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!

Selling Phone

Also I'm selling my cellphone, it's a samsung x609 great for telecom $10 texts, but no camera, but is working very well, no problems at all. If you know anyone who wants one let me know! I've got it advertised on trademe (click the Buy My Stuff link to view) . I might be able to cut someone a deal if referred from a reader of this site :)

Huge Decision

Hello everyone. I made a huge decision this morning. I am going to return to my natural hair colour. Now this is a big commitment. It will mean weeks, months of having horrible regrowth, until the regrowth becomes all there is. This is very big for me. I started dying my hair when I was about 14 I think, and it hasn't been natural since then. So I don't even know what colour it will be! Probably a boring grey brown. Now is a good sensible time to do it though while I'm keeping my hair short. Here's my hair history:

1997: Died it the first time red
1997-2000: Various shades of red and auburn
2001: Almost grew it out, had about 10cm of regrowth before blonde streaks
2002: Blonde streaks and whole head of foils
2003-2005: Totally blonde
2006 March: Even blonder (peroxided)
2006 July: Bright red
2006 August: Auburn
2006 August: Dark brown
2006 August: Auburn

That's all! Bring on the boring brown. I will probably hate it. But I'm so sick of having such dry unhealthy hair I want to let it completely recover, before probably going blonde again. Hehe!

:) :) :) :) :)

I have finally found a reason why Nth America is better than NZ: new episodes of Gilmore Girls! The sixth season finished in NZ the day before I left (how lucky is that) and season seven premiered here last night! It was awesome, you people stuck in NZ will have to wait aaggggeesss for these episodes. Im not going to ruin the suprise Im just gonna say it was great. Yip. Gilmore Girls rocks.

Not much else going on here. Just study and more study. It is my birthday on Sunday but I will be all alone so it is not that exciting. Ooo, maybe I should go check the mail now to see if any of my presents have arrived. I am espcially looking forward to Claire's present. It is going to be awesome ;-)

Hope all are well

puzzle

ok a even harder puzzle!

There are 5 houses in 5 different colours. In each house lives a person of a different nationality. The 5 owners drink a certain type of beverage, smoke a certain brand of cigar, and keep a certain pet. Using the clues below can you determine who owns the fish?

The Brit lives in a red house.
The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
The Dane drinks tea.
The green house is on the immediate left of the white house.
The green house owner drinks coffee.
The person who smokes Pall Mall rears birds.
The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
The man living in the house right in the middle drinks milk.
The Norwegian lives in the first house.
The man who smokes Blend lives next door to the one who keeps cats.
The man who keeps horses lives next door to the man who smokes Dunhill.
The owner who smokes Blue Master drinks beer.
The German smokes Prince.
The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
The man who smokes Blend has a neighbour who drinks water.

THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING POST EVER!!!!!!!

well actually not really but we will just pretend. i am having a very very very busy week. i am writing lots of essays about myself for my applications for the various places next year.
anyway i have a picture for u to look at and try find the arrow. (i only found this out a few weeks ago) the 1st person to comment back and say where it is gets a BIG prize! so get looking!

Rain and Spiders

And so it begins. Rainy Vancouver. The unfortunate thing is that I live on the bottom of three floors so I can't here it. I noticed when I opened my window yesterday to let out a spider that it was pouring and I couldn't hear it at all! I have a real spider problem in my room. I think they are daddy long legs but they are annoying as they get caught in my blinds and make lots of noise at night. Any suggestions from anyone would be greatly appreciated.

So the BC Lions won. I enjoyed the game but not the sport. Now those who know me will know I would never ever consider myself a rugby fan but even I admit that rugby is infinitely better than football (seriously Dave, what are you thinking?). They play for like 20 sec at a time and they even have different teams which have to switch over all the time as their players aren't good enough to attack and defend. Plus, there is soooooo much advertising that goes on. Every few minutes this red man runs onto the field and everyone has to stop as it means there are ads on tv. Silly. But the atmosphere was cool or at least different and we had warm peanuts. They were very yummy.

Hope all are well and thanks in advance for the help with the spiders
Amy

The answer....

The raccoons would win: http://www.theolympian.com/

I love my new house!

BC Lions

Hey people
I am going to a Canadian Football game tonight. I think it is just like Grid Iron. I guess the team I will be supporting is the BC Lions (I think the opposition is the Montreal team). It is kinda silly that in three weeks of being in Canada I will have been to a football game considering how many rugby games I went to in 21 years in NZ. I am pretty excited about sharing in the Canadian Culture. I will let you know how it goes. Oooooo, I wonder if they do 'nachoes' like on TV or have people yelling out peanuts! Maybe that is just baseball.

The stadium where the game is (if my research is correct, it is most likely not so don't quote me here) is the world's largest air supported dome and will hold the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics. Awesome.

I wanna go to a Hockey Game. The Vancouver Canucks are playing the Anaheim Ducks (Mighty Ducks for all those Disney fans) in a couple of weeks and there are still tickets (It is very hard (and expensive) to get tickets as Hockey is mega popular). By the time I find someone to go with it will probably be all sold out. Oh well.

Hope everyone is doing well. I am trying to study econometrics. It is not going well. It is so much harder than I thought it would be. I keep thinking I will go down to the beach but it is sunny today and I HAVE NO DESIRE TO SEE NUDE MEN.

Amy

Moving Day!!!`

Ok so the answer to yesterday's question as to who would win in a fight between a carebear and a popple is.... the popple. Yes Kirsty was right. The popple would always win because popple rock. don't you love my highly thought out and logical and rational reasoning? Also popple's have a superior defense mechanism as they can retreat into their pouchs, giving them time to recover and strike back with unbelievable force.


Today's question is a real one, that I actually know the answer to. Who would win in a fight between a raccoon and a house cat? This may be the last in our series victor predictions... for now. Anyway fighting is bad and you shouldn't do it, we should all be more like carebears and sit around in the clouds talking about how rainbows are best. They really are.

Now tomorrow is moving day! Yay! I'm going to cheat though and start moving tonight. I'm so excited. The new house is so nice. And I get my own room, I'm going to make it a music room. And I get a new kitchen and a new bathroom. And I planted my garden last weekend, so it will be easier to water it if I'm living at the same property it is in. WOOT!

:) Mindy