An update!

I don’t know if I’ve mentioned, but I’ve been getting into the spirit of Christmas a little early this year. About seven months early, in fact!

I blame the weather. The fact that it’s turning cold and frosty here is making me feel like Christmas is just around the corner. It’s hard getting used to the opposite seasons! It wasn’t bad in Australia , I never really felt it. Winter there didn’t really feel that much different to the British summer! The mornings and evenings would be a bit on the chilly side but the days could still get really warm. But it’s a little colder here in New Zealand . I’ll be walking down the street to work, and all of a sudden “All I want for Christmas is you” will pop into my head, or I’ll start to wonder what presents I should get my sisters!

Hopefully, I’ve found a solution now though! This weekend Adam and I caught a ferry out to Waiheke Island (which is where the photo was taken!) and we saw a flyer for… a Christmas party! It’s on a boat that sails around the harbour, and you get a Christmas dinner and drinks and they play Christmas songs all night. I’m going to buy the tickets today, I’m hoping that if I go it will get Christmas out of my system for a while; that I’ll be able to trick myself into believing that it has been Christmas so I can think about something else!

I guess there’s nothing wrong with getting into the Christmas spirit a little early though, at least it makes me want to be kind! Especially as (with all the thinking about it I’ve been doing) I’ve decided that I want to make homemade gifts for everyone this year, I’ll have to make a start as soon as I get home anyway!

We're going to Fiji!

Only three weeks and one and a half days left to go at work!

Adam and I booked a holiday to Fiji, and we're going on the first of July, and I'm so excited! Not only for the holiday, but also for the fact that it means even less time at work before I go!

I can't wait to go to Fiji though now; we have four nights on the main island touring around, then four nights partying on beachcomber island and three nights in between.

Exciting!

Campervan weekend

Today is my last day of being 21!

Tomorrow I'll be 22, and that feels very strange. I'll be well into my 20's then! I still feel about 17, lol.

We've rented a campervan for the long weekend, so that should be good fun. We'll drive over to Mount Maunganui. It'll probably be quite cold... May in the Southern Hemisphere is probably the equivalent or similar to November in the Northern Hemisphere. Luckily I've got a hot water bottle, some cosy pyjamas and a warm boy to cuddle up to, so hopefully it shouldn't be too bad!

Have a nice weekend everyone!

Update: Here are some photos from the weekend!

A bittersweet weekend

I’ve had quite a bittersweet weekend this weekend, so this is probably going to be quite a long entry. Feel free to skip down your friends page to a more interesting one! Lol

I’ll start with the bad:

At the minute I’m living in a share house with thirteen other people. We all have our own rooms, then we share a kitchen, two bathrooms and a TV lounge. Last night, Adam and I were in the lounge watching TV when we were verbally attacked (it really feels as if there is no other word for it) by someone we share the house with.

Adam and I have been spending quite a lot of time in the TV room lately, as we are quite poor and during the week we prefer to stay in, cook dinner and relax after work. But apparently there are a couple of people in the house who have a problem with that. The guy, Greg, is arrogant, aggressive, racist, sexist and anti-gay, but despite that Adam and I have always overlooked that and been nice and friendly to him whenever we’re together, and the other person who doesn’t like us using the TV room is a Kiwi called Bonnie who is quite old and very bossy and controlling. So anyways, Adam and I are watching TV and he starts having a go at us because we are always in the TV room and we have bad attitudes and other people don’t feel like they can come in and watch TV with us, and he isn’t the only one who thinks so because Bonnie thinks so too. Forget the people who come in and do watch TV with us, because he and Bonnie have a problem that’s the only thing that matters.

I got really upset, because Adam and I are aware that we are in there a lot so if people come in and ask us if they can watch something else we always say yes, and we’re quite friendly (or so I thought!) and if people do come into the TV room and watch TV with us we are always nice and ask them how their day has been, or some other idle chit chat. What Greg was saying to us was horrible, and untrue in my opinion because with Greg especially, he is always the one to ask to watch something else and we do always say yes, even if we were wanting to watch something else (which was actually what had happened that night, Greg had come in to watch the Simpsons, which we weren’t planning on watching but did anyway). We chat to him a lot, and despite his obvious character flaws, I thought he was alright. To find out he had been bitching about us behind our backs really hurt me, and I’m pretty sure that it did Adam too although he hides it better than me.

