel is a funny word. I like it. Strudel.

Last year, Creed asked me how to set up a blog

Wednesday, December 05, 2007
Wanting to protect the world from being exposed to Creed's brain, I opened up a Word document on his computer and put an address at the top

I've had this blog for a little over two years. Even more impressive, I've now been blogging every single day for over 4 months. Kat's been doing it even longer. It seems like a huge achievement and I've gotta say that I'm pretty impressed with myself. Just think, if I'd been writing a couple of pages of a novel everyday for the past 4 months I'd be almost finished! Hmmm well that doesn't make me feel quite as good!

I can't believe it's almost Christmas. This year has passed so quickly. Admittedly I say that every year, but every year it's true. This time last year it was almost time for my big trip to Perth. In fact, this time last year I was in Sydney for a few days. It really does not feel like that was an entire year ago. Hopefully this time next year I'll be doing something super-duper exciting. Of course, I will have been blogging every day for the entire year so you'll all know exactly what's coming.

I wonder if my blogging every day will stop once I no longer live with Kat. I hope I do keep it up but I'm not 100% sure I will. Unlike her, I've made no deadlines for when I'm going to end this. I'm just going to keep going until I don't like doing it anymore. Having her right her keeps the motivation up. Hopefully having her on the other end of a cellphone and email will do the same thing.

I've been thinking about my Christmas shopping. I've figured out what I'm getting most people. There are one of two people who are causing me problems because I can't get my hands on the present I want to buy them so I think I'm going to have to go for plan B, which isn't as cool.

I bought a Justin Timberlake CD today. I never thought I'd see the day when I did that. But, you know what, I don't even care! I love it!! :-)

What is the most exciting thing that can happen on TV?

Tuesday, December 04, 2007
I love Tuesday's. They are seriously the best day of the week for me these days. It's my day off (except this week because I had the weekend off for Beckham) and my favourite tv show (Hells Kitchen) is on, followed by a show I like a lot (Sensing Murder). (Favourite that I watch on tv, I have other favourites that I watch on dvd or, ahem, the internet.)

Hells Kitchen is absolutely my favourite show on tv at the moment. I just love it. Chef Ramsey is awesome! I love the insults he comes up with. The one thing I don't understand is how angry the customers get when their meals don't come out. I mean c'mon! You go to Hells Kitchen when the show is being filmed then surely you are not expecting to actually eat? Maybe towards the end of filming you'd expect something to come out but at the beginning? No way!!!

Heee!! Everyone is stuffing up and there are master chefs waiting for their food! It's so good!!!

Ohhhh and now one of them has SERIOUSLY stuffed up! And it's my least favourite of them! Wooooo!!!! Oh my God!! And now she's talking back to Chef Ramsey!!!! I'm so happy right now!!!

Let the record show that Jim Halpert is a liar!

Lying is a weird thing. We're taught as children that it's wrong to lie yet we still do it. Lying is such a grey area. Some people say that withholding information is not lying, others say that white lies are not actual lies.

Dictionary.com defines lie as thus:

–noun
1. a false statement made with deliberate intent to deceive; an intentional untruth; a falsehood.
2. something intended or serving to convey a false impression; imposture: His flashy car was a lie that deceived no one.
3. an inaccurate or false statement.
4. the charge or accusation of lying: He flung the lie back at his accusers.
–verb (used without object)
5. to speak falsely or utter untruth knowingly, as with intent to deceive.
6. to express what is false; convey a false impression.
–verb (used with object)
7. to bring about or affect by lying (often used reflexively): to lie oneself out of a difficulty; accustomed to lying his way out of difficulties.

In other words, if it isn't true then it is a lie. Withholding information is a lie by the definition number two. When you withhold information, you are lying by omission, you are allowing someone to believe one thing because you are not giving them the information required to come to the correct conclusion. You are giving them a false impression.

It hurts to be lied to. Always. Even if you know the lie was for your own good it still hurts. This is not to say people shouldn't lie to protect other people, sometimes you should and sometimes you shouldn't. Sometimes by lying to protect a person you are doing them a disservice. Sure, you don't want to hurt them but sometimes people have to be hurt to learn. This is why it's such a grey area. Whether or not to tell the truth is a hard decision to make sometimes.

