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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 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.