fuchsia fragments

friday.
nursery cages. lots of them. hella tired afterwards. but still drove to city. for blackbird cafe, strike bowling and cargo bar. janice acted as though she was on something.

saturday.
somehow got through the morning at work bleary-eyed. got home and dozed and dozed only to be interrupted a few times by the Lis. Donna. Mandy. Donna. But by the time i woke up and opened the door for Donna, i was feeling heaps better. Drove Sam, Mandy and Donna to Holy Cow for some Indian Cuisine. Different. That's all i can say. Got home heaps early. 9. So donna and i chatted heaps. Why do i find it difficult to say no?

sunday.
all day. relaying girls. why is it that everytime we do a relay, everyone loves to go through all the stuff on the trolleys? if it were me, i'd steer way clear. but no. we maanged to get it done. it was a close call though. then we went to visit baby niece. who was asleep. but still got to hold her. yay~

trying to sort a few things out about BM. food, oh the food...

lols.

in the cbb mood yet again. why?

i had dinner with jan and andrew and michael tonight.

lol for the blue mountains.

*adds more items to shopping list*

*prepares to get wasted with drinking games*

and midnight madness.

need to stock up on red bull. lots of it.

i got to hold my 24 hour old niece today!!! shes soooo adorable. a bit fugly cute. cries a lot. very temperamental and knows how to whine already. like, you have to rock her when u hold her or she will get upset at you. hahaha.

appropriately bought them bunch of flowers and balloon.

then i had a dentist appointment for the first time in like.. i dunno how long. there is a reason why i hate dentists. just.. dont like the feeling. and there was nothing wrong with my teeth. so wont be going back any time soon. yes i know i have wisdom teeth coming out. no i dont want to pull them out yet..

and then i could b bothered to go to coles and do some non-perishable shopping for the road trip. and all these lil coles kiddos were stocktaking. me and my sis were like OH LOL LOL LOL. sucks to be them.

«Juzzy» says (10:01 PM):
lol
she isnt man enough where it counts
which is a good thing
for her sake
wait...thats just awkward =/

(Aerosmtih - Angel)
i am a first-time aunt of a baby girl as of approx 4:30 pm this arvo!! yay!! im so excited too see da bubba tomorrow =D

already spoiling her with clothes from tarjay.

LOL~

its tarjay vs. pumpkin patch apparently.

i am lolling at my desk.

for unfounded reasons. that i am not allowed to specify.

lol. lol. lol. =D

lol forever.

hahahahahhahahahahahaha.

woke up and the morning was bleary. clouds. no sun. cold.

=(

morning yum cha with grandma at the rhodes shopping centre. nice place. nice ambience. above average food. the only thing wrong with it? the asians were outnumbered by the gwailows. like... HAHAHAHAHA. FAIL.

then came home to get changed. and this was around the time everyone started calling me. carl. val. sam. mandy.

WHERE ARE YOU??

um... i'm still at home..... ?

hahaha.

got there eventually. photos photos photos. everywhere. library lawn. quad. clancy. the plaque. randoms. and more randoms. individual and group pics. and cherry missed my godfather by approx 5 minutes. hehe.

it was overly crowded with ASB graduands... everywhere.

the ceremony itself was quite... long and boring. but cool at the same time. i sat next to a friend from primary school. it was like... WHAT R U DOING HERE!? AWESOME! =D

the function after.. well. all i can say is. im glad we went to wagaya instead. because it was embarrassing to have a whole flock or asians attack the food. there was like.. nothing left after 2 minutes because everyone had piled their plates high with food regardless of whether or not they really were going to eat that much. =X monkey tried to battle for a piece of cake and failed. epicly.

wagaya was cool. i thought we didn't eat that much but apparently we did. but the bill was still only $300. and $50 was taken up by a bottle of sjoochoo. it didn't taste alcoholic to me. just very fragrant. interestingly.

sushi was awesome. the weirdass rice gratin was not what i expected. ew lol. large shabu shabu was cool too. hahaha i dont know how 2 people could finish that tho.

and who can forget justin crying over his piece of sushi roulette. LOL!!! =D =D

green tea ice cream was a bit of the over flavoured wide. sesame ice cream was da bomb. except that it looked like concrete.

got home at 11. tired as...

