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Thoughts while sitting on the train.
It’s been over a year in a city I swore I was never going to live in. And I love it. It’s feels longer though. I have a uniform of shorts, jandals, and t-shirts. I get to be barefoot most of the time. The weather warms my bones. I didn’t realise how cold I constantly was in Wellington. I have a ridiculously central apartment with a balcony garden and sleep with the ranch sliders open because it…
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The boss level year.
The boss level year.
So it’s the 2021 Festival of the Scorpio. After a fantastic morning at the beach, I sat down to reflect to my camera for about 8 minutes. And then I watched The Princess Bride. Because that’s what birthdays are all about. It was a good day!
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Sweating with Pride: My June Challenge
Sweating with Pride: My June Challenge
https://sweatwithpride.com/shellauw There is so much I will say about being in Auckland for almost 6 months… other than, it feels like I’ve always been here. It fits. It fits surprisingly well. It’s the level up I’ve been waiting for, I think. And while I’ll talk more on that later, this post is a little practice in the art of awareness and asking. So, I don’t know if I’ve told you, dear…
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When time is a relative construct
When time is a relative construct
The things you think about a 3am when you wake up coughing. Again. The first time you felt time stand still. It’s usually that old romantic cliché: meeting the love of your life, or something along those lines. Sometimes it’s not that sentimental, it’s being in an accident, or, watching something you feel powerless to stop. It’s always when you least expect it. Mine… was on an October morning…
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And sirens call them on with a song.
And sirens call them on with a song.
Eh, the Great Walks are still coming, my notes look so pretty on paper, and much like everything else I need to whack onto the computer… I’ll get around to it someday. So. I survived my first level 3 snap lockdown in Auckland. And it was very, very, different to the one I enjoyed in Wellington (which was an easing out of level 4, and all that came with it). It was only 72 hours, but I haven’t…
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Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland
Tamaki Makaurau / Auckland
Dear readers, I am still alive, and a few days shy of an entire month here in Auckland. Well, without the weekend in Taupō as a feeder for the Epic 10km swim, and the 5 days on the Heaphy Track in the Kahurangi National Park. But you know, in my own place. Hopefully with a fridge in the next few days. You have no idea how impossible it is to even consider meal planning, let alone all the myriad…
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Stardate 74469.1
Yeah, yeah, I seem to post once a year. Well, things will be different this year. For one, I’m having to adjust to a whole new wardrobe. My Ravelry queue is in for a shock. So is my sense of direction. I am joining the land of the Orcs, and people I’ve missed immensely, and can’t wait to adventure with. I’m joining the melting pot with the warmer weather and the easier ability to get to…
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Vlog 3: Knitting Update mid-talk. Again. In this update I talk about Little Sister's Dress Léttlopavesti Elfe Knitsch Yarn Léttlopi
Vlog 2: Walk fails, some books, and chatting about some knitting.
The whole world's come undone
The whole world’s come undone
It was the weeks ago… Was it really three weeks ago? Time is a blur now. I was home and feeling rubbish – the sinusitis was really causing me great discomfort, and I had already told the office I was going to be working from home “until this all blew over”. My blue inhaler was getting a decent workout, and like everyone else, I was waiting on the midday briefings.
This Monday was different.…
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Vlog 1: chatting away on Audiobooks
Mid-talk… looking awesome.
These are the books I discuss during my chat
Saga land
The Red Necklace
How We Learn
The Silmarillion
House of Earth and Blood
The Rise of Skywalker
Until next time.
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Smelling the roses Two years ago or so, I bought a couple of Albertine roses in the clearance bin at The Warehouse for $3.97 each.
Is this thing still on?
Is this thing still on? Artificially Mythic is back for another decade. Hopefully the transmissions will be a little more frequent from now on in.
Holy amazeballs batman – are you still here? Yeah, ah, it’s been a while and I kinda fell off the bandwagon with life and stuff. But I’m back. I promise.
So. We’re back in the 20’s. Happy new decade! This is going to be full of inane chatter, the occasional vlog, and photos, so pull up a chair and keep me company… or pop in from time to time… or don’t. 2019 was a year in itself, and 2020 is…
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Here we come to a turning of the season
Oh my! Dear reader!
I have so many unfinished drafts to post…
Let me explain. No. There is too much. Let me sum up:
Holy Toledo batman! What a ride. All good things to those who wait, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
This time last year, I was a miserable, frazzled mess of a chook. I was exhausted from pretending to be happy. From grinning and bearing it. From caring too much.
What a difference a…
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14 Hours Homeless
I’m sitting in my lounge, watching the southerly front beating down and the waves on the bay. I’m really incredibly lucky to be inside in this weather. And I know it.
I spent a little under half my life in Africa, and I’ve travelled to places where you’re told not to look the beggars and the homeless in the eyes – “it just encourages them”. Well, you don’t end up living on the street on a whim.…
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The world needs more dreamers
The world needs more dreamers
A long time ago, in another world, I was a high school student that discovered fan fiction. Specifically, I discovered a fanfic called SeaQuest 2042 – it was written by a bunch of uni students in the States as a next season of one of my most favourite shows, with full episodes in script form.
I lurked on the boards, and discussed things, and got to know the community. And along with 3 others –…
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Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
Fanuilos, le linnathon nef aear, sí nef aearon!
It’s my last night in my beloved place in Thorndon. I’ve been here for 4 years. It’s the longest time at a single address since I left the nest. I have always loved this suburb, and I’ve spent the last few weeks walking around with a smile and appreciating the magnolias and cherry blossoms, the tuis at 4am in the kowhai tree a few houses over, and the dulcet tones of the jack hammer at 7am where…
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