now a thirtysomething from Brisbane
I finally set up my reading area again today. Exams are fast approaching and there is serious study to be done. Oh I so do love the new polished floors 🙂 I’ll have to take some photos of the house when the painting is finished (our painter is currently overseas on a holiday), gosh it looks different.
One thing I will miss about my current work place when I leave next year is the half price chrysanthemums I pick up from the Woolies across the back. Chrysanthemums are the cut flowers I remember most of my childhood and there is something lovely in their simple petals and colours.
At the moment there is chryssies throughout the house. There is a vase on my duchess, a jam jar on the counter in the bathroom, some jam jars on the shelf above the steps (as seen above), a vase on the sideboard in the living room, another vase and some jam jars on the counter in the kitchen and lastly a single bloom in a BrennivÃÂn shot glass beside the kitchen sink.
I took some photos for a friend of her little family down the coast and gave my camera some love last weekend. It has been some time between shots for my baby. Was quite good to have fun with the camera again as uni/work/house “reno” has pretty much consumed my life for the last X weeks. Uni however is just about finished for the semester and I’m looking forward to that day in 2.5 weeks or so when it is all over 🙂
Not sure what you are doing tomorrow night? Want to catch some live tunes?
There is only one option. That is The Mountain Goats at The Zoo. Buy your tickets now!
It can be safe to say that there have been many times in the past seven years I’ve waxed on about The Mountain Goats. They probably are quite easily the band I’ve spoken about the most and my last.FM account tells me they are the band I’ve listened to the most in the last seven years that I’ve been keeping a log of my music habits.
They were last here in 2010 and this was the pretty darn fantastic show they played at The Zoo. I’m still some 754 days later pretty chuffed that out of the sold out crowd it was me! that had my request played 😀
I’ll be rocking my Babylon Springs tour shirt from 2006 in all my Mountain Goats fangirl glory.
My two wishes for tomorrow night are that they play Brisbane Hotel Sutra and that they have great tour shirts this time (bonus we are the second show of the tour so there should be plenty of sizes to pick from :))
That is tomorrow.
OK GO always have such great video clips and this one is no different well apart from the fact that none of the band is actually in the clip.
Never to young to jive it seems.
and this is parents from 2007
and we end with this.
You may have seen the clip of these two on Britain’s Got Talent in the last week or so but that is not what I’m sharing but a clip of the two of them from last year.
Well.
Hanging out with Nemo lots of Clownfish  at Reef HQ.
I went up to Townsville last week for work and I had planned on putting a few posts up on the nights that I didn’t catch up with dear Townsville friends but that didn’t happen did it! I was so tired on those other nights that I managed a little bit of study (yep, took just near 5kg of uni books with me) and then it was straight to bed. So here I am a week since I got home from Townsville and I’m finally sitting down to type.
Apart from uni work, the other reason for the radio silence has been this.
The house is getting painted at the moment and repairs are about to start to the ceilings in this room and the kitchen. Once that is all done then the floor sander will start and then when he done it will be the laying of new carpets in the bedrooms. My vacuum cleaner is getting quite a work out and I’m forever dusting it seems. The house is going to look a treat when it is all done.
Back to Townsville though. Townsville was lovely.
I was staying in the Sugar Shaker so the views were very nice.
Looking towards Castle Hill and work.
I had a dip a few times in the roof top pool, I always had it to myself which was also quite nice.
I was picked up from work on Friday by Sam and then it was back to her house for a weekend of lazy fun in the ‘ville. BBQ next door on Friday night, Reef HQ and Herveys Range on Saturday with girls night out at Cactus Jacks on Saturday night, markets on Sunday and then flying back to Brisbane on the same plane as Bob Katter on Sunday.
Sam at Reef HQ.
Nemo.
The Seahorses were very cute.
These upside down jellyfish were very pretty as well.
As was this fish.
The chocolate nachos as Cactus Jack’s were as always fantastic.  They are soooooo good.
Thumbs up from Townsville.