Arohanui - happy things

I've decided to do this Happy Things project weekly. Wish me luck xxx

• My new work; I love all the learning that comes with starting at a new place... new systems, new programmes, new ideas, new people and most of all the chance to make things over and really push myself to work to the best of my abilities. I think that's why I became so frustrated at my previous job - there was no CHALLENGE, challenge to understand or to complete work by a deadline, things came too easy after a while and there wasn't the need to learn and absorb new information after the initial period of starting a new project. So yay, yay, yay for getting this fab job and yay for learning. What a fucking geek.

• Keeping dry while surrounded by torrential downpours. I love watching the thumbnails of rainfall over the country on metvuw and being dry and totally astounded at the amount of water falling out of the sky all over the country. And I'm happy that I can enjoy this exceptional weather safe in the knowledge that I'm not being absolutely thrashed by the weather like other people all over the country. Poor people all over the country. Lucky Sarah.

• Life returning to normality as my ankle becomes stronger and I hurtle towards having my cast removed... Dinner out with Jessica including much gossip; I ate so much I felt cut in half by my waist-belt but also so content at doing something so normal. I'm going to see some of the Drama School Solos at Te Whaea this weekend with Bex, and it's super fab to anticipate going out without feeling super stressed out about getting from point A to point B. Oh, and manymany derby things in the weeks to come...strange how appealing that seems all of a sudden... hm. Odd.

• The ability to knit. How I love to knit! And also fab to know that the skill was taught to me initially by my Nana, a skill that links me to generations of women and men before me. In an age where people are so alienated from these simple acts of providing for oneself creating or remaking through knitting and sewing becomes almost a political act. Simply put, people need to wear clothes so that they don't freeze to death. Ornamentation is an ancient human impulse that is exploited in the current day by "the fashion industry". As an individual, the act of creation in this respect is hugely empowering as it allows a person to ornament without CONSUMING. I feel similarly about having the ability to cook - that it's empowering to make food and I feel that by feeding other people I'm showing people that I give a fuck about them. *End Rant*. Now all I have to do is farm my own sheep and spin my own wool and grow my own organic veges and then I can preach from the rooftops. Heh.

• The Boy. He's fab.