and since i had work this morning.. i had maccas brekkie! =D =D

me and monkey went all around sydney to go outlet shopping today. and we didnt even get that much stuff. and i should mention it was an all-expense paid for trip for the wedgepotato. im such a nice sister.

first stop: dfo.
for the first time, i only walked around the centre once. there were lots of things that were potentials but weren't essentials and so might as well save up. i got a pair of jeans cause they were esprit and $22. got dad two nautica polos. two just jeans t-shirts for monkey. 4 pairs of davenport undies. one pair of esprit shorts.

second stop: birkenhead.
massive letdown because they were still renovating. most stores were closed and wasn't much there. the highlight here was the mango smoothie we had. hahaha.

third stop: broadway shopping centre
like wow, another centre that puts westfield to shame. and another target that makes us look soooo bad. this is where one of my ex store managers went to. he's done a really good job. place looks awesome. puts us to shame yet again. not surprised. broadway has awesome shops but imo, its too close to the city and two universities to make it a pleasant, quiet shopping experience. we had lunch at this jap restaurant by the food court called tomodachi. student discount of 10% and lunch specials made it awesome. ive never seen lunch boxes with sashimi, sushi, salad (with awesome corn dressing), chicken, rice, noodle salad AND miso soup for $13. or a udon sushi set with real sashimi sushi for $15. awesome awesome. i applaud. was good food too.

then we went to coles to buy cupcake ingredients so my sister could make cupcakes. hahaha they turned out alrite. bit fugly. lol nah, they were a good attempt.

we picked up mum on the way home. and i walked right into a computer technical emergency. LOL.

then we took the dogs for a walk. and bumped into my coz-in-law who sort of looks like shes about to pop. 3.4 kg baby O_O any day now..

and thats another tuesday and my day off gone. =)

Friday was a pretty normal day. at least, it was supposed to be normal.

work as usual. but we were going to go to grandmas place straight from waterloo. and we went via sydenham. at the station intersection, there were cop cars, police resue, ambos and fire trucks.

and my guess was right.

fatality.

our detour was in vain anyway since no one was home. =( thats so rare i was a bit cut. haha jks. but definetely rare that no one is home.

went home to make pretty cupcakes for cake day and our family bbq. i made the bestest buttercream. it was so smooth and fluffy and just pwned the one i made for my bday. =)


saturday.

work. asked to stay back. had to say no for the second week in a row. at least they found a replacement. came home for a kiddy bbq. god bro and other family relatives under the age of 16. was fun. loved the summer feel. sitting outside with the sun. i almost felt a bit sunburnt.

then i had to head out to the city. to pick up my bracelet and buy a new charm. they made my decision so much easier when they only had one of the two charms i wanted in stock. the cheaper one too. =D. and instant, no soldering needed. WYNNER!!!

after that, donna and i went to pitt street mall for a much needed juice. then went to myer to get cheap clothes @ 75% off. one dress. one singlet top. one knitted cardigan.

was looking at shoes when the coz calls and says he only just got home. i was like.. R U SERIOUS!? and after a long deliberation, we decided to go bondi via the graniph store. where we picked out two cool t-shirts for a frend of the coz's. even had to do his shopping for him. pfft.

we got to bondi perfect timing.. where justin walked right past us. and didn't stop until donna said

'wai, leng jai!'

at which he turned around instantly O_O

LOL.

coraline in 3D. pretty pictures. boring movie. bit long. began to feel like a lightbulb *refer to picture*

went to gori sushi bar after. where i ate and they chatted. (more lightbulbish moments). called valerie. asked about japan. she sounded like she was extremely busy. ate some more expensive sushi.

then walked next door to max brenner to fatten up even more. mm waffles and chocolate crunch pizza. so good. but so stuffed.

and in the car. i wanted to shrink in a corner and fall asleep. justin offered to take donna home. lol and on our way back, silverwater road was closed. HAHAHA like BULL!!! so we had to detour. funny. got home and crashed.

sunday
mayo txts at 9:20 asking for a lift to work. lol. and "preferably get there with enough time to go to maccas". we went to muffin break. 3 hours of work. went by pretty quick. then went to dan murphys for alcohol. and drove to harrys housewarming.

