Faux New Years

Well, since I'm such a workaholic and was working NYE and the guys were all at Straddie, we had a fake new years on Saturday night. (Ok, not so much New Years, more any ol' excuse to get drunk). God, what a night! It was a great night, and was awesome to see little KP and Pia again. It was a fantastic night, with quiet a lot of it blurry, but I do remember using my very out of date student card (who knows why I even have it anymore) to get into the Down Under Bar.



From there we heading into the valley, where I departed from the crowd to catch up with Vanessa at Noi. It turns out my friend Nic Wong works there, and he kept the drinks coming nice and strong.

After that I headed down to the Fringe Bar. It's a pretty sad reflection on Valley clubbing that the decent place to dance without cover charge is the Fringe. Smeh!



As far as I can recall, there was lots of boogieing. Boggieing had some brief interruptions of examining Court to check that the gentleman buying her drink a drink or two. I needn't of worried, as it wouldn't be the only exam Court would be getting that night. he he he.

Due to having limited funds, I ended up drinking vodka on the rocks! What The! I think it was more due to being an alco and smashed off my face. Kirsten makes a mean French Martini. Not only was I inflicting that on my self, but telling everyone to have a sip. "It'll do you good!"



All in all, a great night on the town.

My Birthday!

Well, yesterday was my birthday and it was a fantastic day and what a blast my birthday was. I had a fantastic day, with fantastic friends and family (with a small amount of work during the day).

Actually, my birthday was the first day we started boxing fitness training at work, and god the pain. Good pain but, the kind you enjoy, the kind that lets you know you're alive, the kind where you feel your muscles growing, the kind... oh, you know what I mean.

So my birthday also acted as a house warming of sorts for Jo and Steve's new fantastic house. It's absolutely amazing, and was well worth the time they've waited for it.

We had a great night, with the cosmos and Chilian Champagne flowing freely. It was great to get all of my friends together for an occasion, especially one that focused on me, and meant I got presents.

And presents I got! Not only did a get some great things to inspire me to do some fantastic cooking (wok, cook book, voucher for an awesome Kitchen ware store), but I also scored some other fantastic presents including tea and a couple of bottles of Veuve Clicquot (one of them is ear marked for you Amy!)

A huge thank you to everyone for coming, and for the great gifts, and more importantly the great memories. It was such a special night, made special by everyone present in their own way.

The Wait was worth it... Kylie was amazing

Can I just say, OH MY GOD!

I have watched more than my fair share of Kylie concerts on DVD, but none of these could have come close to preparing me for how amazing the Showgirl was in person.

Absolutely amazing. I was standing there (Saturday 18/11) during the Locomotion thinking, 'My whole life has been building up to this moment.' It was just an amazing performance, from start to finish.

The customes, the set, the dancers, everything. They were all just spectacular, an amazing blur of movement, colour, music and excitment.

But none of it came close to topping Kylie. She delivered an flawless performance, making you love each song more than the last one. And after the show she took the time to come out on stage, and thank everyone for their support and for being so patient.

I was very hung over the day I got my tickets, over 18 months ago, and the pain of that day and the wait since was well worth it.

New Farm BBQ

What an afternoon! I'm not sure who came up with the idea about having a BBQ, but they are genius. GENUS!

Saturday afternoon Pia, Steph, Court, Kirst, Steve and I went to New Farm park, for some food and fun.

Pia and Steph wasted no time getting the barbie started, and after upgrading from the kiddie table to a grown ups table, the afternoon was off to a great start.

It was a fantastic afternoon, with lots of laughs, great food and great company.

I'm thinking we hit up the BBQ again. Yum.

Miss Stephi's 23rd Birthday

Ok, Stephi's birthday. Considering there wasn't any real plans for Ol' Stephi's birthday, there were quiet a few hangovers around 73 Huesler Tce on Sunday morning.

What a night but. There was so much yummy food, especially the sausage rolls, they were cooked to perfection.

