With back to back weekends of festivals coming up I thought it might be a good idea to start taking Berocca to give me a little extra b-b-bounce. After Harboulife, which took me 3 days to recover from, I can honestly say that I’m starting to feel my age. Never thought I’d say this, but I think I’m getting too old for this.

I just have to get through Stereosonic, Homebake, Big Day Out, Future Music and Good Vibes, then I think I’m done with festivals. Talk about going out with a bang.

Harbourlife marks the start of the festival season for me and if it’s any indication of the festivals to come, I think we’re in for a great summer! I’d been checking the weather all week hoping that it wouldn’t storm and we were in luck. We had perfect weather, not too hot and not cold (like last year). Since it was right next to Sydney Harbour we got a nice cool breeze. It really is the festival with the best location.

It was great to catch up with some old high school mates, I haven’t seen these guys in a couple of years. All up we span 3 generations of Birrong Girls.

I was really looking forward to Stanton Warriors, but I think Martin Solveig stole the show. I know you can’t really see what’s going on in the photo below, but that’s Martin on stage … somewhere.

The day really seemed to fly by and before we knew it we were all calling out for One more song! Martin graced out requests with a killer track by the Red Hot Chilli Peppers – an odd choice, but none the less still fun. (I’m pretty sure it was the chilli peppers, but correct me if I’m wrong…)

That was our plan of attack at trivia last night, if we didn’t know the answer, we just went with Abba. I would highly not recommend it though, we came last. Good effort team! But I think it’ll be a while till we can show our faces at The Rose again.

Even though we totally sucked at trivia, we were still able to take advantage of the trivia food deal. If you play, you can order small pizzas for $10 each and they’re well worth it. Great pizzas, crappy photo (My bad, I hate using flash).

We headed to Haberfield to catch up with with Vick on Sunday night. We usually go to Dolcissimo, which is probably one of my favourite Italian restaurants in Sydney, but since a few new places had opened up we thought we’d be brave and try something different so we headed to Napoli in Bocca. I apologise now for the lack of photos, been feeling a bit off-key all weekend and was a bit too dizzy to take any proper photos.

Because I was feeling sick I went with the prawn penne (thought I’d keep it simple), it was great, a little on the garlicky side but I love garlic so it’s all good. G’s marinara was probably one of the best marinara’s I’ve had in a while, which is a high call coming from me. I’m a big marinara fan and if you stuff it up, your restaurant is as good as dead to me. Also, if you’re a lasagna fan, like Garfield, you would love this place. Vick’s lasanga was enormous! Seriously, it was huge! I think Garfield would even have trouble finishing it.

My only complaint: the rocket in the Rocket and Parmesan salad was too bitter, as was the Chinotto. But then again, I also thought the gelato we had after was too sour, so maybe it was just me.

With so many pubs and bars in the Oxford street area, you really need something different to draw a crowd. That’s when we stumbled upon Doctor Pong. And with a name like Doctor Pong, you can’t go wong (yes I intentionally left the ‘r’ out).

Don’t worry the name doesn’t relate to a foul smell or any funky like that. It’s simply that there’s a ping pong table right in the middle of the bar. Normally where you would find a deserted dance floor with a few awkward people dancing they’ve placed a ping pong table. Sheer genius!

Since this bar is new in town it needed some good chatter, and what’s the best way to get the people talking? Free food, and I’m talking good free food. That yellow mushy looking thing in the picture above was amazing! I think it was some sort of butternut pumpkin puree – divine!

The bar has a really cool vibe, it’s decked out with really classy leather psychiatrist-type lounges matched (or contrasted) with wooden crates as tables, which doubles as an entertainment factor. As you can see from the picture below, we were quite entertained with writing messages and stupid things on the crates.

Spotted: a kilometre of median strip with upside-down witches hats in it. Now if this was a road near Bondi I would have thought it was a part of Sculptures by the Sea, but this was no where near Bondi so I wasn’t sure if it was a strange prank or if it had some sort of functional purpose. Either way, it looked cool and made the journey home a bit more exciting, especially after sitting in stand-still traffic for an hr.

@danwill75 posted a link to this on twitter and I though it was absolutely brilliant! Not exactly sure how factual it is, but it sure is entertaining. And it all starts with dancing goats.

15 (ish) things worth knowing about coffee

There are other entertaining comics and random quizzes to take too so if you’ve got some time to kill – enjoy! One comic worth checking out is How to use an apostrophe. I must admit, I’ve referred to this page a couple of times when trying to decide where to put the apostrophe, it’s quite handy.

G and I felt like pizza but didn’t actually feel like cooking any of the ingredients, so we put our heads together and came up with the party pizza. What’s with the name?

I’m glad you asked.

Well, you know when you go to a mates place and they put out a plate of nibbles for the party? It’s usually stuff like cabanossi, cheese, sundried stuff and, if your friends are healthy, celery and carrot sticks. Why not make a pizza topped with all that goodness (minus the healthy stuff of course)… Seriously, why not? It was awesome. Okay sure, it probably isn’t the best for my heart (or my ass), but my taste buds sure loved it. Needless to say they were having a party in my mouth (Lame, I know. But it’s my blog so sue me).

This has to be the cheapest parking metre in Sydney (well besides probably Cabramatta). It’s definitely the cheapest parking metre in Milsons Point, just around the corner from this spot the metre is $3.40 an hr. What a rip!

It also has an awesome view of the bridge and the Opera house (or ‘Opera Centre’ as Hugh Jackman would call it).

Is it just me or do these trees look like giant pineapples?

I don’t usually blog about clothes but this is just plain embarrassing. Today I walked out of the house in a green hoodie, with a green backpack, carrying a green calico bag. Sigh… Any guesses of what my favourite colour is?

I really need to start buying things in other colours otherwise I’m just making life hard for myself.