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The Shadow Proves the Sunshine

It’s pretty overwhelming when complete strangers take the time to send some love our way.  Thank you, everyone, for your kind words, I’ve really appreciated them. This is new territory for me so I’m not sure how to handle it.  I think there’s going to be a lot of unwanted change over the next few [...]

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Overdue

Ahh, the much needed update post.  One day I’ll make myself get into a routine of posting, although I wasn’t doing too bad until 3 weeks ago.  Don’t have much of an excuse except that there’s been a lot on my mind that I couldn’t really put into words.  But let’s recap, shall we? My [...]

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Appreciating the Weekend Already…

I’ve been in a weird head space this week.  I had my end of year review meeting with my manager today and the first thing she said to me was, “You look numb.” Funny, I feel numb.  I got some not-so-great news about work earlier this week and in my normal fashion, I completely shut [...]

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Taupo Trip

We arrived at our lakeside hotel Friday evening and were immediately impressed!  The room was HUGE and had so many perks we wondered how they got away with charging us so little!  The best part?  This massive spa bath: We made a quick trip to the grocery store to pick up the necessities (wine, chocolate, [...]

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Trippin’

We’re going to Taupo this weekend!  There will be walks, and hot pools, and massages, and you’ve heard all this before…Can you tell I’m excited?  And also, a little nervous?  This weekend will be the first time I’ve driven IN A YEAR!  I have no need to where I live and, more importantly, no car [...]

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Waimarama Camping Trip

Which will forever be known as the weekend I peed 247 times.  Seriously. I ended up sleeping on the picnic tables by the bathroom because I was so fed up with having to get out of my tent and walk all the way over there every. single. time. I woke up. I have no idea [...]

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Holiday at Mt Maunganui

Wouldn’t you know the first full day we were there…it rained. Hard and ALL DAY.  Probably karma for my bragging about how I’d be on a beach and NOT drowning in snow like people are back home.  We ended up spending most of that day indoors reading, until we decided it would be fun to [...]

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