a weekend of love

Hola everyone! Happy Monday! Happy Valentines Day for yesterday if you are into it. If you aren't, then.... happy Sunday i guess. WELL. WELL WELL WEELLLLL!!! I had a loverly weekend I must say! As I mentioned I had my friend's wedding to attend on Saturday, and oh. my. god. it was amazing. The story is this: Ryan and Sarah started dating in year 12 (2004) at the school Josh went to. They have been together ever since. Last year Ryan signed up for the Army and had to go away for a few months for basic training and they stayed strong through that. Then he got posted to Darwin which is bloody ages away, and still they managed. Then one day out of the blue he popped the question right before he had to go back up to Darwin from his visit. So lovely! Here are a few nice snaps of the day, and of the bride looking stunning:

These ones are a bit blury but I like them because Josh is stalking Sarah in the background, getting closer...

closer.....

He got there in the end! he he Josh. Oh yes, below Sarah got a pic with all the boys but Simon was standing somehow with BOTH feet on her veil!! What an ordeal that was haha

Oh and the cake! It is a very true representation of the bridal party. Not sure that Pooley (Ryan) has a camo Jeep though...

I thought this below pic was funny. Caught at just the right moment of a weird facial expression.

It was such a beautiful day! One of the real tear-jerkers was when the celebrant read out secret letters they had written to each other. Pooley's letter to Sarah was astoundingly romantic, it got the tears welling up in my eyes, that's for sure! They are the first people in our age bracket to get hitched, I wonder who will be next...? Well i'm pretty sure it won't be me, but I have my suspicions about others!

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Oh yes, and after that wonderfully romantic day, the following day was V-day. Or Valentines day if you will. Josh and I don't get too into it, it's a bit commercial. We have shared 6 Valentines Days together each one a little different from the last.

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I remember the first one so clearly! Josh and I were not dating yet but we were hanging out heaps and I knew he liked me. And I liked him. BUT we were both painfully shy and hesitant. So he invited me over to his house to hang out on Valentines Day. Of course I knew it was the day of love but he, on the other hand, did not. I thought he must have planned something, so in the days leading up to it I bought him a present (a CD) and wrote him this really long letter thanking him for various things that we had done together and things he had shown me. I know that sounds seedy but it was 100% innocent i swear. Anyway yes the letter was along the lines of "thank you for going op-shopping with me, thank you for showing me the Tropicana juice bar on Elizabeth Street, thank you for always looking out for me..." etc etc for pages and pages. I think he still has it, i would be interested to read it again :D Anyway I rocked up to his place to hang out and gave him this present and letter and he was so embarrassed to not have anything for me. He liked the letter and said it was the nicest thing anyone had ever said about him. He actually looked like he was going to cry. And I have only seen him cry once in the 5 or so years that i have known him. He isn't really a crier. I do enough crying for the both of us seriously.

Wow, i did not intend that walk down memory lane. But I like it. Remembering the early days... I'm totally going to do something special for him soon. Just don't know what yet... I can't discuss it here as he reads my blog :D aw Josh you were so cute and innocent back then! *memories*

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Anyway, other valentines days usually entailed a daytime celebration. One year - possibly our "first" valentines day we wanted to go and have a picnic at the Botanic Gardens but it was over 40 degrees and neither of us had a licence so we had a backyard picnic instead. The other years were in a similar low-key fashion, until one year we decided to have a proper Valentines Day complete with romantic dinner in Williamstown. It was the worst date we have ever been on. Josh booked this Greek restaurant but we could only get a 9pm sitting. Then they took forever to give us menus, take our order, replenish our wine, and it took over an hour for our entrees to come out and there was a hair on one of them. We had just about run out of things to talk about, and we were just so hungry and annoyed. Then they informed us that they had run out of what we ordered for our main, and asked if we wanted something else. We said no and left. But then we got Hungry Jacks drive-thru on the way home and had a picnic on my bed :) Best ending to the shittest night. After that we aren't really into V-day too much haha.

