It was a matter of time before I reverted back to my lazy entries.
But I guess that's worth feeling gratitude for, because it means I'm busy/productive, right?

Anyway, after the previous Saturday's epicness, I had to chill for a bit.
Sunday was spent with my mum and her bff. We headed to our good ol' haunt in Cabramatta and ordered some comfort food for the belly. Pho Tau Bay's raw beef pho, pork mince wrapped in rice noodle sheets, and the shenfa pork hock noodle soup topped with vietnamese ice coffee. AHMAZING!

Then it was a week of hectic productivity as I scrambled to get my first experimental chapter written up. But lucky I had a few chill catch ups with my faves to look forward to.
First up, Saturday morning I got to have a nice chat with my littlebro as I gave him a lift to work.
Of course, we ended up running a bit late due to Mardi Gras traffic, but I ended up heading straight to the brunch place instead of meeting Cherry at her abode first.
As fate would have it, I ended up our chosen brunch spot first.

Nan's Place in Waterloo.
What can I say? We somehow ended up there from like 11am to almost 3pm.
They sat us in the secret garden, where we had a nice umbrella covering our heads and pots of herbs for company. The food was great - I got the mushroom, avocado and black rice. It was really yummy, if a bit on the saucy side.
I indulged myself with a soy latte as well!
We talked about so much random stuff.
And the waiters/wairtresses - so cute and personable. One of them was seriously like a hobbit with rainbow suspenders.

Then after our epic long lunch we separated ways and I went to pick up adam so we could go grocery shopping before visiting wange
Somehow we ended up in charge of dinner and made japchae (using this recipe) - like most things in life, it was a little bit of a struggle but we got there in the end. Still impressed we fed 9.5 people with a little over $30?
Lexi and Asher were both adorable. I think they would be capable of giving maternal feels to just about anybody. No, thank you. 
Lol of the day would have to be when Lexi took my hand and lead my upstairs to find her rubber duck. She finds her baby one and looks around for the mother one.
Nekminnit, sees Adam holding the mother duck and she just full on starts bawling~~
I wonder when Lexi will stop being scared of the white one :P
She's the cutest, because she recognises the both of us now.

The Hos (including ChoKaHo) crack me up so much. They're seriously like crack.
Also, have to include this amazing exchange with my mum this morning. I'd told her that aunty had given adam $20 red pocket money (which is the same as what she'd given him). And she replies with, oh that makes sense, she treats you like a daughter so adam is like her future son-in-law. Just like I treat you like my daughter. 
What a troll.

Today, I had brunch with belinda bubbles at Three Williams in Redfern.
I NEEEEEEED to go back. The food was so delish. And the coffee was yummy. The wait wasn't too long and the atmosphere was just really nice. Also, cool to be able to catch up with Bel one-on-one for the first time in awhile.
Unfortunately no photos of the super scrummy french toast (brioche, yogurt, berries and nuts) or the cooked to perfection hot chips because it was dark, but argh, so good.

Then after brunch (which again ended at like...2pm) I went over to visit le boo for a little while before heading home to vacuum, do the laundry and OH CRAP I HAVEN'T HUNG THE SECOND BATCH YET NOOOOOOOOO

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Weekend brunch - oh, how I wish I could quit you!
Miss wynwyn flew off for some hawaiian fun today, so the group of us high school friends made a last minute decision/choice/judgment to have brunch
Cherry decided to bring Johnson along, and it was probably the most inappropriate brunch to take him along to, I mean, what didn't we discuss?
It was like an agenda taken straight out of sex and the city - laser hair removal, menstruation, protection, with a standard bitch session to top it all off. Felt like I learnt a lot haha.

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<3

 

donna.

one of many things to go into my recent gratitude diary is rekindling old loves. and that includes my love for these three, right here. i'm just so grateful that, though my love has waxed and waned over the years, we're in love in this moment :)
you guys are awesome.
you make me laugh and you make me fat and you make me addicted to caffeine in the best possible ways. can't wait to share more of these moments, whether it be impromptu bra shopping, befriending or befriending the staff, pretentious coffee orders, not talking about people or, hahaha, drooling together...i miss you already <3

donna.

gotta love a good baking session.
lovely wynnie volunteered to make all the baked goods for cherry's wedding - i.e. wedding cake and cookies. in the end, not sure making the wedding cake was the brightest idea the three of us have ever had, since wynnie had to leave a week before the wedding for US of A.
lots of trauma and cake farting ensued, and i'm fairly sure i'll never recover from the cake-sitting incident of 2013.

disregarding that, i had a fantastic time playing apprentice for the cookie decorating session.
lots of fun :)

cake was heavily inspired by this pin and the cookies by this pin

 

for more hoho wedding baking goodness: part 1 | part 2a | part 2b

donna. 

so proud of this girl

 

donna.

had a fantastic saturday.
woke up super early and bussed it out to the city. was late to get picked up by wynnie, thanks for waiting!
had brunch at bills - really good coffee and ricotta pancakes but a fair wait and took ages to get seated. in cherry's words, not sure if it's worth going back.
then it was nothing happening and it was AH-MA-ZING! i can't remember the last time I cracked up so bad, but have to give credit where it's due. vivian and cherry are awful/awesome people to sit next to while watching an (un)intentionally hilarious movie. the end was just...no words. unbelievably entertaining, up down up down, gasps and lols.
oh! and also, cameo of The Alleyway, was also amazing. Still can't believe we picked it out :P
then cherry had to go byebye, so me, wynnie and vivian went to messina for gelato and the hazelnut flavour was <3.
then it was vivian's turn to byebye and wynnie was awesome to give me a lift back to the hills, via udon and diy-froyo in eastwood.

so blessed.

 

(fail self-cam of the four of us)

donna.