Backdating, because I'm a slacker... ;) Also I think there was an entry or two in the July archives you might not have seen if you don't use an rss feed reader.
Monday. 5am wakeup. Sore spine, numb hands, full bladder. Sigh. Tired all day. Hid out in do not disturb mode all morning and caught up on all Thursday and Friday's tickets. Long weekends are never long enough! Tried to read stuff but too many interruptions in the afternoon. Got my UK photo labelling done a bit early then went into battle with Apple to get the movie files off my phone.
Tuesday. 3am wakeup. Didn't get back to sleep til probably 5ish for another hour. Even tireder than yesterday :( Stayed in DND all day. Got a bit more than my quota of UK photos done. Two episodes of BBT, but far too tired to blog.
Wednesday. Yayyy 9.5 hours sleep!!! Tried a pulled beef recipe - which was ~1tbs brown sugar, smoked paprika, garlic powder; ~1tsp salt, pepper. Rubbed some mustard on the meat, covered with the dry rub, then chucked in the slow cooker (with some leftover lamb jelly and some liquid smoke in the bottom) and left it on high all afternoon. Possibly could have been done a bit longer, it wasn't quite pull apart. Also should have used a fattier cut of meat. But it was still pretty good.
Thursday. Ok sleep. Work ok. Caught a bus into work in the afternoon, went and picked up a new pass (the old one had expired), went and said hi to the team, then headed up to Pot Belly. First drinks with work peeps in five months! So that was nice. Picked up pizza on the way home then watched the last four episodes of Big Bang Theory. Took us a bit over a year to watch through all twelve seasons.
Friday. Wouldn't be my birthday if I didn't end up in tears over *something*. In this case trying to understand our crazy networking. David took me to KFC for lunch (it's tradition!) but we couldn't eat in so had to bring it home.
Blerfy afternoon fighting with stoopid firewall which is doing stoopid things that noone can explain. The plan was to catch a bus into town and have dinner somewhere with the sweetie, but I was so late getting away he just came home and picked me up and we went to Chong Co, which was lovely as always.
Thai fish cakes - famous spicy Thai fish cackes, served with sweet chilli sauce ($12.00)
Crispy crab net rolls - crab meat, shrimp, fish mixed with water chestnuts, and taro delicately wrapped in crispy net roll ($9.50)
Prk Pao Moo Grob - stir fried mild chilli yam sauce with capsicum, onion, shallot, mushrooms, corn and basil leaves ($25.00)
Duck salad - sliced roasted duck with coconut shredded, chilli jam, coconut milk, cucumber, mint, shallot, coriander and cherry tomatoes ($23.00)
Came home and watched Shakespeare in Love.
Saturday. Awake from 2-5am, then broken sleep til 8am. So a bit of a zombie day. Went to Michelle's in the evening for her birthday party. They have a karaoke machine and a subscription to an online karaoke website, which is pretty good - it has all the original audio - but it doesn't have the original videos like Singstar had. Not that anyone really needed the karaoke machine, everyone was just singing. I only joined in for a few, was elsewhere chatting to people and standing in front of the fire for a fair bit of it. I did get to sing Let it Go right at the end of the night which was fun though ;) Too late a night though for me.
Sunday. Slept ok, including a bit of a sleepin. Mostly housework in the morning. Had lunch then cooked dinner (beef cheeks). Need moar slow cooker recipes so we don't sick of things. Watched penultimate episode Fuller House.
Monday. Slept ok, and slept in til nearly 7am - whoops! Super productive morning getting things done while scanning slides. Went and took some photos of the daffodils out the front, and saw a cold wild blue tongue lizard. So caught it (it wasn't happy haha) and had it pose for photos. And its little claws are *sharp* - so much sharper than Stumpy's!
Had a two hour long demo from Sharpie which was quite useful, but I need to see something like ten times before it will sink in.... And stoopid firewall is still being stoopid.
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