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But this year our local Indian Restaurant waiter informed us of a Valentines Party they were having. It involved a banquet and some Bollywood Dancing! Josh and my interest was piqued indeed! So we signed up! Soon Maki and his girlfriend Mel heard about our plans and were interested as they aren't a huge V-day couple either. Then another couple we know joined us, and then Hayden too! It was awesome! We got some bubbly and the banquet was massive! It was: papadums and raita, lentil soup, potato and pea cakes, prawns in spinach curry paste, a selection of naan breads, spiced rice, a chicken curry, a lamb curry, a vegie curry, a whole tandoori grilled fish, and for dessert pistachio ice cream! I didn't really take any pics of the food as i was way too busy scoffing my faché, but i took some silly pics of us playing games with our fingers...

Here is Hayden doing the "blood" sign...

We all did it. Mel took the other pics. And here is Josh doing my most hated trick. He bends his thumb back over his hand and chases me around trying to stroke my face!!!!! AAAHHHHH

After we finished dinner we were the only people left and the staff cranked up the Bollywood tunes and showed us how to dance!

The owners kids were there and they are amazing dancers! Well the girl was - the little boy was just kind of jumping around but he was so effing adorable. It was heaps of fun, and I don't think they wanted us to leave! They kept going over to the laptop and changing tracks! The girl knew all the words and all the moves. Then the chefs came out and they were awesome dancers!

The two on the left are the owners, and those are their kids. The two at the back in the middle are married and they are the waiters. The guy in the turban was a fucking ace and he is a chef, and i think the lady on the right was a kitchen hand. Could be wrong, this is 100% assumption. Anyway turban guy knew all the moves and had a cool beard!

Well, that is the end of my weekend story. Oh actually, i will tell you something funny! Josh and I both talk in our sleep and say creepy things sometimes. On Saturday night i was fast asleep when Josh yanked one of the pillows out from under my head and laid it down between us - he yanked like 3 times until he got it out. My head fell to the other thin pillow underneath and i was like "Josh! Josh!? What did you do that for?.... Josh....??" and he turned over to me and went "*sigh* you said you didn't want 2 ice-cream sticks." and i said "what are you talking about...? These are pillows, not ice-cream sticks!" to which he replied "Well, you SAID you only wanted one ice-cream stick so I was just trying to help!" and with that he went back to sleep. I asked him in the morning if he remembered but he didn't. Haha.

Ok well i am thinking about making dinner for the housemates tonight, I havent cooked for everyone in ages, I dont know whats going on, we have all been all over the place! Maybe a mushroom risotto...? mmmmmm

death's door

i am on it. right on it. if you take my natural level of exaggeration into account, this then translates as: i have a cold. but it's ridiculous because it is hot in melbourne, why do i have a cold? Maki got it, then i got it, now Josh has it. If Hayden gets it he might die! Anyway the wedding is tomorrow, so i hope i feel a little better :S wish me luck. I want to go back to bed...

Tag Cloud

Hi everyone! Just a quick note to say that i am finally "spring cleaning" subarashiiblog! By that i mean i am categorising all of the crap i have put on here since late 2008, and now you can navigate around by topic rather than by my often obscure blog post titles. Check out my tag cloud on the left!

Hopefully you get to see something old or new or interesting you haven't already seen, unless you like subarashiiblog so much that you have already trawled through the archives :P

Enjoy!
xox

another massive post

Good morrow lads and ladies! Can't believe i am here today. I slept in until 8:10am when i usually get up at 6:45 to get to work by 8:30am. It was crazy. By the time i got to the station there were no carparks within a 5km radius pretty much (slight exaggeration). I had to park down some residential street but there weren't many other cars and no parking restrictions that i could see, so hopefully i don't get a ticket. eep.

By the time i got to work and realised that even our measly pedastle fans had been taken away, leaving us with NOTHING, my makeup had already melted off my face and i was wishing i had called in sick. Oh well, i went on a scavenger hunt and found 1 fan for the 4 of use to share. ridiculous.

