It is amazing. I'm so in love with it. So many amazing features. It parks itself. It has a solar powered sunroof. It turns the a/c on hot or cold when you are walking up to it.
Must must must get my hands on the fancy model he had.
6 more sleeps to go. I am already barely sleeping, wavering from extreme excitement to bizarre half- awake dreams like not being able to get to our hotel in Rome because I booked one on the top of a hill so steep you couldn't walk up it. At this rate I'll sleep the whole flight.
In other stories of cuteness I had lunch at Bec's on Friday. It was probably all Alice's doing, but she had the table set all fancy and had made a beautiful lunch for me that she was getting in just in case I don't see her before my birthday. Champers on a Friday at lunch, too lovely.
Timmy looked and sounded amazing. Even songs that I've either never heard or only heard a few times seem so familiar because of his instantly recognisable voice. He seems to have fronted so many different groups and his voice suits so many styles. Plus he was wearing an ultra cut tie up bow tie.
He seemed to be in a much better place than he was last time I saw him there. One of the reasons I love that venue so much is that most artists seem to feel so comfortable there that they share things they wouldn't normally. While Timmy is always reflective and open, Thursday night seemed to take that to a new level. I always find him hilarious, but I had tears in my eyes most of the night. His topics ranged from haikus and iambic pentameter (a man after my own heart) to talking about how much he misses being married.
I could have sat there all night and listened to him and his guitar.
Am really excited about Jad's new venue in Enmore, and now he has taken over El Sol I can't wait to get there.
It is pretty much the coolest bike ever even though I totally stole the idea from Colin, but that's ok, as:
a) it's a girl's bike and
b) he wouldn't let me buy it from him even though he's moving o/s soon and
c) my attempts to steal his were rather futile since I would have to ride past his front door.
Anyway, I will post some piccies of its awesomeness when my camera battery isn't flat from my onsite bike mechanic aka fiance hasn't flattened the battery taking photos with Billy of each others shoes, teeth and up their noses.
Bonus day tomorrow. Yahoo!
- Friday night work night out to farewell my boss. I cleverly left when tequila shots were on round four. Success on getting back into the Ritz, so the night was not a total loss. Was sad to see my boss at the pub as it is only just starting to hit home that she really is leaving. Saw lots of people I haven't seen for ages which was kind of weird
- The early night didn't stop me feeling semi hungover on Saturday. Perhaps it was hair of the dog, perhaps it was celebrations at winning $270 worth of meat and seafood vouchers in the raffle, but the third bottle of champers didn't seem silly
- Vomming ahoy on Sunday. It was apparently a beautiful day and I spent it in bed/ on the couch/ on the lounge room floor. I did make an effort (post- Maccas high- new Angus beef burger is tops) to go down the road and see the bands that were on as part of the final of the Red Bull junior surfing champs. I stayed just long enough to have my eyes scarred by girls in bikinis (it was not that nice a day) and alcohol everywhere. Back to the couch
- I put my engagement ring in to get cleaned (and unsquashed to the shape of my weird finger) and get my wedding band made up and my finger feels so weird without it on
- My bonus gets paid on Thursday. I must have overestimated the tax I would pay because I nearly had heart failure when I saw my payslip online today. Olympus Pen all of your calling may have paid off...
- I am making stuffed capsicums for dinner and they smell amazing
- I am missing out on meeting Kochie tomorrow because a fucktard old man I work with has taken emergency leave (again) and I have a meeting he set up that I can't get out of. Sob, sob. No photos with Kochie and no delicious food courtesy of City of Sydney
- I've done a bit more booking for our holiday- Paris hotel, Paris- Amsterdam train ticket and a trip to Maui!
Instead I am sitting at home by myself (can't remember the last night I was here by myself) and eating leftover homemade meat pie. Yummy yum. Feel like something sweet or chocolatey badly, which is very unlike me.
