tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-153496132011-04-22T05:43:12.485+12:00Starhorsenoreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15349613.post-1162350720401625562006-11-01T16:01:00.000+13:002006-11-01T16:12:00.413+13:00Contacting me during the next few weeks is not going to be an easy task as I'll have no fixed address and be somewhere between here and home. So before you throw a tantrum because I'm not replying to urgent emails I'm warning that my computer will be OFF for at least the next three weeks. Then again...am I all that good at replying to emails anyway...?!<br />My cellphone will be the most likely form of tracking me down but if you don't have my number then thats your problem.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15349613-116235072040162556?l=larniepi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Starhorsenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15349613.post-1162204771338130962006-10-30T23:08:00.000+13:002006-10-30T23:39:31.340+13:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4858/1419/1600/The%20boot.jpg"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4858/1419/320/The%20boot.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />THE END IS NIGH!!!!<br />None can comprehend the ultimate awesomeness...ok thats a terrible use of words...of the end of exams coupled with packing and leaving the place and people that have looked after you for the last four years!<br />Joy and sadness, relief and new stress, the excitement of adventure and fear of never coming back. The world for me is changing and its getting hard to keep up.<br /><br />A legend has been born.<br /><br />At the beginning of form two I obtained a pair of black leather boots. In them I feel like I can (and presently will) conqueror the world. Right thru college I wore them. Nearly every afternoon they carried me 4km home. They've tapped the sides and felt the stirrups of possibly every horse I've ridden in the last decade. They were with me when I rode HIM - the one - MY horse...! <br />AND NOW! After conquering college; they have been my faithful companions right thru University!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! They have walked the summer dune lands of the North and traversed the frosts and snows of Canterbury and the Southern Alps. They have survived nearly every insanity I and my horse have come up with. I even once wore them to a ball... (They are comfy! And heels and my height don't mix)<br />They are not special or expensive or fancy - but they are loyal and eleven yrs old. <br /><br />And legendary...<br /><br />Go ahead and laugh...<br />But there's one scary thing that has yet to be divulged...<br />What is it you say...?<br />...<br />...<br />...<br />...<br /><br />In Kaitaia there was only one place to get shoes - The Warehouse...WHAT...?!!!!!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15349613-116220477133813096?l=larniepi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Starhorsenoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15349613.post-1160704207852201762006-10-13T14:30:00.000+13:002006-10-13T14:50:07.866+13:00And no I'm not kidding about the title!!!<br /><br />I am pleased. Very pleased.<br /><br />Yesterday I awoke from my winter hybernation and today it is currently 27 degrees!!! God bless the Nor-wester!!! Today (while procrastinating) I decided to weed the garden so there's one less thing to do at the end of the year. This didn't last long as I quickly dozed off in the sun. An hour and a half later I returned to studying, particularly pleased with myself. <br />(For those of you who have seen me in summer there's no need to worry about any lack of sunscreen...call me a mutant but I don't tan and rarely burn...To prove the point I've laid in the brutally hot sun for three n half hrs before with no sunscreen or results...)<br /><br />Anyway...back to the point.<br /><br />Here's my itinery for November in case you wish to catch up or know how to avoid coming within a hundred km radius of me:<br /><br />Last exam: 28th Oct<br />Parents visiting: 2nd to 6th Nov<br />Kicked out/Extracted/Removed from flat: 5th Nov<br />Homeless: 7th to 10th.<br />Christchurch ETD: 6am Nov 10th (Thats Estimated Time of DEPARTURE for noodles like Jazz!!!)<br /><br />10th Nov:<br />Ferry crossing: Early afternoon <br />Brief visit of friends to Wellington: Evening<br />Drive to Palmy<br /><br />11th --> 15th<br />Mucking around riding horses in Palmy<br /><br />15th -->17th<br />Deadly mission of visiting the Krystie in Hawera<br /><br />18th --> 21st<br />Desperately trying to survive dirty old Auckland...I mean Orcland<br /><br />22nd<br />The Northerner returns to the North<br /><br />(Note: I'm being nice this time so the people who are fleeing me can go down the east coast before skipping to the South Island while I go up the West)<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15349613-116070420785220176?l=larniepi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Starhorsenoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15349613.post-1160623612766980402006-10-12T16:09:00.000+13:002006-10-12T16:26:52.776+13:00I don't care what people think - since when have I? Call it hybernation if you will or that U word I've been attending this year and being tortured by it...Well run screaming if you will - its probably a good idea! Why? I hear you say:<br /><br />Because I'm back.