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o grown up things which me two years ago wouldn t have imagined thinking include i should really send out christmas cards i must ask so and so how she made that gorgeous sauce would dill go well in this should really get a tea set that edge really needs whipper snippering nothing d be more amazing right now than a glass of wine and a book however other things that i have found flitting across my mind reassure me that proper fully fledged adulthood is still a few lessons away and well before dementia huzzah 25 is too much for a main course surely shoulda made 2013 the end date of my fake student card to avoid brisbane s criminal public transport prices how do you turn on a lawnmover crap i think i m just gonna do another loop of the block to avoid doing that reverse park while that car s watching me thank the gods that anecdote taught me what stamp duty was i was getting embarrassed to ask i think the lesson may just be nothing stays the same so enjoy the ride and keep on learning and to remember which stories you ve told people tagged aging andie macdowell brisbane floods dementia fake student cards floods getting old growing up l oréal tea dec 14 2011 leave a comment little happy moments a hill just outside mt barney national park qld i went hiking in mt barney national park today with two old university friends we live in brisbane a city not famous for being amazing in itself but for being close to lots of amazing things and we ve decided to begin cultivating a love and appreciation for as many of those things as possible starting with hikes and camp sites our mission was to get to the lower portals a gorge like site with rock pools and wallabies which we did albeit a little late as we d accidentally climbed up part of the more difficult and unmarked south ridge giving us the time to have lunch and me the time to bump my head on a flyaway branch while jumping rocks and contemplating the life of steve jobs we stayed several hours and were swimming in the pool formed at the base of several smooth sheer granite blocks when our mate was stung by the still kicking stinger of a recently drowned bee while attempting to scramble up a small slippery boulder as he had been allergic to bees last time he d checked 20 years ago aged 5 we freaked out sufficiently enough to realise that help was an hour s hike away and none of the party had an epipen nor knew anything about dealing with allergic reactions and so breathing quickly we skidaddled outta that pool and hopped our way over the rocks and back to the path luckily within ten minutes it became clear that nothing was swelling colouring or tightening but by that time a bank of clouds which had been threatening to rain on our parade did finally start to look more menacing that we wanted and so we headed back up the hill piled into the car and began to drive out back on the road celebrating the fact that our friend had not carked it due to anaphylactic shock and realising that we needed a warm up to counteract the freezing effects of the wet boots we d suffered from a rock pool mishap or two we decided to head to a roadside joint for coffee but first the now broken sky gave us a visual treat it was looking decidedly grey and disgruntled at this point and soon took a big enough breath to begin splattering the landscape with fat cold raindrops huddled into my seat i settled back to watch the spectacle of the skies over the green plains dotted with gums the sky at the horizon took on a ominously blackish shade like disagreement settling over someone s face surging up from behind a hill in front of us and lighting its profile against the twilight sky creating a play of dark grey moss green brilliant fluorescent green silver sky and the slim black trunks of gums sliding up and down the hill s slanted sides gaped at it happy tagged anaphylactic shock hiking mt barney queensland rock pools twilight wet boots dec 14 2011 leave a comment little happy moments a ridiculously massive ice cream rosalie i m not traditionally much of an ice cream person i d usually rather scarf something naughty and savoury given the chance but sometimes the idea of ice cream is like life itself like a beam of light that shines through the clouds while some sort of god like creature looks down and thunders eat this creation i had lunch with a friend today my oldest one with whom i caught guppies in the creek below her house buried a time capsule at the turn of the millenium obsessed about boys before either of us had ever been kissed and jumped off her garage roof she s now married and has spat out a kid a gorgeous little peach called michael who s given her the sort of hell that only a six monther can dish out on a first time mum we chewed over life and vietnamese food championing my newly adopted vegetarianism with tofu and prawns fine i m still eating seafood give me a minute to adjust feeling not yet stuffed we ambled down to the nearby ice creamery and joined the queue