Entries Tagged 'Orange' ↓

We’ve all wheeled our Life chairs into the big meeting room at work to be cleaned this weekend. Mine is easy to spot! That’s pretty much how I feel – always a bit different, special, the odd one out! This photo someone took made me smile.

Matt just got back into the office today after their trip to Nepal, India and Korea and he gave me one of the turbans they had to wear to the temples. Lovely orange, although I’m wearing it wrong!

Someone at work sent me this picture and link to get one this morning.

I don’t have the version of the iPhone that this is for … enough to tempt me? Not yet, they’re too heavy and slippery and don’t do any whizbangery that I’d make use of in my own narrow band of self-taught iPhone activity! And still my purchase decisions are less influenced by being a cool kid than they are about orange so if the orange doesn’t do it, it’s going to be a while!

Cousin Grant taunted us today with a photo he’d taken in Central Park – it was pretty sad to see it because we’d so love to see all the orange and autumn colours but I’m glad he sent it. One day

Here are all the buttons I got in Sydney last weekend – will have to do a lot of knitting to use them all up! Whether I do or not it’s very nice to have them

Had to smile when I walked passed these workmen on Dixon Street today, the Manners Street and general bus route changes in that part of the city are extending outwards and it was like their jackets were defending their actions proactively!

I made Halloween cupcakes again this year – we have all sorts of ghoulish baking and decorations go up at work for the event so this was my baked offering. I’ve finally found orange icing so didn’t have to make it up from red and yellow food colouring like I did a couple of years ago – although they turned out alright!

This year my cupcakes were coffee flavoured with vanilla butter cream icing – delicious.

Although they did look kind of yellow next to me that day!

Gosh I totally forgot I hadn’t posted this picture of my Orange Friend from Chicago who saw this very fast orange Tesla and actually got to drive a very fast red version around the streets of Chicago! With Orange Season upon us I thought it was kind of appropriate to post it now even though not a picture of a jack-o-lantern, skull, blood spatter, scary ghost or any other Halloween creature.

Orange Season is beginning to show itself in the office – a few cobwebs and creepy decorations have gone up and last night Jiff took to my orange balloons (yes still there from when we came back from New York) with a pen to make them into jack-o-lantern faces!

Mother sent the latest photo last night of our clivia that now lives and THRIVES at their place in Awakeri (as long time readers will know).

When we walk to work there is actually a garden full of them flowering (although now ruined by the wind) so they *do* grow in Wellington, just not for us!

Thanks Mum!

The room my team and I are in at work is often referred to as the Orange Room … for obvious reasons … my desk for starters. Other than my team of 2-3 as it has grown to in the last year, an extra can fit – and we’ve had a stream of them in that time. I’ve collected up a few Room Rules as we’ve cycled through people and got a reputation for being quite upfront about communicating them on someone’s first day sitting in the room! One poor guy ended up changing his eating habits to salad for fear of breaking the ’smelly lunch’ rule … much to his partner’s delight.

So another new person arrived in the room this week – a Xero old-timer but has never shared a workspace with me. By now there were rumours of the rules being documented and the person vacating the desk next to me said he couldn’t get away fast enough. So I welcomed our new room buddy with an emailed copy of the rules, which I circulated around the whole office to show just how real they were, and so far so good. He’s been a very quiet and well-behaved neighbour and he’s had rather a lot of visitors and sympathy – people coming to see him to make sure he’s OK!

This morning I got to work and after him telling me yesterday that he could only abide by 2 of the 11 rules, I found that he’d printed them and stuck them up on the wall. Good man!

They are fairly unreasonable:

And a joke of course!!