London Bridge is falling down...

Well, that's it!!! I'm off!!! Off to sunny old London town - so it should be pretty quiet on here for the next few weeks.... but then you can expect a blogghorea of all the gory details of my trip!!

But first.... what a week!!!!!

After rushing back from 80's night and Adelaide, mum and I had the awesome idea of flying Ali over for a few days this week since it was school holidays and all!!

So I picked her up on Sunday lunch and dragged her straight out for lunch at Doyles.... mmmm most yummiest and most expensive fish and chips EVER!! We then raced around the quay to check out Minus 5 - the ice bar!! Absolutely awesome!! It really is minus 5 degrees in there and our faces were frozen!!but it is full of ice sculptures and my favourite.... Vodka - Yay!!! Even better the glasses were made of ice, which was my fave thing coz i've always had a bit of an obsession with crunching the ice in my drinks.... and so i got to eat my glass!!!

We then drove down to the Uni to meet up with Levina who was over for the weekend, and went out to dinner at a vegetarian restuarant i'd been recommended but never tried.... Green Gourmet in Newtown. Was hilarious!!! It's kinda like a wiered version of asian vegetarian sizzler, and they weigh your plate to work out how much it costs.... or you could order from the menu, but the descriptions were somewhat offputting, for some reason Mock Duck with Not Pork just didn't appeal!! But twas fantastic to see Levina again!!

Monday, I sent Ali up to our Uncles to hang out up there over night, while I worked worked worked to get everything finished so i would make it to my holidays. Got Ali back Tuesday night, she met me in the city and we had dinner at Opera Bar (our fave!!) before heading to see Wil Anderson's live comedy show at the playhouse....

Was sooooo funny... and as Wil would have us say... "the best thing since fingering". Anyways, Wednesday our goal was to run around all morning and get ALL our jobs done by lunch time so we could spend the arvo wacked out watching movies. And we did, by lunch time we were safely home, and turned the lounge room floor into a massive bed and watched movies and tv all afternoon... Tina you fat Lard....So Funny. We ducked out to get some takeaway pizza and settled back down to hit Telladega Nights...wether it was the pizza or Will Ferrel's bad acting, we'll never know, but poor Ali was hit with an AWFUL tummy bug half way through, which kept both of us up the whole night and Ali in bed for the next two days... missing her flight back to Adelaide!!

Rob turned up as a suprise in the middle of all this on Thursday night and got to play nurse to Ali on Friday while I dragged myself back to work.

Saturday we traipsed around and around real estate agents and rental properties to try and find somewhere decent.... but nothing!! Fingers crossed something comes up when i get back.

Sunday.... ahhhh Sunday, the only thing moving on Sunday was my nose... and boy was it running!!! Well that's not quite true.... i dropped Ali at the airport 8 am.. so a lovely early rise, rushed back to have coffee and Cherrybrook with Tam (over from the US - yay!!) had a lovely catch up with her, before running off to Castle Hill to try and find all the birthday presents i need for the upcoming August birthdays, got home and crashed out at this point - was meant to be packing but my nose said... NO. But no rest for the wicked (and I must be SO wicked!!) as Rob rings from work, where he'd gone to sort out some stuff for the upcoming move.... only to lock his keys, wallet and phone and pass inside the building, and himself out!!! Aaaaggghhhh.... so i grabbed my tissue box and drove up to rescue him, we stopped to grab some Chinese on the way home and gave in to watching Charlotte's Web on the telly (so much for our romantic dinner!!)

I drugged myself up to try and get some sleep (to no real avail!!) dragged myself to work the next day... and packed up my desk!! Yay - we are moving up stairs... felt like i was leaving forever!!!

So that brings me up to today.... flight leaves at 3pm...and I'll be back 4 August!! For those of you who have my mobile, I've got global roaming so you'll be able to text me if you like.

OH YEAH..THATS RIGHT... I HAVEN'T PACKED YET...... BYE!!!!!!!

Money money money, Must be funny...

For everyone celebrating their 30 June pay rises and promotions!!

(Image proudly provided by brother Ed!)

We're the pride of South Australia...

In light of my recent trip to Adelaide on the weekend (which produced the photo above!!) I would like to bring to your attention the following (it's a bit of a mash up from several different sources!) The only thing it's missing is Nippy's!!!