So last night I went home and was thinking of all the amazing things I could whip up for dinner, when i came across Josh and Maki chilling outside with beers. They had watched the superbowl and had been drinking beers most of the day it seemed, so they weren't hungry or interested in food. And i didn't want to go to heaps of effort just for myself. So I took the opportunity of Hayden's absence to go and get charcoal chicken with chips and gravy for dinner. When we got there Maki and Josh had changed their minds and wanted chips too, so we ended up getting a whole chicken and a jumbo chips and gravy and coleslaw for the 3 of us haha. We also got a slab of what we thought was a Vegan beer (Carlsberg) so that Hayden could drink with us, but he said he didn't think it was vegan. So we sat out the back until about 9pm eating our extremely non-vegan feast and playing with Chester.

The guys told me that one of the pumpkins is getting really big so i went to go see it. It looks like it will be a Butternut and it is already the size of my hand!! Granted I have pretty small hands, not as small as a barbie or something, but fairly small.

We were discussing music for a while, and I realised the reason I can't listen bands like the Dillinger Escape Plan and Converge is because my ears are not sophisticated enough, and it is the music of the future. I believe i used the term "space music". This sounds like high conversation but I assure you it was just 2 beer cheer. Seriously, Maki broke it down for me and this is my feeble paraphrasing of what he said. They use notes that traditionally don't go together in sequence and are inventing new sounds, and they are so fragmented and fast and play in such a non-traditional pattern that my brain just can't process it. I realise that they are extremely talented but it just sounds like noise to me because i have never heard this kind of thing before and my senses are freaking out and it makes me feel uncomfortable to hear. It's not that i dislike it, i just cannot deal with it. Crazy. whoa back on track

Oh yes, of course! Then we were feeding lucky little Chester some chicken because he was staring at us for about an hour straight, just waiting patiently.

Hahhaa, i love that pic of him! What a cool guy. Maki went in to get us some beers and we heard this CRACK from inside, then saw him walking head down past the back door looking for a broom. We went in to see that he had dropped a beer in the laundry and it had gone everywhere. I had a mental face-palm, and maybe i acually did a face-palm too. Heh. So i gave him our brand new mop (it was only $10) to use and he went to slide the thingo down in order to squeeze the sponge clean and somehow snapped the mop too. It was pretty hilarious. Then once we had cleaned up all the slithers of glass and all the stench of beer, josh picked up his NFL ball and then lost control of it and it bounced over to a drinking glass left on the floor next to the couch... and smashed the fuck out of it. So then we cleaned up more glass. It was more funny than anything.

Seriously though, Maki is shaping up to be one of the most clumsy people I have ever known. He won't mind me saying this cos we discussed it at length and he knows all about it. But since moving in 2 weeks ago he has spilt 3 of his own beers all over the floor, just by not remembering they are by his side, and tipping them over with his foot or something. He also kicked the NFL ball the other night and it went off course and hit Josh's side mirror SMASHING IT and it fell to the ground. Then the two things last night - and i don't want to know how many other things have happened when i'm not around. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Maki that broke Hayden's side mirror somehow haha. No longer will i blame accidents on Chester - Maki is the new scapegoat. He said that he's having a pretty good run and hasn't broken any fixtures or furniture...yet. I didn't like the indication of threat and impending face-palming. I want to finish my blackboard project so i can keep a Black Books-esque tally of things broken (like their kill tally). haha

anyway this was the floor just after the beer smashing incident. We remarked how it reminded us of "paranormal activity" and that creepy powder scene!

Ok so I did actually kind of stick to my plan which involved watching Brokeback Mountain for the first time. I didn't watch it in bed as planned, as I was surprised to hear that Maki and Josh wanted to watch it with me. As much as i still want to watch a dvd in bed i thought it might be a little awkward with the 3 of us, so we watched it in the loungeroom. and. Oh. My. God. What a brilliant movie. I was moved to tears, it was just so heartbreakingly sad the whole time. The guys loved it too. look at this:

