Well so much for posting in a weeks time..... but oh well. I could say that I was so busy that I didn't have time to right all the exciting things I got up to but that would be a lie.
Well firstly my brother came up for a couple of days last week (or was it the week before...) which was fun. While he was here I had a week moment and brought myself a kinect for the xbox 360 aswell as dance central. Great piece of technology really and dance central is loads of fun as well as being a decent work out which is a plus since in general I hate exercise in all its forms.
Been helping out a few mornings a week at mums work which has been ok. Nothing overly horrible to do mainly alot of data entry which as far as jobs I've done in the past is defiantly one of the more pleasant. Pain about the whole not getting paid thing but it defiantly makes the week go faster and you appreciate the days you get to sleep in alot more. Also mum seems less stressed out about work which is nice.
Oh also went and saw the new Narnia movie which was quite good (the dawn treader or something like that). Very pretty looking and not a terrible story if a bit on the predictable side. So nice to go to the movies again since I didn't really go this year before I moved back to Napier and now I've been to 6!
Well apart from that only really been out to dinner once, done a bit of christmas shopping, the normal things like playing games (back in to maplestory!) and walking the dog, oh and saw of 2 of the 3 none family members who live with us for a few weeks over Christmas so its nice a quite here which is excellent. The last one leaves in a few days.
Well next week is Christmas and after that where of to Mahia (beach township) for a weekish which should be.... nice... I guess.... we will see.
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Friday, November 26, 2010
and suddenly an update!
Well its been a good chunk of the year since my last update (over 9 months I believe) and since I was feeling bored but not particularly tired at 12:50am I thought I would write something to amuse myself for a few minutes before I head of to bed.
Well quite alot has happened in that time including being the sickest I've probably ever been (had pneumonia) which was kind of exciting in an "omg that's not good" sort of way. Oh also I stopped going to classes again so and thanks to the law change I no longer qualify for student loans until I pass 3 or so papers. On a positive note the whole health implosion and a flatmate I relied on quite heavily moving out made me come to the conclusion I really am not currently motivated enough to do anything productive with my life including basics such as basic management of cystic fibrosis so I decided to move back to my parents home in Napier.
So that came to be at the end of October which while definitely the right decision did seem like it would end my hope of paying off my credit card which I had gotten down from owing 3k to owing 1k. So after paying somewhere between 1500-2000 for a moving company and plan tickets and canceling sky t.v. in advance which I had ordered midyear and had a one year contract on I was pretty much maxed out again. Thankfully on a recent trip to Nelson to stay with my grandparents they kindly offered to give me an advance on the .... ah.... 'inheritance' (for the lack of a better word) they have set up for their grandchildren to get around their 23rd birthday , so sometime next year, which means I've finally paid it off. The holiday was great as a whole as well.
I must say that being back in Napier is great. The weathers usually warm enough that I don't need any form of heating, I've got my own space as I've taken over the downstairs lounge which means I can generally ignore the none family members pretty easily and I don't have to fight over the t.v. Also I quite possibly have the best parents in the world so its great being back home and having someone to talk to and go for walks with not to mention someone to drive me around (though I'm learning to drive again which after the first couple of goes hasn't been to horrible). Also I love being near my cat again as I've missed having one around the house and the dogs good motivation to get off my ass.
Well that's all for tonight, hopefully I'll do another update next week and I'll try to get back into the habit of doing one every week as it was amusing to go back and read the ones from the start of the year, I'm now beginning to understand why people write diary's.
Well quite alot has happened in that time including being the sickest I've probably ever been (had pneumonia) which was kind of exciting in an "omg that's not good" sort of way. Oh also I stopped going to classes again so and thanks to the law change I no longer qualify for student loans until I pass 3 or so papers. On a positive note the whole health implosion and a flatmate I relied on quite heavily moving out made me come to the conclusion I really am not currently motivated enough to do anything productive with my life including basics such as basic management of cystic fibrosis so I decided to move back to my parents home in Napier.
So that came to be at the end of October which while definitely the right decision did seem like it would end my hope of paying off my credit card which I had gotten down from owing 3k to owing 1k. So after paying somewhere between 1500-2000 for a moving company and plan tickets and canceling sky t.v. in advance which I had ordered midyear and had a one year contract on I was pretty much maxed out again. Thankfully on a recent trip to Nelson to stay with my grandparents they kindly offered to give me an advance on the .... ah.... 'inheritance' (for the lack of a better word) they have set up for their grandchildren to get around their 23rd birthday , so sometime next year, which means I've finally paid it off. The holiday was great as a whole as well.
