welcome elise truong...

A childhood friend of mine from Brisbane gave birth last Thursday morning to a beautiful baby girl, weighing in at a healthy 2.86kgs. I can't believe she got married, let alone the fact that my sweet girl is now a mother!! It's a strange thought because when I think of her, all I think of is afternoons at her house lazing around, painting our nails and then cleaning it off and then doing it again. And when uni came around, cruising everyday together to the beats of MIB and I'll be Missing You. Same cd the whole frickin' year *hehehehehe* And tho she might hate this, I still remember the days of Discman, and Mao, and Sven, and Tina... good memories never die...

But now she's a mum, and things will never be the same again. Last time I went to Brissie, we went out at some god-awful hour to get ice cream from a 24 hour parlour. Next time I'm in Brissie, I get the feeling visiting hours will be limited to when the baby's awake... and besides, when the baby sleeps, I'm sure she wants to as well.

Things are changing. She's younger than I am. Another friend who is also younger than me is trying for a baby this year. Does it seem strange that I'm my age, and although in a happy relationship, I can't foresee myself getting married or having a child any time soon? Not to say that I'm not interested. Because I am. Haha.. right now I can see Loreen cringing at the thought of me not getting engaged...

I don't know. Maybe it's because I live in Sydney and everything just costs so damn much in Sydney. I have a decent income and I can't see myself saving enough to pay for a child - cos they are expensive creatures you know! But despite that, I do feel the clock ticking and I am getting envious of mothers with babies.

Anyway, I don't want to get carried away. Congratulations Di, and I'll come see you and Elise (and Yang) in October. She'll be a gorgeous 6 months by then You'll be a fantastic mum...

reading and relaxing..

Well, the long weekend came and went! I really needed the break and spent it reading some great books. I'm getting back into the swing of reading a book a week, or trying to anyway. On Friday night I finished up "The Bride Stripped Bare" which is one of the most provocative books I have read in a long time. It's so explicit in some areas that it is almost unnerving. Certainly something I don't want my mother to read! But because it is so raw, you know it is real. I drank that book up within a couple of sittings and I wish there was more. There's a sequel "Adultery" - from a man's point of view - and I'm just waiting to get my little hands on that!

I'm currently reading "The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason. Reviewers have called it "The Davinci Code for people with brains". But I thought I might try and read it anyway I started reading it yesterday morning and though it is harder to read than Dan Brown, the story is compelling - can't put the damn thing down!

Also bought 2 more books on the weekend - "Mr Murder" by Dean Koontz, and "Prey" by Michael Crichton. I love it when Al has exams, because I can read in peace and quiet.

My friends Ian and Eugene also turned 30 on the weekend, celebrated at Mars Lounge, Surry Hills. Really good night, not too huge. Went home at 12.30am like a good girl but somehow, someway the night ended up messy and I ended up sleeping for 2.5 hours only. Don't ask.

Here's to long weekends hey!

what a great weekend!

I've had a nice weekend of relaxation now and am in a much brighter mood today (as compared to last week). Friday night was spent at drinks for Johnny's birthday - managed to sneak away for dinner with Elaine, Kate & Geoff. Thank God I've found people to eat with. Gone are the days of "eating is cheating" (resulting in a none too pleasant shot of chartreuse) and here are the days of eat, get fat & be happy! We went to La Bora (near 333) and it was pretty average. Geoff picked the place based on its large portions and close vicinity... Elaine & I shared a ... umm I forget what it's called, but it was just spaghetti with prawns & avocado. What a load of crap, I didn't see any avocado! Service was pretty average too... so we're not going back there, big portions or not !!

Saturday was a mix of ups & downs, but it's not all bad - in the end I essentially stayed at least half asleep until about 7pm In the morning, I was so excited to apply for an apartment which had been unleased for 4 months. 4 months! So what happens..? The morning of the day when I'm applying for it, the agent calls me at 9am and tells me the landlord has decided to lease the place to his relatives. .... and to add salt to my injury, I was semi excited about another place and the agent called me at 10am to tell me the tenant has extended his lease! Bastards! I went back to sleep and then Kate calls me at 11am!! So then I turned my phone off.....

Got up, had lunch, went back to sleep. Got up, did something, then went back to sleep. Got woken up somewhere near 7pm cos Al was ranting about something like "wake up!! wake up!!!.... we have to go to Strathfield!!". Ok ok ok.. so I got up and got ready to go to not one but 2 parties - not a bad Saturday at all ! It ended with a Harry's pie - no complaints from moi .

Yesterday wasn't half bad - went out with my housemate and a gf to shop around... they bought plenty I bought nothing. But I was happy about that because nothing caught my eye. I need to save $$ anyway for my pending move! Came home in the afternoon and watched High Fidelity. I've never seen it before but it's a pretty funny movie Not usually a John Cusack fan. For those who don't know, it's about a guy talking through his misery of his top 5 breakups.. it's a good sad but funny movie....

So here we are and it's Monday again. This week is shaping up to be slightly better than last week. Let's keep our fingers crossed. On a side note, I was thinking about moving my blog to blogspot - cos the format etc is so much nicer! How do you blogspot users find it? Good?

nothin' much happenin..

So Easter weekend came and went and did not feel like 4 days. Felt more than normal, maybe 3 days.. not 4. That could have something to do with the fact that I went out and got completely and utterly smashed on Thursday night, something I hadn't done in over a year! I started with a few glasses of champagne (and we all know how the bubbly makes your head spin!) at Establishment and made my way down to good ol' $3 drinks Privilege. There I downed quite a few malibu & cokes and to my knowledge I was meant to go to Bar 333 but ummm... that didn't happen. I ended up making my way home and being very very close to my toilet bowl. 3 times. I heard Babs made me proud at 333 though, or at least she did so in the garden outside Good night, bad night... whatever... it has to be done once in a while. Arthur was proud of me!

Friday night there was a BBQ where I drank 2 glasses of oj and one very nice hot tea. Didn't touch any potent stuff... and on Friday night, it was my turn to be proud of Arthur... never ever ever have I seen any friend of mine in such drunken stupor ... well except for the time when I had to stick my own had down Bab's throat to make her throw up but that memory has been archived. Arthur my friend.... 30 years old in a month. Are you going to get more drunk as you get older??? I worry about your health but you are damn good entertainment, gorgeous.

The rest of the weekend was spent veging out and watching dvds. We watched The Grudge!! I was scared shitless during the movie.. its pretty freaky.. also watched Around the World in 80 Days.. and a couple of other movies. Also finished reading Lovely Bones and seriously, if you're thinking about reading it... don't - most disappointing ending to a story I've read in a long time. Back to my cheap trashy horror - picked up Dean Koontz's The Voice of the Night last weekend at Market City for $6.95.

Oh yeh, had that meeting with my manager today. I think it went really well - obviously no promises straight up as I only dumped my troubles on him today. We're scheduled to go over my mid-year review in 2 weeks. Sounds promising anyway, he's gonna get me a work mobile *yay*

5 weeks til Leon!