Unpacking

Unpacking is going a bit slowly. I may have eaten my lunch and dinner off a serving tray because I haven't unearthed any regular dishes. You may well think that, but I couldn't possibly comment.

Our New House!

Yesterday we moved into our new house, which is wonderful!

It's a 3-bedroom terrace house, still in our same Inner West suburb of Newtown. The owners recently renovated to add a master bedroom and ensuite bathroom upstairs. Here's the album with all of our pics:

New House

Aeroplane Jelly

In Australia, jelly=Jell-O, and apparently Aeroplane Jelly is an Australian icon. When I saw it on sale at the grocery store recently, I bought the most random flavour on an impulse. Rather than get a regular fruit flavour, I got Wobble, the dairy version, which had a hula-hooping cow on the box. It isn't chocolate pudding or mousse, it really is firm like Jell-O.

I can report that it was...not bad. One box for $0.99 made 4 servings, which kept me in dessert for a few days. Matthew didn't care for it.

Movember Update

I have been remiss about posting pics of Matthew from Movember 2011. Here he was on Day 19.

2011 Sculpture by the Sea

On 6 November, I went to Sculpture by the Sea in Bondi with Angelica and Natasha. As expected, it was crowded and hot. However, we had a lovely time.

Here is the link to the rest of my pictures from the day.

Box Rummaging

We're moving house soon, and I've been rummaging through boxes this week. I found some old pictures, so I scanned them. Oh, how I procrastinate on packing!

Diana and Amanda in Brooklyn, NY - Thanksgiving weekend, 1992

Modeling for my sister - 1995

Camping in New Hampshire - Summer 1996

That "camping trip" was hilarious. We drove up to NH with Brad and another friend of theirs from Houston. We had no gear, and certainly no campsite reservations. The four of us ended up sleeping underneath a tarp, in a "tent campsite," which was basically just a random field next to an RV park!

Australian Lollies

Australian candy, better known as lollies, seems odd to me sometimes: Red Skins (a raspberry candy); Chicos (a brown baby-shaped candy, which I think is caramel-flavoured); Musk Sticks (a strange name; I've been told they're "pink" flavoured); Milk Bottles (milk seems like a boring candy flavour to me).

Originally, I thought Violet Crumble might be something purple fruit-flavoured, but it turns out it's just the wrapper that's purple.

Violet Crumble is "honeycomb" wrapped in chocolate. It looks sort of like Butterfinger, but it's not sticky.

Honeycomb is very sweet, and doesn't exactly taste like honey. It's hard, and shatters when you bite into it. All in all, I'd say Violet Crumble is so sweet that it makes your teeth hurt!