December 2011 & January 2012

It’s been a while since I’ve done a general check in, mostly because the end of the year is always so crazy busy, and this holiday period has been crazy, crazy busy for me and things happened, exciting things and most of them I documented with my iPhone (yes, yes, I’ve become an Instagram fan and I know, I know, you own a Holga that does the same thing but requires more skill etc etc), so I thought, why not subject you good folks to pictures of my face and some cat’s faces as a soothing balm to get over my face?

The first big thing that happened was the move. The Wuz and I now reside in a house in the Inner West. We have a backyard and a front porch and we’ve been sitting in the sun with gin & tonics, with a refreshing wedge of lime and reading tomes and tomes of essays, which are our new favourite literary genre. Well I have, The Wuz has been trying to jail break:

Mostly she’s on the run because of this old fellow, Stanley Cat:

What The Wuz didn’t realise is that Stanley Cat is very old and very deaf and generally has no idea The Wuz exists. Eventually she cottoned on and has now relaxed a bit:

It’s fairly safe to say that I love my new ‘hood and have spent a lot of time exploring it, mostly at night. The evening and late night have become my two favourite times of the day. There are so many adventures to be had when the city starts to cool down.

I have also been experimenting with my new seasons look aka I worked over Christmas and hardly anyone was in the office and Michelle found an afro wig and the rest was history:

I have also been experimenting with a nautical theme and bows. Nautical because I like the idea of being swashbuckling, bows because I am a girl, and I’m trying very hard, yet again, to stop dressing like a 15-year-old Limp Bizkit fan. Not even a fan from the ‘Nookie’ era, a fan from the last album they released, the one the guitarist returned for, we can only assume because he had rent to pay and it was agreed that he could wear stage makeup to hide his shame at returning to a band that once bemoaned the injustice of wanting a Pepsi, just one Pepsi.

Also, red. Red because of sin and sexuality. Not really, mostly because I bought a really awesome red lipstick in Vegas and my friend Jadey bought me some giant red hair bows and they happen to go very well together and help add to the whole ‘I am a lay-dee!’ thing I’m going for, just in case, you know, the rather evident lady-bits aren’t a dead giveaway.

This is one of my favourite new things, an iPod watchband. It was a surprise gift from someone familiar with my slight addiction to buying watches. I love this because the band is a slap band and it’s huge and matte black and chunky, which ticks a lot of boxes for me and also because the iPod now has a rad black and gold watch analogue watch face which is so pimp:

Working over the holidays is a funny beast. On one hand, I would have loved to have gone away somewhere and relaxed without a care in the world, on the other, it’s fun to be in the city when hardly anyone is around. When I’m not in the Inner West, I’ve been lurking in Chippendale a lot, another suburb I really like. I haven’t spent much time in the city outside of work hours because come 6:00pm I just want to escape home, but there’s a lot of fun to be had. By fun I mean Mexican and margaritas and really late night pizza deliveries and watching Ab Fab and drinking rich, sweet spirits and cooling down after long weeks.

Here I am either waiting for a pizza boy, or selling drugs, or buying drugs, or working my corner. FIVE-OH!

This is my artistic rendering of one of my favourite new things: lime juice, lemon juice, orange juice and vodka. Turns out this is both delicious and a valid dinner or breakfast choice!

I had an amazing Christmas and New Year’s as well this year and just as soon as I’ve managed to stop drooling every time I look at photos of said events, I’ll post the pictures and make you drool and wish you were me, but without the weird social neuroses and allergy to nickel, requiring you to wear huge underpants.