Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 72: Work + dinner with Steve

After one day's training, flew solo today. Thankfully all went well, only had to ring Trisha 3-4 times and Joan, new consultant who had her first day today too, was delightful.

Hot train ride home ...

But it was followed by dinner with my gorgeous guy at Smash Sausage Kitchen so the day ended wonderfully well ...

Holding the Reins of the Runaway Extrovert 2013: Day 15 - Smash it sausage!

Steve came back early from Bathurst - only for one day as he drives back Thursday morning - and we had dinner for the first time in ages (they were closed for renovations for a while) at Smash.

Food yummy as always and love the fact that staff know us well.

Made for a lovely night.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 197 - Into Sydney Town ... and back home for BIG sausages

Joined my gorgeous guy, his Australian Chamber Orchestra watching partner Alan, and his girlfriend Pieta for lunch at the Opera House before Steve and Alan saw a performance. Food is expensive but the burger I had was delicious. Great chips too!

The sky was so blue I even took a photo at St Peters station 

Steve with the Bridge behind him ... so touristy of us!

Steve facing towards the City

Self-taken couple shot ... yeah!

"Look ma, I have a scarf!"

The Coathanger in all its winter-lit glory

Then Pieta and I walked to the mall and spent money at JB Hi-Fis buying all sorts of TV box sets cheap. #suchfun

I chilled for the afternoon before Steve got back to my place. We napped for a while and then headed out for dinner at Smash Sausage Kitchen where we go so much we now know the owner. Lovely guy who took the time to chat to us tonight about what we do etc.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 183

I was going to be so industrious today after yesterday's "sort what I want to sell on Ebay till nap and chill the rest of the day" kind of a day but I left my power charger at home which meant any work i"d planned on my blog, Ebay etc all down the drain. I did manage to get two posts done on this blog before the power died so all was not lost but still ...

The groceries I bought at the local IGA

Even so it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. It forced me to rev right down - yes I am using a car metaphor; watch it closely as gay boys do not use them lightly or often! - and read. Yes read. Old school. So I started a book I had been meaning to read for ages - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - and it's great. Loved it. I manage to get through about 80 pages, grocery shopped (through wild and riotous Dulwich Hill afar two parties clashed the night before at Ablas; we joked a lot about it but truth be told, it looked exactly the same as always) napped and got to hug my gorgeous guy more than once as he worked away on his work project.

Finished it off with dinner at Smash Sausage Kitchen with lovely Fahmi.

Part of the Pop Art installation on the wall of Smash ... we go there so much the owner knows us well ... the food is wonderful and the service as warm and friendly as it gets

Street art just around the corner from the corner from the block that Sausage ... sits in 

As perfect as a Sunday comes.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 133 -

A fabulous Saturday night out (after spending the day at home, while Steve worked on his tax, mopping floors, reading and napping) with Peter, Fahmi and my gorgeous guy.

First stop, a curiously near-empty funky, brightly-coloured Bench, a micro bar on King Street for cocktails, and honey-coated macadamias and olives before dinner...

... at Smash Sausage Kitchen where I had reserved a table. It turned out to be a funky red 1970s table which was so much fun. It was a little cold with a vent dumping cold air onto me but as always service was a joy - the owner, a fellow gay boy, was delighted to see us twice within the week and was wonderfully warm and friendly, as he always is - the food was delicious (I tried the chicken, cheese & spinach sausage with sweet potato mash - so YUM!; the sticky date pudding - yes twice in two nights was divinely sweet), and we had a wonderful time catching up.

I love these kinds of nights out with friends.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 50 -

Another farewell to Waz, this time at Smash Sausage Kitchen on King Street.


No Fahmi as he was at an Erykah Badu concert but the rest of the gang was there - Ian, Waz, Peter, my gorgeous guy Steve and I, the sausages were delicious, the food delish (oh the sticky date pudding was superb!) and the conversation and wine flowed liberally.


It was one of those perfect nights with friends and a wonderful way to send off Waz.


We'll miss him heaps.

My guy and Peter 

Ian and I

Peter and Waz

My guy and me

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 41 - More mixed bag goodness

TGIF and the bag was still mixed which is a very good thing since bland uniformity isn't a lot of fun. Yes, yes, I know I expect overarching themes to emerge (see yesterday) but I abhor a day without any bumps and bruises, and weird detours you weren't expecting.

Nothing weird today but we did have cupcakes and luminously coloured lamingtons and champers Pats to accompany an afternoon brainstorming session at work. If you have to have a meeting on a Friday, then this is the only way to do it - alcohol and glow in the dark food. It made for a very productive meeting. No, really, lots of ideas. More than you'd get with say tofu and a chaser of water...

Then on the way home I got this gorgeous shot of the loveliest niece and nephew in the world waiting to go on a theme park ride - Wiggle Bay at Dreamworld Water Park. They are so devoted to each other.

And finally yes dinner out on King Street again. This time yummy gourmet sausages at Smash Sausage Kitchen with Fahmi and my gorgeous guy, and some yummy Swedish cider that we must have more of and soon! Then we picked up some dessert pastizzis and decamped to Waz's place for champers Pats, pastizzis and late night conversation.

Perfect TGIF night! More please...

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 267 (Saturday 24 September) - I Love Me a Sausage in my Mouth

Quite the foodie day really!

We had a very late brunch, called Lunch by normal folks at Post Cafe in Marrickville Cafe and the food was DIVINE DARLING DIVINE! Seriously yummy lime and dill beer batter on barramundi fillets with the most perfect chips, and my gorgeous guy's brioche stack with thick slices of haloumi cheese was impressive too. I could have just sat on our stools at the window side tables all day and waited for dinner....

....BUT dinner was out somewhere else entirely! After a badly needed nap (and some bookcase shopping), my gorgeous guy, Fahmi and I went to Bench Wine Bar on King Street, one of the new micro bars that are sprouting all over Sydney town, for pre-dinner drinks with Warren, Ian and Stephen. The service and ambience were top notch and I could have happily stayed there all night......

Fahmi and Stephen seated in front of the funky POP! culture mural

Sausages YUM, Mash YUM, mushy peas YUM!!!

Ian, Warren (hiding behind Ian), Fahmi, Stephen and my gorgeous guy

BUT we had dinner reservations across the road at Smash Sausage Kitchen, a gourmet sausage place with all sorts of cool flavours, fantastic warm friendly service, great wine and the yummiest apple crumble I have had in ages. It came to about $45 per person but that was great value considering we had all entrees, mains, 2 bottles of wine, and dessert..... plus a ton of fun catching up with each other!

....and yes we made all sorts of innuendo-laden comments about sausages....like we could let that opportunity slip by!