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Even in an apartment without a real Christmas tree you can have the smell of Christmas with a few branches of pine …. mmmmm! Although it does look like some kind of triffid!

Saw this in the New York Times – just amazing – hundreds of cookies as part of a wedding tradition. Very cool.

Everyone has their own opinion but I had a very good experience with Westpac today when asking about a mortgage. The biggest thing for us is the amount a bank will lend on an apartment and these guys are not that cautious and treat apartments like houses. So I think they’ll get our business. Sorry National, but lending only 70% is no good for us.

Call me anal and risk adverse but I am still a fan of MS Money ‘95 and today my years of diligently categorising and entering receipts paid off. We’re entering the grown up world of getting a mortgage and being able to tell the bank what you spend each month by pushing a button and printing out a nice report was fantastic! Not so fantastic to see the ‘000’s we’ve spent on rent since the start of the year so bring on the mortgage!

Was subjected to great amounts of disappointment today attempting to secure ‘only $81* to Auckland’ and ‘only $53* to Blenheim’ airfares. Obviously only available at 1.15pm on Tuesday afternoon and only in a month’s time. I should’ve known these fares exclude weekend trips. Thanks Air NZ (www.airnz.co.nz). However, can get to Blenheim in October for a weekend – yipee!

I was up Victoria Street today and was saddened to see that there is now less orange in the world with the removal of the orange Revive coffee bill board on the corner of Victoria and Dixon.

Today I was offered an orange Prada handbag through somebody at work. I was pretty keen as it would be the 6th to join my collection of orange handbags and who can resist Prada and under $100? Unfortunately it was more calfshit brown than orange so I will resist.