Duck!

So I'm out walking Nemo and I decide to walk in the park, coz its been a while and I haven't checked out the duck pond lately. Nemo and I are walking along.. minding our own business.. Nemo being a dick and trying to get up on the bank.. which he has never done in that area before and I hear the ducks making noises.. as you do at the duck pond.. but then I realise that the duck noises are getting rather loud and so I turn my head to see what the commotion is and all I see is a duck flying right for me.. head height! and right after that duck was another duck who was chasing it for a little nookie! I ducked and the ducks flew over and away and Nemo and I went about our walk..

..we then come to the corner to start heading home and of course the two ducks decide that they want another swoop at me.. and as they come around the corner.. they fly right at me.. at head height again! *straightface*

Then lastly as I walk past the big open path, the big open path that heads down the middle of the two ponds, I happen to look down and what do I see... the same two fucking ducks flying up the middle of the path! This time however I was in no danger of having my head whacked as they were pretty far away but still.. duck duckity duck duck duck! What do feathered friends have against me and my head? Seriously!

Leash!

Today Nemo's spunky new 'Mongrel Leash' arrived.. I will however refrain from using it until Emma is home to walk Nemo.. there are just some things in life that are best shared.. afterall shared experiences are best! hahahaha

BBQ!

Thursday night was the night we had the first BBQ of the season.. and it was awesome! AWESOME! and to end the evening it pissed down! PISSED down! You can't win them all.. but at least it only rained at the end of the evening.. rather than when we were cooking the foodage.. however that would not have stopped things.. the BBQ was going to happen no matter whatters! I love BBQ! Who doesn't?

The best things of summertime.. Sun, Strawberries & Barbies.. not the doll! oh and of course the fact that Emma is home for a minium of 3 weeks.. which makes not only me happy but Nemo happy too.. coz he is lost without his Emma Bo Bemma!

Like for instance.. this morning trying to walk him was like pushing shit upstream, he was dragging his feet and totally didn't want to go anywhere but home.. he would walk fine if we were walking in the direction of going home.. and then once I took his backpack off at the bottom of the stairs he ran up them like his ass was on fire.. let him in and he ran around looking for.. I assume Emma.. before jumping on the couch and sulking coz he couldn't find her.. so now I have to remember that next time Emma has an extended stay at home, I am to make sure he sees that she gets on the train in the morning.. he can be a sad sack all he wants.. but I want it easy to walk him!

So last week Emma was home a little extra due to some kind of public holiday that wasn't a horse race, we were gonna go hiking but my feet weren't really up to it with my blisters but we did go and at least set up the tent outside as you can see here, which was a little bit of fun and we kinda discovered that a loft section that we have purchased can't actually be put up inside the tent like we were hoping.. but maybe we can do some make shifting and set it up in the outside inside section.. I guess you would call it our hallway? lol we will see once we get the two together what can be done.. I'm good at coming up with things.. sometimes! 6 weeks to go.. its closing in!

Seriously?

It was an action packed weekend.. ok maybe minus the action but we did get out and about a little.. which is always nice. Saw Angels & Demons at the movies on Saturday and it was ok..I wouldn't say it was bad but it wasn't the greatest movie I have ever seen.. a little too predictable and I haven't read the book.. it certainly doesn't make me wanna read the book either.

Saturday we went to the ass end of a dog show.. so many dogs.. big ones.. little ones.. medium and strange ones! and yet so little pats! I want a puppy.. I think Nemo would love a puppy.. it might make him less cranky! Prolly not actually.. he is just destined to be a cranky bugger just like me!

After a nice long walk which of course gave me blisters.. but its getting betterer each time.. so that has to be something right? Anyways after the walk, we enjoyed a very nice treat from the bakery & coffee before heading off to Helsingborg to check out the car show and flowers.. and a very nice sammie which we had to wait in line for ages for! & we had to wait in line next to a jerk who thought just coz he was wearing the most foul boots, he could push in line.. he kept trying to get infront of us but we pushed him out and spoke very loudly about how much of a jerk he was.. but really.. people these days.. why is everyone only out for themselves and show no fucking courtesy? Is it seriously that difficult to be a courteous person? People bug the shit outta me! I'm not the greatest person in the world.. but jesus sometimes I feel like I am! Especially with the amount of punchdrunks there are out there these days.

Another punchdrunk moment was when I was getting dinner from the pizza place.. last time we went there I didn't get the pizza I ordered.. but nothing else was open coz it was Sunday so I didn't have much choice.. I ordered a meat kebab plate and when I got home.. do you think that I had a meat kebab plate? If you guessed no then you are correct.. it was freaken chook! Seiously how do you run a business if you can't get a simple order correct? Punchdrunk Asshats! You really do have to wonder...

Yesterday I spent most of the day sleeping as I am sick.. damn headcold bullkaka! But in some good news.. our new tent arrived!! Finally we have something to shelter us when we go on our hike! Emma was eager to set it up so we did.. in the sitting room.. not really an ideal place if you didn't already guess that lol but we got it up.. had a nosy.. pulled it down and put it away and no doubt we will head over to the parentals place to put it up on grass to really check it out.

Soon we shall be all set and then time to goooooo..

10!

Today is Nemo's 10th birthday! & here he is with his birthday bone
which took him all of 5 mins to scoff down and now...
he is looking all sad and wants more!
There is another one.. but he doesn't know that so shhh don't tell him!

