Ladies of Lesuire plus weigh in day dont quite belong together.

Well the last few days have been pretty interesting and slightly painful.
I've suffered a small dose of man flu Here, I've had a few personal issues that seem never-endingly unresolved. A bit of an emotional roller-coaster at times, but so are the days of our lives. I hope you roll over that link for some added atmosphere.
I am pleased to report however regardless of having some shitty days I've kept up exercising, mainly jogging and sexy pram walking and am actually starting to feel stronger. In today's effort I pushed out the last bit of fuel in the tank to sprint the last 100 meters ...and then spewed. :)
Just Kidding!
I decided to do weigh-ins in the morning because I'd planned a pretty luxurious lunch at a very fancy pants restaurant for my best friend (it was her birthday on tuesday) and her partner;Weighing after that would just be silly! SO drum roll I weighed 71.2kilos which isn't a bad loss for one week! I'm happy with it anyway, at least its a result in the right direction and everyone always says its worse to loose alot quickly so slow and steady will suit me just fine thank you very much. No bikini shots just yet though.

On Wednesday I took my baby boy to his first ever concert which was called Power Hip Hop

" Ten young, talented and culturally diverse hip hop artists have been mentored by Tasmania’s best musicians to create new works for the Symphony Orchestra. Power Hip Hop debuted at the Peacock Theatre in December 2009 and received rave reviews from the TSO audience and hip hop fans alike.

Many of these mentored artists are refugees or at-risk youth who have lived through war, poverty and very difficult circumstances. Their art provides them with the opportunity to tell their stories and voice their concerns about the world they live in.

This concert is a triumph of creativity and collaboration between one of the world’s best orchestras and Tasmania’s leading youth Community Cultural Development company. "

It was so ...cute? I don't know if that's a good word to describe it at all, but it was all I could think of at the time. There were a few very serious songs with nervous serious kids ..and then the very RnB style 'one love' kids that had their dance routines perfected and clothes straight from a snoop dog film clip. CUTE, yes they made me smile and feel happy. The show was at the Theater Royal which is Australia's oldest operating theater, a really magical place, these kids must of been so hyped. My Little man squirmed for a bit, then bopped away for a song, then azzzzzzleep he went. My genius cousin Dameza played as well which was absolutely the highlight. I may be bias but I think when it comes to skill in scratching turntablism his are unsurpassable and only getting better. Yes Eric San be afraid. Okay maybe slightly bias however when he played his piece with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra I had tears. It was incredibly moving how the sounds blended so perfectly. A part in the middle had the violin section doing a really random little fluttering set of notes that created so much mood and texture, I think I even gasped a little bit. I'm so annoyed with myself for taking the crappiest camera in the world, because it is hand held and hard to lug my good one around esp with the baby but GRRR. I took a few shots but there were completely un-photoshop-able, the only one Im willing to show very vaguely shows a group of the RnB kids doing their little dance routine.

Its a terrible shot I know.

So today was the long awaited fancy Masterchef style lunch at the beautiful restaurant at Moorilla called The Source. Wow this was fancy to the MAX. Again, in my dickheadism I took the crappy hand held camera, never again sorry for the photography fans out there, I know it hurts your eyes.


Everyone was extremely impressed with my choice of birthday present.
When I picked it up earlier in the day a man at the shop asked if it was for my boyfriend, I told him No, its a birthday present for my best friend. Persistently he asks 'Oh how old is he?' I reply 'She..is -age censored for blog-'. Classic. They were even more impressed.

Birthday girl looks pretty happy too.

So enough typing, here are the pictures of our delicious lunch. Again pardon the terrible quality.



This was scallop entree with a bed of the most delicious cous cous I've ever eaten, baby tomatoes that tasted like little oranges and milky mousse stuff that all obviously had a much fancier name than I have described. Mental note, take a photo of the menu as well.

My Wagyu beef cheeks with caramelized onion, spinach and the tastiest orange stuff in existence.



Birthday girls slow cooked Pigeon with all sorts of vegies and very rich stock sauce. Very French but I have made it sound like something you could whip up in Franklin Square with a Bunsen burner.



Birthday girl's partner had the winner in my opinion.
Duck with artichoke and some kind of super awsem coffee sauce. It was the most delicious meat.

Sides of brussel sprouts (gag) with bacon & the most intense creamy rich mash potato that ever existed. I swear it was 70%butter..Full on..and we got two orders of it thinking we wouldn't have enough food.

Last but not least birthday girl had pistachio panacotta for desert (luckily because the staff had arranged to write her a little message and I had worried she may not want desert). God bless her insatiable appetite. We had hand made chocolates and coffee which turned out to be on the house, and they only charged us for one bowl of the mash potato. There were probably more calories in that lunch than I've consumed all week but its all good because big fat losers weigh in isnt for another week and best friend's birthday isnt for another year! x