i made the mistake of attempting to catch up with elena at bondi junction this afternoon.
clearly, shopping centres - particularly major ones such as the westfield in bondi junction - are to be avoided at all costs for at least 3 weeks after xmas too. parking is impossible and people will nearly come to blows [...]

i had my sis and her partner over for mexican food tonight.
here’s erny being duly impressed by the fact that i actually cooked us a meal:

the weather was so good erny and vincent hoisted my dining table outdoors and we ate in the courtyard. afterwards we attempted to work off some of our meal by [...]

before we closed for the year, we did a bookswap at work. of two books that i borrowed off rosie, one was jeanette winterson’s lighthousekeeping, which was so pleasurable to read that i finished it in just a few days, in spite of the fact that i only let myself read it at bedtime. with [...]

man, i am having a serious case of the TGIFs.
today was my last day of work for the year. i am now officially on holiday for the next two weeks. two weeks!
in fact, the only thing better than this friday is next friday, when i get onto a plane to join the boy on the [...]

5 shopping days to xmas, people. even if i wasn’t a godless heathen i’d still be keeping well away from the madness that is any shopping centre at the moment.
if you hate thinking of what to get someone for xmas, particularly if you don’t want to buy them more crap they don’t need, oxfam unwrapped [...]

my legs feel a little like a jelly derivative, and i expect by about 4 o’clock this afternoon i’ll want nothing more than to crawl home and die, but right now i feel like a million bucks. running in the morning before work: fan-bloody-tastic. why didn’t i ever have the discipline to do this before? [...]

apropos of nothing, at 5pm on a sunday afternoon:
I was in love with a font once. Turned out it was not my type.
god love you, woman. i know i do.

overheard in my fridge:

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pikador: so i near nels is coming here tomorrow.
mixed peppers: really?? oh no.
p: i hear he’s unstoppable when it comes to cheeses like us.
mp: i heard he once devoured a whole one [...]