Orange is not a colour, it's a state of mind

Will Twitter bring about some new kind of honesty? As it spreads and people get used to getting their point across in 140 characters there’s just no room for mincing words. You just say it. Perhaps our conversations in life will finally become like those we see on TV & movies, I know there’s not enough time to air the whole conversation but people just often seem to make a decision or say something in a conversation and get on with it. Not an hour-long chat or meeting that drags on with no outcome!

I think our lives are being reduced to a life-bite style as well. It’s not only Twitter 140 characters at a time, it’s everything. How many people nowadays just have no time to fit anything in? People rarely do lunch, Christmas cards, weekends away, phone calls, wash the car. Or maybe that just me. Phone calls? My phones rarely ring and for me that’s a good thing. Unless the caller has a question, gets the answer and goes, I have to admit to being rather frustrated that what could take 10 minutes stretches to an hour because I feel like I never have an hour! I’m always in the middle of the current life-bite (or string of them when it comes to work) and I just don’t have room for an hour-long interruption that wasn’t at my instigation. Which reminds me, I must find time to write a long email to someone I haven’t in a while that I used to write to every week. How did I let that slip?! Probably because it takes more than a few minutes in between something else.

We’ve been looking for a spot to people watch in the city for a while now, it’s one of our favourite things to do in New York – sit in the window of a cafe and watch people go by. Unexpectedly we went into Wholly Bagels on the corner of Willis & Bond yesterday for lunch and got a great spot in the window. And kind of New Yorky because we were having bagels! Didn’t try the coffee and there was waaaay to much cream cheese on my bagel. But still a nice spot in the sun to use again.

Half the city went out for a nice walk today as it was a beautiful fine and calm day. It seemed to us that the Frank Kitts lagoon was almost overflowing – not sure why! The path in front of the museum was practically overcrowded!

And every year when I see the snow up the valley looking so beautiful over the harbour, I don’t know why I attempt a photo – you can never see the snow in the photo! But anyway, here’s this year’s photo of the beautiful snow … on the hills towards the left …

New sculpture in the neighbourhood. Watched it being unloaded off a truck in the moaning, shrouded at first. Looked like a dophin or a whale but hours later when it was uncovered and mounted onto the pole, and with the aid of the binoculars we figured out it was a star! But you can see why we thought it was a whale!

New signs appearing around Wellington with a bit of orange in them – seems Star Mart has been renamed or replaced.

Either some naughty person yanked this tiny tree out of a park somewhere and tossed it up onto the roof or it lives in/on that building and decided to leap off. A rather sad site out my office window.

Feel kind of stink but I’ve let myself get rather disgruntled with Fuel Willis Street since the latest barista changeover and twice in the last week have made the hike up to The Terrace to see my old barista. Got into a bit of a moan fest today so I hope the guys at Willis don’t get into too much trouble. Weeeeell, maybe at least just enough to realise that while it is a busy site that speed isn’t everything and if quality slips then there are several other coffee places close by could be tried out. Anyway, had a fantastic coffee at The Terrace Bar as I knew I would and was greeted like an old friend. As a 10-year customer I should think so!

A magazine just arrived at work today with the Mister on the cover! Again! For everyone keen to rush out and buy a copy (Mothers), I doubt it’s the kind of magazine you can get at Whitcoulls, it seems to be a little subscription-based IT magazine. But still! Exciting and he’s chuffed!!

Why is it so hard to find the time to go for a quick 20 minute walk? Even at the weekends? I suppose in 20 minutes there are many other things I could do – iron a few things, check the rounds of emails, Twitter accounts or general blog and site checking, clean the coffee machine, sort out the pile of bills, chip ice out of the freezer, get some baking in the oven, do blog post, sort out photos for my website etc etc etc! I guess the 20 minutes for a walk is me time and it so much easier to convince yourself that doing something else is more useful and beneficial to others. Must find 20 minutes to go for a walk! Sigh.

Saw the cutest thing at Moore Wilsons today! The guy who grows their broccoli up the coast was in store with crates of broccoli at a special price and had a couple of baby broccolis (?) growing in buckets.

We went up for a closer look, the Mister having grown up in the city hadn’t seen a broccoli before, so we got chatting to the guy. He said that Moore Wilsons had had quite a bit of feedback that the new store was quite clinical, not as ‘fresh from the garden’ (which is what we’d thought) so he was there with his growing storeys, real wooden pallet that fits on the front of a forklift and lots of dirt. To show us all that vegies do still come from the farm.

After the shopping we went back to Gotham for some date and caramel cake. We saw it there at breakfast (not sure if they usually have it, but we’d not seen it before) and didn’t want to miss out, especially not with the great coffee they make.

Me in my attempt at red white and blue clothes in honour of July 4th (hard with a closet full of orange and black!), oh and a close up of the DELICIOUS cake.