Lovely weekend

Made the trip beachside yesterday to see Aunty B and Biz's new pad. Talk about location - these savvy returned-from-OS-but-not-yet-settled-down-into-the-9-5-grind folk have sublet a fabbbo flat from friends who are away. The view is slap bang of one of Sydneys most famous beaches, and this morning we amused ourselves with watching people exercise at the little beachside 'playground' for adults (funny bars that you do chin ups and pushups on if you are so inclined. I'm not).

Had a lovely walk along the beach and cliffs, which was great at first until my mild hangover (yah to house parties with spontaneous and enthusiastic loungeroom dancing!!) kicked in, making me feel a wee bit tired and flakey. Yah to the little kiosk at the end of our walk which provided much needed coffee. Bumped into a friend who was up from Melbourne for the weekend, who I had thus far failed to make proper coordinated catch up plans to see despite trying - who should be sitting watching the waves at the beach after staying beachside at his friends too?? Talk about synchronicity.

Then Aunty B picked up the local carshare car and we whizzed over to the inner west to vist Merry Risa, C-Chan and E-chan. Baby is bigger and more alert than the first time we met - after all he was only in day 3 and still coming to terms with having been born! Today he showed off his very clever neck control, gave the merest hint of a cheeky smile, and demonstrated great abs with a bout of hiccups and projectile vomit on dad's shoulder. Very cute indeed, these two aunties got a wee bit clucky. I can't beleive it's been 5 weeks already. I hope to have a longer catch up soon and fancy taking a flex to hang out and hear all the stories and share briefly the experience of life with bub. Maybe I can make soup!

Feeling like there are not enough hours to go around though as another weekend rolls around where I didn't catch mum on the phone for a chat, didn't see Mountainspice and her new bub, and on the home front didn't do any grocery shopping or washing whatsoever (mmm welcome interesting work outfits this week!), let alone other life admin. One of the obvious downsides of life with 25 hours of weekly commute (not counting weekends). Hmmm. Time for a rethink?

There were some nice things about being up here this week - did have the first meeting of an artists group that a friend has set up, and had another friend offer me space in her garden to grow vegies in a community garden style set up. Very hard to leave behind cool things like that. More on the artists group later and on finding local life drawing buddies who may be up for regular Saturday sessions, going someway towards making me feel better about the Tuesday group I can no longer attend because of work.