The night start off with the usual crew, Steph, Court, Kirst, Miss Pia (TB) and me.

The wine and black russians were flowing like wine and black russians, and TB got a little tipsy on her sparkling grape juice. He He.

Pia, being the dedicated uni student that she is, had to leave the fun and celebrations, but it was great to see her smiling face anyway!

Shortly after Ben Walsh came over to join the fun and excitement. After home sitting around the table talking, Court and I made our way to an exclusive club called Towel. (Towel being the name given to their lounge room, where Kylie's greatest hits were on high rotation).

What a workout!! Phew! After working of a little of our beverages, we all hit the sack, with only a few DRI's suffered.

All in all, a top night out. I guess it says something about the company, doesn't.

My First Blog :)

Well, here goes. My first blog!I've been in Brisbane for 5 years, and I've never been to Byron Bay. I know, it's a crime, but what can you do!!! And in my 5 years here, I've had numerous people say they'll take me, but for some odd reason, they all move over seas! What the?!?!

But two weeks ago, my very good friends Courtney and Kirsten took me. And it was fantastic!Our adventure to the beach began on Friday night (6th October). The girls came to pick me up in their trusty little beast, and we set off to coles Racecourse Rd. And let me tell you, if you're in the market for a touch (or a 'toy' that looks like a touch) Coles Racecourse Rd is the place to go. Here we stocked up on various forms of food, all of junk variety. Except for some weetbix and 3 Mars Bars.

From here we filled up the car, with some magic card that meant we didn't pay for fuel, Kirsten took a bath, and we made one last undisclosed stop on the way to Heussler Tce for some more food.

Saturday morning started bright and early with us kicking of at sparrows. Sparrows lunch that is. Actually we left pretty early, about 8.30 or so, and after an embarrassingly long stop at a service station we made our way to Byron, with only a short detour @ Humble Pie Co.

We arrived at Byron around 11, checked in to our rediculously cheap powered sight, set up camp and then hit the beach. It was so good to lay there and soak up the sun. God the water was fantastic. A little crisp, but was so clear and refreshing that I couldn't help diving under the first wave that came along.

After this we headed into the little town of Byron. I say little, coz I've always imagined it to have about 3 shops, a fast food place and the rest houses, like the little beach town I grew up near. Yeah right.We made a quick stop at Woolies, which pretty much meant we bought mixer for later, and then hit the bottle shop.

After a relatively quiet night, we hit the hay pretty early.Which is also when I woke up. Pretty early. Damn my wacky biological in built clock. I had been up, had a shower, eatten breakfast and had an very big failure of an attempt at sudoku, before I finally found a phone (mine was flat). The time ladies and gentlemen was 5.40. AM. Why???????

The girls got up soon after, had a spot of breakfast, and we soon packed up camp (after only a little sitting around), and decided to hit the beach.

It was not to be. After deciding that we didn't want to swim where the families were (due to kiddie pee factor) we went on a rather long, hot climb up to the lighthouse. What a view! It was definately worth climbing all that way.

We eventually made our way down, and being quiet hot and sweaty decided to give the beach another go. Unfortunately, the wind picked up alot, and after a short micro-dermabration we decided to head home.

After of course, some food. Well Kirsten had food. Courtney and I were saving ourselves for Humble Pie Co. And little scraps of Kirsten's lunch that were thrown our way.Humble Pie Co. What more can I say. It's worth the drive. And also, we just happened to be in the carpark at the same time as End of Fashion. We're like this (x) now. Yep, us and End of Fashion.

What a fantastic weekend. How ever can we top that?? How? Well, it's not quite the same, but last weekend Kirsten and I got to pick up a Hummer for a promotion at work. It was cool. So very cool. What a beast that car is. The power you feel just from sitting in it. Phwoar!

How can we ever have another weekend again, that will fill us with so much fun and excitement. Two words. Steph's Birthday. It's bound to be huge. Yeah!

Ciao