I havnt wrote in this for about 2 weeks but have had pre-prepared posts on my laptop. I'm sacking them off as the bar is dead now and its the perfect time to post.
My hip is now completely healed and fit again. The weathers been fairly decent which has luckily coincided with weeks when I've had a good amount of time off work!
I managed to get onto a west coast trip out to Piha again like last summer. This time though it was warm enough to jump into the sea which was on a day that Piha wanted to be rough as fuck! We were getting thrown back a good 20m after each big wave!
Had a few nights out but to be honest nothing amazing to shout about as they are like every other that I've wrote about haha.
Xmas day was pretty epic. about 20 of us all went round to Adams house and from 12 til 6 drank solidly playing save the queen and giving out secret santa. Mine was a big curly wig off Emma which made me look like an 80's Liverpool football player haha
At about 6pm I walked round to Menz's house and played some more drinking games with Gaz, Kate and Menz involving a lot of Jack Daniels and me not understanding the rules. I managed to stay up til 12 to see my Birthday which unfortunately Menz didnt leaving me with no choice but to run into his room naked and abuse him and his cat... oops.
On my 21st I had to be up bright and early to go pick Michelle up from the airport. After a massive rush to get her clothes and me forgetting the tickets and needing to run back to the flat we eventually we are suited and booted and off to the races. It was so hot and everyone was fucked so quickly but it was a good day. My friends finally got meet the missus and they all loved her which was awesome!
We got back into town and wandered over to O'Hagans on the viaduct were a band was playing. I knew I had to last until atleast 9pm because Gerry was coming over from Oz for a couple of days. Michelle crashed and went home at midnight but me and the boys muscled on until about half 3 in the morning with several stripteases and dances on bars!
I've had to work a few days whilst Michelles been up here but I've still got to spend some quality time with her despite our here first proper arguement over something stupid again haha.
Last night we chilled round at Penny's flat watching TV and eating dominoes and today we've spent the day relaxing in the park in the sun. She doesn't fly until 9pm tomorrow so we still until then. We booked our next visit which is going to be in Napier on the 10th. Unfortunately I've been lumped with my Vodafone bill the day after booking which I'm not going to say how much it is but it's alot of money but I should be okay. Things are starting to get intense now which all relationships when your travelling do. We are talking about moving down to Queenstown together and what we're going to do after that which is all good and we both know that it will only happen if we are still together by then and not fooling ourselves that it is going to be hard later on.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Codeine is the shit
Yesterday was the Kiwi Experience Naughty 'n' Nice industry party at the camel. I had the night off work, as I did on Thursday so I did exactly the same during the day which was ice my hip, have something to eat, take my drugs then pass out in bed. Me and Michelle ended up having a little arguement on the phone but It was just due to abit of miscommunication and me over reacting. Gaz might be right, I am going abit soft now haha.
I ended up going down the camel for the meal and staying a little bit for the Industry party, I thought it was only right considering I had been on
all the promo stuff and the numbers were going to be low as Stray were sending 50 industry people down to Raglan for a surf camp.
Bit of a dick move on their part as Kiwi didn't do anything like that when Stray held their party this year.
The party was abit mellow compared to previous Industry's but as soon as the DJ arrived to picked up again and I saw this as the perfect time to retire home
as people were starting to get drunk and bump into eachother which wasn't doing my hip any favors. The swellings gone down and I'm getting more movement but
the bruising has got bigger and blacker which is concerning but I'm going to leave it and hope the drugs and icing continue to work.
It was good to get a good nights sleep and actually wake up for work at the gym not tired for once. I phoned up in advance warning them about my hip
so I've luckily got no appointments today as I wouldn't be able to demonstrate anything.
The only bad thing about having not worked Thursday and Friday is now I'm struggling to boost my hours at The camel which would pay my rent for this week.
