30 Days of Me - DAY 11

Day 11- Another picture of you and your friends 1. This is Tui, think that this is the most adorable photo of him.
2. This is Sootie, she is such a grump. Has to have everything her way.
3. This is Kuku, he is the adventurer. This cat has a huge amount of character. Talks back even.

Ok, this looks really lame but I consider my cats to be my buddies. Also I couldn't find a photo of me and my buddies, used the only one that I had in the first "photo with friends post"

Until next time xoxox (I won't say tomorrow coz I have been really slack lately - should be up to Day 21 not 11. Oooops!)

30 Days of Me - DAY 10

Day 10- Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Inspirational (instead of Mad)

This isn't everything, but is a pretty good coverage on music that inspires me.

Happy

The Climb by sung by Kelly Clarkson, Jill & Kate. (singing doesn't start till just after 1 min but well worth it)

Sad

Magic by The Nok

Bye bye by Mariah Carey

Bored

No getting over you by David Guetta & Chris Willis (feat. Fergie)

Hyped

I like that by Richard Vission, Static Revenger & Luciana

Inspirational (ie ones that I LOVE the lyrics, melody or both)

My Life Be Like by Gritz

Permanent by David Cook

Make This Go On Forever by Snow Patrol

You could be happy by Snow Patrol

And my most very favourite song at the moment is

Just the way you are by Bruno Mars

Until tomorrow xoxo

30 Days of Me - DAY 9

Day 09- Something you’re proud of in the past few days

The only thing that I can really think about there is the amount of hours that I have been doing at work. Its kind of lame to be proud of working, but I feel like that I have been putting in a huge effort as I have HEAPS of work to get done. I am proud of myself. I could have just done the minimum and just not get the work done buy i didn't and that is what I am proud of this week.

Until tomorrow xoxo

30 Days of Me - DAY 8

Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why

Recently it was recommended by my Doctor that I have a cholesterol test. About a year ago my Dad had a heart attack. He recovered well and further tests showed that he had high cholesterol which is because his body creates bad cholesterol. And, its a hereditary thing. Well, yes, it turned out that I also have that same thing. My cholesterol was 7.5 and normal is 4, so yeah, kinda high.

So my short term goal is to be on a healthy eating program, very healthy. So far, going pretty well.

Just need to up the exercise now.

In 3 months I have to get tested again to see if I can bring it down naturally.

Otherwise I have to go on pills.

So yeah, that's about all there is to say about that.

Until tomorrow xoxo

30 Days of Me - DAY 7

Day 7 - A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you

This is Grant, he is my partner of just over 3 1/2 years. He is my best friend, he also is able to put up with me which makes him amazing. He has had the biggest impact on me in my 28 years on this earth.

Until tomorrow xoxo

30 Days of Me - DAY 6

Favourite Super Hero & Why?

Well, this is going to be quick tonight coz it is getting late.

Basically it is batman. Why? Well that is the hard part. I think that it is possibly due to the movies. Movies make everything seem so much more special, perfect, wonderful than in real life.

One film that comes to mind is The Dark Knight. I though that was an awesome movie. We bought it on blu-ray and it the first scene on surround sound is just great.

Ok that is all.

Goodnight, until tomorrow xoxo

30 Days of Me - DAY 5

Day 5 - A picture of somewhere you have been...

This photo was taken in Australia in 2008. Me and my partner Grant flew to Sydney, stayed there for a week and then drove from Sydney to Cairns. All over the space of 2 weeks. Then stayed in Cairns for another 5 weeks. I chose this photo coz it is the only one we have with both of us in it.

It was a great holiday... wish that I could go on holiday for 2 months again.

Until tomorrow xoxo

30 Days of Me - DAY 4

Day 4 - A habit that you wish that you didn't have.

Well, I am going to have to mention a few here that are all just as bad as each other.

1. I am bad at doing excercise.

2. I watch FAR too much television.

3. Spend WAY to much time on the computer.

4. Need to stick at things like excercise, cleaning, keeping in touch with old friends and blogging....

Hence starting this blog, up to Day 4 and haven't missed a day so far.

A little worried that I am not going to write about on day 31 onwards, but I guess I do have another 26 days to figure that out....

Until tomorrow... xoxox

30 Days of Me - DAY 3

We are now up to Day 3...

A picture of you and your friends.

This is my favourite photo.

This was taken in Winter 2007 in Sydney with my friends Marie (Left) & Loey (Right). Marie, Loey & I all worked together in Hamilton, then one by one each of us left working there and moved away from

Hamilton.

The first one to go was Loey,

she moved to Sydney and is still there now

The second was me,

I moved back to the Manawatu and am still there now

Marie was still there for a while after I left,

she is still in Hamilton now

These two girls are the best, we had so much fun on our two week trip to Ozzie to go see Loey.

The sad thing is that it was probably the last time we all hung out together so we are well overdue for a catch up.

Thats Day 3 done,

Until tomorrow xoxo

30 Days of Me - The explanation

So, thought that I would just do a quick update of how 30 days of me works.

I noticed on twitter that many people are jumping on the #30DaysOfMe train, so I thought, why not. I mean its only like I have been trying to start a blog for the last 2 years. So I thought that this was a great way to start. I am sure that after 30 days of continuously blogging about ME!! that I may be able to come up with some far more interesting things to blog about.

So, here is how the blogging challenge works. Each day you update your blog by following the list as below. Anyone can join in on the fun.

