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It's a good morning when you're dancing around the lounge to The Beatles, freshly washed and dried but not yet dressed. Hooray for Beatles and cheery-uppy-music.

Yesterday was a fantastically good day, which probably is what led to me feeling good (if a little under-slept) this morning. After work I went over to the Zcattery to go shopping with zcat_abroad - she has offered to make me a lovely winter jersey for the cost of the wool. No one's made me a jersey since mum was alive - she knitted all the time and I still have some of the gorgeous jerseys and cardigans she made. Anyhow, after we looked at pattern books, we beetled off to Spotlight and proceeded find this gorgeous blue wool. Yum. And made a side-trip to Payless Plastics, where I finally got myself a silicone baking tray. Hooray for easier biscuit-baking!

Then it was a quick trip to Massey to collect the vintage parasol I'd bought off TradeMe - I'd put the bid in on it before Ben gave me a lovely parasol as a not-Valentine's present, but I was pleased to get another anyway. It's larger than most of my parasols, and the pattern/colours is different to the ones I have. Hooray for more parasol options with my pretty outfits :)






Coming back from Massey to the wilds of Laingholm, we had a lovely time navigating random back-roads in the Waitakeres, and slowing down to look at some gorgeous houses tucked away in the bush. Very nice, and not something either of us could do with our respective husbands! We spotted an antique shop we want to visit next time we go beetling around, as well...

Back at their place, I was preparing to drive home and enjoy a quiet evening in, when I got a phone call from an old school friend - one I reconnected with on Facebook with and have been chatting to sporadically all week. Haven't seen him for over 13 years, which is nearly half my life - so it's been a while! Long story short, I ended up going via a kebab shop to grab some dinner and then visiting him - whereupon we sat on the back deck, drank copious amounts of Earl Grey tea, he smoked, and we talked for a solid 4 hours. Lots of gossip about others from high school, but also lots about our lives since then, how we've changed, perceptions of the world etc. Was extremely pleasant, it it's nice to reconnect with someone that I never really quite connected with back then.

Definitely doing that again!

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I completely forgot to mention that I had the last of my mercury amalgam fillings out a few weeks back. Getting the final three out was a bitch, and took five injections. It also hit me really hard - I ended up missing work for six days, as I was completely lacking in energy. Have bounced back better than ever though, and *touch wood* my energy levels will just keep improving. Go away, horrible migraine of doom! You're not wanted!



Aaaaaand ... back to work :)