Lani Says

great friends, great food & karaoke – This week has been lots of fun catching up with great friends for dinner and karaoke and then partying it up at the Do-Over on Waiheke Island on Saturday. There’s always so much laughter when uninhibited karaoke is involved, so too when the night ends at Dennys, as it did on Saturday night. There’s not much that beats the company of people you love.

Baby-G  – I remember Baby G’s reaching their height of popularity when I was in Intermediate. Remember those clear pastel coloured ones? I really, really wanted the baby pink watch. All the cool girls/rich girls had them, but it never happened for me. The boyfriend helped fulfill that tween yearning by gifting me a Baby-G recently. It’s pretty cute, especially with the lil love heart in the clock face, and I’m rather enjoying it.

YOU GUYS!! Do you know how stoked I get when you guys come up to me and say you read and like the blog? I get heaps stoked. I’ve been even more super duper stoked with you guys getting amongst the strawberry sangria, and using the jars too!! Also, thanks for commenting on this too – I was worried no one would, and then I’d looked like a lame reject blogger. You guys are awesome!

BDO 2012: It was so strange strolling around the BDO with no huge sweaty crowds to maneuver through or no portaloo or food lines to wait in, or not having to worry about leaving one stage half an hour early to make sure you make it to another due to human traffic bottlenecks. I know this was terrible news for the promoters, but for the people who actually did attend the BDO this year, because of all of the above, it may have been punters most enjoyable/stress year ever. It was sad to see the BDO go out like that, but I know everyone I was with had a great time. David and the band drew a large crowd despite the very early set time, and I got to see Soundgarden play ‘Blow Up the Outside World’ – a teenage fantasy of mine come true. Chris Cornell dedicated the song to Christchuch too, a nice touch.

The Australian Open: All I’ve been doing is watching the Oz Open. Bit sad my girl Li Na is out, still wish Safin would decide to come out of retirement, but Federer is still doing the damage so it’s still all good.

Animals are cool: On a lazy Sunday afternoon whim friends and I went to the Auckland Zoo. It was choice, we even got to see those monkeys with ‘neck sacks’ or ‘throat sacks’ or some description of sack innuendo as described to us by Che make heaps of noise. We also decided that every gathering of three or more animals was a ‘real *insert animal name here* seminar. Eg. ‘Look, those meerkats are having a real meerkat seminar.’ ‘They’re having a real monkey seminar.’ etc. ‘Oh shit, those gators are out here’. In jokes. Sorry guys.

D dot earring: How cool is that? As I was onstage filming at R&V I heard a couple of people calling out my name, and when I went over to them, the girl, Mercedes Lowe, reached out with this D dot earring. I tried to take a picture of it, but she told me to keep it. I showed it to the boyfriend, who is super stoked on it and keeps checking with me to make sure I still have it. Turns out Mercedes made it at course, out of sterling silver. I think it’s pretty much the coolest thing ever!

Heineken Open : The boyfriend had scored us tickets to the finals of the ASB Women’s tennis tournament, and it was something we’d been really looking forward to. But, as happened to us before the match got rained out and was held indoors and not open to the public. However, I managed to score us free tickets off HeinekenStar on twitter (yay me!) to the men’s Heineken Tournament, which more than made up for it. We had amazing seats and watched a couple of great matches.

Sunsets: The weather has been absolute shite in Auckland, but we’ve had some amazing sunsets. I snapped this pic on Wednesday night.

Not being sick: Pretty self-explanatory, really. F U FLU!