over kill

It would be fair to say that I have spent the last 2 days bingeing on really delicious food, thats my defense... it was all very delicious. The more delicious food I have the more I want, its a problem. Last night Errol took me out for a big fat slap up meal, which included breads, starters, mains, desserts and even sides, not forgetting the cocktails too. We had it all. It was soooooo good, I can't even tell you.We had a starter of calamari and tempura soft shell crab, both were utterly divine... the soft shell crab surprisingly good indeed, I'd have it again tomorrow. Then for main we had a plate of garlic yabbies (more meaty fresh water shrimp) on rice, this was super nice and we also had a hot and cold seafood platter. This was quite the feast. It had everything, calamari, mud crab, tiger prawns, yabbies, barramundi , mussels, oysters, bugs (a small lobster local to here) and scallops as well as a selection of tropical fruits, salad leaves and chips. Words cannot describe how good this was, I'm not usually a big seafood girl... but this well and truly converted me. Everything was cooked to perfection. If all this wasn't enough we even opted to go for a sharer dessert too. I wouldn't be lying if I said I struggled to move after I left. I didn't feel guilty one little bit though. It was well worth it!

Anyways today I thought I'd take it easy on the eating front, which I did until dinner time. I had a nice easy breakfast of egg yoke on toast. I don't like the egg white and I hate having to wait for a whole egg to boil so I've just started poaching just the yoke and then when its half cooked spreading it on toast... delicious. Just like dippy eggs or eggs and soldiers without the dipping part. Most people think this weird, I do realize. But its not weird, just clever. Thats what I say.

Today we decided to finally head up to the village in the hills called Kuranda, we've all heard loads of hype about it. Apparently its suppose to be a hippy mecca of Queensland and what not as well as having loads of cool interesting little cafes and restaurants around. Well. We got there and actually thought I'd arrived in the wrong place. The place was dead, most of it had been shut down or had closed, it was basically a selection of dodgy looking markets, stalls, shops and horrible smelling chinese restaurants. Nothing that was sold there anyone really wanted and definitely didn't need. Strange. There was one OK shop, that Errol bought a walling hanging/bed throw from, its pretty cool. Thats about it though. I guess it did get us out the house for a few hours. The most disappointing thing of all was that we forgot the camera. The view from the hill on the way to Kuranda over Cairns and the bay was simply sensational. We'll have to go back for a snap on a clear day. We also went to barron falls, which are big water falls into barron gorge that you have to walk too through the rainforest canopy... a few other nice pictures we missed that'll we'll definitely have to go back for.

So we got back in tonight feeling pretty hungry, between the two of us we made an awesome garlic mushroom and prawn white wine sauce pasta with corn on the cob. I was super full after this. A few hours later this had worn off and Errol and I ventured out to go get pudding. A feast is what we returned with. I made the best pudding ever, a hot chocolate muffin with a bar of chocolate melted on top served with super good vanilla ice cream. I definitely felt guilty after this, not to mention the fact I've been stuffing my face with shortbread biscuits here and there. 

Tomorrow will be a better day, no more naughtiness.

the wrong side of bed

I totally woke up on the wrong side of bed this morning. I've in a shitty mood all day, its too hot, I'm too sweaty, I have no money, I'm Hungry, I have stomach ache, I need to pee... I've literally been moaning about something since the moment I got out of bed. This is all because I was woken up super early due to Cystitis (urinary tract infection), I've spent the whole day peeing, wanting to pee, drinking cranberry juice or moaning that I feel too bloated because I've drank too much. I HATE Cystitis!!! Unless you've had it you simply don't understand how uncomfortable it is. My friend Ash in America always looks after me and helps me feel better when I have it normally, I'm sad that she's not here now helping me through. I wish she could just pop over for tea. All this made me miss her even more than usual! What's also annoying is the fact that normally I would just go out and buy some Cystex, which basically relieves the pain and also contains a small amount of antibiotic... this normally gets rid of it if you haven't got it super bad. Well it turns out you can't buy anything like that here, any amount of antibiotic has to be prescribed by a bloody doctor. This is super annoying, when I know exactly what's wrong with me and what I need to fix it. So i resent having to pay someone what I already know.

