Run run run why not make it harder?

So Vera and I have started trail running because, you know, running on the road isn’t hard enough as it is. ( it is, anyone that tells you it gets easier is lying). The upside of trail running is hands down the peace, serenity and views we achieve while out in the middle of nowhere. We are very lucky to have so many beautiful trails within a half hour or 45 minute drive of the city.

Btw, autumn has been one long series of the kind of days you see here. This morning is the same though god damn it makes it cold!

Dear weather god

The fact you royally screwed up our summer and to the point that it basically didn’t happen, is being over looked by the amazing autumn we are having. Keep the weather like its been for the past month a little longer and you might just be forgiven.
Your sincerest,
Stacey

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I’m alive!

God damn I have been slack at writing here, but I have still been visiting don’t you worry! And taking pictures every now and then. Summer has pretty much been and gone (though really it never arrived) but my photos show there was some sunshine mixed in there.

In order, the first was a bellbird blue Christmas day, then a hard yakka hike up to a hut my granddad built during the 1930s gold rush with my dad, brother, uncle and cousin, than my new running shoes! Flash! And finally a lovely day spent riding around on bikes, drinking coffee at little cafes and enjoying views of the city. Enjoy your summer northerners. I’m so not ready to let ours go yet!

It’s been aaaaaggggeeeessss

But I have enjoyed watching all your posts. Here are my feet post run on Xmas eve. It’s HOT out there and it’s only 8.30am

Moving on up

I finally got a new job today! Well actually I got it yesterday but I don’t count getting a job till I sign on the dotted line. It has been a long time that I have been looking for the right job, I have had a couple of other offers, but none of them felt as right as this one. So I am very excited!

And you should all be excited too! Why you ask? Because now I will be wearing a wider range of footwear. I pulled these ones out of the depths of my wardrobe to go in and sign the contract. And then they all rejoiced!

Big foot

Those of you in the non-rugby playing countries… which come to think of it is all of you bar us kiwis, probably won’t have known that for the last six weeks Auckland has played host to the rugby world cup. It was an awesome six weeks, and the city seems so sad now that everything is over. So without further ado, here is the one token rugby related shoe per diem post, just so the tournament doesn’t pass us by without a mention.

That’s me, Vera, a giant puppet and some random little boy who photo bombed us.

S is for Spring

And right now we are having the typical springtime downpours, so it is nice to look at this picture which I took on a beach up north this past weekend, note how my toenail polish matches the flowers.

And spring also means baby animals. Here is a little girl goat that got rescued by two of my friends, which now lives in their house and thinks it is a cat… it curls up on their laps and sleeps, and plays on the cat’s scratching post… and shadows the cat like a stalker. It needs to be weaned and put in the paddock but right now it’s just so little and cute!

Cheers for the fricking weekend

Every year for the past 15 years a group of my closest friends have gone to the same spot on lake taupo at least once a year. We usually do it in winter, but this year we saw some sunshine which was nice, especially for the one that gets up last in the morning who has to go swimming.

Off-road racers

Vera and I have officially gone nuts. But don’t worry too much, we will be sure not to ever do it again. Off-road running is hard. In fact the 9km off-road we did yesterday was far more exhausting and challenging than the 21.1km in the hail we did in August. I think the hills in the first shot and the state of our shoes in the second illustrate this better than I can with words.

Washing and worshipping

And reading. Not a bad Friday afternoon!

And so it begins

Soz, but I had my first outing at the beach yesterday. The sun was nice and warm, but the water still to cold to swim in. I enjoyed lying there and reading a book though!

Hello Pukeko

This curious little dude was sniffing around the open door of my office. I tried enticing him in with bread but he wasn’t having a bar of it. Eventually I got bored of him standing there like a peeping Tom, so I turned back to my computer. He shat on the deck and eventually walked off.

Deery me

Geddit? This past weekend I headed up to my friend’s beach house to have a “welcome spring” bbq and relax. On the way we stopped into a pizza barn and had a beer under the deer. That night we had a bbq and a party and the next day we went out on the boat fishing and for a walk up a mountain. Good times, and I can’t wait for the rest of fine weather to come our way!

 

 

 

Early start

Early start this morning as I have heaps to do today, including catching a flight down home, but I wanted to go for a run because I have been a wee bit lazy lately. It turned more into a run/walk, but I was shadowed by these surf skiers for the bit that goes around the coast.

