Between dinner, Masterchef and Lie to Me, and a bit of UK planning, I still haven't sorted out photos from the weekend ..
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I was going to post some Queensland stuff, but after putting washing away, doing another load of washing, making up the spare room bed, having dinner, watching two episodes of Masterchef, running the dishwasher and doing some UK planning, it's suddenly very late.
Really not looking forward to the next week and a bit. Stress at work, work on the weekend, the parents coming this weekend, as well as being on call til next Thursday means no real downtime (aside from the obvious "down" time). I don't like that.
I've posted pics of red rumped parrots before, but got some super cool pics of some yesterday. Aren't they little sweeties?
Yesterday afternoon we went into Braddon to visit Stu's aunties and uncle who were in town. All Stu's family came so that was pretty cool, and good that the flat was so huge heh. We'll be in the UK at the same time as Jan and Bruce so we shared travel planning notes :)
View from the apartment
Immy and Violet
All the cousins
This eyeball was actually really cool - always faced up
On the way home Stu wanted a thickshake, so we got these Maltesers sundaes as well - nommm!
Today we went over to Potty's and everyone came over again. Got a huge Turkish feast and we all ate too much heh.
A big shout out to Aunty Essie! Hello! :)
Did this jigsaw on the weekend. Quite possibly the easiest 500-piece jigsaw I've ever done.
I was going to blog tonight. Really I was. Except I haven't downloaded my photos yet. Not that anything exciting has happened, so you haven't missed anything.
Had an epic crap week at work. The stress is going to kill me I'm sure :(
Attempted to make a pasta sauce on Friday night, but didn't have nearly enough tomatoes. So used it in a lasagna tonight and it worked really well.
Did lots of tidying in the garage. Should have taken some before and after photos..
Did a very easy 500 piece jigsaw.
Didn't do much UK planning. Although have a bit of a rough itinerary. At the moment based on flights, car hire options and a Stone Circle Access visit to Stonehenge.
Very excited by the Masterchef visit to London. We'll be there in two and a bit months!
Other than that, we only left the house this weekend to do our food shopping.
Friday night built Lego
I loved the mist coming off the pool edge and damp towel
I must have looked at them funny..
We have these gorgeous bean plants growing. Unfortunately they're completely sterile (grown from leftovers of the original crop) and not a single bean on the plants :( So not taking any care of them, but they're still growing like crazy..
Even had some eastern rosellas down
Nat and Andrew came over after dinner for some wiiing. That was a bit of fun. Tried to get the sweetie to play Billionaire with us but he wouldn't so we didn't play (cause you really need at least four to play) :( Had a repeat of the Robert Pattinson conversation that we had at Shogun, which was pretty darned funny ;) Edward from Twilight is Cedric Diggory in Harry Potter people! :) Baked a coconut cake, but had the oven up too high, so it was sufficiently burnt around the edges that we had to cut them off - doh! And I also attempted to make icing, which I probably haven't done since I moved out of home ten years ago :) First batch was a bit of a fail cause I put wayyy too much water in it (it's not like making gravy! heh). And then just before midnight (oops, we didn't realise the time) we put on Toy Story. Nat & Andrew fell asleep by the end (and I have photographic evidence mwoooahahah)
Got to bed very late (after 1:30), then woken up by stoopid alerts at 3:20 and 8:20, so no sleep in for me. Got up to feed the birdies and found the beans somewhat destroyed by frost and the pool frozen over (it'd been below zero since 9:30pm last night). Super awesome day just being at home. Emptied, organised, rehomed and repacked ten storage boxes I'd had in the dungeon so that it would be clearer for the sweetie to have as a retreat. The sweetie made a nice (but a bit too spicy for me) lentil dish for dinner. Made more Lego. Watched a very stoopid movie (cause Kristen Bell was in it and the sweetie wanted to watch it).
At this point I'd be feeling a bit blah cause it'd be the end of the weekend. But oh the bliss of a long weekend!! :)
So after the drenching we got two weekends ago, last weekend the mushrooms were out in full force..
So we had a bunch of spinach we had to use up, and some ancient frozen pastry sheets in the freezer. So last weekend we got some ricotta.
Today I mixed up the spinach and the ricotta and stuck it all in the pastry sheets.
I've never made pasties before, and by the time the pastry sheets were defrosted enough to separate they were too raw and doughy. So it had potential to be a big disaster. But in the end some turned out and only some were too sticky to work with... and they turned out really well :)
Other than that our Sunday consisted of doing not much, and a nice walk around the neighbourhood.
Two years ago today we explored some more of Berlin, looked at the Reconciliation Church on Bernauer Strasser, visited Potsdamer Platz, the Brandenburg Gate again and the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
Yesterday was a blissfully quiet day. I don't think we even left the house. Did some computer work in the morning, and some jigsaw, and cleaned the pool (while the sweetie had a migraine :( ). Finished the evening off with a little beer, some tv and jigsaw.
Today we got up and ready then headed out for breakfast at Black Pepper, then did our shopping, then headed out to Yass for much nomms.
Noah's joints are a little freaky..!
And suddenly the weekend is over??? How rude!!