I must say that being back in Napier is great. The weathers usually warm enough that I don't need any form of heating, I've got my own space as I've taken over the downstairs lounge which means I can generally ignore the none family members pretty easily and I don't have to fight over the t.v. Also I quite possibly have the best parents in the world so its great being back home and having someone to talk to and go for walks with not to mention someone to drive me around (though I'm learning to drive again which after the first couple of goes hasn't been to horrible). Also I love being near my cat again as I've missed having one around the house and the dogs good motivation to get off my ass.
Well that's all for tonight, hopefully I'll do another update next week and I'll try to get back into the habit of doing one every week as it was amusing to go back and read the ones from the start of the year, I'm now beginning to understand why people write diary's.
Sunday, February 14, 2010
I feel so alone!
Well its been about two weeks since my last post so I thought I should do one today since a few things have happened in the last few days. Nothing of note happened in the week before this one which is why I didn't make a post.
Anyway the first thing of note is not only did the flatmate that I knew was moving out finally move out but also one of the others got offered a room near his friends so he too moved out which means where back to looking for two flatmates and I would assume by now that most students coming to Dunedin for university would have flats by now which means that it will most likely take a while for the rooms to get filled.
On another negative note I decided to walk to the supermarket to pick up a few things after church today (which I've been to the last 3 weeks... I'm such a good boy) and the walk there was fine just a bit of coughing but nothing drastic. However on my way back I got struck with Incredible weakness.... it was weird I didn't feel particularly tired or even overly winded but after walking for about 30 seconds I would just run out of energy and need to sit down for a while. So with these all but constant breaks it ended up taking me till about 1.30pm to get home so a conservative estimate would be that it took me and hour and a half to walk from church to the supermarket and home.... a walk that should of at most taken 40 minutes which would include around 10 spent buying stuff.
To end on a positive note the power bill came a few days ago and it was -$8 which is nice as it means I can use some of the money I put away each week for bills to buy the few things we need around the house like vacuum cleaner bags and either buy something fun for myself or pay some extra of my credit card. Also at the same time there was a $200 credit for a refund for the deposit we paid but I assume Dad paid that so I will offer to give him the $200 back.
Well that's all for this addition of "random things that happened to me that no one outside my family and perhaps doctors will care about."
Bye
Anyway the first thing of note is not only did the flatmate that I knew was moving out finally move out but also one of the others got offered a room near his friends so he too moved out which means where back to looking for two flatmates and I would assume by now that most students coming to Dunedin for university would have flats by now which means that it will most likely take a while for the rooms to get filled.
On another negative note I decided to walk to the supermarket to pick up a few things after church today (which I've been to the last 3 weeks... I'm such a good boy) and the walk there was fine just a bit of coughing but nothing drastic. However on my way back I got struck with Incredible weakness.... it was weird I didn't feel particularly tired or even overly winded but after walking for about 30 seconds I would just run out of energy and need to sit down for a while. So with these all but constant breaks it ended up taking me till about 1.30pm to get home so a conservative estimate would be that it took me and hour and a half to walk from church to the supermarket and home.... a walk that should of at most taken 40 minutes which would include around 10 spent buying stuff.
To end on a positive note the power bill came a few days ago and it was -$8 which is nice as it means I can use some of the money I put away each week for bills to buy the few things we need around the house like vacuum cleaner bags and either buy something fun for myself or pay some extra of my credit card. Also at the same time there was a $200 credit for a refund for the deposit we paid but I assume Dad paid that so I will offer to give him the $200 back.
Well that's all for this addition of "random things that happened to me that no one outside my family and perhaps doctors will care about."
Bye
Saturday, January 30, 2010
sucker for a deal and just plan stupid
Well this week was about as uneventful as they come. Pretty much just done the usual but thankfully the new season of T.V. is underway so atleast there was something to watch.
Not many people came to look at the flat this week..... about two I believe. Also the flat has started to on the odd occasion cook for each other which is good as it meant at least a couple of times I ate a decent meal rather then just sandwich burgers.
Anyway this week I made a slight mistake that ended up costing me at least $50. I went to pay the power bill over internet banking and accidentally clicked on the wrong pay anyone without realising it until after the payment had gone through. So I rang the bank and they said they could try and reverse it but that it would cost $50 and I should try and just contact the person if I new them. So I rang the company and left a message but since they didn't reply by 2.30pm (I was told to do it before 3pm by the bank) I done it through the bank as I got paranoid and even losing the $50 I would get $140 back. The next day I got a reply saying to send my bank account and they would return the money (from the company I had sent it to). *Sigh* oh well at least I still had enough money to pay the power bill.
