the new job

After four years and ten months in the job I went to as a green OT grad, I started a new job at UWA on 7 March 2011. It was strange leaving my comfort zone and coming to a completely new environment, starting a new routine (7:30am starts), driving to work instead of being driven, adjusting to a different role, and developing a new way of thinking. It's been a challenge, but a blessing too.

I'm thankful also that my new workplace is so scenic. I'm required to go all over campus for my job, so I get to take in the sights daily. Here's a sample...

Pretty nice huh?

Also, I found a use for my gift from Sel...



the urban orchard

Perth is a cool city. We have beautiful weather, people are friendly, work-life is relaxed, we aren't too over-crowded, and we don't care too much about what other people think of us. We could comfortably walk down to the shopping mall (well at least the smaller ones) in our ugg boots and nobody would really care.

I remember a friend from Melbourne came over once and described people in Perth as 'not pretentious' and I really think she described Perth very well.

Don't you agree?

Where else would you be able to plop a vegetable garden in the middle of the 'cultural precinct' with a man-made swamp just a stone's throw away?

I'm serious!

We have a vegetable garden outside our Art Gallery and it's called the Urban Orchard - check it out!

If you forget your lunch one day, you can always go to the vegie patch, pick a few leaves, grab a tin of tuna from woolies - and hey presto - lunch in a jiffy!

I actually don't know if you're allowed to go picking stuff from there - so don't quote me please!

But the idea is quite original. I'm sure people from other states will think it's very backwards and weird, but I think it's original and I really believe that if they say anything like that, it's just out of jealousy because they can't get free salad. :)

A few weeks ago, when I was strolling by the vegie patch, there was something else quite original that caught my eye - lotuses made of recycled plastic floating on tyres in a wading pool!

Other states, eat your heart out...

gettin' grill'd

I was first exposed to grill'd in Melbourne. I tried some of their chips and was hooked - fried to a golden crisp and then sprinkled with herbs and sea salt... They were SOO good that I took a menu back home to drool over in Perth. Grill'd became a 'must-go' in Melbourne and whenever I went to Melbourne for work or whatever, I would go back to visit my dear friend - even if I dined alone...

Then grill'd opened in Perth.

It took over the old Cino to Go in Mt Lawley and though it was sad to see Cino's go, it was great to see grill'd in it's place - I can always get my Cino's hit elsewhere. 'Twas a happy day indeed, when I went to grill'd in Perth for the first time and feasted on a delicious burger and of course those delectable fries..

Needless to say I have been back a few more times.

the wild west burger

the BEST chips with herbed mayo

Mt Lawley grill'd

Now a second shop has opened in Subiaco! Funny, they also took over the old Cino to Go...It only opened this week, and a few of us went to check it out on Tuesday night.

Honestly, it was pretty disappointing - but not terrible. I was expecting my beef to be juicy, but it was a tad dry and quite average, and I think they were a bit too heavy-handed with the tomato sauce. Oh, and the chips were pale and soggy! Given, they are still learning - but hopefully they will learn quickly :)

packed and productive weekend

Dinner at david jones * regeneration * maccas * home for sleep * brekky at coode st cafe, mt lawley * subi op-shopping * san churro, subi, for a caffeine n sugar fix * quick pit stop at home * garden city to buy some essentials * met juls at coles * church for a mini project and dinner * dropped off massive pile of clothes at good sammy bin * home for sleep * sunday service at church * lunch at happy star. myaree * pit stop at church * coffee at toast, east perth * hanging out with the Palms * dinner at anticco, east perth * caught up on x factor * sleep

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