When New Opportunities Come Along, Just Buy Stuff

Even though I keep flicking through the Tauranga Arts Festival booklet, I keep ‘discovering’ new things. It’s like finding one more beautifully wrapped present addressed solely to you, nestled amid the pine needles beneath the Christmas tree. The more I turn, peruse and let my eyes pirouette across the pages, the more I seem to uncover and events I want to attend. Is this a magical booklet?

Greg the festival director would say ‘yes’, my colleague would say ‘what are you on about this time?’ and my aunty would crack a smile with a welcoming giggle.

Supernatural theatre guides aside, I have more pressing issues that involve new purchases. After the initial shock of becoming the ‘Official Blogger’ or maybe ‘Blawgger’, ‘Awegger’, ‘Blogsome’ (awesome blogger), I had to buy something. I’d like to blame it on genetics – The compulsion to purchase something when I am experiencing any change in emotion. ‘Excitement’ coupled with a hint of ‘anxiety’ warrants a new diary for my latest venture. Actually... two new diaries. They both waved out to me from the shelf to be purchased, for the purpose of taking notes. One for a normal handbag size and one for ‘why does she need a handbag that big?’ handbag size.

After handing over my money and walking off with the new journals, I felt a sense of accomplishment. I was now officially one step closer to being more official. Then I accidently ruined the baby notebook by taking notes in really ugly hand-writing, while I was on the bike at The Gym. Luckily the pages can easily be ripped out.

The next big question is what to wear? I already have a collection of cute heels (there can never be enough) and a wardrobe full of fabulous dresses... but I need more. If I am going to be gallivanting about for 11 days in a completely New York style manner from exhibition to theatre to dance to presentation to concert, I must add to the ‘House of Hunia’ collection. Some of these shows look like a divine chocolate mousse that you want to dive into. I figure that I’d best be dressed for the ‘chocolate mousse diving’ occasion.

So now it’s time to write and it’s time to shop. Helloooooooooo fantastic new frocks! Can’t wait to wear ‘n write!

To find your own ‘magical’ Tauranga Arts Festival guide, they are available at Tauranga City Libraries, various cafes and restaurants, information centres and at Mediaworks reception in the Westpac Building,

Devonport Rd.

Or if you are pretty good on the old inter-web thingy go to www.taurangafestival.co.nz

The opinions of all my blog entries are from my own brain and typed with my own fingers. They are not the views of my employer, my parents, or the dog that roams my street depositing brown ‘presents’ on my lawn.