See ya 2011, wouldn't wanna be ya.

We're on the verge of kissing goodbye 2011. And when I say "kissing", I actually mean decking it.  This is has been a pretty sucky year, especially for the Cantabrians in New Zealand.  Mother Nature needs to get over herself. And soon.

As always, the end of the year provides an opportunity to reflect, reiminisce and decide what changes to make when moving forward into the next year.

I've always been pretty good at keeping resolutions, and I intend to keep my 2012 resolution too.  What is it? This:

My 2012 New Year's resolution is to start preparing lunch at home each morning and taking it to work with me, rather than buying my lunch which I probably do 4 out of 5 days a week.  However, I have a long-standing lunch date with my BFF, so I will allow myself one bought lunch per week.

I've already been dreaming of shreded turkey, colby cheese, lite mayo & lettuce sandwiches (washed down with an antihistamine to counteract my newly developed allergy to boring old lettuce).  Yum!  In fact, if I had the ingredients here, I'd make one right now.

It might sound simple to some, but I'll have to break some pretty serious habits to get this one cracking. For example, I'll have to have groceries in the house AND will have to get out of bed earlier each day (except Thursday). Yikes!

Thats me...what are you resolutions for 2012?

Santa, I've been veeeery good

I've been good this year. Yes, really! And, I've put up with all sorts of things that a sane person of good moral standing should not need to put up with. 

Everyone else is doing it (yeah, yeah...they're all under ten years of age...whatever), but anyway, here's my Christmas Wish List.  

For your purchasing convenience, I've included some piccys.  I wouldn't want you to waste your hard-earned pingers on the wrong thing.

Twelve Kartell Louis ghost chairs.  To have less than 12 people at a dinner party is a crime.  One must always have the obligatory twelve, in which case, one must indeed have the obligatory twelve Kartell Louis ghost chairs

A Kindle.  Word on the street (at the North Pole) is I'm likely to get one, so this is exceptionally good news for both me and Amazon.

La Premiere movie tickets for a year.  I live in the city which boasts New Zealand's best movie theatre. And oh em gee, it is flash as ow.  Its like being in a five star hotel.  The La Premiere class is waitered and catered, and the food on the menu is divine.

A Dutch style bicycle with a basket on the front so I can take my cat for a ride.  He'd love to feel the breeze blowing through his whiskers.  You might think I'm nuts, well, you haven't met my crazy cat who delights at sprinting up and down the footpath on his lead showing off to all and sundry.  A basket on a bicycle would be like cruising town in a chauffeur-driven Ferrari for him.

Only four days left until Christmas.  That should give you plenty of time to organise one or all of the above items for a self-proclaimed very good girl.

Follow Friday

Awww, check this out! Best #FF ever in the history of Best #FF’s.

And because it was so good, I decided to blog my #FF’s today.

Admittedly, I usually stick to the same old bunch of tweeps, but this time I’m gonna step waaaaaay out of my comfort zone, and suggest some of the odd-bods in my timeline.

@hello_im_megan The poor thing has a psycho ex-doghandler living in her house, sleeping in her bed even. And, what’s worse is that she spends her days knee deep in the bodily hair of her newly waxed clients. Yeow! Guaranteed to make you die laughing.

@blakamin @feefeebofaye @evilkud @JumpinJen @V8Matty ß these are the people I am about to become insanely rich with. Somehow I wangled my way into their twotto group, and every week we take turns at buying lotto tickets, and then tweeting our disappointment after the stupid lotto machine invariably chooses the wrong numbers. However, this week, we’ve all got a good feeling about the tix because I’m pretty sure I saw the nice lady press the secret “holycowthispersonsoneedstowin” button as I handed over my $24. Well done nice lady. The “holycowthispersonsoneedstowin” button has a direct link to the ball sucker thingie at lotto headquarters, and I tell you, this week, our balls WILL be sucked!

@kixy_stabbs One of my Vancouver tweepettes and fellow crazy cat lady. My cat loves her too because she always likes his instagram portraits. Last night, Edel even posed so he could send her a special goodnight picture. I’d say that she would be my major competition in the CATegory of “Twitter’s Craziest Cat Ladies”. One of the two of us will win. Guaranteed. Also, she's a real life bestie of @loveyourcake, so you get to see all kinds of weird and wonderful hashtags if you're following both of them.

@alexmc183 I've only just met him recently, and wow...he's giving @kyleipryor a run for his money in the "nicest guy on twitter" stakes. Often his tweets will be filled with stuff about VoIP and techy computery stuff that only @5hameless seems to understand. I glaze over when he's tweeting stuff like that, but when he tweets about BMW's, he has my full attention because he always refers to them by their entwicklung codes. Very cool. By the way, @alexmc183 @kyleipryor @5hameless and I have our own secret language. Nothing like a good nipple in your gomez, is there boys?

@websam Another of my local tweeps, he is responsible for putting together the logistical nightmare that is #nzsecretsanta. He also specialises in giant pumpkins, you know, the ones that take up the WHOLE of the back of a ute. So awesome. If you have ANY giant pumpkin queries, he is THE man.

And finally, because I know she was busting for me to #FF her, meet @SimoneBairdNZ. Apparently we live in the same city, but we've never crossed paths (that I know of). I'm not even sure she's a real person, but we are facebook friends so that does give her a bit more street cred. If she's not a real person, she's doing a damn fine job of pretending to be one. Another crazy cat lady, and always pottering about on twitter, ready to tweet when you least expect it.

I've read back and realised that I did mention some of my faves amongst this odd-bod list, but twitter becomes a small place after a while and everyone kind of ends up knowing everyone else.

Anyway, there's some #FF lovin' for ya. Hope you've enjoyed it.

Writey x