WRITTEN ON Thursday, December 31st, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN life
The year is just about to finish here in Portugal while, in New Zealand, my home on the other side of the world, people are already waking up to their first day in the new decade. I’ve been having an absolutely fantastic time catching up with friends and family, despite the disgusting weather. I guess [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, November 15th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, life
Shameful! Yes, that’s right. I’m telling myself off. It’s shameful that I haven’t even stopped by to clean the spiderwebs of this place, or popped in to say hi since the end of October.
But I have excuses. Like a gazillion of them. In no particular order:
Nanowrimo started on the 1st of November and, like I [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, October 11th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN food, kiwiland, life
Fine, I admit it, I have nothing interesting to say. But I wanted to post an image of the last cupcake of the batch that we cooked on Saturday because it is cute and fun and by being cute and fun it sums up the weekend quite nicely. It was all good lazy fun and [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, September 24th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN life, writing
Writing is easy. You only need to stare at a blank piece of paper until your forehead bleeds.
– Douglas Adams
It must have been something I ate. Or maybe I didn’t get enough sleep the previous night. Come to think about it, the yoghurt didn’t taste exactly right. The fact is that, yesterday, I seem to [...]
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WRITTEN ON Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN life
one / i’m getting back into crafts. i used to make stuff every day until the point when it became too much to be able to fit in with all the other stuff happening in my life so i stopped for a while. i’ve got all these projects going in my head and so it’s [...]
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WRITTEN ON Thursday, August 13th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN girl stuff, life
One of the 34956th newsletters in my inbox mentions a fitness bootcamp in auckland, starting at 6am of god knows when. the link asks me if i want to attend and i’m hovering the mouse coursor over the RSVP button. Yeah, who am i kidding?
on a sort of related not, i read an interesting article [...]
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WRITTEN ON Monday, July 27th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, life
(because there’s hardly any time for more)
- i really, really want to visit the white island. as in, asap.
- i should really exercise more and stop using the weather as an excuse. but not today, ok? maybe tomorrow.
- i have a neverending list of articles that i want to write. the problem is that it’s [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, June 28th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN bucklame, kiwiland, life
i’m not trying to come out as a relationships expert (trust me - i’m not!) but i was thinking about my life here in auckland and had this metaphor in my head. it might be just me and my particular experience as an expat (i hate this word but i think i hate the word [...]
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WRITTEN ON Friday, June 26th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN kiwiland, life
i’m still a bit shocked about the king of pop’s totally unexpected death. he lived a really tormented life, despite all the fame and money, so i guess we can always assume that he’s in a better place now (it’s in moments like this that religion comes in handy, right?).
it’s still insanely cold in kiwiland [...]
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WRITTEN ON Sunday, May 17th, 2009 BY kiwivera AND STORED IN life
c. calls it the best business idea ever (and, don’t tell him i said this, but he’s right). by now, i’m sure most people have heard of it but that’s no reason not to mention it since i really believe kiva is one of the best things that have happened to the world lately.
the idea [...]
