In the spirit of ‘goodbye Facebook, hello chinwags,’ I have created a club via meetup.com. Yes, it is slightly like a patch to ween me off my Facebook habit – but only slightly. You simply create a social group, create event invites and voila! you have yourself the perfect chinwagging opportunity. Kiwi and I joined meetup when we found the Wellington Couples Supper Club – we went to an event feeling very dubious about meeting weird people from the internetz, and ended up having a couple of fantastic and boozy nights out – and many more to come this year.

My club is for ladies only. The Wellington Pink Ladies – you should join! Yes, you should! On the proviso you’re in Wellington and you’re a lady, of course. There’s already 25 members in the space of 3 days (woo make that 27 members as I’m writing this blog post!) so it’s going to be fabulous, I hope. It’ll be as girly as it gets – afternoon tea, pampering sessions, gossiping get-togethers, putting on your dancing shoes, dressing in your frocks. That kind of stuff. I’m SO excited. The first meetup will be the weekend of 21 January – I’m leaving it to the group to decide what we do via a poll. High tea at Martha’s Pantry is in the lead, followed by tapas and wine at Vivo, or movies and drinks at The Roxy. Whatever we do, it’ll be fun. I have plans for the group if it becomes a great success. Pink Ladies merchandise, anyone? No, it’s not cheesy and it’s not copyright infringement… probably. I’ve just always wanted a pink jacket.

Kiwi is starting his own club too, for the boys who like craft beers. We could do a joint effort at some point – ‘Teaching birds about beers’? I think I’m onto a winner.

It’ll be great to make some new girl friends! I miss my girls from home, it’s easy enough to make new friends – the hardest bit is making good ones – the people you can call up and hang out with in complete comfort. But the best place to start is by meeting new people. Will keep you posted.

In the meantime, it’s work as usual. I’m aiming for a better work-life balance for 2012. So far, so good. Sounds like this year will be fantastic for my professional development – I’ve gained an FMCG client, not something I’ve worked on before. Big opportunities for learning the market – while proving how good I am at what I do (trumpet, anyone?) Everyone’s a winner. In other news, our little house is being painted. The entire house used to be ‘Cape Honey’ – or ‘Cape Honey Spew’ as Kiwi calls it. A ‘warm’ yellow colour that’s dingy and dirty. It’s now ‘Half Thorndon White’ – posh off-white. Half the house is complete and it’s much fresher. Feels a bit clinical after being dark for so long, I think it just needs some pictures on the walls and for me to stop squinting from the brightness…

Ta ra!

 

 

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