As you read this I will be on the verge of my first day off since Christmas Day!
That's 22 days of work in a row. The thing I find perplexing is that I'm not over it. Don't get me wrong, there's been some 'I don't want to be at work today moments' throughout the summer so far (the morning after a solid evening of BBQ and booze with some mates comes to mind). Though I feel like if you work for a local radio station and you do a local show then you should be among locals when most of them are out and about. Otherwise what's the point of local radio, right? Can I get an "amen"?! Amen (I'm self-sufficient).
I do realise that the majority of people who live here aren't down at Mt Main Beach every day of Summer, but the tourists are! Those from Hamilton wanting to see what a coastline looks like, those from the land of the Aucks wanting to feel something other than seething traffic-rage and disappointment in their mortgage size. Some travel from Wellington to see what more than 2 weeks of summer actually looks like. My sister (Katie) did that, she brought her Brazilian boyfriend with her, the jokes about lack of sunshine and the good looking women on the beach fall a bit flat on a Brazilian dude. They might have us on those two.
While Katie was here we decide to get a Pilot Bay paddle boarding lesson. Isn't THAT a great leveler! Turns out it's a little harder than I thought it would be. I was thinking it would be like paddling on a door... A large wooden one that Rose let Jack drift away from in Titanic. Turns out, not so much. You've got to have balance. Fail. But we got there in the end, just takes some time and realising that you've got to move to keep it stable. Duh!
I realised again what fun people we live amongst while I was trying to stand up the first few times and failing. There was a big old launch anchored in the row of boats just off Pilot Bay, the people on it cheered loudly every time we got up and even louder when we fell off. I'm a big fan of incentive-based learning, so when one of the old fellas on the launch offered me a beer if I could paddle over to get it, I naturally accepted his challenge!
