Worst Blogger EVER

So I have decided I am the WORST blogger ever. There has been SO much to talk about but I have been neglecting my blog in the worst way. Like a lot of things I started out with a plan: I'd blog every day. But slowly life sort of took over and I ended up doing other things instead of blogging.. We go to bed a lot earlier here (Sean has to be up at 6am) so I'm not up at night, when I typically would do a blog post. I also have a little schedule going on here where I piddle around in the morning, email, etc. then go off for the day to visit Brady (an hour each way) or go to the gym or head into the CBD. I typically get home around the time Sean is getting home from work and we'll cook dinner and watch Master Chef (it's on every night) then head to bed shortly after.

Anyway.. There have been so many things to report so I'll do a quick update.

• When Sean came to Sydney to meet me after I found the apartment we had an amazing weekend. We went to dinner one night and saw Charlize Theron!! The waiters apparently saw Sean lift a spoon of dessert into his mouth and watched it fall as he noticed Charlize Theron standing three feet from him. He claimed he recognized the chef and that is why he was so "Star Struck" so they told the chef and she came out and introduced herself to us.. It was hysterical! The meal was amazing as well!
• Sean loved the new apartment as much as I did! We took measurements and went to pick out some furniture to have delivered the day I arrive but we missed a key wall measurement so we couldn't order the couch but we did order the bed for our room and the guest room, as well as a futon for the third bedroom.
• I went to the Tim Burton exhibit at the ACMI (Museum in Melbourne) and it was awesome! They had the Bat mobile, the actual scissor hands from Edward Scissorhands and tons of amazing sketches. My favorite were Tim Burton's sketches from Beetlejuice. Remember the scene in the movie where the people who had died are in some office registering to the afterlife? They show all the people how they had died, so there is a football player carrying his head and a woman who had been cut in half, etc.? Anyway, he had a ton of sketches that were really cool, it was a great afternoon.
• Brady lost his voice at dog jail! Thank god he only has one day left!! A bunch of other little yippy dogs moved into his cell block and they are barking up a storm so Brady lost his voice.. We were reassured that he'd have it back in no time.
• Sean and I spent the afternoon in Manly and met some new friends who we were introduced to by two different people in the US. We were SO excited to meet other American expats and can't wait to hang it with them again soon.
• I met a friend of a friend who is awesome!! She is working in Sydney for a while from Boston and we went to a beer garden - it was great so I hope she sticks around Sydney for a while.
• Sean and I had an early dinner last week (Wed night) in the CBD and he got stopped in one of the random breath test operations that they have here. It was crazy!! I guess the alcohol limit is lower here too so it was good he didn't have any wine with dinner.
• We saw the nasty possum that lives in our wall. We were actually talking about how loud he had been lately while waiting for a cab outside and he ran by us in the dark - he is HUGE!!
• The possum woke us up SQUEALING the other night.. It was a terrible sound like listening to a small child have their fingers pulled off one by one.
• We went to an Australian Rules Football game on the 4th of July at Ethiad Stadium. It was very cool because we were guests of Australia Post and sat in their box so that was great but I didn't really follow the game. It's sort of like football/rugby/soccer and even basketball in a way.. Odd.
• We still LOVE Masterchef Australia
• I went to see Eclipse last weekend - LOVED it!
• I have stopped reading total crap and read Water for Elephants and Olive Kitteridge in the past two weeks. I loved them both and would recommend them as summer reading to anyone looking for something. I will warn that Olive Kitteridge is pretty depressing so if you're looking for a beach read I'd pick something else. I just started Wally Lamb's book "The Hour I First Believed" and am loving it so far (but how could you not love a book that takes place in part in your home town?).
• I got a haircut yesterday and got full on bangs.. AAah! I have done it before and sort of hated it but I needed a change & so far so good.
• I'm still walking a TON but haven't been to the gym religiously since the trip to Sydney b/c I have been doing other random "trips" during the week: (IKEA, bank, etc) and figured my walking would make up for the lack of gym..
• I found a dog sitter for Brady while we are in the US who is willing to stay with him at our apartment so that is huge (as long as he isn't a total freak when we meet him in person on Sunday)

I am sure I am leaving out a ton of updates but hopefully I will be better about blogging and will keep everyone more up to date.