Have been feeling rather out of sorts lately, over lots of things, and AB being the sweetheart/ worlds best fiance that he is must have sensed this, so on Sunday he took me on the Bundeena to Marley walk which I've been wanting to do for ages. The weather could not have been more perfect and we had the best day. I could really feel the difference the exercise I've been doing has made- we did a similar walk down the coast about a year ago and I was pretty puffed out, but on Sunday I barely raised a sweat.
Amazing views and it did wonders for clearing my head.
Had my Rem review today and got a 'huge' (by current standards) payrise of 3%. Most people are getting a big fat zero, so I can't complain. Also got my maximum bonus which will be awesome extra spending money for our holiday.
New boss tried to pass this off as his own work but I know it was signed off by my last boss without me even looking at it. I think he was pretty taken aback when I told him some things today that made him realise I do a lot more than he gave me credit for, and that my old boss and I were far closer than he thought.
Speaking of her, it's her farewell Friday night, hopefully we are allowed to return to the scene of our Yothu Yindi crime of last fin year's party. I am going to try to not have a big one, unlike the 'quiet dinner and a few drinks' I had with work people last Friday night that got me home at approx 2:45am.
Apart from tiredness, little to report. Saw Beautiful Kate on Sat night and was a bit disappointed. I had built it up so much but I didn't really feel a lot for any of the characters. AB loved it though, and Ben Mendhelson is phenomenal in it.
Have started looking seriously at accom and have booked for London. Exchange rate and things getting cheaper as they get closer are great justifications for my laziness at doing anything sooner. Have started planning itneraries and activities, not helped by useless STA travel. Have even picked a Chapel in Vegas methinks!
I am going crazy at home. No car for 4 days is taking its toll. I am lucky I live close to shops, coffee, etc, but still. I do love to whinge about my job, but pretty much every day I meet someone new or go somewhere different. Even if it is awesome places like Carlingford. Ha. Hopefully Penelope is all better today.
There was just a guy coming down the driveway delivering something wearing a fluro shirt and carrying a box. Billy comes screaming out of his place going 'it's not vegeble day today, what are you doing?' So bizarre, how can a 4 year old know that it isn't Friday, which is the day my fruit box gets here? Freaky.
In happy news it is great to hear Pammy and Tommy are giving it another go. Could there be a better couple?
Have had a good, if quiet week. Slowly working through the 2 cases of Grays online wine we got delivered, drinking lots of coffee, going to the gym, worky work.
Going to Surry Hills markets tomorrow with Bec and Alice. We are hoping to have her photographed by that tosser that does the S section so she can say something like 'vintage Dior scarf from Grandma's wardrobe, onesie from a market in Paris etc etc' and be the only person probably telling the truth.
1st COURSE |
Pizetta del casa Topped with prosciutto, fetta, ecorino, olives, roast capsicum and spanish onion with a lemon and garlic vinaigrette T'Gallant Juliet Pinot Noir, Vic |
2nd COURSE |
Spaghettini With blue swimmer crab, calamari, garlic, chilli, lemon and olive oil Matua Hawkes Bay Sauvignon Blanc, NZ |
3rd COURSE Choice of: |
Chicken Breast Con Gamberi Pan seared topped with king prawns and garlic cream sauce on steamed greens Ingoldby McLaren vale Chardonnay, SA |
| or Crispy Skinned Atlantic Salmon Served on baby english spinach with tarragon and mustard butter Lindemans Reserve Hunter Valley Verdelho, NSW |
4th COURSE |
Char Grilled Lamb Lamb backstrap served on a mushroom risotto Wynns Coonawarra Cabernet Shiraz Merlot, SA |
5th COURSE |
Tiramisu Fratelli or Duo of Gelato T'Gallant Juliet Moscato, Vic |
Best food I have eaten in a long, long time with amazing service. Want more. Gym this morning to burn about one 100th of it off.
