Finish this Sentence

Borrowed off Lottie's bebo :) And needed 2 minutes of light relief during a tough day!

Finish The Sentence

1. My ex still......? Um plays guitar
2. I love... my fiance and porridge
3. Maybe I should... brush my hair
4. People close to my heart... know who they are! I hope!
5. I am listening to... Nothing :(
6. I don't understand... why people buy those those butt ugly cars
7. I lost... myself once or twice
8. People say... that every cloud has a silver lining and I agree!
9. The meaning of my screen name is... Well it's just my name so that's not very exciting
10. Love is... everywhere
11. Somewhere, someone is... eating porridge!
12. I will always... love porridge (haha)
13. Forever seems... huge
14. I never ever want to... hurt people, but sometimes I do
15. When I wake up in the morning... I start cooking my porridge so it's ready for when I'm dressed!
16. I get annoyed when...people speed and when I burn my porridge
17. Parties are... sometimes best when its just a few of your closest mates
18. My pet(s) is... my fishies that Kirsty is looking after
19. Kisses are the best when.... they're unexpected
20. Today I... will relax after a hard week and have some porridge
21. Tomorrow I will.. go for a run and have some porridge
22. I really want... a hug from my Dad (1 week till he comes!) and to eat some porridge
23. I need to tell... someone about my day - I need to offload!
24. Life is... all about being the kindest person you possibly can be and eating porridge
25. I promise... that I will try and learn from every mistake I make

Ok that got a little silly - there wasn't so much mention of porridge, I went back and added more porridge references. But porridge is great, and I'm tired so I think I'm being funny when I may not be!

:)
Mindy

Double Take

Darren was having his tooth out today so I went along with him just in case. It went fine though I was expecting more funny faces due to his painkiller injection numbing half his mouth. So that was disappointing. However it was really worth the trip as we were driving down the road and I saw a street name that made me do a double take! I found the road on google maps - check it out:



Now this has left me wondering... how in the world did this street get it's name? And how would you feel living there? These people didn't like it much at all! For those who can't be bothered following the link there is a statement in the story that the Doncaster council has nothing on record as to why the road was named Butt Hole Road.

Hope you're all having a good week.

:)
Mindy

No Legacies!

I had a huge realisation today that actually caused me some consternation. There are no subaru legacies here! That's probably what's missing from my life at the moment. In Christchurch every second car is a subaru legacy station wagon. Ok maybe that's a very slight exaggeration but check this out - a list of the people I know who own or did own legacies:

• My Mum
• My Auntie Bobbie
• My cousin Hamish (or maybe it was Josh, or maybe both)
• My cousin Andrew
• My friend Helen
• My friends Kim and Lennon
• Kim's parents

So as you can imagine seeing absolutely zero legacies around town feels a little like my world have been tipped upside down (which I guess given I'm on the other side of the world it has!). I am definitely going to be keeping a very close eye out for them from now on - there's got to be at least one person who knows a good car when they see one in this country!

Now onto some more general observations about cars here. Men get all excited about Granny cars - and they boast about the fuel economy of their cars. I mean sure they might be latest model German technology - but they are so sissy! Everyone has sissy cars. I guess to everyone's credit they are much more eco friendly!

There are a few people who don't have sissy cars (haha I totally contradicted my last paragraph) - they are a lot more very expensive cars around, and I must admit I do love seeing them around. But that doesn't change the fact that it's ok here to boast about having a Granny car. We have a Granny car - but you don't see me boasting about it! Anyway enough about the Granny cars (which are everywhere and are sissy!).

One great thing about motoring over here is that insurance is compulsory. Now all the smart people in NZ have insurance anyway but the dumb ones don't, and the dumb ones are the ones who end up buying cars that are way more expensive than they can afford and then crash them and end up in debt for years and years. Now it's mostly young kids who do this - they can afford the cars because they sign up for really dodgy loans that put them at such a financial disadvantage right when they're starting their life in the working world. And lots are boy racers. Here there are some boy racers too - but the majority of kids just simply can't afford the insurance on these flash cars till they're 25. It's brilliant they end up having to buy a sensible not very powerful car that they can afford to insure if they want to be on the road, then once they're 25 and the insurance drops they've hopefully learnt a bit about money and responsibility and can then splash out on whatever they want. This isn't the reason that car insurance is compulsory but I think it's a chuffing good side effect!

Ok that's all for now!

:)
Mindy