Another weeks gone by and to be honest I've been working so much that there hasn't been an amazing amount to comment on.
I've had work Monday, Wednesday and Friday night at the bar (I was due to work tonight - Saturday- but with my lack of sleep I've been kinda ill all day so Aaron's covering me. I had Tuesday and Thursday off work so I did the camel quiz then Cassette and the pub crawl pn thursday but left both kinda early.
I've been speaking to Michelle alot recently and It's pretty set in stone that im flying down to Wellington for a few days in December. I might be scoring some
free/cheap accomodation aswell. This time I'm actually going to get out and about and see Wellington! I might be working in the Wellington Nomads bar as I'm abit
of a hot streak at the moment and smashing my revenue targets on the bar. I now no what I'm doing for my 21st... going the boxing day races at Ellerslie park, should
be awesome! Apart from that it's pretty much everything except me gaz and hayley bought a playstation before but it doesnt work :(
I'm glad I've got the night off tonight, I can grab some much needed sleep and hopefully feel alot better tomorrow morning for the gym
Sunday, November 21, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
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Touch was fun but showed how unfit I have become! after only 10mins I was puffing my heart out! It was so good to get the ball in hand and run at people again although
I did get a little too into it and instead of just taking the tackle on one occassion, I went for the dive in the corner and cut up my forearm and knees which sent blood gushing out of them, ahhh just like old times!
After touch rugby I went down the camel for a drink to say bye to Michelle and her friends before they left in the morning and then retired back to the apartment.
I woke up to a text from Michelle saying "fuck stray up the arse", i thought to myself that surely she couldn't be hating the bus already but turns out there was a mistake and it was fully booked and they had to wait until Saturday for the next one.
I was kinda happy though as It meant I would have a little more time to hang out with them. In the afternoon Michelle came round to watch a movie and then we walked back to The Camel to start the pub crawl. It was Franzi's birthday so we only had a couple of drinks in The Camel before moving on to Danny Doolan's to celebrate.
After a couple of hours I left to meet back up with Michelle on the pub crawl. She was an absolute mess and I ended up for her own good bringing her back to the flat as she could barely stand haha.
Friday we had a lie in and caught the bus upto Ponsonby to have a late breakfast and a stroll up K' road. I had to work Friday night and thus the start of my work weekend
of Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Sunday Night (around 10 hours sleep across 3 nights) so i grabbed a couple hours sleep before heading to work.
It was such a stressful night as everything that could happen, happened at exactly the same time but Michelle had come in towards the end of my shift which cheered me up.
We went for a drink after I had cleaned and cashed up then went back to her dorm room to spend the night as she was up early to get on the bus proper. Sleep didn't really happen as it seemed every in the room just watched to to stay up and find out who this mysterious person was in Michelle's bed haha.
I left her at 6am to run up to the apartment to get showered and changed for work. I can get my bus to the gym from around the corner from her pick up point so I was able
to see her off. We made loose plans to meet up again in Nelson/Wellington and Auckland. I want to but I very much doubt that would happen.
Saturday was horrible in work due to my complete lack of sleep and wasn't the best either considering for the first time in quite awhile I was actually genuinely missing someone.
Saturday night I had to work but it was pretty dead to be honest. I closed up at 1am, popped into Fusion to say hi then heading home for some sleep.
Today work was pretty standard really. I sat on the computer for abit checking prices for a short trip down to Nelson and back in December. It's going to pricey.
I can't take too much time off work as I need to pay rent so that rules out the Stray bus. I could fly down which would cost close to $400 but means I would have more time
in Nelson. If I get the bus down It would be around $80 cheaper but I would be on the bus for around 11 hours and have to spend the night in Wellington.
I did get a little too into it and instead of just taking the tackle on one occassion, I went for the dive in the corner and cut up my forearm and knees which sent blood gushing out of them, ahhh just like old times!
After touch rugby I went down the camel for a drink to say bye to Michelle and her friends before they left in the morning and then retired back to the apartment.
I woke up to a text from Michelle saying "fuck stray up the arse", i thought to myself that surely she couldn't be hating the bus already but turns out there was a mistake and it was fully booked and they had to wait until Saturday for the next one.
I was kinda happy though as It meant I would have a little more time to hang out with them. In the afternoon Michelle came round to watch a movie and then we walked back to The Camel to start the pub crawl. It was Franzi's birthday so we only had a couple of drinks in The Camel before moving on to Danny Doolan's to celebrate.
