Well, we really have nothing interesting to report. Iain is working every day, I'm going to school, and on the weekend we had friends for dinner. I haven't been able to post on the blog because I've been working. A few updates:
• Iain bought bluff oysters which are without a doubt the BEST oysters on the planet. Holy MOLY. If you don't like oysters, you will if you have one of these.
• School is seriously kicking my ass -- it's a lot of work trying to keep up with the geeks. They love trying to one up the teacher and spend our breaks bantering about PCs versus Mac. I use my breaks to keep working, so they're distracting. When they do this, I want to yell at them to shut up, but I have to stifle the urge to jump in with my own pro-Mac comments.
I worked a lot this weekend testing my ability to create a simple webpage. I'm glad I did it, but I am FAR from thinking it's easy. It was pretty stressful last week but I'm really glad to be doing something again.
• The cats are adjusting well to the invisible fence, but it's not doing Iain and me any favors: every morning is like Christmas morning for the cats. At 5am they start meowing and leaping on and off the bed because they're so excited to go outside. We take their collars off at night and lock the cat door, but as time goes on we might just give them 24/7 access so we can actually get some sleep.
• We had a slight scare last week: it was supposed to be the season finalé of 'Rock of Love' but instead they showed a stupid highlights show. I was devastated. "They skipped it!!" I cried. After a brief convo with Danielle, I was assured that they do the highlights show before the finalé. Whew!
• OH!! The BEST news is that we found an AWESOME Italian restaurant in town. It was recommended to us by friends. It's called Gina's and it's incredible. Spending two years in South Philly, we never took for granted the abundance of great Italian food around us, but we also weren't prepared for how awful life is without it. We have great food in NZ but nothing beats Italian (in my opinion).
• Fall is officially here, which, from what I can gather, means that Auckland turns into Seattle from now through winter. It's gotten a lot colder (still not COLD, though), and it's supposed to rain all week. Excellent!
3 comments:
the article/photo of iain is awesome. it reminds me of a school newspaper.
i think your living room needs some plant life. a large, gay palm (gay palms don't give off the sap that attracts insects--really). maybe a ficus. or the classic nz silver fern.
please do not start watching the Kardashian's or i will have to lose your blogddress.
OMG--Tama looks so cute! The other pic is gorgeous-what views! I actually saw the Rock of Love finale--and all I'll say is that he picked my fav.
Dude, that cat picture rules the school. I love it. It's fall there? I don't think I knew that. Should I have? Also, your living room looks like an actual living room inhabited by adults. Ours looks like one that's inhabited by a 5 year old and two people with no money and no sense of home decor. Which it is, but come on. And the surface of every floor is littered with assorted cat toys. I'm highly jealous of your 'boring' living room.
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