Wednesday, December 26, 2018
Christmas 2018 - Amy's Advent Calendar
This year Amy made me an advent calendar; God knows when she found the time. It made every day in December feel like a mini Christmas morning! Isn't she amazing?
Monday, December 17, 2018
Triple J Hottest 100 of 2018
My votes:
- Courtney Barnett - Nameless, Faceless (#159)
- ShockOne - Bleed Black {Ft. Cruz Patterson} (no entry)
- Methyl Ethel - Scream Whole (no entry)
- Superorganism - Everybody Wants To Be Famous (no entry)
- Mansionair - Technicolour (no entry)
- Alison Wonderland - Church (#31)
- Beach House - Lemon Glow (no entry)
- Kendrick Lamar & SZA - All The Stars (#28)
- Presets, The - 14U+14ME (#175)
- Billie Eilish - you should see me in a crown (#46)
Wish I could have fit:
- Mansionair - Falling (no entry)
- ZHU x Tame Impala - My Life (no entry)
- Grimes - We Appreciate Power {Ft. HANA} (no entry)
- Octavian - Lightning (no entry)
- G Flip - Killing My Time (#62)
I think All The Stars will win this year, or maybe something by Ball Park Music.
Edit: Ocean Alley's Confidence as #1 is fine, but it's such a meh song, and I hadn't even heard #2! Just a generic dance song, can't believe that almost won, and Bleed Black didn't even make the next 100. No, it's the children who are wrong.
Edit: Ocean Alley's Confidence as #1 is fine, but it's such a meh song, and I hadn't even heard #2! Just a generic dance song, can't believe that almost won, and Bleed Black didn't even make the next 100. No, it's the children who are wrong.
Sunday, November 18, 2018
Beer, Wine, Hens and Flying
Down south with Amy, Megan, Gabby and Ria was amazing. We made the most of a potentially sad weekend by replacing disappointment with great memories. Pullman resort was lovely, I think we definitely made the most of the room (including dancing to The Prodigy for like 2h), the pool, the beach and the breakfast. Rustico at Hayshed Hill was a great mix of casual atmosphere with crazy good food, but take our advice (Ria's especially!) and go for the 1/2 glass, not full glass, wine pairings!
The Beerfest was another great freo festival, man those guys know how to put on a good festival. The theme of the day was NEIPAs, and James St Juice was our favourite of the trend. I'm still a bit sore about Holy Smokes for dinner; I double checked the loaded fries were vegetarian, but who knew I had to check they were gluten free too - they came loaded with macaroni! Holy macaroni!
After a crazy day of beer, we had more beer at Nowhere Man to see Michael off to Canberra where he'll finally get to put his law degree to good use, as well as cook Iva a good dinner! Luckily Michael and Iva will be back in time for Kate and Nick's wedding, so it wasn't a big goodbye just yet.
Tusk day is scene missing. Maybe 13.5% not missing at best.
Kate's hens night was awesome, who doesn't love the chance to draw a beautiful naked man.
iFly today with Krystal and Georgia was so much fun, I'm so glad we've switched to activity-presents rather than stuff-presents. Our instructor was Sam, who was the same awesome guy who took my dad and I a couple of months ago. The girls did really well, I don't think anyone laughed at us too much, except for Georgia's cat hands, and our goggle imprints!
The Beerfest was another great freo festival, man those guys know how to put on a good festival. The theme of the day was NEIPAs, and James St Juice was our favourite of the trend. I'm still a bit sore about Holy Smokes for dinner; I double checked the loaded fries were vegetarian, but who knew I had to check they were gluten free too - they came loaded with macaroni! Holy macaroni!
After a crazy day of beer, we had more beer at Nowhere Man to see Michael off to Canberra where he'll finally get to put his law degree to good use, as well as cook Iva a good dinner! Luckily Michael and Iva will be back in time for Kate and Nick's wedding, so it wasn't a big goodbye just yet.
