Absolute Bliss

Wow. I am the happiest girl alive :) I have my Paul with me now and I've just been spending so much time with him, he's so wonderful :) He's come to lectures with me, I'd dump him in the computer room while I'm at pbl and I just take mondays and fridays off to spend the entire day with him :) Our time is generally spent eating or sitting around.

The first place we ate at was Tony Aroma's on Sussex St. There weren't many people so it was quiet, which I liked. The next day we had breakfast at this little cafe behind the dental hospital, can't remember what it's called but it's pretty decent and good value. We've had maccas breakfast twice, Hungry Jack's, KFC, sushi and various meat pies and other snack foods here and there. Stupid pancakes on the rocks isn't open yet!

Our sit around places have included Darling Harbour, Belmore Park (as hobo homeless bummy and pigeon crappy as it is), Hyde Park and the Royal Botanical Gardens. At the botanical gardens we were sitting in front of one of the ponds watching the ducks and other birds and the bats in the trees when he gave me my Christmas present early. He made me close my eyes and hold my hands out and when he said I could open them, I saw this little silver bell in my hands. I didn't know what it was then he opened it and it was a really nice ring box and I had heart palpitations :) He got me a promise ring :) It's white gold with 3 diamonds in it which apparently symbolise past, present and future. He's the sweetest boy alive :) And thanks to Dyl for risking his job to get the ring box!

At Hyde park it's the same thing, sit around and watch birds and gaze adoringly into each other's eyes... hahaha and we have a tree now :) Cause as we walked past Paul saw something furry in a hollow in it and he saw it breathing. So we stopped to look at it and he got a stick and poked it but it didn't move. So he tried again and it woke up, turned around and looked at us :) It was a possum so we've named him Pepe le possum. And he lives in our possum tree :)

Yesterday we went to the aquarium and although there were too many screaming kids, we had a really good time :) We happened to get to the shark tank at feeding time, it was really cool! I liked how these two little sharks tried to steal the feeding guy's lunchbox full of fish when he wasn't looking. We had a double pass to go to Wildlife World as well which we're going to on Monday. *sigh* I'm so happy

3 MORE DAYS!!!!!!!

Wow I'm just so excited, I've been pinching myself to make sure it's real. Paul comes in 3 days :D I went to go inspect a unit in Enmore for him on Wednesday and it looked ok on the outside and it was around the corner from Enmore Road, yet a quiet street. The real estate lady came and opened 3 of the units and so I went up to the first one and I was HORRIFIED. It was the size of a small prison cell with a closet sized toilet that basically had the sink so close you could wash your hands while sitting on the can. There was a GIGANTIC venomous looking spider on the wall, and being the usual effervescent life of the party that I am, I said, "Hey this one comes with a free pet!" and everybody laughed :) The bed looked all small and gross, and I saw cock-a-roach bait in the cupboard under the sink (which was like 30cm from the bed). It looked fit for a junkie. No thanks. The rest were pretty much the same (minus the faunae). So that leaves Paul houseless for the meantime. I've booked him into a cheap cheap hotel in Tempe for the first week of his stay, so that will buy us more time to go inspect places. I'm so excited :D

Who'll Come A-Waltzing Matilda With Me?

Today was just all things aussie... Queen's Birthday public holiday, a balmy 18 degree fine sunny with no cloud WINTER day - take THAT you northern hemisphere freezing countries, and a room full of old folk who appreciate FINE music. And by that, I mean me (haha).

I basically played a whole bunch of 1930's hits which got a lot of the oldies singing and clapping, some actually got up and danced. There was this lovely just LOVELY little old lady named Barbara who sang beautifully - she sounded like a cabaret singer, seriously! She sat in the chair right next to me and sang/hummed along. They made me play God Save the Queen twice, as it was appropriate for the occasion. I made Barbara cry when I played Dannyboy and she sang along to it, and an old man told me I was a beautiful young lady. Then they all cheered and I even heard a "Hooray" after I played Offenbach's Can-Can (which they clapped along to also). Don't you just love old people. They were pleasant though - I suppose if I had come post-afternoon there would have been screaming hysterical dementia sufferers, but no they were really nice to me. To finish things up I then did an encore performance of Waltzing Matilda which got everybody singing and clapping; I even put it a key change for the last chorus (yes I know, I'm impressive).

Then I got home, did some laundry whilst making a nice country-bumpkin chicken and vegetable soup. I didn't have any cream though so I used milk. Yummy. I just finished one dreadful anatomy assignment and about to start the next one. Not looking forward to dissection tomorrow as usual... Our cadaver's smelling worse and worse each week.

Back In Business

OK so I haven't blogged for over 6 months, let's hope I remember how! I've started to forget all that html mumbo-jumbo. Don't worry though, this blog will improve (hopefully).

So this morning my brother finally left for his 6-week Euro holiday (which also includes Johannesburg, Hong Kong and Japan). Naturally I'm glad cause it'll be more quiet, I get more computer time and I won't have to fight over food. He took his backpack back from me though so I dunno what I'm gonna do to carry all my equipment and stuff when I have Anatomy Dissection or Tooth Conservation. I wanna buy a new one actually, one that I can call my own. Those black Kathmandu ones look good. Oh, and by the way I don't have my camera for 6 weeks cause Ryan's taken it, so this blog will be pretty blank and picture free until I get it back. Sorry guys, I know how much you were all dying to see my gorgeous self.

I graduate on the 16th isn't that spiffy? It'll be the first time I ever achieved something big in my life. Which isn't that big anyways cause had I not gotten into dentistry I'd be in a boring lab job looking at stool and urine samples all day, growing bacteria and coming home after every 40 hour week with $34,000 a year. I've chosen my outfit; that black Ojay dress I got for a really good price, these nice Voodoo pantyhose with these cross-patterns on it and I guess a coat overtop when I'm not wearing the gown and trencher hat, but I haven't gotten new shoes yet :( I plan to go look today at this Italian shoe store. I'm after something black but simultaneously pretty, European size is 37. I love shoes.