fuchsia fragments

deliberately  - and i mean - made a huge effort - to have absolutely no plans this weekend. to study.

it's like an alien word. my brain doesn't know how to process it but procrastination seems to come effortlessly, as though it were second-nature.

i made a pretty good attempt yesterday (barr the sleeping in). didn't go anywhere, didn't download that much stuff to watch, didn't surf the net for too long, didn't spend a lot of time of facebook, youtube, etc.

just the hour... or two on ebay. got an early night. as you would when you study. right?!

today however...

still attempting - the books are open, the highlighters are all lined up, the post its are ready and even my notes are printed and ordered. its just a matter of using all of these things in a productive manner . . . . . .

sidetracked by the MUM - myer. review. skirt. cue. sale. etc.

but even then it wasn't that long.

and the afternoon... seemed to slip through. movie. net. nothing. just ... tick tock.

nessie, walk, absorbing vitamin D, checking live netball score.

problematic!

monday netball. we beat them 20-13 but they cheated and said it was 15-13!! :( we're not on the top of the ladder due to for and against because of that!!!

and today... i touched the ball three times as GK. and stood there the rest of the game. we won by 22 goals. :)

janice stayed over last night cause we had dinner and a catch up with a couple of the girls from tarjay (very very long time no see!) which was great. but she snores a lot. and is a bed HOG and more importantly, a BLANKET HOG!!!  (also trying not to place too much emphasis on this as i am grateful that i have a double bed and i know someppl have shared worse... but of course, a lot more intimate so... [trades-off]).

and the reason she stayed over was cause we were going to moore park for Masterchef Live! we were late. she slept right in. and i was the one who had to turn off her screeching alarm clock at 4 am. what kind of person sets their alarm for 4 am?!?! i thought i was crazy with 5!!!

anyway, we picked up a few of her friends on the way, some quite randomly and we got there and it took a long long long time to find parking. why? because janice has no patience and doesn't know how to "weave" and "stalk" and when she does, you feel like you are going to crash. not good. not good at all.

How to find parking in a packed carpark:
1. Weave in and out of the aisles.
2. Creep slowly and stalk people as they approach their cars.
3. Have patience.
4. Do not just stop in the middle of traffic in the lane where cars go down to exit and come up find spaces - too much competition!!!
5. Drive slowly and with care.


Janice did none of the above. . . . . it was so funny cause the rest of us were all yelling out different instructions and it was just chaos.

we made it in one piece. and had vietnamese salad, dumplings and slushies for lunch. YUM!

place was pretty packed but the weather was purfect - no rain and no sun and a nice balmy temperature. saw and ate heaps of stuff. . . the stalls were really unstingy with their food sampling and more than happy to let everyone taste test which is great. (not like the easter show!).

tasted wine (muscato was great), more wine, organic wine (tasted like crap), coffee (awesome!), appletiser, maggie beer stuff, chilli sauce, blueberries, almonds, cookies, pasties, pizza, dips, tea (it was really good but really expensive), bread, oils and whatever else was thrown our way. although i am quite sure we all passed on the organic picked cucumber... hmm.

and we did a cooking class - how to flamenco chorizos with guest appearance from anna (the girl judge on junior mc). it was fun =) and got to eat it afterwards of course!

saw alvin and gary and dani and alana and kate... and peter gilmore :) and tony bilson. fun day. something different.

and then afterwards, we went to north stratty. nice precinct!! definitely worth going back.

on a whim, we played 2 games of bowling and 1 game of laser. the two losers (janice and jack) paid for dinner at the pub. long island iced tea!!! it was so strong. too much ice and spirit and not enough (diet) coke to dilute it. but we got use to it. :) :) :)

bowling was so funny. soooooo many gutter balls. i managed to hang in there and come second. woohoo!! and laser... it was just rough. the teams we played against (like 3 times as many people as our little red team) were soooooo rude and rough and callous. lebos. what can you expect eh. i was told to "piss off" cause i shot one of them. mate, it's just a game...

anyway, the pub was fun. we were going to go to outback steakhouse but it was a 40 min wait.. no thanks! but the pub grub and the atmosphere was awesome!

and then (you thought the night was over did you not?)... we went to woolies to get cheese and crackers and to go jennifer's place for some more wine and cheese. hahahaha. more hilarity.

i think we got home at around 12:30 (janice drove). it was good but so tiring.

me wants to go paintballing next!!!

never seems to be enough space.

and no, it is not an euphemism for having too many clothes. because the number of items in my wardrobe has not increased. if anything, it has shrunk!

and i have to say, there is some sort of satisfaction from throwing things out.

also redid my photo board. JYS... we need a photo together!!!

this year's last non-holiday long weekend gone :(

glad we went out on saturday, shame about the weather for the rest of the weekend. prevented us from straying too far.

sooo cleaned out the pantry and mum found this sunbeam burr grinder that she bought 4 years ago. so i attempted to make light of the situation that we buy a lot of shit that we don't use and was like, 'you must've known 4 years ago we were going to buy the coffee machine this year!!!'.

so now we can have freshly ground coffee from whole coffee beans like a real home-style cafe. =D

and thennnn...

strangest thing. she found my fondue set that i was looking for last week. the one that the girls bought me for my birthday a few years back.

