The Sunday and Monday after Christmas passed in a blur of naps and doing absolutely nothing.
My only next booked in day was Tuesday – Ev and I were going to hit Northland and Doncaster and then all of us would go out for dinner at the Lomond. I marvelled at the new Commonwealth Bank branches – and hurrah they have finally entered this century and have change counting machines! We ventured over to Doncaster – one big O-M-G for how it has changed. Wow – it is a lovely makeover with crazy carparks and a new restaurant area. We ate a longggg lunch at the Greek restaurant there Kouzina Modern Greek & Meze Bar. Check out the saganaki… it was awesome!!
We ended up back at Ev’s doing what we do best – just hanging out. We were waiting for the ‘Myki is live’ twitter message… and when it came through we jumped on and ordered cards for everyone! Bill even got a Myki because he will be visiting in April and I thought it would be a fab souvenir! (For those not from Melbourne – Myki is the new public transport ticketing system that has been a total schmozzle!)
For dinner, we all went to the Lomond in Brunswick for dinner. PAV TIME!!! When we were in the carpark, I snapped this absolutely Melbourne scene on my iPhone. The thing I love most – LANES!
The rest of the week was spent doing absolutely nothing. Dad and I were hanging out, I wanted to clean out the garage and we got not much done. I spent time prepping the iMac to get ready for Apple TV and the new iPhone dad would get. I was napping, cooking in the HUGE HUGE HUGE kitchen, laying around, reading and having an actual holiday. The napping was essential – I was feeling so run down and exhausted before I left that I needed that week of downtime SO much. It was then that I worked out that, since probably the end of year 12, this had been the first time I had ever had absolutely nothing to do. No work. No hassles. NOTHING. It was bliss. I need more time like that. I am always doing stuff and planning for things… I LOVED waking up and having nothing to tick off a list. Absolutely awesome and so refreshing!
Reading wise I finally read Thirteen Tonne Theory – Mark Seymour’s book about his time in Hunters and Collectors that was released just before I left. I bought it straight away back in the day and that I never got to read before I left.
Here is the man himself giving an intro to the book… wowohwhoohwhow.
I also read bits and pieces of random books that would bring back memories – ones from school, collections from when I was young and stuff from my collection of etiquette books and cookbooks. It was SO GOOD!