After a couple of hours I left to meet back up with Michelle on the pub crawl. She was an absolute mess and I ended up for her own good bringing her back to the flat as she could barely stand haha.
Friday we had a lie in and caught the bus upto Ponsonby to have a late breakfast and a stroll up K' road. I had to work Friday night and thus the start of my work weekend
of Friday night, Saturday morning, Saturday Night, Sunday Morning, Sunday Night (around 10 hours sleep across 3 nights) so i grabbed a couple hours sleep before heading to work.
It was such a stressful night as everything that could happen, happened at exactly the same time but Michelle had come in towards the end of my shift which cheered me up.
We went for a drink after I had cleaned and cashed up then went back to her dorm room to spend the night as she was up early to get on the bus proper. Sleep didn't really happen as it seemed every in the room just watched to to stay up and find out who this mysterious person was in Michelle's bed haha.
I left her at 6am to run up to the apartment to get showered and changed for work. I can get my bus to the gym from around the corner from her pick up point so I was able
to see her off. We made loose plans to meet up again in Nelson/Wellington and Auckland. I want to but I very much doubt that would happen.
Saturday was horrible in work due to my complete lack of sleep and wasn't the best either considering for the first time in quite awhile I was actually genuinely missing someone.
Saturday night I had to work but it was pretty dead to be honest. I closed up at 1am, popped into Fusion to say hi then heading home for some sleep.
Today work was pretty standard really. I sat on the computer for abit checking prices for a short trip down to Nelson and back in December. It's going to pricey.
I can't take too much time off work as I need to pay rent so that rules out the Stray bus. I could fly down which would cost close to $400 but means I would have more time
in Nelson. If I get the bus down It would be around $80 cheaper but I would be on the bus for around 11 hours and have to spend the night in Wellington.
Okay, So I'm getting pretty bad at keeping up with this
Okay the past few weeks (month maybe, I'm not sure) has been so hectic and I havn't had enough time to sit down and write in the blog.
I've kept a few notes in my phone of things to write about in here so here goes;
Council House - this refers to when me and Gaz where flat hunting and found a pretty sweet one after I'd 3rd viewing. It looks like a right dodgy council estate from the outside but inside its kinda cool. Living room, kitchen, balcony, 2 double bed rooms (one with ensuite) and a bathroom with a washer and dryer in.
Karina - haha erm this refers a certain night out where my memory completely fades. It was Julie's birthday so we all went out on the pub crawl and I ended up
taking home a friend of hers. I think in an act of karma about my sleezyness, the alcohol affected me and let's just say she left disappointed haha.
Metallica - Fuck, I have found new hatred for Metallica! They were playing in Auckland and for a few days we were over run with Miserable metal heads dressed in black.
They ruined both Nomads hostels by being complete fuck wits and punching holes in walls and pulling off water basins resulting in 2 floors getting flooded. Literally
no need at all! I also couldn't go and have a quiet drink in the camel 'cos it was over run with these idiots and therefore heavy metal music was played 24 hours in the camel.
Cassette - now this pops up several times so I'm just going to try and remember significant moments from the past few times there. Met some cool people there and took a few home (sleeze bag, i no) the bar tab is really not good for me... get really drunk and instead of having a quiet drink with the boys, I end up looking to pull.
Pimps n Hoes - Wednesday night bar crawl. You guessed the theme. Me and Ed from Frienz spent all Wednesday day trying to get our costume... him being my pimp and me being his ho.
He went for the purple austin powers look and I went for the dirty-farmer-tractor-batch look. just look at the pictures. From what I remember it was a pretty cool crawl. With some good
stories coming out. e.g Luke going back to a students halls only to wake up and realise she was twice his size and he couldnt get out the building... dressed in girls clothes.
Frenzi - god knows, its so long ago ive got no idea what this means. I'm going to hazard a guess at a crazy night
Lunch with Kat - I bumped into Katrina as she came back from the bay of islands and had a few hours to kill so we went down to the pier and had some lunch in the sun. It
was really cool to see her again and she assures me she's back out here in February. Emma Clifford is going to get so much stick when I see her as I was the last person to see Kat before she left!
Last Shift - I had my last shift at Fusion as I was due to move into the apartment with Gaz and start my job at Massey University on the north shore working in the gym.
