The World Of Jadeey

I'm watching Dancing with the Stars. I love Geraldine Brophy. She's so nice. (And she goes to my gym.)

I am sad to hear that people on the internet and in the gossip mags are ripping into her. Stupid people.

Labels: lame blogs, stupid people

We didn't win the cricket. It was a draw. I think, in the end, it was the pitch that outdid us rather than the Indian batsmen. It was just far too hard to get batsmen out on that pitch. It's all well and good having a great batting strip on the first couple of days of a test but you need it to start to develop some cracks on the 4th and 5th days so that bowlers can force a result.

And that's all I really have to say about that.

Labels: cricket

I'm not a fan of Sunday nights. At about 5pm I always start thinking about the fact that I have to go to work the next day. During the week I don't mind that I have to go to work the next day, but on Sunday nights I hate it.

It looks very much like the cricket is heading for a draw. The Black Caps just couldn't take wickets today and they really let India off the hook. I still think the game will be a draw rather than a loss, but it's looking unlikely to be a win for us.

I made chocolate chip cookies tonight. They are yummy.

Labels: cricket, lame blogs

And yet another great day of cricket. The New Zealand bowlers showed today that they are capable of taking wickets, even on a flat track.

Sehwag commented during the ODIs that the NZ attack lacks the fire power to take 20 wickets. He also commented that the NZ attack had no idea how to bowl to him and were struggling. Pretty big talk from a guy who has now gotten out twice in this test match.

There's still 2 days left in this match. If we don't win it from here then the Black Caps would have let themselves down completely. To lose is unfathomable, to draw would be a complete disappointment. They have 180 overs, minimum, to take 9 wickets and then get any runs that India have managed to get in excess of our first innings total. It should be more than possible.

At this point I'm feeling incredibly proud of our team. I just hope they do themselves justice and go on to win from here. Jesse Ryder deserves his 200 to be scored in a winning match.

Labels: cricket

Jesse Ryder did so well today. He made his double century. He got out the very next ball and it was nice to see how riled up he was with himself. I hope he doesn't get fined. In cricket it is against the rules to show any form of dissent. But that's not what he was doing. The anger was only at himself.

Not only has Jesse made 201, but Ross Taylor made 150, Craig McMillan got to 100 and Jimmy Franklin and Dan Vettori both got their half-centuries. It's so good to see our team batting so well. And then we got 3 wickets in the 20 overs we bowled.

Fantastic.

Labels: cricket

This secret goes out to many people, in particular - Sam, Kat, Corrina and Dipak. Dream you guys, dream big.



Each Sunday I read Postsecret and every day I read LJ Secret. I like reading these websites. Some of the secrets make me cry, some make me relieved that I'm not living that pain, some I totally relate to and some just hit me in some unexpected way. Often I find myself needing to save a secret, sometimes to remind myself I'm not alone in my secrets and other times because something about the secret makes me sit up and take notice. As a result of this I have 320 secrets currently saved on my computer.

I have decided that every Thursday, for as long as I feel like it, I will post one of these secrets. Some might reflect my own secrets, others will have had a deep impact on me for one reason or another and still others will have been chosen because something small about them was enough to make me want to save it. I'm not going to tell you my reasons.

Don't read into them, don't think i'm trying to confess something. Because I'm not. I just want to share some of them.

And, if I have posted a secret that you made and you don't want it up there then please send me a message and I'll take it straight down.

Labels: dreams, secrets

At 6.20am this morning I was standing at the bus stop outside my house. (If anyone cares, the stars are still visible at 6.20am.) Along came the bus at the same time I could see someone running down the street towards me.

There is a girl who has caught the bus at the same time as me most of the mornings I have been on early shift. I've talked to her and know that she also starts work at 7am. I was pretty certain it was her running down the street, unfortunately by the time the bus got to me she was still pretty far away. I mucked around paying and then told the driver that there was someone running towards the bus and I was pretty sure it was someone who wanted to catch the bus.

He said he couldn't see her. I quickly stuck my head back out the door and she was still running towards us. I told the bus driver this, but apparently because he couldn't see her he didn't care so he drove away anyway.

I spent most of the morning (and still a bit now really) feeling guilty for not doing a better job of holding the bus and feeling incredibly sorry for her for missing the bus. I know there are no other buses or trains for at least another half hour after that one, so she must have been at least half an hour late for work. Maybe more thanks to the build-up of traffic that would have happened over the half hour she was waiting for the next bus.

Stupid bus drivers. Why can't they just be nice?

Labels: annoying, stupid people

I saw Stephen Fleming today!! I love him.

