Back from the past and into the now

No talk of Vanuatu in this entry….there is a need for a certain somebody else to catch up. It’s probably not fair the fact that I kept a daily diary for the first week so therefore I can write an entry slightly faster than the other.

So today it’s a bit of a catch up on what else is going on. SAE had a birthday last weekend!! She is now 19. Today though I saw and heard the girl of 13. When she gets tired she gets extremely grumpy and loses all sense of rationale. She is working too many jobs and hours, especially the hours that take her to 1am and then a start again at 9am…something has to give and at this stage it’s her resolve. But she has decided to ask the restaurant that she works at to change her roster. Her uni work also suffered in the last couple of weeks when she went for a exam and she hadn’t studied enough and really felt she didn’t do any good and this exam was worth 50%!!! Hard lesson to learn!!!

I’ve applied for a couple of jobs recently, one an agency has been in touch about and next week I will go in and see them to discuss the role. Typical for me, I’m already thinking its not the direction I want to go but each time I go for these roles its my head saying GET OUT!!!! oh well will have to see it is, after all, only the agency at this stage. The other one I would be really keen on but have not heard from them at all…typical!!

We went and picked SAE up from her fathers place today to take her to her second job half an hour away…are we mugs??  Still gave us a good excuse to take cameras "just in case". Glad we did I have some nice piccies to share of an inlet close to us called Pauatahanui Inlet. Of course djd took his too but discovered that he had a flat battery and no camera!! Of course I got the blame, calling it sabotage on my behalf so he couldn’t take pictures……he is soooooooooo mean!!!

So here is the first stop, sun is up and making a start to the day, also one of my favourites of the day 🙂

Oh I amlost forgot these cute dogs, that were loaded into the back of their owners truck….with much fuss according to djd as the owner still had the dogs attached to his waist when the first couple jumped in!! Dont they just look like naughty boys!!

After brekkie off around the otherside of the inlet

djd striding ahead, well after all his camera wasn’t working so nothing to do …mawhahahahaha

 Boatsheds across the inlet

Houses in the distance

And then on the way back to the car, the mirro image of the sky on the inlet was a challenge for me and camera. Did we succeed?

There was a lady walk past us with a rather impressive cannon camera with a tripod slung over her shoulder. She must have been taking some impressive pictures I suspect but little did she know she would become a subject in one of mine.

A couple of plovers on the way home and then a winter view looking towards the hill and home again. I would have finished with a Heron but somebody wouldn’t stop the car…..just jealous I think 🙂

Till next time diary when somebody in this house can offer some competition 🙂