Birthday Dinner at The Little Snail

James took me out for dinner on my birthday, to The Little Snail at Pyrmont.

This is the dress I bought with my birthday money - $35 down from $129. I'm sick of all my Winter dresses so this will do very nicely. The photo's a bit blurry cause James took it.


I wore it with beige tights, Kate Middleton style, and these grey shoes:

The restarant was really nice.

They had this cool fish tank too.

We drank this delicious "Pink Blush" sparkling wine.

This pate was almost as good as my Mum's.

It turns out escargot are (is?) really tasty! The garlic sauce was the bomb.

James had this extremely tasty kangaroo. I had beef but the photo looked awful; the kangaroo was a bit nicer anyway.

For dessert we both ordered the same thing: creme caramel. It was awesome!

The service was great too. Our waitress was very French and dressed in a classy black top and fitted skirt with cream and black ballet flats, tres chic.

If you like eating yummy food as much as I do, you should go to The Little Snail ASAP. You won't regret it, trust me. Thanks for a delicious dinner James!

Two Little Ducks

Yesterday was my birthday! I spent the morning drawing demand curves for my economics essay. It was pretty awesome, I won't lie. But when I finished I made this tasty birthday lunch of a tuna and cheese open melt.




Then I went shopping with my birthday money and bought a dress and these shoes.

They were $99 but there was a 50% off sale, and since these were the display pair and were a little bit worn they lady knocked them down to $40. Bargain!!

My parents gave me some colourful cheese knives, body scrub, shower gel, this awesome book and a soap dispenser in the shape of a pig!! You can use it for tomato sauce too. Well, instead.

They gave me a leopard print cardi and a black slip too.

I'm also getting a subscription to STYD if I ever get around to ordering it, and an extra surprise that hasn't been delivered yet, I wonder what it is?

And James gave me this ring!

It's less blurry in real life. It's a gold band with 3 sapphires, the two on the sides are a slightly lighter colour than the one in the middle. Between the sapphires are 2 little diamonds on each side. I love it!! Thanks Jimmy if you're reading.

Scavengebeer Hunt

I had my birthday celebrations last weekend! First the girls came over in the afternoon. I wasn't expecting anyone to get me a present but I got these lovely flowers:



And all this- macaron mix, photoframe, goodies from Lush, Coca Cola Lipsmackers, Scrabble teatowel, make-your-own-snowglobe kit, delicious cookies.

Plus this Harry Potter balloon!!

I made this sweet potato fritata which was yummy but way too difficult to make.

I need to find another recipe for this. Anyone got one?

The girls all brought food too, including this lovely chocolate birthday cake.

I think it is a Nigella recipe.


And here is a cracker with my favourite homemade carrot dip, which nobody but me seems to like. More for me!

You just puree a few cooked carrots, mix them with Philly and add a bit of garlic. I add Sambal Olek too for extra deliciousness.


Then we went out for a Scavengebeer Hunt - like a scavenger hunt, but with drinking!

I got SIX BOXES OF OREOS!!!!

We had to solve clues to get to a bunch of different places and drink at each of them. One of them was Carmen's; I never thought I'd see this:

(It's still a hole.)

The girls' team did heaps of extra things for bonus points too, including a photo hugging an old lady, a photo with a fireman, swapping shirts with a stranger, having a drink with a cocktail umbrella in it, and having a drink with an actual umbrella in it:

We were the last to arrive at the final destination but we scored so many bonus points that we won!! Good work girls! Chasing a firetruck down the street really paid off.

Afterwards we went to Rob's (thanks Rob!!) to party down.

Thanks everyone for coming and being so much fun!! And thanks James for organising the whole thing, you are the best.

Date Night at TPH

We had a two-for-one voucher for the Taren Point Hotel, so last week we went there for a dinner date. We both had steak with mash and veggies:

The meat was poor, there was too much sauce, the mash was tasty but so creamy I couldn't finish it all and the veggies were undercooked. What a disappointment. Should've had one of their giant schnitzels like I normally do.


Greedy James ordered these too:

We didn't need them, but they were delicious!

Continuing the thrift, I wore this jacket that has been chillin' in my wardrobe since the last time I wore it, right after I bought it in 2006.

You can't tell here but it's actually dark blue.

I also wore these bedazzled flats, which I bought ages ago for like eight bucks at Target.

Come to think of it, my jeans were from the op shop and my top was five bucks from Miss Shop in the Christmas sales a while ago. How thrifty am I?!