noice...

Yay! Finally going to see The Black Seeds play (Waihi Beach Pub) on Boxing Day!

Highly recommend their website too.
www.theblackseeds.com
Play with the Parrot and Giraffe... hours of fun for brains like mine :)
Photo; walking the dogs (Spud and the late Charlie) on Waihi Beach at dusk 2003.

the Man

A little late posting these, but its worth the wait. Last photo taken on 1st of Dec.
He shaved it of yesterday... : (

The BOT! duh duh duh duhhhhhh...

Ive had the bot going on 4 weeks now. Thats the longest ever I have had flu.
Started out as a Broncial thing (on holiday), now I have sinus on top of that.
Folded after two weeks and did the antibiotics, but to no avail.
I fucking hate being sick.
On the bright side... glad Im not really old, coz I dont think I would have made it this far.
Yay for youth!
and vicks!

Eating greens

Ive overhauled my diet in recent months and have been eating five plus a day, which rocks. I love my greens anyway, but never really thought I could have them with every meal... I was wrong, I love the way I eat now, but, Ive learned recently that it is quite hard to keep up the veg intake when eating out... or should I say eating out of town?
Mike and I recently travelled down country to The Hawkes Bay, Gastronomic centre of the North Island or maybe both Islands?
Anyhoo, three days later and I feel malnutritioned. Mike actually read in the Dominion Post that the lowest intake of fresh veg in the country are the friendly people of The Hawkes Bay. Why? The ship it out. Aparently Brisbane is the same. A plethora of seafood and they export it all out and leave the crap behind, if there is any.
All I could find in abundance was tomato and button mushrooms for breakfast, soggy lettuce for lunch (if that) and rubbery asparagus for dinner (if that again). So sad! Also 9 times out of ten the veg was covered in cheese sauce or melted cheese or butter, or both.
The saving grace was Te Awa vinyard. Ohmigot it was awsome! The food was perfect and the wine! So full so light ! I have never had a wine suit my food so perfectly before, It almost convinced me to become a wine wanker... almost.
I highly recommend this place to everyone . FYI the Lamb had more flavour than Ive tasted in years and the Eggplant and Red Pepper stack drizzled lightly in a local Olive Oil was just what I was looking for.
Shit I blether on.
If you are going to stay in Napier, go around the Vinyards for meals. Most do Lunch and Dinner so sleep late, flag breaky and get pissed early... I dont think the bars in town can serve a bad wine, but we only sampled a couple ( I had the bot). The coffee is also good, even when it looks bad according to Mike. Check out MIA store for hot Kiwi designer stuff, they also have a Gallery with The friendliest woman there. I bought my first Limited edition print because I liked her. And the print was cheap.
So, I liked getting away to Napier but the food in town was a real let down.

whizz bang pop...fizzle

Guy Fawkes or Guy Fox as some ignoramous call it.

What a let down. Fireworks are such a waste of money today.
Dont get me wrong, I love setting thing alight and making extra long fuses on bundled together works is heaps of jollys, but, 3 second fizzes just dont cut the mustard these days.
We cant even have bonfires with fake guys on a stake! What the hell else is Guy Fawkes all about!!
Which brings me to my next erk. More than half the population have NO idea why we let fireworks off every November (ohmoigot its November!). There is no education going on in Schools about this I am sure. The Mad Butchers daughter (adult daughter) on the radio was going on about specials for "Gouy Fox''... Guy Fawkes you thick shit.
Anyhoo, on a November tangent...
Movember is apon us. A time for men to stop shaving and raise money for the fight against Prostate Cancer. A jolly good idea. At the end of the month photos will be on the web (movember.com) of the champions and their mostaches. I will post Mikes efforts up (before and after) on the 1st of December. YAY!
Something else...
We are going to Napier! YAY a holiday!!! four days of a little work (tax benifits) and a lot of Vinyards! The diet will have to take a back seat... 19.35kg lost so far just quietly.

ho ho ho

So its the first day of November, which means that the stores have had their Christmas decorations up for a month now.
Whats worse is that the majority still insist on using snowmen, snow covered plastic fur trees, Polarbears??, giant fake snowflakes, cotton wool as snow and Santa dressed up to the nines in fur!
ITS SUMMER AND WE LIVE ON A PASIFIC ISLAND!!!
So as you can tell it shits me a bit.
Why cant we use the Pohutakawa as our tree? and sand as our snow? Santa can keep the beard, but maybe dust off the stubbies or something?