Anyway I spent the day guzzling cranberry juice sitting in a nice cool pool, which actually aided the Cystitis relief. Beginning to feel better now.

I bit the bullet

I was a little concerned about going to work today, I knew they'd be annoyed with me for handing in my notice. I was right. My manager was pissed! It made it worse that I said I wasn't able to work past this Sunday, so I pretty much gave him no notice. One more day left and I'm off for 2 days and then I start my new job at Dundees on the water front, a fancy seafood restaurant thats on the pier. Its so chilled and relaxed there, including all the staff and the best thing of all is that the pay is $8 an hour better than Villa Romana... making it $23 an hour and on Saturday and Sundays I get paid extra for it being a weekend. Good deal I think!

www.dundees.com.au - check it out!

my 2 nd Sushi attempt

It seems I'm getting better at making homemade sushi. I was so stoked with effort. Made a range of shrimp, crab, lobster, salmon, avocado and cucumber rolls.

lobster avocado and cucumber

All 5 rolls

Meg doing her part

shrimp, avo cream cheese roll and a spicy mixed seafood, cream cheese and cumber roll

salmon, cream cheese, sesame seed and cucumber roll and a tempura shrimp and avocado roll

the mess that was left after

HAPPY AUSTRALIA DAY!!!

Obviously Australia Day is Australia's national holiday celebrating the liberation of Australia. Basically everyone has the day off work and eats and drinks too much. I thought it was only polite to get involved. Get involved is what I did.

Everyone looking pretty merry

my new drinking contraption... a jar

unsuccessful adventure

Today was such a random day. At 3am this morning, while I was still awake I decided that I didn't want to work at Driftin' anymore. So at 6.15am this morning  I text them and said I wasn't coming in today, anyways later that day I thought I'd get in touch and tell them I didn't want the job anymore. It turns out they beat me too it. They said they found someone else. Eeeek, turns out its not a good idea to call in on your second shift. Does this mean I got fired? I didn't want the job anyway, there business was failing miserably, it was always dead, all the staff spoke next to no English and were all chinese... easily the most boring job in the world, a massive problem when I start at 7am, which made it 10 times worse... I need stimulation at that hour of the day. No biggy I have something else is the pipeline.

Anyways... I went back to sleep until almost noon and decided I wanted to go exploring. We decided we were going to go to Kuranda as per Megan's request. So after we get ourselves together, get ready, pack bags, have breakfast, wait an hour for the camera battery to charge a little, we go to step out the door realize its pissing it down. We umm and ahhh about what to do for another 30 mins and then still decide to go to Kuranda, by this time it is 1.30pm and Megan's bitching and moaning that she needs to be back by 4pm for work, we carry on and go anyway thinking we'll have plenty of time. It turns out Errol gets colossally lost on the way there, almost runs out of fuel too and by now its 2.15pm and we still have 20 mins to go and we're still not there. In the end Megan spits her dummy out big time and decides we're not going and we should just go to lunch at the nearest spot. So thats what we did, and got super soaked in the torrential down poor between the car and the restaurant.

On the way back home we decided to stop by the Cairns Cable park that we've passed by a few times, it looked pretty epic. We all decided that a proper hobby was one of the main things we were missing from life... and taking up wake-boarding again at a cable park was a cheap and easy way to occupy my time. Its like winter time, I have something (snowboarding) that occupies my time and mind and gives me focus and purpose... I just need the same here. The plan is  to purchase my self a season pass to the cable park and become a sick wakeboarder... well we'll see about the sick wakeboarder part. Although I think I'm going to laugh like crazy when Meg gets involved.

just another day

some not so special palm

Trinity beach

Errol and our part time pet cat