30th birthday part 4: BRISBANE to SYDNEY

Sun, Sep. 20th, 2015 07:15 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
  • Current Mood: nostalgic
  • Current Location: home
  • Current Music: i'm not yours ~ angus and julia stone
So when I said 'tomorrow' I meant tomorrow-within-the-holiday. Friday night was the footy (we lost =( Badly =( No more finals campaign for the Crows, but I'm so proud of them for this year in general. 2016 looks good) and then yesterday I went with Mum and Dad to McLaren Vale to taste and buy wine (delightful! Perfect weather, great wine, spent much).

( part 4: BRISBANE to SYDNEY )
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30th birthday part 3: COFFS HARBOUR to BYRON BAY

Thu, Sep. 17th, 2015 09:19 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
  • Current Mood: cold
  • Current Location: home
  • Current Music: rolling in the deep ~ adele
It's cold and wintry and I'm writing up Byron Bay, that'd be right =( Okay so technically it's Ballina to Byron, but the photos finished yesterday at Coffs, and Ballina was just convenient. We also got chocolate there. They had a shop that basically just chocolate coated everything. Various fruits and nuts, coffee beans, candied ginger, you name it. If it was good with chocolate they coated it. We got a large coffee cup full of them and it was goooood 8D Also by this point we were in skirts and sleeveless tops. It was, like, 27 in Byron. Frigging beautiful.

Yesterday we had hail the size of small marbles and the ground was white with it. Take me back to Byron D:

( part 3: COFFS HARBOUR to BYRON BAY - 39 photos )
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30th birthday part 2: SYDNEY to COFFS HARBOUR

Wed, Sep. 16th, 2015 07:13 pm
annarti: (the world through a winter pallet)
  • Current Mood: hungry
  • Current Location: home
  • Current Music: coming back to life ~ pink floyd
ROAD TRIIIIIIIIP :DD So my birthday was on the Monday, Tuesday we did nothing but watch TV and talk about Quay, then on Wednesday, right on the dot of, like, after lunch, we were off! Mostly. After stopping by Manly for bread and lunch. And then we were off! Mostly. It still took like an hour to get out of Sydney. Even after driving through what looked like bushland for several minutes, suddenly there was a homemaker centre on the left and then more suburbia that continued for another half an hour. AND THEN WE WERE OFF!

( part 2: SYDNEY to COFFS HARBOUR )
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30th birthday part 1: SYDNEY

Tue, Sep. 15th, 2015 10:15 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
  • Current Mood: nostalgic
  • Current Location: home
  • Current Music: i don't believe you ~ p!nk
FINALLY I got all my photos edited. Really it was just a matter of finding a solid... 4 hours or however long it took to get it done. There are 128 in total, trimmed down from 180 because several are similar enough that it's pointless putting them online. I'll split it into a few parts to preserve my sanity :D

( part 1: SYDNEY - 34 photos )
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Sat, Sep. 12th, 2015 11:38 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
  • Current Mood: stoked
  • Current Location: home
  • Current Music: here she comes ~ the androids
Crows remain awesome and we're playing again next week WHOOOOO omgf I love those boys. So bad. I can't even.

They were interviewing Walker (this dude, who is the captain) after the game, straight after one of his teammates. He answered one question about said teammate with, 'I was told I'd be on straight after Danger and he kept going for, like, an HOUR. Can talk the wool off a sheep, that bloke.'

LOVE. SO MUCH LOVE. And his kick to Charlie Cameron and the long bomb from 55 out that probably ended up going like 70m alkjdsghalksjdg I just. I can't. God I hope we can take this to the Grand Final. They deserve it. They SO very deserve it.

...It's finals season, guys, expect more of this for at least as long as the Crows are in the finals. WHICH WILL BE THE NEXT THREE WEEKENDS JUST YOU WATCH.

Also I got my cheque yesterday for my Flinders Street monies, yay! Head for the bank on Friday and get that deposited, that'll be nice.

And the weather is springy! It's been mid-20s for the past couple of days, but going back to winter this week because that's what an Adelaide spring is. Still, I'm enjoying it while it's on. Sat in the sun and read a book this morning and went for coffee with Mum, Colin and Laura in the afternoon, at a little Hills café with a creek at the back, lovely. AND THEN CROWS omfg what a good day.

