let the bookclub good times roll!

We've finally done it! An inaugural meeting date was set! The book has been chosen! The rules have been established! Book club has arrived!

Bianca and I have been threatening to start a book club for a few months now. I was just so excited to have made a friend who has that kind of devour-y, scribble-in-y kind of affection for books like I do, so you can imagine how my happiness multiplied by like, a squazillion when she suggested we get together and eat food and drink wine and talk about books. Hello heaven!

So, this Tuesday just gone, we met at Bistro K in Fitzroy for a bit of dinner, Bianca cheekily with our first book wrapped in spots as a birthday gift (Just Kids! Patti Smith! This girl knows me oh so well!!), we talked so much the lovely waitresses were getting a little sick of us not ordering... and continually getting sidetracked by talk even after we'd look at each other with every serious intention in the world saying, "OK WHAT ARE WE ORDERING?!"

The food was magnificent (completely recommend it if you're in the mood for some Kimchi (kim-chee) or Kimchi (Kim-chye) depending on your preference), the company was even better (the first meeting of the page-scribblers also included a cameo performance by Bianca's sweet manfriend, Jack. Not as sure he's into the book thing as us. HIS LOSS).

For now, until we meet again, it is the two of us and our copies of Just Kids, marked at page 131 for halfway discussions, waiting for the next delicious meeting. And I know it's early days, but there is a LOT of scribbling going on. I adore this book already. I even felt guilty reading it standing up on the most over-crowded train I have ever been on in my entire life. It's like I wasn't paying her the attention her words deserve, or something. So I put her away. To be picked up again when I am all hers.

Bookworms uniting to use their powers for good instead of nerd. I love it.

xx

the weekend. iphone evidence.

This weekend just passed was a lot of fun.

Friday: drinks and dinner with some wonderful friends we had just been to the U.S with. It was so great to see their faces again and to hear the rest of their adventures after we all farewelled beautiful Alaska. There were even a few mentions of heading back for another trip in the Winter, so look out AK!

Saturday: a little bit of work in the morning, a little bit of unsuccessful possum rescuing at Dunc's Mum and Dad's ( we tried little guy! :( ), a quick sushi lunch date then some home hangs in the afternoon. I was in a top 10 foul mood on Saturday so it was probably a great reason to hibernate a bit. Watched movies and read books in bed. No study was undertaken despite the best of intentions. Whoops.

Sunday: the sun was out, we ate bagels and drank coffee in the morning rays, visited my new favourite place, the nursery, looked at potential new homes (!!!!!) checked out the pop-up People's Market in Collingwood with my dazzlingly pretty friend Bianca, held an impromptu food truck picnic in a car park, ate tacos and corn and talked and talked, nearly got blown off a rooftop bar, ate a beautiful sponge cake after dinner (still celebrating my birthday! luckyyyyy!!), and finally caught up with some  friends for some late night cricket watching while the boys drank espresso martinis. My friends are the coolest/craziest.

xx

27 years old and still watching kids movies...

So last week, out of nowhere, I turned 27. I know, right?! Twenty freaking seven?! How did this even happen?! Luckily my two (already twenty seven) comrades were in my wintery town to help me deal... I mean party. One of these said comrades flew into Melbourne on Saturday night! Just for the night! Just for me! She is a little slice of heaven and it was wonderful to see her face.

breakfast just the way i like it: eggs and coffee with a side of two of my three favourite people, and eaten well past midday

 

the ultimate surprise gift. a bag i lusted over in nyc but couldn't bring myself to splurge on. (side note: i think this birthday i finally kicked my surprise hating/ruining habit! success!)

a little bit of cupcake love with my lady love. don't even care they were packet-mix. they were delicious.

not even a wet, rainy melbourne weather interruption could dampen the birthday spirits!

another surprise! ice cream ball cake, candle and a very loud rendition of happy birthday in the middle of a pub! my melbourne gang are probably the best gang going around.

some bloomin' birthday tulips were delivered to work. big, bright, shiny yellow tulips!

I felt very, very blessed to have such wonderful humans in my life to make me feel so special and loved  on my birthday. It was so, so lovely to spend the entire weekend with my melbourne family, and a few classic hits from my sydney family too. I love them all to bits.

And when the stress and stress lines of being 27 gets all too much? I can remember I'm still the girl who drags her boyfriend to see Despicable Me 2 at the cinema. And is currently watching Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. On a Saturday night. Forever young at heart!

xx