of families young kids and teens still dripping from pool parties in their backyards here the fun began this is the sort of ice creamery where you not only order ice cream but also things which can be crushed into it wondrous things like fudge tim tams jellies brownies chocolate bars and syrupy fruit i imagine that the god like creature mentioned above would call in the help of an entire herald of angels miniature cheruby babies and rainbowed doves to proclaim the joys of this treat mine was white chocolate ice cream slash caramel fudge huddled next to a caramello koala smashed into milo ice cream in a waffle cone my eyes lit up like a five year old s upon beholding it ate it happy tagged caramello koalas first born girlie lunches vietnamese food waffle cone dec 14 2011 leave a comment little happy moments not getting up to exercise my room i m not usually one to champion taking the greasy slobby option and not moving don t misunderstand i m not a fitness freak but i am outdoorsy and interested in exercise for health s sake when given the chance i like to do something especially if that activity is walking running swimming or hiking being repetitive enough to allow me to wallow in my own thoughts i actually feel that my grey matter functions better when my body is busy and forgets that i m thinking in fact i m starting to wonder if my brain is in fact a clockwork sort of device powered by a little man on an old exercise bike who s wearing an old robin hood style hat and looking mildly displeased but of course that s another story anyway at sparrow fart this morning as my alarm shrieked shrilly next to my ear i chose horizontality and loved it i d slept really quite badly the night before all waking up at a moment s notice discomfort and general unrest no interesting dreams to report sadly just a rocky night s sleep for no reason perhaps my internal body clock was aware that i d set the alarm for 5 20am to walk perhaps jog before going to work in any case when it did finally go off screaming i realised that today a monday no less my inner calm was not going to be served by getting up and on the treadmill in fact my muscles still ached from my hiking adventure and friend s near near death experience with a bee as well as my head from the unsightly scratch i d sustained after having smacked it on an unseen tree branch while contemplating the life of steve jobs see november 26 and so laziness was chosen and another 40 minutes of sleep had i slept a bit more happy ps i m going to try for 5 20am again tomorrow tagged 5am alarm clock monday morning sleep in treadmill dec 14 2011 leave a comment little happy moments being called by my name by my morning barista adelaide st brisbane just after graduating from uni when my chosen career choice still wasn t paying me in cold hard cash yay creative industries i worked in a coffee shop in brisbane cbd a gorgeous dark wood panelled haven with polished floors high stools hugging slender round tables and an assortment of tea cups saucers pots and coffee making paraphernalia displayed for sale in open cabinets this was the sort of caffeine dispensing nook which received a veritable avalanche of sleepy eyed customers from 6 9 30am arriving in spurts from nearby central train station and standing in orderly queues sometimes out the door before leaving with a mug of sustenance for a busy day ahead and a conversation or a laugh from us behind the counter we had six types of milk to choose between in australia asking for a soy latte does not necessarily a wanker make when ordering any of your regular cuppa joes as well as a few house specials not to mention the sugary chocolately or fruity frappé concoctions that people would invariably ask for a questionable early morning habit if you asked me being an attractive sort of place with house roasted beans and a head barista who could chew your ear off with delectable anecdotes people would return regulars abounded it was the sort of place where you d know whose kids were acting up who d recently bought a house who d met someone cute on the weekend whose boss was an arsehole where you d see miranda a little way down the street and start preparing her large no foam double strength decaf mocha on skinny soy so that it was ready when she d arrive no joke on the drink choice there suffice to say we knew a lot about our customers and seeing them every morning acted as a little daily reunion slash gossip fest now i work in a different location that does not involve steaming milk nor gossiping with caffeine addicted customers however i am becoming one of the latter myself i ve started frequenting a sweet little fair trade coffee cart right outside the door to my building run by the happiest early morning crew i ve seen since leaving my old nook i swear these people must get together and snort pure rainbows each morning as at a time when most of us are still growling about being up at all they ve already dished out crema topped wonders to a horde of under slept office