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The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

My sister and her friend Rokia are staying with me tonight. I filled them full of food and then we watched The Breakfast Club. Today I had to go in for a meeting with my job finding helper person and then I had lunch with my mum at a really cute place in the mall called 'Sprocket'. I bought some more henna from Natural Tucker and went to Blue Star Elements and bought some postcards and stickers. A nice day it was;



^ all by Cavallini Papers & Co.

Today I also got a lovely little postcard from C and he bought me some stamps I'd been looking at on Ebay, what a sweetie;





He's also been taking a whole lot of photos of the buildings in Launceston and took a photo for me of the huge post office building in Evandale and suggested that for only $700, 000 we could live in and run the post office there;



I also got this lovely postcard, with amazing stamps last week, I can only assume it is part of the Benevolent Postcard Society, but I might be wrong. Lovely nonetheless;





I love American stamps, they're so colourful and there seems to be such variety. Australia has very little range when it comes to stamps, images of kangaroos and mountains can only be so interesting for so long.

Ps. I think my newly spruced mailbox brought me more mail than usual today, I hope it keeps up this week :)

Iiiiiiit's 3am. Tonight I went to the Lass O'Gowrie, which is one of my favourite pubs in Newcastle, to celebrate the 21st birthday of one of my best friends. I had a really nice time. Paige lives in Sydney so I don't get to see her too often, but I always enjoy her company. I bought her an issue of Hi Fructose magazine, which is a really interesting art magazine. When she opened it she said "there are lots of paintings of creepy children" and I knew she liked it, ha. I got it from the comic book shop in Newcastle earlier in the week with my friend Doug. I couple of weeks ago when I went in they had a copy of the Hi Fructose Collected Hardcover Book for $60 which looked really awesome;



I only got to have a flick through the book (and the magazines) but I the images inside were amazing. Here are some of the very cool magazine covers (I got her issue 11, the second image featuring a Mark Ryden painting. He's preeeeetty incredible);





Also, yesterday my lovely little copy of Good Mail Day arrived and I read most of it in one go and then finished it off later on before bed. It's quite lovely. My only criticism is that it's quite US focused, but I totally understand that as the writers are both American and their post experience has been almost solely with the USPS. I'll write a proper review of it sometime and scan some of my favourite bits. It's very cute.



Earlier today I walked up the street and went into this hippie shop called Enigma where I have been admiring a lovely wrap-around tie-up red striped floor length skirt (I can't take a photo so I have to be descriptive!) and I haven't taken it off all day (except currently I'm typing in bed and wearing pajamas). It was a bit of a splurge, but it's really lovely and made out of thin fabric, so it should be nice and breezy for Summer, afterward I went to Aldi to buy some flour and sugar to make a banana and strawberry loaf with the very overripe fruit I had sitting in my fruit bowl. I also bought some cheap blueberries and blended all the fruit together in the mixer and it was so sweet and delicious. I baked it all up and it's very tasty. When I got it out of the tin I sat it on the 'clean' chopping board to cool (no cake racks here) and then realised that the chopping board must have still had some garlic on it, which made the bottom of the cake taste awful! I'll either have to cut it up or just overpower that flavour with ice cream and C's homemade caramel sauce. Mmmm.

While I was away earlier in the week I went just two days without checking my Google Reader and came home to 260 unread blogs! I have way too many subscriptions and I should probably cut down sometime soon. I think it fosters bad blog reading habits when you just subscribe to a million things and then try to get through the Google Reader feed as quickly as possible and don't actually get the time to go to the blogs you enjoy and take in new things and leave comments and such, so tomorrow I think I'll dedicate some time to sorting that out. I hate having to delete subscriptions to blogs, but I'd prefer to limit myself and enjoy reading blogs than feel like it's a chore.

I have a REALLY boring mailbox. It's badly painted with what looks like dark green left over house paint, some of it has been left white, it is of a very simple lift-up-with-a-slot design and the numbers I believe are written on in lead pencil! It definitely doesn't look like a place where fun mail would hide, so today I spent a whole lot of time trying to unscrew the rusted screws that held my mailbox to the front fence. On C's brother's instruction I ended up spraying it with WD40 which loosened the rust and eventually I reefed the thing off. I spent the half hour before I had to go out cleaning, sanding and applying the first coat of bright red enamel paint to the box and then tomorrow I'll do another and then try to screw the thing back on. Having a happy mailbox I'm sure will mean more happy mail. I'll try to take a picture of it when it's all freshly painted and screwed back in.

I've been calling C once or twice a day and texting him much more and I miss him so much, but I'm not going to count the days or feel miserable, I'm just looking forward to him being back. It sounds like he's having a lovely time and I can't wait until we both go down to Launceston in November/December.

Aaaanyway, I am so so so sleepy *yawns*
Goodnight little spoons :)

Aloha,
I had a long list of things to do today and the last on the list (and the most important of course) was to write an entry, but I was so busy I didn't get time, but everything else on the list is crossed out, So, I'm just writing to say that I made up a new header kind of thing - it's currently a very low res version and I'm just testing it out to see how I like the layout of things, so it's likely that it will change, aaaanway. Will write tomorrow :)
Sweet dreams,
B.

^ This looks strangely delicious. I think I might try it. My dad used to have pear and apple on peanut butter toast.

C and I are about to go out for breakfast in Redfern. This place has had a bad reputation, but it's much lovelier than is given credit for. So many gorgeous terraces and old buildings. We're staying with C's friend Mel in her huge, gorgeous shared terrace. We slept in a massive loft. Yesterday when we got in off the train we had lunch at a kebab shop and talked to a young guy with a pony tail carrying a baseball bat. C said "Do you need that around here?" and he laughed and said "Not before 7.30" (apparently a friend had given it to him). Then we sat in the park and witnessed an almost accident, where a man nearly rear ended a lady's car and then proceeded to get out and yell in her window so that the whole street would hear; "Where did you get your license?!". Then we saw a thin hunching man in a knitted jumper being pulled along the street by his primary school daughter, who stopped at the park and sat down and wouldn't move, with her father trying to reason with her that he'd take her to the park tomorrow. Eventually she went with him, but later we saw her hiding in a shop and her father was standing outside with his bread calling "Beatrice! Come on, we've got to go". It was very cute. Aaaanyway, only a few more hours with C before he flies away, then back home to the cats. I left the house really messy, so I'll have something to occupy myself with, and Paige sent me up a copy of Dexter Season 2, so I'll get straight onto that. I MISS YOU ALREADY C ♥