Anyway as mentioned in the title I did end up spending quite a bit of money this week. Not only did I buy $100 worth of groceries so that i only had to pay $5 delivery when I ran out of things I needed after $65 but i also 2 games of which one I hadn't wanted at all but it was only $20 down from $80 and at least ended up being alot better then I expected even if it was rather short. The other was of course of steam which often has great deals and I had been relatively interested in getting it in the past so I don't feel that bad about getting that one. And I do have a decent amount of money left over each week now days since I no longer bother to get takeaways as I'm to lazy to walk and get them.
Anyway that's everything for this week so I'll leave it there.
Bye
Not many people came to look at the flat this week..... about two I believe. Also the flat has started to on the odd occasion cook for each other which is good as it meant at least a couple of times I ate a decent meal rather then just sandwich burgers.
Anyway this week I made a slight mistake that ended up costing me at least $50. I went to pay the power bill over internet banking and accidentally clicked on the wrong pay anyone without realising it until after the payment had gone through. So I rang the bank and they said they could try and reverse it but that it would cost $50 and I should try and just contact the person if I new them. So I rang the company and left a message but since they didn't reply by 2.30pm (I was told to do it before 3pm by the bank) I done it through the bank as I got paranoid and even losing the $50 I would get $140 back. The next day I got a reply saying to send my bank account and they would return the money (from the company I had sent it to). *Sigh* oh well at least I still had enough money to pay the power bill.
Anyway as mentioned in the title I did end up spending quite a bit of money this week. Not only did I buy $100 worth of groceries so that i only had to pay $5 delivery when I ran out of things I needed after $65 but i also 2 games of which one I hadn't wanted at all but it was only $20 down from $80 and at least ended up being alot better then I expected even if it was rather short. The other was of course of steam which often has great deals and I had been relatively interested in getting it in the past so I don't feel that bad about getting that one. And I do have a decent amount of money left over each week now days since I no longer bother to get takeaways as I'm to lazy to walk and get them.
Anyway that's everything for this week so I'll leave it there.
Bye
Sunday, January 24, 2010
and then there where 3
Well managed to rent out the second room today. A very friendly German guy took it which meant another day of cleaning out someones stuff. Unfortunatly I didn't have any boxes to put most of the stuff in so it mainly got plastic bagged which won't be very convenient for when they collect it for the move to wellington but oh well. The pile of other peoples crap is now about half the height of my room with about 50% of my normally empty floor space covered.... I can't even watch t.v. from bed as half the screen is blocked from my line of vision.
The first set of this seasons new T.V. shows started which is incredibly pleasing.... looks like t.v. is finally going to get interesting again.
Apart from that not much happened beyond the normal sleep, eat, watch t.v. and vomit. Good times.... good times.
The first set of this seasons new T.V. shows started which is incredibly pleasing.... looks like t.v. is finally going to get interesting again.
Apart from that not much happened beyond the normal sleep, eat, watch t.v. and vomit. Good times.... good times.
Thursday, January 21, 2010
Called it
Well as I expected it was a more productive week.
Went to classes which is good even though I got slightly annoyed when I realised that the teacher just dragged everything from the previous lecture that she didn't have time to cover and put it in the next lecture so that I ended up printing double of a bunch of slides.
Went to the doctors as well which will please my family and my lung function was pretty good.... only down about 2%. So I'm not really sure why I was throwing up so much... maybe I was normal person sick for a change.... or maybe its just getting easier and easier to throw up. I vaguely remember hearing something like that but if its true that's really quite annoying. Feeling a bit better the this week and have thrown up less so hopefully I'm getting better.
A bit bored at the moment as I'm sick of the games that I brought while in Napier and haven't really found anything else to use my time for. I know I should study but cant bring myself to do that as its really not that interesting. I'm powering through the Wheel of Time series though and getting through a book at least every week which is probably better then playing games really but at this rate in a month I will of finished that as well.
Oh also the plumber came on Monday and now the showers 100 times better then it was which is excellent. I assume the second toilet is also fixed but I haven't checked that out yet.
Apart from that not much has been happening around here. Had a few people through the flat but not many and no one has wanted a second look or made any contact after the look through. On an amusing note I did show the 1st person ever through the flat that I would of said he couldn't move in. I can't place the reason why exactly but I got a weird vibe from him. Still that was on Monday and he hasn't rung so I think I wont have to which is pleasing.
Well that's it for this half of the week. Bye bye.
Went to classes which is good even though I got slightly annoyed when I realised that the teacher just dragged everything from the previous lecture that she didn't have time to cover and put it in the next lecture so that I ended up printing double of a bunch of slides.
