Lazy Sunday

Had the usual Sunday tennis morning match this morning. Played with Kristina (lovely Hungarian vixen) who I'm doing tennis lessons every Saturday morning with - well as long as I'm in town. We won, 6-4 against Scott and Matt. They're a cute couple that got together pretty recently and seem to be getting things together to make a go of it. After our win, Kristina and I are going to try our luck in a round robin tournament next Sunday down at White City, so will see how we go.

After tennis, whoever has been playing (there's about 8 of us who rotate around) usually try and catch up over a juice/coffee/food, and today walked up to Vinyl Lounge in Potts Point. It's good to be able to settle back and just chat about anything and everything while we try and recover our breathe, and see what everyone's been up to. I think most of the conversations this morning though revolved around how the World was turning to crap - the US shootings, NASA shootings, the two gay guys in West Australia who kidnapped a 14 year old kid. Can you say depressing? Maybe we need to find some decent conversations around rainbows and lollipops, but most news these days seems to be doom and gloom. Guess the "bad stuff" sells more papers right, and it's always kind of more interesting in that "just can't turn away from the car crash" point of view.

Vanessa came on down to catch up too. Her girlfriend Kaarin headed over to China at the beginning of the week probably for at least two years. There going to try doing the long distance relationship thing, and I think the open thing is being given a go too. Vanessa's from South Africe, so the emotions thing is a hard thing to read. She's definitely a little bit moppy, but already planning heaps of things to keep herself busy which is good to hear. Kind of think she might like a bit of the freedom it's given her too. She's off to the Girl's only Uniform party at Slide on Tuesday night, and then off camping later in the week for a bit. I have a feeling the love sick hunger pangs will kick in a little down the track though.

That kind of makes me realise how long it's been since I've had a decent relationship. Hmmm ... maybe way too long. I usually blame the heaps of travel, but I'm sure it's to do with a pretty low self esteem too. You can't love someone else until you love yourself they say, so am working on that. Where'd I put that Vaseline again? Will have to have a think about that one and see what I can come up with to try and remedy ... not the Vaseline, but the whole self esteem thing.

Thankfully I'm staying all week in Sydney this week. Last weeks stay in Brisbane down near Fortitude Valley was eye-opening. Smack bang in the middle of Drug and Propstitution central basically. Couldn't find anywhere else to stay while I spoke at a conference the next day, but have to say I was almost too nervous to sleep in the sheets. Survived the ordeal okay though, but will be getting our travel organiser to burn the reference to that place in the books. Was a starck contrast to then staying at Hyatt on The Park in Melbourne. Moved from derelict and creepy, to extravagant and snobby. I like the extravagant part, but could do without the snobby part, maybe eclectic or zanny would be better. Actually, who the hell uses the word zanny any more?? Let's stick with extravangtly eclectic.

Having Wednesday off work due to Anzac Day breaks up the week pretty well too. Gives me a chance to get some of my holiday plans in order, as I leave end of May. This is hopefully going to be one of those awesome Global trips - Tokyo, Beijing, London, Madrid, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Scotland, New York, LA and San Francisco over two months. Got the flights organised now, so just have to look in to accomodation ... I hate trying to be organised!

Anyways, am planning on trying to clean my place over the rest of the day as the weather is overcast, and pretty humid. I'm off to a couple of fashion week events this week with work, and have a bit of a celebration bash for some of the work we did with Qantas so will drop you some details during the week.

Talk later.

- Danny.