Oh god Im Doctor fucking Doolittle

Im sorry people. I'll try not to put anymore posts up about the pets...
Im the lady who chats to her dogs non stop while walking down the road...
but younger...
except if your under 20...
then I am that old lady...
waah!

how cute is this!

You can tell Poppy is smarter from this picture aye.

update on scarface claw

With a look like that, Im pretty sure the other cat came off worse.

I know I did.

cat bum

First the Dog... now the cat.

He squinted at me, as usual, then meowed inpatently for me to make the bed for him to settle onto. "George your an arse" I said and went to pat him on the head. It felt wet, so i pulled my hand away to examine. A foul, pungent smell hit me as i raised my hand to my face. A sticky substance had left a shiney smear on my palm. I gagged. "George!" I exclaimed, "what have you been up to!"
On closer (breath held) examination I discovered an oozing absess had erupted above his left eye. His fur had stuck to the puss leaving it looking like a bad combover.
Icalled for Mike to hold the cat while i tried to clean the absess with a warm damp cloth, but the more I wiped, more puss oozed. "This is a job for the vet" I said, stepping back to get a gasp of fresh air. "His head smells like arsehole, so I'll call first thing".
At doctor dogs (as his licence plate says) george sat purring his wiskers off while the vet took his temporature. "Nothing there to be concerned about", he said reasuringly, "what usually happens is a cat will bite its opponant and leave whatever they licked off their arse as a present to rear its ugly head later on. We can usually tell which bacteria is left by the way it smells".
"It smells like cat bum", I said, "yep ",he replied, "it does".

We pick George up this arvo, after sedation and flushing of the absess is complete. they will have to shave around the area,so I'll have to call him Captain steubing for a while. I'll post the humiliating picture soon.

wot a wag

Poor Frank! (look at that face! my tail hurts)
Those of you who know my dog Frank, know that he wags his tail ALL THE TIME.
Well a slight miscalculation on his part when chasing the ball turned him upsidedown and he landed on his tail. At first we didnt notice anything, but later that evening we had guests around and Debs patted poor old Frank down his back and his tail (as ya do) well he made us all jump with the noise he made, poor Debs felt the brunt of jibes from the others and mopey old Frank spent the rest of the evening very cufuffled and walked around with a motionless tail. The next day was no better with tail down and face long, so I took him to the vet. "should only be bruised, but if he starts eating his tail in a few days we will have to amputate".
WOT!
Yep, if a dog looses feeling in his tail he will eat it off thinking its a foreign object... like a big hairy poo or something... :)
Vile full of antiflam in hand and miserable faced dog on lead off we sculked. I was quite distraught with the fact that my lovely little boy might not have a tail... I just couldnt bear the thought of him tailess... wagless... sob... hes my favourite... (yes I have a favourite).

Anyhoo, two days of intence watching of tail movement paid off as his tail slowly started to wag. Low at first, but eventually it stood tall again, like a pendulum, tick tock tick tock...
Yay for Frank!

Oh how right you are

Yes Dana, If they can do it so can I but way way better. Got that from mum. "girls can do anything" she bought me a hat with that on it.

Im turning into my mother (scary), but then again arnt we all?
some recognise this irratic behaviour and try to self correct (hello)... while others are oblivious and thus freinds and family get their heads bitten off when making light hearted stabs about the resemblence. Complete denial if foolish, as it is genetically written that we will eventually walk the same and talk the same.
I have recognised the not so pleasant behaviour raising its ugly head, but then if Ive picked up the bad stuff (which we all know we have), wouldnt I have also picked up on the really good stuff? Coz my mum has some pretty awsome good habits too, which I would love to know I have.
So, I guess if your worried about turning into your mum, just concentrate on the good stuff about her and it really isnt so bad...
unless you think your mums a total bitch, then your pretty much fucked. Sorry.

Good GREIF!

You think I could remember my login! but NO... thats twice ive given out the wrong blog address to everyone...sorry.
anyhoo...

Ive just read that Richard Hammond (topgear) has been in a serious car accident. shit. I love that show and hope he does recover. I guess thats wot happens when you drive a rocket car...

Im on my own at work today, yay! my own pace at last! so, keeping it breif, I hear daylight savings starts on the 1st of October! wicked. I cranked up the bbq last week, but froze my nipples off waiting for eye fillet to cook... in te dark. ah the perils I go through on a daily basis...

wot the!

Okay so my buddy ol pal Rosa forced me to set up this here blog page so I could comment on hers... thanks for giving me a shove into the 21st century dude! thisll save on thóse pesky group emails too be sure.

Anyhooo, Im Brigit.

I will add more as life happens, but for the mo, i need to get back to work (picture framer) or get my arse busted.