Bonne weekend

A group of us ventured to rotovegas aka rotorua for the weekend to do a mud-run aka a run through mud. Dont ask why, we just did. Oh and we were dressed up as cows and frogs and spiderman too. The weather was wonderful, clear blue skies, but cold. Thankfully, rotorua is the capital of geothermal activity and we had geothermal pools at the hotel we stayed in which were much appreciated after the cold wet mud on Saturday. Sunday we had a round of mini-golf, which was safe enough to take my camera along.

Ha ha!

Daffodils! Spring! Whoop!

I went for my first run after the half today, and my legs felt great up until about 4.5km in when they said “nah, that’s enough”. I said “fair enough, you girls can have a rest since you have worked hard lately” and we wandered along together, enjoying the warm sun, smelling the flowers and the sea breeze. It was lovely to bond with my legs again after I was so disregarding of their feelings on Sunday. And it is lovely being able to feel the spring coming. Hurry up already!

My happy place

I went to my happy place on the weekend, in preparation for going to my very unhappy place during my first half marathon. No matter the weather, a visit to my friend’s holiday home on the shores of lake taupo, where we have been going each summer and winter for about 15 years, has never failed to make me feel good.

How to procrastinate 101

I am really good at procrastinating. I have a heap of school work to do, so today I got up early and went for a quick run so I could study all day. However, upon eating breakfast, My flatmates decided to take a trip to south Auckland to visit another friend, a buddist temple and a tea shop (temple below)

We came home after lunch and I had every intention of beginning the study, but then we went to a pet shop and cuddled some puppies (and very nearly brought one home) and then went to the store and bought a coffee table (which I kindly offered to assemble).

Tomorrow is another day I suppose …

Just call me Kitty Bark

That’s my golf name btw. Started lessons tonight with a friend. We plan on playing can a hole sometime soon

Sparkly

We have had so. Much. Rain. Lately. It has been so depressing. So this morning when the sky was all sparkling and blue I made haste to get in some very much needed training for our half marathon in three weeks. Yes that’s right three weeks. F&@$! The week I spent in tonga screwed my training right up and I’ve had to start at the beginning again. But I’ll get there. Yes I will!

Rain rain

A shower hit when I was running, felt like a break anyway. It’s over now, better get back to it…

MIA

Have been away for the week, getting some much needed Vitamin D in Tonga. I haven’t really got anything interesting to tell about our time there… basically we lay on the beach, swam, snorkeled and over-indulged on things like booze and food. All the great ingredients for a holiday! I hate having to come back to winter, but at least I had a week’s break. Bring on November!

Having a sneaky shop

I heard on the radio yesterday that there was a nothing over $20 sale on at glassons. I was there tout suite, and took a shirt dress for winter and a pair of shorts for Saturday’s tropical island excursion home with me.

Bright lights

Being in the city. A night out on the town. Too early for anything interesting to report yet…

Not bad

Not bad for the shortest day … Enjoy the longest day northerners… *laughs manically* Mwah ha ha ha ha ha ha!

Not my shoes

Every week when me and vera go running she cones to my house and we go from there. Every week she also manages to leave the shoes she wore there behind, but up until now they haven’t been ones I had anything to wear with. Today is different though, and I give you black boots a la vera.

Halfway there

Remember how me and vera said we would run one “fun” run a month this year? Well I did 6/12 on Sunday. Unfortunately vera was too sick to do it with me, I hope she gets better! I was lucky enough to have another friend do it with me though, and I did a really good time… For me.

Also check out my sock/chuck combo today. Sadly I am not cool enough to pull his off on the outside, and I have jeans covering it

Ginko

These leaves ard such pretty colours when they first fall. This photo was taken on campus on my way home from work

Best day of my life

Yesterday was my birthday and I had a party with my closest friends. I had such a great night and feel so lucky to have so many awesome people around me. In the words of my best friend Amy “I don’t think I have ever nearly wet myself so many times in one night”. Today has been a busy day, but now I am relaxing on the couch a very happy lady.

Ps check out one of my presents… Saving that for when I have finished my last exam in my MBA

Okay so…

Technically not shoes, but I had to post because I just looked on Facebook and saw it was both Megan and laura’s birthdays today! Happy birthdays ladies!! I happen to be a firm believer that the best people are born in June. Ahem.

More new shoes!

I’m a real runner now. Me and vera spent too much money on shoes, but oh my word they are lovely. I went for a 10.5 km run today to try them out. It was a beautiful day …

New chucks!!

Yes! I love this day. Grey ones are super duper and I’m wearing them round the house cause it’s nasty outside.

