Working, Apartment Hunting and Chinese New Year - Wednesday 11th January

Wednesday 11th January

A lot has happened in the last couple of days. Phil started his new job and has been working long hours plus, he has loads of reading to do when he gets home in the evening. I've been playing Housewife whilst looking for work and sorting out a place to live. I went to Hays agency and they've offered me a 3 week contract starting tomorrow for CRBE in the heart of the city. They are going to look for a permanent position whilst I'm there.

We applied for an apartment on Boomerang Place. The place is small and cluttered but it's within our budget and has a good balcony and a nice view which is more than can be said for a lot of these places. We did look at one in Chinatown but the Chinese smell in the gym was a little overpowering - we should have expected that but still... Besides, how are you expected to concentrate on working out when you can smell delicious Chinese food? The apartment on Boomerang Place is on hold for us whilst they get approval from the landlord so hopefully we'll hear that we've got it today.

We're hoping to go and see a Dixieland band called Tuba Skinny at a place called The Basement tonight. We saw them at the Sydney Festival and they were great.

Have a listen here: Tuba Skinny. They have a guy playing the washboard - I'm thinking about learning to play it :)

I have to wait until tonight to find out if we're going though as it will depend on Phil's tiredness and stress levels. I've found out that Aretha Franklin is playing at the same place on 24th March so I'm going to speak with him tonight to see if he wants to go to that. That would just be amazing!

Sydney gearing up for Chinese New Year now. There is a free open-air movie in the park on Monday about the life of Bruce Lee as told by his brother. Then next weekend we'll be attending the parade with the Chinese Dragon and finishing it off with the firework display. I can't wait!!

Chinatown in Sydney