I was wandering back to work and glanced into a shop that I was walking past. There he was walking out the door to that very shop. I decided to be a grown up and just kept walking, rather than falling apart or trying to get an autograph or anything. (I have plenty of Stephen Fleming autographs from my teenage years at cricket matches anyway.)

In celebration of me seeing him today, here are some photos of my favourite cricket player of all time.

Labels: awesome, Stephen Fleming, wonderful people

I spent the afternoon shopping for warm clothes. I found absolutely nothing. It was very disappointing. I guess that's my fault for wanting to do winter shopping in autumn.

I guess I'm going to have to spend the next few weeks a bit cold, until more winter fashions appear in the shops.

Labels: annoying

Weekends are far too short. I've had a really good weekend this weekend, but I really wish it was a few days longer.

I'm on early shift for another few days. I'm having such a love/hate relationship with the early shift. I love it cos I absolutely love finishing for the day at 3.30pm. I also love being at work for the first hour and a half without anyone else really around. I hate having to get up at 5.30am. It sucks, more than sucks.

Anyway dishes time and then bedtime.

Labels: lame blogs, work

I've discovered a new tv show. Friday Night Lights. It's about a high school American Football team. It's not just about football though, like all shows about high school kids it's really about the trials and tribulations of being a teenager. In fact, there's barely any actual football in it.

I love it. The way it is filmed is different to most other tv shows out there. Sort of like The Office, the camera itself can almost be considered a character. The characters are real - every single one is flawed, just like people in real-life, but they aren't flawed in unrealistic ways.

And now I'm just going to watch another episode before I go out to dinner.

Labels: television

I enjoy watching the cricket at the gym. I know I've talked about that on here before. I plug my headphones in and get lost in my own little cricket world. It's great.

There is, however, one problem. I am not a silent cricket watcher. I cannot help but gasp and shout when there is a wicket, or nearly a wicket. Thankfully I have mostly got the shouting under control, but I particularly noticed today that I definitely don't have the gasping under control. The people around me must think I'm very strange as I suddenly make a strangled cry. Hopefully they just think I'm working out real hard and that it's a cry of exertion. Somehow that seems acceptable... Being unable to contain my horror at the cricket seems somehow less acceptable.

Labels: cricket, gym, I'm silly

Each Sunday I read Postsecret and every day I read LJ Secret. I like reading these websites. Some of the secrets make me cry, some make me relieved that I'm not living that pain, some I totally relate to and some just hit me in some unexpected way. Often I find myself needing to save a secret, sometimes to remind myself I'm not alone in my secrets and other times because something about the secret makes me sit up and take notice. As a result of this I have 320 secrets currently saved on my computer.

I have decided that every Thursday, for as long as I feel like it, I will post one of these secrets. Some might reflect my own secrets, others will have had a deep impact on me for one reason or another and still others will have been chosen because something small about them was enough to make me want to save it. I'm not going to tell you my reasons.

Don't read into them, don't think i'm trying to confess something. Because I'm not. I just want to share some of them.

And, if I have posted a secret that you made and you don't want it up there then please send me a message and I'll take it straight down.

Labels: secrets

I think that perhaps I am the unluckiest person in the world when it comes to carparks. I never, ever find one right outside where I want to be. My bad luck is most obvious when I go to the gym. When it's busy I can never find a park. Often I'll drive through the gym carpark, see no parks, so go and park down the street somewhere. Then after a 5 minute walk back to the gym I'll see that the carpark has emptied and there are a bunch of free parks.

It happened today. I drove through the carpark. Nothing. I actually found a street park not too far away and walked back to the gym. Sure enough, there were 6 free parks when I got back there. 6! After only about 3 minutes.

The worst luck though was a few months ago. I couldn't even find a street park so I kept circling the gym carpark. I circled it 8 times and then gave up and drove ages away. It took me about 10 minutes to walk back. When I got back.... So many free parks it made me want to cry.

I'm guessing I somehow always time my gym visits right before a class finishes. So the carpark is full when I arrive, but by the time I give up looking for a park the class is over and a whole lot of people are leaving the gym.

Either that or I really am cursed.

Labels: annoying, gym

Tomorrow morning I'll be doing my first early shift. My biggest worry at the moment is that the bus I'm planning to catch won't actually get me there on time. I'm going to risk it though, cos I really don't want to have to catch the 6am bus. That just sounds way too painful.

What I am looking forward to is finishing at 3.30pm. It'll be nice to walk out the door knowing everyone else is still stuck at work for another 90 minutes!

For now it's time to do the dishes, iron my top for tomorrow and go to bed.

Labels: lame blogs

I think I am under siege by spiders and I don't know what I have done to deserve it. I try not to kill them, so I'm not really someone who deserves to be under siege.