Working from home

Is good cause I get to wear my ugs. But I would wear them in the office anyway, if I could be bothered carrying them to and Fro. What sucks though is the fact that I got all dressed and ready to go to the actual work office, before I realized I couldn’t go in this morning. Hence tights sticking out of the ugs and not pjs. However. I have a question… Does anybody else enjoy sleeping in tights in the winter? I sure do.

Weekends are good.

Have had a great weekend. Best bit… I’m still alive! Seriously though, wouldn’t the world be a better place if all those nut jobs actually did ascend to another place? How can we make this happen? We’d instantly raise the average global IQ by a couple of hundred points.

Here’s what I got up to in my atheist ways over the weekend:

I celebrated three years of Vera being in NZ, with a feast of epic proportions at her house. Of course this was just a front and I was really there to play with Zara:

Then this afternoon I headed out to the West Coast beaches, famous for their dangerous waves and black sand. The weather was heavenly, blue blue sky and no breeze to speak of. The landscape is strange and awesome at the same time so I went a little overboard on the pictures…

An apple a day

Quelle surprise! I stopped to stretch on my run this morning and found this bag of apples sitting on top of a power box. Either there are still lovely people in the world or the evil step mother is alive and living in Herne bay, Auckland …

Wednesday night wonder

Went for an evening ramble with the lovely vera:

Then went out for an all you can eat Korean BBQ. First time ive had the cook in front of you Korean food since leaving Korea in 2007! Mmmmmmm. After dinner we watched shutter island. Anyone else seen that? Thoughts?

5/12 down

We are nearly halfway to our new years resolution of running one “fun” run a month. Today was May’s, and it was muddy, but luckily we avoided the rain

Run run stretch

Have to get serious about it now. Both me and vera have signed up for a half marathon inthe first weekend of august and I don’t want to come last!!! On evenings like this it us easy to go out for a run, but winter is fast approaching, and it is going to get harder.

Tree Hugging

Normally I don’t get up on a Sunday to go climb trees and scare my limbs into a jelly-like consistency from being above the ground and attempting challenging obstacles at the same time. But this morning I did. For 3 1/2 hours me and my friend Aaron played Tarzan and scrambled up, across and around trees in Woodhill Forest. It was awesome fun (especially the flying foxes at the end of each course), but now my muscles have ceased and my hands are raw from gripping on for dear life. Crazy kids. 

Bowl me over

Bowling is fun, look at me go. Actually, that’s not me. But they are my feet

Look at me being all sustainable and stuff

Though to be honest I’d starve if I tried to sustain myself on what is in my garden. Dinner tonight is a risotto with feta, roasted pumpkin and garlic, mushrooms and asparagus with a side salad of rocket and radish from the garden. Yum?

Better late than never

The morning after our party. House is a mess and so is head. Only way to fix both is to drink regifted CC and dry while cleaning. Best way to start the day!

Congratulations!

We are using the royal wedding as an excuse to have a house warming. I made a cake for the occasion, now we are eating the food and waiting for the guests to arrive. Hopefully they come before the cake goes… At least we have this photo.

Whoop!

Yaye! Me and my work mate ordered these last week, am all ready for some snuggling on the couch watching movies this winter! A yip, I’m wearing it at work now, the mail lady came in but didn’t say anything about me looking like a dementor. Guess the garb is usual in these parts

Worm graveyard

The driveway- the place worms come to die

Happy Easter!

We went for a family bush walk through the Manawatu gorge, lovely dovely.

Road trip road trip

Heading back to the motherland, mt doom in the distance. Have a happy and safe weekend all!

Not doing what I should be doing

I have taken the day off work to study for an exam I have tonight. Here I am out for a run. It’s a lovely day…

See my babies

From top to bottom, let me introduce you to broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, radish and rocket. They be my babies. Hope someone looks after them when I am away this weekend.

We’ve been really bad

At posting to spd, here is our conscious effort to be better on our run last night. There was a beautiful sunset, which is nice and all but also a remixer of how short the days are about to get…

Couch surfing

While wait for my computer to get fixed. Just need a blankie and I could have a nap.

A movie, a new app and some egg things

Ah yes

Me and vera participated in another run which had us up at stupid o’clock. But it did mean I was able to catch the high tide and go for a glorious swim after!

Ditto what vera said

Running with lots of people suck. Never again.

Crumble crumble

Our feijoa tree is spewing up fruit and I thought I’d better put it to good use in a crumble. It is in the oven right now, soon to be gobbled up with lots of cream! Nom Nom Nom!

