Today is my one-month anniversary of officially being back in Wellington. I’m actually rather surprised how long I’ve been back and how little I’ve achieved. Well, I don’t have a job and I haven’t seen many old friends. Perhaps that is an achievement.
We stayed at my parents’ house for about three weeks. Being 26, it was rather horrific and reminiscent of being 17. The benefits being that my sister lives around the corner and the weather was beautiful. We went on walks, got sunburned, went to the summer carnival (which was somewhat lame after Sinksenfoor), walked through (a small) native forest, paddled in the river (has toxic algae and can’t be swum in, bummer), went to the beach and gathered mussels and ate them (non-toxic), and hang out on my sister’s back porch in the sun laughing at my cat’s obscenely large belly.
We did, however, buy a car, get an apartment, and fill it with stuff. We bought a black 2005 Mazda 2 which is pretty rocking for a small granny car. We got a great apartment, which is actually the best apartment either of us have ever had. It has two bedrooms, something we’ve discussed at length after living in a small one-bedroom in Manchester for a year-and-a-half. We have a decent balcony, lots of storage, a dishwasher (yes!) and the bedrooms are on an upstairs level. We also have pretty nice views, and we really couldn’t ask for much more.
Our boxes from Manchester arrived and we added a home theatre projector to our home theatre setup. It is fucking awesome. We have a friend from London staying, the amazing Tom Bland, and right now him and Pea are playing Call of Duty on the GameCube at about 6-foot wide. It’s the best.
I haven’t been taking any photos, the lazy loser than I am, but we are going to do the Tongariro Crossing in two days and I’ve bought a special backpack that will carry my D70 so I’m prepared. At least, for the photo-taking bit, but not the all-day hiking part.
I need to get Zen Photo installed so I can finally go through my photos. We are no longer on dial-up so this is a possibility, although I always say this and never do fuck all.
I recommend you listen to Decoder Ring’s “Fractions” in that Mazda.