Went to the doctors as well which will please my family and my lung function was pretty good.... only down about 2%. So I'm not really sure why I was throwing up so much... maybe I was normal person sick for a change.... or maybe its just getting easier and easier to throw up. I vaguely remember hearing something like that but if its true that's really quite annoying. Feeling a bit better the this week and have thrown up less so hopefully I'm getting better.
A bit bored at the moment as I'm sick of the games that I brought while in Napier and haven't really found anything else to use my time for. I know I should study but cant bring myself to do that as its really not that interesting. I'm powering through the Wheel of Time series though and getting through a book at least every week which is probably better then playing games really but at this rate in a month I will of finished that as well.
Oh also the plumber came on Monday and now the showers 100 times better then it was which is excellent. I assume the second toilet is also fixed but I haven't checked that out yet.
Apart from that not much has been happening around here. Had a few people through the flat but not many and no one has wanted a second look or made any contact after the look through. On an amusing note I did show the 1st person ever through the flat that I would of said he couldn't move in. I can't place the reason why exactly but I got a weird vibe from him. Still that was on Monday and he hasn't rung so I think I wont have to which is pleasing.
Well that's it for this half of the week. Bye bye.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
hurray I done something FINALLY
Howdy.
Well I finally got round to ringing up the places I needed to ring.... spurned on by the fact that the new flatmate was moving in and I hadn't mentioned the horrible water pressure and i wanted to be able to say it was being dealt to, but atleast it got it done. Also rang uni to find out what was up with the online enrollment and apparently I just have to email them the classes I want to add which makes it easier.
Anyway yesterday I cleared out one of the bedrooms for the new flatmate.... which I must say will not be happening ever again!.... well except for the other bedroom I need to do..... bummer. Anyway that was a nightmarish three and a half hours of bagging, boxing, lifting and vacuum cleaning. Unfortunately he came an hour early then i expected so I hadn't finished so he originally put his bed and the few things he brought on the first trip in the lounge. Managed to finish midway through his second round of dropping stuff off and he helped me move the futon into the basement which was nice of him. Thankfully he decided to keep the desk as I did not want to have to try and get that out of the room... probably out the window.... not to mention getting it from the back area to the garage would of been near on impossible.
Oh and yesterday I got groceries delivered from Woolworths and must say that it was very helpful and I will defiantly be using them the next time I'm sick as it was alot more pleasant then what would of no doubt of been a hellish trip to the supermarket, if I had walked, that would of most likely involved me throwing up at least once. More likely I would off just lived on the scraps I had left as I had been for the start of the week.
Today all I got up to was showing two people the available rooms and then stuffing around in my room. I ended up putting the futon mattress at the end of my bed since it would get ruined (more so) in the basement and have found its actually quite comfy for sitting on when watching T.V.
You can probably guess by now that I didn't make it to uni as I had hoped but will definitely be going next week and plan to at least read through the lecture slides tomorrow of what I missed.
Next week will be a more productive week..... I can feel it in my bones..... and I guess it would be hard to be less productive.
Ciao
Well I finally got round to ringing up the places I needed to ring.... spurned on by the fact that the new flatmate was moving in and I hadn't mentioned the horrible water pressure and i wanted to be able to say it was being dealt to, but atleast it got it done. Also rang uni to find out what was up with the online enrollment and apparently I just have to email them the classes I want to add which makes it easier.
Anyway yesterday I cleared out one of the bedrooms for the new flatmate.... which I must say will not be happening ever again!.... well except for the other bedroom I need to do..... bummer. Anyway that was a nightmarish three and a half hours of bagging, boxing, lifting and vacuum cleaning. Unfortunately he came an hour early then i expected so I hadn't finished so he originally put his bed and the few things he brought on the first trip in the lounge. Managed to finish midway through his second round of dropping stuff off and he helped me move the futon into the basement which was nice of him. Thankfully he decided to keep the desk as I did not want to have to try and get that out of the room... probably out the window.... not to mention getting it from the back area to the garage would of been near on impossible.
Oh and yesterday I got groceries delivered from Woolworths and must say that it was very helpful and I will defiantly be using them the next time I'm sick as it was alot more pleasant then what would of no doubt of been a hellish trip to the supermarket, if I had walked, that would of most likely involved me throwing up at least once. More likely I would off just lived on the scraps I had left as I had been for the start of the week.
Today all I got up to was showing two people the available rooms and then stuffing around in my room. I ended up putting the futon mattress at the end of my bed since it would get ruined (more so) in the basement and have found its actually quite comfy for sitting on when watching T.V.
You can probably guess by now that I didn't make it to uni as I had hoped but will definitely be going next week and plan to at least read through the lecture slides tomorrow of what I missed.
Next week will be a more productive week..... I can feel it in my bones..... and I guess it would be hard to be less productive.
Ciao
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