Maybe life is always damn confusing? Or maybe it’s because I’ve had barely any sleep and here I am still working on a tax assignment. It’s been an unusual weekend. It’s also been an interesting weekend. Had some fun with a guy at a party last night. I don’t want it to progress to anything else (”not boyfriend material” as Miss Em puts it), but was nice to enjoy singledom. And if you can’t have fun at 24, when will you?

But hmm.. is tricky to say what I’m thinking right now. I don’t know how to type it up. There’s something I want to say, but it may come back to bite me. So for now I will keep hush.

And for those nosey ones, what I’m wanting to say has nothing to do with the guy in paragraph one.

All I will say is, life can be unfair sometimes and the good ones are out of reach.

I ended it. I’m OK. Lets just let the wounds heal.

Today is Rob’s 24th birthday. So old.. I know!! It’s been a busy day. I nearly baked him a cake, but his mum turned up with one. So I thought rather than make us fat, we’d just have hers. (I will take a photo before we cut it up).

Rob went out to play golf with a group of friends, so I had coffee with my friend Victoria whom I haven’t caught up with in ages.

We’re off to dinner soon at Gengy’s. Will be so yum! So right now I need to get myself spruced up and ready to go!

I was at home yesterday studying for my Finance exam (which was this morning and went amazingly well - yay!) when suddenly the door bell rings.
What the hell?
Who could it be? Rob’s gone to they gym and we aren’t expecting anyone.

I walk down the stairs to the front door and see these lying on the front door step.

Aaaaww. I call out for Rob and he pops his head out from round the side of the house. Such a gorgeous boyfriend. And now I feel bad that I didn’t get him anything! What kind of things can you get that’s romantic for boys anyway? Sexy lingerie? That’s all I can come up with!

Rob got a letter in the mail saying that he passed his level 3 tests and assignments for his green keeping apprenticeship. He text me the news straight away. I was so happy for him! When I got home I gave him a big hug and kiss.
I teased that it was unfair that he had his degree before me. He laughed and said he had a “degree in grass”.
He swore me to secrecy, I was not allowed to tell anyone. Rob’s not the gloating type, like me.

I was so proud that when he went out to his soccer game I told my mum. But I said “hush, you can’t tell him I told you!” She promised.

Later that night I’m laying in bed reading my book and Rob is watching TV in the lounge. I then hear my mum descending the stairs and she says “congratulations”.

SHIT.

She then goes on to say; “I was sworn to secrecy but I wanted to say congratulations and well done.” I hear him say thanks.

About 10 minutes later the bedroom door swings open and he’s standing there with that look. That look that means “you blabber!”. He knows I can’t hold in secrets. lol. Plus I’m so proud of him for doing it!! He didn’t try at school so therefore didn’t end up with good marks. But he has applied himself to this, so I’m very happy he got a great outcome.

I laugh and pull the covers over my head and hear him say “Bron, you blab! Did you tell your mum not to say anything?”

“Yes!” I squeak.

He laughs and jumps on the bed. I give him a big hug and all his forgiven. I know he’s happy that I am proud of him, he just wont say it.

The only problem is he wont trust me with secrets now.

Me: “Babe…”
I nudge his leg with the heel of my foot.

Him: “Yeah?”

Me: “Oh. You were snoring and I was trying to make you stop.”

Him: “No. I’m awake.”

Me: “No, you were snoring.”

Him: “Then I was dreaming that I was lying here in bed awake.”

Last week I spent $300 (well Rob spent it, I owe him!) fixing my car so it passed it’s warrant - brake pads and tyre. Then Saturday it decided to be a pain in the ass again, I get to cricket, after getting some lunch for myself and Rob, I find that my drivers side window would not go back up! It’s electric, so there was no way of winding it up. I feel myself starting to stress, I give Rob his lunch and go back to my car to see if I can get it up. I can’t leave my car out on the road with the window down, someone may steal it!! Which actually wouldn’t be a bad thing. After sitting there for 10 minutes starting to get furious, Rob walks over and asks what’s wrong and of course I burst into tears. I think it was the built up annoyance and anger at having to spend all this money fixing my car when I have none, rather than the bloody window not going up.
So, Rob suggests I call AA where I pay an annual membership to have their roadside service. When the man arrives he tries out the button and links different wires to see if he can make it go up. I don’t care if it doesn’t work, I just want it up so I can lock it and I wont get soaked in the rain! The guy tells me it’s the electric motor and he can’t do anything about it. I thought these people were trained mechanics?
For the rest of the afternoon I had to leave the car unlocked in the parking lot next to the cricket grounds, by now I’m hoping someone does steal it and can get the insurance paid out. No luck.

I drive it home and park it in the garage (lucky we have one) overnight. The next day (Sunday) Rob takes me to work, because I obviously can’t take mine in the rain! Then he has to pick me up again after work, such a sweetie!

So this morning I took it to a mechanic and he had to pull the door apart, but he fixed it for me for free! Well when I say fixed, I mean he put the window up so I can lock it and keep the rain out, but the electronics of it still doesn’t work, so I can’t use the window.

The rest of the weekend was a good one, on Saturday night Rob, Dylan, Natalie & I went to Christmas in the Park, an annual free concert held in the Auckland Domain with NZ celebraties singing and dancing. My favourites were Opshop, they were awesome live! The fireworks at the end were pretty good too. We were lucky that it only started to rain in the last 15 minutes of the show, so we had time to make it to the car.

We all had a great time and are planning to take a picnic next year, to be more organised!
Lots more good photos here.

After work on Sunday, my job at the retail store taking photos of children on Santa’s knee, Rob picked me up and took me out for lunch at Denny’s. It was 2pm and neither of us had eaten and he was teasing me that he’d just been there and had a chicken omelette - it made me so hungry thinking about it!

Some good news is that I passed all my semester two papers at Uni! Yay! So much relief! They aren’t amazing marks, but I’m not worried. They were hard papers so I’m just glad I passed!!

Bedtime now… well, time to read more of my book!