Sunday, August 27, 2006

MOVED IN!

Spent all weekend moving in.
Still haven't finished unpacking!
*exhausted*
:D

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Tree Tree Baby David!

Bree: Then one time, I believe it was July

Nellie: August.

Bree: August. I knock on the door. James opens it, and there's this cute little baby scout.

Nellie: And he was so adorable, with his little Ford hat and all.

Bree: And Jame’s says to me, "How would you like some cookies?" And I said "Well, what kind do you have?" He had thin mints, graham crunchy things-

Nellie: Raisin oatmeal.

Bree: Raisin oatmeal, and I said "We'll take a graham crunch. How much will that be?" And he looks at me and he says, "…Uh I need about tree-fiddy."

Nellie:…Tree. Fiddy.

Bree: Well, it was about that time that I notice that David was about eight stories tall and was a crustacean from the protozoic era.

Nellie:The Loch Ness monster.

Bree:I said, "Dammit monster! I ain't gonna give you no tree-fiddy!" It said, "how about just two-fiddy?" I said, "Oh, now it's only two-fiddy!! What?! Is there a sale on Loch Ness munchies or something?!"

Nellie:Lord, ‘e was angry.

Bree: Damn right, I was angry!

Nellie: Not you, the baby. He was about to kick your ass.

Bree: Aah, shut your mouth, woman!

Monday, August 14, 2006

SchwarzHaus

I'm moving to Milford!

Here's a picture of the house.

It needed a name. Ray et al. had already started calling it the palace in email conversations.... because it looks so frekin' big from the photos.

Fair enuf, it does have 2 kitchens, we joked that one could be for the servants... (but seriously if anyone does have spare servants I wouldn't mind!)


To be in keeping with the current flat naming theme (colour + noun) eg: Green Pub, White Lady, Minty Fresh... we thought we should wack a colour in front of palace
Peach Palace
Purple Palace

Pink Palace

all ruled out for being too ghey!

Champagne Palace
was pretty popular (yes champagne is a valid colour choice, Subaru makes champagne cars don't you know?!) but the hoegaarden was flowing freely so we figured we could come up with something better...

Silver Palace -rame!
The Milf -ewww! but they thought the could improve on this by changing the acronym
Midget Incrusted Lavender Fort -umm... I'm not really a midget! and Lavender should only be used when referring to the plant (good call James)

The Shaved Badger

The Shaved Panda -
no comment

Smash Palace
-This one's awesome, I love it although the validity of Smash as a colour is contentious.

So then we started chucking around some colours...
fuchsia, yellow, blue, green (taken), white(also taken).... what about white things?
Snow Palace
Ice Palace
Ice Fort
all very appealing to the skier within!

So then somebody came up with the idea of Art Haus and the hunt was on for a colour that rhymed with Art. Fart is NOT a colour! Until our English colour chart was exhausted and we had to search other languages. Rouge (too Moulin!), vert (nope, green is already taken), what about german colours.... well I tell you, no one knows much German! In fact the only German colour we managed was schwarz (black) and wouldn't you know it, Schwarz Haus, sounds pretty darn close to Art Haus... when pronounced in (bad) German accent!

SchwarzHaus! and thus we were named.


PS-Contact me if you're looking for a room in Milford, we've still got a couple of spares! :)











Monday, August 07, 2006

Ruapehu is yucky (again)

I've had about 4 amazing days skiing this year, and 4 total sh!t ones. Not that this should surprise anyone who's skied Ruapehu before. :)

Craig was down out my lodge (Alpine Ski Club) this weekend, doing a mountain craft course: self arrest, wearing crampons & sleeping in a snow cave... that kind of palaver and I got to ski Whakapapa for the first time this year. It was hard and icey all morning followed by slush & crud for the afternoon. I managed to do an unintentional jump and got a purple ass cheek for my trouble... oh and I fell off a cliff (don't worry, only my spirit was injured).

I still had a really good time though. Wine on empty stomachs, at high altitude, made for an interesting Saturday. I say, I say.


Saturday night at Alpine Sports Club (phone camera)
Me, Paul & Sarah


Sarah and Paul the Poser
Knoll Ridge Cafe, Whakapapa

It's totaly wrong to make Aucklanders wait 45mins for coffee. Waiting for a seat I could handle. Waiting for a seriously over drawn long back I could not!

Paul goes for a ride
National Chair, Whakapapa