Red Nose Day

To fundraise for Comic Relief at work we are all wearing super goofy t-shirts (at least they're designer right?! ha), having a bake sale and a sweep stake.

I baked red velvet cake for the cause, each item is sold for £1 to go straight to charity. It feels pretty good, and its nice to have a bit of fun in the office!!

What doesn't feel so good is that I have had a piece of cheesecake, a cupcake and a brownie all before 10:30 am.. just might avoid the cake table until afternoon tea!



The Lovely London Office (including dear Ben)





Stunner....



My Red Velvet Cake, 3 pieces sold so far.

Our office goodies

 Nothing like a bit of fun to spice up a Friday! Now bring on the weekend! St Paddys day on Sunday!

xx





Big Changes

There have been big changes lately. A bit of growing up if I may be so brave to say, not only with things that have been happening but the way I have been thinking about things.

We have moved house, and settled in- three weeks ago, its a more permanent place, one that we can call home. We share with 5 other friends. There is something about New Zealanders, dare I say north islanders… that means we can all live in reasonable harmony.

Ben started a new job on Monday, he had an interview on Thursday, offer on Friday morning, resigned on Friday and started on Monday. So proud that he is such hot property.. as if I didn’t already know.

Unfortunately for me it means we no longer work together, we are no longer in the same office, travelling to work together, no after work drinks. None of it.

Yesterday was hard! Today isn’t at all better. I knew I would miss him but I never realised how much. I didn’t realise how much I popped my head over my screens just to get a glimpse- that is until I stare up and see an empty space where he used to be.

I know it will get easier, that I will get used to it. It’s not like everyone gets the opportunity to work with their best friend and soul mate so I should count myself lucky I even had the 5 months I had.

The positive far out ways the negative, Ben can be happy at work (obviously the most important thing!), he gets a pay rise, and is now a 10 minute bus ride from work.. I don’t miss out either, my boss is giving me a pay rise just to keep me here.. I think he can feel the pull to follow Ben over, joking about following probably helps too.

So London is treating us well. Apart from trying to kill us with the cold I think we are finally finding our groove and feeling settled, and so we should after 23 weeks.

Now all we need is the weather to warm up, to book a couple of trips away and begin the countdown to our amazing Greek adventure.

I will always be grateful that I have Ben by my side. That he’s brought me here for such amazing experiences, and he puts up with the emotions of living so far away from home.

 xx

Amesterdam

I remember thinking of all the fun things to report back from our long weekend in Amsterdam 3 weeks ago, but as my Grandma passed I hardly had the motivation or imagination to write an interesting post about all the fun we had. We did have fun, and now I can tell you alll about it!

Our long weekend started off with a sleep over, a ridiculously early wake up call and an extremely intelligent taxi driver yarning away at 3am... snore

We arrived in Amsterdam after 45minutes on the plane... Closer than Auckland to Wellington and in a whole new country (the mind boggles)

It is the cutest place ever, with the trams, the rivers and all the bikes!

We were staying in a hostel (my first ever!) and it was an awesome experience, of course we arrived and decided to wander around, and then found a pub.

Safe to say 4 hours later we were tipsy and thought it would be a brilliant idea to go to a live sex show.. that was an experience- one I would rather forget.

We had three awesome days where we wandered around looking at nothing in particular. We had so many plans to see so much and experience so much, but all we really did was walk around in the the snow, looking in the stores, smoking weed, drinking beer, going out for all you can eat ribs, danced in clubs, and ate pancakes for breakfast.

We went to the the red light district, went to the sex museum, went to an awesome bar with taps on the tables, we caught up with family friends, and almost missed our flight.

I have never run so fast and stressed so much, Ben and I made it with not 30 seconds to spare, the girls of course made it with a few more than we, as I read the gate incorrectly and ran us to the other side of the airport and then had to run back, and with Ben's poor sore legs!

Over all it was an amazing weekend, and I can't wait to return!!

Next stop is Greece in July- which is all very exciting we have a 7 day yacht cruise and then Ben and I have 2 nights to chill out, before having to head back to work.

We have moved house too into a flat with friends, with people we know, and like!! Finally somewhere we can call home and settle down for a year.

Bring on SUMMER!