Friday. New Years Day. Had a pretty slow morning out at the club. Then came home via the Scottish Restaurant for brunch. Had a nice quiet day. Had salad and roast veggies for dinner.
Also took this cool photo using the crystal ball David got for Christmas. On my phone.
Watched Discovery and finished Heartache and Birdsong, which I'd been reading since Christmas (took four nights to read).
Saturday. Second day of the year. Did a fair bit on the todo list, but not really enough. Took down the Christmas decorations and put them all away. Watched Discovery. Also watched "Death to 2020". We had no idea what it was about when it popped up on Netflix, we thought maybe some year in review type show. Which it kind of was. Only it was hilarious. Well except the middle bit which was pretty depressing. It was very well done, although really only looked at American news with a bit of British news in it as well, but nothing much for the rest of the world. I think my favourite quote was "The one good thing about Trump refusing to concede was that we got to watch him lose over and over".
Sunday. Third day of the year. Slept ok I think. Did a few house type bits, but mostly going through my transactions for the year and making sure they lined up with receipts. There were a few very strange ones, like "SpencerGulf Restaurant" which presumably owns KFC in Garema Place, and "MISS MICHELIN" which might have been Subway in the mall. We did our food shopping, but all the butchers at the markets were closed and we didn't feel like going to Coles, so just made do with some frozen chicken kiev but that meant no leftover meat to do stirfry with. Watched The Tale of the Princess Kaguya. I enjoyed it for the most part, although the whole movie really echos her thoughts of "what's the point of my being here". She starts off happy, has to go be a princess which she hates, can't go back home because everyone is gone (or is that a dream?), wants to go "home" to be miserable, rinse and repeat, and at the end you're like, if you're so miserable, why do you want to stay anyway? I think I prefer the original story, although I only got a synopsis on Wikipedia, would have to read a translation of the whole thing.
David took Dad's old slide projector and screen home. I figured after I scanned all Dad's slides I was *never* going to use a slide projector to project them. So he can have it or give it to Peter Neve or whatever. Edit: he took it home but forgot to take it out of his car, so it came back and it went home again on 16/1.
Monday. Fourth day of the year. We took this day off so we could ease back into work with a four day work week. Plus we could go to Ikea on a weekday instead of a weekend. Headed out around 10:30, and didn't get back home til 3pm. hrmm. First up we dropped a package off to be posted. Then had Maccas fries for morning tea because I'd forgotten to eat before we left and I knew I'd need the energy. First up shopping-wise we went to Ikea. Stu wanted a rug for his study and a small lamp, and I also got some candles and a pot to plant a plant for Noah. We also saw a bed frame that we thought would be acceptable.
Then we headed for Canberra Outlet Centre. We did a lap of the place, looking in all the places that sold beds. We saw a couple of maybes. But we did end up buying a mattress at Freedom.
Had a late lunch at Mamak Lunch but it was actually after 2pm by now and we had no idea the serving sizes would be *enormous*. So we got a doggy bag to bring some home in.
Was feeling pretty blah after having been out all day, so asked the sweetie to cook dinner. So he ordered pizza. hrmmmm. But we did go for a walk together after dinner.
Tuesday. Fifth day of the year. Back to work. Although at home which helped ease back into things. Did a roast lamb for dinner and tried out Dave 2's parmesan potatoes, but they didn't turn out as awesomely as I thought they would.
I also freaked out at how much food was in the fridge to be eaten. I made up some meals and froze a few things and tried to sort it all out. I also started labelling Eurasia 2012 photos. This one is going to take *all year* to do...!
I have no notes for Wednesday, but will backdate this entry to then.
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