For so long I've thought 'when we move' or 'when we get a bigger place' things will change for the better or life would be easier. While I am still mega excited about moving into our new place (and its so close), I will miss this place and everyone here so much.
Relationships wise, apart from my ongoing family drama, I feel like I'm ready to let go of some friendships that have not been healthy for a while, and for the first time, rather than being upset or bitter, I'm ok with that.
At work, in the space of a week, I went from being pretty bored and complacent to still trying to process what has actually happened. My boss has been made redundant, lots of people have had to either reapply for their jobs or had their contracts ended. People, some of them to my great horror, have been moved to higher roles with more responsibility. Basically my whole department was turned on its head.
In a nutshell, things in my life have had a bit of a shake up lately. In a wanky corporate term I heard about a thousand times this week, 'it is what it is' and I am going to try and be really positive about it. I have so much good stuff coming up really soon, and I don't want to cloud that with a whole lot of what ifs or regrets. I've been feeling really contemplative lately, even going so far as to sit on the beach and just 'think' yesterday, but I'm in a better mind frame than I have been for ages. Or perhaps my mind is totally cleansed from the sauna Jules and I battled through this afternoon. I know all my other organs are!
Blink 182 was not what I was going to rant about, but I wonder where they will be in Hottest 100? Clearly I have no idea, as never would I have thought gay arse sex on Fire would have been in the top bazillion let alone the top 100/.
Anyway, today was my first day in the office since my manager's redundancy was announced. To say that I think my new manager is a turd bag is the understatement of 09. He is such a sleazoid it was almost funny to see him scuttering around the office today trying to suck up to anyone he could while avoiding people like me that he knows his time is wasted on. Thank God, as if I had to listen to hear him talk about how cool he is for 'discovering' Purple Sneakers, or trying to organise a boys trip away to 'escape the family' I will vom/ punch him/ explode.
Fun times ahead no doubt. Lucky you, LJ.
Snot is back to the max. Did the best sneeze this morning where I must have unplugged the hard snot and it was like a projectile. Hot.
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gem I now know there is 82 days til my holiday. FAR OUT!I am still in massive denial that today is Monday. I had such a lovely weekend and I didn't want it to end. This was the first weekend in forever where I didn't have to do anything, go anywhere, help anyone or even get out of bed if I didn't want. But I did, as I still have the inability to sleep in, ever.
I spent most of yesterday up the road at the Shark Island Challenge. I have challenged AB that he needs to get invited to compete next year or he is dumped (but said way nicer of course). Had a great time hanging around the kids, drinking beer in the sun (great influence) and generally lolling about thinking about what a gorgeous day it was.
On the way to the point, I stumbled across a box of books that someone had chucked, not unusual in my street. BUT what was unusual was that sitting right on top of the pile was the Diary of Anne Frank, a book I had been scouring op shops for endlessly for the past few weeks, I really want to read it again before I get to Amsterdam. Weird!
The Hangover is surely one of the funniest movies I have ever seen. Someone said to me the other day that it's the movie of our generation, which is a bit of a stretch, but it is awesome, and explains why none of the old guys at work thought it was utter hilariousness. My stomach was sore all day Sunday from laughing so hard. Cannot wait to get to Vegas!!
In between cleaning I made a caramel slice as a bit of a treat for AB who was at work and Jules came over and we hung out a bit, me smelling like domestos. We debated going for a sauna but decided we were too lazy, so we met Olga and Billy for Sushi Train and went for coffee again with Rae and Megan.
I thought I would get AB a coffee to go with his caramel slice, but when I got home I remembered we don't have a microwave for him to heat it up in (by this stage he was surfing) so I put it in the oven. Thinking fail, as the lid (yes I put the lid in) melted over my newly cleaned oven. Lucky I saw it before it cooled and caked on. I'm a moron.
Going to see the Hangover tonight, finally, can't wait. Then Andy's house warming. We were going to have some BYO everything drinks at the new place tonight, but I honestly can't be bothered cleaning it again, and Andy's place is lovely and close. Yes, my world continues to close in.
