Saturday 14th Feb. 



The day started sitting outdoor (I forgot it was the smoking area...) on the side of a busy street, drinking coffee (him) and hot chocolate (me) while eating pastries. Something with lemon custard coated in caramelized sugar, a mini pain au chocolat and croissant. The later le beau loves dipped in his coffee. 

He loves doing this, catching up over coffee, a rare moment when I slow down and nothing seems to matter, all the mostly self-inflicted pressure to be better than everyone else is gone, and it's ok to smile and not be so deadly serious all time time. I've been told I'm quite intense and smiles are actually uncommon. 

They have wifi I heard, but when I'm with him I'm never on the phone or online. When together we like to be together and not consumed by technology. Though I'm not a phone person and only use the basic and instagram on the phone, there is no constant texting with friends or le beau when he's not beside me. I don't understand who everyone's texting all the time, though this is coming from someone who sees their friends twice a year, max.

I have actually being to Chokette before, though le beau didn't know that and picked this cafe as he wanted me to try the croissants, and it was near where were going to have lunch. 

My hot chocolate was average, delivered hot, made from powder I can't remember the last time I had one of these. Because when I go for  hot chocolate we always go to Lindt, which can't be compared to your average cafe that uses powder most of the time, or something syrup.



The pastries were good though the one with curd was said to be lemon, but the citrus was very light, more of a hint. Here we should take into considering in the past week I had an intense yuzu tart. The croissants were good but nothing amazing. We've had the normal sized one before which was more crunchy, that was different from the mini. 





Service was excellent, the waitress was lovely and explained all the different pastries they had, and was warm & friendly. I do wish outdoors it was a no-smoke zone. Wonder what the policies on that are nowadays. 





Recommendations? If you happen to be in town check it out, though today by 1pm they were sold out. The big croissants are $3.40-ish. Not the best croissants, but they are lovely, all golden and crunchy on top. 

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Slow and steady but we're getting through these posts, it's a week of food posts coming up this, well, week. First up in LuxBite, V'Day Edition. Limited edition creates a rush and a sense of urgency to get them before they're gone. In most cases limited does mean limited, though not always. It's similar to having sales, there is a store near work that is literally called "50% OFF Sale", no it's not a closing down sale, or a sale. It's just the name of the shop. There are also shops around that are forever "closing down". Fortunately LuxBite does mean limited edition when they say that (there was one exception a while back).




The profiteroles were soft and bite size, as I bit down white chocolate ganache flowed out of the pastry, filling my mouth with smooth and sweet (but not too sweet) chocolate. To that we added a slice (picture a scalpel) of matcha tart, with a suprize layer of strawberry jam. It was beautiful, with the flavours being an accompaniment to one other.




I like it but don't love it, because I'm not a matcha person but if you like it strong this is the one. Those balls of perfection however I love. Le beau decided to dip his balls (well 1.5 ball) into salted caramel, because he loves salted caramel as I love cake.






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Monday 9th February


Today was spent in therapy, at the hospital and dancing. Discussions on friendly vs friends. And we're going to aim lower and make acquaintances aka fb friends and go from there. Also if someone's nice but really isn't interested in being friends, best not to ask why, they're sure doing their best not to tell you. Has it always been this hard to make friends? Or is it just me?

Tuesday


Today le beau sent me to a workshop on romance. But on the way someone got hit by a train and then a tree decided to jump onto the track too, good thing they still had buses left over from the first incident. Via very crowded buses we finally got there.

Class was meh, nothing I didn't know, most date suggestions were expensive. Why the hell you suggest clubs/bars where only the hot get in idk! Because le beau always gets in, I don't and I have a "I'm fugly" moment and have a breakdown. Lots of screaming and crying, and I'm on the floor. These uncontrollable outbursts only happen in public.

We went through how to write a love note, with the structure like an essay! I'll pass. Also the 6 love languages weren't mentioned. It's all about thoughtful things and lots of touching and sex... not impressed.



Wednesday

Yesterday (this was drafted on Thu) we worked at an info day, attended a group lunch (instead of the usual I sit alone during lunch thing), had cake. Battery died. Back up battery at home NOOOO!!!!!!!! as we weren't going straight home we had to use the phone... for the rest of the night.



Platform 13 is in the directly diagonal corner to plt1 entry, it was far... and worse when hot out there. Today we were lucky to be indoors for work.

Today's event was a VIP Lord of the Fries Event, which I wasn't invited to and hence no obligation to post about :P instead Emma had tickets and invited me!



LOTF does vegetarian food and fries - and fries there were plenty of, we tried 4-5 types including some potato chips as in packet style ones, but still made deep fried and fresh. Three sauces, 3 sliders and a hot dog. I ate fake corned beef, which is what I thought it was, nope it was actually fake bacon. Also ate a fake frankfruit after much hesitation, it looks so real! While I'm starting to try more tofu I'm not that into it. 

To take home we received a lot of free chips with sauce purchase ($1.25) and a free meal, which was cool. LOTF is where I go for the sauce, there was one around the corner from the apartment but they've moved to Southern Cross (DFO End).

If you're a carnivore moving towards herbivore but still love your meat then LOTF would be interesting. Emma & I still love our meat though, especially chicken, white meat only. ;)



Friday

Training started 10am, we kinda got there 11am... but the important thing is we made it! Spent lunch napping, sorry I've used up my social skills for the week already. Liquid lunch as we're on our way to the dentist. 





I love looking at hand lettering though have never tried it, while I would like to, for those rare couple who actually have met me I can barely write... but we're hoping one day I can write again. I also type funny, jabbing at each letter as my wrist doesn't allow me to type/write/function like a normal person. Due to work place injury 2yrs ago, which has triggers for pain but also randomly hurts.

Update - I've opened a pretty book, unlined paper bidden spine just for hand lettering. 

Saturday




After morning tea we explored the shops, found a bdsm bear in a shop front, le beau will be calling to complain about that tomorrow. At the same time as we were there a bus with the promo posted 50SoG zoomed past, and the restaurant next door just happened to have a lot of candle with wax dripping down the bottle that was used as holders. 50SoG is everywhere!

We're against it, though lots of women from what we've read love it... Personally we believe it should be playing the porn theatre, and should not be so open about things like that in public. What goes on in your bedroom should stay there.




Next time we visit Brunswick I'd like to go to Mister Truong's and Josephine which we didn't get to this time due to food overload, and two T(arts) from LuxBite in the fridge at home.




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