Girl, You Can Tell Everybody...

"I'm not feeling it yet!" she said, downing another skittle bomb shot.
"Drink more" I said.
and then it hit her.

There's always that one friend in your life, that you know beyond a shadow of a doubt, you'll be nursing and reminiscing and generally being crazily familiar with well into your golden years.  That friend is this blonde bombshell.   For all intense and purposes, I call her Hazel Nut.

We see each other twice a year if we're lucky because she lives in Melbourne and I live down here, but when we're together, no time has passed between us.  And such was the case when she came down this weekend and we hit the town and made fools of ourselves.


She's the kind of friend I can stand semi nude in front of the mirror with, mascara wand in hand, lingerie in the other, and get lost in a plethora of deep thoughts and silly stories while she yells at me because I haven't curled her hair, the right way.


She's my fifty shades of familiar.

Save The Last Dance For Me

Admidst the awkward twenty year old uni groups, and the Sixty year old DJ who should be in bed, my best friend takes my hand and leads me onto the floor and even though it's old eighties music and the floor is sticky like marmalade and the disco balls spin around the room... for a minute I'm Ginger Rogers, and he's Fred Astaire, and our smiles glisten all the way to our eyes and we giggle because we feel like we're in on some secret that they're not.

And everyone's staring because he's 6"foot with a shaved head and a gangster attitude and I'm 5"4 nothing wearing a cocktail dress and black boots and my short black bob cut makes me look ostentatious.

We know we're out of place but we're not misfits. We're not misfits, because we have each other.

And we fit because it's effortless. Unconditional. And like all good music, our friendship only gets better with time.

Today.

 

Day offs mean three things for me.

• Chicken and ricotta salad in town.
• Shopping.
• Driving with mates. 

Lately.

It's nice to be back! And even nicer to have a day off to recap on everything that's happened thus far.  Holidays are over so I'm back to spending more time at the salon than I am at home! Add work, cocktails, friends and writing to the mix and I haven't had time to upgrade my blog.

But this Cocoa Bean is officially back :)