Saturday, July 25, 2009

A Big Week

What a week it has been! I finished the last of my Personal Training exams with a 95% result in Business. I should have my Professional Practice completed and ready to hand in by next Friday, as well. Otherwise, Monday.

Tuesday morning my gorgeous friend Pinky took me out for breakfast. We went to il Vizio in Leichhardt and it was FANTASTIC. I ordered the fresh fruit salad with muesli and yoghurt which was massive and the hot chocolate I had with it was the most luxurious I've seen outside a chocolate cafe! Pinky enjoyed the il Vizio breakfast of bacon, eggs and turkish with grilled tomato. She took photos, too. Now why didn't I think of that?

Thursday night Hayden took me out for the fondue chinoise at Suissotel restaurant JPB, as it was blogged on Grab Your Fork and the 2 for 1 special is ending. It truly does represent amazing value and was immensely enjoyable. Mustard fruits are indeed an oddity to be experienced!

Dinner preceeded the show "Meow to the World: Crisis is Born" which we saw at the Opera House Studios. Hilariously funny and beautiful, energetic and charismatic, Meow Meow was fantastic. The only problem was that the show started at 930pm - when I'm normally going to sleep. It was an uphill battle keeping my eyes open.

The food adventure continued yesterday, when I met my legendary mates of FIA fame, Lauren Albon and James Raftos, for lunch at Corelli's, Newtown. We had intended to meet at Macro Cafe, but found to great dismay that it had closed!! We all enjoyed the fish of the day - grilled Barramundi with mango salsa. It was an absolute delight.

Last night I performed an energetic jazz/exotic routine to Suck My Kiss by RHCP at the "Nothing to Wear" designer markets in Newtown. My preparation for this was pretty last minute, but it came together in the end. If only there had been more people there for me to infect with my bounciness! Thanks though, to my fine friends that did attend.

Pre-performance I have a sugar-hit ritual. Courtesy of Hayden, last night this was a triple chocolate mousse cake on a cheesecake base. Pinky got me a soy mocha to go with it. After the show, Cecil, Mark, Conny, Llinos, Hayden and I headed to Saray for the finest Pides Sydney has to offer :).

This afternoon, Hayden and I will be joined by Matt and Tammy for 2 for 1 mains at the Red Oak boutique brewery. This is a lead up to 2 events - the first being a performance by the Tigerlillies at the Opera House Studios yet again; the second a visit to Baskin Robbins for their two NEW flavours of sugar free ice cream!!

OM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!

Don't worry, I did an aerobic power training session yesterday morning and did the bay run after work this morning. I work for my food safari!

After tomorrow's 15km run with my running group (2 weeks to city2surf guys!), I'll be heading in to Balmain with Avanti and Swah for treats of the Adriano Zumbo variety...

Watch this space ;)

Xx Deb

Sunday, July 5, 2009

Full of Freebies!

The problem with me and blogging is that I have so many things to rant about and such little time and by the time I have time to blog about these things the cumulative list is so extensive I know that there's no point blogging about all of it because no one wants to read mountains of endless text based ranting. I guess its a moot point because this blog only has one follower anyway.

In the past week I passed both my nutrition and resistance training exams for my cert IV. A pretty good feeling.

I have started working at Personal Best Training Studios in Leichhardt. I think my boss is pretty awesome and I like that he has a lot of faith in me.

Thursday night we dined at Chophouse, for their amazing $18 roast deal. Yesterday was impromptu visiting of Cove for strawberry cheesecake and Zumbo's patisserie for an as yet unnamed cake purchase and delicious macaroons.

Today, after completing a 10km run between Clovelly and North Bondi, Hayden and I went to the Good Food and Wine show where we ate ourselves stupid and have come home painfully stuffed. FOR FREE. I was even gifted free bananas by the lovely lady at the eco banana stand.

Hot damn there were some tasty treats. We saw Matt Moran make tempura prawns, a chicken thing and a raspberry tart. He's a funny dude. I saw Manu at the Campbell's Real Stock stand, but he didnt even look up :( I wanted to say hi! I didn't see Chocolate Suze or her mum, but I did score a subscription to BBC's Good Food with a copy of a Gordon Ramsay cook book, courtesy of Hayden.

And with his bonus, my lovely boyfriend has ordered me a new camera. Another Lumix, but this time 12MP and with 3 years warranty in case we face similar mechanical failure. This means that soon my blog posts and adventures will be accompanied by photos, awesome and maybe even a dash of win!

Now if only our internet hadn't been shaped...

Upcoming performances: Fashion Pop Up Store, July 24th, Newtown
Hellfire Club, August 21, The GAF, Darlinghurst.

I guess for posterity I should mention on my blog that I wont the title of Miss Amateur Pole Dance 2009. It came with a trophy and $1000 prize money. That paid for my car insurance. W00t.

Madlove to kittens,

Xx Debzillah