Maoris are natives to NZ hon lol.
Like.... i dunno hawaiins are to hawaii? 0____o haha

@ Roach

Nah, she just carries them big LOL!!! I don't think she had any issues during pregnancy, and no miscarriages. Bloody lucky! But yeah X__x;; Stuff that... I think this baby is already up to around 6.5 pounds. I'm seriously hoping he's done growing xD;;

Yup, it's really unfortunate. It breaks my heart thinking on all the amazing people who deserve kids, that we know - but they can't have them, or they have to resort to IVF.

Ughh, everything price-wise sucks here in NZ at the moment. Joe said yesterday if I'm onboard, he's all for moving overseas at some point, because the cost of living is getting horrendous.

So funny, coz I looked heaps like my dad when I was little. I think I still do... All thanks to this stupid German nose xD!!!!!

Renata was a name given to my great grand father (on dad's side). He was an Irish-man, but he was taken in by a tribe in Napier. His original name was Richard, but they gave him Rapiata Renata. What ended up happening, is two chunks of pounamu were given to him, and he was supposed to pass them down to his daughters (My grandmother, and her sister). In the end, the sisters ended up fighting over the pounamu slabs, and they sent a horrible curse down to the next generation. All of my first cousins born before, and near me passed away.

When mum was preg, her aunty said a spirit came to her in the night, and told her to tell mum that I needed to be given the name Renata. To evoke protection against the curse of the pounamu. So mum and dad gave me Renata as a second name, and even though I was born 8 weeks early, I was completely fine. Dad's brother took the pounamu slabs, and dropped them in the middle of the green lake, so the family couldn't fight over who got them. All of my cousins since, have been fine.

So we decided to give our son Renata, for protection, but to carry on that name as well =)

Yeah I'm so much happier to have a boy, than a girl now LOL!! Especially since I know, what I have could be passed on to a girl (the crappy hormones, and polycystic ovaries) Plus he is the first boy in my family of girls haha. It's really made mum and dad happy, and has brought some peace to my family, since mum miscarried my brother.

Go the Maori Day Off!!!! LOL!!!!!!

*blinks* I don't really get how there's a day off for natives... but then again... poet never gets days off

True wow amazing lol.
Thats where alyssa was at a month before she came lol. She ended up being 7.4. She was soo tiny though.

Yeah true. Would you guys have done that if it hadn't of happened in the end??
I want to move too, i'd go to Aus or the U.S if i had the chance xD. Yeah nz is just getting ridiculous. Where would you guys go??
My dad was pretty hot when he was young xD. Now he looks horrendous haha. What? I thought you had a nice nose lol.

Wow that's an amazing story, seriously. Wow!! But anyhow Renata is a very nice name.
Aww that's sweet. Im glad you feel much better about it now :)
I know right? Im gonna pay for it tomorrow though haha.

I don't know why but im like hungry like so hungry... i think coz my metabolism has got a bit faster all i wanna do is eat eat eat. LOL

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@Poet - It's not an official day off hahaa. It's what we say when you have a lazy day off for no reason LOL.

Ooh... I see... [lol] I thought it was a holiday... Americans call that a "sick day" [lol]

So what do you call days where you are actually sick? Lol.

a sick day? XD

Americans are weird... most sick days involve fake coughing into a phone

LOL!
Well least i don't have a day off every fortnight like one girl at work. And it's always a monday or a friday lol

lol... gotta have their 3 day weekend?

Nah she's just a lazy cow lol.

Ah... close enough...

LMFAO.
Im gonna go get groceries, and i dunno meander around lol.

Take care, and enjoy the shopping trip.

Will do ^^
Im feeling like being naughty and getting something delicious :P

Hrm.. go for some dried fruit? :D

@poet -- that's unfortunate she wasn't able to find comfort in her relationship with you during that time. I know that when my brother died I really needed my husband's love and understanding to pull through it. There were days where I literally wouldn't get out of bed I was so depressed. He understood and let me have the space and came in to cuddle me and give me support when I felt I could use it. His death also changed me too, but for the better. I miss him lots though. I really wish I could give him lots of hugs and let him know I love him. He killed himself. I think his death was one of the worst things I've ever had to endure.

Deaths to close family members are very difficult. :(

@ Roach

Yeah she looked tiny in her newborn photo. Makes me wonder just how tiny Joe's niece was, she was like 5 pounds :S I still can't believe Sarah is a mother! I don't mean that like a diss X_x;; I mean... just like I remember when we were just tweens lol

Yep we would have gone IVF. Every NZer gets two fully funded rounds of IVF, if you meet certain criteria. So I would have totally taken that opportunity. I'm thinking about doing it that way in the future, if I have to get my uterus and stuff taken out - I'll just need to find someone who will carry the baby for us X_x;;

We're looking to teach english in Taiwan for a year or two. There's this course, called global tesol. You do their short course, to pick up the basics of teaching english, and then they will place you at a host school. Looks really good. Taiwan is apparently cheap to stay at. Other than that, I don't know where else we would look at living?? We just want to try something new, and experience something different.

Gosh my dad is horrendous now too, poor guy. Gotta drop some fricken weight before he kills himself off...

Ohhh resist the urge!!! That's what I'm having to do now xD;; I just want to eat, and eat, and eat... I'm allowing myself to go to the health food shop, and get one of their smoothies though, instead of my usual Magnum iceblock lol. Must....... give...... up....... chocolate!!!!!! GRRRR

True deaths in the family are hard... poet doesn't even know how to take death... but she assumed she was the only one who was hit by her death (basically a medical murder given how careless the doctor was).

I didn't know how to jump through all the hoops for her... so I didn't know how to comfort her properly I guess.

EW lol
I got a piece of cranberry and chicken pizza lol :P


Holy shit that's right she was a premmy aye?!
Yeah me either, it still hasn't sunk in. And i still keep thinking she can come and hang out whenever lol. Its actually made me realize how very few people i associate with. So that can't be good lol. I need to join some new circles i think, get some new friends lol.
Yeah i was totally thinking about cadet days, thinking - Did we ever think we'd be here right now? And thinking man our worries back then were nothing to now LOL.

Ohh yep, i'd do it too if i couldn't have kids. I'd try every avenue lol. But Sarah said that she would be a surrogate for me if it ever came down to that. So that was nice of her :).

Wow thats pretty cool. Living somewhere like that would be awesome. Lots of kiwis in japan too *nods*. Yeah i've seen those ads in the papers and stuff. Would Joe be keen to do that?

Yeah dad got fat. But lost 25kgs, so he's not too bad now. But his face is really munted from working on the trains lol. Its like he never got the dirt off or something? LMFAO!

LOL i got a piece of pizza nomnomnom. At least it wasn't a whole one xD.

Wait... poet your a girl? 0_____o

Eww that sounds like a very difficult death and I can understand why maybe she felt like she needed to withdraw and unable to trust people. I still feel bad for you too, poet, as it sounds the way she dealt with it caused you a lot of heartache.

My uncles son was "apparently" born blind. But actually my uncle claimed right up to his death that it was caused by the doctor who delivered him.

Uhh no... she was poet's wife... poet doesn't care if poet is called a girl though.

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@ Izu - More than I would like to think about

Oh it was just what you said, i thought you were referring to yourself as HER lol.
Sorry hon. No offense intended.

None taken... call me "her" for all I care. I don't really identify as my gender online. Moreso genderless online. So either way works.

Lols k.
I always wanted to be male. But for some reason i start out like that and end back female xD.