Day 01- A recent picture of you and 15 interesting facts about yourself
Day 02- The meaning behind your Blog name
Day 03- A picture of you and your friends
Day 04- A habit that you wish you didn’t have
Day 05- A picture of somewhere you’ve been to
Day 06- Favorite super hero and why
Day 07- A picture of someone/something that has the biggest impact on you
Day 08- Short term goals for this month and why
Day 09- Something you’re proud of in the past few days
Day 10- Songs you listen to when you are Happy, Sad, Bored, Hyped, Mad
Day 11- Another picture of you and your friends
Day 12- How you found out about Blogger and why you made one
Day 13- A letter to someone who has hurt you recently
Day 14- A picture of you and your family
Day 15- Put your iPod on shuffle: First 10 songs that play
Day 16- Another picture of yourself
Day 17- Someone you would want to switch lives with for one day and why
Day 18- Plans/dreams/goals you have
Day 19- Nicknames you have; why do you have them
Day 20- Someone you see yourself marrying/being with in the future
Day 21- A picture of something that makes you happy
Day 22- What makes you different from everyone else
Day 23- Something you crave for a lot
Day 24- A letter to your parents
Day 25- What I would find in your bag
Day 26- What you think about your friends
Day 27- Why are you doing this 30 day challenge
Day 28- A picture of you last year and now, how have you changed since then?
Day 29- In this past month, what have you learned
Day 30- Your favorite song.

Also, if you want to follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/floppie_

Why not start your own 30 days of you...

30 Days of Me - DAY 2

So here is Day 2...

The meaning of my Blog name... Floppie's Blog.

So this story goes back to my high school days. I went to an all girls boarding school, so there was plenty of spare time for us to waste. So in all this spare time we all made up nick names for each other. I was first of all given the nick name Phill or Philly, they tried to use Pip or Pippa, but I really don't like those ones. I think that it was about 5th form when one of the girls come up with Philopillar (Phil-lop-pillar) (excuse the spelling, but I don't think that there is accurate spelling for that one.)

So then that stuck for a little while but was very long to say all the time. So then one day it got shortened to Floppie and then Disk got added coz of my love of computers. So then I had the name floppie disk, which became my first ever email address. When it became time for our end of year jersey's to be printed I had to choose which name to use. I was still getting called Phill and Philly as well at this stage. So I basically flipped a coin and landed on Floppie, so this is what was printed on the back of my leavers jersey.

But the story doesn't stop there...

Then I moved on to Waikato Uni. This was all new people, nobody from high school days went to the same uni as me. I can't exactly remember the exact details but it didn't take many times of me wearing my leavers jersey for everyone at uni to start calling me Floppie. They even took claim to making up my nick name, but they kinda get kind of stuck over where it came from. This took the whole nick name deal to a new level. Some people actually didn't know me by my real name. I worked in the halls of residence, all the people in charge of the halls of residence knew me as Floppie as well.

In my last couple of years of uni I got a job at a motel. At this job everyone there would call me floppie, including my bosses. It was really quite surreal.

So after that I moved back home to Palmy. I have a job down here and my boss asked me one day if I have a nick name, so I said, well yes I do, Floppie.

Next minute she has my nick name down as my log ons for work, very funny stuff.

So that is it. I use Floppie or Floppie Disk for all my Internet aliases as it is easy to remember and represents who I am and where I have come from.

So Day 2 done.

Thanks for all that is reading, until tomorrow xoxo

30 Days of Me - DAY 1

Right, here we go...

As you can see, this is my first blog on this site, even though I started it over a year ago now. So I thought that there was no better way than to restart my blog that with 30 days of me. Such a great idea, so here we go Day 1.

1. I live on a farm in the Manawatu Region.

2. My favourite pass time is watching TV. I record all TV programs on my MySky and don't watch any live so that I am able to fast forward through all of the ads.

3. I own 3 pairs of ugboots, a pink pair, a brown pair & a black pair. I wear them nearly every day to work and everyone laughs at me.

4. I have 3 cats. Tui, a long haired black cat, Kuku, a short haired black cat and Sootie, a short haired grey cat who decided that she didn't like living at our house with the boys and moved in with my granddad who lives on the other side of the driveway. She comes back for visits only to get a can of meat because granddad won't feed her meat coz it smells. Oh and he renamed her Mo, coz apparently that is the noise that she makes.

5. I live in a house on the farm and my neighbours are my granddad on one side and my parents on the other.

6. I play 8 different Facebook games daily.

7. I went to boarding school

8. I love the Natural Confectionary Company Sour Worms

9. I have been to Australia 3 times but never been to the South Island of New Zealand.

10. I broke and then rebroke my leg all before I was five.

11. I had Keratin Straightening Treatment done on my hair in June while in Australia. Costs alot but well worth it. (The picture above is of me just after getting it done.)

12. My favourite coffee is Moccona. Can't function without a cup of it in the morning.

13. I LOVE Butter Chicken and especially Naan Bread.

14. Have only started drinking white wine in the last year, like Pinot Gris, tried Red Wine last week, really don't like that.

15. When I was about 10 I would play indoor bowls with my Grandparents on Monday nights, bowls night. They even took me to tournaments with them and we actually won once.

There we go, 15 facts about me. Didn't know if I was actually going to get there, was harder than I thought that it would be, but made it in the end.

See you tomorrow xox