1. What did you do in 2007 that you’d never done before?

Travelled around the world, went all ovr Europe, UK and visited a few states in America. Also meet my good friend Kayla.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
I didn’t make any resolutions last year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?

My best friend Bernadette gave birth to a gorgeous wee girl Emily
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What states/countries did you visit?
Scotland, England, France, Italy, Germany, Switerland, Austria, Netherlands, Boston, New York, L.A & San Fransicso.
6. What would you like to have in 2008 that you lacked in 2007?

Smaller dress size, get out more, meet new people and overall just have lots of fun.
7. What dates from 2007 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?

February 7th – Emily was born
August 28th – Departed NZ on my big OE
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Stepping outside my comfort zone and travelled around the world for 7 weeks.
9. What was your biggest failure?
Losing some weight.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?

Besides the usual crap with my nose, 2007 was pretty good.
11. What was the best thing you bought?

Tickets etc for my Big OE
13. Whose behavior made you appalled and depressed?
Noone for a change
14. Where did most of your money go?

My Big OE
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?

Besides my Big Oe was meeting my friend Kayla in California and catching up with my sister Kelly.
16. What song will always remind you of 2007?

Our wake up song on the bus on Contiki – Green Day (Holiday)
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
 
a) happier or sadder? 
Happier
b) thinner or fatter? 
Same
c) richer or poorer?
Richer for a while, before I blew it all overseas
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Wish I had more money to do more travel while I was away
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?

Worried about the little stuff
20. How did you spend Christmas?

Did the whole Christmas lunch at my parents place and then moved onto Kurt’s parents for dinner.
21. Did you fall in love in 2007?

Didn’t fall in love but still in love with my long term partner Kurt.
22. What was your favorite TV program?

Heroes and Prison Break
23. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?

Nope I love everyone!
24. What was the best book you read?
A few Jodi Picoult books! Just can’t put her books down.
25. What was your greatest musical discovery?
 
Dunno
26. What did you want and get?

A better year with Kurt in our relationship, and it was a good year for us!
27. What did you want and not get?

More Money!
28. What was your favorite film of this year?

Cant think of anything right at this moment.
29. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?

Went out to dinner with my mates and had a few drinks. Pretty low key but was great.
31. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2007?

Think I dress pretty well, wouldnt mind to just wear trackies and a t-shirt though!
32. What kept you sane?

My Friends & Family
33. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?

I agree with Kayla Britney Spears in 2007 was pretty entertaining.
34. What political issue stirred you the most?

None.
35. Who did you miss?
Kayla and my sister
36. Who was the best new person you met?
The wonderful tour mates on our Contiki trip and little Emily.
37. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2007.

hmmmm..

Today me and Kurt celebrate our 6 year annivesary.

Love you hun!

All I used to hear was “have you read My Sisters Keep by Jodi Picoult” and i’m like no, i only read Cosmo mags .

So I thought what the hell, lets find this book and give it a go, and if anyone knows me i’m not a book reader, not at all.

Well I’ll tell you something, I love reading now especially Jodi Picoult’s books, so far ive read -
- My Sisters Keeper
- Mercy
- The Pact
- Vanishing Acts
- Plain Truth
- Second Glance
- Salem Falls
- Tenth Circle (reading this one at the moment)

Now i’ve got to tell you, if you havent read any of her books then you must, espeically starting with My Sisters Keeper and i’ve just checked out Jodi Picoults website (http://www.jodipicoult.com) and they are turning that book into a movie staring Cameron Diaz as Sara and Dakota and Elle Fanning as Kate and Anne…they start screening start of next year and im really looking forward to it.

Also looks like Jodi has another book coming out called Change of Heart…I still have a few more of her books to read, so hopefully I can read those before her next one comes out.

So who else reads Jodi Picoult?

So after thinking about it for over 8 months, I finally gave in and got a Cricut!

Oh my gosh I love it so much, now I just need more cartridges.

Can’t believe that I havent posted in a long time, so sorry for those that do come here.