Oh how I love the sun

On another run (9.5km), we ran away from the sun down this strip of road next to the motorway:

After which we had dinner and went to a Fringe Festival show which was fantastic! We sat middle front and center and were forced to become part of the show, at one stage I had tears in my eyes from laughing so hard. The actor was amazing and the show was entertaining the whole way through!

Stacey Marie

First day of the boots

Was a sad day.

Beautiful day

Yesterday was the first day of march. One of my new years resolutions was to run every day in march, for at least 15 minutes. So get used to seeing a few of these photos. On another note, I just cracked four of my toes playing human foose ball at o week at work. I kicked another player in the shins and wasnt wearing any shoes. Dooche bag!

Time out

A much needed break was had over the weekend, first up I ate myself sick on the sweet grapes at a friends parents house up north, then worked my way through four country pubs and their characters on the way to a campsite where we slept with kiwi running around outside the tent

 

Weeky weeky yaye its over

It was a full on week, thank god it’s over. Finished it off with a run with vera and a procrastination freezer defrost. Ah that feels better!

My grandma (dads mum) died last week so I had to go down to the south island for the funeral. It was a great trip (can you say that?), grandma was an amazing lady and has left an awesome legacy of 14 children, 52 grandchildren and god knows how many great grand children and great great grandchildren. All 14 kids were at the funeral along with most of the grandchildren, the weather was amazing, the beach just along the road and the mood was celebratory, she lived a full and happy 99 years.

Morning swim at Tata beach which is so beautiful, we could see the bottom even out deep, way over our heads.

Most of these beauties went in my mouth, but I managed to save some for the salad.

Cool horse sculpture at Nelson airport, a 20 hand clydesdale made out of used horse shoes.

Kiwi ingenuity at its best

First off sorry for bring slack, things are going 1 million miles an hour. In fact I am in a meeting right now posting this… Thought I’d better though cause check this out… Thought I’d have to walk home barefoot after my jandal broke. Had a bit of a think about it and realized I could fix it with my Bobby pin. Smart! Now if it will just last for me to pop into the store on the way home to pick up some new ones…

Just so you all know

If there’s ever a world war you want me on your team. That’s right I kicked butt in not one, but two games of laser tag. Besides the competitiveness, it was heaps of fun!

At the airport

Passing time before my flight. I blame you Marie for making me turn up early to these kinds of things…

One of these things is not like the other

Yip. I have different sized feet.

Good day for ostrich

I went to the zoo this morning, and hung out with this guy for a while

Run run as fast as (we) can

Which I would like all to note is not very fast and we like to take breaks to take pictures… All part of our duty to this blog really. We serve thee well.

Not my feet

But my shoes so I’m claiming it! At a big music festival and loving that its okay to be drnk at 11am

I love new years sales

Especially the kind where calendars are 70% off! This one has the essentials for one origami piece per month! Do exciting but will have to hold myself back from doing them all at once!

Introducing Red and Dead

Or me and my work mate Suzanne on a work trip to the beach last week.

We did it!

Three months ago a very unfit Vera and Stacey decided that instead of just going out and drinking and eating two times a week, which would inevitably lead to obesity, they would begin running before going out eating and drinking… A goal was set of a 12km run in January, and they began. Today we ran it, and finished in our best case scenario time of 1 hour 30 mins, also achieving two more goals… Finishing injury free and in front of all of the walkers (seriously this was a goal, those guys go fast!) so yaye for us! Straight after we limped 50m down to the beach and went swimming. It was heavenly. Check out all the ducks in the picture below, they were loving it too. And check out us with our sexy visors after the race

Sorry

But it was too beautiful not to share…

Silver lining

As much as I don’t like going to work on sunny days, sometimes when I miss my bus it is nice to walk through the paddocks to reach the office.

Just found this one

I took it while partying on Saturday night, I was standing on the road watching some fireworks. I posted it because I really like the grimy, grungy quality of the photo. That is all.

First duet of the year

And it felt goooooooood!

Life’s a beach

And then you have to start school and work again. This week
is going to be painful for all of us. Good luck people.

2010 in review

The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health:

The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow.

Crunchy numbers

A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers. This blog was viewed about 12,000 times in 2010. That’s about 29 full 747s.

In 2010, there were 947 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 948 posts.

The busiest day of the year was January 20th with 154 views. The most popular post that day was Whose shoes are these?.

 

Attractions in 2010

These are the posts and pages that got the most views in 2010.

