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Tonight was the long-awaited ’80s movie night.

Calman, Janice, Alice and Jamie came over for a feast and awesome ’80s movies.

We started with Heathers, one of my faves. Mean Girls recently ripped it off, but it can’t compete with the black humour of the original. Plus, the original had Christian Slater, everything a bad boy should be – hot, with a great head of hair, and a psychotic look in his eyes.

The movie really highlights what bitches girls are in their teens – it’s all about the queen bees and wannabes. It’s also funny and has some fabulous ’80s fashion and hair. My personal favourites are the bright tights. Who could pull off blue tights these days apart from Winona in her Heathers heyday?

I also loved that in the movie, getting rid of the head bitch doesn’t actually change anything – there’s always a new head bitch waiting to spring up in her place. Shannon Doherty, as always, makes an awesome queen bee.

Movie number two was the very cool Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Janice watches this movie once a month apparently. It’s a worthy movie to watch that frequently, even after all these years.

Matthew Broderick is fabulous as the cocky Ferris. It’s a shame that this was his one and only really great film as he is really entertaining to watch.

Watching Ferris always makes me want to have more fun and be more daring. I’m most like Cameron in the movie – cautious and anxious. I want to be like Ferris, taking chances and having “you can never go too far” as my motto.

I really love Jennifer Grey in this movie as Ferris’ evil older sister. She has so much rage towards Ferris and the lengths she goes to to catch him out are hilarious.

Equally hilarious is the cameo by Charlie Sheen in his very young, very hot stage.


After Ferris, the troops headed home, leaving me and Alec to watch The Breakfast Club. When I watched this when I was a kid, I thought it was really deep and meaningful. Now I just think it’s a pretty cool coming-of-age movie.

I like teen movies like this. They seem more real to me then the current ones as I can relate to them a lot easier.

The conversations they have in the movie are very real, unlike recent teen movies that really stereotype teens into categories, The Breakfast Club starts out with stereotypes and breaks them down so that at the end, they’re all brought down to the same level – just people with problems and opinions.

Father’s Day Part 1

The day started with an early morning drive to Newcastle.

Water! Such a pretty day.

Alec got soaked on the way to the restaurant. You can’t make funny stuff like this up.

Wet!

Alec and his dad have a lot in common. Such as their mutual dislike of having their photo taken.

My Big Day Out

I’ve been super lazy lately so it felt good to have an active day again.

I started the day with a quick climb with Mel at St Leonards Gym, then Alec and I picked up Vladan to check out bathroom parts. We selected a colour theme, tiles, vanity, etc – I can’t wait till it’s done now. We chose a Mediterranean kind of theme – very rich blue floor tiles, stark white wall tiles with blue mosaic pieces as a stripe to run horizontally around the room, and an awesome vanity with lights in the mirror to make up for the terrible lighting in the bathroom.

After bathroom shopping we stopped at my fave Chatswood cafe, Marcello, for lunch. I ordered an open avocado, tomato, bacon and Camembert cheese sandwich with the best ice chocolate in Sydney. It looked so impressive I had to photo it.

After lunch I had to rush to make my 4pm dance class at Sydney Dance with Daniel. We love crazy Kassey’s class, and today was no exception. Lots of fun and make me feel better about all the chocolate I’ve been eating lately.

A quick shower and I was on the road again, this time to Emily and Lorin’s Sydney wedding bash. Em looked radiant, there was lots of tasty food (yes, I am a piggy and I did shovel it as soon as I found the mammoth block of cheese) and great company – a big bunch of Googlers.

Em passed around jello shots and equally popular strawberrys and dipping chocolate. Yuuuuum. What a busy, great day!

The beautiful Emily and her potent jello shots.

With the rest of the Google girls.

Goodbye Emily

Today was my dear friend Emily’s last day at work.

We celebrated her time with us in true Google fashion – with copious amounts of food and sangria.



Last photo in the Google office. I miss you already Em!

Puppies!

I stayed in Warwick Farm on my way back from the snow and enjoyed some sweet puppy time the next morning. Gratuitous puppy shots below.

Lick attack!

Put me down, mum!

Aya and Matt’s Hens and Bucks Night

My first joint bucks and hens night was held tonight at the Great Northern Hotel.

The girls arrived for for dinner and gossip, while the boys got completely hammered at Daniel’s place. With bottles thrown, a PSP lost and one man down, they finally arrived at the Northern for a late dinner and more alcy-hol. Some steak-stealing, yelling, rapping and head-butting later, Alec and I head on home to watch the end of Forrest Gump.

With Ayako the hen.

With Ayako and Shannon, cousin of the groom.

Alec loves pink. A lot.

Bourne Fest

In preparation for the third Bourne movie, 13 of Alec’s friends and one brave girlfriend came over tonight for pizza and Matt Damon perving. Sorry, that was just me. 🙂

Sunset over Darling Harbour on the way home.

I’ve never seen so much pizza in my life.

Daniel is keen for a camera like mine. Here he is testing it out. Awesome self-portrait.

Hunter Valley Birthday Getaway

Alec took me to the Hunter to celebrate my birthday.

We stayed at The Carriages guest house … beautiful, quiet and cosy.

The Smelly Cheese shop. Yuuuuummmmmm.

Chocolate …



Accidental romantic self-portraits.

Peppers Winery – buying tasty dessert wine.

The Peppers Convent.

At Hunter Valley Central Gardens.

It was such a lovely weekend. Full of great food, tasty wine and the best company. Awesome birthday week! Thanks Alec 🙂

Testing, Testing

First shot from the new macro lens! Thanks Alec, you’re awesome 🙂 The beautiful flowers were a b’day gift from Will and Andrew.