You know you're an Adelaideian when you’ve...
- Been to the East End Exchange at least once while under 18.
- Gone to the Grand sunburnt!
- Walked around Victor Harbour drunk
- Walked down Rundle Mall .... Drunk!
- Called people Minda's
- Said Plaaaant not pleeeent
- Been to a movie marathon at Marion megaplex
- Have the same friends from high school
- You cant go out without seeing someone you know... even if you have neverbeen to that particular place before (even though you rarely venture from your old favourite)
- You really miss the old sizzler cheese bread
- You like ugg boots not moccies
- You have a very strong opinion on Lleyton Hewitt
- Been to one of the following lookouts (stirling, mt lofty,penfolds rd, sunnyside rd, eagle on the hill)
- You know who stormy summers is
- You pour Farmer's Union Iced Coffee on your breakfast cereal.
- You're so caring and sharing that you have the urge to adopt other state's cities as you own. (Come 'ere Broken Hill, let's hug.)
- You will never forgive Melbourne for stealing our Grand Prix. Never.
- You know how 'dance', 'pool', 'castle' and 'graph' are SUPPOSED to be pronounced.
- You get offended when people from Western Australia call SA part of the"East Coast".
- You insist on calling AAMI Stadium, "Footy Park".
- You say a Pie Floater tastes great just to maintain your street cred.
- You consider Coopers to be a food group.
- You think the 'Tiser has no journalistic integrity whatsoever.... and yet you still read it every day.
- You vote for Mike Rann in every state election, mainly because you can’t remember the other guy's name.
- You know there's more than one way to have a good time in Hindley Street.
- The Barossa is for Lovers
- You know that Victor Harbor is the only place to be for Schoolies.
- France imports our wine. How 'bout them apples?
- You know the people out on the Torrens are either tourists or rowers. No one else would go near that water.
- You think the Festival Centre is a wonder of modern architecture.
- You leave work at 4:55 and miss "peak hour traffic"
- You’re not scared by aboriginals walking around in speedos and gumboots
- You like fritz n sauce sandwiches!
- You have been to the club formerly known as Heaven at least once (andyou were under 18).
- You believe that anything that has ever breathed or moved in Adelaide air is' Adelaide 's Own'
- You're well aware that for one month of the year, it is impossible totravel from one side of the city to the other, and during this periodyou will magically acquire a passion for V8s, a love of the arts, orworld music,expertise in food and wine and become completely immersed in the culture of horse racing.
- You acknowledge that, while half of our state is uninhabitable, you knowthat it's still the greatest.
- You forgave the Chappells for the 1981 Underarm Incident purely out ofSouth Australian patriotism.
- You have a unfettered love of either Crows or Port to the completeexclusion of the other.
- You console yourself that, despite all our faults, at least SouthAustralia wasn't built by convicts.
- You can have a good old laugh at the fact that Adelaide 's second name is "City of Churches "
- Your 'sports gurus' are KG and Cornesy.
- You know what a 'stobie pole' is
- You don't know what the meaning of the "Mall's balls" but you still meet people there
- You're aware that everything is not just good, it's "heaps good"
- You still claim Anthony LaPaglia as an Adelaidean cos he worked in ashoe shop in Rundle Mall once.
- You understand that the Adelaide Cup Holiday HAD to be moved to theSummer months so more people would get drunk and not have to go to work.
- Your wedding cake was made entirely of Balfours Frog Cakes.
- One word: Haighs.
- Another word: Fruchocs.
- No thanks, I shop at Big Star.
- Where else would you find places with names like 'Bruce', "Gluepot' and 'Iron Knob'?- How many of the other states have a peninsula shaped like a leg?
- And on a final note...don't believe the rumours. I live in SouthAustralia and have never been murdered once.

Everybody cut footloose....

Last Friday saw the end of the financial year, and how better for nerdy accountants to mark such an event as have an 80's night!!!

Funnily enough the whole night (organised by Fleur's team) was a raging succes, and although i managed to avoid embarassing myself on Sing star, there was no saving me from it being publicised that the entire sing star song collection was kindly donated to the evening by yours truly!!

My revenge was founded in securing side pony tails and pink eyeshadow on anyone who sat still.

Me and Fleur - Yes i did catch the bus with that hair!!

Me and Ange - if only you could see her fluro pink tights!!

The disco floor!!

Me & Min (also in funky tights - only hers were sparkly silver.... Cooooool!!)