in a fish shop

last night i slept like a lamb. i slept like a baby. like a ... you geddit. i slept so good the muscling cells in my body know it and are pleading for more. i slept in MyMama's brand new-new bed and i slept goooooood. the first good sleep in a loong time. (it is seriously making me consider trading in the futon for a double-rated posturpedic - thought i'd have to be 40+ before i came to that crossroad!!)

and because i am resting (finally), i feel like i can communicate with you again from the madness that has been my first month out of png and in australia.

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hello lovers

hey

hi

where she been you asking me?

i been busy. busy!!

landing in sydney wasn't like landing on my feet at all but more like heli-jumping. so yeah. about 50% been about getting MyMama better and finding her somewhere to live and helping her furnish her new place + 50% getting ricebag better and finding her somewhere to live and helping her furnish her new place + 50% getting reacquainted with Sydney and friends-in-Sydney and ricebag-in-Sydney + about 75% has been about work. work. work. and winter. dealing with work and winter.

so this has meant a LOT of travelling in between the place where MyMama lives and the place where ricebag is sleeping (ie where ricebag is still living out of her suitcase and where ricebag has food going bad in the fridge coz she is never home at that place to eat it).

so where has ricebag landed you ask? In the inner-shitty baby. i am living in redfern on the city-side of the train-tracks in a massive renovated terrace with 3 actors - all of them ridiculously good-looking, incredibly articulate, stead-fast for the cause ... and very much in the process of "starting out" (read: poor).

ahhhhh ... the joys of house-sharing. cannot believe I am back to co-habitating with a bunch of randoms after a year blissfully (!!) living alone. it feels so ... university.

last w/end saw ricebag in the blue mountains, enjoying lots of champers and lindt by a crackling fire with her erstwhile boarding school friends on a gals weekend making christmas in july. so much fun!! i didn't know we still had it in us - the Right To Be Silly - and i am so grateful that we do.

this w/end ricebag is flying down to melbourne for a wedding - not just any wedding but one for the pinkest ukulele!! it is going to be absolutely brilliant and ... freeeeeeeeeeezing in melbourne and i am looking so so forward.

in between all the flying around and dining around ricebag is working working working. starting work in a new place makes all the funny feeling rise up but its good here and all i really want to do is put my head down and bum up and just get on with working hard and learning loads.

how boring & serious did that sound??!!

not to worry. am also squeezing in a date with figaro at the opera this week and a scheduled run-in a surrey hills fish shop.

love you lovers

ricebag