Four Days, Fifteen Snaps

 On Friday I treated myself to sushi for lunch, since I'd been so busy decluttering all week and there were no leftovers at home anyway.

 

 

It was pretty good!

 

 

I also decluttered some belts:

 

 

 

Once upon a time I had a hanging rack thing on my bedroom door for stuff like dressing gowns and scarves, but we had new doors put in a while ago and the rack doesn't fit any more.  I moved my scarves to the wardrobe and hung my dressing gowns from the picture rail on the wall behind the door.

 

 

I used 1980s-style ornate picture hooks because I just have such good taste when it comes to interior decorating.

 

 

This went on for a while but on Friday I realised I thought maybe, just maybe, I could hang the whole hanging rack from the picture rail.  And as it turns out, I was right!

 

 

I chucked the pink dressing gown because it's scruffy now and I retrieved this vintage nylon number from a storage box.  It doesn't have a hanging loop so I put it on a hanger suspended from one of the picture hooks.  I love storage solutions!

 

 

On Saturday Jim brought me some flowers.

 

 

Then I went to my Nana's place to pick up some trifle, and when I got there look what she was doing:

 

 

Reading Expect Cowgirls!  And having Happy Hour.

 

Hello Nana if you're reading!

 

 

She had some Christmas decorations up too.

 

 

 

Here is the trifle:

 

 

Yum!

 

 

Afterwards I went to my cousin's place for a BBQ.

 

 

On Sunday I went to the pub for Ben's birthday.  Happy birthday you lemon!

 

Meg looked so good in her Summery maxi dress:

 

 

 

FF looked nice too:

 

 

Just kidding, that's Emily! Could've fooled me though.

 

 

I had one of these lovely cocktails.

 

 

It was called a Russian Rose but it tasted quite like a cosmo. Tasty

 

 

And when I came home look what I found:

 

 

Festive! Thanks Mummy!

 

 

On Monday I made my usual lunch:

 

 

A handful of rice crackers (these ones are Peckish brand, try them!), a tin of tuna, thirty grams of cheese.  It is a quick and easy but super tasty lunch and I love to eat snacky things because it's like being on holidays.  Kind of a bogan antipasto.  And good news if you're on a diet, because if you buy the light tuna like I do this meal will only have about 1000 kilojoules.

 

 

Speaking of diets, that night Jim and I had dinner at the $3.50 sushi place in Cronulla then went to San Churro in Miranda for dessert because I'd had churros on my mind for days.

 

He had the sundae:

 

 

 

Naturally I had these:

 

 

They were so delicious! I'm pretty sad that adults can't get the kids' churros anymore though, they are a much easier serving size, and cheaper of course, but the best bit is they come with sprinkles!

 

 

Anyway what have you all been doing, anything?

More Things I've Been Eating

 

The other day I met Meg at Westfield (hello if you're reading Meg!) and we stopped at a cafe for a snack.  I don't remember the name but if you're a local, it's the one near La Senza and General Pants and the fancy jeweller.

 

Meg had some kind of flourless orange and almond type cake and a Diet Coke.

 

 

 

 

I had a lemon tart.  It was super delicious.

 

 

I didn't have a drink because I am thrifty.  And also impoverished - now that I've finished uni I can't get Youth Allowance, and I'll be finishing at my job in a few weeks and I won't start work at my new job until February.  With Christmas coming up and an overseas holiday planned for January I am going to have to super thrifty over the next couple of months so stay tuned.

 

 

One good way to be thrifty is to go to Swiss Quattro in Sylvania on a Wednesday night for their amazing special.

 

 

Incredible value.

 

The food is good and pretty cheap too, especially if you split one of their enormous bowls of pasta with your friend.

 

 

 

 

 

The house red was actually pretty nice, I'm not sure what it was but it was definitely drinkable.  I didn't drink the white but apparently that was okay too.

 

 

 

 

A thrifty date idea is to go to the underground food court in Chinatown, like Jim and I did the other day. We like Eating World, which is on the corner of Dixon St.  There's another one which is not on a corner and I hear that was really yuck, but Eating World is great.

 

 

 

They have a bar in the food court, which is pretty fun, and while you are in Chinatown you can also go to Oriental Joint for some cheap fans and jade jewellery, check out the super cheap pastries and take-home bags of dumplings at the bakery, visit a crazy pink beauty store and get a Norgen-Vaaz ice cream.  I think it's the generic version of Haagen-Dazs but whatever it's delicious.

 

When we were really full we went to Bavarian Beer Cafe for my friend Sarah E's birthday drinks! (Hello if you are reading! Happy birthday!)

 

Here's a professional-quality photo of me and her and Lara:

 

 

 

 

I really liked Lara's dress, I want one for myself.

 

I had this hilarious girl beer, not only was it fruity-flavoured to begin with, they added fruit syrup stuff to it (I chose passionfruit) and served it in a cocktail glass!

 

 

Seriously, what?

 

It was delicious though.

 

 

Also check out my Mum's mini meat pies with mashed potato and mushy peas on top:

 

 

Did I mention she's from England? (Please also note Emily's Masterchefesque "plating up" with artful tomato sauce distribution technique).

 

 

No wonder my jeans feel so tight today.