will check it out
lxy i don't think you heard the girl humming because you had your own 'i'm drunk, so drunk' tune in your head
― jergins, Saturday, 17 October 2009 09:57 (fourteen years ago) link
decidedly so. sometimes remaining upright makes a lot of internal racket.
i bet i would like the bar called hotel. something super fancy that you get to by going down a dodgy alley is tops in my book.
― lxy, Saturday, 17 October 2009 14:29 (fourteen years ago) link
okay wellington on a sunny day is aces
― jergins, Monday, 19 October 2009 00:46 (fourteen years ago) link
it's one of my favourite places in the world when it's sunny. did you know, there are a lot of walking tracks throughout the city, you should be able to get maps from the city council (parks and recreation), it is a really wonderful aspect of wellington, i salute the town planners for their green belt vision. the walk out to the seal colony at owhiro bay is also really worth doing, i'm not sure when the seals are there but i went in about november and they were there, lounging about, earning my approval.
― estela, Monday, 19 October 2009 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
went out towards oriental bay yesterday in the wind and rain, it was very striking
― jergins, Monday, 19 October 2009 01:01 (fourteen years ago) link
that's the thing about wellingtonians: we know how to appreciate nice weather! as soon as the sun cracks the clouds, there's a shitload of ppl down at the lolbeach at oriental bay (3 ft of sand and they call it a beach).
if you're hiring a car, i also recommend driving out to to lighthouse and seal colony at palliser bay (i think that's where it is, i'm not sure) - it's one of the most beautiful places i've ever been to, and pretty isolated. just a small fishing town out there. the seals are amazing, so playful and willing to perform. if you walk out beyond where the road deadends, there is a low wall of rocks stacked up by some local tribe a couple of hundred years ago. you look out to the water on your right, and on your left is a series of huge, steep, breathtaking cliffs - you climb up through them and find the most pure waterfalls and swimming holes.
i will do some research and see if i can find the exact spot. an ex took me out there - which has unfortunately tainted that place for me forever - and i'm not sure how to get there or the exact location.
― smoove operator, Monday, 19 October 2009 03:13 (fourteen years ago) link
here's the lighthouse:
http://www.teara.govt.nz/files/p12041enz.jpg
― smoove operator, Monday, 19 October 2009 03:14 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.newzealandphotography.co.nz/image-galleries/image-gallery-26.php
― smoove operator, Monday, 19 October 2009 03:17 (fourteen years ago) link
oooh i want to go to there
― te,he (tehresa), Monday, 19 October 2009 03:18 (fourteen years ago) link
for ruby
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2498/4025041670_c131287907_m.jpg
― lxy, Monday, 19 October 2009 03:32 (fourteen years ago) link
>_<
<3
― smoove operator, Monday, 19 October 2009 03:48 (fourteen years ago) link
actually, more like ^_^
― smoove operator, Monday, 19 October 2009 03:49 (fourteen years ago) link
lolz i hope they didn't seat you at the super rickety table, it's a serious health hazard and has been that way for years because those italians are too lazy/cheap to get it fixed
i want to go to that lighthouse!!
― spite n ease (harbl), Monday, 19 October 2009 13:58 (fourteen years ago) link
all of the tables were super rickety
― lxy, Monday, 19 October 2009 15:55 (fourteen years ago) link
i have a bad photo of me at nicolini's.
― estela, Monday, 19 October 2009 23:40 (fourteen years ago) link
blame the table. the chair was probably rickety too!
― jergins, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 06:27 (fourteen years ago) link
the courtyard floor is totally fucked up and uneven, and the tables... well... the big big round ones are a big wooden table attached to one of those smaller round tables, except the the thingees holding them together are kind of busted so if you're ever seated at one of those, don't even think about pulling on it, because the whole thing will come crashing off. the little wooden square table for two is completely and utterly fucked up. that's the super dodgy one. don't sneeze if you're seated there or it will tip over.
and yes, the chairs are all fucked up. and uncomfortable as all hell. never understood how people could sit there for more than 45mins.
