Friday funnies!

Yet more fabulous funny stuff from http://theambiguityreport.tumblr.com/ which is awesome, fabulous and must be checked out! You have been warned!

...except this one which is from the gloriously funny people @ Vimrod. Check them out too!

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 259 - Big Day! Relaxed Night...

BIG DAY on campus my friends!!

The video that I was filmed for, and appear extensively in, has just gone live on the net, and I couldn't be more proud of the brave people who appear with me, and the fact that I got to participate in something that means so much to me.

If it just saves one life, it will be totally worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0b8RnlpuJXo

We also made it onto the Herald-Sun's website which is exciting (and amazing given it's a Murdoch publication!)

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/optus-it-gets-better-video-thought-to-be-an-australian-first/story-fn7x8me2-1226138916720

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Artwork on the street

I went out walking this morning, despite how tired I was (mainly because it does refresh me and makes my work days that much more bouncy and productive...plus I ate Thai last night!), and found this adorable piece of stuck on art work on the brick walls of the railway underpass on Coulson Street. These pieces never last long, thanks to passing vandals and snails, so like many pieces before it, I have photographed it to preserve it for posterity since one of the things I LOVE about Erskineville is that fact that, gentrified or not, it still has a loveably unkempt charm about it....

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Bye Bye Ngaire (pron Ny-ree)


One of the joys of the last few years has been getting to know my cousin Ngaire (pictured below with her sister, Moirag) far better than I did growing up (my Dad, fostered at a young age and bounced between relatives wasn't especially close to his family for quite some time, meaning we mostly saw my mum's side of the family). Our catch ups are always fun, and full of laughter and intelligent conversation, and she is also one of the loveliest people I have ever met into the bargain.


Sad part now is, although it is an awesome step forward for her, is that she is leaving Sydney for 12 months to work in a school in Arusha, Tanzania, that caters to young adults who would otherwise not be able to afford to go to secondary school. It is an inspiring endeavour, and I am so proud of Ngaire for wanting to be a part of it. To send her off, she organised for work and uni friends, and family to have drinks and pizza with her at The Roxy in Parramatta. While the music was crazy loud - loved the songs but we were right near the speakers which made talking a challenge at times! - the vibe was fun, food awesome, and I also got to meet her wonderful friends, and get to know my cousin, Moirag, and her partner, Pam, a whole lot better. We also got to ride out to Parramatta and back (my gorgeous guy's old work location from years back), which was fun, especially on the way back with some of the crazy and harmless people who get trains late at night.

Pizza and wine (which thanks to a ditzy barmaid came in a champagne flute at one point)

My gorgeous guy and I

Me, Ngaire and my gorgeous guy

Fun with Instagram 1

Fun with Instagram 2 (on the train home from Parramatta)

Fun with Instagram 3 (also on the train)

Redfern station very late at night - thanks to Instagram again

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 258 (Thursday 15 September) - On the Road (Show) Again

An early mark of sorts today to attend a roadshow - major division wide presentation - of the division that was behind the It Gets Better video. The event was held at The Big Top @ Luna Park (Sydney), from which the views are amazing, and was unlike anything my division can afford to do - multimedia, blaring rock music, waitered drinks and canapes afterwards - and most importantly the public preview of the video which really seemed to affect a number of people. I was there with my new work friend, Brett, a 22 year bright extrovert who is also in the video and a really lovely guy.

It was such a good afternoon in fact that it was totally worth the mad frantic morning of manic work from 7.30 - 1 that preceded it.

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Followed it up that night with dinner with my wonderful friend, Waz @ Stir Crazy Thai. Yum food, lovely cool but pleasant evening (so we sat outside), and a great conversation.... perfect end to an amazing day.

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 257 - Top Gun Bodhi!

It looks like my 1 year old nephew has joined the Air Force...or at least a Hollywood-esque one!

I just hope he's not expecting a fighter jet for Christmas...

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 256 (Tuesday 13 September) - Crazy Busy Mad!

ARRRGGHH!!!

10 hours at work, no lunch, massive unending stress.

No more please.

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 255 - Mixed Bag o' Fun

TONIGHT!

