Hyperbole

I have a slightly irritating subconscious habit of turning to Simone and saying “Hey” in a “So, how’s stuff” kind of way. I do it all the time, and most of the time I don’t even reaslise that I’m going to do it until I’ve already done it.

Apparently it can be mildly irritating at the best of times, but when I’m concerned about Simone (because she’s tired or unwell or whatever) I do it more often, and it quickly becomes really really annoying.

It really is a pretty stupid habit, but as I commented the other day in relation to hats, obsessions, compulsions and subconscious habbits usually are..

Cumulus in my bathroom

I as having a particularly hot and enjoyable shower this morning, and it was a little cold outside, and when I got out of the shower there were clouds in my bathroom.

It was super cool.

They were moving around on the air currents in the room. They had distinct densities and gaps. They almost had shapes (although that may have just been my brain wanting them to have shapes….).

Anyway, it was almost a bit of a pity when they finally dissapated, leaving only codensation on the walls…

Infestation

Our flat appears to be being somewhat invaded, however it isn’t something that at all warrants complaining about.

Whereas other people get ants, who get into everything and steal your sugar, or spiders who sneak around trying to give you a fright (like George, the huntsman spider who lived in my flat in second year for a while (he was kinda cute, friendly, and utterly harmless, so I let him be)), we are being invaded by geckos, which I just think is cool.

(I should probably mention at this point that we do have ants and spiders too, but the ants only ever show up in ones and twos in our bath tub, which is hardly exactly an invasions or even an annoyance, and we have a few daddy longlegs spiders in the top corners of the front room, which I personally feel is just being ecologically responsible, as they take care of any bugs that wander in doors, and otherwise leave us alone, meaning we generaly don’t have to worry about bug spray)

Anyhow, we don’t really get many geckos in NZ and so having them wandering around our flat (presumably just as a part of a larger exploration of the neighbourhood) seems pretty cool, and I think Simone derives quite some amusement at my excitement whenever I see a gecko scampering up a wall or across a door.

I suppose we’ve all got to have our eccentricities (although I had thought that I had already filled my quota before this all started…..)

T Minus 31

It’s only a month until our wedding. Yay. All the plans are coming along, and we’re looking forward to seeing all those of you who are coming.

Caving to Popular pressure

After numerous requests from our guests we have been out to Myer today and established a wedding register of specific things we would like. Most of it is kitchen related stuff (plates, glasswear, cookwear etc.) and there is a quite range of prices so there should be something to suit everyone. More details are on the wedding gift page.

Feline Paralysis

I woke up the other day to find that I could not move my legs. It took me a moment to realise that this had happened to me in the past, and it was nothing Is worry about, as it was just due to the cat who was sleeping on my feet.

Rejoining the 80’s

Well, in addition to finally getting a web page (which is much more 90’s than 80’s), I also got around to rejoining the 80’s last thursday, in so much as that I went and bought a VCR.

We already have a DVD player (which we seem to mostly use to watch and avidly re-watch the Harry Potter movies), but recent events involving conflicting viewing preferences (Simone wants to watch ER and I’ve become more attached to Lost) meant that we had to acquire some form of recording technology.

Now what would have been really cool to get was one of those new ~$1500 Hard disk recording/DVD writing gizmos (I don’t even know if they have an official name) so that I could record my shows 21st century style, but given the economic (the VCR cost all of $120 – isn’t it surprising, I remember when they were three or four hundred, and constituted a fairly major investment) and technical realities (our middle aged TV doesn’t have input ports for that kind of new fangled technical wizardry) I will have to put off that particular non-necessity until some later stage.