April Tales

It's that time again where I try to sort and organise my whole being in preparation for - what in my head is - going back to square one and starting over. Not a secret that I'm a big fan of new years and all it brings: a certain calm about letting go of all that has shaped me the past 365 or so days, a time for reflection and giving thanks, and a fresh wave of energy to ideally give me a good start on the goals I've set for the coming year.

This lasts me until maybe mid-February lol.

2018 should be a good year, though. It has the number 8 on it for starters.

Here's to hoping it's a good year for my writing and photography as well. ;)

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Today is the day! ... Well, one of the days but you know what I mean. Later today, our NZSS dashboards will update with the name of our giftee and it will be sleuthing time!!! Trying to figure out what to gift someone is my favourite part. :)

Admittedly, I've been terrible the past couple of years because I'm not very good at decision-making and it took me a looong time to come up with gift ideas. I ended up sending "pre-gifts" while I finalise their real presents and I feel like it kinda took away some of the excitement. This shouldn't happen this year, ideally, because we have a little over two weeks to send our presents to the Storehouse! *fingers crossed

I am assuming that everyone knows what New Zealand Secret Santa is and how it works but in case anyone would like to know more about the whole thing, just click through here. :)

So anyway, the Elves are trying to distract us Santees with shiny Twitter games so we don't cause too much trouble from getting impatient lol and to help who we match with get a better understanding of our likes and dislikes and overall personalities, I guess.

(I've just refreshed the dashboard and no match yet so here we go)

(I'm answering here because I'm a bit talk-y so this won't fit on Twitter and I don't think anyone else other than my Santa would want to read this anyway)

(Just refreshed again and still no go, let's do this)

After two weeks of being quarantined, we finally set Blu out into the world again and what a perfectly cheery and beautiful weekend to do so.

Mataura Plunket held an event for fundraising at Hamilton Park in Gore. We drove up to meet up with friends and had an absolute blast! Can't go wrong with train rides, bouncy houses, Mr. Whippy, and all the open spaces and playground things for the kiddies.

First "Monday" after a while tomorrow and seems like it's going to be a busy week (which probably would be the case in this remaining weeks of 2017 tbh) so bracing ourselves for the inevitable highs and lows that the lead up to the silly season brings.

Hope everyone had a great weekend, too!




P.S. Have been trying to deal with this story-telling dilemma for quite some time now. This video compilation stuff just might work? Guess we'll see. :)

Just more lazy blogging to document a little bit about us and what we're currently into 'round these times :)

Game of Thrones, Season 7
The Blacklist, Seasons 1-4
Transformers Rescue Bots, Season 1
Sense8, Season 1
The Blacklist Redemption, Season 1
Dinotrux (Seasons 1-2)
Suits, Season 7
Simon’s Cat - Crunch Time

January 2017

February 2017

March 2017

April 2017

June 2017

It's our fifth year playing this year; it did not disappoint!

Blu and Millie : NZSS 2015

Blu and Millie : NZSS 2016

We waited the whole morning for rural post to drive in, as he usually does, then thought he might have been too busy today due to Christmas presents influx so we went ahead and trekked to our mailbox. Wanted to enjoy every little bit of this sunny weather, too, anyway!