Blog Challenge - My Zodiac Sign

So one of my blog prompts was to find a summary of my zodiac and say whether or not it suits my personality. I just chose this simple one from google images because some of the other summarys I found were about 3 pages long and far too detailed to comment on.
I think this is pretty accurate for me except that I don't stand my ground very often if ever. I'm definitely an over thinker and I can obsess over things very well. I'm not sure that I'm determined as such, I'm sure my family would say Stubborn is more accurate. I always say that I'm aptly named as a Jenny is a female donkey and I'm quite often a stubborn ass haha
What's your star sign and does it suit you?

Full Moon and New Tech

I started this weekend with no plans other than to relax which of course means that something happened! Firstly it was full moon which always seems to up my energy levels and it was apparently a blue moon although it looked the same to me. I took my camera outside to try and get a pic of it, not expecting much and was pleasantly  surprised when I got a pic as good as this. My previous cameras could never focus on the bright orb in the sky. This has made me even more excited for summer though as I would love to get a full moon rising pic at the beach!

Onto the animal section of the post and first up Pigs! One of the places that we mow has three pet kune kunes called Gerty, Gus and Gromit! Gromit is a new addition this year and we hadn't seen him for 6 weeks so he had grown a lot. We always take a little something up for them to eat so the older pigs have learnt to come running over to greet us when the ute arrives now.

Also on the subject of feeding animals, we are running low on grazing at the moment just due to the cold weather and lack of growth so the sheep are getting a bit hungry. Well not really because we give them hay daily and also bring them home all the weeds that we pick from the gardens but they think they are starving. Luckily we leash trained them when they were younger so we can take them out into the village to graze some of the neighbours lawns (the ones that agree of course) and the road edges. They haven't been on leads for 3 years or so but when Mum brought the collars out from the garage they knew the drill and stood calmly while we got them buckled in, it's amazing what they remember.

On Saturday Troy invited me to go to Palmy to watch the boys play turf hockey. I'm always keen for any excuse to get out of town and watching (in some cases quite attractive men) running around a field trying to politely hurt each other seemed as good a reason as any. I took my camera and practiced taking action shots which was super hard when I had no idea what was really going on but I got some practice and that was the idea.

 Last but not least, check out this beauty! So I just happened to be in Dick Smith today and I just happened to look in the laptop section and what did I see but the very model of comp that I have been wanting, super reduced to $470. So I may have just happened to buy it...
I can't even begin to describe how much of a joy it is to have a responsive laptop again and also it's so small and cute! Now bring on windows 10 so that I can upgrade away from horrendous windows 8 and I'll be as happy as a pig in shit.
So that was my weekend. Nothing that I had hoped to do got done and lots of things that I hadn't even considered happened so it was a pretty good weekend!

20 Facts About Me

Name: Jenny
Age: 25
Birthday: 18th September
Hair Colour: Currently Blonde (real colour mousy brown)
Height: 5' 3''
Weight: 65kgs
Country of Birth: New Zealand
Eye Colour: Blue
Fav Animal: Cow
 Fav Colour: Purple
 Star Sign: Virgo
 Number of Piercings: 14
 Number of Tattoos: 5
 First Pet: A rabbit
 Person I miss most: My sister (she lives in the UK)
 Current job: Lawn mower/Gardener
 Obsessed with: Dragons!
 Fav band: Halestorm
 Fav season: Summer
 Random last fact: I get very easily distracted

Blog Challenge Day 1

Today Me and mum went to watch our cousin have her head shaved for charity. It was an interesting way to spend a Friday afternoon. The newspaper was there to take pics and get a bit of a story and quite a few people showed up to watch.

She was raising funds for a little girl who has cancer. So far she has raised $1600 dollars which is a pretty good effort for a small town I reckon. Her kids were a bit confused about what was happening and didn't really seem to notice the difference when it was all off.

Tbh though it kinda suits her so I can understand why the kids weren't too worried.

