haldoor: the road is long, with many a winding turn (scenes-cathedral cove)
Happy New Year everyone! May 2013 bring things you've wanted your way!

I can't seem to make myself post anything I've been meaning to, but I'm making an effort to think about it! The sun came out today, so we took the kids to the beach for the first time this summer - and everyone else had the same idea, obviously! Our favourite local beach was PACKED with cars - before we even got halfway down the metal road to it, a guy stopped his car to tell us not to bother! There were cars lining both sides of the narrow road and it was completely obvious there wasn't a point trying to find parking. So we headed for another beach past it - less well known - and it too was pretty busy, though we managed to park on the metal road and walk down without it taking an aeon. Not the world's greaest beach, but very pleasant and swimming was nice. Sat in the sun for a while after that and just lazed, enjoying the day. Home now and Hubby's got the BBQ underway and I'm sitting out on my brand new deck *beams* writing this. Very very nice, I must say!

I did get a nice swag for Christmas - all things I like/love/want/need, so very happy! I have a photo but I haven't uploaded it. Will post about that when I've sorted the pics. Also need to post reno photos and vids up to 23/12/12, which I'll do eventually too.

In the meantime, here's a writery meme that's going around )
haldoor: the road is long, with many a winding turn (sandpic)
But it's 11.30pm, and although I'm not working tomorrow, I'm a bit tired and I've promised the girlies I will take them to the movies tomorrow morning while their brother is at Kindy (although the strop that caused in LF when I inadvertently let that cat out of the bag was not good - had to lie and say we'll go another day! *ulp* But we may actually ALL go some other time over the long weekend, so not a complete lie). "Charlotte's Web" tomorrow and maybe a cartoon over the weekend at this rate!

Summer, eh? LF was back at Kindy this week from Tues, but the girls don't go back to school til the Wed 7th. I'm not working now til then myself - Tues is NZ's national holiday, Waitangi Day (the Kiwi equivalent of Independence day for want of a better description, though it has caused more controversy than not over the years... and we don't make quite such a big event of it, it's just a day off work - oh, except when it falls on a weekend, then we get ZIP). Anyway, I needed to be home for the girls tomorrow morning because of no school and the hubby being at work, so I decided I may as well have Monday off too and be done with it. YAY! Five day weekend! Woo! Like I've worked so hard over January... no full weeks since the last week before Christmas!

So will hopefully do the beach thing here in the next 5 days. For now, you can have the icon I made out of my sand pic. Have a good end to your own weekends, and may your winter not be too cold (Summer finally got decent over here, btw).

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