1. Glasses or contacts? contacts 2. Martha or Oprah? Martha 3. What food would you like to lick off someone? cream 4. When I’m bored, I… ? eat 5. Salty or sweet? salty 6. In retrospect, do you wish you had studied harder or had more fun? studied harder 7. If I were a Disney character, I’d be… Minnie Mouse 8. What do you wear to bed? nothing 9. What’s your favorite restaurant? Lone Star 10. When I want to be alone, I… ? Don’t get what I want 11. How often do you cook? LOL 12. What makes you blush? embarrasment 13. No matter how desperate I was for a guy/girl, I’d never… ask them out 14. How many days past expiration are you willing to drink milk? yuck 15. Where would you like to go on vacation? Greek Islands 16. What’s the sexiest accent? Italian 17. Fill in the blank: strawberries + cream = heaven 18. Wal-Mart is… different 19. Would you rather listen to the same song or eat the same meal for the rest of your life? thats a hard one 20. How many licks does it take to get to the center of a marble? never gonna happen

Now im not too sure about the new do, too much blonde for my liking…

What do you think?
Blonde is good?
Brunette is better?

So it’s that time again “Movember”, basically on the 1st November you have to fully shave and grow a moustache for the whole month to fundrasie Men’s Health – Prostate Cancer.

 Kurt is taking part in this which is really good, i just hope he goes the full yard and grows a mo and not chicken out and shave it off. Here is Kurt’s profile http://www.whiskerino.org/2007/beardedturtle/180/, leave him a message.

 I must say it’s going to be interesting to see him with facial here, but personally Id probably like it, not sure about a mo, but well only have to wait and see, wont we

My current life in 61 questions(some are missing, I have no idea why)

1. What was the highlight of your day? I must be still waiting for that highlight
2. Who’s car were you in last? my own
4. What color shirt are you wearing? purple
5. How long is your hair? middle of my back
6. Last movie you watched? Zodiac
7. Last thing you ate? Slice of Chicken Pizza
8. Last thing you drank? Diet Coke
9. Where did you sleep last night? in my bed
11. What did you say last? See Ya
12. Where is your phone? On my desk
13. What was the last museum you went to? Sex Museum in Amsterdam
14. What color are your eyes? Hazel Brown
16. When was the last time you had your heart broken? Awhile ago
17. Who/what do you hate/dislike currently? This cold weather
18. What are you listening to? The Rock radio station
19. If you could have one thing right now what would it be? More money
20. What is your favorite flower? Gerbulas (sp)
21. Who makes you happiest right now? Kurt
22. What were you doing at midnight last night? Sleeping
23. Are you left-handed? Yup!
24. What’s for dinner tonight? not sure yet
26. When is your birthday? June 30th
27. Who was the last person to send you a text message? Bernadette
29. Where was the last place you went shopping? Mitre 10
30. How do you feel about your hair right now? Hate it, need a trim and colour
32. AIM or MSN? MSN
33. Where does most of your family live? All over New Zealand
34. Are you an only child or do you have siblings? one older sister
35. Would you consider yourself to be spoiled? sometimes
36. What was the first thing you thought when you woke up? UGH WORKKKK
38. Myspace or Facebook? Facebook
39. Do you have T-Mobile? nope
40. What is/was your favorite subject in school? Art
41. What type of boy/girl do you usually fall for? quiet ones
42. Do you have any hidden talents? nope
43. Have you ever been IN a wedding? Nope, will be next year for my best friends
44. Do you have any children? no
45. Did you take a nap today? no
46. Ever met someone famous? sure, semi famous
47. Do you want to be famous one day? no
48. Are you multitasking right now? Yes
49. Could you handle being in the military? no
51. Do you believe in karma? yes
52. Ever been to Las Vegas? No
53. What are you doing today? working all day
54. Have you ever been gambling? yup
55. Have you been to New York City? yup!
56. Have you ever been out of the country? yes just got back from my Big OE
57. Ever been to Disneyland/world? once
58. Do you have a favorite cartoon character? not really
59. Last thing you cooked? hmmm havent cooked in ages, just got back from holiday
60. Stupidest thing you ever did with your cell phone? dropped it
61. Last time you were sick? Last month, Hooping Cough

So my 7 week big OE holiday is now over . Arrived back in NZ on tuesday morning and it was so good to be home, see my parents, sleep in my own bed and most of all not living out of a suitcase anymore.

