Snorks vs Smurfs and PIZZA!

Firstly I had a discussion with Earl at work yesterday who stated that the Smurfs and the Snorks were the same except the Snorks were underwater. He then clarified to say that by "the same" he thought they were so similar he felt if he'd watched one, he'd watched them all. I vehemently disagreed, because in my opinion they are completely different... sure there are similarities, like they look just the same, they are both little, and they have a cool theme song - but they are so different! I mean the snorks live under the sea! How cool is that. The smurfs are cool too, but the snorks are the definition of coolness. But I just wanted to put the question to the floor, are the Snorks and Smurfs the same? If not which did you like better?

Also last night marked the very first pizza night I've ever been to. Yesterday I was a pizza night virgin, today, happily I am not. Pizza night is a weekly event held at Adam's house where a bunch of people who I guess feel like eating pizza, go and do just that. (See Adam's and Nick's site for more info... not that there is necessarily any info there but there might be!) Now I was a bit nervous, as they are a bunch of whackos so I took my friend Beth along to protect me, though for some strange reason she wanted to go anyway, as she seems to think my friends are nice (craziness!). Haha. No seriously it was a very enjoyable evening and I can say with some certainty I will be returning. If for no other reason because Adam stole Beth's headband and she needs it back!

:)
Mindy

Great Weekend!

Well I hope everyone has had a great weekend. Mine was!

It started off on Friday night watching The Wild at Beth's house. The movie was good but very similar to Madagascar. I still want to see over the hedge though, I've heard that one is very good. Also Beth made nachos. I love nachos, we have them all the time here, hers were extra special though as they had spinach AND mushrooms in. YUM! Thanks Beth.

Saturday I managed to watch two movie, The Medallion with Jackie Chan, which I thoroughly enjoyed, it met my expectations exactly (they weren't high expectations though). Then the Constant Gardener which was also great. Then Dad and I started building the steps outside our door. I'll keep a photo journal here so everyone can see our progress! So here's the first pic:


You'll notice how level and straight the posts are (that was me) and also how fantastically the concrete was shoveled into the hole (which incidentally I dug), that was me too!

Today we went to the QEII with Jessie again which was fun. Spent most of the morning there, then home again to work on the deck (Darren donated his expertise today too!) and I also cleaned out my car which was horribly dirty - mostly because Darren uses it as his work car so it had lots of mud and nails in it. I am so happy now it's tidy, though I realise it won't stay that way long.

Oh and I bought some new fish for my tank. 4 wee neons. Now I have 8. It's like a tiny army of them in my aquarium, they are a schooling fish and all hang out together so look really cool.

Ok that's it from me.

Hope you all have a good start to your week!!!!!

:)
Mindy

ps Did you hear the Red Hot Chili Peppers are coming to NZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I love everything!

The Red Hot Chili Peppers are coming to NZ!!!!

I can't believe I didn't find out till 8.30 last night!!!! I love Darren to bits, but neglecting to text and tell me!?! I don't listen to the radio during the day, and I've been boycotting the RHCP site since I found out they weren't coming - so I had no way of knowing! Anyway we've got all our flights booked and just need to get tickets now.

I couldn't sleep last night at all I was so excited and now my eyes feel a bit fried but hopefully I'll be able to sleep tonight. If I can't the concert is in April so that's not too far away to go without sleep.



And thanks to the person who posted a comment asking about how my Valentines Day turned out. It was really lovely thank you. I hid the first clue to the treasure hunt wrapped around a picnic bar in the vegetable garden. Then I sent Darren out to get some carrots. I watched him out the window as he earnestly got some carrots completely oblivious to the picnic bar! So I had to yell out the window "could you get that scrap of rubbish too?" and then he picked it up and broke into a big smile when he saw it was a picnic bar.

Ok well I'd recommend everyone go to the Chili Peppers concert because they are so fantastic live. The last Chili Peppers concert I went to, oh the second to last (hehe that makes it sound like I've been to more than two) was the second best night of my life.

Ok bye!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mindy

$3.70!!

Hi everyone!

I now have $3.70 in my watch fund. This is thanks to Earl, Anonymous jade person, Adam Richards, Be, and Sc. The last two don't get their full names stated as they didn't donate a full dollar. Though I do appreciate their contribution all the same. Remember everyone all it takes is $1 to be added to my list of favourite people in the world!

On Saturday night I went to a very fun party which was Nick's and at Adam's house. Thanks for the great party guys. Though I guess since I hardly ever go to parties I am very easy to please. But I was very pleased all the same.

In other exciting news I remembered about Usborne Puzzle Adventure books today! I used to love them when I was a kid. I am going to start collecting them. When I was a kid I never had any, I had to rely on my cousin's collection and the library. My kids (that don't yet exist) will not have to suffer that. They were so great. I think everyone who reads this should reminisce about which ones were their favourite. I liked Time Train to Ancient Rome. Here's the whole list:

1. Escape from Blood Castle
2. The Curse of the Lost Idol
3. Murder on the Midnight Plane
4. The Incredible Dinosaur Expedition
5. The Intergalactic Bus Trip
6. Time Train to Ancient Rome
7. Danger at Demon's Cove
8. Agent Arthur's Jungle Journey
9. Agent Arthur on the Stormy Seas
10. The Ghost in the Mirror
11. The Haunted Tower
12. Agent Arthur's Arctic Adventure
13. The Vanishing Village
14. Search for the Sunken City
15. Journey to the Lost Temple
16. The Pyramid Plot
17. The Invisible Spy
18. The Emerald Conspiracy
19. Agent Arthur's Desert Challenge
20. Agent Arthur's Mountain Mission / Voyage to the Edge of the World
21. Mutiny at Crossbones Bay
22. Castle of Intrigue
23. The Dark Dark Knight
24. Agent Arthur's Island Adventure
25. The Crimebusters Investigate

And the advanced ones:

1. Codename Quicksilver
2. Cobra Consignment
3. Mystery on Main Street

I got this list from Wiki.

