Bad night sleeping
Nov. 27th, 2004 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
xansPlaying online I had to show this site to my brother. I'd been telling him about it so it was nothing to just look it up on google and let him have a skizzy. Now it's show off all the faces at my photobucket account.
It's funny talking with family and discussing the differences between accents and general dialect differences. Like our tendencies to throw 'ie' and 'ies' on the end of something. Sunnies (sunglasses), barbie (BBQ), jammies (Pjs), walkies... and the like. There're others I'm sure. Those are just the ones I can think of on the spot.
This morning I was a little lazy and irritable. I had my reason. That being... mum snored so loud last night. It was horrible. I don't like sharing a room with her, but we didn't have much of a choice last night. Unpleasant to say the least. She also wasn't in poking or kicking distance so it's not like I could wake her up to make her turn onto her side. So I deliberately stayed in later, but Madame Inconsiderate came in before I was ready to get up. She opened the curtains (ach, bright light! It hurts precious!) and was going on about how everyone else was up and had breakfast. "Everyone else didn't have to share a room with you!"
So we were in Rotorua for a couple of days... stayed at this woman Margaret's. Margaret used to babysit Iain and me when we were little ones. So she was very happy to see us. She's still got her golden retriever Spencer (he's 15 now) as well as looking after his half-sister Tussy and this doberman Truffle for a pair of her friends. There was of course visits with the family in Rotorua, and the trip into town so Iain could get board shorts for when he and mum when swimming at the Polynesian pools (they're hot mineral water pools; I wasn't swimming because of having the painters in)... where I also got mum to buy me those kick ass red flares.
Then yesterday we came over to Napier and after lunch the first stop was to the cemetary that has half a dozen relatives and we paid our respects. Grandma Kuia's ashes were buried up there, too. After that we went to mum's cousin Kathleen's, which is where I am now. Last night they had their grandkids over as well which was why I was sharing a room with mum. Bloody hell I hate doing that. Today was a day to visit MORE relatives and hit up the beach for a little walk. The water's WAY too cold for swimming, plus the riptide being superstrong.
Anyway I better get off again. Tomorrow it's off to Masterton where mum was born and raised, then we'll be back in Napier again on Monday. Mum hasn't decided if she'll pass through Rotorua on the way back or just go straight to Hamilton after Taupo. I know these names don't mean anything much to you, but if you're ever bored you can hit it up in some atlas. It's all in the North Island so it's not like you have to look all over. Mum still wants us to go to Papamoa on Wednesday as a proper visit to the beach. Denise will come with us, as well has her dog Scout--who apparently acts like a demented bumblebee at the sight of all that sand.
I think about you guys a lot. Hope you don't really miss me too much. It's hard to say I really miss you, because I don't. I'm so into reaquainting myself with this place and then it'll be settling in. It will take a while to really hit and I will miss seeing you guys then. You're in my thoughts a lot; I keep thinking I should take my camera along to take pictures of totally kiwi stuff (like McCafe's) so I can post them online and you can go, "Wtf? You Kiwis are weird."
It won't be long now before I'll have timezones all figured out to try and arrange to chat on MSN. So far all I remember is that two or three in the afternoon here is six or seven in the evening the day before in WA. Confused yet? I try.
Fin.
It's funny talking with family and discussing the differences between accents and general dialect differences. Like our tendencies to throw 'ie' and 'ies' on the end of something. Sunnies (sunglasses), barbie (BBQ), jammies (Pjs), walkies... and the like. There're others I'm sure. Those are just the ones I can think of on the spot.
This morning I was a little lazy and irritable. I had my reason. That being... mum snored so loud last night. It was horrible. I don't like sharing a room with her, but we didn't have much of a choice last night. Unpleasant to say the least. She also wasn't in poking or kicking distance so it's not like I could wake her up to make her turn onto her side. So I deliberately stayed in later, but Madame Inconsiderate came in before I was ready to get up. She opened the curtains (ach, bright light! It hurts precious!) and was going on about how everyone else was up and had breakfast. "Everyone else didn't have to share a room with you!"
So we were in Rotorua for a couple of days... stayed at this woman Margaret's. Margaret used to babysit Iain and me when we were little ones. So she was very happy to see us. She's still got her golden retriever Spencer (he's 15 now) as well as looking after his half-sister Tussy and this doberman Truffle for a pair of her friends. There was of course visits with the family in Rotorua, and the trip into town so Iain could get board shorts for when he and mum when swimming at the Polynesian pools (they're hot mineral water pools; I wasn't swimming because of having the painters in)... where I also got mum to buy me those kick ass red flares.
Then yesterday we came over to Napier and after lunch the first stop was to the cemetary that has half a dozen relatives and we paid our respects. Grandma Kuia's ashes were buried up there, too. After that we went to mum's cousin Kathleen's, which is where I am now. Last night they had their grandkids over as well which was why I was sharing a room with mum. Bloody hell I hate doing that. Today was a day to visit MORE relatives and hit up the beach for a little walk. The water's WAY too cold for swimming, plus the riptide being superstrong.
Anyway I better get off again. Tomorrow it's off to Masterton where mum was born and raised, then we'll be back in Napier again on Monday. Mum hasn't decided if she'll pass through Rotorua on the way back or just go straight to Hamilton after Taupo. I know these names don't mean anything much to you, but if you're ever bored you can hit it up in some atlas. It's all in the North Island so it's not like you have to look all over. Mum still wants us to go to Papamoa on Wednesday as a proper visit to the beach. Denise will come with us, as well has her dog Scout--who apparently acts like a demented bumblebee at the sight of all that sand.
I think about you guys a lot. Hope you don't really miss me too much. It's hard to say I really miss you, because I don't. I'm so into reaquainting myself with this place and then it'll be settling in. It will take a while to really hit and I will miss seeing you guys then. You're in my thoughts a lot; I keep thinking I should take my camera along to take pictures of totally kiwi stuff (like McCafe's) so I can post them online and you can go, "Wtf? You Kiwis are weird."
It won't be long now before I'll have timezones all figured out to try and arrange to chat on MSN. So far all I remember is that two or three in the afternoon here is six or seven in the evening the day before in WA. Confused yet? I try.
Fin.
