Wednesday, August 27, 2008

Latitudes...and attitudes

Postcards from the Pacific

A Dunedin postcard in spring , or the corner of the postcard that has you walking through the University campus, feels like walking through a Harry Potter movie. But ah, spring is in the air -- a change in environmental mood that has definitely lifted my own. All through winter rain, fog, closed down airports and cancelled flights waiting to leave the winter rain and fog, rewashed laundry and soggy not quite dry clothes, coughing kids and midnight shivers, snowy mountains and close to zero days, my mantra has been: winter is a blessing cos it makes you appreciate the sun when it does come! SO hem nao, bring on the sun I say, bring it on! I don't give a toss about the kilos I piled on when it comes to losing all the layers of clothing and wondering where the extra tires came from. I have watched enough Oprah and Dr Phil to give me enough self-realisation that I am more than the sum on the scales.
Well...maybe when I am having a fit over all the clothes I can NO LONGER fit at the Warehouse summer sales -- but hey, thats a few months away; and by the time I rev up into a state that gets my arse out the door...well, it will be winter again, won't it?!

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