More on that list of what we've been up to...

4. We celebrated our 4 year anniversary in style last Thursday in style: a small tasting platter at The Lobby in the SKYCITY Grand Hotel, followed by a traditional Iain Cosmopolitan at home.



3. Now that our weekends aren't spent buying sinks and pricing doorknobs, we have resumed our social life. This has been an absolute novelty. The first year we were here, I was in school so our social life sucked. Then it was all about the house. It's so nice to have a weekend arrive and have nothing to do. Wanna go have brunch? Sure. Two hours of Tivo'ed Gossip Girl? Why not. Sleeping in? What's that? It's great. For example, last weekend we had brunch with friends on Saturday, and on Sunday we hoped in the car and just drove around to different cafés. And why the hell not?

These pictures are from 3 different places we visited. The best part is that we had no intention of doing this, and two of the places we found we didn't even know existed. Really cool! And a really inexpensive way to check out a bunch of places.

One of the places had this insane back garden with a terrier running around, a huge cage of pigeons, and tropical plants everywhere. I can't even imagine how cool this place must look in the summer!

We're Back!

Okay, after a few month's hiatus I've decided to start up again. This is mainly due to the (sad?) fact that I really missed blogging, and while Facebook is great, I don't always want to post everything on it.

I promise not to keep rattling on about the bloody house - we're in it, it's great. I'll post some pictures.

Here's a quick run-down of what we've been up since I last posted:

1. I had minor foot surgery. This thrilling undertaking was 500x better than the same surgery I had on my other foot back in 2003. Incredible -- either they've made huge medical breakthroughs in bunion surgery (doubtful) or the first guy I had in Philly was crap (likely). I got to work from home for a week which was great!



2. Iain got promoted! (I can't remember if that was mentioned before). I'm still working for the same folks and am enjoying it a hell of lot more than I used to. Karma can be a good thing.

3. Iain's parents visited for 9 days in May. They were our first official houseguests! We spent the week eating way too much. It was a really good time and (hopefully) nice and relaxing for them. I think Blue had the best deal: he received twice the number of belly rubs and pats. Tama was still skittish but not totally freaking out, so that's progress.







More posts to come!