Little after 7am

and I've finished my McCafe coffee, reading the new paper online, special interest America developing  an Iron Man suit composed of liquid armour, modernized exoskeleton and a few other additions. Still seams like a drone would do, but a human brain is probably better and much faster.

So now summer is around the corner, I'm down to my velvet dress, stockings and over the knee boots. Not having worn the boots for a while meant I had to re-learn how to walk as I waddled in to McDonalds.
"If a man waddles in the forest in high heel boots, does he make any sound?"
Feeling good though as my daughters have left their makeup out for me this morning, first time ever I've successfully applied eyeliner and I love the party shades of eye shadow.

Trying hard to dress like a late 40 year old, found a light green blouse at an old folks home where they place old stuff for others to take (hope it's not from deceased). It's a shocking pale green, but yet with the right skirt, it seams to work, wife and daughter agreed once I had it on, but feels like I'm off to an job interview.

This last few weeks, Miss 14 did a cat walk modeling course, I had to watch 11-18 year olds strut the cat walk, nearly fell asleep.
Wife and I drove up to Puhoi and had the most mind blowing ice cream from a cheese factory.
Insurance is looking at replacing my carpet after the water leak (the assessor loved my plumbing workmanship).
Had a little car trouble, but a minor tweak fixed it.
Re-surfaced my patio table and oiled the wood, looks like new, it was a $15 second hand filleting bench.


8.15am and changed to shiny black pants, boots and tight black top for a 9am brunch with Josie, but before then, a quick visit to Mitre 10 to find the resin that gives wooden furniture a glass like finish, glad the staff lady knew exactly what I was looking for - thinking of using some on my kitchen benches etc.

9am had brunch with Josie followed by a walk around the shops which was quite busy by 10am. We were not inspired to try anything on during this visit and by 10.30 we were walked out and ready for another coffee.

Playful or not.

Been running low on energy these last few weeks.
Partly because my diet is wrong, partly my lack of exercise and partly because my cats sleep on my legs, which keeps me awake all night.

So what's that got to do with anything -
Well actually when I'm energized, I feel young and playful and I tend to dress that way, which also upsets my teenage daughters who want to wear my playful skirts & tops, or I borrow theirs.

Having low energy these last two weeks has seen me out in clothes more fitting a late 40's lady more in to relaxing. In fact I visited Kmart this morning and tried on a lovely new skirt that was both trendy and more for the middle aged ladies and if I had the top to go with it, would have had yet another skirt in my wardrobe (pls note: my very last pair of man-jeans now has a rip where the cool winds put a rude smile on my face)



McDonalds 8.00am wake me up coffee

Super Relaxed and feeling good with
a light brunch and Josie to chat to

So now I'm thinking older, I'm thinking relaxing,
Okay, what I'm really thinking is a cruise to Waiheke Island and taking a tour of the vineyards, that would be super-fun, also thinking I must re-visit the art gallery or museum or botanic gardens soon.
I might even try to get to the "Girls Night Out" movies at my local on Wednesday the 9th to see Naomi Watts in "Diana".

For those who think it's always girl time for me, last week I took about 800Kg of vegetation to the tip and after this mornings outing I finally rebuilt the outer wall of the house and painted after the water leak incident last month where I had to remove that section of wall.
I also mowed the lawns and relocated about 400kg of top soil.

Weekend has come and gone and

Without a purpose or project it seams rather empty.

Luckily my wife accidentally broke a desk top lamp so I spent an hour adding fibre glass reinforcing to the stem and glued all the broken pieces back on. Apart from a few hairline fractures it hard to tell it had been broken - and more importantly wife is happy to have her lamp back.

Played soccer with miss 14.
I hope she stays interested as I need the exercise.
Especially after going to an Italian restaurant with Josie and her wife yesterday.
The delicious chicken and pasta dish, followed by Sticky Date Pudding has pushed me 5kg over my desired weight (or 1kg over my recommended weight).
A girl has to watch these things, and I haven't been as high as 77kg (170lbs) for about 12 years

But when you have good company and good wine, it's definitely worth it.

Yes Josie, I did photoshop some of my wrinkles out

Miss 14 had a spray tan. Even at the risk of turning orange, she braved the tanning booth and today she braved her school mates giving her crap - and survived both. It's nice that she can chose to be who ever she wants to be without worrying what others may or may not think of her.

Actually, it was a very good weekend
But then, that's how I chose every day to be, every time I wake up.

Friday night

Feeling a bit girlish.
All my daughters were away so wife and I went to Subway. I'm unsure how, but for the first time ever I ate a foot long Sub. I don't think I'll ever do that again, thought I might need a fork hoist to leave the place.
Back home to relax with wife, wearing the following outfit (including wig, bra, makeup etc) and watching a bit of TV.

8pm and I had to pick up miss 14 from her work, I couldn't be bothered to change so hoped in to the car and picked her up.

She is a cheeky girl and greeted me with a "hello mum",
I replied "don't you mean attractive older sister?"

Since my next pickup was 9pm, I dropped miss 14 off at home and headed out to next pickup, stopping at the supermarket for some milk and McDonalds for a cup of tea as I needed to kill 30 minutes.


Relaxing on a Friday evening at McDonalds to kill 30 minutes before next pickup

Back home with wife and 2 daughters, I was still in girl mode to watch a bit of a chick flick with miss14 called "ruby" about a writer who rights up a girl who suddenly appears.

But more improtantly (for me anyway), straight after we watched AVP.

Saturday - hopefully I get to work on my friends boat, that would be nice.

Saturday night - drank to much, woke up at 3am, 4am, 5am, 6am and finally decided to actually get up at 7am. I think someone put a clock tower bell in my head.
Dressed (tight shiny black pants, C-cup, thin white top and a black cardie), and out looking for a large coffee by 7.45am.
8.15am checking out K Mart clothes, tried on a few nice tops and also checked out some cooking appliances (after a cheap pressure cooker), but nothing I wanted to swap for my hard earned cash.
9.06am (approx) went to Columbus coffee read the paper and a Womens Weekly, met Josie around 9.30 for another coffee and a bit of lemon cake.
By this time my head was more settled and I was enjoying the company in the nearly full coffee shop.  Sorry no photos this time, hopefully next weekend will be more interesting.