NZ bee compound

#42 Send a snail mail postcard to nieces
All posted. Yay!

Summering on the cape

#97 'Run' from home to my home town

Clocked up a few more kms this evening. To be honest I was all keen at work then I found I didn't have any socks, so decided to flag it and cycle instead but then I came home and saw a couple policemen parking their cars and getting out their stab-proof vests so I thought I'd run past only to discover that the stab-proof vests were probably bullet-proof vests and the police ment were standing behind the treeline next to the pavement and they were still there when I got back only there were two! police! men! with! big! guns! instead! of! one! which meant they were there for a couple hours at least. Not sure what it was all about - I was trying to look cool on my way past, y'klnow, like I wasn't a bit interested when really I was gawking like a little kid. No shame.



#74 Cook risotto from scratch

I thought there was a recipe in the Edmonds but it turns out the recipe is something like 'Start with a packet of pre-prepared chicken risotto...' which is absolutely useless for my needs. I thinks there's one in the Jamie book.

NB. I think Boyfriend and I are in a bit of a competition over who can cook the best chicken. i did one last night which he loved and tonight he did one that I loved... Maybe it's not really a competition but just using up what's in the cupboard because there isn't any food left in the house.



#42 Send a snail mail postcard to nieces

I'm starting this one tonight and will hopefully get the postcards off tomorrow. I was going to use the cute slightly bug-eyed kiwi but I sounded a bit manic on it so I chopped it up and used a yellow heart instead. I'm not entirely sure of the address for the australian lot so it might take longer than I'm hoping it will.



Update #100 Send Power company the key to the house

You may remember this as a particular challenge of mine. Well, the meter reader turned up on Saturday sans key. He hasn't received it yet. He was very cheerful about the whole thing and said that he used to have our estimated meter reading filled out before he even drove past our house. :)

Featuring an advanced alien race

There is not a lot of progress going on this week. I've been feeling a bit tired and run down although unfortunately there hasn't been any corresponding sick leave associated with that. It's a long weekend this weekend (YAY) and I'm hoping to get a few component things knocked off. That's if everything goes according to plan...although to be honest I'd probably be just as happy to spend the whole time lounging around in bed. Maybe I could move the telly in? I'm doing some of that component stuff with a good friend though...who may bring cookies...so there is that...

I'm not that far into this challenge and I'm already thinking that I'll be failing on some of the list. That's okay because it's set up to challenge and move me out of my comfort zone - not that I've done that much of that just yet. Books and reading baby yeah.

I promised myself that I would not post here unless I had made progress on something...and that it wouldn't be more than three days between postings...

#24 Find a food balance between the 'good' and the 'bad' foods
Today I had fruit toast with Nutella for breakfast, a one square meal bar for morning tea, a vege kebab for lunch plus a couple of chocolate thins for afters, a carrot and a piece of cheese for afternoon tea and pork with rice for dinner. I think that's a pretty good balance between good and bad foods. When can I mark it off?

#25 Live eco-smart - recycling etc
I suck at this. There are all the best intentions in the world, gathering the bottles and cans and papers to be recycled, putting them in the bin but not putting the bin out to be collected so that it overflows and won't take any more which means that recycleable things have to go in the rubbish bin because there isn't any space for them in the recycling bin. *sigh*

#39 Complete a '26 things' Flickr challenge
Have to get my skates on for this one as there isn't much time left and I think I've got, 5 things done? Guess it's harder than it looks!

#42 Send a snail mail postcard to nieces
Rather than do this I think I'll send some 'Kiaora' cards to the girls in Australia. Promise I'll take a picture. They're sold by some guy on the street - he appears magically every so often. Nice and colourful although I'm not so keen on the hearts that he's done this time. There is a pretty cool pohutukawa one in the set.

#47 Walk the isthmus
It's 16km. I'm going to need a bit of training before I do this one.

#48 Visit Waiheke island
Hhm. There's a planting day on Monday at the ARC park on Waiheke. I wasn't too keen on using up a day of my weekend to go over to Waiheke but I could mark two off with one visit...#7 Visit all Auckland Regional parks . Weekend plan rethink... nope. I need that time to sort out clothes to wear to work!

Wow. Looks like I've been doing more than I think I've been doing.