Saturday, April 28, 2007

The carriage turned into a pumpkin

I'm back from Perth - had such a good time, it was so sunny and relaxing, and I ate so much food and drank heaps of amazing wine. Must be abstemious for the rest of the week now. Chris and Aggie were the perfect hosts with the perfect cats (Hello Lola! Hello Louis!) and it was wonderful to be away from Melbourne for a few days again. I have always loved Melbourne and have never really wanted to live anywhere else, but currently I am finding that I'm better away from home than at home; I'm very easily swayed into fanciful ideas about moving cities at the moment. I suppose I will be moving cities soon enough. 4 weeks today.









(from left: caught off-guard looking quite interleckshual; the illusion of sobriety is shattered; gorgeous Aggie gets festive! Pics courtesy of the lovely Kym.)
I can't quite believe that I'm back already and that those 4 days of fun and frivolity actually happened. A bit Cinderella, I suppose - only more middle-aged and haggard. Had a fantastic (and glam) girls' night out last night and this morning I didn't have a hangover, but my muscles and joints were really stiff! Old old, so old.

Anyway - so I am beginning to think that I won't really get properly back on track until I've left already. That's not very far off any more, so the idea of treading water a little longer is tolerable. In the meantime I just want to see as many people as possible, not go shopping, read some books, get myself organised. In different circumstances I think I'd be trying to soak up as much of Melbourne as possible but hmmm. Not this time. Melbs and I can resume our love affair when I get home. That is if I haven't fulfilled Orange Nat's prophecy that I will meet a UN humanitarian type with an itinerant, humanitarian lifestyle, and that we will have a blissfully humanitarian whirlwind love affair and then travel the world humanitarianly adopting random children of similar ages from developing countries with complete disregard for the cultural appropriateness thereof, a la Angelina et Brad.

Tragically, I think this latter scenario is Unlikely.

Gosh I am tired. It's only 7pm in Perth, but fortunately it's almost a respectable bedtime here.

I am going to get a cat when I get back from Thailand. Louis and Lola have inspired me; so much joy in two little furry silky bundles!

6 comments:

Jedi_Amara said...

Cat~

Unknown said...

I will meet a UN humanitarian type with an itinerant, humanitarian lifestyle, and that we will have a blissfully humanitarian whirlwind love affair and then travel the world humanitarianly adopting random children of similar ages

This is awesome.

Don said...

I completely disagree with Ben (how surprising). I am eternally grateful that such a scenario is unlikely.

Not that I don't want you to fall blissfully in love, but in my experience, UN humanitarian types are complete punces, and it would make our friendship rather difficult if I had to constantly deal with a punce. ;D

Selfish, I know, but what did you expect? ;p

Anonymous said...

Hi Q! Don finally forwarded me your blog address so I am commenting to make you feel loved :o)

Ignore Don. My sister's ex-boyfriend's mum is a UN humanitarian type, and she's not a poonce at all. This is of course statistical proof that you will meet someone humanitarian and non-pooncy.

In case you are looking for yet more AYAD bloggers, my friends Hamish and Kirsten are currently doing good in Kunming, China. You can read about their adventures here: http://kirmish.livejournal.com/

Q. said...

Don are you assuming I will turn into a punce/poonce? Or worse still, that I already am one??

Lexionxpole said...

Geez girl you are looking fab i must say!
Looking forward to hearing of your humanitarian work.