Let the holidays begin!

 Well the holidays have officially commenced. Unfortunately I had an unplanned holiday from blogging yesterday and this morning, as I couldn’t log in successfully. However, it is now 7 O’clock and all is well.

The holidays have gotten off to a solid start I feel. Lots of fun balanced out with the completion of mundane tasks such as laundry and tax returns. I have also discovered that a variety of household chores are preferable to filling out tax returns. Dishes, laundry and general cleaning can all be officially declared as more fun, or at least, more appealing than tax returns.

I shall compile a list of various things I have thus far accomplished so as to make the last three days seem busy and active rather than the slovenly sleep-in days they were (mostly).

Saturday
- Watched several episodes of the extremely pretty Haibane Renmai series
- Read some but not as much as I would have liked
- Went into Wellington for delicious meal at Zibibbos*.
- Attempted to sing for free-parking (or at least discounted) but was denied. Clearly some more SingStar practice is required. Still harbour ambitions that my singing will one lead to discounted parking or goods. If singing got the Von Trapps out of the clutches of Nazis, it should get me some free-parking or coupons.

Sunday
- Went for a nice walk around Raumati
- Did supermarket shopping (more out of necessity than desire, which is unusual because normally I like shopping for food)
- Played the excellent Hero boardgame. Thanks to the awesome teleport powers of the Traveller, I won by about 1 point. Paragon was my other hero but functionally was more of a chiselled-jaw, incredibly buff sidekick. He didn’t really fight much crime (not successfully anyway).
- Watched Bichunmoo a Korean epic fantasy movie set in 14th Century China.

Monday
- Became a giddying whirlwind of bill-paying, tax-returning, cleaning-things action
- Fed horse (or rather horses but it was only supposed to be feeding one of them. Horses in wet weather go on aggressive begging and scavenging mode).
- Walked dogs in inclement conditions
- Ate delicious soup and stir-fry
- Played SingStar. (Yay!)


* Zibibbos is a rather nice restaurant on Taranaki Street. I had the Tapas platter (very nice), followed by the divinely delicious Lemon and Rosemary Rubbed Rotisserie Chicken with Salsa Rosso. The decadent dessert of Bittersweet Chocolate Mousse with Black Cherries was mouth-wateringly good with a capital Mmmmmmm. I only have two small complaints. Firstly, there are too many ‘B’s in the name. Three ‘B’s is, to be frank, excessive and bordering on the pretentious. Secondly, they have removed TIRAMISU from the dessert menu. Madness.