Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 13, 2010
30 Days Of Me - Day Fourteen
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A picture of you and your family
A photo of me with my parents at my graduation. That's my Dad Paul on the left and my Mum Christine on the right.
My Dad had quite an influence on my interest in classic rock music and quite a few of the bands I like now are ones he blasted on our home stereo when I was a kid.. so loud that my Mum could hear it walking home from the supermarket.. which might explain me being hard of hearing at times. I love my Dad for his loyalty and his sense of humour while at times just not funny means he looks on the bright side of life. He lives in Reefton with my stepmum Shelly and my two step brothers Liam and Jordyn. My stepbrothers are still kids and I'm the sister that gives them books. My heart swelled with pride when my stepmum told me they took some of the books I gave them to show and tell at school. "Our sister Kirsty gave us these".. its enough to make a bookworm cry tears of joy.
I take after my Mum more than my Dad according to my sister. Mum is quite a bit more serious than my Dad (though she does have a sense of humour.. which is fairly warped at times like mine). She taught me cooking and baking (I'm better at the former than the latter) and encouraged my love of reading (though before when it was 'don't read in the dark you'll ruin your eyesight' it is now 'do you really need so many books?')
I am fairly close to my Mum and we talk on the phone at least once a week. Now that she has Facebook I can talk to her more often.
Mum lives in Greymouth with my stepdad Kevin. The amusing things about my stepdad could fill a blog all on their own. Kevin has two kids, both older than me.. Nicky who lives in Christchurch and Ray who is overseas.
I also have a younger sister Mishae. We really used to clash when we were younger but now we are pretty tight. Mishae never fails to make me laugh and says what she feels which can be highly amusing.
Mishae is mum to an adorable baby girl called Miley. I adore my niece and think she is just something else.
Like her auntie Miley loves books which I always buy for her. I look forward to her getting a bit older so I can gift her some more of my favourites.
A photo of me with my parents at my graduation. That's my Dad Paul on the left and my Mum Christine on the right.
My Dad had quite an influence on my interest in classic rock music and quite a few of the bands I like now are ones he blasted on our home stereo when I was a kid.. so loud that my Mum could hear it walking home from the supermarket.. which might explain me being hard of hearing at times. I love my Dad for his loyalty and his sense of humour while at times just not funny means he looks on the bright side of life. He lives in Reefton with my stepmum Shelly and my two step brothers Liam and Jordyn. My stepbrothers are still kids and I'm the sister that gives them books. My heart swelled with pride when my stepmum told me they took some of the books I gave them to show and tell at school. "Our sister Kirsty gave us these".. its enough to make a bookworm cry tears of joy.
I take after my Mum more than my Dad according to my sister. Mum is quite a bit more serious than my Dad (though she does have a sense of humour.. which is fairly warped at times like mine). She taught me cooking and baking (I'm better at the former than the latter) and encouraged my love of reading (though before when it was 'don't read in the dark you'll ruin your eyesight' it is now 'do you really need so many books?')
I am fairly close to my Mum and we talk on the phone at least once a week. Now that she has Facebook I can talk to her more often.
Mum lives in Greymouth with my stepdad Kevin. The amusing things about my stepdad could fill a blog all on their own. Kevin has two kids, both older than me.. Nicky who lives in Christchurch and Ray who is overseas.
I also have a younger sister Mishae. We really used to clash when we were younger but now we are pretty tight. Mishae never fails to make me laugh and says what she feels which can be highly amusing.
Mishae is mum to an adorable baby girl called Miley. I adore my niece and think she is just something else.
Like her auntie Miley loves books which I always buy for her. I look forward to her getting a bit older so I can gift her some more of my favourites.
Sunday, October 3, 2010
30 Days Of Me - Day Nine
(Yes I missed a day or two this weekend so I'll do two posts today and two tomorrow to get back up to speed)
Something you’re proud of in the past few days
Behold the start of my rooftop garden which Janet (Erik's Mum) and I sorted out yesterday afternoon.
There's quite a bit planted already, though need to do some more planting over the next week or so. Will be also making it pest proof.
