ANZAC weekend....

Went away to Tauranga for a wedding over ANZAC weekend... lots of travelling involved...

Thursday after work drove to Napier and stayed the night with Mum.... Left the dog behind so Mum could dogsit - handy ;)

Friday early in the am left Napier for Tauranga - wedding was at 3pm so wanted to get there around lunch to relax for an hour and then get ready.

Great wedding ;) Photo's to come...

Saturday had brunch at the newlyweds house then cruised back to Napier.

Stayed the night, picked up the dog, caught up with both sides grandparents and then travelled back to Wgtn.

Long trips ;) Lucky we travel so well....

PS - needing $10K to run the netball club this year - any takers?

Must be netball season...

Yep first game (pre-season tournament) of the season and you guessed it - the rain did fall (horizontal even), the wind did blow and the southerly did punish.

Brrrr - talk about cold.

Bloody cold even. Especially when you've been saturated with a downpour at 8.30am in the morning.

But on the bright side most of my girls won their games which means they might get graded quite nicely. Anywho - I guess we'll see when the season starts proper in two weeks.

Also had my first indoor game in 2 years with Matt's work team on Sunday. Bit of fun combined with a bit of frustration at their lack of skills. Nice to play with Matt again and have Fi (wife of matt's ex workmate) with some netball skills down the other end. Had a great hit the deck moment when matt moved into my space and I hit the floor quite heavily - gotta lose those kilos to make for a softer landing! (no jokes about the extra padding please!)

But will be back - we'll see how long I last without getting too frustrated ;)

Green Eyed Monster....

I'm jealous of Marea and Dan Verry.... they are into Day 4 of their Red Baron travels and I'm jealous already!

Well not of the 4 days of no shower and portapotti but still jealous...

Can't wait until May next year - and who knows - might be able to persuade hubby that a longer stay is needed ;)

anywho for those wanting to check out there blog...

http://adventuresofmareaanddaniel.blogspot.com/

For want of another word......

I have no idea what to name this post as I don't really know what its going to be about...

I've been terribly slack at updating this lately so thought I'd better put something up for the odd 2 or 10 of you that actually read this thing...

So been pretty busy the last week with yep netball again - I can tell you that the previous club captain was USELESS and it took me all day to organise the exisiting paperwork into something that resembled an Accounts Payable folder and a general day to day running of the club folder...

Over the last two weeks I have now become more than sufficient in all things related to IRD Witholding Tax for employees, becoming an employer, Incorporated Societies, Staff contracts for non profit societies and general day to day financials (grandad would be proud). What a nightmare. Did I mention that my (new) Treasurer quit on me the day after she became our Treasurer..... Yep a Jack of all trades I'm becoming....

For better or poorer we are yet to see ;)

Bright side of the club I seem to be the popular choice for being club captain! And getting lots of support from club players which is nice.

The Senior half of the club have their first grading day tournament this weekend - normally they have a 4 week window where you play one game a week and depending on the outcome of the 4 weeks you get graded into a grade (funny that). This year they are trialling a one day tournament prior to the season starting to sort the grades first and then move straight into 3 rounds of round robin with promotion/relegation at the end of each round.

Sounds promising - yet to be seen. The Netball Wellington Centre really isn't doing that well this year - was kinda a fiasco last year and they hired this new person to take over but seriously - I could be doing better than how it is run at the moment. If only the job was paying more and I would've seriously thought about applying for it last year.

Anywho looking forward to that this weekend - will be nice to mosey around and see all the senior teams - some of them are looking quite good.

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On the job front we are still working through our 'realignment'. She with Malcolm have gone through our job descriptions and we now have them to comment on - not quite on the formal consultation side of it but nearly there. I have no opinion of work anymore - I tried once and they didn't listen so I'm now just there to pay the bills, save for my Holiday next May, and then back to paying the mortgages. Guess I should start looking at starting a family but next year but will wait to see what the body clock says after the holiday ;)

My money is on putting kids off further to enjoy life a bit more as double income no kids family ;) (no offence to those with kids - just the clock is not ticking for us!)... I wonder if we'll end up being the babysitters since we have no kids of our own!! (god forbid).

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Husband, Dog and Cat are great. Cat antagonises Dog, Dog antagonises Cat, Husband watches the vicious circle ;) quite hilarious.

Righto that's about all - not much about a lot of crap. Must take some more photo's to put up for those who like looking at pretty pics...

Oh and real tragedy for those 7 victims who lost their life canyoning at Sir Edmund Hillary's OPC in Mangatepopo Gorge - I did that exact same thing about 15 years ago and it kinda hits home. What a freak accident.

Love to all out there...

Peace out.

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Dark Ages no more.....

Yep back on Broadband

I couldn't cope.... well actually that's a lie - I needed it for the new role I've taken on -yep you've guessed it - I'm now officially Wellington East's Netball Club's new Club Captain. Doh.

How'd that happen....

Well - it kinda went like this....

1) I resigned from Club Committee 2 days before AGM (25th March)

2) Current Club Captain resigns on night of AGM (27th) March - effective immediately even though her contract is for another year....

3) I can't contemplate leaving the club without a club captain taking care of the club so I take over as Club Captain.

on the condition that the club pay for broadband of course (not that we (club) have any money but hey if they need a club captain and they want me to do the job then the can pay for my internet bills).

So long story short - I'm back on line. Just means I have to actually do something online instead of facebooking, blogging and surfing ;)

oh well!

But ultimately it means that my life is basically NETBALL NETBALL NETBALL and oh NETBALL.....

but I get $5,200 a year for it - that'll help the holiday next year - shame its taxed so high - grrrrr - tempting to almost vote National ;) Surely they can't revoke the interest free Student Loans or KiwiSaver surely????

Love to all those that wished me a Happy Birthday - had a really nice day ;) and love to all those that keep gently reminding me that I haven't been updating my blog - not my fault that work ban facebook and blogs! But I'm back ;)

Peace out....