Coming to Melbourne in January

This time it is a definite as have booked my flights. So anyone in town between 19th and 23rd of January hopefully I can steal a minute. Only commitment is the sure to be beautiful wedding of Regan and James on the afternoon of the 19th. Anyway I am very excited only 54 days till xmas and 79 till I come over I'm sure it will fly.

Happy Halloween

Hope everyone is having a scary night and making it better by eating lots of sweets. I still have my virus but am finally getting a bit better just waiting till walking 5 metres doesn't make me puff.

Labor Weekend

Well It should have been an amazing weekend away with Grant to Waiheke Island for three days but unfortunately we made the most of it but the weather was awful, our neighbours extremely noisy and I was sick as a dog and when I got back to the mainland I went to see my doctor only to find out I have Glandula fever. No idea how I got it as no one round me has it - and I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy as I have never felt so achy and tired and completely dependent in my life. It is day 11 and I am still not even close to being back to normal as everything still makes me tired and my ears are still blocked. but atleast I had my first night without fever and sweats so that was nice.

Any advice from people who have had it on how to get rid of it a bit faster would be great.

can't make it over for labour weekend

so apologies to everyone I told I was heading over next week. that was before I started seraching for flights. I can't seem to find any for less than $1200 so way too much for 3 days. On the upside I have Regans wedding in January so will try and come over for a long weekend then. hopefully you won't all be away on holidays.

Northcote College 150 year reunion

Well lets just say this was a disaster as even though there were over a 1000 attendees as for ones who attended between the years of 1980 and 2007 there were 10 of which myself and my two friends were 3 so not much of a catchup. but did get to say hi to a lot of my old teachers and hear some amazing stories from people who attended during the war.

Cybele at NZ fashion week

Well lucky stylishly challenged me has a very talented friend who is one of the designers at Cybele the next big thing in NZ fashion so I got to go free to their catwalk show and it was so much fun. I had my sister with me who knows who everyone is so that made it even better as got loads of goss on all the fashion crazies. Also got to see Trelise Cooper up close one of my all time favourite designers. Also in true Tanya fashion managed to totally do something embarrasing with no idea as walked up to a girl in the crowd and said "I recognise you from somewhere" "Did you used to live in Scotia" luckily she did but as it turns out she is one of the biggest faces in NZ TV so starting the conversation with you look familiar was a bit funny luckily after I explained I had been out of the country during her rise to fame I was let off with a laugh.

Back into the shoe box

On september the 10th (fluckily the same day I left on my world trip a year ago) I moved back into my apartment in the city. I was happy to find that after 5 years and no sightings that everything was still in reasonably good nick. Don't get me wrong still had to do heaps of scrubbing and throwing out before it was deemed liveable by my standards but there really is something so much nicer about your own place as opposed to renting. Still need to work on the decor a bit. And far from having moved all my stuff in yet as most of my artworks and books are still st the folks.

Also brought my first real bed and it was alot of research and alot of hopping on and off beds but well worth it the bed I now have is a top of the line dream machine it even makes me the most morning person I know want to sleep in that little bit longer.

OK back to blogging

So sorry for the long absence, I don't really have a huge excuse just got out of the habit. Lots has happened so will break it all up. For those that don't know I have a new man in my life called Grant. met him through Kev in Melbourne originally and caught up when I got back and it went from there. So that is a nice development and we have been having fun going to movies and on little trips together for the last 2 months.