Quick update

For those of you who thought I'd given up on my blog.....

a) At the moment I have rediscovered reading. I love the library. I am addicted to books. I went in there today to get 1 book and returned with 3 - Ernest Hemingway short stories, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, and a book on French renaissance art - and that one will take ages cos it has small print. I already have 3 books out, plus 3 books borrowed from other people that I am at various stages at. Hmmmmm plus so many on my bookcase that I own that I haven't read that I want to....

b) Had my 1-year anniversary with Karthik the other day and we went out for dinner at the French Cafe and it was really really nice. Such a cool restaurant. We had the dessert tasting platter - 6 mini desserts for us to sample!!!! Heavenly.

c) Ran the half marathon in 2 hours 5 min 54 sec, far exceeding expectations. Yah for me. That's 10km an hour! But the 6 weeks training might put me off doing another although the race itself was fine. Thanks a lot to Karthik for running with me.

d) Made Upma for tea last night - a semolina based Indian dish. A few errors but it was still nice, so I am going to try tamarind rice on Friday - shall be even more interesting! Karthik and I visited an Indian spice store you see so I thought I'd buy the more interesting ingredients and see what I could make. (I rang his mum for the recipes)

e) Dad has moved into a pallative care hospital so he's not at home anymore. I'm going down to chch for the weekend I think it is the 19th of Nov? Mum should be up here in Auck this weekend - we're supposedly going to Pavarotti as a birthday present from me to her. So I can't wait to see her. And it will be nice to be in chch too. Yes, this time I am really looking forward to it!!!

f) Mindy is back from the UK! But I feel like I haven't heard much from her cos she has stopped her blog updating habit. I should probably send her an email!!! And Lisa is off very shortly to meet up with Joy in Europe. And Megan is off to Europe. And I'm off to Australia after Christmas for 9 days, which isn't in the same league, but with my limited time off that's all I've got so I'm looking forward to it, it should be really fun! First trip to Sydney, and we're going to do some driving round too - Hunter Vally, Blue Mountains, Canberra even. (I'm going with Karthik). And Jenna won a scholarship to Germany so she's off there Jan-Feb lucky thing!! But that means she's quit youth choir.. unfortunately for me!!! I'm still hanging in there, but I must say I am not relishing learning the Maori piece I received today in the mail off by heart... good luck me!!!!

Hope all reading this are well.