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Whose shoes are these? January 2010
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About this project December 2009
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heidikins’ shoes (27 feb 2010) March 2010
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Room with a view: 3rd July 2010 July 2010

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I heart Sundays July 2010
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First day at work

So I thought I’d treat you all to a pair of shoes you haven’t seen before. Oh and a different colour nail polish, you can’t tell, but they are a shade of dark green that santa brought me

Slowly coming right

The swelling and bruising is still there but not as bad as it was. I’m looking forward to going for a run!

Seafood fever

Once we came off the island, I spent a few days at the beach with friends. We ate seafood – snapper, travali and crayfish- for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as we were fishing or diving twice a day. For lunch on the 3rd we slammed about $560 dollars worth of crayfish.

New years day

Happy new year! Have just been reading your posts and they
look awesome! I have just returned to reality -BOO- after my
camping trip and a few days at a friends house on the beach. I
bought in the new year on Urupukapuka Island, which is an island in
the Bay of Islands in nz, and it is stunning and remote, we had to
take my friend’s boat to get over there. However the effort was
well worth it and after a late new years night I spent the 01-01-11
lying in long grass reading my book, going swimming and laughing
with friends.

That evening we
went to watch the sunset from the top of the hill, and while it was
beautiful, my accident prone self decided it was time to badly
sprain my ankle, just in time got me and Vera’s run.

A camping we will go

I’m going camping tomorrow and so today I had to
get some necessary equipment. Unfortunately I bought all the stuff
in the store and then though about how i was going to get it all
home on my scooter. I managed, but it wasn’t a very comfortable
ride!

The calm after the storm

I flew back to Auckland today, in the worst conditions I’ve ever experienced, it took a few vodkas to calm the nerves, but I’m almost there …

Summer days

After some rainy days it finally cleared up on Christmas and I’ve been enjoying some outside time with friends and family, drinking, dancing, playing tennis, laughing and making fun of each other. I hope your Christmas breaks have been going as well!

Spiderman Christmas

Today we had a mini Christmas day with our nephews and
niecesthat we won’t get to see on Christmas day. My nephew Cody
thinks he is spiderman, he even wears a tie and a white shirt to
school just like Peter Parker. We turned around and found him up
the doorway (complete with tie).

Stacey Marie

Oh christmas tree!

If this is bung it is because I am trying to post for the first time off my phone

Dress-ups

Are always fun, and my university faculty was celebrating 10 years of life. For some reason I was invited and it was cocktail dresses at the Hilton, so I didn’t say no, and Vera found she couldn’t either. Afterwards we had a photoshoot down by the water, there were heaps of people around when we were taking pictures of each others legs, but we didn’t mind. There were a couple of good shots:

And of course once we had had coffee and were walking home, the heels came off and the real Stacey came out:

Stacey Marie

My Bad

I have been very crap lately, but I moved house and have only just got internet at my new place today. And on the weekend I dropped my camera in the water and won’t buy one till the after Christmas sales, so I will only appear in Emma and Vera’s posts till then. It was nice knowing you all ha ha! I will still be checking out all your posts of course!

Here I am celebrating the move to a new house with friends on the deck after the sun had gone down:

And the most magical weekend I’ve had in a while… back up at my friend’s house in Pataua South,

drinking games involving hermit crabs, while perched in trees over the water (ultimately the perfect formula for dropping ones camera into the ocean…)…

But look it’s sooooo pretty:

That night there were bioluminescenes in the water, and me and amy stayed out swimming until around 1.30am. I now no longer need to do acid (if I ever did), as that experience was pretty trippy!

THEN the next day in the very same water in the photos above, we were swimming and saw splashing in the water, and swam over and it was a pod of four, maybe five dolphins having a good old play. We swam closer and they stayed for about 20 minutes, going through the entire repertoire of dolphin tricks. A dog from the shore even swam out and they played with him! It was so awesome!

So that’s it from me for a while, I hope you guys all have a very merry Christmas and a happy new year!! OXOX

Stacey Marie

The very first Latino Albino

The Portuguese girl and the Kiwi girl went for dinner last night (after their run up the mountain).

We have decided to use Vera’s legs as lighting when there are powercuts, or as flys when we go fly fishing (all those times we go fly fishing).

Stacey Marie

SCORE for summer!

Went to the second-hand store today, I love searching through and finding books. None of them had prices so I grabbed all the ones I wanted and took them up to the counter…

… $5… for the lot! There are all my favourite authors in there… Margaret Atwood, Toni Morrison, Bryce Courtney, Kapka Kassabova, a couple of hardcovers and some randoms! I am well excited about embarking on these books!

