**Six Degrees**

Olympic-ie goodness is in the air. It brings people together, on a grand scale – i.e. the entire games...some of the crowds on our little lounge TV look insane. To the small scale, there have been more people sitting in our lounge at one time (5 of us! That is over half the flat OMG!) just watching... I like it. I’ve had some interesting conversations with flatmates that I wouldn’t ordinarily have such as 1 finger rock climbing moves, Olympic politics, and dead baby jokes... I like it. Together-ness good

5 days till my trip. I’m squee-ing inside, as in am really excited. This will be my third holiday this year if you count my whirlwind trip to Christchurch (which I do!) I guess I should look back at the start of the year star sign and see if there was “travel on the horizon” written in the Capricorn sign...! Doesn’t matter, I’m enjoying exploring new parts of NZ. I’m following Danny, one of the people I’m going on Holiday with, and his little journey around Australia through the pictures on his blog and man are they Aw-inspiring. One time delay shot of the outback sky, I lost my breath. Then he come across the ditch to Kiwi land and showed these amazing shots of Wanaka and the lakes down there. I can’t believe there is beauty in my own country and I haven’t even seen it!!! I shouldn’t want to jump the fence until I at least have seen everything in my own backyard. But I hope to change that with stops planned in Rotaroua, Taupo and Waitomo

I spent some of my weekend doing washing at the laundry mat, contemplating learning how to ride a scooter (one of those cute retro ones thank you very much!!!) seeing someone jump on with their duffel full of warm fresh dried clothes and scoot home! I want that... it’s just other people on the road that scare me. And the idea that I have this giant thing around me that I can potentially kill people with. I know that’s probably really irrational, but that’s the way my brain works.

Wandered to the zoo for the second time in six months with a photographer friend of mine (pictures on FB if you desire to see them) was fun, the weather behaved, I got to see the adorable otters!! I *heart <3* them and would love to have one as a pet. They act like a ADHD cat high on sugar, they never stop moving, and are so adorable!!! And remembered how to get to the cute hidie spot near PT Chev beach where the rocks jut out into the sea, its the perfect place to eat fish and chip dinner.

I have stupid crushes. And they are stupid because they will never happen because they are domed from the start. One being far away. Not far away it being impossible, but far enough to be inconceivable *say it in a princess bride voice!*... long distance sucks ass! Especially if the vision in the distance is of a beautiful kind wonderful boyfriend material male. Oh and the other one, the idea I have feelings for this man is just funny! Funny as in it will never happen, and I’m no where near his type... but that’s the thing with crushes I suppose they don’t have to make sense and be realistic... *wanders off to have R rated fantasy’s about Mr. Depp!*

It was in one of my Olympic watching discussions when the 6 degrees of separation conversation came up. A flatmate of mine knows someone from my past and its rather freaky how slim the 6 degrees can become. It doesn’t bother me a great deal, but I really don’t need my past rearing its ugly head... I know i’ve done some stupid shit in the past, but that’s where it should stay! Accept it, it happened, and then Move on. Oh, and most importantly learn from it, because the definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting different results and we don’t want be crazy people now, do we?