Halfway through his rant, I started to cry and had to leave the room, I was so upset. Adam stayed in there and I could hear them arguing, then Greg left and went into the kitchen where Bonnie was and I could hear them talking about and laughing at us.

This morning, we were in the kitchen eating breakfast and Greg came in and he said “hi guys” to us but I just couldn’t say anything, then he said “Emma, I’m sorry if I hurt your feelings last night, that wasn’t my intention.” I kind of nodded and said okay, but I don’t think I can forgive him. I put so much energy into being nice and considerate of others, especially in a share house where people are always going to do your head in with something, and so when people turn around and just be horrible to me when I’ve tried so hard with them, I find it really hard to forgive and forget. Especially when I feel like it’s as unjust as I thought that was. What do you think? What would you do or say or feel if you were in my situation?

The good is that I had another lovely weekend this weekend. On Saturday, I baked shortbread for Adam (and didn’t eat hardly any of it!) and then we went out for dinner. On Sunday, we went into town and Adam bought me ‘Jamies Italy,’ a cookbook by Jamie Oliver for my birthday. Then we made the pizzas from it (which were delicious!) and went for a walk. We shared our pizzas with one of our housemates, Alex (the guy who I made a birthday cake for last weekend) and when I told him it was my birthday on Friday he said that he would take Adam and mines photograph for free, as he is a professional photographer, which I thought was really lovely. I guess it just goes to prove the saying about karma, and “what goes around, comes around” which is a nice thought, hopefully that means that Greg will get his karma back too!

A little update!

I had the most lovely day yesterday!

Adam and I had the day off together, and in the morning we gave our housemate his birthday cake (which he seemed really pleased with! ^_^ ) and then we went to one of the Auckland suburbs for the day. It was such a nice day, it's been raining loads recently but the sun was out yesterday. The place we went to turned out to be really nice, kind of like a quaint little old fashioned village type of thing. There was some second hand bookshops, and Adam bought me 'Watermelon' and 'Rachels Holiday' by Marian Keyes (my favourite author!). I also found a knitting shop! Which had loads of really nice wool and patterns, and they do knitting lessons! So I think I will give the woman who runs them a ring today to find out more. They had a really nice (but expensive!) chocolate shop too, and we treated ourselves to a couple of chocolates. Then, we went to an Irish pub for a proper Sunday dinner, complete with Yorkshire puddings!

All in all, it was a lovely day! I hope you all had nice weekends too =)

A new job!

I was walking home down the main street in Auckland with Adam last night and we bumped into an Irish guy we used to live with in Sydney. How random! We ended up going out for dinner and a few drinks, and it was so much fun. Best night I've had in ages, really! It was so lovely. And nice to catch up, and swap stories with!

I got one of the jobs I applied for last week! Yay! I'm so happy to be finally out of that absolutely awful job I had before. This new one is in the city in a nice, clean building with friendly people and employers who actually want to train you and help you and realise that the best way to get good productivity out of employees is to actually help them rather than just ingore them and hope the problem goes away!

Well, that's how it seems anyway! Today is my first day, and I'm on my lunchbreak right now (which is perfect, as I can go into the city on my lunchbreak, hurrah!).

The agency I was working for before got really funny when I told them I was leaving, because I only gave them three days notice instead of five. At least I gave them some notice, most of the people who left there would just get up and walk out! They ended up just telling me not to come back. Fine by me, I had a nice long weekend instead!

But yeah, this job seems really nice and I can't wait to get started properly. You will all more than likely find out if it does go well anyway, as this will be the first place I whinge if it doesn't! Hehe ^_^

Hong Kong

Right now I'm in Hong Kong airport and in less than 24 hours, I'll be home. I'm still having quite mixed feelings about that, but I guess I don't really have a choice on the matter now!

I've had such a good time in Hong Kong; been to Disneyland, and sightseeing and doing tons of shopping! It will be nice just to get home for a rest! I've been on my feet for at least ten hours a day in the four days that I've been here; that coupled with the intense heat has really taken it out of me! But I've had such a good time. Bought way too much stuff in Disneyland! Adam and I still have quite a lot of our savings left, so he has been treating me loads since we've been here. Got some good pressies for my family too!