2003-09-21

You suck, you suck you suck...Just wrote a very long entry that got eaten....fuck! Well, will try to re-create my never-edited brilliance. I hate rewriting things, first thought best thought for me.

I have been planting pesto at my new digs, over at the warehouse. I don't move in for three weeks, but I want it all to be ready to go. No one is occupying it just now, so Dame and I have been doing the whole garden up, basically in dog-pissing style, to makr our territory. I have 10 basil plants well on the way to maturity. Then I can go sick, harvest leaves and make pesto.

Kylie's Really Adhoc Pesto Recipe (sorry, I am a bucket cook - no actual measurements!)

A bunch of basil (if you buy it it comes in bunches for $2 - 3)

Handful of cashews (or pine nuts, or the budget version - sunflower seeds)

Handful of grated parmesan cheese.

Maybe 1/4 cup olive oil.

One or two garlic cloves.

Blend garlic and nuts up a bit first. Then add basil leaves and half the oil. BLend, stir, blend, stiry, blend, stir. You do have to coax the mixture along, it doesn't instantly blend. Add cheese and if you need more moisture, add more oil. Blend, stir, blend, stir. Until it is your preferred pesto texture. Jar it up and shre with friends on turkish bread or spread on any toasted bread (with butter for extra decadence) white, brown or grainy. Crackers don't do it justice. Great on home made pizza.

'They' say moving is one of the most stressful events in our lives - is it any wonder I have been a wreck? Check the list below to see the extent of my constant up-rooting of my life, the total lack of time for grounding. I remember my Dad once saying to me, when I had called him to tell him I was moving yet again. "Why do you have to move so much?" he said, unable to hide his incomprehension of my constant moving. "Dad, it stresses me much more that it stresses you," not really answering his question. Mum would simply joke about how there was no room left on the K page of her address book, and I was going over into L or even M.

0 - 6 years

- flat on Victoria St

- flat on Flett St

- house in Stokes Circuit

- parents bought the house on Dolphin Ave (which I sold 23 years later when Dad died)

Primary School

- parents seperated, Mum and move to Nan and Pop's house in Wingham. Dad soon moved to Walcha.

- Mum hooked up with future step-father and we moved to Stevenson St, Taree. Dad moved to Coffs Harbour, then Dungog.

High School.

- moved to rented farm house in Coralville

- moved to rented farmhouse in Glenthorne

- step-father bought a house in Eric St Taree

- for HSC, moved to Dad's as he was back in TAree at Dolphin Ave

Uni life

- boarding house in Croydon Rd Croydon

- my first place! Flat on 512 King St in Newtown

Uh, just life, No longer in Uni, dropped out. 1992 - 2000

- share house, Angel St, Newtown

- flatmate's Mum bought a house, so we moved into it on Juliett St, Marrickville

- new share, Liberty St, Newtown

- ill-fated Alice St house

- crazy fucken Morrissey Rd, Erskineville

- poor as fuck in 7 Samual St, Surry Hills

- new share in Brown St, St Peters

- off to Alice St, Newtown again

- fuck this, off to the suburbs and 21 Godfrey St, Penshurst

- another house, 56 Laycock St, Penshurst

- bakc to the city, 38 Gilpin St Camperdown

The Year 2000 - fuck the Olympics, off to Newie

- 38 Lawson St Hamilton

- 38 Young St CArrington

- 23 Bibby St, Hamilton

- 43 Gipps St, Carrington

- 28 Church St, Wickham

I am 30 and have moved 28 times. Hello! Need grounding!! That three year lease will be amazing...

I hope to write about each place listed, in more details, soon.

[{{[You know I love: Seagull Screaming! Kiss Her Kiss Her, Queens of the Stoneage and the Prince biography I am reading...I camped out once for tix to his concerts. Why is he only playing Rod Laver in Melberg when he comes to Australia??? I listen to "Erotic City (Extended Mix)" regardless...]}}]