ah makes me want to cry again. fuck man. FUCK. Anyway i'm not going to be able to stop thinking about this movie...ever. Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal are two of my top 5 hottest people ever list. And while it was interesting to see 2 males kissing (as you never really see that in mainstream media) i wasn't turned on by it which i was curious to see if i would be. but i was MOVED. They are both so brilliant and amazing and i can't even believe how amazing the movie was. Fuck society man, fuck it right in the eye. So unfair. Anyway about 10 minutes into the film i was wishing i didn't have ANY prior knowledge of what the movie was about so I wouldnt keep looking for clues and giggling inwardly at all the hints that something was going to happen. There was a part where heath ledgers character was naked in the background and jake's character was sort of looking out the corner of his eye. THAT is the scene where i would have realised what was going on. oh man. is it lame of me to say RIP to heath ledger? Well I think he is an amazing talent, and i am so dissappointed that he is not alive anymore. it is such a horrible shame.

Ok, i have gotten a bit morose now.. let me cheer things up by telling you about this new "joke" that is circulating in the house. It involves me... wanting to fellate any red-head i see. Or at least that's how Maki sees it. Sure i had a crush on Ron Weasley, and my favourite Partridge family cast member is little Danny Partridge who happens to have red hair, and my cat is a ginger cat. But that doesn't mean anything! And for the record I am stating here and now that I am not, and have never been, attracted to Danny Bonaduce - who i googled and there are so many pics of him without a shirt looking like a fucking idiot that I am now calling him Danny Bonadouche. I do not have a ginger fetish, even though Josh has a few stray AUBURN hairs in his beard sometimes, it is all just coincedental. Maki is now suggesting that I have a crush on Cameron Ling - the Captain of Geelong Football Club (Aussie Rules Football) . This is laughable... google it and see what i mean. Sorry Cameron, I'm sure you are awesome but I am totally not attracted to you. I used the word "monster" which i am not proud of... sorry again.

Ok wow, i have waffled on for ages. I have to get myself organised for my friend's wedding this Saturday :D It is going to be a cry-fest. can't wait

blog crush

well folks, i have to admit it. I have a blog crush. I have been obsessed with this blog lately called Vegan for the People which is written by 33 year old Mike K from the US. Here is Mike on a farm...

And here is a carrot gnocchi with pesto sauce which he made... among many other delicious vegan things...

He preserves and bakes and cooks and has cool pets and i think his family have a farm so he takes cool pictures of the farm. yep. I am a bit obsessed. Even though he is 10 years my senior. and I am in a 5 year relationship. and he lives on the other side of the world. BESIDES i just want to hang out and cook food with him, geez! and maybe one day feature in his blog!

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Anyway, speaking of obsession... my cousin Bec is obsessed with my blog (yay!) and she called me the other day giggling about my Kevin Bacon rant. She said she couldn't believe I had an ex who resembled him and was nicknamed "Bacon". It is true. I thought about it today and thought EVEN THOUGH i don't want to be his friend on facebook, I want to look him up. And what do you know... he got into the spirit of Doppleganger week too. (Click Picture to read text)

I don't know who #1 is, but apparently we have a mutual friend. There you go. #2 aka the REAL "bacon" has a mutual friend with me too - my younger brother. Because YES he was younger than me. I was a teenage cougar. Oh dear i feel sick. Anyway don't ask me why his name is listed as "Matteo" cos he is true blue aussie, i guess he was just wanking with both hands when he was filling in his profile details, thus having to mash his head on the keyboard in order to type then did a clever typo... who knows?

Also if you notice in the above picture what i am looking at in the other tab. hehe. oh dear.

lethargy: #1 killer of bees... i mean me

Fallujah. While it is a city and admittedly has nothing to do with me or my blog, it just felt right to start with that. Hope you don't mind. Well guys, this muggy Melbourne weather is really taking its toll on me. I have been so lazy lately that at some point over the weekend I would not be surprised to learn that my heart had actually stopped beating momentarily. I was in a state of hibernation like no other. Oh the grandiose plans I had in mind for the weekend... oh how i could go on.. but i won't bore you with the things i WAS going to do, instead i'll surprise you with them another day.

This was pretty much what i did most of the time...

and this...

I went between the two really. I spent more time on the couch though, getting in some quality Mighty Boosh, IT Crowd, The Office (USA version), Arrested Development, and a whooole lot of shitty weekend TV. It. Was. Awesome. Awesome and mind-numbingly boring. My lethargy seemed to seep into everyone around me's lungs and i sort of brought everyone down with me to sleepy town.

