Au revoir!

The time has come to end this little blog of mine. I feel like I need a change. Inspiration. A soft breeze, a thoughtful wander and a happy smile.

I presume I'll start another blog, but for now, au revoir my lovelies.

Fave song- Skinny Love by Birdy

I will never get sick of this song. The original by Bon Iver is also soo lovely.

Merry Christmas!

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!

Where to start? Christmas has jogged up, sped by, and gratefully limped into Boxing Day. Perhaps a summary of how things went down might help- although, being in holiday mode, my brain's not all here, so you might need to fill in the gaps yourselves.

On Friday, as the last day of work drew to a close, we all went a little hell bent crazy and roared into party mode by bringing in the sauv blanc and bringing up the YouTube on the big screen tv (ordinarily reserved for video conferences). It was officially P.A.R.T.Y time!!!!

We danced rocker style to Bon Jovi, Cold Chisel, watched Mr Jujitsu's weird heavy metal clips, ballet spun to Birdy's Skinny Love and had an incredibly fun disco dance-off. We were classy in an unclassy way if you know what I mean (we got totally tipsy in the privacy of our office, no mess, no embarrassment-- even if a bit nerdy), cheap, and so very memorable. Best final day of work ever.

Then it was Christmas Day and my sister and I cooked and cooked and cooked. We had:

• snapper that was baked in a salt crust
• brocollini panfried with garlic and anchovies
• seafood salad with prawns, rocket, avocado
• baked sweet potato
• baked regular potato
• mango, capsicum, tomato, and rocket salad
• berry and apple crumble with vanilla icecream

Most tiring cook off ever. But really really yummy:

And then it was today. We watched The Iron Lady while gorging on popcorn (see below). One of the best movies I've seen in ages. Meryl Streep is amazing- in the words of my sister: "She's old school good".

The laidback crooner...

Last night, I had dinner with Miss CalmFarm and as always, it was spiritual, enriching and contemplative.

We had Thai in a cute little Thai spot on Pitt Street.

Then we walked through to park en route to Central station, where we came upon a man who looked a little like a hippy, chilled out, blonder version of Julian Assange. He was seated on a bench, with a keyboard mounted on a stand and he was pressing down a bunch of chords while singing in an in-tune, nasal and easy listening version of Kelly Clarkson's "Because of you". He was smiling, nodding affably at us, while the wind ruffled his floppy mop (like Hugh Grant in Notting Hill) and not at all putting in the angst that Because of you requires. It is a break-up song after all.

Think the beginning of If God was one of us by Joan Osborne-- before she launches into the song-- but ten times slower. That's how he was singing.

As compared to:

It was hysterical.

CONGRATULATIONS PONY!

On Sunday, Pony and Manly got engaged!!!!!!

I'm super excited for them. Together they've conquered distance, life's challenges, dashed dreams (don't worry Manly- you'll get it next year!), and continued to support each other in that steadfast, constant way that solid couples do.

I can't wait until they have exotic Eurasian babies with olive skin, hazel eyes and long long limbs.