A chair at Happy Chef, tweeted while I waited for Fahmi & Steve to turn up (I came straight to Newtown from work)

The menu board at Happy Chef from which I ordered a Spicy Beef and Wonton soup for dinner, as did my gorgeous guy (very honeymooning couple of us I know!)

These are the tickets to the movie we saw @ Dendy Newtown - Beginners. Wonderful but far less rom com, and far more indie that we expected.

Satan's power supply - found this on the way back to the car near Holy Sheet on King Street and it tickled my sense of humour

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 254 - Bus Stop to Bunnings Hell

New Sunday, new cafe - the Bus Stop Espresso on Victoria Street, Enmore. It doesn't have the full range of menu options being primarily set up to capture commuter traffic at the, you guessed it, bus stop just outside it's door, but the pesto scrambled eggs and shaved ham on sourdough was delish (even though I had managed to develop a small but painful ulcer on my gum right next to a tooth and was finding eating painful....what is it with my teeth these days?!) the quirky very high seats were fun , if cold, to sit on, and it was lovely to catch up with our very good friend Fahmi...

Then my gorgeous guy and I went to Bunnings on Parramatta Road for a quick in and out to grab extra screws for the IKEA unit we're assembling. While the shopping was indeed Speedy Gonzales quick, getting out of the car park was a 1/2 hour nightmare and I vow and declare we shall never go there again! So we got home a little later than planned but still managed to fit in a nap, after which I wrote an application letter for a job I am going for at the Sydney Writers Centre. It came together well, thanks to my gorgeous guy acting as a sounding board, and then we got down to assembling the bottom part of the Besta entertainment unit before chicken & chips for dinner (yummy gourmet chicken from the shop up the street) and viewing of the latest Dr Who episode, Night Terrors, which wasn't brilliantly good, but wasn't awful and was far better than the confusing twaddle of confused strung together vignettes that characterised season 6 part 1.

Graffiti seen on way down Enmore Road - very funky

I wished I could have stayed to snuggle but work called and so I headed home, ostensibly for an early night but it turned out, not so early night as my iMac suddenly started speaking like a robot after I lent on the keyboard and it took me ages to figure out what I had done! Lesson learnt...

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 253 (Saturday 10 September) - Toasting IKEA Jinnah?

Big sleep in today and we didn't really sit down for brunch till about 11.

Fun part was that it was the first time my gorgeous guy and I had really used the new IKEA dining room table and it looked fabulous with the pink/orange placemats and coasters contrasting gorgeously with the chocolate brown colour of the table.

I then got down to finishing off a passage of my novel I am rewriting, while my gorgeous guy headed back to his place for vacuuming and cleaning (yep all the sexy fun stuff!), we regrouped for a quick trip to IKEA to swap a damaged panel of his new entertainment unit with a brand spanking new one, before we went to Jinnah's for dinner in Dulwich Hill (we were going to have Bangladeshi cooking in Marrickville but the restaurant ended up looking almost empty and not quite what we were after). It was as quirky as ever, down to the owner starting to turn off the music and some lights when it got to 9.30pm to encourage us to leave. (Oh and I got to wear my scarf one last time so cold was it - yaaaaay!)

Some things never change..

Friday funnies HAHA

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 252 - Dawn on King Street

I have often spoken about how much I love my morning walks.

I love the exercise. I love listening to my music. I love the sense of being alone and wrapped in the darkness before dawn where life doesn't feel so busy or urgent as it is does when the sun rises. I love being truly alone for an hour - doing good for my body, mind and spirit. I love being one of my favourite streets in the world (I would say favourite but Robson Street in Vancouver is also lovely).

I love mornings just being me.

PS. Dinner tonight was AWESOME! (Yes feel free to use high pitched squeals in there!). My gorgeous guy and I went to Fahmi's place for dinner and ate the most delicious biryani (rice flavoured with lamb, or chicken and spices) EVER. He made it from scratch using a family recipe, and coupled with a superbt Tiramasu for dessert, and lots of wine, the night was damn near perfect.

Thanks Fahmi!

Hands Full of Glitter and Tofu : 2011 Day 251 - Hair! Cut!

I got my hair cut tonight.

Not that remarkable.

What was remarkable was that I tweeted about it, had a chat with a Twitter friend about it, and sent my boyfriend a pic from the train.

So no longer do I just get my hair cut.

I have a Social Media Experience (SME).

Much better.