Monday 24 January 2005

Hanging out

I woke up this morning just after 9am and went into the city to meet Darren. He was running late so I ended up going to Uni to post Alistair’s parcel and then went to BNZ and ASB to pay off my credit cards. Darren only ended up being about half an hour late so that worked out quite nicely. We went to pay off my phone bill at the post office and walked to the Gen-I building to see Rhys.

The computers were down at the office today so Rhys had an early lunch. We met up with him and he gave me the discs and we ended up going back into the city for coffee. He said that he was officially, 100% single and we talked about that for a bit. It was only after about twenty minutes that Rhys realised that it was Darren who Alex had asked for information on me.

We were all sitting at Gloria Jeans drinking our coffee and just talking. It was quite interesting. I brought out my pictures of Alistair because Rhys wanted to know more and more about him. Rhys told Darren the story about how we met and about how our families actually know each other. We talked a lot about work, what is happening in all our futures and just had some good conversation.

After Rhys went back to work Darren and I walked around the city. We ended up at a Martial Arts shop near the Town Hall looking at shoes which they had on sale. They are really great shoes, really flexible, thin, and good for clubbing and dancing.

It was such a hot day, it was about 26°C and we walked to the Oracle Tower to see if that was open. We ended up going back onto Queen Street and saw Darren’s sister at work. We just walked out of the building when he saw Helen, someone who he used to work with. We were sitting there talking for a little while and it was quite interesting, I found out that she went to Mt Roskill so knew a lot of the people that I knew. She asked Darren if he was ‘seeing anybody’ and he said no. Then she looked at me and said, “Are you...” and I finished off her sentence by telling her that I was ‘engaged, you know, to be married’. That was quite funny and when she left twenty minutes later she wished me all the best for the wedding which was really nice.

We ended up at Wendy’s where we sat for about an hour, just talking about the time when we first met, how our perceptions over guys have changed over the last four years. We started sending each other photos and things like that via our mobiles and he spent about half an hour going through my phone and reading messages that he had sent me months ago. He said that it was always funny reading things that he had written and couldn’t believe some of the things that he had said.

We went walking along High Street and into some clothing stores. It was quite cool to go into stores that I hadn’t been in for ages but I wasn’t really too interested in shopping. We spent a bit of time down at the CD store looking at DVDs and then went down to Starbucks for a drink. We ended up going down and having a look at the Downtown Westfield and spent most of the time in the Electronic Boutiques store looking at games.

Long day, but a good day. It's great hanging out with friends!

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