Mid-January

I am now firmly ensconced in my new place, getting used to having to wear pants again so as not to blind my housemate. I found these really amazing men’s sleep shorts. They’re super soft and roomy, so you can sleep at all kinds of crazy angles without getting your shorts in a knot and waking up with numb nether regions! The cotton feels like a groin hug.

I got these shoes at Nordstrom in Seattle. It was a pretty amazing experience. When you find shoes you want, you take them to a woman who has a microphone and then she calls out your location and a stupidly attractive man comes and finds the size you want, while you sit there wondering why no-one told them you’re not the queen, you’re just a serf. These shoes have a signature on the bottom, which my brain immediately translated to something fancy and European. Turns out they’re Jessica Simpson shoes. I don’t even care that once I had PMS and mentally wrote her husband a letter about how sorry I was that she left him, these shoes are so comfortable that I’m totally Team Jessica now.

One of the best things in the world is the new food court in Pitt Street, which is up a secret escalator Jeff taught me about and we go there and have Charlie & Co. burgers. They are stupidly good burgers and I highly recommend the parmesan and truffle fries too. Then I recommend you go to the gym. Haha! No I don’t, silly! I recommend you go home and drink vanilla Kahlúa …

… WITH A GIANT ICECUBE!

Sydney has been moody recently. We haven’t had a very warm summer for a start, but there have been some days nice enough to wander down to the Quay at lunch and do some reading:

(This was The Marriage Plot which I was initially totally engrossed in, but the ending was, sadly, really weak)

Next thing you know, it’s raining sideways so heavily it’s pretty much impossible to go outside:

Complimentary colours:

1. I buy cheap headphones so I have to replace them all the time. The pink ones are the worst I’ve ever bought and lasted a day. The purple ones are the best. I’m attracted to colourful or sparkling things just like your average friendly neighbourhood unicorn is.
2. A new series of designs for a few well-known books. I love how the designers matched the colours to themes in the book, in this case, the red of the Handmaid’s habits. I think I might have to buy this edition, I love the red-tipped pages.
3. The ceiling of World Square.
4. A strawberry blend juice from Chat Thai. It was pretty amazing, the perfect compliment to a chicken and cashew nut stir-fry *cough*