The Home Stretch

I started a Bachelor of Arts in Linguistics in 2006, and in two weeks I will finally be finished!

Of course, life didn't go quite as I had planned when starting my degree. After the first year, I was so in love with Sign Language that I decided to quit it and move up the country to study to become a Sign Language Interpreter. And so I did. Becoming an interpreter was HARD, but so, so worth it, cos I have a job I love so much now.

But, after I qualified and started working as an interpreter, I felt a little academically 'bored,' (and I'm a sucker for punishment), so I decided to keep going with my degree, part time (and extramuraly). And, because I am doing it part time while I work, it has taken me quite a while. So here I am 6 1/2 years after I started, and I'M ON THE HOME STRETCH!!

I am so excited.
No study for me next semester (we're travelling, so it wouldn't work), but I have a feeling I'll be back at the post grad level next year.

And now, I am procrastinating writing my last essay (MY LAST ESSAY!) and studying for my last exam (MY LAST EXAM!!), so I will say Ciao till then.
See you on the other side.

The Poem Series: His Love

I love you

Like the waters deep so strong

And bottomless and with a pressure

You cannot hold

Mysteries abound themselves from me to you

I love you through the sun

And the rain, the leaves that fall and grow,

Delicate shells, intricate beyond knowing

I love you in the mountains rumble

I love you in your love,

That surrounds you,

Lovers and children and family and friends

All I can through them

I love you through words

Learning and knowledge all gained through pages

the poems, the lyrics, the novel of cunning and romance

Its all for you

I love you through all you touch,

Rough and dimpled surfaces

The raw invigorating wind and

Warm sun that kisses your skin to freckle

The goose bumps on your skin as you reach for me

show you I am there

I love you through sounds

Laughter and crescendos are all for you

I whisper love to you as you sleep

I love you through tunes sweet and soft

Through songs that drag you away to another place

Closer to me

I love you through taste and smell

Food and flowers and herbs and nature all for

You to enjoy, my love

To absorb in wonder

I love you when you turn

And fall and stumble

I am the one picking you up and wiping your tears and

Shame, guilt away

I put you back on your feet

And love you as you blossom again

How could you miss it?

Its all for you

Surrounding you, filling you in every moment

Dark and light and taste and sight

Sound and touch, conversations and glances

In working and resting, in toil and in your hallelujahs

In singing and sighing, in warmth and chills

Sleeping and waking and all in between

In age and youth and health and illness

In life and death and grief and joy

In the mundane and in the breathtaking

It’s always there for you

Love never ending

My top 5 Baking Recipes

1). Chocolate Cake
This is a very dense and almost mud cake, which is so delicious. It has a cup of plain yoghurt in, which I think is the key for excellent moist-ness

2) Strawberry Lemonade Cupcakes

Lemon and Strawberry - yes please! The cupcake is lemon flavour and the icing/frosting is strawberry, but you could use any fresh berry you had on you.

3) Neapolitan Cake

A nice twist on the old rainbow cake, but as only one layer actually has food colouring (the others are plain and cocoa), its not too fiddly to make. And you can make the icing/frosting as complex or as simple as you want

4) Afghan Biscuits

This wouldn't be a Kiwi blog without reference to these bikkies. So easy to make, and delicious too. 

5) Marble Cupcakes

Another fun cupcake, relatively simple in taste, but its fun to work with the contrasting cocoa and vanilla flavours

Cute Animal Gifs to express my emotions

I recently found this website: http://whatshouldwecallme.tumblr.com/

It's awesome and some of them are SO funny. I especially like the cutesy animal ones, so I decided to make some of my own. After all, what better way to express ones emotions/day to day life struggles, than through cute animal gifs?

Me, trying to get lollies out of the jar

When my baby nephew/niece are around, I'm like..

When Matt catches me eating 2 chocolate yoghurts

If a driver cuts me off, I'm like

When I ask my niece if she's brushed her teeth, she's like

When I look outside at the Wellington weather, it's like

When Matt tells me we don't have enough money for me to get that new bag/top/whatever, I'm like

Waking up on Monday morning

   If I'm really hungry but can't open the container

When someone is saying stupid things at work, I wanna be like

When Matt gets home from being away, I'm like

The Poem Series: Autumn

Hand and hand we step out

On a transparent autumn morning

We walk to the silent beat

When you breathe in and I breathe out

We read the leaves in the open air season

You hold my hand, your touch is a story

I read you with fluency, not in your words

But in the lines on your face and between the lashes of your eyes

We walk, crunching surrendered leaves underfoot

And when the wind comes and blows summer away

You lead me back to the place we know

So wait up

There’s so much to dream about

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All poems in this series are by me, and are copyright to me. Some are recent, most were written in the past few years.