Bored!

I can honestly say that nothing much has happened over the past week and a bit since my last post and also I can say that I don't really remember all that much about the past week and a bit.. I am not sure what that says about me.. old maybe?

It might have something to do with the fact that Emma has been doing an insane amount of overtime.. she has actually worked.. an average of 10 hours a day for the past week and a bit.. and that includes the weekend.. sad for me and just as sad for her for a whole different reason.. and very sad for Nemo.. he misses her the mostest.. I can't blame him.. I quickly get sick of me too.

Some good news.. my boots seem to be coming right, I am able to wear them without my feet taped and not get new blisters.. so fingers crossed that they will survive the hike in several weeks.. I'm pretty sure they will.. bring it on I say!

Well that is about all I gots.. this was just an entry to say that I am still alive and kicking..

Relax!

After the hike on Friday we spent the rest of the weekend relaxing and recovering from our ailments.. good times good times.

Luckily the weather went well for relaxing.. and nothing goes better than sunshine and strawberries so we had a nice feast of fresh strawberries, pancakes and whipped cream.. see Strawberry Afro Cream Face! lol

I finally went and got overcharged for passport photos.. seriously when did become so expensive to get 4 identical photos? nz$30! At least I don't look overly bad in it.. which is a first coz all my other id photos are terrible.. its almost like they do it on purpose.

Oh yes and lets not forget.. once again I was attacked by a bird! This time however one of the fluckers hit me right on the side of the head! Which tickled. Emma and I just get downstairs and outside when we hear a flutter from a bird being chased by.. yes another bird! and just as the low flying things went past I got a little knock on the head.. messing up my hair! how rude! Emma thinks one flew inbetween us and the other whacked me.. I think it was a planned attack and all birds just hate me.. one of these days I really am going to have a serious bird complex.

Also we went and saw Wolverine on Friday night.. which was.. how can I put it.. basically a bit of a let down.. the special effects had somehow managed to leave out the special side of things.. it was almost like they had gone back to 10 years ago.. everything looked so very fake.. yes I know it is fake but it is not meant to look it! One good thing was tho.. I had noone sitting next to me! noice! So bascially I'm glad I saw it at the movies but I don't have much desire to see it again.. maybe we will still buy the DVD to go with the rest of the X-Men collection... maybe..

Now it is Monday and the weather is a little gloomy.. it rained last night.. and it is meant to be gloomy and rainy all week.. I guess it was bound to happen at some point.. we have had some exceptionally nice weather for this time of year.

Hike!

As I said on my previous post, Friday we went on a 18km hike and it was ace. Nemo with his backpack on.. which he handled like a champ.. you know it doesn't faze him one little bit but he does use it to his advantage when trying to pull away and be a little prick! We completed it in 4hrs 45mins which I thought was pretty good going.. we even managed to stop at play at a randomly placed playground..
Altho my feet were a little worse for wear I enjoyed it.. and I got a little moody about the lost sock.. but that is coz its what I do best and the shoes were rubbing on my naked foots! and that is enough to make anyone moody.. right?


We are gonna start going on day hike's on the weekends and maybe once we actually manage to get a tent and another backpack.. a overnight hike.. which should be a barrel of fun fun fun! The joys of training.. but its much better to be prepared yes? Nemo seems pretty prepared in his spunky little red backpack!

Emma's shoulders weren't so prepared for her backpack.. afterall she is only liddle! lol

All in all it was a happy family outing and I'm looking forward to the actual trip.. what doesn't kill us only makes us stronger.. right?

Feet!

Friday we went for a 18km hike around the lake.. which was pretty ace, however we didn't see much of the lake and I lost a sock! 2 hours in I had to take my boots off coz of course I got blisters.. but that's still betterer than before when I got blisters after just 5mins of wearing them.. so they are slowly getting betterer.. anyways I took my boots off and stuck on my shoes that were like a second skin.. sadly it meant I could feel EVERYTHING we walked on which was a new kind of painful lol and about 10mins into wearing the shoes we came across this sludgy area.. which I managed to get halfway thru without getting sludge all over my shoes but it required some real fun dance steps to get to where I was.. but at the half way mark there was no turning back and the sludge got worse... so much worse! so I took my socks off so that they wouldn't get all wet and sludgy and as I watched Emma walk thru terminator style.. I tried to be twinkle toes and as light on my feet as possible to make my way across the sludge.. by the time I got to the end of it.. my feet were wet and sludgy and so were my shoes.. mighty uncomfy.. but I was glad that I had taken my socks off. My plan was then to wash my feet at the next small patch of water we got to and stick my socks back on so that my feet didn't get even more ripped apart.. but alas at some point from my dancing stage I managed to lose my sock.. we started to walk backwards but I grew tired of that and admitted defeat, turned around and continued on the walk in muddy sockless shoes.. which after a few more hours of walking meant that I had a whole new style of blisters! awesome huh?

Then I get home and wash my shoes out to discover... SPIDERS!!! I had been walking around with spiders in my shoes! so gross!

so I haven't been able to wear shoes and have had to wear jandals.. which of course has given me little blisters where the front band is.. my feet are just covered in blisters!! and then yesterday to add insult to injury I stubbed my toe on the threshold and made it bleeed! My feet look ever so pretty! hahahaha

Question: Why is it so hard to find plasters that actually stick to ones foot?