the.dude's blog post - last week or so. actually last 3 weeks maybe?

hi everybody

well the week seems to be speeding up and there's not enough time in the days and the weekends going to be worse so i figured i better blog now before i forget everything. seems to be lots going on. i've got advertisements up for a housemate and have had a few responses. anybody wanna come live in collingwood with me? the old housemate from perth who i was expecting to move in decided he cant afford it which is fair enough but it meant that where i just expected someone to move in at start of feb has become an advertisement for a housemate.

i went out for drinks last friday and set out to get drunk. i rarely get drunk. its a hard thing to achieve for me. i can drink a lot generally. as long as i don't mix my drinks too much. which i don't generally. we started the night with some of that premade add ice mojito stuff, which surprisingly didn't seem too bad, but it could have been the vodka talking. i did read the label the next day before i threw out the bottle, and it had the crappiest description on the label. its basically premade vodka mojito from nz, but who knows if the spirits came from nz or was just bottled there. after there we went to naked for satan, which is a vodka tapas bar in fitzroy. pretty much all night i mixed my drinks (mostly randomish shooters really) and then between those, i washed it all down with long island teas. from there we stopped at some place for food (i had some kind of salad with spinach, pumpkin, pinenuts and something) and washed it down with a long island tea. then on to polly, for more of the same. then to some random bar in collingwood where i'm not really sure what i drank to be honest. at some point (probably not long) after drinking some shooter (that was a poor resemblance to one of the girls native shooters from beirut apparently), i decided i was soon to be too drunk and departed. i don't exactly remember the walk home but i do remember stumbling around once arriving home, taking my drugs and then falling into bed. the next morning i woke up, decided that i had achieved the requirements for the "hangover achievement", awarded it to myself, and then took some stronger drugs and went back to bed. at 6pm i decided i might be able to get to the art show i wanted to see before it closed at 9pm. as i got out of the shower and realised it was 8:30pm, i gave up, had something to eat, took my drugs and went back to bed. sunday i felt pretty good really. got up, cleaned up around the house, went to the shops, walked around - the normal kind of thing i guess for sunday.

i went out for dinner on monday. we tried to goto trippy taco but there was no seating so we walked to an indian place i know close by. it seems to do most of its trade by delivery or takeaway because i've now been there a few times, and each time my friends and i are the only people who eat inside. we see people come and go with takeaway so we know others eat there, and the food is great really. nobody has had any complaints. its just a large area for a restaurant if nobody goes there.

stepping back in time the trip to narrogin went well. grandmas well. doesn't look a day over 100 really. hasn't changed in a few years in my view. but i only see her in small doses. the old folks home seems pretty boring. it'd be pretty bad to be stuck there for a long time. no wonder grandma looks forward to seeing people. it tires her out but it's probably better than being so bored. time would pass very slowly. perth is still perth. suburbia is still suburbia. the ocean and sunset at scarborough was great. there was a lot less people than i expected for a friday night, especially considering the heat that day. if it was st kilda it'd be packed. i wandered around perth cbd for a few hours one afternoon. the only thing i really noticed is no 7-11s. all the melbourne people will recognise that. there's one every few meters in melbourne it seems. in perth i couldn't find one. there's a business opportunity for someone. otherwise it's still the same perth cbd. some shops haven't changed since i left perth in 97. and the cbd just hasn't seem to grow at all. actually i did notice lots of new, empty shops. i think someone's working on the "if you build it they will come (eventually)" theory. i also caught up some friends when i could, and watched some quality zombie films with one. gotta love zombies. after grandma, the zombies were probably the best thing about perth really lol


tomorrow is sat. actually now is saturday, and friends from perth arrive in about 7 hrs. i turn 40 on sunday, so i'm having drinks tonight at a bar in the city, and they've flown in for that. the plan is to wake up sunday and then repeat the drinking at polly on sunday night, and then they'll fly home very early monday morning and i'll sleep all day and then go back to work tuesday. hopefully it'll be a good night. not sure about the whole 40 thing. i dont feel 40. but i am looking forward to seeing my friends so i'll just focus on that. if anyone wants to come along, drop me a pm quickly i've worked out what i would like for my birthday, but i don't think i'll get it because well actually it doesn't need to be written down, but i'll dream anyway. stranger things have happened. so far for my birthday, i've been given 62.5 standard drinks (which equates to the 2x1.75 litres of alcohol i've been given so looking forward to disposing of that next week. i wont need it this weekend i suspect. i'll have enough alcohol when i'm out. ooh just remembered we're eating korean bbq before we go out tomorrow night. that'll be yummy.


ok, well i should be in bed so i can get up before my friends get here. that'll make this almost short for my essay standards. i doubt i'll get to log in over the weekend so i expect next time i write, i'll be older


have a good one everybody.