July 2004 Archives

Weekend recap x (x < 10):

So, Tim and Nathan both came on Friday evening. We drank drink, ate food, talked, laughed and played Vice City.

For dinner, we had Italian from the Italian restaurant (there's a surprise), which is attached to Westfield. It is quite a nice restaurant, and the food was certainly passable. For drink, we drank a coupla bottles of red (one good, one okay), and Tim and I had some vodka iced-tea. For laughs, we had a series of very silly jokes, and of course, the old fall back of absurdity.

However, on a slightly more sober note, Tim was ill most of the night, and spent a great deal of it regretting the prawns he ate (well, either it was the prawns, the chocolate, the cookies and cream ice-cream, the vodka, the wine, or something else, something inexplicable). The worst bit about Tim being sick, was how quietly he managed it. None of us were aware of his suffering 'till the morning, when we discovered a particularly dejected looking Tim, shuffling about the flat restlessly.

Ingredients:
• Milk
• Bailey's
• Raspberry Liqueur

Add ingredients to glass, stir.

Tim (and maybe Nathan) will be coming to the flat tonight. Should be an evening of revelry....or something.

In case you're wondering, Robin managed to get home by about 9pm on Saturday night. So Spiderman managed to do all the things a Spider can, and Rififi had to wait a while longer. I actually liked this second film more than the first, which places it in the special 'better sequel' box that I store next to all those rotten apple cores I just can't bear to be without.

On Sunday, Dad, Mum and Jessie came to Sydney which was lovely. We ate breakfast at Blu (my all time favourite caf�), and then travelled into town. I showed Dad Galaxy Book Store (which I had forgotten I'd already shown him in the past), and then we travelled on to Circular Quay. Jessie and I visited the The MCA, with which Jessie was disappointed (it certainly wasn't the best I've seen it), but I bought a book on street art with which I'm happy, so it wasn't a complete bust. After the Quay, everyone was (in Rappeneker family tradition) exhausted, and we all just wanted to go home. Which we did. The train trip back to Hornsby involved much sleeping, and quiet reading...I love my family.

As I've said before, I love having people down on the weekends, and I love seeing my family, so Sunday was some sort of super-uber-monster combination which certainly made my day.

Last night I attended a colleague's birthday dinner with my boss (and of course, the colleague in question).

We went to an excellent French restaurant in Crown St, ate twelve courses, drank four bottles of most enjoyable wine, and groaned our way out into the streets of Sydney four hours later.

That was fast.

Anyway, tonight I am at home. I had planned on seeing Spider Man 2 with Robin. He, however is galavanting around the country, eating curry and enjoying himself immensely, so I am stuck with a dillemma. To see or not to see.

To maintain my sanity, I must sit quietly in front of a screen for at least a couple of hours tonight, so I must either to the movies, or remain at home, and watch dvds or shudder, television.

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I think I'll stay home and watch Rififi.