It's late and I'm in a horrid horrid mood.

Budget Day!

Oh wait, no, that's right.
I don't heart Budget Day, I hate it.
(I thought that first bit looked a bit funny.)

It was my first time working wherever-it-is-that-I-work in the huge sprawling amorphous blob of New Zealand's government (including opposition and periphery.) on Budget Day and it was not fun. It was frantic and tense. I do not heart frantic and tense.

p.s. it was also my first time ever paying any attention to the Budget at all. Talk about one extreme to the other.
p.p.s. I am a political Switzerland. I have no opinion about politics at all. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.

13 January 2008
San Francisco



We were headed to Coit Tower and I found excuses to stop and breathe take photos.



Coit Tower is in Pioneer Park, atop Telegraph hill. HILL.




The Golden Gate Bridge


Alcatraz

The views were pretty amazing.





We were hanging around the entrance to the tower while Kat took a call.





Coit Tower
This 210 foot monument was built in
==1933==
with monies bequeathed by Lillie Hitchcock
Coit to beautify the city she loved.
Frescoes were painted in the interior
of the newly built structure by local
artists funded through the United States
Government's public works of art
project. This plaque is placed by the
recreation and park commission.
==October 8, 1983==
to mark Coit Tower's 50th Anniversary
--and--
its designation as an historic landmark.

and a hair cut

Co-Worker: Sarah-Rose, are you wearing contact lenses?
Me: Yes ...
Co-Worker: ah! I thought something looked different.
Me: .... I think it might be the fringe. I've been wearing contacts for weeks but I only cut my hair on Friday.
Co-Worker: Oh yes. That might be it.


Perhaps.

Week Twenty-One

Sunday
From the plane back into Wellington, we could see the windfarm at Makara


Monday
Reeses Pieces!
Sadly nothing at all like Peanut Butter M&Ms. I'd never had them before.
Disappointing.


Tuesday
Greek yoghurt +rolled oats+ liquid honey = Delicious.
My new obsession. But this morning I discovered that it's not really appropriate for breakfast.


Wednesday
Braeburn Apple
Feeling undeniably uninspired I decide to stick with food photos for the rest of the week. I was at 3/5 already.


Thursday
How do you eat cupcakes?
(I don't eat them like this. I tried it but ... it's not for me. I take off the bottom third, eat that, and then eat the rest together)


Friday
I bought Inari Sushi as an end-of-week treat.
And officially the end of my all-food-photos-all-the-time-mania.


Saturday
Our tickets to Danny Bhoy. We were in the third row and it was so close that I felt like I should (could?) have thanked him personally at the end of the show.


&



Bored on a cold, wet Friday night + Gilmore Girls Season Six = a supercute fringe.