staff ipad blazing business people and hungover students today they called me by my first name i m in it s welcoming being on this side of the coffee machine too it seems heard it responded in turn by name happy tagged barista caffeine fix morning coffee rainbows dec 14 2011 leave a comment little happy moments nuts in a salad lunchtime work possibly a week ago i decided to try what i d been thinking a fair bit about trying my hand at and became a vego of course i should probably re phrase seven days ago to five as last friday in a post work haze of the sort where one s caffeine high s well worn off and glucose levels are hovering somewhere several floors below rock bottom i tumbled into the hole in the wall sushi joint nearby ordered and didn t realise until half way though one of my energy giving and mood enhancing sushi rolls that i was eating kagagee chicken i d just ordered my regulars ya see well we ll get there soon enough though currently as such a piddly bit of time s passed i m feeling a lil fake about calling myself a vego though now that i think about it at dinner a chinese restaurant the other day i did experience my first no much as i love the sociality of a lazy susan i can t share my meal with you fine people as i no longer eat anything previously warm blooded and i got the requisite ahhhh she s a veggie look to match so i feel like soon enough i ll belong in this little club having perhaps pissed off more of my friends in the process today however a colleague introduced me to a small wonder an immediate punch to hunger pains a concept henceforth known as tip a few nuts in your salad in my pre veggie opinion nuts had always been something to be eaten in bars out of bowls whose cleanliness would be best scrutinised or consumed while half way up a mountain or as a cheap nic nac served by students claiming that some food will be served at their byo house party however i now recognise the error of my ways nuts in salads kick all sorts of ass protein subedón it s not cheese and the combination looks damn snazzy too almost like you could sell your humble lunchtime salad in a hipster little café run by a slim jeans cuffs up flannel shirted guy with ironic facial hair i m sold now just gotta go and buy some pumpkin seeds as well as all manner of additional seeds of the innumerable things preferred by vegos that i don t even know the names of yet spelt for one what is that even got a new food idea happy tagged glucose levels hunger pains salads sushi vegetarian work lunches dec 14 2011 leave a comment little happy moments the quite shocking book i m reading and little ritual of reading it each morning balcony at work just before packing up my spanish lifestyle and leaving madrid i bought a book which caught my attention in a local department store called la última mujer de australia the last woman in australia it grabbed my attention firstly because the subject matter seemed so familiar home land but upon closer inspection because it depicts a notion so completely alien and horrendous that i shudder when i think of it written by a spanish man with an obviously fairly colourful interest in australia it tells us of a version of the great south land some decades in the future when a virus has taken over the continent affecting the entire male population apart from a few who are inexplicably immune and turning them into homicidal maniacs bent on systematically annihilating all women not exactly light reading of course interwoven throughout the story and indeed because of such gruesome subject matter there are sub themes a plenty at work are we really alone when push comes to shove what causes and how can we reduce domestic violence should we be legitimately afraid of epidemics originating in animals or otherwise or do the media and our politicians try their darndest to generate fear how in contact are we with the previously natural human senses such as community instinct and survival how would we react help and organise ourselves if our country was hit with a crisis as large as civil war or genocide despite the gore i m now well enjoying this book after experiencing a rocky start it s in spanish and so i ve got to focusssss but i do particularly love reading it as doing so means that i ve planned my classes for the morning thus deeming myself worthy of a strong coffee from the chipper chirpy chap at my local and a literary sojourn on the balcony of my school the 30 minute zone out did me wonders today and not least because after following my protagonist through the war torn streets of wagga wagga to freedom the soon to be lit christmas tree in the plaza below me allowed my mind to go off on a journey though the other books i ll be asking santa for this chrissie engrossed in a story and ohhhhh man very pleased indeed that it s fictional happy tagged balcony coffee break reading santa wish list dec 14 2011 leave a comment little happy moments realising i hadn t actually broken my 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