Last day for 5c!

Well today is the last day you can use 5c pieces in NZ. Wow. Hehe. But really everyone remember to use all your old 5c, 10c, 20c and 50c pieces today! Or even better donate them to charity :) Here's another couple of pictures I did in my moleskine in the weekend. Sorry they are dark, I took the pictures with my phone at night so they're not great.


Sorry about the calligraphy on this one for people who know how the strokes are supposed to go, I just copied them from my tattoos so I didn't do them properly. The left one is on my right inner wrist, the right one is on my left inner wrist. Tranquility and life :)


Hope you all have a great day!

:)
M

The Weekend

Hi Everyone!

Well I had a fantastic weekend. It started off well, Darren and I watched the Da Vinci Code on Friday night. I liked it, but I liked the book so I knew I'd probably like the movie. Then Saturday morning I got up and went for a run, I decided to try three times round the block - been a while since I'd done that. So I went round twice, resisted the urge to head home after that, then on my third time round I saw Mum biking so she biked the last lap with me!

Then Saturday just got even better. Uma, Michiko and Rach came over, Uma was down from Wellington. It is always so nice to catch up with those people. I just always feel comfortable with them no matter how long it's been since the last time.

On Saturday night I was feeling sick so I didn't join Darren going to Dan and Jo's flat warming. I was a bit sad to miss it, but Claire came over and we had tea and watched Take the lead. So that turned out nicely.

Sunday I went for a bike ride in the morning. Then we went to QEII. It was so cool! I hadn't been there since it had changed (apart from on the triathlon, but I wasn't paying much attention to it then). And we went in the wave pool and the whirl pool and had an aqua jogging race and went in the sauna and the steam room (neither one I could stand, I felt like it was easier not to breathe as the air was so heavy, then I couldn't really hold my breathe my longer) and the spa pool. There were so many kids there! I think we were the only ones there without kids but never mind!

Ok that's all for now. Thanks to everyone who said they liked my haircut. I like it more now too.

:)
Mindy

New hair cut

Currently my least favourite in the last 5 years. But it'll grow. I tried to smile in the picture anyway.

Well it's been awhile

Sorry to have been away so long. I guess I just couldn't really be bothered writing anything. Also I've been busy at lunch running and biking and what not. Anyway I might start writing again I reckon. I've decided to mark my return with some pictures (then I don't have to write so much):

This is a picture I drew in my moleskine (google moleskine art for more info).

This is Darren and his nephew Jesse at Jesse's 4th birthday on Sunday. (Jesse is holding the rugby ball we gave him, we also gave him the inflatable rugby posts they're standing in front of).

This is a picture of John because he is my hero.

This is a picture of a picture we have up on our wall, it's a print by Stephen Morath and my Uncle Jim gave it to me and I love it lots.

In other news we still haven't got Stargate Season 9! It came out on DVD in August! One day I got a bit motivated and rang every single bookshop games shop and cd shop in the yellow pages that I thought might have it, but none did. Not sure what I'll do as the one advertised on Amazon is in a box that matches all the other Stargate seasons we have, and the one advertised on NZ sites is a different box. So I guess I'll probably end up just getting it from Amazon. Suppose it doesn't matter as most of them came from there anyway.

Ok that's enough for now you greedy little piggies.

Bye!
Mindy

Room Crawl

Hey guys, just a quick note saying hi
I start midterms on thursday. Yucky yuck yuck.
We had a room crawl at St. John's last night. People are in teams of four or five and they decorate a room and have a drink to go with their theme then everyone goes around the rooms in order. It was pretty fun but I don't think Canadians can drink like NZers can (not that I was drinking, I have to study hard you see)! Plus, its hard to have fun without my boy.
Here are some photos I took
1. We had a news year theme with champagne
2. Willy Wonka- this one was cool, they had oompa loompas and everything (can't be bothered flipping the picture sorry)
3. The red light district
In other news, so I don't have to stress about it anymore I ordered my Halloween Costume yesterday. Its being shipped from the states, I won't tell you what it is until Halloween. This will probably be my only halloween so I have to make it a good one.

Hope all are well,
Amy

Room Crawl

Hey guys, just a quick note saying hi
I start midterms on thursday. Yucky yuck yuck.
We had a room crawl at St. John's last night. People are in teams of four or five and they decorate a room and have a drink to go with their theme then everyone goes around the rooms in order. It was pretty fun but I don't think Canadians can drink like NZers can (not that I was drinking, I have to study hard you see)! Plus, its hard to have fun without my boy.
Here are some photos I took
1. We had a news year theme with champagne
2. Willy Wonka- this one was cool, they had oompa loompas and everything (can't be bothered flipping the picture sorry)
3. The red light district
In other news, so I don't have to stress about it anymore I ordered my Halloween Costume yesterday. Its being shipped from the states, I won't tell you what it is until Halloween. This will probably be my only halloween so I have to make it a good one.

Hope all are well,
Amy

I'm back!

Hi!!!!

I'm back.

I don't have much to say. But I thought I should at least let everyone know I am still alive. As I am.

Actually I thought of something to say. I did my first triathlon on Sunday. It was really fun! But also really hard. I was quite surprised. Silly of me eh. Anyway two more to go in this series. What I really want now is a new bike. But I'm not sure whether I can justify spending the money.

Oh in other news I started doing hip hop dancing lessons with Claire and Kirsty. They are so fun. I can't wait till next Monday! I'm going to become a background dancer I think.

It was really hot yesterday, it's going to be even hotter today! Which is nice, but I don't really feel like going for a run at lunch time. Good thing I went this morning!

:)
Mindy

OH! Very importantly check out Adam's site, there is an awesome photo there.

ok here's another one coz adam had already done that one.

Burning rope

There are two lengths of rope.
Each one can burn in exactly one hour.
They are not necessarily of the same length or width as each other.
They also are not of uniform width (may be wider in middle than on the end), thus burning half of the rope is not necessarily 1/2 hour.

By burning the ropes, how do you measure exactly 45 minutes worth of time?

A quick test of intelligence

ok this one is for amy and adam, but anyone can do it. but DONT CHEAT! Because if you do, the test would be no fun.I promise, there are no tricks to the test.
Read the sentence below and count the F's in that sentence.Count them ONLY ONCE. Do not go back and count them again. as soon as you have counted them once, post a comment and tell me how many you say, then ill tell you what it means.

FINISHED FILES ARE THE RE-
SULT OF YEARS OF SCIENTIF-
IC STUDY COMBINED WITH
THE EXPERIENCE OF YEARS.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMY!!!!

It's Amy's birthday today! Well actually it was yesterday, but it is today in Canada because they are behind. I am going to watch Stargate to celebrate and so I can feel closer to her (Stargate is filmed in Vancouver where she is). I wonder if she's ever walked past Jason Momoa, he is the most sexy man in the entire world. :)

Ok well anyway HAPPY BIRTHDAY AME!

Love from Mindy

Photos from the weekend

Hehe I always mange to get the horizon on a diagonal when I take photos! I'm not the best photographer in the world. Anyway I went to Church Bay in the weekend and took some photos with my new phone. I love my new phone. It takes photos.

Bye!