Happy Valentine's Day!

Happy Valentine's Day! It's one of my favourite holidays (real or not). Even though this day was mostly spent single in my younger days, I always had a great time hanging out with friends. (True story: A girl I once knew seriously thought I stole her Valentine's date back in 2002! But the truth was the dood flaked because he didn't keep her number on him; he was visiting from out of state. This was also a time when people didn't really use cellphones yet. I, of course didn't have the number because we weren't friends anymore! This Valentine's flake ended up going to a basketball game and then dinner with LARGE group of friends that included 4 of my girl friends and 2 guy pals. Sadly, I knew this girl would blame me, but what can you do right?! I felt terrible her night was ruined, and it's probably gone down in history as her worst Valentine's Day ever. Sigh* with me to blame, even though I swear on my life I didn't have any part in it. Ahhhhh, if she ever reads this...)


Well now that I've gotten that off my chest... I had an amazing Valentine's Day with my husband! He ordered fancy pizza from Toto's, bought white wine and set up a picnic in our apartment. It's the second time we've done this and could become a Valentine's Day tradition that I'll happily celebrate.

Afterward, we walked to a favourite local bar! On the way there, we saw so many cute couples snuggling up on benches.

We enjoyed a few drinks watching iconic MTV 90s videos and one-hit wonders including Dee-Lite, Bjork and Big Audio Dynamite. The 90s were such a great time for music, and MTV was actually very enjoyable back then. I am clinging to my youth.

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Much Love Monday: October 10, 2011

Happy Monday my friends.

My dear pen pal L sent me this care package before I went on vacation/holiday back home.

We'll still be friends when all turns to dust.

two books:
Everything Faces All Ways At Once by Zulema Renee Summerfield
100 Demons by Lynda Barry
hot chocolate, natural hand cream, soap compact mirror, tea, two mixed cds with the play lists handwritten on Brooklyn postcards, tea and her personalised pencil

She's a teacher. She's a great American novelist. She's my confidante. Dear L, I'm so glad you're my friend. You're a good friend. Thank you.

Wellington Part One

Upon arrival in Wellington, our trip turned into a mad dash, attempting to absorb the city life and catching up with friends.





We checked into our hotel on Lambton Quay, and then went to Sweet Mother's Kitchen! A southern style/soul food/Tex Mex kinda restaurant. The store had New Orlean's Saints flyers all around. Reminds me of my friend DeAndre. Bless!












After that, we ended up at Cuba Club? It was located in some non-descript building. It was amazing on the inside! Too bad I didn't get any photos inside. I'm not aggressive enough with my camera. We sat outside in the back.




This is the front. Excuse the blurry photo!

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Wedding Preview

We're still waiting on the professional photos! But they sent us a small preview...

One of my favourite memories of our wedding day was when I got inside the limo and the driver played this Ke$ha song the second I got in the door. I, or course danced around, and it helped put me in a good mood. It's SO bad that it's amazing! LOL to "hitting on doods, HARD."
















Here I am nervous and stressed! I couldn't even relax on the way to the church since our limo driver drove us to the wrong church, and I had to give him directions the whole time to the correct place. Seriously, the whole week leading up to the ceremony was just like this. I don't think anyone realised how hard it was on us because they were just as busy or on holiday/vacation mode. We only had the day before the wedding to wrap up last minute stuff. The 5 days before that were spent showing family and friends around Auckland all day and night. Luckily, this would be the last of the mishaps, and it got better after this!