If you don't laugh, you'll cry
and careful what you wish for...
B aby
L et me tell u a secret,
U nderneath this hard
E xterior, i’m just a
S ex and the city addict.
and now, a Carlton support too. That’s right it’s offical. It feels right. Hate on me if you want, maybe I have switched sides. But if anyone knows anything about me it’s that I am the most lame AFL supporter ever. I don’t really watch the footy, never have grown up doing so, so never really chose a team. I felt like I was just enough of a non supporter to chose the right team for me, and start actually being a supporter. Plus you’re not a supporter if you don’t own merch right???! So i treated myself after this crazy long weekend and bought my first footy scarf. Up the bloody blues.
Before we go forth, let us go back. What a long weekend. The Monarch’s birthday long weekend. This and labour day? Why are they always crazy. The energy is just… right. The little angel on my shoulder whispers to me ‘go and get crazy drunk with the girls’ so i do!! Why would you resist the words of an angel?
My Friday actually was really tame and wholesome though. I have been recovering from a cold the last few days and decided Friday would be spent resting and recuperating my energy for the next days to come. I really was around town on friday. First, I awoke to meet Lea in the wee hours for a walk and coffee around the beautiful and chilly Fitzroy North. Strong FW at the moment, thanks. I’m enjoying a bit more milk than in my usual magic, warms me up a bit more in the fresh mornings. Then spontaneously, after walking home as quick as i could post coffee (IBS girls rise), I met Liv for A SECOND coffee in Carlton North. Really living up to the ‘northside’ dub hey. We had a lamington and my second SFW. Underrated dessert/sweet treat IMO. Browsing organic grocery stores is one of my favourite, brain relaxing activities. Liv shares this same passion as I, so we did just that. Clay organics is really quite nice with an excellent selection. As a only new olive lover, the discussion of CC’s olives (best in melb imo) lead to a shock revelation to Liv - Emma has never been to Psarakos 😧 (which apparently is where the best olives are). Well no offence to Psarakos but when would i have ever been in Thornbury browsing a grocery store???? I used to live in Prahran. Anyway. Can you guess what we did next? If you guessed we went to Psarakos, congrats. Wasn’t that a surprise.
Psarakos really turned it on for us. Upon entry, free prosciutto (twice i may add), free biscuit and free cheese. Wow. Massive Friday energy. I really had no food at home so this was a perfectly timed culturing exercise and also very practical. I am not good at shopping all at once for the week, but with Liv’s guidance it was actually not scary and was smart instead. I did buy my olives and I am really happy with them. They still aren’t quite the CC level but really delicious. I also got this bread stuff and some SPICY capocollo. Nice work.
At Psarakos there is also a pretty big produce section/market thing so we hit that shit up too. Liv said that it can be really hit and miss so we shouldn’t bank on it being 100%, but like I said, they turned it on for us. We were blessed with a section of fresh and quality produce, such as 10000000 onions. I have never seen so many in my life.
Imagine this but x3. That’s how many onions. If you don’t laugh you’ll cry right? Right.
(in case you forgot I cant eat onion) (yet.)
So Psarakos was a huge success. I got veg, fruit, snacks etc and had an AWESOME time. Lucky I had such great company! Post spending spree, I saunaed and hung out with fitzy for a bit. Then I got home, got in bed and binge watch Sex and the City. Seriously my addiction is crazy. It’s kinda good though because hopefully I finish all the seasons and break my habit of starting a TV show and never getting to the last season. I’m up to season 4.
A while ago when i was at Inner Studio I was telling Allie about how there was a bombastic amount of weeds down the side of the house and in the front yard. A bombastic amount. I was telling her that they just BOTHER my vision and I really want to just get them all in one go one day, and this woman! Next to us, mind you we were in a communal bath thing, just like laughs a bit. Semi scoffs. I kinda looked to her like ? and she just said that it was a pretty funny thing to overhear which tbf, true. But I showed her!! Because on saturday the gloves went on and I went at it. I should have taken a before and after pic but honestly was so committed to the job i didnt even think to. I took approx 2 hours and I filled 2 whole who gives a crap size boxes of WEEDS AND dirt. Wow. Boxes? Why? Bc the fucking yarra council decided that they aren;t giving out green bins anymore - instead use a box (yeh got heaps of those around??) and book a green waste collection. CEEEBS 💀💀💀💀💀💀 But the universe heard my complaints and prayers bc all of a sudden, a few days after a big rant to the house chat, a green bin appears. Crazy stuff. Genuinely careful what you wish for fam cause things are happening out there!! That’s why I did a (yet) disclaimer up there because i am putting it out there. I will eat onion soon!!! It shall not best me. Be careful what u say guys. That is your reality. #deep
After I worked really hard I had a little snack and got to the best part of the day - getting ready to go out. I was dressing for a dual event, Matisse’s birthday dinner at Good Gnocchi, and also Vincent Sole’s epic dj set at the Gasometer Hotel. Easy right. Like I said getting ready and getting to the venue is the best part of going out. We had drinks and were merry. We shook the bootys and did shots. And we kicked the fuck on. I never usually make it to the end of kick ons but this weekend I got pretty close.
Somehow, I managed out of bed the next day BACK to the pub to the footy, and now we are back where we started. This was probably my second game I’ve ever been to in my life. It was mint. There was even fireworks!! I learnt a few things, not many of them about footy. #1 being - Brookvale unions alcohol % disparancy. Did you know that Ginger Ale brookies are 1 standard, and the lemon squash brookies are 1.6 standards?????? And they’re the same price??? WTF? Liv and I decided to mix things up flavour wise, but were totally scammed. Anyways now you guys know.
C arlton draught
A ctually
R evies
L oads of
T otal legends
O n
N o sleep.
What a great weekend it was. Sleep was incredibly minimal, decisions questionable, food was both eaten and not eaten, so many beers were drank. It rained, it shined, we got the whole lot. I even cleaned the bathroom.
So now I’ll likely be in hibernation for at least 5 weeks and hopefully by that time i finish Sex and the City so i can write a comprehensive review.
A fantastic read!