My Great and Terrible Blog
My eldest niece had named their new puppy Otis. (I am assuming they named him after the dog in The Adventures of Milo and Otis despite the fact that the dog in the movie is a pug and their Otis is a Beagle). He is rather hard to take photos of as he’s very energetic and all over the place, I have tried but I’m currently not that happy with the results… Especially given that you can’t see his face clearly in any of the photos I have taken so far.
My brother and his family got a new Beagle puppy today! He’s the sweetest and most relaxed puppy, esp given he’s away from his mother and with complete syrabgers!
I will have to take some photos of him sometime soon… No name yet.
I do feel as if I’m going backwards at the moment and that I haven’t manged to accomplish anything much over the last couple of months 🙁 I’m actually more upset that I’m going to miss the annual Nat Con here in Auckland over Easter more than anything else! (Which is Conclave 3 of course, but I’m assume everyone who reads this post either already knows that or isn’t interested in science fiction conventions 🙂 ).
I’ve been applying for new jobs as they come up recently but obviously haven’t gotten anything yet.
The only thing I actually feel on top of is getting my nephews birthday presents under control already. I ended up getting him the Catwoman bike Lego set and the Riddler Lego set – I got him a small one one with a Batman figure and a second one with the Joker figure for Christmas so these will add a significant number of the Batman Lego figures to his collection 🙂
Christmas went well. I went to my brother and his family’s place for a big Christmas lunch -they had turkey, ham, multiple salads, roast potatoes and kumera, stuffing, and this desert of individual meringues with whipped cream and lemon or berry sauce.
I think my presets for my two nieces and nephew went down well. I did ask them what they wanted as they do change what they are into and normally I have no idea what’s their current interests. I ended up getting my nephew two small Batman Lego sets as the large ones were very expensive and that way at least he got one set with a Batman Lego figure in it and the other one had a Joker Lego figure in it – given how much Lego he already has I though getting two different figures was more important than getting more blocks.
I did end up working on the Wednesday, Thursday and Friday between Christmas and new year. It wasn’t too bad quiet for the most part esp with very few to no University students in the central city at the time…