Usually when somebody points you in the direction of a bar that sells food – all their food – for $4.95, you kind of expect (a) rubbish food (b) rubbish service (c) probably cheap drinks (d) all of the above. We went to El Furniture Warehouse (or “El Furny”) on a rec from a local, and really didn’t expect anything great.
Well, you know the awesome thing about low expectations? When it turns out good, you’re blown away.
tater tot hot dish, with mushroom beef gravy, cheddar, poached eggs and fried onions
It has been 19 days since my last blog post. This is some kind of obscene record. I mean, the last time I stopped blogging for a substantial amount of time was when I had like, 1/3 of my intestines removed. Well, don’t worry, I’m fine. I’m just in the deep throes of utter depression; post holiday blues compounded by the fact that… actually compounded by nothing. Just Big Bad Post Holiday Blues.
It all started over a discussion about the utter crapness of wedding reception food. No matter where you have it, no matter who caters, it always leaves a lot to be desired. Unless you have a kick ass Chinese banquet, which is always good.
I made a passing comment years ago that if I got married, I would totally have Shake Shack and Luke’s Lobster cater my wedding because those two are things I possibly adore as much as I would adore my betrothed, so you know, it makes sense.
Well, as it turns out, I didn’t have a big wedding per se, but I did celebrate matrimony with all of my favourite things!
Before I rave on about Burger & Lobster, I have to apologise if this post looks weird. I’m blogging on my iPad for the first time and well, as you and I both know, as awesome as tablets are, they are not laptops and the apps are never quite the same… But alas, no laptop on the road.
It has been 22 months since I had a decent holiday. I know I seem to travel a lot, but unless by “travel” you mean “three-day-no-rest-city-break” then ok, I travel a lot. But believe me when I say those city breaks? You definitely need a holiday to recover from them. The last time I took more than three days off in a row was February 2011 – a trip which started off great but ended with major surgery, so you know, not great.
But hey, it’s now only seven sleeps until we hit up London and New York, followed by a week of cutting the snow in Whistler! I am beyond excited.
You know when you’re going away for a beach break and you pray and pray for great weather? And then it’s all sunny all the way up to your trip and then it’s overcast when you’re there and then it’s sunny the day you leave? Yeah, that. That is exactly what happened last weekend when a few of my girlfriends and I decided to take a trip up to Terrigal for a quick 24 hour vitamin D boost. The day we arrived was absolute shit (‘scuse the French), but of course the day we leave, it’s all sunshine and phenomenal.
But we made the most of it, even if it meant having to go wander around Erina Fair shopping mall for a couple of hours 🙂