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*Note: we have two TVs set up cos the little one is for the Nintendo 64 that came to our place along with our new housemates. It's not like we are some sort of Dennis Hopper-esque terrorists watching the progress of a speeding bus on multiple screens. Pssshhh.

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I managed to break out of my coma in order to attend a Jungle themed 21st on Saturday night. Josh drove. haha. Anyway as we were leaving, i visited the latrine and on my way out I saw this on the wall...

I presume it is a height chart for multiple children in a family. it is pretty creepy as it is so old, and these children do not live there anymore - or maybe their ghosts do because they all only go up to about 7 years old... yipes! Infanticide is alive and well in Melbourne! Well i guess it's not infanticide of they are 7 right? Just plain old murder. Plainy olde le merdoor. yep. anyway, look at the creepy wall and think long and hard about stuff.

Also, while i was so lazy over the weekend, Hayden bought a new car!! A VW golf :) I got to driiive it, i got to driiive it! So exciting for me, as my car 'Ebi' is fairly old as you can see it the pic:

Poor Hayden had only owned his new car for a few hours when he came back to it and found someone had smashed into the side mirror.... BOOO! I believe he used the word "Berk" to describe the person who wronged him, which i thought was letting them off quite easily. Then he told me he had been looking into Cockney Slang and BERK is shortened from Berkshire Hunt - rhyming slang for cunt. WOW. did not know. I heard them using it on Mighty Boosh and thought it was rather playful so Josh and I began calling eachother Berk all the time. Now that i know what it REALLY means I'm just going to use it more! muahahaaa *I looked up some cockney and i like this one: Chum = Bubble Gum. "How you doin' Bubble Gum?" hehe *

Oh yes, Friday night. Before the lethargy set in, I had grandoise plans as i mentioned, so Josh and I made this vegan "meat" pie for dinner. I'm not going to put up the recipe yet- even though it tasted awesome the consistency was all wrong. So runny! I wanted to put tempeh in it but josh just wanted veggies. Will keep at it, and report back with a workable recipe.

lol @ "rustic" looking pie top. The lethargy set in right before i put the pastry on top obviously!

So, what do i have planned for tonight you ask...? Well it is quite hilarious but i am lookig forward to watching Brokeback Mountain FOR THE FIRST TIME EVAHHHHH, in bed. Oh dear... I am seriously going to swallow my tongue one of these days. Lethargyyy is killing meeee. Hey, I had a super late night last night and had to get up extra early for work today so i am tired! Maybe i will cook something or go for a run or something productive. Seriously I didnt shower for like almost 40 hours over the weekend. Sunday i totally dropped the ball. oh well...

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Speaking of dropping the ball, it's SUPERBOWL SUNDAY in aMerica today. Here it is Monday obviously but the boys are all at a pub watching it as we speak. I totally wish i was there too, beats work any day. Even though i don't understand the rules of NFL... or any sport for that matter... i think that part of my brain is missing. I dont know how many times Josh has explained to me the rules of Tennis when the Australian Open is on. It is laughable. HAHAHA.

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You know what else is laughable!? Hayden put a picture on his blog of when i went to help him shift house from Newport to our place. As most of his things were moved out already there were no tools to dis-assemble his bed frame. We thought "hmm it's pretty light, we can totally get it down the stairs!!" So we got it most of the way down before it got wedged between the 2 walls and was hanging suspended a few meters in the air... photo: HERE . Don't ask what I am doing in that photo... my own face frightens me a lot of the time. Anyway in the end we had to go ask a neighbour for a socket set and take the bed apart in mid-air.. haha ridiculous.