I've just down the math and if I work until 4am tonight and pull out an 11 hour shift tomorrow, I am still $50 short of rent and I havn't even taken tax off yet. This will be interesting trying to lend money off people for this week. Me and Gaz have already both missed rent one week so we are changing when we pay to the day after we get payed to avoid this happening again. It's also more and more likely that I will transferring to Wellington as me and Menz were talking about why possibly the bar down there was doing crap and he thinks I would be perfect for it and is keeping an ear out for any news about the managers job there. I could do with the better money and after spending a few days with Michelle in Welly, I've realised that I've ended up getting stuck in Auckland just working and not really having any time to do the fun stuff I should be doing as a traveller so I'm letting my contract run out at the gym in Feb. Leaving me more time to enjoy myself and by then I'll have it sussed what I'm doing for my last year in NZ.
I ended up going down the camel for the meal and staying a little bit for the Industry party, I thought it was only right considering I had been on
all the promo stuff and the numbers were going to be low as Stray were sending 50 industry people down to Raglan for a surf camp.
Bit of a dick move on their part as Kiwi didn't do anything like that when Stray held their party this year.
The party was abit mellow compared to previous Industry's but as soon as the DJ arrived to picked up again and I saw this as the perfect time to retire home
as people were starting to get drunk and bump into eachother which wasn't doing my hip any favors. The swellings gone down and I'm getting more movement but
the bruising has got bigger and blacker which is concerning but I'm going to leave it and hope the drugs and icing continue to work.
It was good to get a good nights sleep and actually wake up for work at the gym not tired for once. I phoned up in advance warning them about my hip
so I've luckily got no appointments today as I wouldn't be able to demonstrate anything.
The only bad thing about having not worked Thursday and Friday is now I'm struggling to boost my hours at The camel which would pay my rent for this week.
I've just down the math and if I work until 4am tonight and pull out an 11 hour shift tomorrow, I am still $50 short of rent and I havn't even taken tax off yet. This will be interesting trying to lend money off people for this week. Me and Gaz have already both missed rent one week so we are changing when we pay to the day after we get payed to avoid this happening again. It's also more and more likely that I will transferring to Wellington as me and Menz were talking about why possibly the bar down there was doing crap and he thinks I would be perfect for it and is keeping an ear out for any news about the managers job there. I could do with the better money and after spending a few days with Michelle in Welly, I've realised that I've ended up getting stuck in Auckland just working and not really having any time to do the fun stuff I should be doing as a traveller so I'm letting my contract run out at the gym in Feb. Leaving me more time to enjoy myself and by then I'll have it sussed what I'm doing for my last year in NZ.
Thursday, December 9, 2010
Me and Morphine don't mix
I've been back from Wellington for a few hours and I can honestly say that I was back to my best in terms of eventfulness!
Monday I had planned to take it easy but I had a phone call off Hayden before I got picked up by Grogan telling me that there was no way I staying in that night
so I didn't. I checked into the hostel after being pounced upon by Hayden at reception and headed to Base to meet up with Michelle, Jeremy and Selah and start drinking.
It was so good to see Michelle again and to see who she has been hanging round with. I didn't like her friends at first (probaly the jealous protective me coming out) but
I warmed to them and they warmed to me. I remember nearly fuck all from the Monday night, I had barely eaten all day and was having drinks forced down my neck. Aparantly me and Michelle ending up leaving the bar around 11pm but it was for the best as we were propping eachother up at the bar according to Selah. God knows how long it took us to walk back to my room as we were just laying on the floor outside base bar for an hour haha.
Tuesday we spent pretty much all day in bed only to get out of it twice to hit up some lunch at the craftsman and I got a sneaky watch of the ashes in there. The 2nd was late on in the evening when we went out drinking. We pre-drunk round at hers and jeremys apartment. Ring of fire is a leathal game and I had the bitch card for the whole entire game which basically meant that I had to do literally everything someone asked of me. For example I had to go meet Hayden and his girlfriend at the elevator naked with only a bottle of beer to cover my bits. We didn't leave the apartment until around 2am and at this point there was only 1 place to go. A small bar on Courtenay Place called Mini Bar. It was a cool little place and after a few drinks we all headed back home about 4/5am.
