something i adore

the nicholas building. it's glorious. and all the societies of writers, designers, button-makers, retro stores held within it's walls. ahh... makes the heart beat just that little bit faster.

and the fabulosity that is buttonmania. sigh.

the challenge

for the past few years i've been reading this weekly astrological newsletter sent out by one rob brezsny - author of *PRONOIA IS THE ANTIDOTE FOR PARANOIA: How the Whole World Is Conspiring to Shower You with Blessings*. anyway, the newsletter is not just about what aries is doing this week but usually the words he offers are full of craziness, ones to live by. this week held a dare, a challenge that i may pick up, so people watch out.

Every day for 44 years, the German writer Karl Wilhelm von Humboldt composed a poem for his wife, the lively and brilliant Karoline von Dachroden. In accordance with your astrological potentials, Aries, I will ask you to briefly imitate his prodigious outpouring of creative love. Every day for the next two weeks, please find it in your wild heart to make a sublime, or at least gorgeous, offering to someone or something you adore.

not the dog on the tucker box

but the one on the corner of collins and swanston. it's been attacked by some knitting needles. :) wednesday morning into the city to deliver some training. a quick stop at starbucks and i'm set for the day.


i'm wearing my granddad's jacket. i've had it for about 20 years now. it's travelled with me around the world, so many more places that granddad ever dreamed of.

happy mid-week all.

too straight for curly me

for those of you not on facebook, i've had straight hair for the weekend. i snapped this dramatic shot sitting on my bedroom floor, french doors open so that the wind blew the curtains across my face a second or so after this pic.


it's an unbelievably beautiful day out. the city is chockers with people walking around enjoying the sunshine.

and i realised a couple of days ago that i've been blogging for over a year now. my overseas trip came and went, i've now been in melbourne for 6 months and i've met so many wonderful friends. i'm having fun. how 'bout you?

(late addition to post: oh and yes, i have a marvellous flatmate in sophie)

you MUST see this film

wall-e and eve, a love story. ;) nat and i played hooky with jamie. hurrah!

my dad's birthday

he would've been 59 today. i miss him.

weekend's should be 3 days

so the third day can be filled with catch up sleep. yawn!!

funpit on friday - 3 hours of non-stop dancing and glowing. i'm totally scared of what the summer is going to bring if it's already this hot on the floor.

i wandered round the city in the glorious sun on saturday. total bliss. then out that evening for some birthday celebrations. pub, dinner, movies (see in bruges if you can, enjoyably funny film), pub, club - i'm intent on nabbing a couple of new friends from this night as well (a&c).

sunday i managed to pull myself out of bed around 9.30 only because no one would let me sleep any longer. more reading than writing at starbucks and then over to ACMI to finish off the jim henson spectacular with some fraggle rock and then jamie joined me for the dark crystal. (it's his birthday today - hbj).

do you think i'll be missed if i did a bronzewing and found a dark corner to curl up in and fall asleep for a few hours? yah, it's monday already.

little brother's b'day

yep today. september 14 is brad's birthday. i've known him for a few years now. :)

we grew up together and i really couldn't have picked a better companion. there was kambalda, bougainville, telfer, kalgoorlie, teutonic bore, australind and kalgoorlie again. that's where he's stayed after a short stint in perth.


we caught tadpoles in the stream behind the school in arawa, looked for painted boiled eggs for easter with the neighbour's kids, watched dad float out to sea on the lilo and weathered an earthquake together.


there are memories of mulberry fights at nan's and double gees surrounding the slide and swings across the road. oh, and frank's mr whippy icecreams.



there were boondie fights, and bikes and red sand dunes. pretend circuses in the backyard, surviving cyclones and driving through fires to get to mum and our new little sister.


we made it through highschool without killing each other. always a bonus. and now he's a dad with two boys of his own. and getting married next year.

happy birthday brad. i'm glad that i got you as a brother. love always from your big sister. xx

not the end of the world quite yet!!

well i hope not because there are way too many things i have to do before then. :) with the new atom splitting machine being turned on later this afternoon, HERE are some worse case scenarios from yahoo answers!

muppet mayhem

i had a weekend of jim henson magic at acmi. absolutely fabulous. friday with nat was muppet history 101 - a guy from the JH legacy group, craig shemin, commented on the clips to start with. then the next was a doco, the world according to sesame. which again was brilliant. talking about taking sesame street to the world - but not just dubbing the language but incorporating the culture into the show. i love this. had i known earlier maybe this is what i could've done with my life. is it too late??

saturday was the muppet movie (kermit on the bike always reminds me of my mom on a bike - though she's not green, she has the lanky legs). and then muppet musical moments - a collection of classic muppet show moments.

sunday after writing the morning away i turned to labrynth. love that film. to death.


there will be more this coming weekend. woooooooooot!!

thursday's tramming

i catch the 96 into the cbd each thurs to swing. it stays twilight for so much longer and it's just gorgeous.

beer floater

and no, i'm not talking about a drink. well, sort of but not really. :) on the drive to work this morning there was a glass of beer floating in the blue. i snapped a pic with my phone so i really didn't get anything but a blur. but if you imagine the blur is actually a hot air balloon in the shape of a glass of beer you'll be seeing what i saw this morning. ha!! imagination, who'da thought?

spring into Spring

of course, i would much prefer to spring into bed for a long snooze right about now. too much going on, i'm exhausting myself. chin up, and get on with it!!