Rainbow Lorikeet Update. Dundas. Kenji. Anniversary.
I just rang the vet and it seems the Rainbow Lorikeet is doing really well today! They're going to pass it on to a WIRES carer, and I asked her to tell him that its mate was looking for it way into the night, and to ask them to give us a call. She said she'd "certainly try" - whatever that means. How hard would it be to write that on the form? People, ngah!
I forgot to say yesterday that we looked at the most amazing rental property. It was an old c. 1920s (or older) house in Dundas. Sandstone foundations and basement, brick top, period open-out windows with beautiful leadlighting, and polished wooden floorboards. Inside there was also gorgeous wooden fretwork and a knick-knacks shelf all the way around the lounge room. The lounge room and bedroom each had substantial single-room-sized rooms off them where we each imagined our offices/studios. Or bedroom for a child. ;) There was a beautiful wooden wardrobe made of English oak in the bedroom that he said he'd either leave or sell to us. The backyard was perfect for barbies and gardening, and for elderly cats to cop some morning and afternoon sun, and there was not only a regular-sized Hills Hoist but a tiny one for children too! Vintage and made of the same metals and everything. I'd never seen one before! There was a double shed out the back with a modern laundry, and an enormous (sandstone) storage space underneath the house. There was a bus at the door, a train station behind (but not noisy!), and a great set of little shops behind the station. All that for $350 a week. We were the second people to view it...
...MEANING WE MISSED OUT!
Todd is absolutely devvo, and I am too. We didn't even mind the kitchen. Deep blue funk, deep blue funk. :(
Today is our 6-month wedding anniversary so we are going out to lunch and possibly buying me some shoes. I need some so badly. Oh, great. Todd just broke something in the bedroom. If it was our retro '50s cake plates I'll kill him. On our 6-month anniversary, yes! You should see those cake plates. I'll photograph them soon. There'd better still be six.
"Todd."
"What?"
"Did you break something?"
"No."
"What fell?"
"My drawer."
"Oh."
YEEHAW! His overstuffed little bedside drawer gave up the ghost - good on it! Aw, little Kenji is gallavanting about the backyard catching "the ball!". He can distinguish between three toys, I think. No, four. The Ball (any ball), The Pom-Pom (any pom-pom), Elephant!, and Froggy! We send him off on little missions to find particular things sometimes. I'm teaching him to shake hands. I never had before 'cos it seemed pretty demeaning but now I think it's CUTE so I don't care. But I'm not teaching him "Shake!". I'm teaching him "How do you do?" Much daintier.
OK, so today we're going to Chats-bloody-wood to find me a pair of shoes I can love, then back to this neck of the woods for a beauty treatment (shhhh), and then lunch. I wanted to get Blunnies but Todd just got some and I don't want us to look like Blunnies twins. Oh, he bought the most gorgey 1919 leatherbound edition of the works of Shakespeare. It's just called Shakespeare. I've been wanting to read some of the plays I missed out on at school for ages now. Nice purchase! He also bought an Edmund Wilson compilation of some sort. Damn Berkelouw Books. How can you leave without a purchase?
I forgot to say yesterday that we looked at the most amazing rental property. It was an old c. 1920s (or older) house in Dundas. Sandstone foundations and basement, brick top, period open-out windows with beautiful leadlighting, and polished wooden floorboards. Inside there was also gorgeous wooden fretwork and a knick-knacks shelf all the way around the lounge room. The lounge room and bedroom each had substantial single-room-sized rooms off them where we each imagined our offices/studios. Or bedroom for a child. ;) There was a beautiful wooden wardrobe made of English oak in the bedroom that he said he'd either leave or sell to us. The backyard was perfect for barbies and gardening, and for elderly cats to cop some morning and afternoon sun, and there was not only a regular-sized Hills Hoist but a tiny one for children too! Vintage and made of the same metals and everything. I'd never seen one before! There was a double shed out the back with a modern laundry, and an enormous (sandstone) storage space underneath the house. There was a bus at the door, a train station behind (but not noisy!), and a great set of little shops behind the station. All that for $350 a week. We were the second people to view it...
...MEANING WE MISSED OUT!
Todd is absolutely devvo, and I am too. We didn't even mind the kitchen. Deep blue funk, deep blue funk. :(
Today is our 6-month wedding anniversary so we are going out to lunch and possibly buying me some shoes. I need some so badly. Oh, great. Todd just broke something in the bedroom. If it was our retro '50s cake plates I'll kill him. On our 6-month anniversary, yes! You should see those cake plates. I'll photograph them soon. There'd better still be six.
"Todd."
"What?"
"Did you break something?"
"No."
"What fell?"
"My drawer."
"Oh."
YEEHAW! His overstuffed little bedside drawer gave up the ghost - good on it! Aw, little Kenji is gallavanting about the backyard catching "the ball!". He can distinguish between three toys, I think. No, four. The Ball (any ball), The Pom-Pom (any pom-pom), Elephant!, and Froggy! We send him off on little missions to find particular things sometimes. I'm teaching him to shake hands. I never had before 'cos it seemed pretty demeaning but now I think it's CUTE so I don't care. But I'm not teaching him "Shake!". I'm teaching him "How do you do?" Much daintier.
OK, so today we're going to Chats-bloody-wood to find me a pair of shoes I can love, then back to this neck of the woods for a beauty treatment (shhhh), and then lunch. I wanted to get Blunnies but Todd just got some and I don't want us to look like Blunnies twins. Oh, he bought the most gorgey 1919 leatherbound edition of the works of Shakespeare. It's just called Shakespeare. I've been wanting to read some of the plays I missed out on at school for ages now. Nice purchase! He also bought an Edmund Wilson compilation of some sort. Damn Berkelouw Books. How can you leave without a purchase?