(Except I am moving house this weekend, and am supposed to be getting rid of stuff… oh well!)

Stacey Marie

Bestest Sunday Ever

Vera already wrote about our lovely Sunday afternoon, and here are the pictures. It was such a great day that if it was a date she would have been able to have her wicked way with me later on!

My tootsies on the top of the mountain, while eating takeaway and drinking beer:

Vera’s peids:

Group shot!

Now we are going running up the mountain in about an hour. No curry or beer waiting for us today. Grumpyface.

Stacey Marie

My catchup post

Have been away. From it all. And by it I mean not only good coffee, but the internet too. Don’t hate me, but here is what I have been doing:

So I went to the Kingdom of Tonga for one week. It’s only a three hour flight from NZ, but is a whole world away. The first four nights I stayed in a cheap, but very fun hostel in town, and from there I did the touristy things like tours and the such:

Went on a day trip to a couple of reefs in the ocean to go snorkeling on, and finished up on an island (Pangimotu), which I went back to the next day to lie on:

After I had had enough of tripping around I booked into an awesome place right on the beach where I had my own fale complete with bathroom, porch… and hammock. My next three days went something like this:

Lie in hammock and read

Snooze.

Go for a swim:

Go back to reading in the hammock.

Go for a walk to the shops to buy some snacks:

Go back to the hammock.

Go for a swim.

Go back to the hammock for a nap.

Read book. Finish book in one day. Start next book:

Go for a swim.

Find coconuts to take pictures of so I can walk along the beach singing “I’ve got a lovely pair of coconuts”. Then remember that the song actually goes on about a lovely pair of rollerskates, but Mah. There is no-one around to correct me so I’ll sing what I want.

Then realise that you may slowly be going mad from lack of human contact. Then realise if that is so you could go mad for a couple more days thank you very much. Then realise that you have to come home.

Go back to the hammock and have a nap because it is an exhausting life you lead.

Come home.

Sad face.

PS: I caught up with all your postings, they look awesome. Luci: Hatepe has been my special spot forever, but you can share it too. Vera, those photos look friggen a.m.a.z.i.n.g. Your parents must have been loving it! Em: You know Tequila is never anybody’s friend. I do like what you did with your hair though. And you’d never catch me in that scary thing. I’d be the one that peed her pants and had to be taken out early. Oh wait. You didn’t did you? Julie: I have been dreaming of a pedicure the whole time I have been away and those white booties tipped me over the edge! Megan: I say if you wanna twirl, twirl! Sometimes I sing really loudly and do wheelchair dancing down the hall of my office just couse. You gotta do what you gotta do. Barbara: so many cool flats! Peace out peeps.

Hawaii Lei-dy

Saturday night was a dress-up party Hawaiian theme. Good fun, got lei-ed.

Stacey Marie

Smoke and mirrors

Friday was had three end of year functions for work… dry ice from one migrated to another and into our cups… probably not good for you, but one was not thinking well by this point…

Stacey Marie

Bus tricks

No matter what time I get on the bus, these the same ajumma and ajoshe (grandma and grandpa) always get on my bus, and off a couple of stops later. I reckon they just ride the bus around all day, because I usually see them on the way home too. They are so cute, and are like a matching pair of dolls. They always sit in the same seats, the two up the front, the man on the right, the woman on the left. BUT today, there was another lady sitting in the left hand side seat, she got a dirty look then they both sat on the right.

Stacey Marie

Puppy love

It was SPCA collection day the other day and the bright sparks had the idea of taking to the streets with cute puppies and dogs from the SPCA to drum up money. It worked. I donated, and got to have a pat with this dude.

Stacey Marie

Star-spangled rice goodness

Caught up with two friends I only get to see about twice a year because of our combined crazy lives on Monday night for dinner at this great Thai place I love. Three hours later, gobbling food, wine and words like chickens, we were finished, only because the restaurant closed.

Stacey Marie

diversity is the spice of life

Went shopping for things to take on my island adventure next week…

I just like black jandals okay? And I had to buy the god-awful beach feet cause I don’t want to rip my feet up on coral do I?

 

Stacey Marie

Wild flowers are better than tame ones

Check out my bunch I picked on my walk on Saturday morning.

Stacey Marie

Food, glorious food. There’s nothing quite like it!

Man I am breaking out into the musical today. Must be boredom. Anywho, had dinner in the sun with my friend Kelly at one of my favourite restaurants overlooking the Viaduct on Wednesday night. No complaints here.

Stacey Marie