Tusk day is scene missing. Maybe 13.5% not missing at best.
Kate's hens night was awesome, who doesn't love the chance to draw a beautiful naked man.
iFly today with Krystal and Georgia was so much fun, I'm so glad we've switched to activity-presents rather than stuff-presents. Our instructor was Sam, who was the same awesome guy who took my dad and I a couple of months ago. The girls did really well, I don't think anyone laughed at us too much, except for Georgia's cat hands, and our goggle imprints!
Wednesday, October 31, 2018
SNS - 3 Generations
I've recently started getting SNS on my nails to fix a crack in one of my nails that was causing me quite a lot of grief. It's been working really well, and I think my cracked nail is
completely healed but I've kept up with it since I'm quite enjoying
having nice nails all the time.
I thought I'd get Mina and mum to do it too since it seems that weak and cracked nails run in our family. Turns out all three generations have the same taste in colour!
I thought I'd get Mina and mum to do it too since it seems that weak and cracked nails run in our family. Turns out all three generations have the same taste in colour!
Monday, September 24, 2018
Perth Royal Show 2018
Finally, some perfect weather for the show!
I spent the morning with Amy and Ava, I can't wait to spend many more years with them at the show. I quickly realised that the itinerary I had planned (arrive at 9, watch a cow milking demonstration at 9:30) was much, MUCH to ambitious since Ava understandably was quite distracted by the overwhelming sights and sounds of the show (as well less exciting things, like a pile of leaves on the ground), so we decided to stay at one end of the show and enjoy the animal themed things there.
After Amy and Ava left, I managed to track down "the gentleman", which I was very confused about since as far as I can tell this is purely a Buffy thing. He was definitely dressed as one of the gentlemen from Buffy, but I am still very confused at why this was a roaming show at the Royal Show. He was really cool! I told him I was a massive Buffy fan, and because he couldn't speak, he bowed and kissed my hand instead. So cool!
While waiting for Andrew to come in, I went and saw the hypnotist show, Shane St James, and decided, what the hell, I'll get up on stage. It was a very similar format to the only other hypnotist show I've seen (Mindfoolness at fringe) where the performer asks for volunteers who are open to being hypnotised, and are "characters". I decided I was definitely both, and managed to score a spot on stage.
The first part (the whole "you're getting sleeeepy" thing) was really relaxing, and I genuinely felt heavy and sleepy and yawned on his cue. But it took a turn for the worse when he told us that we were now in a band, and needed to pick up our instrument and play to the music. I picked up some drums, and pretended to play.
I also pretended to be Michael Jackson (the rare licence to touch my crotch in public), Mick Jagger (didn't know if he was a singer or played guitar, so I did both), a muscle man (you don't need to ask me twice to show off the guns), Miss Australia (kissy lips and crossed legs) and Beyonce (lots of pointing to the ring finger).
There were a couple of songs that made us do stuff, like be little kids, snake charmers, and in love with a member of the audience (I ended up just dancing with one other lady who also seemed a bit reluctant to go into the audience). A couple of the people got their own personal song; there was a conductor, a boxer, and superman, all of which were very enthusiastically in character. When we "woke up", we were told there would be a bad smell, so I covered my nose to avoid the fake smell, while the lady next to me very convincingly dry heaved.
At the end, the lady next to me (the dry heaver) said she'd had a very intense experience, so I don't know what to think! I was definitely pretending due to a combination of having absolutely no shame, the peer pressure of not being able to leave the stage, and a bit of "what the hell, they're clapping"-ness. I wonder if anyone else had a genuine hypnotic experience, I was very disappointed I didn't get one! It was interesting; I guess it's the most eye opening experience I've had with my eyes closed.
Andrew came and met me in the early afternoon, and we did our regular things like watching the sheep dog trials (the 10 month old pups were amazing), the dairy pavilion (have you ever waited in a line for half a cup of choc milk?), food and drinks (including a gruesome looking "pig in a blanket" that Andrew loved and I refused to try for obvious reasons) and patting bunnies (where we bumped into Shane and Tammy). The gin tasting at Giniversity was really good, I ended up getting the botanical one but they were all top notch.
