I got back from my xmas break on Friday night and spent the next few hours reading hundreds of articles in my Google Reader and watching an episode each of Coronation Street and Dexter. There is so much I want to be posting that I feel kind of overwhelmed and don’t know where to start and then end up doing nothing :S

Hopefully recapping what I did when I was away will clear out some of the clutter in my head so I can go forward and tell you all about my Project 365 and 101 in 1001 :D

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OK, I lie, it’s more like the month in photos…but for posterity’s sake…

• We’ve had a few beautiful days lately. Labour weekend’s Monday was spent at the Botanic Gardens in the sun with a picnic. There are some odd sculptures in the gardens but I liked the one top-middle, the hard shininess was very contrasting to the greenery and dirt tracks surrounding it.
• The fireworks display for Guy Fawkes on the 5th of November was great once again. We were late leaving the house this time so half of it was watched as we were walking towards the waterfront. We saw first hand why mixing fireworks with the public was a bad idea that night. As we passed a school on the way to town we noticed some small flame coloured flickers above one of the buildings, I assumed it was one of those fizzing fireworks being let off up the hill, but it turns out the trees were on fire! A fire engine turned up pretty quickly and saved the day (night) though.
• Cupcakes and frozen banana daiquiris…need I say more? :]

1. Baracks Smile 2. Red Martini

• Barack Obama – I am so in love with America right now, for the first time in my life. I said “I’m so excited” so many times last night. I also likened it to Christmas. And I believe the words “screw the NZ elections we’ve got a black president now” came out of my mouth! (If you’ve just joined us, the reason that is funny is because I am in fact a New Zealander and therefore I do not have an American president at all.)
• Midweek cocktails at Chow – At Chow you get two cocktails for the price of one on Wednesdays. They are delicious. We got a bit drunk celebrating Obama because we hadn’t eaten yet. :S
• Nasal Spray – I have a stupid cold at the moment which is blocking my nose and marking it hard/impossible to breathe through my nose. I couldn’t even breathe well enough to inhale to nasal spray last night but it still cleared it up within one minute. I am so glad I discovered this in the last couple of years, it makes it easier to do everything while you have a cold. No more choosing between blowing your nose or dribbling everywhere while you’re at the movies!
• Handwritten letters and printed photographs – I received a letter in the post from my littlest sister yesterday. She’s been very sick with adrenal gland failure for the past three months and has missed school all that time. She decided to write to keep up her vocabulary and such. She’s 13 but has acted like a 30 year old since she was a baby. :D Enclosed with the letter was a photo of her, almost all of my photos are digital these days so it’s special to have a few printed ones.
• Non religious Prime Ministers – I’m an atheist so while I support the religious Obama I prefer secularism. I was happy to hear both John Key’s and Helen Clark’s responses to questioning on their religious views were that neither of them are deeply religious. John Key does not believe in life after death and doesn’t know if there is anything up “there”, Helen is already well known as an agnostic. I’ve had less luck finding out the religious views of Jeanette Fitzsimons and Russel Norman, leaders of the Green Party, who I am probably going to vote for (I can’t believe I’m still um-ing and ah-ing about it!).