Happy New Year!

A new year, a new blog! Once again I'm vowing to maintain a blog this year, so we'll see how it goes.

The past week's flown really quickly; only three more days then back to work again. To sum up the past few days:

• Matt's birthday - Hat party!
• Christmas day - Lunch at our place this year, the usual crowd. I tried my hand at being cocktail maker extraordinaire, and had two drinks on the menu - Midori Illusions (Midori, Lemon Bacardi, Lemonade, Pineapple juice) and Pimms (Pimms, Lemonade, Ginger Beer and cucumber), both topped off with berries. Drinks seemed to go down well, but somehow I got smashed during the day and was zonked and in bed by 9pm... perks of pouring drinks I suppose!
• Boxing day - went to Chaddy at 8:30am to squeeze into one of the last available parking spots. It was crazy inside, stores were messed up and it was simply carnage. Waited in the Country Road line for around half an hour to get a couple of cool shirts, then went to David Jones to get my Christmas present from parentals - a Mimco bag! :) After recovering with an afternoon nap, went to Fay's place for a bit of a get-together and met a few cool new people and definitely some interesting characters. Rock Band was the name of the game and I realise now that (if the game version is anything like the real thing) I am really bad at the drums!! I totally have no hand-foot co-ordination, which kind of makes sense now because I was never any good at using the pedals on the piano.
• Caught up with Jazz C for lunch on Saturday - was perfect weather so we headed into the city and had lunch at Notturno's in Carlton. I had the antipasto platter which was massive and awesome and frankly what I'd been searching for in the whole of Italy but only really found when we reached Rome. Grabbed gelati and afterwards shopped around in the city.
• Pot Luck night at Kelvin's - met up with work people and Kelvin's friend Dave at the apartment that Kelvin's flat-sitting for the next couple of months. I made Moroccan chicken from the Delicious cookbook, there was also noodles, salads, rice and a Jamie-inspired stew. Board games (articulate and pictionary) and Karaoke was the go for the night, and we headed out to Notturno's for coffees afterwards. Had an interesting conversation about the level of physical attraction people prefer in their relationships, and how much personality adds or decreases to the big picture.
• New Year's eve - headed into the city with Belinda for dinner and fireworks. A pretty chilled out night, and some D&M conversation about, well, boys really. Fireworks were amazing this year, and the crowd seemed quite impressed, though you always get the people that are impressed with the boring fireworks haha. There was a cover band playing at Docklands, and what was a little scary was the lead singer's classification of songs into genres. 'All the Small Things' was categorised into 'Classic Rock'! Sneaky sound system was retro and basically we just felt really really old. It was a nice way to end the year.