Sunday. 15th. Blogged, then leftover food poisoning for dinner. I was fine. Then the last of Donna Hay's 2022 Christmas special. I really wish she'd stop saying "perfect"!!
Monday. Slept mostly ok.
We just need Charlotte to write "Some Pig" in this...
Got ready, fed the fish, had a drink, put away some clothes, put a load of washing on, watered all the plants, mowed the lawn, picked up all the lemons, dusted, vacuumed, took out the rubbish and recycling, closed up all the windows and blinds, hung out the washing. Then sat in front of the fan for ten minutes to cool down before starting work at 8:30. Sigh. I'm the Naughty Email Intervention Layer this week while Neil is on holidays. I felt in holiday mode too. Didn't want to do any decom (I always worry about deleting stuff then going on leave) so just a lot of cleaning out of inboxes etc. Blogged some Lego after work. Then worked on colour coding the weather pixie. Also added the time zone based on the time zone on my host.
Tuesday. Took ages to get to sleep (like 11), then woke up at 5. Sigh. Finished making up icons for the weather pixie - it has a different colour based on the feels like temperature. Christmas movie season continued with Die Hard 2. Man the plot holes in that thing are ridiculous, but it's still a lot of fun.
Wednesday. School holidays. Urgh. But in a strange twist of fate, there was no queue at Subway and there was a *whole row* of empty tables next to us briefly. That was unexpected!
Annie sent me a photo of the SAMs in Port (up for Potty's birthday)
Cooked up some food poisoning sausages (we were fine) and some broccolini and parnsips that really really needed cooking.
Thursday. Took a while to get to sleep, awake from 5. It was nice and COLD overnight which was awesome. Didn't get much work done between all the crap. Lunch at Vanilla Pod. Shared a pepperoni pizza with XL (Peroni beer and a pizza for $20 - pretty good value!!).
No sooner had I gotten back to work when James and Josh came and picked me up to go down to Woden to go to Space Kitchen (Rachel wanted to go to see the epic cakes). Bizarre place. They make a fuss about bookings and booking times (we only had "an hour", even though the booking was for 14:30 and they close at 16:00 and the place was mostly empty anyway - weird!!). The cakes looked pretty spectacular, although I think my favourite was the lemon meringue pie - very lemony!!
Purple passionfruit
Nutty one
Lemon meringue
Red velvet
The little cakes we got
A very brief but lovely catchup.
Too full to eat any chips at drinks (which was surprisingly busy for the last drinks of the year), and only ate half my pizza..
I love this time of year...
Friday. Slept mostly ok but awake pretty early. Had to go with the sweetie to pick up a package at Fyshwick (bumplugs at Border Express wouldn't try again to deliver it) and drop him off at work. Which made me super late for work. Frustrating day of coding - didn't get anywhere with my script cause I'm dumb. Had dinner at Kinn Thai with the sweetie.
Salted and Pepper Squid - wok-tosses (their spelling!) fried squid, onion, garlic, 5 spices and chilli $19
Pad Prik Khing - stir fried crispy pork with chilli kaffir lime jam and green bean $29
They say you can get anything in a vending machine in Japan. Truth is, the vast majory of vending machines only sell drinks. I think the most unusual one I've ever seen in Japan sold flowers. So it was pretty funny to see this vending machine in the Canberra Centre carpark selling toy Cat trucks!!
Then watched The Santa Clause (1994) which I don't think I've ever seen. That was a bit of fun.
Saturday. All. The. Things. Got heaps done but not nearly enough. The dude serving us at Knead asked Stu.. hey this may sound like a strange question.. but do you have a sister? And he's like yeah.. and the dude is like, what's her name? And Stu is like .. Anne.. turns out the dude has Annie as an English teacher and recognised Stu cause, well, they do kinda look alike :) Funny stuff!!
Made some creamy lemon dill chicken for dinner, then forced the sweetie to watch Love Actually with me (I said he could bring his laptop so he could just do stuff on the computer :) )
Sunday. Did some weeding then I thought I'd go food shopping early to beat the crowds. Except markets. Sigh. Literally no parking after several laps so parked at the pool, and they can find my trolley later. But Coles itself turned out to be relatively quiet which was nice. A lot easier to keep up your Christmas spirit when there's less people around. Another day of All The Things. Spent quite a bit of time sorting out paperwork for our trip next year and getting travel insurance. Then I tried to book tickets for Pompeii at the museum. The buttplugs at the National Museum now FORCE you to register a whole account just so you can book tickets online. Hate hate hate hate hate.
I really wanted to have my last Bricklink order filed by Christmas.. but I'm only like two thirds the way through.. sigh..
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