This week wasn't as crazy epic busy as the last two weeks which was kinda nice. I *almost* had time to go back and do some cleaning!
Monday I got home and turned the heater on and nothing happened - it was already warm enough in the house! Monday's BBT featured the first rock paper scissors lizard spock which was pretty cool :) I also worked on the trivia night and finished Neil's jigsaw.
It's happy flower season!!
Tuesday morning I was scanning Mum's slides and found one of her in a bikini on a beach in South Australia. I sent it to Mum and said I was finding fodder for her funeral slide show ;) She had a laugh as well and said she wants to see the slide show before she dies :) Not that she's dying or anything but after the sudden loss of Diana and Graham I kinda felt like it's best to be prepared, just in case and all. Chrissie's family couldn't do a proper slide show because they didn't have access to the house to even get the photos, so they ended up using quite a lot of Mum's photos at the funeral. Wow that got dark pretty quick.
Anneke helped us complete our Little Shop!
Also on Tuesday we tried out Yarralumla Kebab's new store. I'd never been to their original store but had heard good things about it. I went with the guys who knew the procedure which was good, because as a newcomer it was very confusing. Turns out you have to know that you have to "fill out a form" on the kebab wrapper to tell them what you want. But it was a complete shemozzle and we watched people coming in and standing in the queue from either end because it was so confusing. We even saw people leave. They need to have instructions or they will lose business. Meanwhile the kebab I had was as big as my head, and I didn't have any dinner that night!
Got home and the house was 20C so there was no point turning the heater on. Finished the first draft of the trivia night and sent it to Doc for vetting. BBT had the first mention of coitus.
Wednesday I went over to Chrissie's for dinner and we had wine and toasted Aunty Di with some merlot and had a lovely evening. Got home and Stu hadn't bothered to turn on the heater because it was so warm.
Thursday was tv dinners instead of pizza (man-sized chicken kiev's, but not super exciting). Again, no heater. Watched the first half of Twilight, which I last saw on the plane to Japan in 2009.
Friday was hurty overnight so zombie day due to lack of sleep. Met up with EffanC (who had to put down dear little Celeste due to old age) and R&F for beer and pizza. A few tears were shed over the sweet little cat, and then a very pleasant evening.
Saturday I spent all freakin day on the trivia night - doing a whole lot of reworks and edits after Doc's vetting. Didn't even set foot out of the house all day. Finished the second draft by dinner time, had pizza (we were thinking of going out for dinner but it was cold and the sweetie just wanted pizza (let's not even go into how much pizza we've had in our "no pizza week" week - pizza last Thursday, leftovers Friday, club on Saturday, leftovers Sunday, Tuesday with C, Friday at potbelly, then Saturday with leftovers on Sunday. That's pizza eight days out of the last eleven. hrmmmmm!) ). Watched Brooklyn 99 and Octopussy (seriously what insane father calls their daughter "Octopussy" as a nickname?? Thanks Ian Fleming for that weirdness).
This morning I went mountain climbing then spent all day doing the slideshow and table rounds for the trivia night.
And there might have been pizza scrolls for lunch.
After getting the first pass of the slide show done and the filler rounds done, we went to Crace for food shopping, then came home and I spent the next hour or so prepping a lasagna with the last of Kit's frozen tomatoes. It turned out pretty well though.
With Brooklyn 99 and Veronica Mars.
Then blogging.
Is it bed time now?
Sylvia Johnson
I immediately thought of the wattle I had seen on Mt Rogers when I walked up there in August one year. Maybe it was the same tree?