<br /><br />It's just possible that the hail and snow and other vile extremities winter has thrown at the city have ended and therefore I'm risking raising my head again and coming back to life. Maybe its the heart problem, maybe I'm just cold blooded but SUMMER is on its way and life and stupidity surf in its wake. <br /><br />Oh dear, I fear the nearer to exams it gets, the more procrastination happens and the more daring my handstands on the curve of mental castastrophe become... its no surprise to ME the word counts on my books explode and the view out ones window suddenly becomes SOOOOOOO interesting!<br /><br />Just recently a friend said I was a mystery. It might be true but I prefer arcane. <br />Hells bells what a dilema.<br /><br />ANYWAY!<br />It really will be interesting to see if any of my friends find this...if they didn't give you looking months ago then I'm very worried...<br /><br />...very, very worried...<br /><br />Oh for summer and the beach<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15349613-116062361276698040?l=larniepi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Starhorsenoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15349613.post-1141529727054986942006-03-05T16:18:00.000+13:002006-03-05T16:35:27.076+13:00Hah hah hah... so life has begun once again in Canterbury and the last couple of days I haven't been amused... three guesses as to what I'm so bemused with that its made it to my 'rant on blog' box...? <br /><br />a.) Uni ... (Yeah right)<br />b.) Lack of beaches ... (Getting hot - scalding)<br />c.) The cold...<br /><br />Bang on!!! What sort of marauding craziness is it? Honestly is hell freezing over?! How dare it HAIL and get anywhere near it, let alone go BELOW 10 degrees?!!!!!!!!!! <br />...Rant...Rant...Rant...<br /><br /><br />Cryptic message: Oh for the days of heat, jandals and beaches. Better a pyroclastic flow of crater expelled sand raining down than ruddy hail...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15349613-114152972705498694?l=larniepi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Starhorsenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15349613.post-1139952760475573182006-02-15T10:25:00.000+13:002006-02-15T10:32:40.490+13:00Hey everyone,<br />After much procrastination and leaving things to the last minute I've finally returned to the city. I'm looking forward to catching up with everyone after summer.<br />Sorry I only said a few brief hellos at Rachs farewell, I didn't hang around for long as I had to pick up my mum; also I had only arrived a few hours beforehand and was running very low on awakeness. <br />Over the summer I house-sat, baby-sat, did weather and climate reports and worked for the UN. (Not kidding)<br /><br />For those of you who know what I'm talking about... there was only one sizeable crater but unfortunately it was only a sanddune not a whale...<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15349613-113995276047557318?l=larniepi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Starhorsenoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15349613.post-1125883333193663172005-09-05T13:17:00.000+12:002005-09-05T16:13:18.106+12:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4858/1419/1600/followdreams1.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/4858/1419/320/followdreams1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />I am a realist, and so I live in an imaginary world because I know which ones better.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15349613-112588333319366317?l=larniepi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Starhorsenoreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15349613.post-1123821144640819222005-08-12T16:17:00.000+12:002005-08-12T16:32:24.646+12:00<span style="font-family:lucida grande;font-size:85%;"><em>Well here it is... my blog that I highly doubt anyone will read very often! (If at all) The main things I'm going to use this for is arguing with mates, maybe tell you what I'm up to, (but don't count on this as I'm very secretive for many good reasons) and if you're really lucky I'll tell a few of my stories, legends, tales, myths, adventures etc. </em></span><br /><em><span style="font-size:85%;">Well there it is... my first entry! I'm off now to do something I'm not telling you about as it may or may not be completely honourable, legal, well-advised, moral, appropriate, recomended...etc</span></em><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/15349613-112382114464081922?l=larniepi.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Starhorsenoreply@blogger.com4