Tonight should be interesting as I am presuming Katie is still not talking to me, so I wonder if she'll be there.
Hopefully we can have a replay of Ptank's house warming where I take over the ipod and abuse anyone who comes near it and tries to play something other than Frenzal Rhomb. PARTY! Dry July is officially over.
I'm sitting at Neutral Bay Maccas (can you hear the children screaming?) because I needed a coffee and can't be bothered going home then heading back to Surry for sushis tonight. Gives me plenty of time to plan my order...
So much has happened in the past week or so, it has been insane and I'm exhausted. But in a good way :)
The unit settled, and after my bank saying they were ready, then their bank not being ready, making it to get the cheques with 10 minutes to spare after waiting at Chatswood for 3.5 hours the actual settlement on Monday was pretty uneventful. Did the final inspection on Monday morning and the place was FILTHY. The idiot male owner was there taking his surfboard racks off the garage walls, so I asked him if he was finished upstairs. He just smirked at me and said yes. For some retarded reason there is nothing that makes people leave a place clean, so I knew there was nothing we could do about that, but I did call my solicitor and make them get rid of all the crap they'd left, because they do have to leave it empty. They did not like that one bit, and tried to get their solicitor tro convince us they had left it all out of the kindness of their hearts. While I can perhaps understand that about the million paint tins, they still managed to leave us helpful things like pink sombreros and christmas decorations.
But regardless I am absolutely stoked. After looking for this long it is so good to know that place is still as amazing as we thought the first time we saw it and I can 100% say I don't think there is a better place out there for us. Well not that we could afford anyway!
After furious cleaning sessions, the agent advertised it on the internet on Tuesday afternoon, showed people through yesterday, and today a lease was signed. The guy is a BDM (man after my own heart) and works in North Sydney- go figure. His gf works locally and fell in love with the place, so much so they are paying the first month's rent tonight! They also wanted a 6 month lease, which is absolutely perfect as it means after new years we'll be moving! I can't believe it has all fallen into place, and keep pinching myself. I know there is meant to be a rental crisis in Sydney, but I didn't expect it to be this easy. I feel like quite the property mogul, and Chips and I are already talking about our next purchase! Perhaps after we get our trip out of the way...
The starts were shining today as I had a bit of time to kill on the northern beaches and got an absolute haul from an op shop there. Don't know what I'm going to do with most of it, especially since it goes against the 'sell everything' mindframe we've been in lately.
I feel like my whole life has revolved around this unit purchase lately, I've been so stressed out (maybe that's why Transformers 2 made absolutely no sense to me) and I feel like a massive weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Bring on holidays!
- Location:Neutral Bay Maccas
- Music:Screaming children
I am so insanely obsessed with this site.
Even though they email when the site is updated, it doesn't stop me from checking it every day. My obsession started with Erin Wasson, and now Natalie Wood has been featured. Love, love love her.I keep reading/ hearing about all the amateur chefs that are popping up after being inspired by Masterchef. While I love cooking anyway it has definitely had that effect on me. AB and I are probably the only couple I know about who is cooking dinner, because we both want to!
Last night was chicken breast stuffed with camembert, semi dried tomatoes and olives, with asparagus and parmesan potato and sweet potato chips (me).
Breakfast this morning was AB's special of mushrooms, fetta and baby spinach on toasted turkish. Def better than any cafe breakfast I've ever had.
Dinner tonight is Angus beef sausages (collected today from Jennie, she got them from the SMH markets, we haven't been able to go for ages) with mudjaderrah (me).
Am constantly thinking about what to cook at the moment, which is probably undoing all the good work I've been doing at the gym lately.
Perhaps this is my stress relief, as settlement is next week, the bank is fucked, AB got a LARGE tax bill this week (still trying to sort that one out) and just general end of fin year crap at work. I guess cooking is better than a crack addiction?