I made it my mission to have a filled Wednesday and not spend all day bed. I was granted that wish. We woke up and me not realising that Wellington was going to be freezing I packed for warm weather so the first point of call was buying something to keep me warm. We then made our to the flight centre to book her flights up for my birthday. After this we made our way to the museum and this time I did more than 1 floor! We did the virtual ride which was seeing life through the eyes of something different each scene, e.g a bird, rugby ball, sheep etc. By the time we got back it was about 6pm so we grabbed a couple of hours sleep, watched an episode of Gavin and Stacey (which I know have her hooked on!) then got ready to go out. We headed back upto Base to start our drinking. It was Selahs birthday at midnight so we all had a few celebratory drinks for that. It was so funny, I barely moved a muscle all night but had her 2 of her best mates making sure they gave me their blessing haha. At about 1am things took a turn for the worse.
Me and Jeremy ending up having a little playfight which involed me getting smashed into a wall and hitting the deck feeling very ill. I sat down and put some ice on the area with the most pain and carried on drinking. After about an hour I stopped trying to be all manly and gave into the fact that it was causing me alot of pain and had an ambulance phoned for me.
I was told to lie down downstairs while we waited for the ambulance. By this point my hip was obviously sticking out abit and swollen to fuck. The ambulance came and had to get stretchered into it. Right outside the bar aswell. It would have been embarassing but it was actually kinda funny getting my picture taken with everyone. Michelle came with me to the hospital and ended up having to fill in all my paperwork because I was so high off the pain killing drugs they gave me (An IV drop of morphine twice, laughing gas, paracetamol and Coedene)
We ended up leaving the hospital with me dislocating my hip and having 3 hours to spare until I had to get up for my flight. By this point everywhere was closed so we just made for my room and chilled out until I had to leave.
The airport and everything I felt fine, maybe a little high from the drugs still but I was not expecting what happened on the flight. No sooner had we got into the air, I went pale as, felt ill, light headed and really weak. I ended up being sick for the entire hour and I couldn't even grip the water they game me I felt so weak. Possibly the worst hour of my life.
I got off the plane and headed for the CBD to tell the camel that I really couldn;t work for a couple of days. I was so high still from the Morphine and the flight so Mike had to get my prescription and carry my bag up to the apartment before I gave him a spanking on the playstation and passing out on the floor for a few hours sleep.
Monday I had planned to take it easy but I had a phone call off Hayden before I got picked up by Grogan telling me that there was no way I staying in that night
so I didn't. I checked into the hostel after being pounced upon by Hayden at reception and headed to Base to meet up with Michelle, Jeremy and Selah and start drinking.
It was so good to see Michelle again and to see who she has been hanging round with. I didn't like her friends at first (probaly the jealous protective me coming out) but
I warmed to them and they warmed to me. I remember nearly fuck all from the Monday night, I had barely eaten all day and was having drinks forced down my neck. Aparantly me and Michelle ending up leaving the bar around 11pm but it was for the best as we were propping eachother up at the bar according to Selah. God knows how long it took us to walk back to my room as we were just laying on the floor outside base bar for an hour haha.
Tuesday we spent pretty much all day in bed only to get out of it twice to hit up some lunch at the craftsman and I got a sneaky watch of the ashes in there. The 2nd was late on in the evening when we went out drinking. We pre-drunk round at hers and jeremys apartment. Ring of fire is a leathal game and I had the bitch card for the whole entire game which basically meant that I had to do literally everything someone asked of me. For example I had to go meet Hayden and his girlfriend at the elevator naked with only a bottle of beer to cover my bits. We didn't leave the apartment until around 2am and at this point there was only 1 place to go. A small bar on Courtenay Place called Mini Bar. It was a cool little place and after a few drinks we all headed back home about 4/5am.
I made it my mission to have a filled Wednesday and not spend all day bed. I was granted that wish. We woke up and me not realising that Wellington was going to be freezing I packed for warm weather so the first point of call was buying something to keep me warm. We then made our to the flight centre to book her flights up for my birthday. After this we made our way to the museum and this time I did more than 1 floor! We did the virtual ride which was seeing life through the eyes of something different each scene, e.g a bird, rugby ball, sheep etc. By the time we got back it was about 6pm so we grabbed a couple of hours sleep, watched an episode of Gavin and Stacey (which I know have her hooked on!) then got ready to go out. We headed back upto Base to start our drinking. It was Selahs birthday at midnight so we all had a few celebratory drinks for that. It was so funny, I barely moved a muscle all night but had her 2 of her best mates making sure they gave me their blessing haha. At about 1am things took a turn for the worse.