The other day I stood up and went to the kitchen. When I came back I saw a spider on my chair - I had clearly been cuddled up with it for a while. Tonight I grabbed my gym shorts and found a spider on them. And then there was another one on the gate as I was leaving for the gym.

Now, anyone who knows me knows that I am terrified of spiders, so all of these encounters have been very traumatic. It's actually amazing that I even put my gym shorts on and went to the gym after finding a spider on them. Even once the spider has gone I think about it for a long time and am scared by the memory.

I must confess that randomly at the gym I was happily exercising when suddenly I thought there was a spider on my hand so I had a major hand-shaking panic as I tried to get it off me. I didn't actually see one so I'm sure I was imagining it. Still scary though.

Labels: fears, spiders

Another weekend gone. It's disappointing how quickly they pass.

I got a few of my wishes yesterday.
- Stephen Fleming did heaps of the commentary.
- We won!
- Our innings was a brilliant display of batting even though India's wasn't.

I'm on early shifts this week. Tomorrow I'll be starting at the normal time, but after that I'll be getting up ridiculously early to get to work. I'm not yet sure whether this is a good thing or a bad thing. I guess i'll let you know in a few days.

Labels: cricket, work

Today is the final ODI of the summer. I have a couple of hopes:

- Please let us get an entirely uninterupted game
- Please let Stephen Fleming do lots of commentating
- Please let it be a run-fest
- Please, please, please let us win.

Labels: cricket

This job is the first job where I've ever been truly excited and happy when it's the weekend. When I was working at Hoyts I was a shift worker so weekends meant nothing to me. Even when I was working 9-5 as manager of Lower Hutt/Manners Mall I often ended up having to work on weekends for one reason or another so weekends weren't necessarily that great.

But now I never have to take work home with me. I never have to stay late and I never have to work weekends. It's awesome.

No matter how much I love my job (and I really do love it), being at work is nowhere near as good as being at home.

Particularly great about this weekend is that it's payday! (I get paid monthly so it's a big deal.)

Labels: work

I'm posting 2 secrets today.




This one is because I did turn 27 this year and yet I really do feel 16 a lot of the time. It's good to know I'm not alone in this.






This if for you, Kat. (For those of you who don't know, Kat is a nerdfighter so as soon as I saw this I thought of her and knew I had to post it.)


Each Sunday I read Postsecret and every day I read LJ Secret. I like reading these websites. Some of the secrets make me cry, some make me relieved that I'm not living that pain, some I totally relate to and some just hit me in some unexpected way. Often I find myself needing to save a secret, sometimes to remind myself I'm not alone in my secrets and other times because something about the secret makes me sit up and take notice. As a result of this I have 320 secrets currently saved on my computer.

I have decided that every Thursday, for as long as I feel like it, I will post one of these secrets. Some might reflect my own secrets, others will have had a deep impact on me for one reason or another and still others will have been chosen because something small about them was enough to make me want to save it. I'm not going to tell you my reasons.

Don't read into them, don't think i'm trying to confess something. Because I'm not. I just want to share some of them.

And, if I have posted a secret that you made and you don't want it up there then please send me a message and I'll take it straight down.

Labels: secrets

Well it looks like I got my wish, we lost the cricket but the batting was amazing. I should qualify that by admitting that India's batting was amazing. Some of our batsmen did ok. McGlashan looked good out there, that certainly made me happy. It's nice to know we have a good wicketkeeper/batsman waiting in the wings for when McCullum is injured or retires.

Our middle order really need to get their crap together. Jacob Oram shouldn't be in the team at the moment. I love him, but he's not getting the runs or the wickets. It's stupid to continue to pick someone based on their previous results. These days Oram is too injury-prone and too inconsistent. Send him back to domestic cricket and let him find some form.

Elliot continues to impress. As do Ryder and McCullum.

Right now I really wish I was Indian!

Labels: cricket

I'm really looking forward to the cricket tomorrow night. Sunday night's game was the most amazing I've ever seen. Sure, we lost. But it's rare that a score above 300 will turn out to be a losing score so it was still wonderful to watch. Jesse Ryder, Brendan McCullum, Kyle Mills and Tim Southee's batting performances were fun to watch. It's just a pity none of them managed to stay in and get us through.

And Sachin Tendulker. Words cannot describe that man's batting skill. Even if we had totally collapsed, the game would have been an amazing one just because of Sachin. Watching him bat is a pleasure - even when our bowlers are on the receiving end.

I hope we actually win tomorrow night. But even if we don't, I hope the game is another batting frenzy.

Labels: cricket

Next week I'm going to be on early shift which means starting at 7am every morning. I have a feeling I'm going to be very, very tired! It'll be nice to be finished early each day though.