Blog Challenge Intro

So I kinda went off on a tangent yesterday about the sorry state of my laptop rather than actually introducing the challenge to you so I will do that now!

The idea is to post something every day for the next 30 days or so. Some days it may just be a picture with a description and on others it could be a whole essay. Well probably not an essay but something more than a paragraph.

The reason I wanted to start this, other than testing the last legs on my laptop, is just to get me here more. My posts lately have been few and far between and mostly pictures. I'm hoping to mix it up a bit. Winter is a hard time for me as I don't get out as much and the landscape isn't as pretty without all it's leaves so I find it hard to get motivated to go exploring.

Most of the following posts will be more inwardly relating I think. You might learn a few things about me (whether you want to or not is a different story) and I might learn a few things about myself.

The general idea for the challenge came from pinterest but I've made it my own but mixing up a few that I found and also throwing in a few of my own prompts. I plan to write them all on little slips of paper which I will put in a jar and whatever I draw that day I will write about. Wish me luck!

Are you doing a blog challenge at the moment? If so leave me a link so that I can go check it out.

This Might Just Kill Me

I've made a decision! Which usually means something nonsensical or expensive is about to happen. In this case it might just be both! I'm going to do a 30 day blog challenge. Well I'm going to attempt to do a 30 day blog challenge. My laptop seems to have dementia. Some days it will work quite well and other days it suddenly seems to forget how to do even the most basic of functions. I know it's going to be a bad day when I get mouse lag. Today is one of those days, not a good start.

The main reason for me doing a blog challenge is to decide the fate of my laptop. If I can get through a week at least without throwing this at a wall then I am not allowed to buy a new laptop. I'm supposed to be saving money to go to the UK so $700 or so on a new model that I may not actually need is hard to justify. After all this laptop does work, at about the same rate as a two legged draft horse but it's not actually dead. Yet.

On the other side of the argument though is that a morbidly slow laptop is pretty useless for updating while traveling (or updating at all). Think airport stopover, you find a plug and place to sit and want to email your family to let them know you are safe/well/got the flu but it takes 20 mins for your machine to start up and find the internet and by then they are calling your flight.

Of course in that instance you could argue that I could just use my phone and I would simply for the fact that I could send 3 emails before my laptop even loaded firefox but I shouldn't have to. I could travel sans laptop but I'll be away 10 months and borrowing someone elses for that long is tedious and I would still need to take a hard drive for my photos etc. 

I could try and get this laptop fixed but considering the price of tech repair and the fact there are no guarantees that it'll stay fixed I think it'd be cheaper to just go straight to the new option. I have asked tech savvy friends to give it a go over and tbf it did clean up it's act for a few days but a few days isn't forever.

It rather sounds like I've already made up my mind doesn't it! What do you guys think? Should I just go for it and then save doubly hard until I leave or should I soldier on with what I'm using?

Photo Challenge - Part 2

Today was so sunny and beautiful that I spent most of the day with my camera around my neck taking pics of anything I could see. I was actually waiting to go visit a friend but due to family issues it never happened. I don't mind though, there are other days and I got to potter about instead.

A Family Crest

So it's not for a family and I'm not entirely sure what a crest is defined as but I figured this was close enough for a country that doesn't display family crests.

A Castle Turret

This was another tough one because as far as I'm aware there aren't any true castles in New Zealand. This Castle restaurant though is close enough to fit the bill.

Free Shot

I went for a little wander this morning and this sign just stood out for me. I'm not sure why

Clouds

This is how clear it was today. The pattern of weather lately seems to be all clouds or no clouds so this seemed about the best shot I was going to get.

In The Garden

Since it's the middle of winter there isn't much in our garden except dead looking things so here's my photo. We decided to have a little fun on our saturday night so burnt as much of the dry greenwaste as we could while enjoying a cider.

A Pond With A Fountain

A large pond, more of a lake perhaps, ok definitely a lake and a very large fountain. It still counts!



I still have quite a few pics on my list so I think I will have to make a special trip out and about to tick some more off.