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It’s Wednesday already! Were did the week go? Mind you, in saying that, where’s the year gone?!

The weekend in Auckland was very enjoyable and it was great to catch up with our friends Ann, Claire and David.  The only problem is that after a night drinking (well, me at least) our body clocks had us waking at 06:02! 🙁 It was, however, quite nice to lie in bed chatting for two hours before dragging ourselves up for breakfast

In other news we had our 20 week scan yesterday and it seems that the baby is fine and healthy.  We even watched it opening it’s mouth and sticking it’s tongue out at us Max was there as well and when we ask where the baby is he points at Vic’s tummy (or if we are in bed he lifts her nightie up and waves at her tummy ) I’m not sure if he really understands but it’s nice that he makes the effort

We won’t be putting anything on the weblog about the sex of the the baby in case there are people out there that don’t want to know (there were last time) so if you want to know then “>email me

Vic and I are off to Auckland for the weekend tomorrow sans Max which, if nothing else, should be interesting We have my work Christmas party on Saturday night and Dell is sending us up for the weekend – yay!

Besides that the end of the week has been an important one for New Zealand:

? Yesterday saw the passing into law of the Civil Union Bill which basically gives same sex couples the ability to register their relationship and receive the same protection and rights as married couples.  This has divided the country and seen some pretty extreme views aired (most based around religious beliefs) All in all Vic and I agree with the bill.

? As of midnight last night it is illegal to light up a cigarette in pretty much any enclosed public space.  This includes bars, clubs, casinos and restaurants and follows the lead taken by a few other countries such as Ireland.  Another law that I agree with no matter what the smokers say about freedom of choice.  The law really just strengthens laws that are already in place relating to smoke free workplaces and was greeted by those unions whose members have to work in premises where smoking was traditionally heavy.  It’ll be interesting to see how things work out as smokers will not be fined but rather the business’ that allows them to do so (up to $4,000)

On a more personal note Max’s playgroup had their Christmas party today (at which I was the “official photographer” lol!  The joys of working from home ) Food was thrown and balloons popped and everyone seemed to have a good time. Max is still terrified of getting too close to Santa but is a wee bit better than last year!

Anyway, have a good weekend everyone and enjoy that Christmas shopping

Yep, as you may have noticed there is no update even though one was promised earlier.

Max has had a couple of very early mornings (try 05:30 and 04:45!) where once he’s got up he hasn’t gone back down.  Luckily for Vic I’ve taken Max downstairs and she’s been able to sleep in until 07:30 or so Given this I really haven’t had the energy to think enough even to post 🙁

Max came through at 04:20 this morning but this time went back to sleep until 06:50 so I feel vaguely human today

Other than that life is just trucking along……….. boring I know.

Oh, the midwife came to visit the other day and we heard the baby’s heartbeat for the first time It was lying very low and it took ages to find!

**yawn** see ya

Off on a driving holiday for a week so see you all later.  Have a good week

Today I celebrate one year at Dell.  How time flies and sometimes I still have no idea what’s going on!

Gotta love free things My work put on a preview to the new (at least in this part of the world) Tom Cruise movie Collateral last night for some of our customers.

Although it was very badly organised we eventually got all the people into the correct theatre, which luckily we had all to ourselves, and settled down to watch the movie with our complimentary ice-cream, popcorn and coke

The verdict?  I enjoyed it more than I thought I would.  It started off a bit slow and you knew how it was going to end by about the 10th minute but overall a bit of mindless fun with some gratuitous violence thrown in

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Got back from Auckland on Friday and no more trips up there in the foreseeable future – yay!  The weekend was hectic and this week sees a new round of 14 hour work days hence the severe lack of updates 🙁

My colleague is back from Russia now though and so I won’t be looking after the entire country anymore – phew.  Still a bit of a backlog to get through but that should be over by the end of the week (fingers crossed)

Hope you are all well – Vic and Max have been sick with upset tummies and general blah-ness but seem to be sorted now. Touch wood it’s skipped me………

After another couple of days out of town it’s great to be home

About 30 minutes after I left on Thursday Vic’s new laptop turned up!  Naturally we bought a Dell (an Inspiron 1150 to be exact) It’s the cheapest laptop that Dell does and the deal on the Web was better than I could get as staff so I bought it as Joe Public

So far the experience has been good. It was easy to order and turned up 6 days after ordering.  I’ve loaded it up with XP SP2 and MS Office and that should pretty much do it for Vic.  It seems to be running OK but it much larger than her old laptop.