Sunday. 21st. Roasted All The Veggies for dinner, and had that with some leftover beef.
Monday. Slept okish, bit restless, kept waking up hot. Took out the recycling tub to the bin outside and noticed behind it a big stain on the side of the pantry from a stream of dirty water. Seems I must have overwatered the plant on top on Friday night. Sigh. So then had to spent a bunch of time before work wiping it all down and having a sad that the chipboard had swelled from the water. Sigh. Busy day doing some migration work and paperwork. Into Mash season 8.
Tuesday. Dunno, no notes.
Wednesday. Had a big lunch at work. Well, it was big in that there were lots of people, but lunch was super small on account of heaps of people turning up without being catered for so they ran out of food. Whoops. At least I did get something.
In the evening Team Blank accidentally won the trivia night. Sigh. Only by two points too. It was generally pretty fun. My only main gripe was some of the questions were either half points for two part answers, or two points. And it wasn't consistent. Which wouldn't have been a problem except they weren't marking them centrally, they got us to swap with other tables. So that was bit annoying.
Anyways. Looks like I have to plan another trivia night. First since pre covid. Someone suggested getting AI to write it. Wonder what sort of questions it would come up with.
At least there was mulled cider.
Thursday. Slept mostly ok. Although awake from after 4 til 5 after the sweetie got up to pee (he'd been awake for hours stressing about All The Things). Dealing with All The Problems during the day. Then pizzas, Mash, Lego Masters.
Friday. Slept ok. Morning was just dealing with crap and tidying up and crap.
The turdburgers are back to eat the house
Knocked off at lunch then did some club dinner prep and food shopping and more prep including making a peppermint slice. Frustrated with LibreOffice formatting. I have a random line in one of my documents that I literally cannot delete. Give me Notes formatting any day.
Here's all the shopping for the club Christmas in July night.
Dessert. After I'd started making up the peppermint slice
Presents
It's times like this I really miss the little brother...
Chris *promised* me kievs this week. He lied!! He did say I could beat him over the head. So had to have some other random chicken stuff instead to go with the kalettes.
This is some of the peppermint slice cut up
Saturday. Not much in the morning. Stu decided he was too stressed to go out to the club so I went out by myself.
All my bags of crap
After I dumped everything in the fridge I went for a wander and had a chat with Chris and Geoff and Tammie and Brenton. Then watched a demo of the log splitter and had a go on it. Then it was into the kitchen to wash up everything and start prepping dinner. Which took all afternoon. Note to self: start closer to 12 than 1. There were a couple of minor disasters. Firstly I forgot to take out the small wooden skewer sticks so I couldn't make up the Christmas Skewers (Chris suggested putting the bits out in bowls but they didn't really get eaten much). Then the door on the little oven was a bit bent so it wasn't closing properly, so when I opened up the foil on the turkeys they were nowhere near done. John hacked the oven door and got it to close properly and so I cranked the temp and waited a bit longer. All good cause the other oven was still super slow even with less food in it. So dinner was a little later than I planned but it all worked out. It was also a fairly quiet night, only like 20-25 peeps. And I also missed getting photos of a lot of the food cause I was concentrating too much on getting it organised. Whoops.
John and some turkey
Coles winter salad
One of the potato bakes
Minted peas
We only did one pavlova because of so few people
Eggnog overload!! With actual real eggnog from last Christmas, that had been in the freezer at home since January
Went to bed a little late but not too bad.
Sunday. Happy birthday Dad. Woke up quite early and never got back to sleep. Eventually got up and went up at 7:30 to clean up the shed, and was totally amazed to see snow! Will post pics separately. After making it past the snow, then spent half an hour taking down Christmas decorations, had some breakfast, then spent an hour doing washing up from last night. hmmm. Definitely not part of the plan.
Came home but was zombie tired so didn't feel up to doing anything useful. I did make some drawer dividers for our implements drawer out of reject Lego of Vic's (worn/yellowed stuff). And watched an hour of the Olympics opening ceremony. Then took the sweetie to the airport, then came home for photos/blogging etc.
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