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WEDNESDAY 20th JANUARY

I've been back on air two days and so far I'm coping with the body clock changes ok! I'm still tired as hell again but I am managing the workload. As well as preparing the show and all my committments connected to working on The Edge, I am also working on Radiochick. I am getting a facelift! I still have lots and lots of work to do but hopefully my new-look site will be ready by February 1st. Watch out for it!
Seven is staying with my mum for the rest of his school holidays which means Dom and I can go to the movies again. We went last night to see 'It's Complicated' starring Merryl Streep, Steve Martin & Alec Baldwin. A wee bit cringeworthy at times when they're all getting it on (it's like walking in on your parents doing it!) but otherwise a very, very funny movie. I highly reccommend.
Remember last month when I told you I had done a photo shoot for the new Glasson's BCRT tees?
Here are some behind-the-scenes pics I had taken. (I've had to blur out the tshirt art)

    

Well, the tees are on sale now! There are six awesome designs from Karen Walker, Trelise Cooper, Zambesi, Cybéle, Stolen Girlfriends Club and Lonely Hearts.
This year’s theme ‘BECOME A SUPERHERO’ supports the premise that if you buy a t-shirt you can be likened to a superhero, as money raised from t-shirt sales helps to save lives from breast cancer.

WEDNESDAY 13th JANUARY

So much for my plan to do nothing this holiday - I've been very busy! It's amazing how you can fill up your days and really not achieve much. It makes me wonder how I ever fit in any work! I'm starting to fantasise about being a kept woman. If only we didn't have a mortgage... sigh!
We went to Christchurch on Friday because it was my brother Poull's 21st over the weekend. Stayed at a hotel we booked on the cheap at ezibed.com (my new favourite accomodation website!) and as soon as we landed, the rain started. It was a very cold weekend and I was not prepared. I hadn't unpacked from Whitianga, so I had 2 Summer dresses, one pair of shorts, and one pair of leggings with me. I had to resort to wearing stockings under my shorts - but at least my legs looked tanned!
My brother's 21st was very low key. It started at 7pm so by the time we did the speeches, it was about 10.30 and I was tipsy. Neat. I gave a short, impromptu drunk speech and when I'm drunk, I think I'm funny, but I can accidentally be offensive. I don't think everyone wanted to know that my brother was in an uncompromising position with his girlfriend once when our step father walked in to offer them pizza! Hahaha. Ahem, and now I'm sober and telling you that story. Oh, what a good sister I am.

  
Poull & me
The venue!
Some of Poull's mates

My brother didn't do a Yard glass but he did have the traditional photo board at the entrance with some classics like these...

   
The photo board
Poull naked as a baby
Poull showing off his ... er... muscles?
Me holding Poull when he was born


And here's Seven with the balloons

While we were in Christchurch we caught up with Paul & Chantelle, our Three Strangers & A Wedding couple.



They live at Paul's dad's Horse Stables where they train horses for Trotting. Chantelle is heavily pregnant and due to drop in about 5 or 6 weeks. They are very excited about the baby's arrival but nervous about the birth itself. (They've heard all the horror stories at Ante-Natal class).



We own a share of a horse with Paul & Chantelle called '3 Strangers'. She's beautiful.



Paul and his dad took 3 Strangers & another horse around the track for a blat.

 

And then Paul told Dom he wanted HIM to ride one of the horses around!! Dom was very nervous, but he got all kitted up and reluctantly did it.

   

WATCH THE VIDEO HERE..




Back home again now and catching up with lots of friends because I really don't have much time during the working year to do so. Last night I went out with some of the mums from Seven's school for a girls night. We drunk too much again and were mixing our own mojitos at the bar!



I got home at 1am and today I'm feeling sorry for myself again. I have to start my detox soon in preparation for IVF so I'm just making the most of it! Haha. (Well, that's my excuse anyway!)

THURSDAY 7th JANUARY

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

New Years Eve a group of us went to a flash Auckland restaurant for dinner and then ended up at a bar in Sky City. There was an incredible Fireworks display at midnight but the crowds were ridiculous so we stayed inside the bar and watched on the TV! I was having a great night but had to get home at 2 to relieve the babysitter.



Since then we have been in Whitianga. I LOVE that place. It's usually quite a quiet town but it's humming over Summer. Tonnes of beaches, although it's not a surfing destination. It's huge for boating, fishing, and flat water sports like jetskiing, windsailing, Kayaking etc. Not that we did any of that. There is a pool at the place where we stayed so we spent half the day beside that watching Seven. He loves being in the water so nagged at us from the minute he woke up until he went to bed to 'have another swim'.

The road trip there wasn't much fun though. Usually it takes about 2 hours 20 but this time it took four hours!! There was a truck crash so we had to drive the long route and we were driving at about 70km the entire way due to SLOW holiday traffic and cars like this.



Once in Whitianga, we settled in and hit the pool. We spent a day at the beach too. Took the little $2 ferry across the Whitianga Harbour to Front Beach. I had lathered myself in sunblock but couldn't reach the middle of my back so I asked Dom to apply my suncreen for me. Once we got the beach, we had all forgotten about the sunscreen and I ended up with stinging sunburn right in the middle of my back!



Dom fell asleep in the sun with his bottle of Corona.



And he has this new feature on his I-phone which adds some interesting effect to photos. He was taking pics of everything. Including his beer in the sand.




My Nana lives in Whitianga too so we spent a day with her. She is 79 years old and told us "it was the best day so far this year!". Hahaha. She has a great sense of humour. We took her to her fave cafe about 25km out of town, then to the Coroglen Pub for a drink and to Hot Water Beach. 

 

We left Whitianga last night to come home for a day because we are going to Christchurch tomorrow. It's my brother's 21st birthday this weekend so we'll party with him and then leave Seven with my mum for the rest of the holidays. One week until we go back to work so we will spend a bit of time next week preparing for the year ahead.

That's the exciting part of my holiday but Dom and I were on TV3's @Seven programme last night showing how else we spend our holiday.

CLICK THE PIC TO WATCH.