Working for a radio station is just so hard some times....

No not all the toys are mine..... just most of them lol

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No longer looking like an ex-rental

Finally got my bathroom done :) there were some complications and some stress but ain’t that the way with reno's, or it seems to be atlst that's what I'm learning. It’s looking pretty awesome, if I do say so myself :D and it definitely makes my place look more like a home and less like an ex-rental.  The hallway has also been wallpapered and is looking good :)

It is certainly nice walking down the hallway now and seeing the improvements.  The kitchen also has all the yuck old lino removed and I have carpet offcuts down which is def warmer on my feet and also looks way nicer than the lino ever did.

My grown up awesome looking bathroom :)

The hallway is also looking lovely now its nicely wallpapered

Kitchen floor, if you interested :)

And for those of you wondering what I did with the old bath here it is, turns out it was one of those heavy as cast iron baths so removing it was a bit of a mission, good thing I know a couple of big strong men who like me enough to help me out (well David did, not sure Dof had a choice... lol) 

Long wknd fun

I had a rather chilled out but fun long wknd :)

On Friday night Steph and I went to a murder mystery night at Theatre Hawkes Bay.  Was real fun, turns out I am just as terrible at solving mysteries when I can ask the suspects questions as when I am reading about it in a book but it was still super fun :)

On Saturday Cleo took me over to Brudda's so we could hang and watch cricket later that night.  I may have slept through most of NZ's batting innings but that's ok cos we still won so I don't feel like I missed too much hehe.

On Sunday it was back home to go camping with Glenny and Snowy.  We set up the projector in the lounge and watched White Collar.  Then on Monday we used it to watch movies :) so much fun :)

Back to work today cos sadly the long wknd was not a forever one :( lol

 Me and Steph in our 1930's murder mystery solving outfits

 Bro's new work boots which I was so tempted to 'borrow'

Movie watching

Love my new kitchen

Kitchen phase one is done :) thanks heaps to Brudda and Dof for all your hard work in making it happen and cheers for letting me think I'm bossing you around :) lol

 

Man I'm awesome :)

Sometimes I'm just so awesome I surprise even myself :D

Finished my coffee table :) I may've got quite a few cuts while making it but it was worth it

Painted Cleo's place this wknd and it looks super awesome, she loves it and so do I :D

Also did some sewing, bit of a half hearted attempt to be honest, couldn't really be bothered matching the tartan or reading the pattern, just winged it. But it also turned out awesome and the tartans are matched, woot woot go me lol

Coffee table

Cleo's awesome as carport wall

My newest pants

Just some cool horses I met ystdy

Sup ya'll

The last week has been a busy one for my place. Pa has been visiting so that means stuff gets done faster than when it's just me. Not only cos he's more talented than me when it comes to that kind of stuff but he also has way more energy than me so more jobs get done in a day :)

Other than the general tidy up stuff that always seems to need to be done, we have also painted the window surrounds (outside) they are now dark green instead of a weird olive colour, the front door is now all white, the bathroom has a door again and it's purple like the rest of the hallway ones, and I have a new letterbox :)
I say we cos I helped with some of the stuff, esp the painting of the outside window bits.

We also caught up with Aunty Pam and Uncle James over Easter when they were over here exploring and we trekked over to Raglan (via Brudda's) to see cuzzie Mark who I hadn't seen in years cos he's aussie based. He was chilling at Uncle Terry and Aunty Kay's for a day or so. Cleo wanted a road trip and it woulda been rude to say no to her as she doesn't get out much nowadays.

My new heater :) 

Testing the letterbox post is sturdy

Looks good with the dark green trim (if I do say so hehe) 

Not the best road trip weather but Smidge was still loving it

Best letterbox ever! :D

These two are just making sure it 'works' lol

Scenic walk to work

This morning I decided to take the scenic route to work so I left home a bit earlier and wandered down to Cornwall Park :) such a nice park, and yes I played the tourist taking lots of photos and being all excited :D but figure that's what life's about so why not :)
And ok so this does not really make a scenic walk to work, just a scenic bit of the walk as it aint a huge park and it does still require me to walk along mostly streets to get to work but I get to miss a block of walking on a street, after going two blocks out of my way, but its worth it :)

Musings...

Done a bit of musing today, and things just seemed to make sense more than sometimes they do so thought would enlighten you all, cos I'm that nice of a person 😊

Realised, while listening to Dave the Dinosaur (host of the awesome kids morning show on Radio Kidnappers) this morning, that fairytales teach kids bad bad things. Take the stories Dave shared this morning that had witches in them, the only basis in the stories that the person was a witch was that she lived alone and was a bit weird/eccentric. And because she was a witch the kids in the stories were mean to her. Now I don't think that's called for at all! And although it's a different reason than the whole 'oh look you have red hair you must be a witch' that people had all those years ago its still targeting me (oh look a post about me, how strange 😛 lol) and that's just rude. Instead I think we should be teaching kids that the crazy single red headed lady that lives down the street is actually the most awesomest person ever and you're super lucky she lives so close so you should thank her in the form of chocolate and jellybeans 😊 now that would make a good lesson of a story for kids 😃

Another revelation I had today was that husbands are like handbags, they can be rather useful and can make life easier but a girl can live without one quite easily and still have an awesome as time 😆

Radio Kidnappers

For those of you that view this on the blog site not just the email subscription you might have been sent, you may have noticed that there are now a few things btwn the posts and the title of the blog.  Yup I have added a bunch of links, if you click on any of them they will take you to the Radio Kidnappers website where you can check out the shows and stream our awesome station if you do not live in Hawke's Bay :)

Go on, click one, you know you wanna...… :)