Sunday. 8th. Filling in the evening after I blogged :) Cooked All The Veggies for dinner. Had all the roasted veggies, with mince and cheese and sour cream on the potato wedges. Yumminess.
Simpsons, X Files, Air Crash Investigations.
Monday. Ok day. Got practise looking at traffic spikes and figuring out what they were. Labelled 182 photos - have finished Egypt and onto London, day 28.
Tuesday. Pretty quiet day, although didn't get much done. Leftovers/Simpsons/jigsaw/cleaned kitchen/backed up computer and suddenly it's 8pm. Hrmm. And labelling goes super slowly when you need to identify every building in Legoland Miniland (eg Covent Garden, which I'd never been to before, so that took a bit of flying around Google Maps trying to find it). So I only managed to label 26 photos before dinner, did a few more while watching tv, managing 48 all up for the evening. hrmmm.
Wednesday. Started off ok, but then felt like a failure because I couldn't solve some stoopid problems with stoopid firewalls and stoopid proxies. Then arguments with people who made me feel like everything I do is wrong. Sigh. It was a wine and scotch and no photo labelling kind of an evening.
Thursday. Woke up at 3am but didn't get back to sleep ~5am :( So I was tired and grumpy. The bathroom sealer people called me in the morning - the asbestos test came back positive (duh) so they won't do minor works, they'll only do a complete bathroom renovation so the asbestos can all be removed. Sigh. More fighting with stoopid firewalls and feeling like a failure and people hate me cause I hate everything. Felt miserable all afternoon.
But on a lighter note, before lunch it was announced Canberra would go into a snap seven day lockdown due to our first local cases of covid in over a year (it finally happened). And my first reaction was woohoo. I mean literally. To just stay at home and not have to deal with people (at least directly) for a week - heaven. I mean don't get me wrong, I do actually feel really bad for peeps in the hospitality and "non-essential" retail whose anxiety levels will go through the roof not knowing where their next pay check will come from, or anyone that had a wedding or something planned for this weekend - that'd be pretty devastating for them. Neil and I had lunch at the mall as usual, then we went for a walk through the fresh food section to laugh at all the people panic buying milk and toilet paper. About half the trolleys we saw had toilet paper in them.
I should point out that after all the panic buying of toilet paper finished last year and it was readily available again, I bought a pack of 24 and put it downstairs. Then I've continued to buy it normally ever since, knowing that if we ever did have a snap lockdown, we'd be set. In fact we'd just opened a pack of 12, so won't need any in the short term.
At 12:49pm there was already a queue to get into Woollies
And there was a queue at Baker's Delight too
HBZ also went shopping just after lunch, and already all the toilet paper was gone, and it took him an hour and a half to get through the checkouts. Yikes!
On the way home we stopped for essentials - read - beer! ;) Although tragically, Chris had sold out of Corona! *gasp* ;)
Beer and pizza for dinner. This is why I'm going to die young:
Friday the 13th. Got somewhat better sleep, and actually managed to achieve some stuff at work. Went for a walk at lunch and saw my birds.
In the afternoon I went to check the mailbox and this daisy was there to greet me
So I got photos of some of the other flowers out already as well
Picked up TV dinners from Chris's (we actually have a freezer full of leftovers, but I really didn't feel like cooking) - he said it had been pretty quiet.
Watched the 2008 Get Smart with the sweetie, which was completely ridiculous but I was snorting all through it - just a bit of fun :)
Saturday. I'd had an early night, but woke up a bit before 5 and never got back to sleep. Turned 30. I'll let you figure out what base (thanks DC :) ). Stu cooked breakfast of Pialligo bacon and cheesy hash browns. So brown but so good!!!!
Then had a lovely day just pottering around the house, doing jigsaw and the like. Stu also had fun, building his little morse code thingie...
At lunch we went for a walk to see the birds, and saw this very smelly burnt out car.
And the sweetie took a photo of me in front of the same wattle tree I had photos of the other day.
In the afternoon I did a 500 piece jigsaw as a break from the agonisingly slow Dumbo. Sadly it was missing a piece, but that's what you get for Green Shed jigsaws. The sky was pretty at dusk too.
We may have shared some bubbles.
We got Chong Co delivered for dinner!
We had the wagyu salad and the duck salad (I asked for everything "medium" but the beef was a bit hot for me - endorphins!)
As well as the pork belly prik pao (not crispy anymore from being in transit) and satay chicken
Delicious!
After dinner we put on Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, which we enjoyed with heated Gluhwein and candles.
And all through the day (except the 10 second blackout and time taken for the router to reconnect) Stu put on a John Williams playlist which added a wonderful soundtrack to actually quite a wonderful day.
Sunday. Another nice quiet day. Took ages to do slide fixup scanning because every time I rescanned a bunch of slides, they'd get dust in different positions :(
Late in the morning we went for a walk and saw these tiny flowers
With bee!
For lunch I made salami and olive pizza scrolls
My lockdown lunch is better than yours!
In the afternoon I alternated between Dumbo jigsaw and Legoland photo labelling (including geotagging a bunch I'd taken on the train but hadn't set the location) - managed 113 photos - so I'm still *way* behind where I need to be. I also pulled everything out of the freezer and did an audit of what we have. There's quite a bit of leftover meat (including a bunch of food from various club nights), and some frozen veggies. I'm thinking I might do an early morning shopping trip one day this week to get more fresh food.
Then put on dinner (all the veggies, with some pulled pork from the freezer) - finished off most of our fresh vegetables, and blogged.
Sylvia Johnson
Glad you had an enjoyable birthday. I love the photo of you in front of the wattle tree, would you please email it to me. Your flowers are also very pretty.