Me and Jeremy ending up having a little playfight which involed me getting smashed into a wall and hitting the deck feeling very ill. I sat down and put some ice on the area with the most pain and carried on drinking. After about an hour I stopped trying to be all manly and gave into the fact that it was causing me alot of pain and had an ambulance phoned for me.
I was told to lie down downstairs while we waited for the ambulance. By this point my hip was obviously sticking out abit and swollen to fuck. The ambulance came and had to get stretchered into it. Right outside the bar aswell. It would have been embarassing but it was actually kinda funny getting my picture taken with everyone. Michelle came with me to the hospital and ended up having to fill in all my paperwork because I was so high off the pain killing drugs they gave me (An IV drop of morphine twice, laughing gas, paracetamol and Coedene)
We ended up leaving the hospital with me dislocating my hip and having 3 hours to spare until I had to get up for my flight. By this point everywhere was closed so we just made for my room and chilled out until I had to leave.
The airport and everything I felt fine, maybe a little high from the drugs still but I was not expecting what happened on the flight. No sooner had we got into the air, I went pale as, felt ill, light headed and really weak. I ended up being sick for the entire hour and I couldn't even grip the water they game me I felt so weak. Possibly the worst hour of my life.
I got off the plane and headed for the CBD to tell the camel that I really couldn;t work for a couple of days. I was so high still from the Morphine and the flight so Mike had to get my prescription and carry my bag up to the apartment before I gave him a spanking on the playstation and passing out on the floor for a few hours sleep.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Weekend before Wellington
I've somehow managed to blag myself a lift to the airport off Grogan and then a lift from the airport to the hostel from Hayley's mate Kate.
She left today so we finally have our lounge back and for her big send off... we watched all 3 Lord of the Rings with a bottle of whisky and a bottle of wine with a massive feed of sausage, steak, pasta and salad haha
I popped into Fusion or as it's now known Fort Street Union and do you know what, I had my doubts but the bar is looking awesome. A kind of Heebie Jeebies vibe for those back in Liverpool. It's got a rooftop garden bar which is decorated with various plants and cool seating. The proper bar has an outside inside feel but its very cool.
I got all the boys in the bar now raping the free internet by downloading all my music and raping the free pool on offer! I can not wait to get back to bed and wake up an hour before my flight... its so close now!
She left today so we finally have our lounge back and for her big send off... we watched all 3 Lord of the Rings with a bottle of whisky and a bottle of wine with a massive feed of sausage, steak, pasta and salad haha
I popped into Fusion or as it's now known Fort Street Union and do you know what, I had my doubts but the bar is looking awesome. A kind of Heebie Jeebies vibe for those back in Liverpool. It's got a rooftop garden bar which is decorated with various plants and cool seating. The proper bar has an outside inside feel but its very cool.
I got all the boys in the bar now raping the free internet by downloading all my music and raping the free pool on offer! I can not wait to get back to bed and wake up an hour before my flight... its so close now!
Return To Waiheke
I don’t know how long it’s been since I last wrote in here so I’m going to guess at about a week. I’m currently just sat at my desk in the gym waiting for my appointment to come in so to pass the time I’m going to write my blog entry. I have pretty much just been working all the time recently and it’s been pretty enjoyable, it also helps that I am beating my revenue targets most nights which isn’t going un-noticed, pay rise fingers crossed!
I have had time to go out and party a bit, not that I remember much of this! Despite saying I was going to save money for Wellington by not going out, I’ve just needed to blow off some steam and ended up hitting the pub crawl. Tuesday was Sammy Spinnetto’s birthday so I took the day off and joined him, Ed, Mark, Tuema, Jason, Marc, Jenna, Katy and Trashy on the Beachbum bus for the day. First beer 9am and downhill from there. It was an awesome day and great to be back on the island. We did the usual nudey beach, supermarket for beers then down to Onetangi beach for a bbq and a topgun style game of volleyball. We only had time for the 1 vineyard but by this time we were all pretty sloshed and ended up rushing to get on the ferry. Sam ended up falling asleep on the ferry so he got abused badly... tried to get up... fell into katy sending her flying and smacking her head on the chair. We were all obviously very concerned... after we stopped laughing.
