Princess Kerryn is crowned
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Playing a bit of catch-up on the blog here so bear with me :)
The day after the boat party we went to Bridie O'Reilley's on Chapel St to help celebrate Kerryn's birthday. It was a lot of fun, even though Joe and I were still a bit tired form the day before, but it was good to spend some quality time with Kezza and Elli and meet some of Kerryn's friends, her new flatmate, and to finally meet Elli's boyfriend Jake.
Joe is, er, distracted
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Hooray for the Screw crew's boat parties, simply one of the best parties in existence. These parties are definitely the most fun that can be had on any boat, anywhere, any time, up to and including being a Guest Star on The Love Boat and having a love interested with Judy, your cruise director (or Isaac, your bartender, if that's more your style).
The parties are a fairly well kept secret, in that you have to know someone involved to get tickets, and they sell out fairly quickly, so you know it's only going to be good people who are interested in having fun and not a bunch of idiots :) Just good people having a great time dancing to some fantastic DJs.
The after party was also pretty cool, although I was very messy by the time I got there so I think the less said the better. I will say that I was so drunk that when I ordered Smirnoff Ice at the after party and was told they didn't stock it, I managed to stuff up my order of the equivalent Skyy vodka drink that I ended up with Skyy vodka and pink grapefruit and didn't notice until I was nearly finished, despite another friend telling me a few times that I was drinking a 'girlie' drink and laughing at me. :)
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Joe and I got an email from our photo editor at inthemix, looking for someone to shoot the launch of Puma's spring women's collection in Melbourne.
It was a fairly easy shoot, and a quick way to make some money, although it was kind of weird shooting people who were basically shopping :)
overhand
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Well, another year's ski trip has come and gone :)
This year the snow was a bit light on, but we had enough mostly for our purposes. The summit area was closed the entire time, in fact I don't believe they've had it open at all this year, they'd also sent a lot of their staff home, as there wasn't enough work for all the towies and instructors. At one stage in the week we'd heard that Hotham had just closed down, as they're run out of their water allotment and couldn't make any more snow to keep the runs open. There was a big dump of snow the next night so they were probably pretty thankful. One of the advantages of Falls Creek (where we were) is that most of its ski area is on the edge of a lake, meaning that water can be drawn from that lake for making snow and any melt or runoff will flow straight back into that lake. I suspect this means that water used on those slopes for snowmaking doesn't count towards their water allotment to as great an extent and is the difference between a resort almost closing and only having one run open, and a resort doing well and having half the mountain open.
So the snow was pretty good, where it was, and we were able to ski every day. Except I only skied half days, and didn't ski at all on the day it was pelting down snow and rain, because, frankly, i'm over that ;)
Skiing was a lot of fun, as it usually is, you can tell because we often end up the run and meet at the lift queue and everyone has a huge smile on their face, and nobody has to say anything.
Apart form the skiing the time was spent in the usual ways, drinking a bit, talking a bit of crap, playing dice and card games, watching a few dvds, eating a lot (we eat very well, and there's no shortage of good food), and of course 'entertaining' the kids (read: torturing)
A very restful week overall, lots of good skiing, loads of relaxation, not as much alcohol as normal, heaps of home cooked meals. awesome :)
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Joe has returned to Australia after an absence of two months spent in the UK with his family so a bunch of us headed out for beverages to celebrate his return. In the hunt for somewhere to go we ended up at Altitude on Russell st, which i haven't been to for quite a while, not since well before they built their new balcony lounge, so it was good to get another look at the place and see how it's shaping up. It was also good to see Joey again and to just hang out with the crew again. It ended up travelling up to Stellar and getting a bit messier before we all went our separate ways, but it was a good night.
The next morning Kerryn, Joe, Elli and I met up for pancakes and a bit more laughing and joking around before we all split up for a week. I was off skiing, Elli was off to Sydney, Kerryn was off to NZ the next weekend and Joey had some sleep to catch up on :)
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Thursday night was the launch of the first EP from Matt Watson's band Autumn Gray. The launch was held at the Rob Roy hotel in Fitzroy and it went really well, with the band playing to a capacity crowd and sales of the EP quite high. It's quite a good 6 piece band, with most of the band members playing a variety of instruments, particularly on the EP. Check them out for yourself here
planet earth is blue
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Took the opportunity of working late to take a couple of strolls around the city for some shots. Seemed like a good idea at the time, but then it caused my knee to start hurting again (I twisted it at the Collision party but it had been much better lately). At least that prompted me to actually go see a physio to see what the issue was and confirm I would still be able to go skiing next week. She confirmed that my patella was slightly out of place and showed me how to tape it back down properly.
Sal
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This weekend was the aLive 1st birthday party, despite the fact that it was only the 12th alive and not the 13th, but we celebrated anyways. This was the first aLive since the Mercat closed, and was held at a new venue the Bendigo Hotel in Abbottsford. The pub seemed to work quite well, with a decent beer garden and a large enough bistro to fit us all in comfortably, the sound system seemed fine and the food was excellent. It was also an opportunity to see Funky Monkey (Sal) DJ and she was pretty good, especially since it was only her second gig ever :)
