Well, over the past few days I have moved into this new house here. It's very large, especialy for a single guy. The lounge room and main bedroom are enormous; I've set up a little bar in the lounge already, but don't yet have many nice drinks. I've got a wooden face on the wall, some Indonesian god; some ancient Chinese charms in a glass case; my nifty leather chess board set out on the antique wood table. The place looks quite nifty, to me (although I admit my tastes tend to be a tad Spartan, and most of the house is now big empty spaces). I'm having people over on Friday night; perhaps they can donate various bottles of tasty stuff for the bar...

As a side suggestion, maybe they could also donate things that they don't need. Prehaps a side table or something.

It can be rather expensive to outfit a house from the get go. My best wishes to you in your new abode, Adam.

I already have:
- bed (although I need a larger one)
- fridge (although I need a larger one)
- computer desk
- kitchen table and chairs
- antique wood table and chairs in the lounge
- nifty cocktail set
- leather couch and chairs for the lounge
- TV, VCR, stereo
- cooking appliances and gear
- Popasaurus popcorn making dinosaur (it spits the cooked popcorn out the mouth into a bowl)
- plates, bowls, cuttlery, all that stuff

About all I realy need now is a bigger bed, bigger fridge, and FOOD! But of course if I'm going to get food, I really should learn how to cook...

Geez Adam, and I thought you told all of us you had no money from college ;) I guess the Aussie Navy must have finally paid you your dues?

As you long as you have some bottles of good red wine I will come over and have a drink on your new house, Adam.

The stereo you have I see, which is a necessity in my humble opinion.

As far as cooking goes, see you get a personal cook, like I have... :D

Learning to cook is something I knew I had to take the bull by the horns and just do. I do like to cook, now. Hate to wash dishes but love to cook.

Buy you a small freezer if you don't have one already. They are not that expensive. You will find it easy to stock it up and have food whenever you do not wish to make that trip to the grocery store.

If you know nothing about cooking, then buy a cook book. The best cookbooks to buy are hard cover, lots of pages, and cover everything from what spices are used for to how to prepare a chicken, from cutting up the pieces to how to roast, boil, broil, fry, ect. I have one that I have had for near 30 years. It is now is sad shape, but if you know what to call it then it is likely in there. It has been used enough that the covers are coming apart and the pages are falling out. Its usefullness speaks for itself.

By now, I can make scratch pizza, including the dough. Chinese, homemade sauces, roasts, mexican, and much, much more. It was a life saver at the time. I actually got to where I like to try new recipes. I can hurt you with a smoker and a turkey... :D

Clarentavious: These things just sort of appeared, I didn't buy most of it. In my old place, bottles of wine just appeared, all the time.

Banshee: My stereo is nothing special, just a portable sitting on a shelf.

FOr a while my stereo was a diskman plugged into some compputer speakers.

I can make scratch pizza, including the dough
1 1/4 cups warm water, two tablespoons yeast, stir and let rise 10 minutes. add 3 1/2 cups flour, 1/4 cup oil can't remember how much salt(1/4 or 1/2 teaspons, I think), let rise 15 to 60 minutes. Spread in greased pan, decorate.

You can divide the dough into peices, and freeze for later use(it works), something I did a few times was make little three inch pizzas to put up, and nuke whenever we wanted.

see? more proof, Adam? (about what i wrote in my letter to you) thrift stores, thrift stores and more thrift stores..

btw...is your house haunted?:bugeye:


ah, sometimes i make no sense, eh?;) :bugeye: :D however! to me...i do.

Well, it's not haunted as far as I can tell so far, but the house creaks a LOT as it expands and shrinks throughout the day.

where are your books adam!

My books are mostly packed away at my family's home, about 20 minutes from here by car. I'll start bringing them down soon.

Also, my first two attemps at real cooking have worked very well. Tonight I fried some onion, carrot, capsicum, and mushrooms in butter, stirred in some BBQ sauce, and poured it over 3 hash browns. Very tasty.

That sounds fantastic Adam, a new house!
I wish I could come to your party. But maybe I can get drunk over here and delirium myself there.
:D

What a coincidence! I may be moving into a new big house soon as well. ;)

Good luck with the move, Circe. :)

This house I moved into has a big grey cat, named either Aussie or Ozzy. I'm not sure of the gender or breed. But it's big and mean. I feed it biscuits for snacks and a meat dinner around 5pm, an in return it tries to tell me its rules for the house. Such as its attempt to claim my leather couch, which lasted about as long as it takes for a shoe to travel two metres. So far my rules are winning. It's not a bad cat mostly, although I'd like to have it thoroughly washed.

Originally posted by Adam
Good luck with the move, Circe. :)

This house I moved into has a big grey cat, named either Aussie or Ozzy. I'm not sure of the gender or breed. But it's big and mean. I feed it biscuits for snacks and a meat dinner around 5pm, an in return it tries to tell me its rules for the house. Such as its attempt to claim my leather couch, which lasted about as long as it takes for a shoe to travel two metres. So far my rules are winning. It's not a bad cat mostly, although I'd like to have it thoroughly washed.

best wishes with your move:cool: :m:

I sure hope you have a dog or one is on the way. They really turn a house into a home. And neutered, please.

Dude, I don't see a girl in the list. The most essential thing of all. I suggest you get one.

What, do they sell women at the Quick-E-Mart?

They might sell those inflatable sheep.

Maybe inflatable dingos down under?

Well, if you're wondering what Australian students buy on their payday shopping trips:
- 1.5 litres of ginger beer. It's a new discovery for me, and I like it.
- 2 Kiwi fruits.
- A bunch of bananas.
- Half a rockmelon.
- Garlic.
- A bag of apples.
- Mushrooms.
- Four onions.
- A red capsicum.
- 1.5 litres mixed fruit juice.
- Flour.
- Self-raising flour.
- Rice cakes.
- Three packs of hokkien noodles. One pack makes two dinners for me.
- Three jars of stir-fry sauce.
- A jar of honey.
- Crunchy peanut butter.
- Toilet paper!!!
- 2 litres of milk.
- 5kg of rice, long-term supplies.
- BBQ sauce and tomato sauce.
- Breakfast cereal.

I forgot to get strawberries. :(

Anyway, that should last me a good long while. I get paid every fortnight. So that's the kinda stuff I eat. Occasionally some top quality beef or fish.