Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 313: Happy Birthday Steve Moore and Aidan

It was a day for birthday celebrations (after brunch and some Jacaranda tree admiring naturally) ... first Steve Moore's at the Beresford Hotel where we met up with people like David and Matt, Helen Nolan, Barbara, John Piccles and Adrian, had some drinks, lots of laughs and then went home via train ...

Steve cooked this at his place. YUM!! 

We stopped off for an afternoon snack on the way to Steve's party at the cafe where we bought Aidan's giant Nutella 

My Steve, the birthday boy and Barbara

Steve M and Helen

John P

then off home to give Aidan his belated 5kg jar of Nutella which he loved! LOVED! YAY!!!

Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 213: Cakes, movies and food

Started the day off getting food from Marrickville Metro and making Steve's piano-themed birthday cake ...

Then saw Guardians of the Galaxy at a preview at Dendy Newtown ...

Then dinner at Nepalese Kitchen in Surry Hills with Steve, Fahmi, Steve Moore and a few other gay men to farewell Ian back to UK ...

Holding the Reins of the Runaway Extrovert 2013: Day 230 - Yum Cha, Bodhi and Jordan, Union

First stop was a belated birthday brunch with Alan and Pieta at Fun Machu in Darlinghurst ... yummy food and so wonderful to see them after so long ...

Then Peter dropped in, later joined by Waz and we have dips, wine and olives (yes the ones we bought yesterday! So great to try them out) out on the balcony till we had to leave for ...

The Union for a much needed catch up with Essie, John and Adrian, Ben and Sophie, Stephen M, John P, and Fahmi ... food great and fab to catch up ...

And Rachel (my sister) sent me through the cutest shot of nephew Bodhi and niece Jordan together ... so VERY cute ...

Holding the Reins of the Runaway Extrovert 2013: Day 76 - Dinner with the other gang

Dinner at Botany View with Essie, John and Adrian, John P, Steve M - some of whom we hadn't seen in ages so very glad Essie arranged this - and as always food divinely delicious and company awesome.

Wrapped by 8.30 so Steve could get home.

Fahmi, John P, Steve M

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 148 - Eurovision Grand Final

What a night! We had tons of food, wine (Steve had to make a dash to the liquor shop to get some more as we ran out of white wine!), decorations in every shade of the Azerbaijani flag (including hand wash in my bathroom, my housemate's and the kitchen, one of which was red, one was lime and one was blue), vodka jelly shots in the colours of the host country, balloons, flags, streamers, people dressed up as glittery Eurotrash (Steve M was a fabulous standout in his op shop-acquired outfit!) and Kerry as an Azerbaijani Air flight attendant, while I did the whole gay Azerbaijani cowboy thing. I even had two of my new lovely friends from my writing group turn up - Selena and Zja which was wonderful!

Thankfully we had all the food cooked up nice and early so Steve and I could concentrate on watching the show too. We had seen almost all the acts at the semi-final so only had to watch UK, France, Italy, Azerbaijan, Spain and Germany on the night. But still, it's fun to watch it with everyone else and see how they react especially as we all get drunker! We even had our own voting system thanks to Kerry's hard work and ingenuity.

I love the grand final of Euroviosion and tonight didn't disappoint...

We had lots more people than this but this was who was in shot when I took the photo - Kerry at the front, L-R in next row: Steve, Corey, Lucy, Steve M, L-R final row: Fahmi, Milos (temporarily here from London), Paul M and his partner, Andrew

My gorgeous guy Steve made this from tinsel - what an awesome piece of Eurovision art!

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 21 (Saturday 21 January) - Zzzzzz

Brunch at Noemi's Cafe in Sydney Park with Waz on a very rainy day ( we decided at that point to not go to Symphony in the Domain later that day; of course it fined up into a beautiful night!) - service slow but food great and we saw a pimped up purple car parked out on the street. So cool!

So instead of heading into the City, we went to Newtown - Stephen Moore, Fahmi and John Piccles, my gorgeous guy and me - to see the delightful film Hugo with dinner at cheap and cheerful Chinese restaurant, Happy Chef afterwards. A fabulous night out!