Hehe, on Christmas Eve me and mark went to buy a bottle of wine for the next day and somehow ended up at Honky Tonks at 2am drinking beer and dancing. Before that we drank some wine, shared a bottle of some amazing Sicilan red wine with cezar, ate free berries and white chocolate ,mousse because the kitchen was being cleared out at the wine shop, then finished an opeened bottle of wine and got locked in Went to the Supper Club and drank some hellish Polish Vodka that is flavoured with a special grass that bison's piss on apprently, had a 'cleanisng' ale drank some other beer, went to Honky tonk's and cezar and ian made me drink so much more, damn them drank more, got in for free too, woo connections. I was a teensy bit hungover on Christmas Day and ended up sleeping on the couch after lunch. It was all fun though, heaps of yummy food. Boxing Day is boring I want to go out.

Merry christmas bee-yatches.

I have decided that my holidays start today, hooray. I have to go Chrissie shopping, and tomorrow will be food shopping madness so I can't be arsed stressing about trying to write a PhD at the same time. Went out to the wine shop, it was lovely but a bit sd because it was the last night that Sarah and Cezar were working together Cezar has a job at the Rubicon in San Francisco in January, I will miss him. It was so funny the other night he came up to me and said 'that man outside just called me a cherry pie!' (he isn't at all cherry pie like) and we were laughing and Cezar was freaking out that the guy was trying to pick him up, then about 15 minutes later the guy comes in again and says, 'where is my cherry pie, I ordered that cherry trifle' hahah oh dear, it was on the menu and everything and Cezar didn't even notice.

Had a good weekend. Went to Roey's on Saturday and had a lovely dinner, chatted lots and got very drunk. she had this walknut liqueur and it was delish, so I polished it off.

We stayed till 3am and then spent ages trying to get a cab, we needed two so that Ro could take her friend to the doctor but we were only allowed one, and that didn't even turn up so I halied one and we shared.

Sunday morning I got up late for a family thing, missed the first train and had ten minutes to go from nude to sitting on a train. I did it, and I wasn't on the train nude either!

Did my family duties, decided that as I was hungover I should drink champagne for breakfast

Went to Carla and Katie's, had pizza, mooched, watched quality movies about talking horses. Bri dropped me home and then met Mark for a drink.


Photo time

me and lizey at Transport in thurs


delicious berries


me and mark (well mark being obscured by me)

It is one of those sad ironies of blogging that when one has interesting goings on to relate, the inetersting goings on tend to keep one from the computer.

In summary, well actually I can't be bothered relating all the inns and outs so just a few interesting tidbits.

Mark's parents arrived on Wednesday, seem to be settling in well, I took them Christmas shopping today, a surprisingly easy outing.

I drank far too much over the weekend, the weekend that began on Wednesday.

Had a good weekend. Went to Roey's on Saturday and had a lovely dinner, chatted lots and got very drunk. she had this walknut liqueur and it was delish, so I polished it off.
We stayed till 3am and then spent ages trying to get a cab, we needed two so that Ro could take her friend to the doctor but we were only allowed one, and that didn't even turn up so I halied one and we shared.

Sunday morning I got up late for a family thing, missed the first train and had ten minutes to go from nude to sitting on a train. I did it, and I wasn't on the train nude either!
Did my family duties, decided that as I was hungover I should drink champagne for breakfast.

Went to Carla and Katie's, had pizza, mooched, watched quality movies about talking horses, with some of the best ever montages ever seen on sunday afternoon tv.

Bri dropped me home and then Mark made me go out for a drink so he could get dinner.
Took my parentsinlaw shopping today so am now trying to get work done.

With uni friends, I ended up going over to my friend's in West Brunswick, arrived in the middle of dinner, had food and a beer. Then we went to the Retreat, after I tried to talk her into wearing a red belt over her black cotton dress, the beer garden is really nice there I had only ever been in the front bar which has a bad vibe, but out back is lovely, we sat on the grass and drank beers.

Then we mosied down to transport to see mohair, he's on pbs and plays soul music, had a boogie. two guys tried to pick us up, one leaned in to me and said "yourrrr gorgeoushhh" I said , his friend said 'sorry my friend is a bit, intox, intox, intox, intoximicated", once again we said then his friend came out with the best pick up line ever, he said "ladeeees I played golf today" we exited pronto

drank beers, hung out, chilled, then she wnet on to cherry and I went home about 1am.

Got up this morning for breakfast, met Ro's ex boy, he is loverly. Had pastries and five coffees.

Now I am relaxing a bit (ina sort of caffiene fuelled agitated way).

Thanks.

I am soo hungry I just got hassled outside the sushi place by some socialist wanting me to buy his magazine but I said I ha dno money so then I couldn't go in and buy lunch. Well drinks are off for tonight so I am going home again.

Oh dear yesterday was so drunken. I did some study in the morning and then mooched up to uni to do some more, but Jarrod was in the office so we just chatted instead, then we went to the Christmas party, it was very badly catered. Not enough food, even though it was a lunchtime thing, and there were 8 bottles of wine for eveyone (it's a big department), and about 30 bottles of Mount Franklin and 30 bottles of sparkling water someone had their priorities wrong.

Anyways still had a nice few drinks and caught up with friends, then me, Jarrod, Ryan and Tim decided to continue being drunken at Jimmy Watsons, we had the antipasto it was soooooo good. It had these deep fried fetta cheese balls I ate both Then me and Hugh and Lisa went to the opening of the new State library exhibition, Geoffrey Rush was there and me and Hugh were daring each other to introduce ourselves to him, but we were too chicken. We had to wait absolutely ages for the exhibition to be opened and so got more drunk and then drunkenly looked at the rare books that the exhibition was about, and laughed at them, oh dear we were very silly. Hugh was picking me up and holidng me over teh display cases so I could see better, gah we are bad.

Then Hugh tried to drag me to the pub but I not for me! I am too good, or too drunk even. Probably good really or I would be well gone today.

and later puppies

Ventured to the wilds of Weribee for a visit with the pupples of Abigail the Brittany Spaniel.




Ventured to the wilds of Weribee for a visit with the pupples of Abigail the Brittany Spaniel.

More of the strangeness, it just went on and on. All in brunswick and very odd, and wrong.
So we were happy to return to the real Brunswick. Please not the phallic and succulent cactus.
Though we did find an unhatched alien, probably wouldn't have found one of those in Ikea town.
A funny cartoon in a tax accountant's window, which was next door to a wedding dressmaker who had an old dentist's chair in her window, hmmm, I suppose the fitting of wedding fdresses can be painful.
We like their humour, better than those other streets.

Saturday in photosthe day started with pastries and a baby who was lovely despite being chicken poxy.From afar a strange vision. Then we went for a walk, venturing into strange territory, known to us as 'Ikea village', we didn't like to think of the difficulties involved in constructing these houses, ugly as they are, with naught but an allen key.
The creative street names.

More coming.

Hmm clearly this is friday blog and i have very little to report.

Finished marking, had a 'discussion' with admin bastards who want our postgrad space, got drunk a few times, got too hot yesterday, was too hungry yesterday, had lunch with Roey twice, felt happy about lizey's marks, cuddled Zana's baby, wanted cupcakes.

Photos.

Me trying to be Clara Bow

Me getting the most out of my apple martini