Rugby - Me, Adam, Natalie (his girlfriend) and Mike their friend from back home scored free tickets to go watch Auckland play Otago. It was fucking freezing, I was ridiculously shattered but free tickets are a plus in my book anyday!
Hot tub - when I got back I jumped in the hot tub with Luke, Lucy and Carmel. Not much to shout about, not sure why thats in here.
Parnell - Becky was on the job hunt hard. We went up to Parnell rd to try and find her a job. Had a coffee in esquires and just sat there chatting for hours with Rossy and Nina.
When we left we walked back to the CBD and to the Viaduct harbour to see if there was anything there going. She scored a trial at degree and celebrate we went to the waterfront to surprise Franzi and have a drink there.
Camel - I got offered a trial by Menz for the Tuesday (only 3 days after I left Fusion) this was to be the start an absolute hectic time.
Move In - Me and Gaz moved into the apartment on the Thursday but I had very little time to move everything in as I had to be at the gym to start my first shift
on Friday morning.
Gym - As i said my first shift. 2 hours of it was spent on the phone to immigration and HR coming to an agreement on my contract.
Function - I had my first job with Function Staff working at a V.V.I.P wedding at the Wharf. The venue is amazing and costs $25,000 to hire out. It comes right out into the water and has the harbour and the cbd as its back drop.
Food on the deck - Me and gaz had a meal in the sun out on our balcony soaking up the sun to celebrate moving in. Our view is just sick. We get a 180 degree view from
the harbour to K' rd looking out to Ponsonby.
We've had a few people round to visit the apartment and have gone through so much booze in that time! Abby came round and then we had one of gaz's mates from Queenstown stay over for a few days.
Halloween - This night evades me completely. I remember being in the flat with gaz, lucy, charlotte, dave, Lindsay and carmel. Me and gaz were chugging back our beers and painting each other blue so we could go as smurfs. Bad idea. Clothes and the apartment covered in blue paint now. I spent the night at the camel to start with as it was rocking!
I remember pulling trashys mate again and thats about it really. I think I went to margeritas and Code but I cant be too sure. I forgot I had to get up at 7am in the morning to go work in the gym... I was still covered in blue :/
Initiation - not much of an initiation as I've been doing it time and time again anyway and continue to do it. But I had to do a strip tease on top of the pool table infront of everyone which is now on youtube.
Apart from that I've just been working solidly (clocked close to 50 hours a week) the weekend is a killer as im working friday night til about 3. up at 7am to go the gym til 1,work at 4 til close (so around 4am) then up at 7am again for the gym til 1 then back in the bar 4pm til close.
I love working in the bar as now I'm a duty manager and it's good for picking up girls (Canada's been kind to me) and let's just leave it at that.
I'm in 2 minds at the moment as to whether to look for a girlfriend or continue being sleeze. It is fun and I've met some great people but for example there's been a Candanian girl called Michelle that I've been spending time with and hooking up with for the past few days which has been so much fun and I quite like her and she's so easy to talk to (we stayed up all night last night just talking) but she leave's tomorrow which is gutting. I know if I have a girlfriend I won't have this problem but will I just get bored? Fuck knows.
Right, well I think that's almost everything (there'll be loads i've forgot as its been so long) and now I'm off to Victoria Park to play some touch with the hostel.
I've kept a few notes in my phone of things to write about in here so here goes;
Council House - this refers to when me and Gaz where flat hunting and found a pretty sweet one after I'd 3rd viewing. It looks like a right dodgy council estate from the outside but inside its kinda cool. Living room, kitchen, balcony, 2 double bed rooms (one with ensuite) and a bathroom with a washer and dryer in.
Karina - haha erm this refers a certain night out where my memory completely fades. It was Julie's birthday so we all went out on the pub crawl and I ended up
taking home a friend of hers. I think in an act of karma about my sleezyness, the alcohol affected me and let's just say she left disappointed haha.
Metallica - Fuck, I have found new hatred for Metallica! They were playing in Auckland and for a few days we were over run with Miserable metal heads dressed in black.
They ruined both Nomads hostels by being complete fuck wits and punching holes in walls and pulling off water basins resulting in 2 floors getting flooded. Literally
no need at all! I also couldn't go and have a quiet drink in the camel 'cos it was over run with these idiots and therefore heavy metal music was played 24 hours in the camel.
Cassette - now this pops up several times so I'm just going to try and remember significant moments from the past few times there. Met some cool people there and took a few home (sleeze bag, i no) the bar tab is really not good for me... get really drunk and instead of having a quiet drink with the boys, I end up looking to pull.