It was the end of Movember which meant as soon as we got off the ferry we ran upto Globe for a few celebratory drinks before showering and going to Cassette. My memory fades in Globe to be honest but I hear I was quite a nuisance.
I think that by the end of this week I’m going to hand in my notice at the gym, its great and pays well but purely because of what time the shifts are that I’m working, it’s messing up my body clock and every week I dread getting up for work as I’m only managing a couple of hours sleep Friday and Saturday night. I ended up closing up the bar real early Friday night as I knew I wasn’t going to get much sleep.
Work at the moment is a big point of discussion and I’m ready to burst at the seams with excitement as there is something big on the horizon either in Auckland or Wellington. I can’t give away much about what could be going down in Auckland but I could end up managing the biggest bar in Auckland by February. Wellington I can talk about as it’s only a possibility and probably won’t happen but if I talk to the right people and get some luck then it could go ahead. I was speaking to Menz about Wellington and saying that I’m intrigued to see what the bar is like down there as it’s doing shit at the moment. He went on to say that they had gone through 4 managers in the last year and he’s pretty sure the one in charge at the moment is going to get pushed up and that someone from our bar will probably be going down there to take the job. He’s going to recommend me, aparantly.
Things are going well with Michelle, my phone bill is going to be huge next month though! We’re both excited for me to go down on Monday and hopefully if the price of tickets are not too much then she’s going to be coming up for my birthday. I plan on surprising her on new year’s eve as well but that depends on money I have available at the time. I can see this being an expensive time for me but it’s worth it.
I have had time to go out and party a bit, not that I remember much of this! Despite saying I was going to save money for Wellington by not going out, I’ve just needed to blow off some steam and ended up hitting the pub crawl. Tuesday was Sammy Spinnetto’s birthday so I took the day off and joined him, Ed, Mark, Tuema, Jason, Marc, Jenna, Katy and Trashy on the Beachbum bus for the day. First beer 9am and downhill from there. It was an awesome day and great to be back on the island. We did the usual nudey beach, supermarket for beers then down to Onetangi beach for a bbq and a topgun style game of volleyball. We only had time for the 1 vineyard but by this time we were all pretty sloshed and ended up rushing to get on the ferry. Sam ended up falling asleep on the ferry so he got abused badly... tried to get up... fell into katy sending her flying and smacking her head on the chair. We were all obviously very concerned... after we stopped laughing.
It was the end of Movember which meant as soon as we got off the ferry we ran upto Globe for a few celebratory drinks before showering and going to Cassette. My memory fades in Globe to be honest but I hear I was quite a nuisance.
I think that by the end of this week I’m going to hand in my notice at the gym, its great and pays well but purely because of what time the shifts are that I’m working, it’s messing up my body clock and every week I dread getting up for work as I’m only managing a couple of hours sleep Friday and Saturday night. I ended up closing up the bar real early Friday night as I knew I wasn’t going to get much sleep.
Work at the moment is a big point of discussion and I’m ready to burst at the seams with excitement as there is something big on the horizon either in Auckland or Wellington. I can’t give away much about what could be going down in Auckland but I could end up managing the biggest bar in Auckland by February. Wellington I can talk about as it’s only a possibility and probably won’t happen but if I talk to the right people and get some luck then it could go ahead. I was speaking to Menz about Wellington and saying that I’m intrigued to see what the bar is like down there as it’s doing shit at the moment. He went on to say that they had gone through 4 managers in the last year and he’s pretty sure the one in charge at the moment is going to get pushed up and that someone from our bar will probably be going down there to take the job. He’s going to recommend me, aparantly.
Things are going well with Michelle, my phone bill is going to be huge next month though! We’re both excited for me to go down on Monday and hopefully if the price of tickets are not too much then she’s going to be coming up for my birthday. I plan on surprising her on new year’s eve as well but that depends on money I have available at the time. I can see this being an expensive time for me but it’s worth it.
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