You gotta love IRD

It's currently 4.12pm, and I'm on hold with IRD. Like I have time to sit here waiting, although I got to admit at least they have some semi OK music.

Oh, m, gosh! It's 4.17, I'm off the phone. I can't believe it, that would have to be the quickest call to IRD, EVER.

I guess that means I need to get on and do other stuff! Like organising for this holiday. Two weeks is a long time to have everything for!

OK, so the holiday is all planned. 1 week to go.
Tuesday-we leave, and stay 2 nights in Wellington.
Thursday 2pm we get on the ferry, and stay the night in Picton.
Friday we travel to Nelson, stay the night to break up the travelling.
Saturday we head to Greymouth, visiting touristy things on the way
Sunday, onto Christchurch for 2 days of sightseeing before official business
Wednesday to Friday IS official business
Saturday we head back up the east coast, catch the ferry and stay again in Wellington
Sunday we call into friends in Palmerston, don't seem them as much as I would like so looking forward to that, and then onto family in Taihape
Monday we make the trek home, back to our own beds!!

Yes, well, I normally prefer to do my waterblasting in summer, shorts and t-shirt, barefeet, but today, it was long pants, jersey and shoes, which unfortunately got soaked. The thing is, when the house needs to be sold, ya can't wait for summer to do the waterblasting, so we went down to Jons mothers to help get the house and section ready for putting on the market. That took most of the day, so by the time we got home and had Subway for dinner, it was time to get the kids ready for bed, and to settle in and watch Survivor, which is getting interesting (I won't link to it, as it has spoilers on the website, and for once, I would like to be surprised as to who wins)

OK, it's going to shock some, but here I am again. I just have to share my new toy.
A flat screen too, which is so much easier as we have limited space in our computer area.

Thats not the real exciting part though. See the first picture, it has a USB port on the front, so I don't have to keep reaching over the back to plug my camera cable in.
But wait theres more..... see the second picture, with the little flap open, it has 2 more USB ports, for what I'm not sure!

OK, so I just get over this excitement, when I realise something even more exciting, I don't need all these ports, because... I also have memory card slots. Take the photo, insert the card into the slot, and it's all done in 2 seconds.

I'm loving the speed, we went from 120mbRam, to 512, so 4 times more operating memory. The only problem is transfering all the files from the old computer. The other good news is the old computer had 20GB memory, which we had only used half of, this one has.... wait for it.... 160 GB. What on earth are we going to do with that amount of memory? One good thing is, after I have taken a hard copy onto disk of photos, which Jon keeps at work, I can leave them on the computer, means no more searching through disks to find photos from several months ago. Then probably every 6 months or so I'll make another hard copy, to keep.

Right, that's about enough excitement for me.

Righto, it has been kindly suggested it was time for an update.

An update on what?

Nothing much!

It's absolutely freezing here, and Braden is sick, has had the day off today, and therefore I had to take the day off aswell.

Jon is away again this week. Last week Fiji, this week South Island. Talk about extremes! While Jon is away the kids get to take turns sleeping with me, and I couldn't resist taking this photo of Cameron, sound asleep with our cat Rocky.

And while it's not the best photo, (that's what happens when they move away, and you can only snap photos at visits), here is Iesha, now 3 months old.

So we got a new computer on the weekend, and I've spent the day transfering the relevant info, takes awhile, and I see somewhere along the line, my photo banner has been gobbled up. Will have to try to fix that.