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"Refuse to let your present results influence your thinking. Keep reminding yourself that you have a power within you that is superior to any condition or circumstance you may encounter enroute to your goal."

Bob Proctor

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  Special girls to be grateful for
First team Home 2009
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Three of them gave the weetbix tryathlon a good go today, India was third out of the pool and Henny was first round the bike leg, meaning that Jordi was also first round the run leg, making all three of them the first team home in the day's racing.

We then went home for pancakes and walked back a while later for the prize giving formalities

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  happiness

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

William Feather

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Listening to: Rickie Lee Jones - Vessel Of Light

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  you choose

"I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves."

Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt

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  GAR! I couldn't resist this before wednesday [International talk like a pirate day]


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  a motorbike, a son and a long black Had a great day yesterday, nothing planned, just open to the possibilities

For once a bike ride that had the tailwind in both directions

Subway and coffee in the afternoon sunshine

A bike ride on Eliot's new bike; over the hills to Lyttleton for Chai at Coffee Culture. Got to say though, a return to the bike and sweeping corners was a bit scary at times. Adrenaline is good for the soul though!

Great!

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  15 seconds

there's some emotional sunshine to go with the 15 seconds more sunlight than yesterday, roll on summer, it's just around the corner

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  mindlessness
Whose your Vampire personality?

Turns out I'm more Dracula than Blade, I'd rather hoped to be more Johnny Depp. That's life I guess

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  it's been a great weekend but one of the best things has been not wearing shoes since friday

having the doors open all day for the last two days, and the warm streaming in all day

getting all the financial papers organised, and throwing out all the irrelevant stuff that's been hanging like an albatross round my neck for the last 18 months


it takes two [whit to woo]
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Eliot and Tom coming surfing of course, and big fella bringing pudding

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pizzas, movies, boys and fly spray
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Eliot and tom came to stay last night, so we went surfing, made pizza and watched a movie

Eliot had bought home a Raspberry Ganache that was 'ruined' for selling, but good to eat

Woke them, [not too early], fed them pancakes and fresh coffee, and sent them off to Karate

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  city of angels walking along the beach this morning, knowing eliot was at home sleeping

for some reason, the beach was just like the morning scene in "city of angels" except instead of angels on the beach facing the sunrise, it was sea gulls

lots of them

cool!


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  splish splash the joys of bare feet andsea water



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  Could've been me #1,021

draw your own conclusions at Savage Chickens

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  the year of the pig my year!

I'm a pig [many would tell you that for nothing] so the year ahead will be a good one

the numbers also add up to 9 so it's doubly mine!

I'm in love, loved, loving life, healthy [very] just need to work on wealthy and wise for the next 12 months.

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  Wherefore art though? Season's greetings

another belly laugh

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  Let go of everything you fear to loose Profoundity from a movie i saw at the weekend:
YODA:

The fear of loss is a path to the dark side

and

Attachment leads to jealousy.
The shadow of greed, that is.
Train yourself to let go of everything you fear to lose.

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  Wednesday 070131 Well that's another month gone


from the front room
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sunsets and sunrises are incredible, and so emotional [if you want them to be]

highlights for today:

i love the beach, so many moods, and yet nothing changes

terakihi [fish] in crumbs, eating it hot and fresh cooked in the car park overlooking the surfers just after high tide. possibly the best fish i've tasted from the fish shops, and this one cooks to order with fresh fish [unusual, but not that unusual in NZ]

getting through a busy day at work in a new role without too much hassle.

cycling to work and not having my heart rate get above 130

pesto on rye bread with tomato and fresh bean sprouts

hokey pokey doughnuts, thanks alan

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  Finding McNaught I think I saw it this morning!
after all the dawns and dusks I've been out on the beach trying to see the comet, and last nights big car trip hunt. I think I saw it this morning. No Photo though I'd left the camera behind.
Either way, the beach walk in the emerging day was worth it.
I wish you all could be there to enjoy it like I do, especially as today we had the beach to ourselves. Shoes tomorrow though, the sand is getting colder, or I need to go later on :-)

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  Hunting Comet Mcnaught I decided that as there seemed little cloud and it wasn't raining at sunset I'd go hunting the Comet


Port hills at sunset
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it was an interesting time, the port hills were awash in cars doing the same thing, vacationers in too few clothes, hoons and romancing couples

I took lots of photos, but the low lying cloud obscured everything but the horizon

The sunset was amazing I hope you like the photos


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  sunday pancakes with the children [and ice cream] the end of a wonderful holiday break together

salmon dinners, red wine and pistachios

evening walks at sunset [obscured by clouds]

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  rolls, swimming and surfing, no illustrations today, just thankfulness

morning calls [hearing voices long unheard sounding cheerier than in my imagination]

stealing time from the day and spending it enjoyably

baking rolls and sharing food with good friends

walks and moments

getting things wrong and then clearing things up [almost]

sunshine, surf [big stuff, we hit the tides just right]

missing pinkalicious already

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  dolphins, bonfires, pizza, old friends so much happened today, so many smiles, and so many things to be grateful for:

Nettie popped in for the day with Hannah

we had a big table of pizza [and some red wine]

while the kids were surfing in the dusk, we saw dolphins just a few metres behind the break where they were surfing. I've never seen them here before


Beach bonfire beginnings
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We made a bonfire on the beach, wrapped ourselves in blankets and once the kids had finished they came to warm themselves around the flames, they cooked few marshmallows


just before the Firemen came
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but the fun was truncated when the firemen came to put out the bonfire. There was a fire truck, sirens and the stern voice of the fireman.


walking home
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apparently it was a danger to shipping, it's not as if it was a beacon like in Lord of the Rings, more of a smoky little thing we were well in control of. It was more a miracle that it was alight at all as the driftwood was so wet from the rain during the morning

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