AND...

she found these legit cappuccino cups with saucers and i was moaning all weekend that we need to buy a few for our new machine.

all these things... so coincidental!

the rain barely dampened our day... and definitely not our spirits!!!

it started rather strangely for me... following on from the text conversation of the night before, i texted JL in the morning again to ask what the go was. last i heard JYS, wasn't going to make it but JL thought she might?

so i sorted that out, and found out that for some strange reason, JL was already on her way down to the H-ville. so got a lift... as you do!

we ended up being a bit late to D's. a normal occurrence and it hardly mattered in the long run. anyhoo, set the gps and we were on our way... after cleaning janice's most hated 'T-intersection'. hehehehehe the signs of road rage began to show . . . . . .

anyway, it was a really nice trip up there, lots of curves and windy roads and a fair amount of traffic too.

stopped for lunchies first where donna's iced coffee was initially an iced chocolate. two thumbs up for the fish n chip place: one for the awesome fish and chips and two for having pure protein options... prawns!!!

headed to palm beach after that. and chickened for a while by staying dry in the car. a very SENSIBLE choice imo...

but of course, we joined the kids after not too long. it was fun. lots of it. like the hair flipping. and the break dancing. and running like weirdasses. jumpin up and down... blending in with the sand... :) :)

nice to relax and think about nothing. except maybe trying to own one of the many pretty houses lining the foreshore...

 we were supposed to stop by a cafe that donna claims to have seen on the way up. apparently, i seconded her comment too. i don't recall. . . but we never found it. so it is going to be a great excuse to go back one day for the coffee!!!

anyway, we ended up back at castle towers to get dinner. chicken, spinach and carbs (pasta and potato). not that we were in a hurry to cook.

i hate horror movies. and 28 days later  is DEFINITELY a horror movie. i screamed. a lot. and i would never think about watching a horror movie by myself. ever. ever ever. never. is that enough reinteration?

then we made dinner. was pretty easy since it was pretty much just cooking pasta and mixing sauce through. so we sat in the kitchen and i freaked myself out about zombies and the infected. couldnt even manage to go to the bathroom until later... HAHAHA. sad.

and then...... it was the much-anticipated boardgames time!!!

janice and i rocked in taboo!!! =D =D =D too bad the ones that were epicly awesome didn't count. but it did build our confidence :) :)

BIG MASSIVE THANKS TO "Nicknames beginning with D" for "Dondon" FOR PROVIDING THE FOLLOWING =D:

Scattergories highlights (mostly courtesy of Janice Liew)

• excuses for being late ('e'): An elephant squished my car
• ice cream flavours ('e'): Egg-plant ice cream (googled to double check and...lol!)
• colours ('j'): Jaundice (LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL NEVER LAUGHED SO HARD IN MY LIFE AT JANICE'S DESPARATION: come on wynnie! come on! jaundice is a pigment! pigment is colour! come on! come on!!!!!!)
• halloween costumes ('f'): Freaky pumpkins
• desserts ('j'): Jello and jelly are totally DIFFERENT things!
• sports equipment ('r'): Racquet - squash (me and michelle had racquet, then janice and lily both had racquet and specified squash, thinking they were super smart xdddd)
• types of dance ('a'): Appropriate and advanced dance
• things to save up for (r'): radish (must once again reiterate to janice liew that a radish is probably the only thing in the world you don't have to save up for)
• hidden things ('r'): Rainbows and unicorns
• sports team ('t'): Tigers (LOOOOOL both lily and janice put tigers, even though they were talking about different teams)

Taboo highlights

• Janice and Wynnie: When you expunge bad records, you something the something something! Immediately after: Cleaning the slate?
• Michelle: Janice always talks about this! ...It has those...those things! Umm...Light sarbars?
• Janice and Wynnie: The word was "Detour". Janice gave a clue. Wynnie guessed Alternate Route. Then Janice clued France bike riding. Wynnie got Tour de France. Janice motioned for more. Wynnie said: Indirect tour?
• Random popping up of Floriade and Palm Beach related words (spooky!)
• The race was so close, we decided to show our collected cards one by one to see who had one. SO EPIC! Janice and Wynnie won by ONE WHOLE CARD. 

i had such an awesome time, couldn't even believe it was like the next day when we left. and damn you daylight saving, i lost one VERY VERY VERY important hour of sleep!! ARGHHHH!!!!!! mind boggling.

and in anticipation of the next awesome board games day and night, bought trivial pursuit in like a poker-style boardgame today. should be good!!

=D