Sitting here wondering if I'm Pollyanna or Eeyore - Day 196: ACO with my bubba

Off to the ACO with Steve at Angel Place, preceded by pizza at GPO ... YUM ... lovely night ...

Holding the Reins of the Runaway Extrovert 2013: Day 179 - Rain ... and pizza and wine

Lots of rain today on a busy day at work ...

Then to Waz's for pizza and wine - after a calorie-bashing walk with Waz in what turned out to be pouring wine about 1/3 of the way through - with Fahmi and eventually Steve when he got back from Bathurst. Talked a lot, watched some TV, played Xbox games such as bursting alien bubbles and water rafting on rapids then watched an episode of CHiPs on YouTube after I remarked on how hot I used to find the guys in their police uniforms.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 328 - The birthday weekend begins

Amidst a frantically busy day trying to get ready for what went from a week's holiday to just 2 days - poor Steve's work project wrecked things once again - the four of us headed out for a Yum Cha lunch at Greenwood with Tracy, Rose and Danielle.

We ate heaps and the food was delicious. Loved starting off my birthday weekend with my wonderful work friends.

Oh and Tracy bought me a special birthday present - a Chai Latte with a marshmallow!

So very lovely.

Wonderful touch of Christmas when Waz and I were out walking tonight and we came across this decorated Christmas tree near one of the parking lots. No idea how long it would last so I snapped a photo of it while I could.

And we finished up the day with an impromptu birthday eve eve pizza and wine night at my place with my newly-arrived-from-Bathurst gorgeous guy, Warren and then about an hour after we started Fahmi, fresh from a play at the Opera House.

Fabulous night out on the balcony.

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 258 - Moon ... and pizza

Out walking and saw the moon (in 8 degree weather) and loved it. Beautiful.

And tonight pizza and wine with the gang! Yay!

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 251 - Hawkers forever!

After a bust end of the week, I swam 1km in pool for first time in months (back issues which are now sorted kept me from swimming) then off to my gorgeous guy's place for Crust pizza and red wine, and watching Hawthorn trounce Collingwood after a rough start.

I even wore my beanie and scarf once it cooled down (Kiajo the Koala wore them to begin with).

That's 3 games of AFL I have watched in as many weeks and have to say it is engrossing!

Yes I actually like it. Who'da thunk it right?

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 213 - PIZZA!

Forgive us good eating but I still felt sick - was home sick today and slept most of it when I wasn't reading and watching snippets of Ellen and The View - my house mate suggested comfort food and I heartily endorsed the idea!

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 27 (Friday 27 January) - More Physio, More Rest

After a day of being once house bound, save for a quick trip to the physio in the morning (my gorgeous guy drove there and back and so sweetly waited while I was massaged, gently pummelled and heat-packed by Brett... felt so much better afterwards), I thought it'd be fun to have an impromptu pizza and champagne night with the gang.


Ian and Fahmi were otherwise engaged - sister's birthday dinner and a play respectively - so it was Waz, Peter, my gorgeous guy and me on the balcony on a surprisingly cool night (well cooler than turning into liquid humidity anyway!) for Alberto's pizza (satay chicken XL, supreme XL and a free Margarita XL... so you know just a little pizza) - lots of wine too and great conversation...


... and me in my high backed chair looking vaguely silly. But who cares? The back behaved itself mostly (although it got way worse overnight for reasons I can't determine... no one is allowing me to do anything so how it could be further hurt is beyond me)

Swimming Pretty in the Glass-Half-Full 2012: Day 13 - Pizza and Wine Baby!

After all my talk about the joys of healthy eating and exercise yesterday - today I eat pizza, drink wine and have chocolate! Oh yum! YUM! Great TGIF present to me.

Even better my guy is coming home today so I get to see him! Yay!!

SAD NEWS - I got the call today that my car is being written off. It came days earlier than I'd expected, and frankly left me feeling quite upset. Yes, I cried. It may seem silly to cry about a car but it represents so much of my life. 15 years of going everywhere in it - lots happened in it from having to move in a hurry in 1997 (on the day I got it actually!) when the couple I was living with's marriage collapsed in spectacular style to driving up and down to my mum and dad's a few times to going on dates with my lovely guy. It is a repository of memories and that's why its loss upsets me so much.

I have little recourse to it being written off as under a new NSW law passed in August last year, any car under 15 years is deemed to be a statutory write-off and can only be put back on the road with the RTA's say so, and only after applying in writing to them. My car is 14 3/4 so if the theft had happened in three months I would have been fine! I could have negotiated if my car was older but given its age my options are limited to none. It's this loss of control that angers me most - all the hassle, expense and so on, and I have no way to influence it at all.

It's left a stew of emotions and frankly if I could get those thieves why Id... well this cat sums it up nicely...

Thanks to Rose at work for this gem.