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My parents had to go to my cousin's wedding today - apparently it was very nice - I've seen the pictures that Dad took and the bride looked lovely. There are also some neat shots of the groom, my brother and the other groomsman mucking around on the jetty and a trailer and the like.

Accordingly, I had the house to myself so spent much of the day catching up on livejournal(new bb_shousetsu and the new chapter of Embers (the Avatar: The Last Airbender fic I am eagerly following), before making dinner and flicking between an episode of Dr Who I've seen before (and didn't particularly care for), Bend It Like Beckham and Time Team. Didn't do much embroidery and realised that the last of the little I did needs to be unpicked.

I have managed to swim yesterday and today. Yesterday was really hot and I was trying to find the cool spots in the water (the rest of it felt like the salt hot water pool, only it can't have been that warm), and today I was finding the warm spots in the water. Didn't stay in particularly long, either. Didn't have to dodge the kite-surfers today, either.

Tomorrow, we head off to Raglan. We are to be at the bus stop at 7.45am and will get into Hamilton shortly after 11.00am. My sister and her husband have kindly volunteered to give us a ride out to Raglan - Mum says they're finally getting over their self-centered perspective of the world.

I'm still not entirely sure what to talk about with my sister now - we have such different lives and interests, but we're working on finding things in commmon. I think that I should give her a hardcopy of The Curse of Chalion (if I haven't already - must check - I know she has it in e-book) so we can talk about it. I think she'd enjoy it - and it's better than Eddings, whom she is currently rediscovering.

...I think I'm starting to reach the point where I feel that yes, I'm on holiday. And I don't have to be doing anything.

Finally signed up and paid for Aussiecon4 next year. W00t.

Also: two more days left of work. It's nearly time for summer holidays.

For dinner tonight:

barbequed prawns marinaded in a thai coriander and lime dressing
barbequed ham, pineapple, mushroom, capsicum and avocado kebabs
refriend kumra and corn mush
green salad

It was excellent, especially the prawns and avocado.

It has been a very hot day today. Fortunately, there was a bit of a breeze, so we opened all the deck doors and the ranch slider and most of the windows and made the lounge door stay open as to create a bit of a crossbreeze, which has been lovely. The windchimes occasionally sound, but not enough to be annoying.

The cats quite enjoy coming into my room, jumping out the window, going round and doing it all again. Or jumping in the window occasionally, in Tobias' case.

There is a bus that goes between Karori and Queensgate via J'ville every day until around 2.00pm or so - a shopping bus. I think there is a fairly early bus stop, otherwise it's around the entrance to Otari Wilton bush, and then it's a relatively easy walk up Warwick St and home. Not so good for going to visit clockworkflight and darth_sappho, but excellent for overnight. Wish it ran later, but it's pretty good. Certainly faster than going into town and catching another bus home again. Cheaper, too, and it's a Go!Wellington bus, so takes snapper cards.

Have stitched a fair amount on Spring over the weekend; I'm just starting the second sweep of her dress. Making sure I get the flowers right is probably the trickiest thing at the moment, especially as one of the colours is a bead and that's just annoying. It's coming out much whiter on the blue fabric than I expected, but maybe that will change as I stitch more.

Sometimes, when we remember, we watch Choose 40 on C4. Tonight's show was the Worse Music Videos ever. I have to admit, I'm rather fond of some of the videos and like quite a few of the songs that we saw. Not that we watched all of them, of course. I can understand why Come on, Eileen was in it. I can understand why Total Ecilpse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler was on it. I'm just totally bemused by that last video. What's up with the alien schoolboy lover with the glowing eyes and the angel wings?

After church today, C and I went to the Thorndon Fair and had a thorough wander. They were packing up by the time we left. But we bought things! C got some presents and a pretty bracelet. I got part of maudlinrose's Christmas present, a patty cake tin (50c!), and an incomplete dinner set. The cups were out in a box marked under $2 each and I thought they were pretty, so asked if they had saucers. The lady said that not only did she have saucers, but she also had three dinner plates, four lunch plates as well, and would I like them all for $10.00? I certainly would and did and am quite pleased with the purchase. It was heavy to carry around though!

We have a real live (dying) Christmas tree up in the lounge now! C and her mother got one for us when they were out yesterday, and we've put lights and tinsel and gold balls and glitter coloured balls and various other decorations (including my favourite ball of fluff with gold thread inside a gold spiral) and it looks very shiny and pretty and smells really good. I'm very pleased; it was one of the things that say Christmas to me.

We are working on clearing the gorse away. All the gorse that was sorted (apart from the stuff which still needs the axe) is now under the house in the correct firewood pile. The stuff that was sorted and discarded is mostly in a canvas container we purchased for it. The unsorted pile now needs to decrease, which will only happen with our hard labour.

I managed to avoid getting sunburned this weekend, or at least, not much. I am very pleased about this. Now, if only I can manage to keep it up for the summer - assuming we have a summer. I should not be taking my flannel sheets off my bed in December!

Must find a Bonnie Tyler cd to stick on my computer, preferably with that song on it.