Strong Backs

For everyone who didn't want to see a picture of a sexy male back on this blog you can thank mr anonymous "strong backs... huh?".

I like strong backs, they are nice to look at, nice to hug, and good for lifting stuff. What is there not to like? There's also something impressive about a guy lifting a full sized fridge on his own...

I will say no more ;)

Mindy

Stuff I Like!

Hello, since I did a complain-y blog I thought I'd do the opposite in this one and talk about the things I like/love:

• Fruit, it's so delicious and amazing that it just grows that way. Aren't we lucky to have such yummy treat that literally grows on trees?
• Snail mail
  
• When strangers smile and say hello when they walk past
• Getting random texts from my friends just to say hi
• Cartoons!!!
• Home made bread (though home made anything is normally better).
• Sunny Days
• Rainy Days
• Going on a plane
• New books
• Clean sheets
• Long baths
• Freesias
• Hedgehogs
• Flying dreams
• Dappled light
• Still sea water
• Brushing my teeth
• Running into people you know in the park
• Puppy love
• Monty Python
• Lego!
• Strong backs
  
• Seedlings
• Baby skin
• The smell of fiberglass
  
• Rock band t-shirts
• Mascara
• Crying
• Sleeping
• Green tea (never thought I'd say that!)
• Back scratches
• And so so so so so many people... :)

Have a wonderful day all!

Mindy

Quick Rant!

Sorry something has just REALLY been annoying me this past month or so. Before I say what it is I want to stress it is NOT personal, I really like the cleaners at work, for my first few weeks it seemed they were the only people who would talk to me... so yes this is not a personal thing, not even their fault probably. BUT I am really sick of being cleaned around. My contract states my working hours are from 8.30 till 5, but if you get here before 9 you have to put up with the cleaners still cleaning your room. They vacuum around me and bang my feet and my chair, and on the days when they are not vacuuming they are dusting my desk underneath me. I'm not sure how I'm supposed to react, am I supposed to gracefully get up and spend 5 minutes standing around watching them work achieving nothing myself. I may as well do my own cleaning if that is the case (which I have no problem with at all).

I just think it's so silly that their schedules can't be changed so they finish by 8.30. Don't most buildings get cleaned at like 3am or something anyway? I'm not suggesting that needs to be done, just get the offices done by 8.30, maybe things could be jiggled so they do the offices before 8.30 and the kitchens after 8.30 or something. I don't even know why this bugs me so much but it does. Would it bother anyone else or am I just insane?

Ok I'm done.

Hope everyone had a nice weekend!

Love
Mindy

In other news

Ok, so if you've checked out Beth's page you will have seen that I had a fantastic afternoon on Sunday with her and Kostya at Church Bay. (Church Bay is a bay in Lyttelton Harbour where my Dad's family has a holiday house, boat shed etc). So anyway the weather was absolutely brilliant and we had a lovely afternoon, I went for a swim, despite the low tide. Normally I hate swimming anywhere in the sea where I can touch the bottom, Church Bay is particularly bad as the bottom is very squishy mud, and someone told me when I was little that it was all fish poo. As I've grown up I've become better at just avoiding the bottom :) Also I had to be a wee bit brave as earlier last week I had a terrifying dream that I was being stalked by a sting-ray while I was swimming at Church Bay, I didn't see any sting rays though on Sunday.

Anyway just as we were leaving I noticed there were several ripe banana passionfruit, we have tons over there. So I grabbed a few so we could try later, as I imagined Darren probably had never had any, and Beth and Kostya hadn't either. So it got me thinking I wonder how many people have never had one, or even heard of them. They don't really sell them in shops, well not that I've seen so I'm guessing probably quite a few. Maybe I should go and get some and provide them for refreshments at my 80s TV show party! :) (As an aside both the boys refused to try them on the grounds they looked too slimy!).

Also in the weekend thanks to Beth I watched the first season of Grey's Anatomy. I have never seen the program before (avoided it on the grounds that I didn't need another TV show to tie me down), but I will still have to avoid it until she gets season 2 on dvd. Yes apart from Church Bay I had a boring weekend.

It's really rainy today which I don't mind too much as really I love the rain, and also I dropped my bike off to get serviced yesterday and they've got it till Wednesday so I couldn't have biked this morning anyway. Speaking of rain and weather the clouds were really really cool yesterday afternoon, this picture doesn't at all do them justice, but it's an ok picture anyway.

Have a nice day everyone! And Adam you have to comment as you promised!

