food

OK so while Darcy was visiting, I took him a few fooooood places!

 carrot cake @ Milkwood, Brunswick East

I'd never been there before, but I had walked past it a few times. Coffee was gooood and the carrot cake we shared was cute and yum.

corned beef, coriander, cheese and other goodness

For lunch (Friday) we went to Beatrix and had their sandwich of the day! Super filling. Couldn't finish it.

Darcy left early in the morning yesterday. After I said goodbye I planned to just continue with the work for Uni but I fell asleep as soon as I got home and had the best sleep ever. I've been sick (and still am) for the past week or so and I've been very very very out of it and not good with communication. Luckily Darcy understands most of my mumbles and was OK with me falling asleep in the middle of the day. I have also not really been sleeping much (at night) so the morning nap I took yesterday was the best. 

During the week, we basically ate hot and sour soup for dinner every night. We got it from the Chinese/Malaysian shop just down the road and the lady there is now quite familiar with both of us and knows our order, haha. 

It was nice to have Darcy visit. We sung lots of songs, improved on our mario kart skillz, spent too much money on food, took some nice walks, saw the full moon, saw a giant rainbow, saw the world covered in fog, i got piggy backs (YAY), i introduced him to new friends and Vic (I will write later about the gift she got me!!) and he experienced my many emotions at their extremes. HAHAHA.

So during his stay I became more and more aware of my everyday emotions. So I don't normally feel a standard "happy" or "sad" or any other emotion, I suppose I feel very neutral about things... but when I feel true happiness I really really feel it & it is like an explosion of joy. This goes for all other emotions. 

OK SO:

Vic got me this!

ahhhhhhhhh

I opened it in front of her and apparently (according to Darcy) my face was priceless. I wish I had had an out of body experience so to see my reaction. I believe I almost started crying from joy. 

I wrote in a previous post about how I had lost my 5 year old grey fingerless gloves which I had a lot of love for. I also told Vic about them. She got me these most beautiful purple fingerless gloves. THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE PERFECT PURPLE. My exact favourite colour. They are so warm and comfortable & I love them so much. I'm actually feeling immense joy just typing about that (so intense, geez)

Darcy and I had a lot of good conversations during his visit. I think after my 21st I was thinking about age/aging ect a lot and it occurred to me that - once I get to know somebody, and they become my friend, they are suddenly ageless. Age seems to act as an invisible boundary which sometimes prevents two people (of fairly different ages) to feel comfortable in communicating or just getting to know each other.

As a kid I used to feel super intimidated by people who are older than me and sometimes as a teenager I thought little kids were just too immature to communicate to. I've realised that, through meeting wonderful people in Taiwan and getting to know family friends, that I am so much less aware of people's ages once I get to know them more. In that, they become ageless.

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Yesterday I went to Sarah X's and we made scones & did work!!

mixing 

yum yums! (looking kind of ugly but tasting great)

raspberries and cream

I had a really good afternoon and evening at Sarah's. We did portfolio work and talked about life & found embarrassing videos of each other which have somehow found themselves onto the internet. I was laughing so hard at some of them. We played some guitar, too. & she's keen to learn so I might be teaching her some basics later in the holidays!