ohhhh so in luuuuv!

2 words for you - Danny Bhoy.
Need an image? Fair enough! Luckily his website is full of them.

http://dannybhoy.com/

Isn't he a hottie??!!! Another 2 great reasons (as if the cute face isn't enough?!) he's Scottish (yes VERY hot accent) AND he's a comedian!!

OK to get back to the point, Cam, Rach, Kim, Quentin, Jo and Jo's flatmate Leeanne and I went to Danny Bhoy's comedy show on Thursday 23 August. Absolutely hilarious show. My cheeks were sore at the end of 2 hours (he did have an opening act so wasn't all him). It was his first tour of NZ without being attached to the Comedy Festival. I will admit that I did prefer last year's show better, this one was still worth a giggle or two.

On Friday night we had a team building with our Service Desk team from Axon (yes the kind people who provided the free tickets to the rugby the other weekend!). We went and played 2 games of Laser Strike before some drinks and nibbles. After many drinks and laughs, most of us headed to the Caz Bar for a bite to eat. Hours later (we started at 4pm and I got home at 10pm) we all went our seperate ways. Axon again came to the party. We never paid a cent for anything all night!! BLESS!

Over the weekend just been, Jo and I went to Tauranga to see Nana, who is staying with Mum for a week. Was nice to see her, but I'm worried about her. Well I'm also worried about Mum, having to watch her mother slowly go downhill. Just have to be there for her. Luv ya Mum.

yay for free!

I just have to brag that I received free tickets to the rugby!!
Axon - who provide our Helpdesk support at work - have corporate seats. HCC were lucky enough to get them. Paula and I decided that the boys get them often enough. So it was OUR turn this time! A girls night out at the rugby.
Sadly, the rugby was nothing to brag about - but Waikato did win in the end!!!!! YAY us!

I'm feeling appreciated!

For the last Friday of each month, our floor has a "networking" meeting. This is when we all gather around and "network". OK, sure there is a beer or glass of wine in hand, but we're "getting to know each other"! Anyway, we have an activity that goes along with it that our Ministry of Fun (small committee with reps from each team) come up with. I couldn't help myself but sign up for this committee!

For July's end of month activity, we had a whole week! We did secret appreciation week. For those that have been reading my blog for a while now, will know that this idea has popped up before. I brought this idea with me, and if I do say so myself, it worked really well. It was a fun week, and most of those involved had a great time too. Some of those who opted not to participate, were pretty envious by the end of the week!

For those who don't know what this is, we all filled in a form with some of our favourites, eg food, drink, animal, etc. Those forms were then randomly handed out to participants, and you had to secretly appreciate that person for the week. At the Friday networking, all was revealed. We had 1 guess to see who had been appreciating us, then were corrected if we got it wrong. I guessed mine right, but the last day gave it away completely. I had an A2 poster on the wall by my desk saying that I was appreciated. To print that size, you have to use the plotter printer, which normally prints our maps - so I guessed with was our GIS analyst. Still was a nice thought. I got a few other gifts along the week, which were thoughtful.

So it sounds like it could now be an annual thing from now on!