If I Could Talk To Animals

So I've been marathoning Misfits recently, yeah I know finally, and it got me thinking about what powers I'd like to have if I were in the series. If you haven't seen the series a huge storm happened and lots of people, including all of the main characters, got super powers. One was immortal, one can hear people's thoughts, one could turn back time, one could turn invisible, and the other could um make people want to have sex with her. I didn't understand the last one being a power really but since the first episode loads of other powers have been revealed including the ability to bring people back from the dead, spoiler alert they all end up being zombies and eating people so that's kinda a rubbish power. 

It reminded me of when we were kids and asked what our power would be if we had one and we always imagined ourselves with the ability to fly or have super human strength. I think if I were to get a power like this I'd want to be able to talk to animals, ya know like Eliza from The Wild Thornberrys, or Doctor Dolittle. Wouldn't that be awesome? 

I think first I'd want to just sit down with my little kitten Oliver and ask him a few questions, if I was treating him okay, did he want me to do anything differently, and that if he had a problem he could come talk to me now instead of screaming the house down. 

I might then take this as an opportunity to go through with my plans to volunteer at the zoo or the SPCA, using my powers for good. Obviously not shouting out to the world that I can talk to animals but you know helping the proper workers understand that hey this animal doesn't actually like carrots unlike his other cage mate and would love it if you gave him more celery. Something like that. 

Or I could finally be a foster mum for the SPCA like I had also planned to do at some point in my life. I could take care of the tiny wee kittens who had lost their mums and teach them how to be a kitty and let them tell me if they needed extra milk one day or needed a check up cuz they were feeling a little weird. 

Obviously there could be so much more I could do with these powers but I reckon it would be nice just to use them to help out everyday situations instead of going on the news yelling I CAN SPEAK TO ANIMALS!!!! 

What would you want to be your power, would you keep it low key or shout it out to the world? What would you want to do with it?

A Year Of Firsts

I came across this idea on a few blogs I've been reading recently and I thought it was a great idea, last year I achieved quite a few things for the first thing so I thought I would make a list of a few things I wanted to do this year!

Attend a blogging event

For the last few weeks I've been involved in the NZ Bloggers chats and the NZ Brunch Club Facebook page. Being able to chat to loads of bloggers from my country has allowed me to start advertising my blog more and reading lots of other blogs. The brunch club holds an event once a month and I was too scared to attend the February event but hopefully this year I will get over my fear of new people and join one of these events!

Do a zoo encounter

I want to go into the meerkat enclosure at my local zoo so much! I'm hoping for tickets for my birthday so fingers crossed. 

Learn how to use my camera properly 

I constantly tell myself to do this but there's just so much involved that I just put it on hold. I know how to basically use the manual setting but I want to be able to take much better quality photos and learn how to use camera raw. 

Leave more time for art

Over the summer I thought it would get so much time for practicing and improving my 'arty' skills but as it turned out I practiced my 'watching a series a day' skills instead. With uni starting in two weeks I want to hopefully have some time throughout the year to do non uni design and art that I enjoy. Maybe design my own font or design some prints to sell. 

Turn 21

Simple enough, it'll happen I just have to do it in the right way! 

Gain 100 Bloglovin followers

Since joining the blogging groups and chats this has been improving so hello you new followers it's nice to have you around! I'm  not in this for the followers but everyone secretly wants as many as possible and if I can manage 100 by the end of the year that'll be amazing! 

Get an A+ overall grade 

I've gotten quite a few great grades but I have yet to achieve an A+ in an overall grade. An overall grade being an average grade of the paper I've gotten into the habit of getting a really good grade in one assessment and an average one in the other leaving me with a above average overall grade. I just wanna get higher than my highest overall grade of A - its a competitive part of me.

Cook more 

Brad and I have a unsaid deal where I do most of the cleaning and washing in the house and he does most of the cooking with me being sous chef however I'd like to take some of the days off of him.

Get happier with my blog

I've been running Sofilly x since April 2013 however I've not really been happy with it really until now. I've been on and off blogging through the course and lately I've gotten the consistency going enough to be happy posting my links to Twitter hopefully by the end of the year I'll be happy posting my links to everywhere and anyone.

Save some money

Due to some unforseen problems last year I had to use a lot of my savings on extra rent and bills etc so I'd love to save some of that back up again. 

Spend it on the good things

I also want to spend some of that saved cash on myself and others and splurge a bit. Not exessively but chocolate, a night out, a nice present or two wont harm anyone. 

I totally recommend sitting down and thinking about this for yourselves, they're almost like mini new year resolutions or goals. 

I'm as kool as a kangaroo

I held a koala!!! And stroked a kangaroo!! And it was amazing and I got to cross things off my bucket list!! Woop woop! While we were in Australia we couldn't not go see the native animals could we? Although the zoo was a few cities over we actually were staying near Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary which held all the animals we were interested in anyway. Due to construction in some areas of the park it was actually much cheaper to go visit so we took this as a sign that we should definitely visit, especially as the construction didn't actually put any of the animals off limits. We saw loads of native animals like dingos, wallabies and crocodiles, unfortunately the wombats were in hiding to the dismay of the women in the family. They actually had an albino dingo at the sanctuary who causes so much mischief he had to be separated from his family in another enclosure! (although that meant there wasn't much chance of photos of him) 

Did you know there was such thing as a tree kangaroo? I'm not sure if they're related but him and his proper kangaroo buddy are pretty similar looking if you think about it. The kangaroos were in a large enclosure that humans were able to go into and feed them. However they were all pretty chilled and too relaxed to go eating the little pellets. I fell in love with a little baby joey chilling with his mum in the shade of a tree, the amount of photos I took of him it was hard to choose one to include in here. There was also a very young joey who was chilling in his mums pouch and she was constantly flicking her feet at him to stop him wriggling! Now all I have to do is pet a meerkat and my animal goals are complete! 

We're going to the zoo zoo zoo, how about you you you?

Today was such a cute little outing with the friendlings. Wellington zoo was only $2 entry today for some reason so we decided to make the most of it and wait the 30-40 minutes in line to get in. Even though we're all heavily overloaded with uni work including myself (excuse the lack of posts at the moment) we decided it was a much needed break and got together and explored all the animals habitats. Unfortunately the wind was rather in your face so a few of the animals were sheltering inside their little huts but for the most part we had some amazing fun. 

Sorry for the very heavily imaged post but it's worth it for the cute animals. I must say the otters, giraffe and meerkats were my favourites of the day and if we had gone in earlier I'm sure we would've stayed until closing time just the same. I think I probably jumped around and squealed more than the kids around the park but it was the best way to spend a sunny, if not incredibly windy, afternoon x