It went too quickly but it was a blast. The trip was amazing, best experience ever and im so glad I did it. The 2 jobs I was working to make it all happen really paid off, even though I bitched and moaned about not having a life etc.

Will post pics after this weekend once ive gone through them all.

Wow can’t believe I havent had much time to blog.

As to previous blogs, will have to keep this short and sweet as I dont have much time.

 In Boston now, my sister and I are heading to Vermont today over night, Monday going to King Richards Fare which Monday is Colombus Day! that means big sales 2.

And Friday I finally get to meet a good friend of mine Kayla in La for a little girlies weekend.

I’ll keep this short and sweet as were sitting in an internet cafe in Amsterdam atm.

Oktoberfest was, what can i say, friggen awesome! So much to tell and not enough time to talk about it.

Off to a live sex show tonight and check out the red light district of Amsterdam. Also got a full day tomorrow then back to London to end our tour , but its been great.

Then America here i come!

Arrived in Austria last night, everyone has the Contiki Cough…did a run down to the pharmacy this morning to stock up on drugs.

So sick I can hardly breath and talk, so skipped our optional excursion today which was a big 20km bike ride up the hills for a BBQ lunch. Screw that!

Did white water rafting yesterday, fucken rocked… scary though but it was wicked. Got some photos so when i actually have time ill uploaded them. Probably wont be until i get to my sisters in America.

We have a Black n White themed party tonight, dont think ill be drinking but will go check it out.
Then tomorrow we are off to OKTOBERFEST!!! Bring it on.

Arrived in Austria last night, everyone has the Contiki Cough…did a run down to the pharmacy this morning to stock up on drugs.

So sick I can hardly breath and talk, so skipped our optional excursion today which was a big 20km bike ride up the hills for a BBQ lunch. Screw that!

Did white water rafting yesterday, fucken rocked… scary though but it was wicked. Got some photos so when i actually have time ill uploaded them. Probably wont be until i get to my sisters in America.

We have a Black n White themed party tonight, dont think ill be drinking but will go check it out.
Then tomorrow we are off to OKTOBERFEST!!! Bring it on.

Yay finally found a proper keyboard, but will keep this post short and sweet.

Just got back from spending a day in Venice, my god this city is so gorgeous.
Went up to the bell tower and got a 360 degree view of the city, looked around the shops, had some really good pizza and gelatie…..Gondola ride was awesome, wow so peaceful roaming the canels of the city.

Got a big BBQ and piss up at the camp site in about 30mins and then its off to Austria for 2 days, White Water Rafting is on the agenda for tomorrow. Will have to post more pics when i get home or when i get to my sisters.

Just found out today that the tour actually ends the 29th and not the 30th so need to book another nights accomodation, damn another $250 NZD, oh well just means we might actually get to see abit of London!

Ok take care everyone, catch you all later.

Having a blast, just got back from Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco.

Heading to Italy tomorrow.

Damn european keyboard, so screwed up.

Today was a long trip to Loch Ness which is located not far from Inverness. 3hr drive from Peterhead… and boy did it feel that long too.

When we finally arrived as there some some fights over the map on which path was the best one, we arrived at this gorgeous lake to have a picinic lunch. Unfortantly we didn’t see Nessie the Loch Ness monster

After that we headed into Carrbridge to Landmark Forest Theme Park, the name speaks for itself. Got to see a squirrel for the first time, well actually a red squrriel.

We went up a big mountain called Cairngorm Mountain, they have this cog train that takes up right up to the top for $18 pound, we were pretty much at the top so we decided not to take the train, but to take in the views from where we were.

After being up the mountain we quickly checked out a resort shopping mall, way too expensive, so it was the trip back home, but of course we have to stop for some ice-cream.

Today was a relax day, we were all still tired from the day trip to Edinburgh.
Slept in till about 8am, latest since we have been here.

Took a walk into Peterhead again this morning and had lunch down at the whalf.. another steak pie… best pie ive had.