I do feel that Janet did most of the work but I helped out too, plus it was something that I was planning on doing.
I also cooked a roast pork dinner on Thursday night, was my first time doing roast pork and it turned out really well.
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Friday, June 18, 2010
Two Years in Auckland
Thursday the 17th of June marked two years since I packed my bags, plus boxes and boxes of books, and moved up to Auckland.
What made me move up here in the first place? Well I guess first of all I did it for love. I have an amazing boyfriend who I was doing the long-distance relationship thing with and on a two week holiday up here with him I made the decision that I wanted to move up to Auckland.
The preparing to move up was harder than the decision as I went through all my stuff in Greymouth. What clothes did I take, what books, what little pieces of my life went with me?
When I first moved up my plans were to find a job as soon as possible so I could be kept busy. But despite my best efforts and a lot of applications I never got past the first interview. So I decided to study instead and after attending a careers expo decided to apply to study at the International Travel College, which I started a couple of days after my birthday in 2008.
Being in the past a rather average student I was pleasantly surprised that I did quite well studying Travel and Tourism and finished the first part of my course with distinction. So I was happy and feeling fufilled.
After I finished studying in October last year I took a break for a month, relaxing in Auckland and visiting my hometown of Greymouth for a couple of weeks. Then in November, after sending my CV through ITC I was hired as a travel consultant for InterCity which is where I have worked for the past six or so months.
I believe that moving to Auckland was one of the best decisions I have ever made and while my time here so far has not all been sunshine and lollipops I have had a a good time mostly with some notable things being as follows.
What made me move up here in the first place? Well I guess first of all I did it for love. I have an amazing boyfriend who I was doing the long-distance relationship thing with and on a two week holiday up here with him I made the decision that I wanted to move up to Auckland.
The preparing to move up was harder than the decision as I went through all my stuff in Greymouth. What clothes did I take, what books, what little pieces of my life went with me?
When I first moved up my plans were to find a job as soon as possible so I could be kept busy. But despite my best efforts and a lot of applications I never got past the first interview. So I decided to study instead and after attending a careers expo decided to apply to study at the International Travel College, which I started a couple of days after my birthday in 2008.
Being in the past a rather average student I was pleasantly surprised that I did quite well studying Travel and Tourism and finished the first part of my course with distinction. So I was happy and feeling fufilled.
After I finished studying in October last year I took a break for a month, relaxing in Auckland and visiting my hometown of Greymouth for a couple of weeks. Then in November, after sending my CV through ITC I was hired as a travel consultant for InterCity which is where I have worked for the past six or so months.
I believe that moving to Auckland was one of the best decisions I have ever made and while my time here so far has not all been sunshine and lollipops I have had a a good time mostly with some notable things being as follows.
- Seeing some awesome bands live
- Doing the Sky Jump off the Sky Tower
- Being part of some awesome meetup groups such as the Auckland BookCrossers, NaNoWriMo/Script Frenzy Write Ins and Auckland Game Works
- Being part of a church that welcomed me right from the start
- Studying and then working as a result of that in a job that I really enjoy
- And finally but most importantly is living with someone who I love very much and who loves me back. Who is supportive, caring and encouraging in all that I do. The wonderful Erik.
Posting schedule
The road to procrastination is paved with good intentions. Well that isn't the quote exactly but you get the idea.
It was April when I last updated this thing. April! A lot has happened since then including my graduation from the International Travel College which I graduated with Merit and with the College Life Award for the City Road Campus (which also won me a voucher to do the Sky Walk 360) and having my family visiting from the West Coast.
The main point of this post is that I am going to follow my partner Erik's lead with his blog updates and aim to update my blog three times a week which will tentatively be on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I will be updating again later today as my actual post for Friday.
It was April when I last updated this thing. April! A lot has happened since then including my graduation from the International Travel College which I graduated with Merit and with the College Life Award for the City Road Campus (which also won me a voucher to do the Sky Walk 360) and having my family visiting from the West Coast.
The main point of this post is that I am going to follow my partner Erik's lead with his blog updates and aim to update my blog three times a week which will tentatively be on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday. I will be updating again later today as my actual post for Friday.
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