alkaline-kiwi's blog

A letter to someone who has hurt you recently

Oooh a tough one.. I can't think of anyone that has hurt me recently.. there have been some people who have annoyed me but thankfully I can't remember their names.
I find I get more pain from inanimate objects (physical pain).. maybe I could write a letter to the chair leg that I run into.. or the junk on my floor that I trip over...

How you found out about Blogger and why you made one

I think Erik used to have a blogger account which his blog was hosted on before he moved over to wordpress and then Drupal. I figured that it looked fairly easy to use and host a blog on this site.
Why I made a blog fullstop was I thought it would be fun and an interesting way to keep friends and family up to date with my life

Another picture of you and your friends


This one was taken around April last year on Queen Street while waiting for the Airbus for Jay to go to the airport. Was after the BookCrossing convention.. am using this photo as I don't have my external hard drive near to go looking for pictures.
On the left is me with my ITC keys hanging around my neck. I think I might have had course that day which might explain the black jacket.
Next to me is Kevin and Jay, who I have talked about previously. Two of the nicest people I know.
We all share a love of books, Questionable Content, chocolate and random odd conversations that go late into the night.

Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad

Even though I am a bit of a music nut mood rarely depicts what songs I listen to and it is normally bands that I can name that I listen to, not specific songs.

Though some of the stuff I am really into at the moment as far as songs go are:
Pulp Fiction by Motion City Soundtrack
Brand New Day from Dr Horrible's Sing A Long Blog
Second Season by Five Iron Frenzy
Stutter from A Very Potter Sequel
All For You by Sister Hazel
Thomas by mumsdollar
Popularity by Jonezetta

Plus a heap of other stuff.

Am on a bit of a short break at the moment from updating my blog as I have my friend Jay visiting. Will be getting caught up on my 30 Days Of Me posts on Thursday & Friday.

(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.

Short term goals for this month and why

Ooh, a good question that I can give a good lengthed answer to.

Work on my rooftop garden
I will be making a seperate blog post sometime soon detailing my plans for my little slice of greenery in Auckland Central but the short of it is that I am working on a container garden on the rooftop area of the apartment I share with Erik. I have a heap of seedlings which are on my windowsill getting sun until I transplant them into various pots and planters to sit them outside. I'm also growing some stuff from seeds in propagator trays and my snow peas have sprouted and looking really good.
Why I want a garden is because I love my veges and think it would be great to grow some of my own vegetables to eat, if I have any extras will be giving them to friends.

Organise my desk
Look at this photo and see how messy my desk, it really is a shocker.

So one of my goals for October is to clean up this mess of a desk to something that I can actually sit at and do some typing.

Organise my bookshelves and books
While I don't believe there is such a thing as having too many books I do realise my books need a good organising and October will be my month to do it. No photo of that to show but will be posting photos when I start getting it all organised.