we went to centrelink this afternoon. Natalie had to renew her health care card and i... well i just went because i love centrelink so much. it was pretty quick, there was a suprisingly short line for 4:15pm on a friday afternoon - it is friend isn't it? anyway afternoon centrelink i took natalie to the newcastle regional art gallery, you can do that sort of thing up here because everything is so close together, we could have gone to the beach if we walked 15mins further. so anyway we went to the gallery, i wanted to show natalie the Hung & Strung exhibtion of marionette puppets made by the head teacher at my tafe. she liked them and i was happy that we had spent some time together other then watching star trek and cooking dinner. after the gallery we walked next door to the newcastle library - i told you everything is close - and we decided to join. the library staff were very helpful and i got the feeling that we were the first people to join in quite some time. they acted as if we had asked them if they would mind taking one million dollars off our hands, but really its the opposite in some respect because we get to borrow books for free and they don't really get anything out of it. unless they really like checking out books and returning items to the shelves. i guess you'd have to like that to work in a library... unless you were just a student working there for the extra cash.
after that we walked along hunter st and up passed tafe towards home, we stopped briefly at the duck's nuts hotel (yes, seriously, it's called that) to visit lisa whoe had been there since the end of tafe at 4pm, it was now about 5:15pm i might add. we ended up going inside to chat to cuz, mike and rita as well. cuz was busy exhibiting his new found skill of blowing smoke rings - i doubt he will have much of a voice in the morning. we played with some Beyblades on the blue felt pool table and one got lost in the pocket. luckily the prismatic one didn't get lost though as rita reckons she could get a good swap out of it - a chocolate paddle pop at least!
*newsflash, natalie has the hiccups*
so anyway, then we headed for Market town, natalie wanted to buy me some lip gloss for my very dry lips and we were thinking along the lines of thai curry for dinner. as we were crossing the road a nice guy asked us where was 'hot spot' he and his friend could go to hang out - obviously he hadn't had much experience of newcastle... we pointed towards town and said that's the best we could do, and it was i guess, without getting into tedious map drawing and explaining street by street directions.
so we get to market town and head for video ezy. natalie wanted an ice block. she got a solo lemon ice block and said it tasted like banana so i tried it...... it tasted like lemon to me. and cold, it also tasted cold. after that we went to office works, not because we really ahd to but because it's so big and bright and such a novelty. finally we got to Bilo where we went in search of a curry paste or what not. we looked for a solid ten mintues but then decided we'd just have soup. on the way home, we caught a bus by the way, natalie toyed with the idea of getting thai takeaway. i told her it would be lovely but if we got it we'd regret spending the money we couldn't really afford to spend. so when we got home it was a choice between nachos and pasta. either way i would have to go to Iga. nacho's - avacado, pasta - turkish bread. so i said i'd go to iga and if the avacados were ripe we'd have nachos, if they weren't we'd have pasta. i went and tested the avacados......they weren't too bad, probably even semi good....but my stomach wasn't feeling too good so i thought a nice pasta would probably go down better. so i bought turkish bread and snacks. snacks consisting of two strawberry chuppa chups and some nut crackers. nut crackers are just a mix of nuts and rice crackers. it's a pretty good mix actually you get peanuts, cashews, almonds and a few macadamia's. when i got home we made pasta and watched a bit of the simpsons. it was the 'who shot mr.burns' episode. maggie btw. when dinner was ready - fettecini (sp?) with a napolitana sauce and toasted turkish bread - we sat down and watched Sleepers. Natalie hadn't seen it before and i think it was a bit more then she was up for, i have seen it a few times and i started reading the book in abotu september 2000......i hope my bookmark is still in there... the movie finished a little while ago, we stopped the tape in time to see a bit of True Lies which is on tv tonight. it was the part where jaimie lee curtis' character thinks she's going undercover for a secret gov agency and has to dance for arnie's character, her characters husband, who she thinks is some sort of Mob guy. it's very funny esp when she's thrusting up against the bedpost and then falls over. actually the most amusing part of it all is probably because she's wearing her panties and bra but also her high heels. anyway.... that's enough of today and probably one of my longest posts....