John Key has decided to bring back Knighthoods. I don't particularly know how I feel about this. I don't really think it's a bad idea, I more think it's a nothing idea. I just don't particularly see the need for it and I don't know why he bothered. It's not like they provide any use that the current honour system ignores. Ah well.

Time to go do the dishes and then I'm going to see The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas.

Labels: politics, work

I found the perfect dress today. And after only 2 hours of shopping. I'm ecstatic because that's going to cut down my hours of trawling the shops a LOT and it means I'm no longer nervous about not being able to find something great.

Hopefully by the end of next weekend I'll be all fitted out and ready for the wedding. I bought shoes today as well, but have to check them out with the dress to make sure they are perfect. Then it's just jewellery, a new bra and something to go over top of the dress. (It's sleeveless so needs something else.)

Yay.

Labels: lame blogs

Often over the years, when trying to put my life in perspective, I've thought about what my 8 year old self would think about me now. I like to think that my 8 year old self would be pretty proud of where I am.

I don't have everything I want, but I have a lot. I love my job, it's leading somewhere good, I have wonderful friends and an awesome family. There are a lot of things I had hoped I would have done by now, but I'm happy with the direction my life is taking. I've got so much more to do, but I've got time.

Life is good.

Labels: I'm great, the future, the past, work

This weekend begins the huge shopping expedition. My brother's wedding is coming up and that means a whole new outfit. So me and mum are heading out shopping every weekend until we find the perfect thing.

My brother and soon to be sister in law are wonderful people and their wedding is going to be amazing. Therefore, finding something awesome to wear to their wedding is vital.

In other family news, Lincoln is filming an ad campaign at the moment. It'll be on tv in about a month. He'll be amazing and I think it will be the best ad campaign ever. (No, I'm not biased. It's just true.)

Labels: family

Each Sunday I read Postsecret and every day I read LJ Secret. I like reading these websites. Some of the secrets make me cry, some make me relieved that I'm not living that pain, some I totally relate to and some just hit me in some unexpected way. Often I find myself needing to save a secret, sometimes to remind myself I'm not alone in my secrets and other times because something about the secret makes me sit up and take notice. As a result of this I have 320 secrets currently saved on my computer.

I have decided that every Thursday, for as long as I feel like it, I will post one of these secrets. Some might reflect my own secrets, others will have had a deep impact on me for one reason or another and still others will have been chosen because something small about them was enough to make me want to save it. I'm not going to tell you my reasons.

Don't read into them, don't think i'm trying to confess something. Because I'm not. I just want to share some of them.

And, if I have posted a secret that you made and you don't want it up there then please send me a message and I'll take it straight down.

Labels: politics, secrets

Kat and I are playing a new game. We email each other at work throughout the day and each of us has to add a new word to the subject line. If you forget to add a word then you have to write a blog using the subject line and actually make it about the subject. As you can probably guess from my title, I forgot a word today.

When I was a kid we had a bunch of chickens. Some were large and some were small. It was my job to feed them and collect the eggs. Most of the time I hated this job, but I tried to be dutiful and actually do it. I never fed them cacti. Or mayonnaise. We didn't have any cacti on our property, but if we did I think there's a chance they would have tried to eat them - without mayonnaise - chickens are not that bright.

So, had we had cacti on our property our chickens might have tried to eat them and the spikes (is that what they're called?) probably would have killed them. The other chickens wouldn't have learnt from the first one to try it and would have all done it too, therefore all dying.

In that case I would have been able to say, 'I have 3 large chickens who ate prickly cacti without mayonnaise, which might just kill the bastards!'

Labels: the game

Happily, I was rewarded by the fates for my trip to the gym today. I was being very lazy and talking myself out of going when I found some motivation and decided to be good and go. When I arrived there I discovered that the cricket game I thought was tomorrow was actually tonight. So instead of listening to music or watching Dancing With the Stars (which had been my previous options) I instead watched the cricket. Bliss.

Labels: cricket, gym

Finally we came first at quiz night! Woohoo!

I won a movie ticket, bottle of wine, DVD of Psycho and a He's Just Not That Into You badge. I'm really just excited to have finally won. It's been a long time coming.

Because I promised them, here are a couple of photos of Jacob that I stole off Melissa's facebook page.

Labels: family, quiz night

Jacob Denzil Parsons was born at 5.18pm on 27th February 2009. 8 pounds 10 ounces, so he's a big boy. He is gorgeous, healthy and perfect.

I'll get some photos up when I get them off mum - they are on her camera. We had a great time meeting Jacob. He was only about 15 hours old when we met him and so ridiculously cute. Melissa and Shane are excellent parents already.

Labels: family