Have a great day everyone!

:)
Mindy

ps Don't forget to give me money!

Great Idea!

Hey I've had a great idea re my watch dilemma... everyone who reads this site could donate a modest amount... say $1. Then I just need to get 950 readers by May 6th and I'll have enough money to buy the watch. It could be like a gift from my loyal fan base. Haha! ;)

Happy Valentines Day!

Hi Everyone!

Well I'm not sure anyone is even reading this anymore. Actually I can find out by reading my stat counter can't I. Ok well I've just checked and three people looked at it yesterday... that's pretty good! Well good enough for me to keep writing anyway!

So today is Valentines Day. Now Darren and I don't really do the whole present thing, but we do like to share a nice meal together and normally cards. So today I am cooking my first roast beef. I'll let you know how it goes. Also mini-picnic bars were on special at the supermarket I bought the beef from so I bought those and this year Darren gets a picnic treasure hunt, where each clue will have a picnic bar, and the final treasure is another 5 bars and my card to him. Doesn't sound like much but given how much he likes picnic bars I'm sure he'll love it.

Now to all those people who don't have someone to share Valentines Day with I think you should buy yourself a present. Or at least a chocolate bar... and really enjoy it! That's what I'd do. Actually I should have bought myself a Valentines Day present anyway. Any excuse to buy myself a present and I do! I've been planning my birthday present for weeks now (and it's not my birthday till May). I'm getting a gold citizen eco-drive watch. Now I try not to be a materialistic person, but I'm not very good at it. I currently have a silver eco-drive and it is one of my favourite possessions, I love everything about it, I think the design is just flawless. The only thing is, everything going to plan, one day I hope to be married and wear a gold wedding band, and so will have to switch my jewelery to gold - thus I need a gold watch. This is the one I really like:


But it is probably a little out of my price range. And I'm not sure I really need diamonds on a watch. But it is very nice isn't it?

Anyway have a great day everyone!

Love Mindy

Honey I'm Home....

Hi Everyone!

Happy New Year! I know I know, it's February... but I've been in a coma since December so that's why I haven't posted. I fell off a molehill and banged my head on a toadstool. Ok so that wasn't true. But at least it was all spelled correctly. There's nothing worse than a misspelled lie.

So I had a fantastic Christmas. And New Years was a non-event.

My hair is now blonde again. Ok so three weeks of holiday = bored Mindy = her hair changes colour. Now it's really light, kinda like Marilyn Monroe, well that's what I was going for anyway! It's amazing the different responses I've had to it, quite a few people don't like it and I've been surprised with how forthright they are about coming out with it. The worst was the cleaner at work said "Oh dear did you have a fight with the bleach bottle". After that I vowed not be nice to her and say good morning every morning, but I felt too mean doing that so I've just been acting normal. On the other hand I think some people genuinely like it, and the rest probably just tell me it looks good because they are polite and I have no idea at all what they think.

Also hello to the other Mindy who commented here! I've never met another Mindy before... so that was very exciting. It's not a particularly common name in NZ really. It's more American. To those who don't know my real name is Melinda, but I was called Mindy from birth. Mum and Dad got the name from 'Mork and Mindy' apparently but a lot of what Dad tells me is not 100% true. I answer to the following nick names:

- Mindy (most people call me this)
- Mindy Moo (Dad calls me this, and Helen has been known to as well)
- Minnie Moo (hmmm not sure maybe Amy and Claire call me this)
- Minnie Minnie Moo Cow (Amy calls me this)
- Minds (not pronounced minds as in great minds think alike, but more like the first syllable of Mindy with an s on the end, oh most people in my family call me this).
- Min (Lara calls me this)
- Minnie (Claire and Amy call me this)

That's probably it. Not very interesting but I'm beginning to realise Mindy is quite flexible. Amy on the other hand gets called Ame or Amy and that's all, and Claire gets called Clairey by me, used to be called Claire Fairy when she was younger, and I'm trying to remember to call her Hairy Fairy now instead.

So this year my goal is to have as good a year as I did last year :) I'm still just at my job here at Jade and that's going well, still living with Darren and that's going well, still biking and running a bit and they are both going well. So pretty much I just need to not stuff anything up... should be manageable! Though I don't do New Years resolutions as I think anytime is a good time for self improvement. Although I kind did make one which was to keep my house tidier especially the kitchen and I've been doing that so far, it's so nice having a tidy house!

Right one and all are welcome to comment or not. But hi anyway, and thanks for stopping by. I'll post some photos soon (maybe one of Darren bungy jumping if he lets me!).

:)
Mindy