BUT THAT'S NOT ALL. Colin and Laura gave me my birthday present! WHICH IS A 1985 HENSCHKE HILL OF GRACE. It's an expensive red wine. Oh man it's beautiful. I'm going to invite them both over to drink it with me and make something perfect to go with it. What an amazing foodie birthday this has been 8DDD
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Thu, Aug. 27th, 2015 06:09 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
  • Current Mood: home
  • Current Location: home
  • Current Music: hamish and andy interviewing hugh jackman on the radio
Home again! I've mostly unpacked, chucked all the clothes in the washing machine that need it, put away all the good clothes, and I've at least cut down the photos and plugged in the flat devices to recharge. I have not been shopping, neither have I any intention of going. I've probably got enough for a fish in a bag dinner, but the only greenery I've got are the spring onions so *shrug*

Tonight I'll catch up on commenting and. Probably nothing else let's be honest. BUT I'LL TRY to Photoshop photos and at least start on a photo post. Or maybe a Part One post. I have 180-odd photos so y'know. Oh yeah and post that chapter I finished. I'm going to have to sync Shwiggy to do all this.

IN SHORT:
High tea was gorgeous and I have amazing friends.
Quay was epic and I still have amazing friends.
Coffs Harbour was lovely, Dorrigo National Park was gorgeous and Bellingen was delightful.
Crystal Castle was relaxing even though Google took us on a potholed dirt track to get there. We had amazing views though.
Byron Bay was the road trip highlight. I could've stayed there a week.
Skipped Gold Coast because that really is a summer destination and we've already done the theme parks; Brisbane was a very pleasant city. Southbank is probably what Adelaide's just starting to do with our riverbank. Also we found an amazing Japanese restaurant that's opening a branch in Adelaide!

I was wearing a skirt and no-sleeved top everywhere north of Coffs Harbour and now it's winter again. I'm cold and I don't have milk for a hot chocolate =(

EDIT If there's anything in particular over the last two weeks that's been Important please do link! I've been roughly keeping up with LJ but tumblr has for the most part gone down the toilet.
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Fri, Aug. 14th, 2015 11:17 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
  • Current Mood: excited
  • Current Location: home
  • Current Music: journey to the hanamachi ~ memoirs of a geisha soundtrack
WORST. INTERVIEW. EVER.

But let's forget about that. I've spent my evening pampering myself, waxing legs and cutting nails so I look pretty all over, 'cept hair which gets cut tomorrow morning, FINALLY. I would've got it cut a month ago normally but have deliberately left it.

I'm packed! And I've packed a SKIRT! And tops WITHOUT SLEEVES! Because Sydney's forecasting low 20s and we're only going north from there so CROSS FINGERS for nice weather. My birthday is 21 and sunny omfg. Warmest birthday ever.

And now I'm getting excited about Quay again. And Cassie and I are talking about an onsen in the Blue Mountains.

I AM SO EXCITED. IT'S TOMORROW EEEEEE!!!
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Wed, Jul. 8th, 2015 07:06 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
  • Current Mood: excited
  • Current Location: home
  • Current Music: bitch ~ meredith brooks
Aww yeah, so totally booked into Quay for my birthday gonna have a degustation with my besties this is awesome 8DD

In other news, my right foot CANES. It was fine driving home, then I started noticing a twinge pretty much just coming up the driveway, and it's just steadily worsened to the point where I'm now hobbling. If this doesn't clear up by tomorrow, I'm... going to have a really uncomfortable day at work. Balls.

But I'm going to Quay so that's okay 8DDDD
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Sat, Jun. 27th, 2015 10:20 pm
annarti: (see it's like this...)
  • Current Mood: peeved
  • Current Location: bed
I hate when:

1. I announce a plan
2. I double check with all involved in the plan that they will be available for the plan
3. Those people say yes they will so totally be part of the plan
4. I book plane tickets and pay money to make the plan happen
5. One person involved in the plan decides maybe they won't be part of the plan they're not sure it depends if a new job comes up before then
6. The other decides no they will almost definitely not be involved in the plan because their boss is going away at the same time
7. The plan is my 30th fucking birthday and it's a trip up the east coast of NSW with my besties and NEITHER of them said a bloody thing BEFORE I booked the goddamn airfares.

THE END.
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