"I had only just arrived in New Zealand having moved from Canada. I was driving a beat up old station wagon I had bought off a random Austrian guy I had met at the hostel in Auckland and was on my way down to Wellington. As per usual I had taken a detour off the main highway and was exploring the NZ countryside when I came around a bend in the road and found myself in the middle of a herd of sheep. It was so fitting with the idealistic image of NZ that I had in my head that I crawled out and sat on the hood of my car taking photos as they wandered by. That was one of my first introductions to NZ and biginning of my love affair with NZ road trips. I'm still here over 2 years later and hitting the road to continue exploring every chance I get!"
"I would love to hear Sun and Moon from Miss Saigon. It was such an amazingly powerful musical to see. I saw it with my grade 10 band class on a trip down to Seatle and it was incredible to see typically cynical 15 year olds moved by such a story."
"I find the constant competition to take over space in a house the ultimate battle of the sexes. It's quietly done and subtle but it's the equivilant of animals marking their territory. When I first moved in with my boyfriend car models, parts and photos were everywhere in the house. As time has moved on though, these automative symbols have been slowly migrating into the spare room and out of the common areas. The war has not yet been won but I have to claim victory to several battles :P"
"Real love to me is when I am sitting at home, sick as a dog, facing christmas for the first time in my life without my family in Canada and my boyfriend comes home and says "Why don't we go to Canada for Christmas" after only being with me for a few months. He gave up time with his own family and travelled to a country he had never been to before to endure the interrogation of my family for me. It was an incredible gesture and probably the moment when I actually fell in love with him."
"I know it's corny but for me cool is still and always will be epitomized by the Fonz from Happy Days. He was cool but with a good heart and without being cruel as opposed to Hollywood's modern day interpretations of cool."
"Jazz to me is a lazy romantic candle lit meal for two. It tends to always be the back drop for romance and certainly has a big place in my relationship."
"I'm searching for a job that actually makes me happy to get up in the morning. It can't be said that I haven't tried different options but so far it has not worked. I guess I will just be continuing to test new careers out until I find the one that fits me."
"I've always believed that the quiet, suffering approach with the use of the word "fine" when asked if I'm ok tends to do the trick. There is something about that little word that sparks fear into men's hearts!"
"I've always found that animals should inspire far more mercy than they receive. The number of reports of abuse you see on the news these days is unbelievable. I've started volunteering at the SPCA and helping out with the dogs there and I have to admit they just melt my heart. All they want is just to be with you and be loved. They care about nothing else and yet every single one of these animals has been abandoned. I try and show mercy whenever I can when dealing with animals, we're supposed to be the superior species and yet we seem to so often get it so wrong!"
"A working class man to me, while it's an older term, I believe that modern day perspectives need to be applied. He should be not afraid to get his hands dirty, wether that's outside in the work shop or helping around the house by scrubbing the bathroom. He should work hard but still be able to take that moment to be a good family man. He's in sporting terms what you would call an all rounder. And best of all.... he can fix anything with duct tape and a bit of WD40!"
"My first legal beer was with my Dad in a pub in London. We had just gotten off the plane and he was so excited to finally be able to go to a pub with one of his daughters (I'm the eldest of 3) for a beer that we had barely been in the county for a few hours when we found ourselves a pub and were raising a couple of pints in a toast. It was a fantastic moment and one I will never forget. To this day I commemorate the day of his passing away by finding an english pub and raising a pint to toast him."
"My dream would be to have all my friends and family in one place for my wedding. We are divided between Canada and New Zealand with a scattering around the rest of the world and the chance of getting everyone in one place would be next to impossible. If only money and time were not an issue."
"As someone who has problems just performing a basic summersalt any acrobatic accomplishment is impressive. I still have to say that the work the men do on the rings is incredible, the strenth it takes to hold those positions while making it look not only effortless but also elegant is remarkable."
"As the eldest of 3 sisters I find that I have only to talk to one of my sisters for a few minutes before we can revert back to our age old relationship of teasing, bickering, joking, laughing, argueing that we have always had. It's my sisters that are my constant as life changes. They know the best and the worse of you and will always know how to push your buttons better than anyone else."
"I've been searching for those perfect pair of shoes. You know the ones that have the heels high enough to make all sorts of things look better but that you can actually wear for longer than 5 minutes before taking them off and carrying them for the rest of the evening!"
"I have to always found that going for the subtle approach can work, usually just wearing my regular office work clothes but letting him know that underneath is a suspender belt and all that goes with it makes him pretty happy to make dinner, do the dishes and all while I sit on the couch with a glass of wine!"
"I think it would be amazing to hear Kanye's take on Johnny Cash. The one that could be really amazing would be Folsom Prison Blues. That song is just so fantastic and I think really open to new and different interpretations as well as diffent genres."
"I have to laugh at my boyfriends continued mystification at the amount of paraphernalia a girl needs to have to get ready each day. Trying to explain the need for both a hairdryer and straighter, why you can't just survive with only one colour of eye shadow and why I really do need my 30+ pairs of shoes! Needless to say, to a man who can role out of bed and be out the door 5 minutes later the confusion is understandable though entertaining for me!"
"Since moving in with my boyfriend I have found myself surronded with photos of sports cars and odd engine parts for the model monster trucks he builds. It's hard to understand the fascination at times as I hear the swear words coming from his workspace while he tries to rebuild an engine but when it is working and he is tearing up a dirt track, his face looks like a kid on Christmas morning who just got every present he ever dreamed of."
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