Lightbrandt Annual Gazette 2007

Here is an online version of the first Annual LightBrandt Gazette which we wrote this ChristmasChanukahSolsticeKwanzaaNewYear for friends and famiy far away. It is a brief synopsis of our first year in New Zealand, and we realise that some of the items may be difficult to understand if you weren’t here with us throughout the year, so below the Gazette is an explanation of some of those more obtuse items. Scroll all the way down to see the chart - for some reason, this stupid *&!!#* blogger insists on putting it 5 miles below the heading:

The LightBrandt Yearly Gazette 2007	Judy	Joel	Sandy	Sita
Favourite Book	The Inhabited Woman, by Gioconda Belli	La Mujer Habitada, por Gioconda Belli	The Third Side By William Yury	Why Cats Paint
Favourite Movie	Keeping Mum	Spanglish	Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix	Hoot
Favourite Music	The Humans are Dead, by Flight of the Conchords	Azucar de Caña, por Sol y Canto	Evanescence	Tui songs
Passions	Teaching PSI to Kiwi therapists	Writing Earthsong Newsletter Parody	Playing Piano	Catnip
Pet Peeve	No Trident cinnamon gum?!	No purple pens	“Pizza cheese”	Kaiya thinks my pets belong to her
Accomplishment	Giving Keynote at Women’s Centre Annual Meeting	Getting hired at Alfriston College	Getting an A on her Literature Review	Walking out past the front porch
Low Point	Hospitalised for Cellulitis	Having pneumonia twice and a broken thumb	Working for Ernie at Video EZ	Doing hard solitary time at the Pussycat Lodge
High Point	J&J’s July Party 60’s Boogie	Vacation in Oz with Judy	Geraldine’s Birthday Party	Getting out of Jail
Overheard at Earthsong	Lippy to Full Group Meeting: “Has anyone got a rubber?”	Christof: “I can’t help because I didn’t not get your email.”	David: “Check the newsletter to see if they’re coming back.”	Mio to ducks (in English) “You can’t come inside.”
Secret Fantasy	To perform “Aquarius” in the musical “Hair”	To found “Café Olé,” una Ristaurante Mejicana Downunder	To become an iconic anarchosocialist leader who writes novels in her spare time	Science Diet dried cat food bottomless cup and no more of that canned crap
New Kiwiism	The Operating Theatre	Twink	Cool Bananas	What’s a Calico?
New Year’s Resolution	No more Spider Solitaire	No more neckties and jackets	Get all assignments in on time	To walk out past the front yard