On Friday Suga took a day off work, we thought we’d head out to the Hunter for the day. McDonalds breakfast, an essential part of any road trip!

Our chariot.

Suga.

The first vinyard we stopped at was Bimbadgen. We tasted a fair few wines and got pretty pissed. We also bought 12 bottles to take home.

Tree at Peppers Convent.

Home made bread. I was a bit Mr. Grumpy bum all day, the traffic on the way home didn’t make me feel any better, but I felt better once we got to my sisters house, her and Richie cooked us up a lovely dinner and we couched out for a bit.

I found this note on a car in the city (not mine), lovely, there are still some Sydney people who care.

The best Laksa in Sydney? Big call.

We stumbled into a crowd on Martin Place, turns out all the V8 supercar cars and stars were there, the star of the show for me, and many others, was this GTR pace car.

I was shocked to see the whole of Pitt St. under major construction, the city never stays familiar for long when you rarely visit it.

Later that afternoon Christina had a surprise B’day pressie for me (I hate surprises). Turns out it was a chopper flight!

Controls.

Whoo hoo let’s go!

Can we go to Maroubra? Sure! Flying over our home.

Maroubra Beach.

Our pilot Christian.

Prime real estate: Waverly cemetary.

Sunset.

Our harbour.

So the flight: Taking off was THE best part, hovercraft describes it well, car of the future does too. Just awesome. I felt a bit queasy at some points but it wasn’t so bad. Another highlight was when Christina asked our pilot Christian whether he knew Vic Larusso (Channel 10’s traffic helicopter newsman), Laughs all round!

This morning I got up at 5.30AM and drove out to the mountains to join the BMU crew for a run on the Oaks trail. Our group was 13 large. Awesome!

Waiting for the train.

On the train. Was a great ride, always is! The drive home was a little long and tiring, but I’m satisfied, and happy (again). :) What a great weekend!

I think I’m feeling…. depression. Mid life crisis coming on? Neck and shoulder pain, stress from all the house rennovation work, want Christina to move in (pronto), thinking of getting the GT-R back on the road, thinking of selling the Jazz as I’m sick of being bullied on the streets, banned off Farkin (again lol). Times are shit. I need to ride.

Pics from this weeks hectic MCC vs Hell on Wheels Heffron Park flat track event!!! We’re still dizzy from the 2-stroke fumes…

Photos by Matt Holmes (the man).

I’ve been watching MasterChef on TV (it’s replaced the fatty show). I’m a shit cook, but I’ve been meaning to give cooking a good go for years now. Last night Christina, Jess and I had a good go at cooking dinner for her parents (scary as her Dad’s Iron Chef). We did alright!!!

Our entre, Linguine, crushed anchovies in garlic, fresh parsley and a stuff mushroom. Our main was lamb and mash MasterChef style (the lamb was undercooked boo hiss).

Nyaw Peppa.

Jess’ yummo choc on choc dessert.

Earlier in the day Suga and I ran all over town to pay and pick up goods for the house:

Our stone tub.

Frikkin door handles, we went for the bottom right.

I love tools. We also managed to drop in to Tiffany’s to resize her ring and pick up the diamond certificate, which is so sexy I want to frame it (I’ll scan it later).

Crazy Penis’ at Mao and More

Zi organised a dinner at Wagaya (my fave) to catch up with mates, celebrate our engagement (suga and I), as well as his B’day drinks but that fell through as we had too many numbers, so he booked JuJu’s at the Cross in stead (I’m just totally in awe that Zi organised something!!!).

Whilst the service was crap (it took forever for the beers to come), the food was crap and the Karaoke was unbearable the company was great which made for a fun night.

Shabu-Shabu!

Suga and Stevey.

Me and my finance.

Sake + Ashahi = laughs all round. Look at how red Willy is.

Steve cracking up.

Singer of the night. Bad singers that write it off are one thing, but I love the ones that actually try, and think that they’re good the most.

The ASM boys are a bunch of gamblers, the poker bug extends to dares. Here’s the chilli oil dare. $100 pot for Papz to drink it.

Down it goes.

Easy money (I’m sure his ass will burn the next morning).

Charles bought Zi a rose from the rose lady.

Shot of the night, for sure.

As soon as we stepped outside Zi and Paul walked into Guzman Y Gomez next door to order burritos. Zi eats a lot when he’s drunk.

Willy and Andy.

Mark bought me this Pedal ID fixie toy when he was in Japan earlier this year. I’ve been so slack in picking it up from him but he brought it along tonight, thanks Mark, you’re a champ. I love it!

I’ve lost my kitchen and I’ve almost lost my mind too. I have to eat out and even making my essential morning coffee is a hard thing to do. It’s getting harder and harder to cope with living in the house as it’s being renovated. The dust is insane, there’s just so much of it, on absolutely every single surface (I’m sneezing a lot!). It’s very much looking like I have to move out (Muum!). Here are some recent pictures:

The new stairs up to the deck, down into the garden are now straight (old ones were at angles) and they’re twice as wide too. Awesome.

The hand railing is on and I’ve designed the slat system which the boys will get onto next (we did consider wire, but wire’s a bit too boat like).

No kitchen!

The guest bathroom, ready for tiling. That little wall in there is the shower wall, it’ll be a feature wall (mosaic tiles) and saves me from cleaning glass (ie: you just walk in to have a shower, no shower doors to close and/or clean).The ground in the shower part slopes towards a drain (which is being custom made at the moment).

The laundry ready for tiling.

The Ti frame, due to a defect, had been up on the wall as art for over a year. A few attempts to get it going again failed, but last night there must have been something in the air as Jing and I managed to revive the thing, and she’s riding beautifully today! So awesome. I don’t know what to think.

She’s back!

1×9 and a road bb solves everything.

Beer of choice.

More info and pics here.