― smoove operator, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 15:22 (fourteen years ago) link
haha, we did sit at a little wooden table for two. i didn't experience any tipping over that wasn't attributable to my drunk. maybe between the table and me we created a sort of white noise of wobbliness.
― lxy, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 19:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i brought a bag of jaffas to work for sharing. they were very popular.
― lxy, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 19:55 (fourteen years ago) link
wobbliness=character
― jergins, Tuesday, 20 October 2009 22:02 (fourteen years ago) link
a short play from two saturdays ago.
cast: fiancee, sneak.
location:home. the sneak has just arrived home from work.
fiancee: hello, how many licorice bullets are left? you are a sneak who cannot be trusted, i think you have been eating them all! you keep saying they are yours, but they are ours! estela gave them to us!
sneak (airily): no she didn't, they were for me and the jaffas are yours, it's just that i kindly share them with you even though i don't have to, but anyway it doesn't matter how many i've eaten because i received a mysterious new stash today.
fiancee and sneak: ???lol
― estela, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
sneak: they must have been a couple of australians.
― estela, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:15 (fourteen years ago) link
we wondered if we should have spoken, whether our accents would have really turned things upside down
― jergins, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:17 (fourteen years ago) link
they were pleased to learn you were nonsense lovers from seattle.
― estela, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:21 (fourteen years ago) link
is there cliffs notes for that play
― max max max max, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:29 (fourteen years ago) link
oh, :) !
― lxy, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:41 (fourteen years ago) link
it takes a true sneak to get a fresh stash out of thin air on bullets confrontation day.
― estela, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:45 (fourteen years ago) link
that is awesome!!!
― te,he (tehresa), Wednesday, 21 October 2009 02:51 (fourteen years ago) link
yes, every single bit of it is.
― estela, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 03:07 (fourteen years ago) link
does that store have a security camera? how i wish there were a shaky, grainy film of the event, taken from the ceiling corner behind the counter.
― lxy, Wednesday, 21 October 2009 15:51 (fourteen years ago) link
i'm going to new zealand, on friday!!!!!
― jabba, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 01:50 (fourteen years ago) link
aw3some. which city are you flying into?
― jergins, Wednesday, 17 March 2010 05:31 (fourteen years ago) link
auckland. only going for the weekend, my friends are getting married up in the bay of islands. i've been there before - it was nice!
― jabba, Thursday, 18 March 2010 01:39 (fourteen years ago) link
48 hours till i go to the airport!!!!!!!!!
i am going to eat:lots of BLTsroast lamb with mint saucelamb chops with mint saucecustard squaresraspberry lamingtonschocolate lamingtonscream-filled long doughnutseclairsmince and cheese piesbridge piespotato top pieslots of marmite and butter on slices of vogels
― smoove operator, Friday, 30 April 2010 00:40 (fourteen years ago) link
and you're going to bring jaffas for me, right? pretty pretty pretty please?
― lxy, Friday, 30 April 2010 01:07 (fourteen years ago) link
:( i'm not going to be able to be there where you are, j. i was really hoping i would but i've got shingles and my father has never had chickenpox so i can't visit him until it clears up since my shingles could give him chickenpox, and he is due to have cancer surgery in a few weeks so i have to be super cautious. i hope you have a wonderful time, you will love being home, i always do. don't forget about meal mates and rj's licorice logs.
― estela, Friday, 30 April 2010 01:19 (fourteen years ago) link
smoove is this your first time back since you left? if so, wow. glad you're getting a chance to get back there. i wonder if you'll feel like a different person! or even a little bit american?
