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30 Days of Me: Day 30 – At long last

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Day 30- Your favorite song

I may have commented that this ‘challenge’ asks some pretty intrusive questions and this final one is no exception. I will be judged by all, and even sundry, about my musical taste and what my choices say about my personality, psyche and indie hipster potential.

So, in view of my deep concern and chronic indecisiveness, I decided to go to the one place that wouldn’t tell a lie, and hope that it wouldn’t say something really embarrassing.

According to iTunes. My most played and therefore ‘favorite’ song is Intro, by the xx. Can a song called Intro be a ‘favorite’ song?

And that my lovelies, is the end of 30 Days of Me, a study in navel-gazing. Next up, 30 Days of Cheese.

 

30 Days of Me: Day 29 – Thing I’ve learned

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Day 29- In this past month, what have you learned?

In the last month I have learned that:
  • People will ‘like’ absolutely anything on Facebook
  • You can drop last minute council votes at the library
  • Sally Hawkins is cool, especially in Made in Dagenham
  • It is possible to survive a blog challenge with ridiculously intrusive questions as long as you take a tongue in cheek attitude
  • People are much happier when its sunny
  • I really like my job – I knew this already, but have had some great moments lately
  • There are washing lines on the other side of my apartment block – thanks google earth!

30 Days of Me: Day 28 – Time to make a change…

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Day 28 – A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?

This is me at Fashion Week last year. I was pretty excited about spending a day down there, gazing at people in their look at me outfits, drinking bubbly and hanging out with my buddy Te Waka. This year I didn’t get to see anything, except for an epic trip to the designer garage sale which was very rewarding. Te Waka doesn’t live in Auckland any more, which is un-fun.

I think it has been a tough twelve months in different ways for almost everyone who matters to me. My own tough moments and seeing other people’s pain has taken its toll at times and I think in some ways it has made me change into someone who is less bouncy and more reserved and even cynical. Its not a great thing. Perhaps as spring comes its time to come out of hibernation a little bit.

Bring on the sunshine.

 

30 Days of Me: Day 26 – Befriended

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Day 26- What you think about your friends

I don’t want to make you feel bad about your friends, but mine are more talented, caring, inspirational and good looking than most. In addition to this, they’re intelligent (which is why they chose to have me in their lives), amazing cooks and extremely witty.

I especially value friends who enjoy sharing meals, jokes, stories and have the ability to have chats about the important and trivial. A passion for hot chips and good music helps too.

I’m blessed with amazing friends and I’m incredibly grateful for this. I have lots of high-grade acquaintences too, but it takes a bit of time to really become a friend. I’ve lived away from my immediate family for a significant period of time and like many, I have developed a faux family – a title which doesn’t really do justice to the fabulous people who not only get to enjoy my company and the good times, but get the tears and whinges too. Lucky them…

30 Days of Me: Day 25 – Bags not

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Day 25- What I would find in your bag

I have a very nice and far too heavy bag that I got from Smith & Caugheys a couple of years ago. I like handbags and have tended to swap and switch around a lot, but this bag has lasted longer than usual – must be because it has lasted better than the cheap and cheerful bags I used to favour. If anything, my handbag probably tells you that I’m practical, reasonably well prepared and slightly impulsive. Or something completely different!

In this magic bag at the moment is:
  • My 2010 diary – last year I tried to be digital but with phones, facebook and outlook I was known to triplebook myself or forget things – the pink book has helped eliminate such embarrassing scenarios
  • My lovely soft wallet that has too many cards and not enough cash – and coffeecards from four or five establishments
  • A can of eclipse mints
  • Sunglasses
  • My digital camera
  • Deodorant
  • Lipgloss – MAC and Smashbox varieties
  • A bookshop receipt
  • A flyer for an event I didn’t quite make it to a couple of weeks ago
  • A download card for the Ember Days – a band I saw tonight
  • A lip brush
  • Two mobile phones
  • A blue inhaler
  • A tiny pottle of solid fragrance by Fragonard that I got on a whim from the gorgeous and addictive World beauty store on Ponsonby Road

 

30 Days of Me: Day 24 – The letter M

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Day 24- A letter to your parents

Dear Mum

So, we’re texting and emailing now. I’m really impressed, because it must be so hard learning this kind of technology from scratch when you’ve had such an analogue life.

This is good though – I like sending a quick thought when it occurs instead of waiting for a good time to make a call.

It’s good to be able to talk to you about things – stresses, ideas, what I’ve been up to.

I’ve had a great idea I’d like to tell you about actually. I’m going to become a reality TV producer of great proportions. What the world needs is better reality TV. At the moment they’re predictable – the less talented get to stay because they’re weird and so many of them are boringly one-dimensional. My show is going to fix this. I’m going to recruit in different ways – for models, chefs, dancers, singers, business wannabes and designers, like they’re all for different shows. I’ll select two of each and then have a round robin kind of challenge for all the ‘talents’. Of course, they won’t know until the show starts that they have to cross over.

I think my concept is sound – think about how in America, most actors can sing, dance and act, not just do one thing. I think that this would make hilarious TV and also help out the contestants – after all, if they were truly good at what they did, they wouldn’t have to be on a reality TV show! They might find a new career option!

What do you think Mum?

Love,

Josie

 

30 Days of Me: Day 22 – My eccentricities

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Day 22- What makes you different from everyone else

 

It’s not my unusual appearance, because I’m exactly the average height of a NZ woman 5’ 4” and medium brown haired.

 

It’s not my incredibly good taste in music, shoes or friends – although these are spectacular.

 

It’s probably not even my beliefs, politics or childhood pets.

 

I think one thing that helped shape who I am is the two years I spent as the only palagi kid in my class at Richmond Road Primary in the 1980s. I was the unusual one and started discovering other cultures. It was the beginning of a worldview that knew that my culture wasn’t the only good one and that there are ideas and most importantly food from other places that are just as valid as mine. I wouldn’t claim to be the most adventurous person in the world, but I do like to see new places, taste new flavours and try to understand where people are coming from as well, I guess, as where they’re going.

 

I also learn that being not exactly the same as everyone else isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Working in the arts has just reinforced this and instead of toning down the eccentricities they seem to be blooming!

 

Photo of a wee adventure in Samoa a couple of years ago where I am bravely tasting the local fare…

30 Days of Me: Day 21 – You make me happy

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Day 21- A picture of something that makes you happy   

Llamas and llama jokes make me really, really happy. Even a-llamingly llame llama jokes. I also  really love tigers, elephants and lions.

These llamas live at Siegfried and Roy’s Secret Garden and if you can look at them and not laugh just a little bit at the absolute ridiculousness of them, then I’m afraid you may need professional help.

Some other things that always make me smile, in no particular order:
  • Unexpected cake
  • The view on my way home from work when the tide is in
  • Sunsets
  • Listening to favourite albums
  • Hot chips with aioli, perferably with wine and chats
  • A freshly made bed
  • A surprise invitation
  • Text messages about shoes

 

30 Days of Me: Day 20 – I’m sorry, what?

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Day 20- Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future

Bahahahahaha. As if! Who the hell wrote this list of topics? The nosiest person in the universe? The biggest over-sharer there ever was? Or perhaps a combination of both with an added pinch of smug?

Unless you can find me a combination of Westley from The Princess Bride and Mr Darcy (Colin Firth 15 years ago, not that cheap imitation in the more recent version) then I don’t think I can help you with this question. If you can find the Darcy/Westley hybrid – rich, witty, loyal and heroic – that will do me just fine.