Sunday. 24th. Had leftover lamb for dinner with All The Veggies. Watched the fourth episode of Obi-Wan and more of The Crown.
Monday. Spent a bunch of time going through my todo list and tidying it up and actually doing some things on it. Went and got my fourth jab at lunch - moderna this time to spice it up. Tidying and cleaning in the afternoon. In the evening fought with Optus' website. OMFG their personal portal is just as bad as their enterprise portal. Literally went round in circles three times trying to get myself re-registered and logged in. I was trying to find out why I'd been charged for an international SMS when I hadn't made any. But Optus' bills are completely useless and don't give you the time/date/number of SMSes, even online. So got online with a chat bot and eventually a human, and the first thing they did was credit the account as a "valued customer" and I'm like, thanks, that's great, but I want to know why it's on the bill at all. But she was like, oh we can't see that information. hrmm. So then she was like, oh btw, we can save you some money on your plan. So that took a while longer. But hey, it'll save me $15 a month, so the fact I lost an entire evening sorting it out was not all in vain. But I was still like, is the date of that sms actually the date it was sent, or was it just because that's the last day of the billing cycle. So she went off and found the date/time/number. WTF?? Why say you can't do that when you totally can?? With the date/time I was able to find the offending sms. I'd been replying to a message my real estate agent sent me that day, but the contact information was faulty, and the reply didn't go to a "real" number, it went to some text which got translated to a number. The number was 0011 23553776774 which is like Chad or something. If they'd have just put that information into the damned bill I wouldn't have had to waste an evening chasing them. Le sigh.
On a lighter note, we had very delicious stuffed capsicums for dinner. This mix had bolognase mince, feta, spinach, mushrooms and parmesan. I then topped them with cheese and roasted them. Delicious! And no leftovers ;)
Tuesday. Slept okish. Very sore arm. And quite tired. Had a quiet cleaning day. The sweetie cooked some Pialligo duck breast with spinach and mushrooms for dinner which was very nice.
Wait what?
Wednesday. Still a very sore arm. Did more cleaning planning at work. Brought home my hard drive from two weeks ago and did a restore of my desktop/documents/downloads. Turns out the files I thought OneDrive had deleted weren't actually there - they must have been there from an ancient backup of my old computer. Those files had been filed when I moved to my new computer. So all it's done is make faulty restores of files that weren't there just to confuse things and potentially create duplicates. Sounds like something Apple would do. And Microsoft is no better at it. Hopeless. My old computer doesn't load OneDrive at boot anymore. And my laptop wasn't signed in, so I was able to clear things out before OneDrive got its hands on things. Signed in on the laptop, and sure enough it tried to restore the same old files to my desktop. Will have to go and completely clear out whatever is online with OneDrive. I also turned backups OFF thankyouverymuch.
Thursday. No notes. Probably cleaning. Probably drinks. Blah blah blah.
Friday. Ok morning but super busy crazy afternoon trying to get All The Things done in the limited windows we have to Get Things Done. Because I also wanted to log off early so we could go do the food shopping for the club Christmas in July event we were doing. So went and did that after work. All the pork and all the food. Fun times. Leftovers for dinner then watched the fifth episode of Obi-Wan.
Saturday. It was cold. Got up and ready then headed out to the club.
Did I mention it was cold?
Got out to the club and brought in All The Food (and a bunch of lucky door prizes on the left).
Then my whole day got thrown into dissarray because John bought a brand-new-second-hand oven! So instead of having to do the turkey in advance and reheat it later, I could actually do it independently in the separate oven!
So spent a couple of hours prepping all the foods. There was 8kg of pork, 3kg turkey, two epic potato bakes, 2kg peas, my (Coles) "winter salad" which I totally forgot to take a photo of, apple sauce and gravy, and I made a tray of "Christmas skewers" as well.
Two epic potato bakes
This was the sweet potato for the winter salad (which I didn't get a photo of!)
8kg pork! So good!!
3kg turkey. There would have been four except when I opened one, it had been dropped while still unfrozen and the seal was open too, so decided it would be safer not to use it. We did run out of turkey (after everyone got seconds), but there was still pork so noone starved ;)
The potato bakes cooked
Mulled wine anyone?
These were the "Christmas skewers" I made - bocconcini balls, olives, tomato, basil, with balsamic glaze and olive oil. A little time consuming to make, but actually simple and effective and they all got eaten. 
My dinner. I might have already pigged out on pork and crackling so wasn't feeling super hungry at this point ;)
Stu and Chris helped decorate the pavlovas
All in all it went really well. The food all turned out well and we didn't get much leftovers. We won't mention the one woman who literally made a vomit face over the olives. And when I said I'd be putting rocket lettuce with the sweet potato I asked if she'd vomit over that too, and she said yes so I said well maybe you could grab a few pieces of sweet potato before I do. Seriously who does that? If you don't like something you can just say "yeah not a fan" and not eat it. But to make vomit faces and say you hate it makes you look like a three year old. For someone in their 60s or 70s. Lame. Later she came into the kitchen and literally stood right behind me while I was cutting up the crackling obviously hoping to get some and I said NO!! OUT OF THE KITCHEN!! Sigh. But other than that, pretty damned awesome night!! And not too late either, I think we went to bed around 22:30.
Sunday. So last time we were out at the club I couldn't sleep because even with two doonas I was COLD. So the other week I went and bought a 75% down doona. And it was awesome! We were quite comfortable all night. Well other than be being awake for a couple of hours feeling bloated. All that eating and drinking I guess. Eventually got up and I spent an hour and a half packing up chairs and tables and vacuuming and washing up to get the place all tidy. Although I didn't put away all the decorations because I didn't want to ;) Got home and the house was COLD. 7 degrees!! Craziness. Two hours of running the heater later and it was still only half way to 19. hrmmm. Pretty nothing afternoon, although did download all my photos and do some music practise and blog.
I also had to laugh at this. This is a meme I saw this week about skies:
Which is so damned true!!
This was the sky on Monday night when I went to Chris' for supplies
and this was at Jamo on Friday night
Merry Christmas in July!
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