Weekend? What weekend?

I do like to keep myself busy on weekends, but not to the point where I get to Monday and feel like it's my 8th consecutive day of work.

My "weekend" started on Friday.  I enjoyed a nice catchup lunch with some ex-work colleagues at Chinta Ria in Darling Harbour.  It ended up being a beautifully sunny day.

Saturday was my errand day, I went to the RTA (or RMS??) to have them check my e-tag.  It didn't been beeping when I went over the Harbour Bridge, but it was deducting the toll from my account.  The rude man at the RTA claimed they had emailed me saying from 1st July some older e-tags would no longer work and that because my e-tag hadn't been beeping, they had deducted an extra 55c every time I crossed the bridge (every day btw).  Couldn't even be bothered arguing with him even though I did NOT receive such an email.

Wouldn't mind that pink number plate second from bottom

Since I was in the area, I popped into Vinnies and raided their book section.  The Kite Runner is one of my fave books of all time and Jodi Picoult is one of my fave authors so I grabbed a few of her classics.  Don't know why I chucked the something shades of grey book in there - I feel like it's one of those "gotta check out what this is all about" reads.  We'll see....

I also wandered up to David Jones and took advantage of their 'extra 25% off' sale with 2 Minkpink skirts.  Got both of these for $33 - I call that cray.

I'd invited my friend and her new fiance over for dinner on Saturday so spent a few hours (yes hours I'm ashamed to say) making pasta from scratch.  Since I'd never attempted pasta before, I decided to make a small batch first to 'test' the process out.  I'm SO glad I did.  I knew the dough was too dry but I persisted with it and tried to roll it in the machine.  Because the machine was brand new, the sides of the dough came out black.  I just kept passing the dough through until the sides stopped coming out black and that's when I started on my real batch.

and with a quick 10-minute vodka sauce....

GAH so yummy!!

My friends brought over an assortment of delicious desserts - jealous??

On Sunday I attended a Sydney Louboutin Lovers meet.  We had a lovely High Tea and then a wander of the shops (Louboutin boutique of course).  I wore an Asos dress, my CL multi rasta Greissimos, Diva necklace, eQuip bracelet and YSL Arty.

Hi A, C and E!!

Aaaand now it's another week at work.  I can't believe it's only Tuesday night, I've had a realllly hectic couple of days already.