Time for Dave's weekly weekend roundup.
Friday night was a friend's birthday party, which was okay, and, as usual for these significant number birthdays (eg 18, 21, 30, 40, 50) ran well into the night. In fact, so late that I ended up crashing at someone's place at about 4:30am.
Almost 6 hours later I woke up to go shopping. Joe took me to this place called Victoria's Basement, in Alexandria. This place is one big store which sells just homewares. All homewares, at cheap prices. I'm not talking cheap and nasty homewares here, I'm talking the good stuff. Brabantia bins and storage, Global, Mundial, and Wusthoff knives, Riedel and Waterford glasses, Le Crousset and Scanpan cookware. As a kitchenware fetishist, I was drooling.
Walking around drooling for the better part of 3 hours in fact! The only thing that stopped me from maxxing out my credit cards here was that I knew there was no chance I could bring all this wonderful stuff back with me! I did settle my soul by picking up some odds and ends, but definitely nowhere near as much as my heart wanted.
By now it was early afternoon, and as we drove down to Broadway for lunch, I really started to appreciate Sydney in the summer (weather that is). Oh wow, so many cute girls! Mmm...
After grabbing a bite to eat, we drove down to DFO, which is the big complex of warehouse outlet stores I went to the first week I was here. Again we were overwhelmed by choice, and I ended up skipping from shop to shop, but thankfully didn't buy much.
We met up with Alicia and Louise (a couple of ADI people) at DFO, and Joe was good enough to drop us all off home. Where I promptly crashed. For too long as it turned out, as I woke up at 10pm that night, after thinking of having a quick nap. I was due to go to a party at about 7:30pm, and wound up fashionably late (as I do) at about 12:30am. By now, people were starting to trickle out, but I still managed to keep going until 3am.
All Saturday though, I had a bit of a tickling in the back of my throat, which indicated that a cold or sore throat was starting to come on, and on Sunday (after suitably sleeping in of course) I woke up with said cold. I felt like shit, and moped about home all day, doing laundry and just sitting around reading and feeling terrible. I did pop into work for a few hours that night, but my brain was too frazzled to do much thinking, and so I went shopping.
I got home and cooked up some Hokkien noodles with fish, egg, and vegetables. Yummy! And enough for another 3 meals (another 4 if I hadn't been greedy and eaten a double-helping).
On Monday back at the ranch, I wasn't feeling the best, but was still reasonably productive. Today (Tuesday) I was less productive, but by the end of the day I had a few things to look forward to...
Posted by davechan at December 16, 2003 05:48 PM