tonight, Samuel L. Jackson took me to the movies to see his lates flick, Snakes On A Plane. This was probably because I am NOT planning on seeing this movie. At least not in a cinema. Unless Sammy takes me (he wanted me to call him that in my dream).
Maybe we just have to stop planning it…
Three weeks ago our trip down to the mountain ended in Otorohanga with Tom’s car deciding it had had enough and blowing a wheel bearing. Saturday was nice enough, we saw some kiwis and other interesting (altough not as histerically funny) birds in Otorohanga’s famous Kiwi House but Sunday’s forecast looked decidedly bad so we drove back to Auckland in the newly fixed car. (The mountain was closed that Sunday)
Two weeks ago the forecast looked even worse and we decided not to go. Saturday - visibility 25m and strong winds. Sunday - closed.
Last week again we waited until Friday to make the decision only to be greeted with a forecast that had two things to say: “wet and misty” and “gale force winds”. Didn’t go and the mountain was closed on both days.
This week I’m looking at the forecast and what do I see? Saturday: “Misty, with periods of rain. Snow above 1700 metres, and poor visibility. Northwesterlies rising to gale or severe gale“. Sunday: “Showers, some heavy, with snow lowering to 1300 metres. Winds changing to strong west to southwesterlies“.
Anyone see a pattern here???? And the worst (best) thing is there’s 2.2m of snow at Whakapapa and 2.6m (!!!!!) at Turoa. And further snow in the forecast.
Saturday - spent nailing tile underlay to the floor in the kitchen and laundry. Fact for the day: each sheet of underlay requires about 50 nails. Multiply that by 5 sheets and you get blisters. Which is what we both have.
Sunday - spent laying tiles in the kitchen and laundry. Managed to almost finish all the whole tiles plus some edges (Lukas did the cutting, I did the laying). Fact for the day: mixed tile adhesive will always run out on the second to last row of tiles to be laid. Which means I still have about two rows to lay today - plus a lot of cutting.
Thanks go to Agata and Tom for feeding us during the weekend (mmmm, pierogi).
Sounds fancy, doesn’t it? That’s my new title - I was promoted. Thanks to the promotion policy at the company I work for I didn’t really notice much change (apart maybe from my next payslip - fingers crossed!), which is good. The policy is that you have to be doing the job of the position you want to be promoted to before you are promoted. Which means you get to do the job of the more highly-paid people for a few months before you’re paid appropriately for what you’re doing. But on the bright side you don’t get the responsibility shock since you basically are doing the same job afterwards.
Anyway, we’ll go celebrate to some nice restaurant - after payday!
Dzisiaj mamy 4 miesiące do naszego wesela. Czas zaczął pędzić. Z ostatniego miesiąca niewiele pamiętam, ale to chyba do zrozumienia, skoro pracowałam, chorowałam, remontowaliśmy kuchnię, szukaliśmy nowych lokatorów do naszego mieszkanka, byliśmy na snowboardach (dwa razy), raz w Taupo i do tego jeszcze przygotowania ślubne jakoś gdzieś tam po drodze się odbywały. Więc tradycyjnie już wyliczanka:
To chyba wszystko. Uff, czas przyspiesza coraz bardziej.