over the weekend a colleague of mine died. heart attacks can go to hell as far as i'm concerned. i only saw him once or twice a year, but he always left an impression. usually an irreverent one. he was too young to die, basically.

his tangi is some time this week in whakatane. i think i might go. irreverence and being a warm person needs to be acknowledged.

it is hard to have follow up news to this, especially when your fingers are blistered from being the best guitar hero you can be. but i have to tell you that i saw penguins today when i was eating my lunch on the waterfront. PENGUINS. sometimes nature just gets it right.

the problem with having a night on the town with a different group than you're used to is that you end up listening to disco music and holding hands with some random boy.

and it doesn't look this cute either. but his dancing was below par and i was hungry so i escaped to kenny's cafe for a cheese burger. it was gross, obviously, but also entirely delicious. and now i'm lying in bed trying to digest it while watching sarah palin vlogs. the US presidential election is the new olympics. in other words, i'm obsessed.

that gorilla from my last post continues to be hilarious. i have become the most frequent visitor to my own blog. just to get my three times a day dose of the gorilla going phil collins on the drums. i might get fired for excessive internet use at work.

speaking of work, i wore a suit this weekend. which is almost as hilarious as the gorilla given that i refuse to wear suits at work. i went to a hospital themed party as a bureaucrat. complete with post it notes and red tape. and a great opening line for any hot doctors i came across. something about tying them up in red tape for months. anyway, i didn't use it.

i did get stabbed in the head though.


today i went to see shetland ponies at the most awesome museum slash farm slash cafe that i've ever been to in my life. just to be clear i am only linking it so that you know for sure that YOU ARE NEVER ALLOWED TO GO THERE WITHOUT ME BECAUSE I WOULD DIE OF JEALOUSY. we went there for ryles's birthday. that's right: the most choice two year old just became the most choice three year old. his treat was going to see the model railway and feeding the shetland ponies. but he was more interested in pretending the disability access toilet cubicle was a spaceship. we ate chocolate mud cake too.

and by the way i can't believe ryles is three. because it seems like just yesterday i was in the hospital arguing with nurses and worrying about the pipe things coming out of his teeny tiny nose.
and now he's singing happy birthday and blowing out three candles without any help. he's such a show off.

i like:

• otters

• to yell "savage where the chorus at?" that's a reference to a song. an awesome song that is being rereleased or something. i don't pretend to understand the Industry. anyway, check it out thanks to the magic of the internet http://www.mediafire.com/?ajdjm1mvunn
• drycleaning. i know it is bad for the environment. and i hate that aspect to it, obviously (so it is just as well i have a high tolerance of filth). but i just love having clean clothes on coat hangers waiting for me to pick them up. plus, based on zero evidence, i have decided my local dry cleaner uses the environmentally kinder type of dry cleaning fluid that i read about on wisegeek.com.
• america's most smartest model, and c4 for screening it on an otherwise lame television night. spoiler alert... the link i'm about to give you tells you who won... LINKS RULE
  
• the sound of music.
  
• flowers. and people who send me them at work.
• my new deadly ponies handbag. which might be the most beautiful slash expensive thing i've ever bought.
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• how people still read my blog (according to my calculations at least) even though i've been a slack writer these past weeks.