:)

SUBWAY (again)

hello there anonymous.i have been told to correct your statements which are untrue.so here it goes:
the mayonnaise is not claiming to be low fat (only sweet chili, honey mustard, bbq, and sweet onion are)it may have once been (a long time ago) but since then we have changed the recipe and therefore also the status of :low fat.
the bread is taken out at 8 pm the previous night, the next morning at 7 am it rolled separately in the oats or seasonings and then again risen for another 30 minutes. we then top the italian herbs with cheese and straight away bake it. SO by the time it is baked it has been rising for at least 12 hours.
and lastly there is a minimum amount of space that each subway franchise must be away from each other (sorry i do not know the exact amount) but in the case of the subways bush inn and riccarton, the riccarton is not a full subway restaurant aka it is attached to the garage therefore that is why they are so close.
and while im here ill answer the other questions:
anonymous jones, no i have never spat in a customers sub as i make it in front of them, and no i wouldn't anyway.

amy, my favourite sauce is ranch even tho it's so fatty! what is your favourite sauce? i bet its italian and also red wine vinag. p.s did u know that subway riccarton charges 90 cents more for the vege patties as we do! so come to us!love u big sister

SUBWAY.....play hard, eat fresh

hello everyone,
i have been off this thing for awhile because my computer got broken and basically i forgot. A lot has happened since you last heard from me. i am now at uni and i have a job at subway (bush inn, come visit me sometime) which is where im supposed to be in 10 minutes time so i should go and get ready.

anyway mindy rocks.

have a good day! :)

Devious!

Ah ha! My devious plan of posting more frequently to increase the traffic on my blog has started working. I've been looking at my visitor stats and the numbers are growing. Go on spread the word! Although not many people are commenting. Andrew apparently is getting the internet soon so I'm sure that is all about the change!

So I had a fantastic weekend. On Saturday Darren and I went for a run, I hardly ever run on Saturdays because I'm not motivated enough. So this was a good achievement. Then we went to watch some of a water-skiing tournament that was on at Lake Crichton. It was so fantastic to watch. We just watched the men's jumping finals, where they have to ski up a ramp and jump for as far as they can. I was astounded by how far they could jump! Over 60m! They also have a water ski school at Lake Crichton, so I'm thinking of looking into that. I'm sure I could jump off a ramp, maybe not as large a ramp as these guys were doing but still. Watch this space, I may become a professional water skier right before your eyes! If only Dad hadn't sold their boat, oh well, I'll just have to buy my own.

Sunday I did the grocery shopping which is always fun. It's like spending money that I don't have to feel guilty about. And then I tidied and cleaned and tidied and cleaned some more. My house is spic and span now I can wait to go home and bask in the cleanliness.

Hope everyone else had a good weekend too!

:)
Mindy

Cartoons

Ok so I'm going to have an 80s kids program night. It was going to be an 80s cartoon night, but I really want to get Fraggle Rock, and that's not a cartoon. I am very welcome to requests (especially if you think you might get invited to what is going to be a fantastic event), I am trying to make it non-gender specific as much as I really really really want to include Moon Dreamers I won't. So the story is I'm going to try and get my hands on as many of our old favourites as possible... probably the pilots, and have a bunch of people round and we can all be kids again! Kapeesh?

Following the underwhelming response to yesterday's snorks vs smurfs post (thanks for commenting Beth!) I'm not expecting much from everyone... but if you do read this just put in a vote! Even anonymously!

Oh and I'm thinking I won't include ones that are currently on TV, so this covers transformers and teenage mutant ninja turtles. I'm not sure if Danger Mouse is included with that because that was on about 2 years ago.

Trying to get (or already have)

• Ducktales
• Smurfs
• Snorks
• Scooby Doo
• Danger Mouse
• Denver the Last Dinosaur
• Flintstones
• Jetsons
• Fraggle Rock
• Jem
• Muppet Babies
• Wuzzles

Programs I loved/watched but won't include unless there is demand for them

• Pound Puppies
• Glo Friends
• He-man and the Masters of the Universe
• Rainbow Brite
• Moon dreamers
• Strawberry Shortcake

Ok let the reminiscing begin!

:)
Mindy

Storm in a Teacup

This is a very quick afternoon post, just because I realised I probably never said here that I now have a theme song. The title especially suits me. The song is Storm in a Teacup by The Red Hot Chili Peppers. It also happens to be a very very very cool song and one of my favourites, if not my favourite song off Stadium Arcadium! Here's the lyrics:

Come on come on baby
Let me show you what I'm talking about
You try to be a lady
But your walkin' like a sour kraut
Looka looka lika lika
Like you want to get some
If you never tell a lie
Then you never have to play dumb

Dirty baby time you're gonna take some
Pretty baby love you're make some
Little lady hearts you're gonna break some
Kinda shady tears you're gonna fake some

Dirty baby we've got a situation
Pretty baby open invitaion
Little lady what a reputation
Kinda shady now you're gonna make again

I know you can straddle
The atmosphere
A tiny storm in your teacup girl
I know you can battle the
Masses, dear
A tiny storm in your teacup girl

Every other day you say
You're gonna have to bury 'em
Famous last words
Spoken from the laserium
Descendants had to record
Sayin' somethin' 'bout Milo
You can take the a train
But you're gonna have to lie low

I know you can straddle
The atmosphere
A tiny storm in your teacup girl
I know you can battle the
Masses, dear
A tiny storm in your teacup girl

Dirty baby time you're gonna take some
Pretty baby love you're make some
Little lady hearts you're gonna break some
Kinda shady tears you're gonna fake some

Dirty baby we've got a situation
Pretty baby open invitaion
Little lady what a reputation
Kinda shady now you're gonna make again

I know you can straddle
The atmosphere
A tiny storm in your teacup girl
I know we may never get
out of, here
A tiny storm in your teacup girl