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Nov. 1st, 2009 08:25 pmToday was a really good day. I got up this morning and put on my new dress, which I got at the new op shop. It's a blue dress with a white hawaiian-ish print, in a stretchy cotton; it's basically just a little top with spaghetti straps joined to a big skirt, ankle-ish length. It turns out to look fabulous on me - the perfect waist, I think, plus the blue which is almost tealy and lovely. It was a gorgeous morning so I sunbathed and lolled around in the garden.
Then la famille had a massive lunch at Ostoria Del Toro (my father's birthday was on Thursday and M's was yesterday), which is an Italian restaurant on Tory street - their Sunday family lunches are highly recommended: unlimited salad/bread bar (which included a SUPER hummus, chickpea salad, tomatoes, lovely lovely beetroot and carrots, beautiful olive oil and balsamic vinegar which is my kryptonite), then mains. Because there were a tonne of us we had some variety in the mains, which take the shape of "pizza, pasta, paella, and half a roast chicken." I didn't much like the paella, but my mother and sister who both like seafood and artichoke hearts spoke highly of it; the broccoli/pine nut/other stuff pasta was delicious, quite a bit better than the meatball pasta (look at me, picking the vege option!) Pizzas were delicious - a lovely margarita and a prosciutto/italian words for different salamis and saucisson pizza. Chicken was yummy but a little bland. But all that for $29pp? An excellent deal, IMO. I must go back some Wednesday to try their mojito with complimentary suckling pig (!).
Then I came home, lolled a little more, went for a run which went terrifically which is v. pleasing. Have decided to attempt to take up running, because my parents gave our trampoline away and I seriously miss it. I'm using this plan which I decided was exactly my speed (I walk to and from work four days a week, a brisk 20 minutes each way, so I figured I was in the right place - and judging from how tonight went I seem to be.) I had a very pleasant time setting up a playlist alternating ~2min and ~4min songs, which was terrific - I like moving to music, and it was ideal not having to look at a watch, or whatever. The one downside is that it's difficult not to run to the beat, which is a bit of a problem for "Kiss with a Fist" and "I've Just Seen A Face." Speaking of Florence & the Machine, I bought Lungs the other day and have been really enjoying it. I specially like "Girl With One Eye" and "Drumming Song".
To round off the day, I finished Audrey Niffenegar's new book, Her Fearful Symmetry. I very much enjoyed it, but I nearly gave up on it in the last few chapters. Don't do this! Push through it, it's definitely worth it. And that is all I'll say about that.
Then la famille had a massive lunch at Ostoria Del Toro (my father's birthday was on Thursday and M's was yesterday), which is an Italian restaurant on Tory street - their Sunday family lunches are highly recommended: unlimited salad/bread bar (which included a SUPER hummus, chickpea salad, tomatoes, lovely lovely beetroot and carrots, beautiful olive oil and balsamic vinegar which is my kryptonite), then mains. Because there were a tonne of us we had some variety in the mains, which take the shape of "pizza, pasta, paella, and half a roast chicken." I didn't much like the paella, but my mother and sister who both like seafood and artichoke hearts spoke highly of it; the broccoli/pine nut/other stuff pasta was delicious, quite a bit better than the meatball pasta (look at me, picking the vege option!) Pizzas were delicious - a lovely margarita and a prosciutto/italian words for different salamis and saucisson pizza. Chicken was yummy but a little bland. But all that for $29pp? An excellent deal, IMO. I must go back some Wednesday to try their mojito with complimentary suckling pig (!).
Then I came home, lolled a little more, went for a run which went terrifically which is v. pleasing. Have decided to attempt to take up running, because my parents gave our trampoline away and I seriously miss it. I'm using this plan which I decided was exactly my speed (I walk to and from work four days a week, a brisk 20 minutes each way, so I figured I was in the right place - and judging from how tonight went I seem to be.) I had a very pleasant time setting up a playlist alternating ~2min and ~4min songs, which was terrific - I like moving to music, and it was ideal not having to look at a watch, or whatever. The one downside is that it's difficult not to run to the beat, which is a bit of a problem for "Kiss with a Fist" and "I've Just Seen A Face." Speaking of Florence & the Machine, I bought Lungs the other day and have been really enjoying it. I specially like "Girl With One Eye" and "Drumming Song".
To round off the day, I finished Audrey Niffenegar's new book, Her Fearful Symmetry. I very much enjoyed it, but I nearly gave up on it in the last few chapters. Don't do this! Push through it, it's definitely worth it. And that is all I'll say about that.
