Okaleee dokalleeee here it is people… chucked my iPhone iPod on shuffle and this is what she has come up with!
This post is proving to be harder than I thought! I’ve just gone through all my kazillions of photos and can’t find any recent photos of all of us Ross’s together…
There’s a few childhood ones but we never really got the camera out much after that haha… so it’s a few old ones I’m afraid!
Um…. this post is gonna be short & sweet because nobody has hurt me recently.
In fact, nobody has in a very, very long time because I’ve been hurt in the past and have learnt to protect myself against it.
See – short and sweet! haha
x
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I had to delve into the depths of my photos to find this one but here’s a photo from a few years ago… It’s of me, my best friend Amelia, another friend Rachel and my boyfriend at the time – Nick.
They all planned a surprise trip away for me for my birthday! We were well-toasted by the time this photo was taken haha.
Comments : 0Ok so here’s how my list of various songs stacks up at this present day and time… I have such a wide range of music on my iTunes (some embarrassing haha) so this was a bit of a tough one to single certain songs out! I always have my tunes cranked up in my car and would go insane if I didn’t have music in my life 
When I’m Happy…
When I’m Sad…
When I’m Bored…
When I’m Hyped…
When I’m Mad…
Hmmmm how to answer this one? Thinking… thinking… thinking. Aha… I’ve got it!
I’m really proud of the way people of my hometown Christchurch, New Zealand have banded together during this recent earthquake crisis. I’ve read numerous reports of shops offering some of their stock at hugely discounted rates or even free of charge and neighbourhoods helping each other out. When something as random as this happens it really brings out the best in people I think.
Even online all us Kiwi’s have been supporting each other… whether we’re in NZ or abroad. People who’ve never even met but all know what each other’s going through which I think is amazing! Twitter and Facebook are great ways to communicate aren’t they?
Comments : 0Hmmmmm short term goals… well I guess my biggest one for September is to settle into my new job! This is gonna be an interesting one since my co-worker (who knows everything about the job) is away from this Friday for 2 weeks!! I’ll have heaps of support from the rest of the shipping team (hopefully!) so I’m sure it’ll be fine… but the warehouse guys have a habit of springing wee packaging boxes on us with MASSIVE spiders inside so if they pick the wrong moment they may just get a Kiwi girl’s jandal in the nether-regions haha.
But yeah that’s my main goal for September 2010… another one is to get a tattoo of a swallow on my right foot and this will *fingers crossed* happen this Saturday! It’s hit a couple of glitches along the way with the timing not being right on the first trip to the tattoo place last Saturday when my cousin got his tattoo, and this past Tuesday the tattooist had to go with his girlfriend to identify a body! BUT it’s all set for this coming Saturday yippppeeee! Why a swallow? well they signify finding your way home and loyalty and pride towards family and friends. Mum and Dad have swallows nesting back home in NZ and they would entertain me for hours swooping in and out of the rafters so when I had the idea it just felt right.
I also want to get out and take more photos because I haven’t been out and about in so long that my camera’s probably grown legs and ventured out to find someone who appreciates it!
Ok I’m extending this post to include more than this months goals… ohhhh such a rebel!
From now until Xmas? I want to make a trip to Amsterdam happen with a fellow Kiwi mate who’s living down in London… and I want to explore more of Scotland before the weather turns to shite! I’m thinking a whisky tour if anybody’s keen to join me haha
Further afield from Xmas? Well that kinda depends on if my job works out and I’m made permanent – which should happen around Xmas. I would love to stay in the job long term so New Zealand might just have to miss me for god knows how much longer!
Til tomorrow chickadee’s and chickadudes xx
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Ok so maybe I’m a day behind on this 30 day blog post thing but yesterday was a super full-on day & I was in bed asleep for 8pm! Seriously… but anyways I’m just gonna do two posts tonight.
I only had to look in one place to find this photo… & then it was just a case of picking which one. Before I left New Zealand in Feb 2009 I scanned some photos to my laptop that have special meaning to me & I’ve since put them on my cellphone too!
I have them filed away in a folder called ‘Treasured Photos’ & this one I’ve chosen just makes me smile every time I see it… I adore it so much so that I would love to get a portrait tattoo of it sometime in the future!
It’s of my parents… back in the day!
Comments : 2Ok this one is a no-brainer… when I was younger I was addicted to Captain Planet and the Planeteers!
I think I liked him cos of his whole fight against pollution and stuff… plus they had a catchy theme song haha.
Here’s an excerpt explaining the plot cos I’m too tired (and lazy) to put it into my own words haha…
Gaia, the spirit of the Earth, is awakened from a long sleep by human activity threatening ecosystems, taking place across the globe. Realizing that the damage is extensive, Gaia sends five magic rings, each with the power to control an element of nature and one controlling an extra element, heart, to five chosen youths across the globe: Kwame from Africa, Wheeler from North America, Linka from Soviet Union (changed to Russian Federation after the Soviet Union’s collapse), Gi from Asia and Ma-Ti from South America.
These five are dubbed the Planeteers and given the task of defending the Earth in the case of the greatest of disasters and making effort to keep others from happening. Gaia uses her “Planet Vision” to discover where the most devastating destruction is occurring and sends the Planeteers to help solve the problem.
In situations that the Planeteers cannot resolve alone, they can combine their powers to summon Captain Planet, a magical entity who possesses all of their powers magnified, symbolizing the premise that the combined efforts of a team are stronger than its individual parts. In a manner similar to the early Superman, Planet has seemingly godlike superhuman powers, and seems to gain more proportionate to whatever the situation requires. Nevertheless, he is weakened by pollutants which sap his strength, from smog to nuclear radiation, in much the same manner that Superman is weakened by Kryptonite.
Click on the picture below to see a video of the intro & outro…
Well considering it’s past midnight now I thought I may as well do tomorrows blog post as well as todays… as even though it’s technically Sunday now I’m still rolling through Saturday night haha. I love weekends!
Right ok so today’s topic is “A picture of somewhere I’ve been to…” and I got to thinking where the heck I’ve been to… and since there’s no time frame limit on this thing I came up with this – in the interests of tourism I’m gonna do New Zealand! I’ve been to places in Europe and obviously the UK but I figured that since a lot of people who are (hopefully) gonna be reading this are from outside of NZ I figured WTFN! (Why The Frig Not) haha.
Ok… so I’ve totally cheated and put up more than one photo but NZ is awesome and needs more than one photo! In particular I’ve focused on the South Island of NZ and these are all my own photos taken.
Pic #1 is from Queenstown atop the mountain looking down the gondola and Lake Wakatipu
Pic #2 is from the Puzzling World at Lake Wanaka
Pic #3 is of Lake Wanaka itself. I lived here from birth to about age 5-6 yrs old and then almost every school holidays after that we would drive down from Christchurch to stay for a couple of weeks. (The drive normally takes about 6 hours but my Dad being the speed-freak that he is we normally did it in something like 5 hours haha)
P.S… if anybody who reads this wants to know more about New Zealand please email me at amandajaneross@gmail.com
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