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You know what else is ridiclous?! (man, i am slutting this segway up today) What is ridiculous is that my own cat, Chester, HATES ME NOW! Ever since Maki and Hayden moved in, he has been so distant and doesn't come to me when i click or call his name like he used to. The others have noticed it also. I was clicking so furiously that i am surprised i didnt snap a finger - and Chester just looked at me with hardly any recognition in his eyes. Then hayden did it and he ran over and jumped on his lap. Hayden and Maki both love Chester sleeping on their beds and

in the morning whoever had the pleasure of his company is King in de castle. I have fallen from power. Overthrown. Mutiny. Can't go on... How can i win him back?? You know, the other night he was limping badly so maybe i ran over his foot again? i dont think so though... maybe he just associates limping with me and now hates me for no reason. sigh

Anyway I am starving, and I have some left over Pasta that Hayden made last night. MMM!
Catch!

hey! pachooko!

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii brothaz and sistaz! I am really not sure what to write about today. I am a little brain-melty at the moment and have not prepared anything good for you (as usual). so, i'm down on my knees (don't go there) apologizing to everyone in advance for this shit you are about to read. Let me make things better by showing you how shweet i was looking at my friend's Hen's Night last weekend! Yay, i love my new dress from Dangerfield - it is so cute!

So yeah after the last Doppleganger test (see previous post) I decided to try a photo of myself without glasses. I didn't realise i had so few. I don't have contact lenses so it's glasses or blurry vision for me. Pretty much the only time i'm not wearing my lovely specs is when i'm at work - like right now - and during and around bed-time. so there aren't many photos being taken at that time.... or are there??? no, there aren't. but there could be. but there won't be...

ENOUGH OF THAT! Here is a picture from almost 2 years ago - my 21st birthday partay. I look so weird! Actually that is pretty much the general consensus when people see me without glasses for the first time. "You look weird without glasses"... also one of my closest friends tells me i have tiny eyes, so now i am "shrimp eye" like on the Mighty Boosh (season 3 crack fox episode). sigh.

Here are the results of my doppleganger test #2... cbf putting photos of all these people but you should know most of them. If i know who they are then you should, as i know very little about "hollywood" and yeah:

78% - Nina Persson
76% - Rachael Bilson
75% - Sarah Michelle Gellar
74% - Kelly Osbourne
68% - Maria Carey
66% - Katie Holmes, Juliette Lewis, Julianna Margulies
64% - Julia Stiles
63% - Pricilla Presley

Ok, whatever. I think i have decided that I am unique looking and that no celebrities happen to resemble my beautiful form - as unfortunate as that is for them...

Anyway here is hugo who was our meat waitor for dinner on the hens night:

Yep. He loved his sau-sage.

Anyway, last night I went to go see Hayden's (my friend and now housemate) band play at the Arthouse in Melbourne. I have spoken about the venue before but not sure if I have spoken about the band. SMALL TOWN FIASCO is their name, and amazing toonz is the game. The singer is Josh's cousin, and the guitarist is Josh's step-brother, and yeah Hayden is the Bassist. So it's good to go see them and catch up with everyone!

If you follow that link to their myspace, check out the track "this winter" - it's one of my faves! Panag has an amazing voice. Also Panag was in another band called The Knives of Neptune who are fuuuckkiinngg unreal as well. they have sadly stopped playing but released 2 albums - both epic to the maxxxxx!

so this weekend, I am looking forward to slowing down and relaxing. Haven't been doing much of that in the past few weeks so it's going to be awesome! Sleep ins, hammocks, reading, dvds, COOKING and BAKING! aaaaaaaaaaaaah jizz

Doppleganger Week

So, everyone has been going keraaaaaaayzzeeeee on Fache-book over Doppleganger Week. A few of my friends have some pretty spot on celebrity look-a-likes, but I struggle with this. My friend Seona (aka. Drew Barrymore) gave me a link to some site where you upload a photo of yourself and it matches your facial features to celebrities. I thought this might work, so i tried it with this photo:

That's me with the glasses. Ok so here is a list of all my look-a-likes from highest to lowest match.

80% match
James Spader.

Hmm, awesome. I look like a middle aged man with a hairy chest. I was shocked by this, until I saw the rest of the photos...then it all made sense...

76% Match
Elvis Costello and Janeane Garofalo... i guess around the EYE area they look a little similar...

74% Match
Elton John. What. the. fuck...? That's only 6% away from the other man i look like...

