Dangerous Territory Updates...

Well I've managed to update this twice today! YAY!

Check her out...... Take me now!

Happy nearly the end of the weeeeek!

xx

Brilliant Disguise

My favourite Bruce Springsteen song and you'll find it featured in the story of Devon & Jon Brilliant Disguise coming in Feb ;)

Oh and I'm back!

Helllllllllllllllooooooooo and Update!

Ok so it's been awhile since I blogged here. LOL. *blush*

God! So much has been happening. But firstly Merry Christmas and I hope you're all having a wonderful wonderful time with friends and family, or just relaxing!

I've been busy.. surprise surprise but importantly I've been spending some time with our favourite four boys on their trip down-under. I spent seven wonderful concerts with these guys and had an absolute blast, many highlights but the last three Sydney concerts were just three nights I never will forget. I was lucky again to spend these with such wonderful people and had so much fun.

I took about ten million pictures, lol... if you're on my Facebook you'll know that. I am trying to work out a way to blog the whole experience so stand by.

Just towards the last week before Christmas my Grandfather passed away so that was very sad right on Christmas, so many emotions between that, work was wearing me out and of course all the excitement with work---not surprisingly enough I came home from Australia with Pneumonia and spent a week, including all of Christmas in bed. LOL. UGH. I am finally coming right.

As for writing, well. I am back on track I hope. I have come home bursting with ideas and if you can imagine spending what fourteen hours staring at Jon does---it does wonders for the inspiration. SO expect more! MacKenzie and Jon, Devon and Jon and right now I did a short for Callie & Jon for Christmas, you can see that here.

Slow burn - Jon and Callie's Xmas.

I have a couple of weeks off over Christmas so I am keen to get back into all swings of things.  So stay tuned and peace!

Kiwi
xx

About me.

Christchurch Earthquake.


Some of you are probably wondering why it's taking so long to update my stories lately when I usually do my best to do so. The answer to that is my city in New Zealand was hit by a massive earthquake this week, it happened at 4.45am Saturday morning and was the most terrifying singular thing I have ever experienced in my nearly 32 years on this planet.

It was like a freight train in the middle of the night, glasses smashed, I was slammed from side to side in my door-frame barely able to stand and I had that moment where I truly thought it was the end.

We lost power, so I was alone in pitch black darkness trying to find candles and a phone that worked in the middle of the night. Luckily the phones did still work so I was able to contact my loved ones pretty quickly.

Miraculously the 7.1 magnitude earthquake made us lose a lot in Christchurch. But we lost no one. No causalities from the shake, and looking at the destructive from the city which has still been closed off since Saturday, it's a miracle.

Since Saturday we've had over 300 aftershocks, at least over 50% of them significant enough to feel and some even have us scrambling for the doorway all over again. My city is in ruins and there is estimated over $4 Billion dollars of damage. I was a lucky one that my house survived and all my services are back up and running but there are many that have lost everything. Good structured homes, demolished in the blink of an eye.

We're still expected to have a magnitude earthquake of 6 before the week is out. As you can imagine it's been like walking on eggshells all week. Being home bound because there is no where else to go, and we're too scared to go anywhere else. Just in case.

I'm proud to be a Kiwi as our Prime Minister John Key, and Christchurch's mayor Bob Parker have been amazing.

I have friends I didn't think I had, I also have friends who I thought cared about me and perhaps don't. Events like this are humbling and they bring out the best and worst in people. It's given me a lot of perspective I very much needed, and a lot of people don't get to be given that and still survive. So that I am thankful for.

Night's are the worst. I don't think there has been a night where I haven't woken up to an aftershock in terror, thinking it's happening all over again. It will take some time for life to return to normal here, our city's face is forever changed. We've lost around 100 buildings in the central city that will need to be demolished.

So that's me. Since I am not at work, I am attempting to write but I can't promise anything. :)

Take Care and if I can tell you one thing, make sure you're ready for something like this. Have a survival kit ready because we often think it won't happen to us. But reality is in today's unstable world. It will.

Talk soon.
Kiwi.
xxx