More choices

When our office moved from the city to Mascot/Alexandria a few years ago the most noticeable difference (other than the lack of public transport) was the lack of food choices. In the city you can find whatever you want, whenever you want.

Fortunately there's been a fair bit of development around the office over the last year so since returning to work I've been able to try out a few of the new cafes nearby. Today it was the Mexican cafe next door that does yummy quesadillas.

Spotty stegosaurus

As Darren left for work this morning he handed over a few left-over boxed of sticky dots from his office and suggested Isaac could have some fun with them. I knew exactly what we'd do. I found a dinosaur stencil online, printed it out and suggested he 'colour it in' with the sticky dots.

It kept him amused for a good while and was relatively mess free (except when he unraveled all the dots from the packet). He was very pleased with the finished product. Then he suggested we do a lion picture too which was perfect for the yellow and orange dots we had on hand.

I might have to pick up some other colours for future craft projects.

All hours

One of the 'joys' of working for an international company is the late night calls. To save my sanity I try to only limit them to a few nights a week and 11pm is the absolute latest I will tolerate... even then it's only if it's absolutely necessary. 

Servicing

Our new car went in for it's 1000km service. No problems to report and I even convinced them to throw in a wash.

Three Ps in a pod

While Isaac and Darren were camping last night I made myself a meat pie stacked with mashed potato and peas for dinner. Isaac liked the sound of it so much that I made some for him for dinner tonight using party pies. They were a big hit with both boys as Noah devoured his 'deconstructed' pie stack too.

 

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More than I bargained for

I took an impromptu trip to Ikea this afternoon and, as usual, there were a few impromptu purchases as well. I don't think I ended up getting anything I had originally gone there for but at least the lounge looks pretty now.

 

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All that jazz

Darren's colleague Anna Salleh was playing at El Rocco in Potts Point tonight so we arranged a babysitter and went to support live music in Sydney.

As usual, she was very good and the guy on keyboard was very impressive.

The walk to and from the car through the main street of Kings Cross was also entertaining. Never a dull moment in that place.

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