72% Match
Larry King. Oh god, I'm getting older the less i look like people now. what does that even mean?

71% Match
Jack Osbourne (before he got ripped and cute) / Wim Wenders (?) / Gary Oldman...

70% Match
Nana Mouskouri and Jack Nicholson. Jack...Nicholson... not even handsome YOUNG Jack nicholson, but old and bloated jack...

So obviously this doesn't work if you wear glasses right? I had to look back almost 2 years to find a picture of me without glasses. My 21st birthday party was a glasses-free zone for me, until i couldnt see anything or anyone and went to find them. If that website wasn't so busy with doppleganger week, i would test out my other photo. Maybe tomorrow...

So, anyway talking about percentages.... why are 80% of my look-a-likes men?

JADE OUT

NFL etc...

Let's put aside the embarrassing fact that I have been calling it NRL for a few weeks. What I have been meaning to say this whole time is AMERICAN FOOTBALL....aka NFL...

Josh and a few mates have been watching NFL lately and as the Superbowl is coming up VERY soon, Josh decided to buy a regulation sized NFL ball. I call it the "Pigskin", but it's not really made of skin, it's synthetic - which means Hayden can play with it too (as you should remember he is Vegan). Side note: I remember when haydo was house-sitting for someone and they had a brand new black leather couch, but he sat on the floor instead :P

Anyway last weekend it was a lovely summers day so we packed the esky, grabbed the ball and walked down the road to the park. Here are a few shots of that glorious afternoon...

As you can see i was not participating. I had a Hen's night to get ready for and had painted my nails, so I sat back and sunbaked and drank myself a beeru. After a while some little kids came up wanting to know if they could play with the big kids. So the boys let them, and after a while Maki killed one of them...

Look at that sick fuck laughing about it! Nah the kid didnt really die. Maki grabbed him and spun him around, but as he was lowering him to the ground, the kid squirmed and fell. He lay like that for a while. It was alarming. Maki was serious until i approached with the camera and then he lol'd.

So also, lately i have been a little...what's the word... oh yeah OBSESSED with veganism. I have been cooking vegan dinners, and have been glued to vegan blogs, and have made word documents of all the best looking vegan recipes i can find so that I might cook them later. The other day I went on a little expedition in my lunch break to "Habib Wholefoods" on Flinders Street get a few choice ingredients. It used to be called Flinders Organics, but the name changed. It still looks exactly the same though :)

This was me studying my new things on the tram on the way back to work. The Tempeh is for either of these 3 things: Vegan "meatloaf", Vegan tempeh/mushroom burgers, or vegan "meat pie". Will definately fill you in cos i am super pumped to make these and MORE! That packet of Tempeh cost $5.95... just letting you know. Special foods are not cheeap. The Cheezly was even more expensive - it was $7.95... and it's not that big! I bought it for dinner last night - we had a Mexican feast to celebrate Maki's 23rd Birthday!

Didn't take many photos, but Hayden did and might be putting them on his blog, not sure! I did take this photo of the beans:

It was super delicious. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

nectarinezzzz + vegan fruit crumble

howdy! Remember how I said i did some fruit picking on Australia Day? Well that is no lie, i am not a liar. We decided to STEW half and DEHYDRATE half.

Here is Josh using his food dehydrator for the first time:

And here are the stewed nectarines on the first leg of their journey! The online instructions all said to leave the skins on, and put a drizzle of water in the bottom and a little sugar for taste.
So i did.

This is them after a while simmering away...

I put them in a container for a few days while deciding what to do with them. Then last night I made a vegan fruit crumble! So here are some strawberries...

Then i added some nectarines and a tin of stewing apples, then placed it in my favourite pie dish and added the vegan CRUMBLE topping.

I think it was something like:

- Rub together 125g plain flour and 125g vegan margarine until they are crumbly.

- Add 75g oats and 125g brown sugar, and 1 tsp cinnamon, aaaand some crushed nuts.

- Mix together and sprinkle on top...

Served with some Vegan Vanilla SO GOOD ice-cream - how could you go wrong??

Answer: you couldn't