Jim took us down to the pier and did some fishing. This was the first time I ever fished… and funny enough it was pretty cool, because i even caught something… hahaha it was only about 10cm, so tiny but i caught something. Jim took a photo, well we thought he took one. Had a look at the camera and it wasnt there and the fish was already put back into the sea, so i have no proof only witnesses. Oh well….

Headed out to Longside where Kurt went to school as a kid to check it out, like he said nothing changed, expect they built a whole new school block.

Went out to his aunty’s place and meet his other cousins which were pretty cool, even though they pretty much stayed in there bedroom the whole time we were there and only popped out when we left…..teenagers aye haha

Had a tradional scottish dinner tonight…. Haggus…..your thinking yuck! but actually it was pretty good, reminded me of sausages… but just the thought of whats in it sort of put me off even though it tasted good, and we had a nice German white wine with dinner and Kurt cooked dessert… Well put the apple pie in the oven and dished up the honeycomb ice cream….

Today was a pretty average day, nothing too excitng to report.

There is another day, maybe heading to Loch Ness…. wonder if well see nessie

My flickr photo website is down, once its back up ill post some more pics.
Stayed tuned….

Wow where do I start. Edinburgh is an amazing city.

So our day starts really early was up at 6.15 to leave the house at 7.15am. Being in Peterhead we have to drive about 45min into Aberdeen city to catch the 8.50am train to Edinburgh…..morning traffic is so bad as there is only one way in and one way out of Aberdeen, so you can only imagine how bad it is each morning. Hence the reason why we had to leave early.

Arrived at the train station pretty much on time, got some great seats, a four seater with a wee table. The trip from Aberdeen – Edinburgh was about an 2 hour train ride… ride felt pretty long, but once we got there it was well worth it.

So after emerging from the train station which was Edinburgh Waveley not Haymarket we reached one of the main roads in the city……..wow was I in heaven…. shops everywhere…..but our first destination was down the road to Edinburgh Dungeons….you can see if here at www.thedungeons.com this was really cool experience… got a tour underground to different parts of the building where you had certain setups. First is the Judgement of Sinners.. they got members from the tour to step up to the stand, where she’d read an actual case. Brent (Kurt’s brother) got pulled up and his case was about a cross dresser that eventually got hung etc. After that one it was onto Torture and Disease, this is where they showed you certain tools from the past that they used to torture prisoners. Next was Burke and Hare Anatomy Theatre, Sawney Bean and then Clan Wars, the whole tour was about an hour long, was well worth the experience. One thing that was a let down was when we first arrived they took our photo next to this awesome back drop using props etc.. but purchasing the photo in the end we were told that the unit had broke………would of been nice to be told before i purchased a photo frame for the picture. Oh well shit happends.

Anyway enough of that blabbing on, not good with writing this kind of crap out but hey, someone out there is reading this.

After experiencing the dungeons we headed for a bite to eat and of course the boys wanted Burger King….I tried the BK Smokey Bacon Angus Beef Burger, pretty good but boy my stomach was sore afterwards.

Next stop was Edinburgh Castle…. oh man the hike up this steep street almost killed me…..so unfit…. We walked through the gates and they were just pulling down the grandstand where the Edinburgh Tattoo Festival was the week earlier which we missed ….The castle was amazing….alot bigger than I expected. Just experiencing the history oh what went on back in the day and just the overall castle history was something ill never forget. So worth the $11 pounds. We must of been there for almost 3 hours. The views from the castle were breath taking, we had such a gorgeous hot day we could see for miles from the castle, and of course took alot of photos. Those that know me my camera is always going.
I have Scotland souviners coming out of my ass at this rate. Think Michele has a spending problem…. but hey im on holiday and ive worked my ass off all year for this.

Anyway back to it, after experiencing Edinburgh Castle, we ventured down The Royal Mile…. god damn havent seen so much souviners shops in one area in my life. They were pretty much next door to each other right down the street. Since it was after the Edinburgh Tattoo alot of places had sales!!! Michele loves a good sale.

We had abit of time to kill until we had to get on the train out from Edinburgh back to Aberdeen… so we headed out to one of the malls we saw when we first arrived. Oh the temptations to buy more clothes… but i resisted myself… JUST!!!

