Chantalle Smith

Feeling a bit meh, so have cuddled up in bed and put on my fav movie, Back to the Future

Cartoon, Title: “How To Cook Hot Potato Surprise” Three frames’ 1st frame shows PM Christopher Luxon lighting the fuse attached to a potato, saying, “We heat it up and serve it capped” 2nd frame, it has been tossed to Chris Hipkins, who is juggling it and saying, “Ow…ah…ow… we may or may not repeal it…ow…hot!” As he tosses it to a woman with a child, where the potato promptly explodes, with the words, “User Pays” and “art galleries, libraries, parks, water, swimming pools” exploding out of it.

How to Cook Hot Potato Surprise.
My Stuff #cartoon today #NZpol #CappedRates #Rates

You can’t take the 90s girl out of me. Mariah was one of the first singers I really got into. So it’s probably that the song is filled with nostalgia for me

Oh, great question!

1. Snoopy’s Christmas
2. Happy Xmas (War is over) - John Lennon
3. All I want for Christmas is you - Mariah Carey

#SecretSantaAoNZ

Christmas Wrapping is such a great song!

I know how you feel. Mine costs $87 now. I remember when I first signed up about 15 years ago, they were one of the cheaper ones ar. Not anymore!

Public Records Act: Warning amendments could result in loss of vital evidence Three intended amendments will weaken the Public Records Act and create loopholes, the former chief archivist says.

"Record keepers are warning an amendment bill before Parliament will usher in the destruction or loss of vital public evidence"

Interesting point about the NZ Ministry of Works being privatized in the 80s, all its records were privatized too & are now owned by Opus.

www.rnz.co.nz/news/nationa...

A courier bag is sitting at a door

4 wrapped gifts and a card are sitting in front of a gnome from the tv show Bluey. They are all under a Christmas tree. There are other Christmas presents in the background

Ooooooooo came home to find my parcel had arrived!

I now have my Verandah Santa gnome keeping guard until opening day

#SecretSantaAoNZ

A man is crouched taking photos of ducklings. The mother duck is just beside them

8 ducklings coming up to a woman. You can see her knee at the bottom of the photo. There are headphones and a drink bottle beside the ducklings

A perfect day for our team Christmas picnic at the botanics.

The highlight was probably the ducklings that kept coming to say hello

He’s excited! As soon as he got up, he changed into clean pjs. Has decided to take his dressing gown too

😂 fair. I can definitely blame the 7yo for me watching Dogman at least 6 times

However, he’s also the reason I’ve seen Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park more than 6 times.

So sometimes he gets it right

If it was six times in one year, then I would choose a lot of kids movies 😂

His Dad eventually went… it did not stop him splashing 😂

There is a bit of water over the floor, and up the walls, and his towel was quite damp!

I can hear a lot of splashing from the bathroom right now… I’m not sure I want to go in and see how much is on the floor now…

I am still annoyed at my partner introducing the 7yo to Spongebob 😐

7yo has a pj day at school tomorrow as a fundraiser…

7yo: oh, I could take some of my money
Me: so you don’t want me or Pa to give you a coin?
7yo: that’s a better idea. I like that idea

😂

👇 This

Remember back when you were a teenager… did you ever do something when you were told you couldn’t?

I’m sure everyone does.

I appreciated that my Mum made sure that I knew I go to her when in trouble after doing something I shouldn’t have.

Not everyone has a Mum like mine though

Tempted to have a mid afternoon coffee…

Putting music on loudly through my headphones. Come on BSB keep me awake 😂

One of the security guards at work was like “happy Monday!” I just groaned back 😂

I only just arrived at work and I wanna go home already 😂

The lack of sleep I got last night is definitely going to kick my butt today

Partner just came to check I’m alright

Partner: you’ve been in a while
Me: yep, I’ve been enjoying listening to Nick [Offerman] 😊

Nope. Needs to be the original.

Covers don’t count 😊

I mean, she is helping those who go overseas for work with this 🤷‍♀️

Soaking in a bubble bath, listening to my audiobook

This is relaxing

7yo: this movie isn’t very kind

🥰😂

A boy is leaning over a popcorn maker

7yo wanted to watch Home Alone

So we are making popcorn too 😊

YouTube video by NZ Book Awards for Children & Young Adults Li Chen - Detective Beans and the Case of the Missing Hat (including activity and Q&A)

The delightful @exocomics.com did a great talk yesterday, including how to draw Detective Beans! You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=RlRo...

Looking out a window over houses and hills. The sun is setting causing shades of orange and yellow between the clouds

The photo doesn’t do it justice

I really feel like I will not get sick of this view. Especially as the sun goes down

Anyone who says their most hated song is (insert generic old pop/rock song here) doesn't have kids with access to YouTube

Will enter the rabbit hole again on Monday!