Going back to work after a long weekend is almost enough to break your spirit. However, since next weekend is also a long weekend I may survive. Also the weather ain't that great outside after a stunning Anniversary weekend in the City of Sails. Went to a friends wedding - it was lovely. They had a perfect day for it, although the photographer looked like he was going to pass out from heat exhaustion. Perhaps if he had run his shirt under the cold tap he wouldn't have looked so darn sweaty and it would have also cooled him down... Also, if I had know what the catholics think marriage means before I got married, I might have thought more carefully before I acted so foolishly and got married.

After that, on Sunday we hung out at the beach and then went and drank cocktails, sake and beer (a little too much in fact as we had planned to go diving on sunday, but I inconveniently forgot :S) and ate yummy japanese food at Kura. I was a little disturbed as one of our dinner companions was incessantly licking her lips over dinner, she had either had too much of something (I don't know what, but if that's all it did, and that was the only outward manifestation, I'm glad I didn't have any!) or she was giving me the glad eye.

today I came across Dooce I need to read more blogs. I am not nearly funny or interesting enough for this sort of thing!

I came across this article in the paper this morning. It is such a sweet story I couldn't resist...

Finding Kotiro

I'm bored at work today, not because I don't have plenty to do mind... Instead I am sitting here daydreaming about where I would like to go when we do our big trip. I'm thinking Australia, do do some diving with the dolphins etc, Thailand, Malaysia (I have dreamed about sipadan island since seeing aquanerds' photos. After that, I'm thinking of heading up through Dubai to Cairo and on to Dahab for some more diving in the red sea. I have heard amazing things about it.

Soccer tonight has been cancelled because of the rain. I'm not sad about it. I'm feeling too lethargic to go running around!

Despite the fact that no-one has sent me this to do via email (it's incredible), I came across it on someone else's blog and decided I wanted a piece of the action...

Four jobs you've had in your life:
1. Working behind the bar in a student pub - one of the regulars was pissed one day at closing time and decided to take a leak all over the bar in front of me. nice. I quit soon after.
2. Working at a stockbrokers - I had the best boss ever, unfortunately he was unable to do anything for himself at the time and I couldn't take it any more
3. Another stockbrokers for the same best boss ever, he still hadn't learned so I left again
4. Medical writer - it's cruisy and they have a pool, volleyball court and various other fun things

Four movies you could watch over and over:
1. Ace Ventura - Pet Detective
2. Zoolander - I need to buy this on DVD
3. Harry Potter (any of them) - I know it's sad, but I'm addicted
4. Basically any other movie as I can never remember what I've seen and it's all new until at least half way through the movie!

Four places you've lived:
1. New Zealand (Howick - don't hold it against me)
2. England (Dorset)
3. Switzerland (Lausanne - I went there on exchange)
4. New Zealand (Ponsonby - more like it)

Four TV shows you love to watch:
1. Sex and the City
2. Friends
3. Little Britain
4. Black Books
I know they're all comedies but I only had 4 spaces! I also like Lost and some other cool stuff...

Four places you've been on vacation:
1. Rarotonga
2. Italy
3. France
4. Hawaii

Four blogs you visit daily:
I'm new to blogging, but I have come across these and they make me smile
1. http://ktbonk.blogspot.com/
2. http://estacey.blogspot.com/

This one made me cry - it was so sad, and I probably won't visit again as it was the last post. However Pal was a beautiful critter and I wish I had known photos of him when he was here...
3. http://askpal.blogspot.com/

4. I have just met http://pinkisthenewblog.com/

Four of your favourite foods:
1. Mexican food - pretty much anything
2. Larb (technically I'm a pescetarian, but I just can't get enough larb)
3. Anything else Thai, I love thai food
4. Anything else food, I love food

Four places you'd rather be:
1. Diving
2. Anywhere that it's sunny and I might get to sunbathe and swim constantly
3. Anywhere you can ski
4. London - coz you can get to places like the above quickly and cheaply from there...

Four CDs you can't live without:
I know I have weird taste, but I can't help it - I don't really listen to CD's anyhow now I have a shuffle...
1. Fleetwood Mac (the new one with the best songs on it)
2. Anything by Jay-Z
3. anything that I can run to
4. power ballads - hahahahahaha

Four vehicles you've owned:
1. Honda civic - I crashed it about a week after I got it and it was written off... :(
2. Toyota celica. I still have it
3. Simon has a subaru legacy, but seeing as I now get half I can list it, right?!
4. ?

That's all I got.

Now I am going to the gym - gotta get back into the size 6 everything I seem to have lost touch with since Christmas...

I was going to write about my weekend today, but everything paled in comparison when I read the saddest thing I have heard this year. I hadn't come across Pal until I read that he had passed away. It makes me so sad, so I am dedicating this post to pal. Goodbye Pal

Run and play with the other critters Pal.

OK, so now I start

Maybe I should set myself a reminder to actually write something on my blog sometimes. Anyways, I'm going to make it a retrospective new years resolution to keep a blog....

So far this year I have managed to get married and go diving. Not much but it has been fun. Now I'm back to work...