Santa is almost here!

I hope everyone has their Christmas shopping done, gifts wrapped and cookies baked. Things are going great over here and looking forward to having my first beach Christmas. Last year a Thai Christmas, this year seaside...who would have thought?

I thought I would do a quick little update with what has been going on around here. I will start with the cat AKA the party cat. This little kitty is black and likes to sneak in our back door..he is not the 1st cat to try to get into our canned tuna but lately he as been hanging out a lot.

The other night I woke up to Brad out of bed walking around the room saying "come here little buddy" I had no idea what he was doing but my 1st thought was he is sleep walking! In a startled voice I asked what he was doing and he said looking for the black kitty cause it had crawled into bed and was walking on him!! Party Cat you have gone to far sneaking into our bed! Then again, the other night all the doors were closed and there were a few of us in the living room watching TV. Who do you think comes barreling around the corner and into the living room? That tricky kitty. I am not sure how he gets in or how long he hides under beds until he revels himself but I am pretty sure the boys like him and are feeding him and scratching behind his ears to keep him around.

One other not as interesting thing going on is I got another job. I am trying my hand at cafe girl again. This one so far looks more promising. No dishes, no food making, no crazy cleaning the place head to toe when the shift is over. I get to actually interact with customers like my old waitress gigs I had in Chi. The best part is instead of serving shots and miller lights until all hours I get to serve fresh juice, coffees, poached eggs, fruit and yogurt until about 1 or 2(if I get the early shift) then skip down to the beach and read my latest romance novel.

We have some plans cooking for Christmas but nothing set in stone. Hope everyone is having a grinch free Christmas season!

see anyone you know...

A bit of a trend....

--Sunday morning wake up and crave a fruit bowl from Zohara

--Order coffees and see what people have to offer on the notice fridge...cabin rentals, babysitters, puppies

 --To go to the beach or not to go to the beach

  --Go to the beach

--Struggle a little bit

--Seaside nap

--Wind blown hair

 --Stroll home and take note of all the cafes hoppin on a Sunday afternoon

--Shower, shave and put on Sunday's best

--A few Sunday funday cocktails with Brad's work mates

--A seafood raffle....we took home a PLATTER of prawns, smoked fish and oysters

--Sunday night BBQ

--Counting down the minutes until my eyes close and I am having sweet dreams till Monday morning

IPAD Christmas Fun

Last week we put up a tree....let me rephrase. Brad put up a tree, I played with photo booth on his Ipad.  To give me some credit I did help with the lights and capturing our 1st Christmas tree set up in super cool pictures. 

Two Peas in a Pod

This weekend has been very busy and filled with heaps of good times.  Maybe one of my favorite nights was last night in Sydney.  The day started off with the beach and Bondi Markets and ended sometime are 4 AM after patio parties, dance parties and a late night Skype to Lisa....who thinks it is a good idea to skype their mother at 4AM after drinking ALL night. I do. Come on Rach!  

Karter and Brad are great friends and it is hard not to have a smile on your face when you hang out with these two knuckleheads.  Karter is heading back to the States today with a 50/50 chance of returning all depending on a few different job opportunities...I wish him nothing but luck and can't wait to have dance parties again soon whether they are at King Kongs or somewhere in the States. You know how people get home sick? I bet Brad and Karter get Brad/Karter sick so I am going to have to keep Brad busy and cross my fingers Karter returns in a few weeks!!

An evening at the theater

It was date night last night and what a date it was!  Brad took me to Jersey Boys!  We had both seen it in Chicago but loved it so much we thought why not give the Australian cast a shot.  They did not disappoint! Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons....what a story, what a show.

I met Brad downtown after work so we could grab pre-show drinks and dinner.  There is this new bar that opened up that him and his work buddies LOVE.  It is very secret and only the cool kids know about it. When he turned me down back alleys, took me down fire escape stairs that were dirty and started pushing open a big heavy door I was thinking to myself I was about to end up a missing girlfriend story.  Just kidding, no I didn't. Maybe the thought crossed my mind for like, .5  seconds

Yea, so anyway. Brad pushes this big heavy door and it was like entering a different time zone.  This bar was awesome.  Dark lighting, candle fixtures on the walls letting off a romantic and mysterious glow, old pictures, bartenders with mustaches and bow ties, walls of whiskey. bowls of pretzels.....Baxters Inn my official favorite bar in Sydney.

After we each had a whiskey on the rocks we headed over to a Chinese place across from the theater for some dim sum and stir fried veggies.  I feel bad for any place Brad and I ever eat dim sum again.  After that gem of a place we found in Melbourne our standards and expectations are pretty dang high.

Our timing was impeccable we sat down in our seats right as the curtain was going up. The music started, the dancing was picking up, the costumes were sparkling and I was thinking to myself why the hell am I sitting in this dang seat I should be up there!!  Only if those voice lessons would have worked out and I stuck with the tap dancing...maybe then I would have made it as a star.

I tried telling Brad at intermission over a glass of wine I was born to be on that stage. I think he might of thought I was kidding.  I do have a resume started for it.  Cinderella in 4th grade, a ditsy daughter in Music Man in 8th grade....I should have no problem locking down a role in no time.

Aside from being called to the stage it was the perfect date night.  What more could a girl ask for? Thanks Brad for a wonderful theater night in Sydney Australia!

So about rebuilding that tan..

Rain rolled in about 20 minutes after our arrival..I asked for it by putting up the 1st post this morning.  I will never again be boastful about the weather..

 After we got chased away from the beach by the thunder we had a pretty low key Sunday.  Fine by me because we all happened to be a little over served this weekend...this one bar we went to last night was HUGE room after room, inside and outside, upstairs and downstairs, live band area and dj booth area..crazzyy. Oh and I was so excited because the 1st bar of the night was called Mississippi so I thought I would be in some great American flavored place.....turns out it was spelled Mrs. Sippy. Shoot..  

Ok well I am spent off to bed in hopes to rest up.  Big week.....I hope to be working heaps and we have some fun evenings planned, I bet my head will not even remember hitting the pillow here in a few minutes.