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This weekend me and Aric went to Cambridge - he had to go there for work so I joined him on a little adventure. It's not as nice as the 'real' Cambridge but it's quaint - oddly everything shuts at 3pm on a Saturday.  He was in charge of accommodation booking and did a fabulous job - a little campervan on a lifestyle block.  I was in charge of navigation and didn't do such a fabulous job, taking us halfway to Hamilton for dinner before realising we were going totally the wrong way and had nearly run out of fuel. Oops.  On Sundays they have an amazing market so whilst he was doing work duties I went shopping, before watching the Armistice day ceremony.  I've never watched one of these before and it was emotional - something I was surprised by but shouldn't have been I guess. We headed home via the Blue Springs, which are the clearest springs I've ever seen in my life. Monday me and some of the girls had a long overdue catch up and went to Karekare for a

Micro blogging

Well, I was going to write a proper blog this evening as it was my first evening free in a while, but my laptop decided to do a bumper update of probably unnecessary windows updates for the last hour and it's only on 47% so I doubt I'll  get to do a proper one.  However, Dan wrote a post inspired by my last mini post which in return inspired me again - inspireception if you will  - why don't i just do little mini micro blogs every so often rather than huge daunting bumper updates? I have 3 months to catch up on - let's be honest that's never going to happen, so instead I'll recap some of the more exciting events that occurred during that time, and then perhaps continue with little, more regular updates (probably without photos- I was so anal about posts needing perfectly edited pictures but actually it takes up so much time and instead if you want pics you can look at my Instagram instead).  I'm typing this out on the blogger app on my phone which is a bit

MIA

Sorry sorry sorry. I haven't written in ages. I am so busy. My time is spent at the moment either at work, with friends, with a man friend, or in the gym or swimming. I have zero time and feel like I am stretching myself very thin and when I do get 'me time' I am too tired to do anything. But I am still alive and I will try and update soon.

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I haven't written in AGES.  I have been pretty down in the dumps and haven't felt like writing.  A variety of things, starting with the stress of trying to find a job and not knowing if I could stay in the country or not, followed by moving out and cat sitting on my own for 6 weeks, followed by being led on and rejected for the 2nd time by Morrison followed by some family stuff at home making me feel a bit anxious, followed by moving back into my house and not feeling part of the flat anymore, followed by my new job being utterly ridiculous put me in a pretty shitty semi-constant mood, and it was a vicious cycle as I come home from work grumpy and exhausted and not want to join in flat festivities and hide in my room, which meant I only isolated myself further and made me feel lonelier than I already did. And with my impending birthday - the big THREE OH, being in a state of flux, realising that I was in the same place I was in when I left London 2 years ago - flatting, in a jo

Got a job, walked on a volcano, kayaked to an island, camped on a mountain

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So yeah - I got some news. I am gainfully employed! In a little something that seems like Serendipity, I have got a job with my old company in London, based in Auckland - in fact let's be a bit more specific, based in the same office as the job I had just before.  Weird. I never really wanted to go back to my old company but out of desperation and curiosity I checked their job board and as you'd have it, they had an Office Manager role going - however it'd been advertised over 6 weeks ago so I assumed they'd have filled the position but I applied anyway.  I was already in conversations with my UK boss about job hunting and he asked about checking the job boards, so I told him I'd applied for the role at our company.  He pulled some strings, wrote me an amazing testimonial and the next day I had an interview!  When they called me to say where the interview would be, I laughed out loud as it turns out they have just moved to the building I have spent the last 10 m