New Beginnings....

So the past 24hrs have been rather exciting ☺

'A' and I moved into an apartment which we are sharing with a lovely Brit dude! who we have hardly seen since we moved in... The down side of the apartment is no more Sea views! but we can see one of the mountains when we are on the balcony and the place is absolutely gorgeous :) so we can handle the no sea view...

We both feel a lil more relaxed and happy & the fact we are not completely living out of suitcases now is a bonus! It feels like an actual home! hahaha something I have extremely missed the past few months... Sadly its a place where we can't have pets so still without my fav lil four-legged friend... But eventually we shall be reunited ☺


So this weekend brings New Beginnings with the fact we now have somewhere to live.... along with watching my application for AUT progress through things.... as well as some other decisions I made this week.... 

I also get to celebrate a little for the fact I have now dropped something like 4dress sizes in 5months! which I am quite shocked but also happy with ☺ It means things are slowly getting back to what they were before I got sick..... 

Looking back over the goals I set myself in January, thus far I can actually tick off quite a few of them, even though some look like I wont achieve for a bit longer but that's fine... Rome wasn't built in a day as they say, and I know in the past year alone I have come a long way from where I was when I first moved home to CHCH to help mum etc....

I have become my own person again after everything, although still one that will always put others before myself. But I also have found that it makes me happy to do so. I have become more creative and have even picked up some clever new skills too.... Although I have to say I am still not that great on the knitting front but I shall keep practising after 'J' taught me earlier in the year....  Admittedly with Christmas approaching I am really missing my Cuttlebug and being able to start getting creative with christmas cards etc :(  looks like this year everyone will be getting store bought ones.... 

I have started my Christmas shopping as of this week though ☺ which is a miracle in itself as normally I don't think about it till at least the second week of December....


Today I am missing being home in Christchurch a bit... reason being... Its show day! I love going to the A&P show in Christchurch... Its usually the highlight of the year.... along with Cup day! and whats worse is I have the perfect dress I could have worn to Cup day this year *sigh* oh well! I made the decision to leave so now I must just keep going ☺

This week 'A' and I got to see Prince Charles and his wife Camilla while they were in Auckland as part of the Queens Diamond Jubilee celebrations... We managed to get a couple of photos, nothing too exciting but it was nice to say well we have been and seen that now... 



So I guess thats it for this weeks update... Will have to take some photos of the apartment and pop them up next week....