i secretly love windy nights...

... tucked inside my roastie-toastie little house, slippers on, blankie on, snuggly on the couch with a big fat hot chocolate.

i hope everyone else is warm and safe escaping tonight's blustery wintery weather.

4th of july!

Happy 4th of July!

Hope you all did something really Americano today!

In preparation for our upcoming trip to the U.S in October, we got some practice in today.

I wore red, white and blue.

Boyfy cooked hot dogs for dinner.

(us aussies need to take baby steps)

you can always tell how awesome my weekend has been by the amount of photos of junk food i take.

This weekend I:

• made mexican for dinner
• watched a lot of 30 Rock
• slept in a little bit, which was lovely
• got a fresh mani pedi which is a bit of a luxury considering i'm well and truly in lockdown mode, saving my tail off for NYC in 4 months ( !!!!! )
• ate some pizza and watched some marilyn monroe movies with a lovely gf of mine
• ate lots of twisties and watched some marilyn monroe movies with a lovely gf of mine
• ate cookie dough and watched some marilyn monroe movies with a lovely gf of mine
• had sunday yum cha with my family and caught up over coke spiders
• went to see bridesmaids with some *unofficial* bridesmaids :) it was so freaking hilarious. I hope Katrina's wedding/hen's party/pretty much everything turns out like that!
• had dinner with boyfy's mamma for her belated birthday celebrations

Next weekend I:

• will be a homebody

x x

just some iphone action.

and one small statement... if i may:

how the eff is it july already?!!!

i love her dearly, and together we had breakfast in the sunshine.

 

i had breakfast with ali on sunday. she is in my hottest 100.

i will miss her when she leaves for her big aussie adventure. a ton. x x

black and white sunday.

carrying over our excitement from collingwood's big win, i bring you this week's black and white sunday.

like most regular sunday's we did some paper reading in the sunshine - i swear HJ foley park was made for sunday papers, we did some giggling, we did some lazing. i think boyfy may have even done some washing. bless him.

there were a couple of things that weren't so regular about our Sunday though:

1. we had a blind tasting at our house. and not just any blind tasting. it was a mono-e-mono event between two feverish competitors. in the red corner, we had dr. pepper! and in the blue, cherry coke!

(in case you're wondering - our local IGA sells pretty much every single softie flavour ever invented. yes kim and ali, if you're reading this, even that increds strawberry fanta we had in greece. we love it.)

in essence, the challenge involved me assisting the boyf in tasting each can whilst he had his eyes closed. and, being the self-appointed dr. pepper connoisseur that he is, had to tell me which was the real dr. pepper and which was the cherry coke.

In summary, he thought cherry coke was dr. pepper!!! i don't know what that now means for humanity, but someone needs to practice drinking dr pepper. (i'm looking at you, bond). i personally liked the cherry coke better anyway, heaps sweeter and tangy-er.

2. sometimes we like to do really silly things and buy $10 creme fraiche. it came all the way from france. i love love love france but even i found it hard to justify spending $10 on french sour cream. oh well, best i take a photo of it.

football fans.

last saturday night was the saturday night i look forward to all year. we get the gang together, we wear as much black and white as we can, and we yell and cheer and boo and swear as our beloved collingwood magpies play the swans here in Sydney. it only happens once a year. (let us have our moment.)

there were a couple of things different about this year though. my partner in crime, katrina, is expecting a little bundle of love, so she was off the goon. we brought some new friends into the gang who were "behind enemy lines" (their words, not mine) as they were of the carlton (YUCK) and adelaide persuasions. lucky they're lovely or i'd really, really be re-thinking our friendship. another new addition into the fold was aaron's new blazer. handmade in vietnam, 100% awesome.

the night began with pizza and beer, the middle was made up of more beer and lots of laughing and the night was rounded out with mcdonalds sundaes and chicken mcnuggets.

final score: COLL 99 SYD 93. 

and a picture of some macaroons. just because.