Pimps n Hoes - Wednesday night bar crawl. You guessed the theme. Me and Ed from Frienz spent all Wednesday day trying to get our costume... him being my pimp and me being his ho.
He went for the purple austin powers look and I went for the dirty-farmer-tractor-batch look. just look at the pictures. From what I remember it was a pretty cool crawl. With some good
stories coming out. e.g Luke going back to a students halls only to wake up and realise she was twice his size and he couldnt get out the building... dressed in girls clothes.
Frenzi - god knows, its so long ago ive got no idea what this means. I'm going to hazard a guess at a crazy night
Lunch with Kat - I bumped into Katrina as she came back from the bay of islands and had a few hours to kill so we went down to the pier and had some lunch in the sun. It
was really cool to see her again and she assures me she's back out here in February. Emma Clifford is going to get so much stick when I see her as I was the last person to see Kat before she left!
Last Shift - I had my last shift at Fusion as I was due to move into the apartment with Gaz and start my job at Massey University on the north shore working in the gym.
Rugby - Me, Adam, Natalie (his girlfriend) and Mike their friend from back home scored free tickets to go watch Auckland play Otago. It was fucking freezing, I was ridiculously shattered but free tickets are a plus in my book anyday!
Hot tub - when I got back I jumped in the hot tub with Luke, Lucy and Carmel. Not much to shout about, not sure why thats in here.
Parnell - Becky was on the job hunt hard. We went up to Parnell rd to try and find her a job. Had a coffee in esquires and just sat there chatting for hours with Rossy and Nina.
When we left we walked back to the CBD and to the Viaduct harbour to see if there was anything there going. She scored a trial at degree and celebrate we went to the waterfront to surprise Franzi and have a drink there.
Camel - I got offered a trial by Menz for the Tuesday (only 3 days after I left Fusion) this was to be the start an absolute hectic time.
Move In - Me and Gaz moved into the apartment on the Thursday but I had very little time to move everything in as I had to be at the gym to start my first shift
on Friday morning.
Gym - As i said my first shift. 2 hours of it was spent on the phone to immigration and HR coming to an agreement on my contract.
Function - I had my first job with Function Staff working at a V.V.I.P wedding at the Wharf. The venue is amazing and costs $25,000 to hire out. It comes right out into the water and has the harbour and the cbd as its back drop.
Food on the deck - Me and gaz had a meal in the sun out on our balcony soaking up the sun to celebrate moving in. Our view is just sick. We get a 180 degree view from
the harbour to K' rd looking out to Ponsonby.
We've had a few people round to visit the apartment and have gone through so much booze in that time! Abby came round and then we had one of gaz's mates from Queenstown stay over for a few days.
Halloween - This night evades me completely. I remember being in the flat with gaz, lucy, charlotte, dave, Lindsay and carmel. Me and gaz were chugging back our beers and painting each other blue so we could go as smurfs. Bad idea. Clothes and the apartment covered in blue paint now. I spent the night at the camel to start with as it was rocking!
I remember pulling trashys mate again and thats about it really. I think I went to margeritas and Code but I cant be too sure. I forgot I had to get up at 7am in the morning to go work in the gym... I was still covered in blue :/
Initiation - not much of an initiation as I've been doing it time and time again anyway and continue to do it. But I had to do a strip tease on top of the pool table infront of everyone which is now on youtube.
Apart from that I've just been working solidly (clocked close to 50 hours a week) the weekend is a killer as im working friday night til about 3. up at 7am to go the gym til 1,work at 4 til close (so around 4am) then up at 7am again for the gym til 1 then back in the bar 4pm til close.
I love working in the bar as now I'm a duty manager and it's good for picking up girls (Canada's been kind to me) and let's just leave it at that.
I'm in 2 minds at the moment as to whether to look for a girlfriend or continue being sleeze. It is fun and I've met some great people but for example there's been a Candanian girl called Michelle that I've been spending time with and hooking up with for the past few days which has been so much fun and I quite like her and she's so easy to talk to (we stayed up all night last night just talking) but she leave's tomorrow which is gutting. I know if I have a girlfriend I won't have this problem but will I just get bored? Fuck knows.
Right, well I think that's almost everything (there'll be loads i've forgot as its been so long) and now I'm off to Victoria Park to play some touch with the hostel.
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