People lie to their friends all the time. I really don't believe anyone who says they never lie. I believe people when they say they try and avoid lying but not when they say they NEVER lie. C'mon, we all do it! I can think of 3 different lies various friends have told me in the last little while. I haven't told any of them that I know they lied. The reason I haven't said anything? Because I can see why they did it. Sure, it hurts me that they lied. All three times, when I discovered that I had been lied to I felt upset that they didn't trust me enough to tell me the truth. But, it didn't take long to realise why they didn't and the reasons I came up with were acceptable enough that I haven't said anything. And I won't say anything. I guess, by not telling them I know they lied, I'm lying right back. But, it seems like the right thing to do. Being called out as a liar feels as bad as being lied to! (heh I wonder how many friends are going to confess something to me after reading this thinking I was talking about a lie they have told me.

I think lying becomes bad when the lie is pointless or when it will hurt someone. I've known some people who seem to lie just for the sake of lying; lie to make themselves look better than they actually are and to impress people; lie because it amuses them. I consider these reasons pointless and in these cases consider lying a bad thing. When it hurts someone, anyone, even the person telling the lie, then it is bad. That's where my line is drawn. But it sure is a tough call to make.

I want the house, Jan

Monday, December 03, 2007
I want the picket fence, I want the ketchup fights, and the tickling and the giggling.

The most frustrating thing in the world? There is this house that me and two of my friends want to rent. We've wanted to rent it for two years now. That whole time it has stood empty, not for sale or anything just empty. Yesterday we decided to go for a walk to look at it, we got a bit brave and peered in some windows. Yes, definitely no-one living there. However, it also looks like no-one has been there in a REALLY long time. There are phone books still sitting in their bag outside and a bill/advertising from a cleaning company sitting just inside the door.

The frustrating part about all of this is that we have no idea who to contact to find out if they would want to rent it to us. We did learn from a neighbour that the old lady who used to live there died just over 2 years ago and it has been in a family trust ever since. Unfortunately he doesn't know who the family are or how to contact them. They are clearly not checking for any mail delivered there so we're a bit stuck.

We reckon it'd be perfect for us but it looks like it's not going to happen. So frustrating!!

Second most frustrating thing in the world: losing the remote control. The DVD remote appears to be MIA. I've checked down the sides of the couch and chairs, checked the floor and a few of the surfaces, to no avail. It's almost definitely in one of the places I looked and I just didn't notice it but I can't be bothered looking anymore. I've watched what I wanted to now anyway. Thank goodness there are buttons on the front of the DVD player!

Third most frustrating thing: That I can't remember what the third thing was going to be. I was only thinking about it a minute or so ago and I've already forgotten! Damn memory like a sieve! (You know, it's so tempting to spell sieve, siv. It'd be fun if it was spelt that way. Far more phonetic.)

Fourth frustrating thing: My laptop is so damn slow these days. iTunes skips if I scroll down a Firefox window that is too image heavy. Sometimes it skips when I'm just opening a new window! Silly, slow computer!

Fifth (and final) most frustrating thing in the world: Dial-up internet when you are used to broadband. I'm moving in with my dad if 3 weeks and will be subjected to less than 56k internet speeds because his phone line isn't that good and usually only connects at about 30k. I'm not looking forward to that!

Football, Cornell-Hofstra, slaughter!

Sunday, December 02, 2007
After watching the soccer last night at the stadium I have watched almost every major sport live. I think the only ones I haven't seen are American football and hockey.

Obviously, I have seen plenty of cricket and rugby matches. When I was in America I saw a game of baseball and now I have seen soccer. That's a pretty good effort I think! Hopefully someday I'll live in America and will definitely manage to get myself to a game of football and a game of hockey.

I'm going to be the lamest of the lame and end this here. Hopefully I'll be home in time to add a little more to this tonight. If not, at least I've blogged! :)

Numerous health benefits:

Saturday, December 01, 2007
strengthens your back, better performance at sports, more enjoyable sex

I just watched David Beckham! He was AWESOME!! (Especially when he took his shirt at the end :P )

The game was good. The Phoenix lost but that wasn't all that surprising. I spent the money in order to see Beckham, not to see us win, so I didn't have a problem with that. Right near the end a streaker ran out onto the field. A female streaker. Heh me and my dad joked that we couldn't work out which player she was after. She didn't make it very far, security were very quick on their feet and tackled her, covered her up and took her away.

Streaking seems like a stupid idea to me. (And not just because I'd never get naked in front of so many people.) But why on earth would you let your friend do it? Just for a laugh? I think you've gotta be a pretty bad friend to do let them do that. I mean, you know that every streaker gets caught, they hardly ever even make it to the middle of the ground. Once you have been kicked out for streaking you're banned for a really long time so you don't even get to see any other sport! Just stupid.

Anyway, Ingrid's show is over so I better leave this here.