My Blue Heaven

Monday morning blues

Don’t you just love Monday mornings. NOT! :\ *sigh* Just feeling particularly blue this morning. And also am experiencing feelings of.. displacement? Anyway… guess I gots the Monday blues. Also am rather tired today. Think I’m in need of some chocolate therapy.

[Excuse me while I go and get myself a mocha latte!]

Ok I’m back! My upper back has been hurting again lately. Started on Saturday morning, after I got out of the shower. Something just twinged, the exact same place as before (when I injured it at RICE – from lifting my keyboard amp). Darn it. Why does it keep coming back? 🙁 I couldn’t even stand up straight for a while. Had to go and lie down coz that was the only way it didn’t hurt. *sigh* Luckily its feeling a lot better now. I had Paul give me some deep tissue massage in that spot *ouchie!* and that seems to have helped. Though it felt a little tender afterwards. I think I need some massage therapy. Should I go and see my chiropractor again? Or a physio? Or just a beautician for a normal back massage? Or none of the above?

Weekly weekend update

Yep, its time for that weekly weekend update. I had quite a relaxing one this weekend. On Saturday I went to Vic & Christine’s engagement party at Balmoral beach. It was an absolutely gorgeous day for it – blue skies and sunshine, warm mid 20’s, and a picnic by the beach. Ahh.. soo nice! I went for a bit of a paddle too – rolled up my jeans and took a relaxing stroll along the beach, enjoying the (very) cool, crisp water lapping around my ankles. It was so picturesque, I had to take a pic with my phone!

*sigh* Can’t wait till summer!!! 😀 So on Sunday I had a much needed sleep in, then went with Paul to our usual Sunday hangout at Burwood westfield for some late afternoon lunch and shopping. I bought myself a new belt! Its simple white, with a metal rectangular buckle. No patterns, sequins, sparkles or anything. Just plain white. $10 too! What a bargain! 🙂 I had to buy one coz my new hipster jeans are.. err.. rather low and have a tendency to show some C&C (cheek & crack) if I bend over or squat. NOT a good look. Need a belt to hold em up! 😛

I made a new artist discovery! Jamie Cullum – a new jazz musician/singer from the UK. He’s cool! Plays piano and sings. His first label album, Twenty Something, consists of about half originals by himself and half covers. His covers are really good, coz they don’t sound exactly the same as the original, but are really different and very creative. They’re mostly jazzy arrangements of some great classics such as “Singing In The Rain”, “I Get A Kick Out Of You” or some more modern ones like “Lover, You Should’ve Come Over” (Jeff Buckley) and “High and Dry” (Radiohead). Very nice.

Hee. I love discovering new artists! It was totally by accident too – I was browsing through Sanity when Paul pointed out a “Jackson 5” album, which we tried to listen to on the listening station. But it didn’t have that album number listed, so I ended up listening to the one after it, which happened to be Jamie Cullum. The first few seconds of the first track just caught my attention and I ended up listening to the other tracks, and buying the album (only $19.99 at Sanity).

On Sunday evening, Paul and I went to visit a different church – Christians In The Media in Annandale – which his sister attends (and works at as one of the ministry staff). This is the church that Dominic Steele (founder of Introducing God) pastors. It’s a really cool church! I quite like it – its mostly made up of young (20 to 30 something) students and workers in the Media industry. It’s run very well, a bit different from your average anglican church. It’s got a very laidback feel, quite small-ish (around 50 – 70 members), and the church has a rather nicely designed modern interior! It’s also very, very newcomer friendly – they use hardly any christian jargon.. even the bible reading is eg. Matthew chapter 27, sentance 45. And they are apparently growing heaps – doubled in size in the past year with many newcomers and people bringing their friends. My impression was that it’s a very vibrant and growing church.

Anyways, after service I met a number of people (all quite friendly and welcoming) – including some of Paul’s good friends. We were invited to join them at the local pub across the road afterwards. It’s quite a nice pub. Good food, reasonably priced, and really cool toilets! 😛 Its got auto-flushing toilets (has a sensor that knows when you’re in front of the toilet, and when you go away) and auto-sensored taps (which turn on when you put your hands under it)! How cool is that! 🙂

Next year
things are gonna change..