― ugh (jergins), Friday, 30 April 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
two nights ago i dreamt me and lxy were in picton and i said LET'S GET IN THE CAR, WE'RE GOING TO DUNEDIN NOW what does this dream mean
ohhh estela i wish you could be there too! but another time it'll have to be... maybe seattle in the future?!
lxy, email me sometime over the next two weeks to remind me about the jaffas and i will def bring you some!
jergy-jergz this IS my first time back - it's been almost 2 years!!!!!!!!!!!!! i am super excited, it's gonna be totally weird and totally awesome to be there with jordan, walking down the same streets in welly that i used to walk down thinking about him and wishing he was there. i can't wait to show him around, and introduce him to all my friends! we're having a small party at nic0lini's with all my friends, one of my oldest and dearest friends is making the trip down from auckland for it, and my little sis (who couldn't make it here for our wedding) is coming to it as well. and i've missed my mad surrogate italian family soooooooooo much, i can't wait to squeeze them all!!!
also estela i am so sorry about your shingles and your dad :( i hope his treatment goes really well.
― smoove operator, Friday, 30 April 2010 02:14 (fourteen years ago) link
smoove can i has some kind of awesome candy?i have something i have to mail you that i've had since december oopsie!
i hope you two have the best trip ever!!!!!!
― tehresa, Friday, 30 April 2010 04:58 (fourteen years ago) link
hahahaha i still have the tiny present we were supposed to mail to you! but it is a 'seattle thing' so it might just make you sad now ;_;
― smoove operator, Friday, 30 April 2010 06:25 (fourteen years ago) link
my folks brought over 5kg of lollies/biscuits/licorice/cream eggs and we ate it all within 10 days
hopefully we will eat so much shit while we're there that we won't be tempted to eat the presents we bring home for you guys
― smoove operator, Friday, 30 April 2010 06:26 (fourteen years ago) link
i am here!!!!!!!!!!!
but fuck nz internet tbh. we're paying 30 a day for LIMITED usage and it is so dang slow and cuts in and out continuously.
― smoove operator, Sunday, 2 May 2010 18:10 (fourteen years ago) link
i get spam emails from a store in nz called "hallenstein's" every day. please tell them to stop when you get a chance
― spite n ease (harbl), Thursday, 6 May 2010 00:18 (fourteen years ago) link
Star of our current production is new zealish. Got a vm from the embassy inviting him to come be honored and it made me think of j&j <3
― tehresa, Thursday, 6 May 2010 00:21 (fourteen years ago) link
hi guys! we are fuckin exhausted and having a relaxing eve in our hotel room. harbz, hallensteins is a gross and cheap menswear store here. i will personallly stop by tomorrow and tell them to leave you alone.
jergz & lx: did you visit the karori wildlife sanctuary while you were here? i never went the whole 10yrs i lived here but we went yesterday and it is really beautiful. we saw a TUATARA!
― smoove operator, Thursday, 6 May 2010 07:37 (fourteen years ago) link
our kiwi star stopped by will call tonight and he is DREAMY just fyi.
― tehresa, Friday, 7 May 2010 06:07 (fourteen years ago) link
hi ruby i am so glad u having a good time in nz. we didn't go to the sanctuary, mostly walked around town. glad to hear ytth is into hiking possibilities. we drove out to the end of the heapy track and i def had some WOWS WHAT would it be like 2 start this? i think abt nz a lot: green like here but different. the other side of a coin, you kmow the value it's just another way to look @ the value. and it's upside down. me and lx were doing the reminisce y-day and thought back to this funny old man bar in greymouth, soccer scarves in every corner, rugby on tv, a fkin sunset outside, over the river. lx got salty fries and i got whiskey and 7-up yuck and then we walked alomg the river and both thought (confirmed later) 'damn no one knows where we are, this is A PLACE.' across the street was a building that said BANK OF NEW ZEALAND but the ppl had whited it out also it said A NEW LAND. fuckin great ajd there you have it, new zealand. have fun and post pix!
― jergins, Monday, 10 May 2010 04:56 (fourteen years ago) link
skimming this i read 'salty eyes' not salty fries
― jergins, Monday, 10 May 2010 20:37 (fourteen years ago) link