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Let your hair down

Wednesday, 01 February, 2006

I cannot sleep from excitement! Our first issue in two years and it was all designed and edited by me! And now it's been unleashed onto the big stage of the world wide web ...

To celebrate our anniversary, Ben and I went away to stay in a nice fancy hotel in ... Sydney. Because we'd left it a bit late to book anything and because I was up to my ears in busy-ness, I left all the anniversary arrangements to Ben. He went to Last Minute.com to look for something. You pick your city and then apparently there is an option where you can get a place for $x, and you pay and then, after you've paid for it, you find out where you're staying. Surprise hotel! We ended up staying at the Avillion in World Square.

So we caught the train into the city on Friday, checked in, bought crazy Asian drinks, went walking around looking at the shops until they closed (this place made me drool!), had dinner at a Japanese restaurant across the street and went to see The Producers which I thought I would enjoy more than I did.

Saturday we slept in for an incredibly long time, had lunch at a café, indulged in Ben's favourite past-time of 2nd-hand CD shopping, walked to Circular Quay and caught the ferry to Manly. We walked around there for a long while, then sat on the steps near the beach and talked, then walked some more, and then got fish and chips for dinner. At one point we went into an open-air restaurant to see about dinner but the variety was terrible and the prices were sky-high so we resorted to good old takeaway. And then caught the ferry back, bought gelato smoothies, had a bath and stayed up watching Eat Carpet on SBS.

And then Sunday where we exchanged presents (Ben got me two Ani Difranco CDs! I got him Hero and The Muppet Show: Season One on DVD) and had breakfast in the hotel restaurant which was a mistake because it was expensive and we could have had a better breakfast for less if we had only turned left instead of right when going downstairs to see if that café from the day before was open.

When we got home, I spent the rest of the afternoon trying to design the front page for Issue 09 before we went to church.

On Monday I got offered a job by Greg Clarke from CASE. It's one day a week for three months and my role will be mainly to offer admin support for the C.S. Lewis Today conference in May. Douglas Gresham is coming! So is Chris Mitchell, director of the Marion E. Wade Center. And of course, since it's part of my job, I'll get to go to the conference! Woohoo!! I feel like pulling out my entire C.S. Lewis collection and reading through it all.

And now Issue 09 is up. Isn't life good! I'm too excited to sleep and I have to meet Elsie in 5 hours ...

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