After a long work week of 47 hours on the clock I was almost ready to explode more than the mini nuke tested in North Korea on Sunday. It can be very frustrating when everyone asks you something at once and the multitasking gets overloaded, but overall it still ended very well with a few good laughs about the chefs coming out from the kitchen and into the bar seeing the glass windows saying oh my god is this spongey carpet?
Woke up the next day to a nice car ride to Ballan instead of riding the bike because my legs were totally shocked from standing on them all week. Got into Southern Cross to head out to Caulfield to meet a new friend, Bronte, super cute movie lover/traveler/yogi, of my mom and mark whom they met at the Sundance film festival in Park City. Made it to her parents place which I was so surprised how nice it is and definitely how nice they are. Had an amazing day hanging with them and then headed out for a drink with a new friend named emmaaa Leee who I met through work that rarely works at the Lake House. Got lost with time after having more than a few laughs and missed my train. She was very kind enough to let me stay at her place till 4 in morning which I had to head back on the first train to make it back in time to meet Bronte at 530 to leave for a 615 hot yoga class at one hot yoga which had the lights dimmed almost off and the room perfectly warm like a perfect nook to sleep in. Had bout 45 minutes of sleep and was actually running on 3 hours the night before so i was a little bit of not all there, but was pheening for a good stretch of some yoga. During yoga i was wide awake surprisingly, but after the class I found myself sitting in the car wondering the rabbit hole was luring me in and needed to lay down before breaking my neck sleeping in a seated position. Made it back in no time and i luckily got a 120 min nap that helped out tremendously. We then decided what we wanted to do and headed out to the beautiful area next to yarra valley, dry climate baby of a baby brother to napa, called Healsville. Healsville has a really cool sanctuary for wild endangered Australian animals that look happy being in a big open area outside without huge cages. Bronte and I had an amazing time and we got to see a little friend I wanted to steal a hug from but wasn't allowed. We headed back which was a quick hour drive through many little cities outside of Melbourne and I found it very funny that Bronte can't use her Sport mode because she still has a P license for a year, but how would a quirky australian policeman know if she was using it if she put her car in park if he/she pulled her over? Lol
When we made it back after that funny thought I hung out with her awesome mom and watched some Hawaii-five O for the first time which was interestingly entertaining?
Had some dinner with her family and talked to her dad, Peter, about business and politics going on in the world and Australia. The pope resigned, Julia Gillard (Oz Prime Minister) is a crazy lesbo, the head watch of the treasury is someone i would support after saying: "600 years god decides when the pope resigns so its kinda odd when he's chiding", and how the safe work commercials are very eye weird. After all that funniness Bronte and I watched Darjeeling Limited which I've been wanting to see for a while. I loved it because Francis, Owen Wilson, and the Mom, Angelica Huston, tell everyone what they are eating and how it ends with all three of the main characters throwing all of there belongings on the ground in India to catch a train, but a side note that I thought was the acting was a little fake and not really trying that hard between the three brothers, maybe me ?
Finally got a good nights sleep which lead to another amazing yoga class held at 615 at the same place which I kindly got to drive on the left side (wrong side) of the road. We then came back and I took a minor nap and woke up in a panic to get back because I was dreaming of missing work which in reality I almost was late due to the train not being on time and then being delayed, I don't like being late btw. But I made up for it cruising at a pace of around 38km/h which felt very nice, but left me thirty minutes to iron my shirt, grab a snack, shave the scruff, and get to work early to change. Just got done bout an hour ago and had a smooth shift that ended with a glass of a 08 Cab which costs 400 a bottle that a customer gave to Franck, Abdel, and I. It was definitely delicious and Im back home once again for another week filled with new adventures.
Some things i thought about this week:
You'll find me underneath a tree in the middle of yellow plains located hundreds of kilometers away from any person or any civilization meditating in stillness, my mind filled with peace to my beating heart, surrendering all I have to offer and letting go of everything that I've held onto in the past, learning to accept the energy from the world, and living in the present time of sun up to sun down. There's no hope in finding me because in the end I am the keeper of my choices and who i truly am deep inside. Find your passion in what you love, learn to love yourself, don't hold anything back, be ready for whatever may come, and stay who you are throughout the tough times that you fight on the outside or inside.
You can hold on to everything as hard as you want, but someday you'll find that letting go is the only thing worth holding.
My quote:
Never give up, never give in, never run from what you want to do, never hide from the truth, never be the same person, never stay in one place, and never say never
Some songs you may like that I listened to this week:
Big Coat - by Wiretree
Chained and Heart skipped a Beat - by The Xx
Let it be - by Blackmill
Big Jet Plane (Radio Edit) - by Angus and Julia Stone
Kids - by MGMT
I Turn My Camera On - Rock Kills Kid
Girlfriend - Phoenix
Six days at the bottom of the ocean - by Explosions In The Sky
YouTube Video of the Week:
http://youtu.be/YIMigVo1pyA
Pictures:
Wolf in the kitchen Menu
Printed plates at the restaurant
Healsville Sanctuary
Bronte Payne
4 am downtown Melbourne
Cookie bar
Yarra valley
