Off to brissie

Back again tomorrow. Looking forward to an hour of sleep on the flight - starting right now.

Fragile

I'm a little fragile this morning. And when I say a little I really mean a lot. That's all I have to say right now.

Relaxing morning

Relaxing Saturday morning with newspapers and breaky at Bench. Just what I feel like. Brett is analysing house prices in domain and I found a Forester for $35,000 drive away in the car section of the SMH. I'm totally convinced I want a Forester now. A white one.

Friday at last

The long weekend is within reach. I am on my way to the city to drop off an assignment, do some shopping and then have birthday dinner and drinks for Miss Lemona in Glebe. I'm still amazed by the weather this autumn. It's been perfect for months. As in warmer than a regular Swedish summer day every day.

Meanwhile it's supposed to snow in the snowy mountains next week and Brett and I are hoping to get some skiing done. I still don't understand how it can be 25 degrees in Sydney and snow in the mountains only 6 hours away. But I love it! It's like the best of two worlds.

I'm eating a...

...fiancé-made ANZAC cookie on my way to uni. Yum. I wish this long-weekend had already started. So over this week. On Saturday I'm going to sleep until midday. Try waking me up before that. I challenge you! But a word of warning to anyone who tries - I will be as angry as that volcano that noone can pronounce or spell the name of if you succeed.

Housewarming cake

Today LMC and Shg moved into their new city pad. Wohoo! I made them a Swedish princess cake to celebrate!




The cake before the marzipan




Voilà




It was painful getting the right green colour for the marzipan. I was mixing and matching colours for ages. And I ran out of yellow so I thought it was going to look like a soccer field for a while. But I think it turned out pretty well in the end.

After eating far too much cake we helped put together some of their new IKEA furniture. LMC and I were racing R in chair assembling. I can't believe how difficult it is to put together ikea furniture nowadays. It used to be so easy. There was no way we could have built even a chair without the instructions. But at least we tried.




After a while LMC got sick of building Swedish furniture and started role playing instead.

Now we're back home and I'm so ready for bed. B is already sleeping and kitty is getting ready for a fun night of playing and disturbing us. I know that because she just walked up to the bed, dropped a paperball in front of me and meowed. When she does that at the start of the night it's almost guaranteed that you won't sleep at all that night. Great.

Wine delivery this morning...

Five cases. 60 bottles. Apparently Brett went a little bit crazy.

The delivery guy sucked though. He asked me to help him carry some cases of wine up the stairs. While I was doing that he loaded a trolley with two cases that he decided to drag up four sets of stairs. When he was halfway up the stairs I had already finished carrying three out of five cases to our apartment. When he finally made it all the way up with his trolley he was bucketing sweat and complaining about us not having an elevator. I guess some people are delivery people for a reason.

Technology failure

I just spent 30 min writing a post about our scary climbing adventures yesterday, when my iPhone decided to shut down and delete everything. I don't feel like rewriting everything right now so it will have to wait until tomorrow. Now I'm on my way to the opera bar for some afternoon drinks in the sydney autumn sunshine!

The mountains of blue

B and I are on our way to the Blueys for some climbing at Mt Piddo. The sun is shining and the trees are red and yellow (at least some are) but it's freezing cold. Really looking forward to doing some climbing. And some cottage spotting. We're going to buy a cottage here one day. I can't wait! Just need to renovate our apartment, get married and buy a new car first..

The Castle Hill coffee conspiracy

I think I've mentioned that our coffee machine has been getting repaired over the last few weeks. Yesterday we got it back and I don't think I've ever looked forward to a coffee as much as I did this morning. But when B went to put the machine parts back together, he realised the useless repair centre (power coffee) had forgot to reinstall the brewer unit! So no coffee and we have to drive all the way to Castle Hill to get it back.
Such a screw-up would upset me a lot no matter what was getting repaired, but the fact that it was our coffee machine combined with the fact that I get very grumpy when I don't get my coffee in the morning makes it all a little bit worse.