We decided to have dinner in the members lounge which was really awesome, we'll definitely do that again. The pre-fireworks entertainment was Shannon Noll, who was pleasant background music for a great dinner, and we even got "What About Me" as an encore. We watched the fireworks outside since the view wasn't great from the members lounge, and the trusty old fireworks glasses did not fail to impress.
I can't wait to enjoy everything from our haul this year!
I spent the morning with Amy and Ava, I can't wait to spend many more years with them at the show. I quickly realised that the itinerary I had planned (arrive at 9, watch a cow milking demonstration at 9:30) was much, MUCH to ambitious since Ava understandably was quite distracted by the overwhelming sights and sounds of the show (as well less exciting things, like a pile of leaves on the ground), so we decided to stay at one end of the show and enjoy the animal themed things there.
After Amy and Ava left, I managed to track down "the gentleman", which I was very confused about since as far as I can tell this is purely a Buffy thing. He was definitely dressed as one of the gentlemen from Buffy, but I am still very confused at why this was a roaming show at the Royal Show. He was really cool! I told him I was a massive Buffy fan, and because he couldn't speak, he bowed and kissed my hand instead. So cool!
While waiting for Andrew to come in, I went and saw the hypnotist show, Shane St James, and decided, what the hell, I'll get up on stage. It was a very similar format to the only other hypnotist show I've seen (Mindfoolness at fringe) where the performer asks for volunteers who are open to being hypnotised, and are "characters". I decided I was definitely both, and managed to score a spot on stage.
The first part (the whole "you're getting sleeeepy" thing) was really relaxing, and I genuinely felt heavy and sleepy and yawned on his cue. But it took a turn for the worse when he told us that we were now in a band, and needed to pick up our instrument and play to the music. I picked up some drums, and pretended to play.
I also pretended to be Michael Jackson (the rare licence to touch my crotch in public), Mick Jagger (didn't know if he was a singer or played guitar, so I did both), a muscle man (you don't need to ask me twice to show off the guns), Miss Australia (kissy lips and crossed legs) and Beyonce (lots of pointing to the ring finger).
There were a couple of songs that made us do stuff, like be little kids, snake charmers, and in love with a member of the audience (I ended up just dancing with one other lady who also seemed a bit reluctant to go into the audience). A couple of the people got their own personal song; there was a conductor, a boxer, and superman, all of which were very enthusiastically in character. When we "woke up", we were told there would be a bad smell, so I covered my nose to avoid the fake smell, while the lady next to me very convincingly dry heaved.
At the end, the lady next to me (the dry heaver) said she'd had a very intense experience, so I don't know what to think! I was definitely pretending due to a combination of having absolutely no shame, the peer pressure of not being able to leave the stage, and a bit of "what the hell, they're clapping"-ness. I wonder if anyone else had a genuine hypnotic experience, I was very disappointed I didn't get one! It was interesting; I guess it's the most eye opening experience I've had with my eyes closed.
Andrew came and met me in the early afternoon, and we did our regular things like watching the sheep dog trials (the 10 month old pups were amazing), the dairy pavilion (have you ever waited in a line for half a cup of choc milk?), food and drinks (including a gruesome looking "pig in a blanket" that Andrew loved and I refused to try for obvious reasons) and patting bunnies (where we bumped into Shane and Tammy). The gin tasting at Giniversity was really good, I ended up getting the botanical one but they were all top notch.
We decided to have dinner in the members lounge which was really awesome, we'll definitely do that again. The pre-fireworks entertainment was Shannon Noll, who was pleasant background music for a great dinner, and we even got "What About Me" as an encore. We watched the fireworks outside since the view wasn't great from the members lounge, and the trusty old fireworks glasses did not fail to impress.
I can't wait to enjoy everything from our haul this year!
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