where i kicked mayo at wii bowling to his disbelief. (actually, we ended up tied). =D
where valerie didn't show up =(
where i had to listen to an ex-st-georgian bitch about my best frend (in the same sentence as rebecca l.i. WTF).
where they had barcadi 151 shots which is (78% alcohol)

"don't worry about washing the shot glasses properly, the alcohol will sterilise it"

where we stayed from arvo to night.

dropped mayo home. i come home and the kitchens like a mess. mums making turnip cake. had a power trip (stupid food processor). yelling across room to monkey. tired. smiles at all the money ebay items are making. =D

i was sort of prepared for a harsh day at work.

bit of an understatement what we were dealt with...

so it was the kids launch. where all of kidswear goes on sale.

hahaha.

the printer at reception broke down.
so when we were printing our ad, we had massive issues. like having to run to layby and back to make sure we were printing the right things.
and that was after we discovered some of the items wouldn't scan because they were already on sale. that effed us up quite a bit too.
and since it was the massive launch, we had all these colourful posters and banners and toppers we had to put up.
so we lost like another 4-8 arms of space in each department.
the people @ headoffice are.. SMART. huh. looks gd i guess..

anyway, so was running around the store like a headless chookie all night. and my heads throbbing.

throw in trying to make and cancel a booking for the blue mts = stressed.

its good to have a day off.
its better to spend it at home.

i found time for the things that needed my attention.

it felt good to do nothing.
to walk my dogs
and chase them around the yard.

and it felt good to be a couch potato for about 3 hours.

it felt good to be at home for dinner (i never realise how often i'm not there...)

one fun filled weekend gone.
another fun filled weekend coming.

japan meeting 3 was all about FOOD.
lindt cafe. mmm dark hot chooclate and cake.
hurricanes. RIBS RIBS RIBS and STEAK!!
french riviera. not the best ice cream. but awesome effort guys. re: serving size.

we didn't talk a bout all that much. just about flights. and bookings. that need to be clarified before we can start.

oh oh but who can forget my amazingly beautiful yacht parked at cockle bay wharf? AMAZING~

onto planning blue mountains. and cake day sat. and gi joe!

WOOT~

(Plumb - In My Arms)
even wen im not rostered on a weekend i manage to score 12 extra hours. LOL!

mum and dad had a masterchef style cookoff tonight.
pot-pot rice.
one was good taste ugly presentation.
and the other was beautiful presentation but a bit bland.
hahaha. so now i am feeling overly full.
and you wonder why i can't go on a no-carb diet.

there will be no lindt cafe-ing tomorrow. and def not eating before hurricanes.
*shakes head*

paperwork is yet again building up on my desk.

who knew one could fit so much in their drawers. i have 9. i still have 9. less 2 massive bags of ... no longer needed/rubbish/don't want/random/havent used in years stuff.

my room doesn't feel any lighter.

and my wardrobe definetely does not look downsized.

why is it that i still can't find the right outfits?

oh and i went to dfo today.

was pretty much a letdown - again.

good for random shitty things.
shiat for what you really want... altho, one should have learnt by now.

no dress.
no jeans
no cardi for dress
no boots
no bargain bargains.
no flats.
no thermals for japan.

what i got?

- a nightshirt.
- part of a pressie
- 2 dotti tops for summer
- just jeans wear-at-home knit

on the way home, i went to another hole. aka, roselands. full of old people and just about as quiet as a library.

why?

- to go to tarjay. yeah im hilarious. i go to someone elses tarjay to shop. there are several reasons. its bigger. its cleaner. i dont have to be obliged to say hi and chat to people. i can shop in peace. im unknown. they have more variety; more stock. i dont have to shop in my uniform.
- got my beanbag refill. still deciding how best to wash the bean bag.

and hayfever totally ruined my day.

controlled me basically. couldn't shop in peace. like.. half the time it was running. then i started sneezing. then it was blocked. and its like red from blowing my nose. =(

i even went to the pharmacy at roselands to get zyrtec. it didn't work that much.

grr. at least i can sleep now.

... in hindsight, i shouldve said yes to work when they called this morning.

perhaps:

work > dfo + roselands

lol lol lol.
too bad its not mine to keep =( =(

i was meant to just lie in the sun for a few minutes.

i fell asleep so i napped until like dinner. lol.

was meant to do all these chores. theres always tomorrow. hahah.