plans & adventures

yes, i am absolutely looking forward to having 10.5 days (i am including weekends) off. when i say off, i mean not having to go into the office. i will be loading my days up with other things, mostly writing and sewing. i seem to have lost time during this year so i'm going to try and make up for it now. i know, all the best laid plans etc...

so in the thinking stage i wandered around the net to collect a few sites i've previously missed - this being one...

and what with the move in the next few weeks i figure i'll have to get back into the swing of sewing and op shopping because i'll be poor. well, not really but it's something i've really missed this year. i'll just have to try and balance things a little better in 2010. learn how to juggle with two hands perhaps?

the postie

today i wondered if the mail would be delivered and then considered whether the mail i sent the day before would reach their targets before christmas and then i realised that i still haven't posted the only gift i really should have posted by now. yes, my mom's. i'll mail two parts of it today... honest... and hope that there'll be a christmas miracle and it arrives tomorrow. or the next day. at least prior to xmas. i'm not holding my breath and i didn't exactly forget, i just lost track of the days. christmas came upon us stealthily this year. one moment i was happily attending a writer's festival in may and then WHAM! it's december. i'll remember that for next year and perhaps set traps.

(p.s. sorry mom - i'll make it up to you)

a very natty xmas

dinner in northcote with nat and a sharing of gifts.

started watching the first series of spaced after work. a uk show from a decade ago (eek!) written and starring simon pegg.

ahhhhh!

i know that everyone thinks they're evil but i can have one damn vice can't i? i don't really drink coffee, so my usual is a venti mocha frappacino with no cream. i don't even need to ask for it anymore. i walk into the starbucks on the corner of bourke and swanston and it's "morning lisa, (yes, i've realised i've spelt my own name wrong, but these guys say it like this because they don't know there's that added e) the usual?" it's nice, them knowing my preferred beverage with a side of bagel. mmm... then i tramp upstairs to a couch and sit for a while, reading the paper before attempting to write. it doesn't always happen, that writing thing, but i give it a try each and every time. things might have to change in the new year, but there will always be a frapp in my future.

coming to an end...

and starting anew in some other form.

night on the tiles under the stars...

a mini rooftop pub crawl. mini because we only ended up at two. madame brussels where we sipped on pimms and lemonade, my favourite summertime drink from now until eternity. then moved onto the supper club. the group varied in size but was forever jovial. a lot of fun was had. thanks to mark for introducing the sports visor and it's various uses to the world.

view from the supper club.

the week so far...

monday was dancing and baking for the last lindy at brunswick for the year. took along custard powder cookies, just like mom used to make. mmm... tuesday was a walk into the city for trivia with jamie and jenn (the two jc's). then we headed up six flights of stairs to the rooftop cinema for chinatown with mark, eloise and andrea. i hadn't seen the film before and i had expected something just a little more from it. beautifully shot and set but it was just a little slow and kind of so what? and i didn't really empathise with any of the characters. it was nice seeing parts of l.a. though. echo park lake in the early 70s was lovely. when i was living in the nearby suburb of silverlake, not so much. ;)... wednesday i went on my first home inspection in richmond. let's just say NO to that one. then picked up trish on the way to elsternwick to watch george clooney's latest, up in the air. it was so so. company was super though... moving onto thursday. a three hour work lunch. then fighting through traffic mayhem. yes it was raining and with only 8 sleeps til christmas, people were a tad feral. had a look through another apartment, really nice but on the second floor and the living area needs to be a larger to fit my table and chairs. i'm not giving those up. a quick dinner at raffles with dave and clare before dave and i schmoozed at the offices of a whole group of producers/ directors/ writers. so i didn't network that much, but i showed up and smiled a bit. give me a break. i'll get there.