So we departed Edinburgh around 8pm but we had a stop in Stirling and wait for another train…. we didnt get back into Aberdeen till about midnight then we had a 45min drive back to Peterhead….. Long day but so worth it.

Sorry this post is late, but im sure you’ll all forgive me.

Thanks Troy and Kayla for the comments you left on my blog, its nice to know that people are viewing this

So Monday 3rd September we all headed into Aberdeen City to take a look around, but most of all to shop, well for me anyways.
Aberdeen is about 40-50 miles from Peterhead, so its a wee bit out of the way but so worth the visit.

First off we headed to the mall, now I cant think what it’s called but this mall was pretty cool. Just the clothes shops are nothing like NZ.
It’s was abit hard not to spend abit of money here, but I did resist myself in a few things, still needed to leave myself some cash for when we arrive in London.

So we ventured around the mall and picked up a few things and headed out to the streets to find the William Wallace statue, and I must say this looks nothing like Mel Gibson hahaha, heres a picture of me and Kurt by the statue.

We headed down to the beach and there is this big amusement park that has all these rides (which is only open in the weekends unfortantly, and this was a Monday), BIG BIG arcade centre like Time Out but much better so we had a few games there etc. They also had Ten Pin Bowling so we had a game of that and I sucked big time…..I wont make any excuses as to why… I just pretty much sucked, came last with only 86 points… haha

 
After checking the amusement centre out we headed for a bite for lunch. Found this place called Frankie & Bennys its was an New York style place. YUMMY!! Has this really good Chicken Burger and have a pint of Stella to wash it down with.

Not really much else happened, checked out a few more shops and headed back to Peterhead and did some grocery shopping, man did we buy shit food… as in unhealthy stuff hahaha. Oh well got to keep remembering im on holiday

Yes i’m up again early, so I’d thought id blog yesterdays adventure.
So the plan yesterday was to head into Stonehaven, which is about 50 miles away from Peterhead, why Stonehaven you say. Stonehaven is home to Dunnottar Castle.

But before then me and kurt took a walk down the pier outside there place and down the beach to the sand dunes, that was nice. Being Sunday most places were shut because Kurt mentioned about heading to Whimpys its like a burger resturant, so instead just popped to the diary and got sum lunch… brought these microwave burger things, now your probably thinking how gross would that taste, but funny enough they were pretty good. We got too kinds and just halfed with each other Flamed Grilled Beef and Chicken. But also we picked up these Cadburys Mini Rolls, they were pretty good to but the best thing ive found so far is Milky Bar Moose Tubs, and those of you that know me pretty well is that i love white chocolate.

 Cadbury Mini Rolls, they are like a chocolate sponge with a white creamy centre covered in chocolate on the outside, will try and get a picture of it.

1. Just a sign in the castle grounds that just explains what part of the castle is what, from the church, stables, brewry etc.
2. View of Dunnottar Castle from the carpark.
3. Us doing the steep decline to the beach then up the stairs to the castle.
4. Me and Kurt at the carpark before heading to the castle.

I must say this castle is the best one we have seen so far $5 pound to enter, think thats about $15 NZD which was so worth it, one thing I didn’t like about it is the amount of stairs we had to climb to get to the castle and get back to the car park, really showed how unfit i was, and my legs were jelly by the time I got back to the car park.

So after doing the tour around the castle we headed back into Stonehave town and grabbed an ice-cream, we were so hot from the walk and it was a beautiful day. Tried a Honey Nought cone, it was average but thats ok the ice cream didnt last long.

Town was pretty small but was good to walk around and check it out.

Found a place that is just like time out so we went in and checked that out. Haha i always like to play those games were you have to grab the chocolates bars etc…. should of seen my bag when we left haha, had a few munchies for the drive home.

Decided to stop off and try Scotlands McDonalds, brought a BBQ Summer Grill, but they forgot the tomatos, after having that i felt so ill… So dont think ill be having that again anytime soon. But the bonus was they were giving away free Coca Cola Glasses.

Lord of the Rings the first one was on last night so the boys sat there and watched that… feeling ill and all i decide to head up to bed and read my book.