random thoughts

Posted on Sat 21 July 2007 at 03:08

I wish I could use the camera.  This morning, there was dew on the industrial sized whirly clothes dryer in the garden.  It was beautiful.  Each individual drop of dew seemed to be refracting a different colour of the rainbow.  It was mesmerising.  The sunset this evening was beautiful also, the sun going down behind the trees over the city.  But I had a cunning plan and sent the girl for the camera, so at least that one is recorded for posterity – or until the sodding computer starts playing silly buggers and has to be wiped again. 

I attended a really interesting lecture on methamphetamine (P).  It is no wonder that so many people get hooked as apparently it has the ultimate high by the sound of it.  The chap who gave the lecture was really on top of his subject and enthusiastic.  It makes training a helluva lot more interesting if the lecturer knows his stuff, can deliver it in an informative and professional manner.  Has to rate as on of the very best lectures I have ever attended – and after 3 years of student nursing and shit loads of in-house training in various jobs, I consider that quite an accolade.  The chap is a policeman so he knows what he is talking about.  Scary stuff, P, find out for yourself by surfing the web and pray to God that no-one you know and love ever falls prey to it.

Poppy kitty seems to just about be over the eye infection.  But just to make sure that both kitties are in tip-top condition, Melissa has made up a training schedule for both of them.  Pity these poor kitties.  Melissa puts them on a harness and lead and marches/runs them up and down the street.  She shuts the doors and takes them one at a time into the lobby, then she chases them about – which may sound cruel but you can tell from the way they respond that they absolutely love it  - and her!  She then gives them a cat massage that she found on-line – you can tell by their little drooling faces that they love her.  She has become whanau (family and a whole lot more) to these kitties.  I have handed all responsibility for worming and de-fleaing to the girl as she is now their parent.  She has even made them Halloween outfits already - and it's July - strange child....

We went to see Harry Potter the other evening.  It had some great special effects and any film will be better for being watched in a modern surround-sound, all singing, all dancing theatre but it didn’t really make up for the lack of a decent story line to fill it out.  Just Harry looking all intense and grumpy most of the way through.  Honestly, if you have teenage boys of your own, just slap a zig-zag of lipstick on their foreheads and stay at home and watch them sulk – save your money for something else!

I finally signed up for the Gym yesterday – well, I have only been talking about it for the last month or so…  but damn me, they can’t actually give me an  induction until Tuesday.  This time next year I will be reminding them of that!!  So there I was, all dressed to work out,  and they said come back Tuesday.  So I took myself for a walk round the lake instead.  And as I walked I’m thinking, ‘there’s something wrong here’.  I had just payed shit loads of money to go to the Gym and I’m walking round the lake for free?!!  Not to worry, once I get going, I usually enjoy the Gym – become quite obsessive about it for a few months and then it tails off – like an awful lot of people I guess.

Good luck with the gym!

Posted by Littletoe on Mon 23 July 2007 at 07:47 - Link

You made the first payment - that's the most painful bit!