Sunday. 24th. Not backdating :) Butterfly lamb roast for dinner. Put on Hocus Pocus, because Bette Midler, but wasn't watching it very closely. Instead I was planning out an itinerary for Italy if we end up going.
Monday. Woke up a bit after 1am and never really got back to sleep (except for a couple of small sleeps between 4:30 and 6). Zombie day. Trying to sort out a big mess and not functioning very well didn't help. It was a KFC drive through for lunch kind of a day. Ended up rage quitting the day at 16:30 because I'd had enough and I was too tired. Had beef cheeks cooked a week ago for dinner, and even managed to label 109 photos, which isn't as many as I need to do, but still better than nothing.
The garden is a riot of colour though!
Tuesday. Slept much more betterly. Still trying to sort out the mess at work. Spent most of the day on it. Short power outage at lunch. I reckon they were prepping for Thursday and had a whoopsie. After work was weeding (out the front), music, dinner, then spent ages trying to find some music files and I hadn't even started labelling by 19:39. Hmmm. I did manage to finish day 44 - arrived in Japan! Was watching Lie to Me (Depraved Heart) and had to LOL at the house in Pasadena that I'd literally just seen in Beaches the other night!
I then managed to label day 45, which doesn't really count as a day - this was the trip from Tokyo to Osaka. I also watched the first couple of episodes of You Can't Ask That on iView.
Wednesday. Took like an hour to get to sleep, then woked up a bit after 3:30 and never got back to sleep. I'm so fricken tired of insomnia. Brain dead zombie morning. It was a KFC good-thing-I-brought-extra-on-Monday for lunch kind of a day. I don't even remember the afternoon. It was a couple of beers and chicken kiev for dinner kind of an evening. I did manage to label 84 photos though, so 205 behind for the week. Hopefully can make that up over the next few days.
Thursday. Slept relatively well. Power went off around 9am. Had a guy from some Not Registered for GST company show up to give us a quote on some garden work. I asked if he was fully insured and he said yes, but I'm just worried.. all seems a little.. dodgy.. Then did some jigsaw and some paint by numbers, then we headed out to do some long-needed shopping at Bunnings. Spent ages there trying to find All The Things. Got maccas on the way home (the power had actually come back on around 11:35 - a couple of hours earlier than expected). Did a bunch of gardening and planting plants with the sweetie in the afternoon but then not too much else, and some music practise. Basically just a nice day off. Watched a bunch of tv including Lie to Me and You Can't Ask That in the evening.
Friday. Up at stoopid o'clock to do some upgrades, but testing was delayed because half the people testing had no power at home due to storms. The morning dragged on because I started so early, and they finally gave us the go ahead to do the other half of the upgrades *very* close to lunch. So got that done then headed out into covid-infected Canberra for a farewell lunch for Luke at the Lighty. First time I'd seen any of my colleagues in two and a half months! But I was a bit late arriving and so ended up sitting in the sun. As soon as I finished lunch I asked to swap seats with someone who is not allergic to the sun, but the damage was done - I'd been sunburnt :( Not that I knew that to start with, and it was actually a lovely afternoon catching up with all the guys.
Saturday. Did some weekend stuff in the morning including a couple of loads of washing. And cheesy hashbrowns for breakfast :)
Then late morning we headed out to the club for a bbq lunch (first time out there since late July). Stu swam and I tidied up the van and finally setup the "pantry" - a chest of drawers I bought at the Green Shed months ago. Brought home a bunch of food that had been sitting out there for years, tidied everything up and loaded a couple of the drawers with snackages and tea/coffee. Then I was finally able to give the coffee machine a home, and could move the kettle off the only bit of bench space next to the sink. So the whole space is a lot tidier. There used to be a little table here with an oven on top of it and all the food and containers and crap on top of that, but the oven couldn't be used there because it needed a lot more space around it and we never cook out there anyway (we just take leftovers or bbq). It's not quite what I wanted for this space (I wanted a cupboard that was a bit bigger), but it'll do for now.
Also! Flowers!
We actually didn't stay the night, but came home instead. Both of us felt like it was a Sunday afternoon because we usually come home from the club on a Sunday. Cooked some mushrooms and macaroni and had creamy mushroom mac and cheese for dinner. We had salad at lunch. Honest. ;)
Watch Big in the evening, which I haven't seen since the late 80s. And some episodes of You Can't Ask That.
Sunday. Today. Busy day trying to cram in two days of weekend into one essentially. Stu even got lots done too which was nice. Didn't have too much time for any fun, but did do a little bit of jigsaw and one short session of paint-by-numbers. Had a second guy from Not Registered for GST company show up asking if we needed any work done, and I'm like, you guys came just the other day. If this company can afford to have employees, surely they'd have enough turnover to need to be registered for GST?? hrmmmmm!!
Stu found this in his four foot tank - how cute is it!
The poppies have started flowering too
I guess I've filled in the gap in the middle since last week.. that's about it though.. 
Dinner will be leftover butterfly lamb, with a bunch of fresh roasted veggies.
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