How was your day dear?: October 2020 Archives

Backdating, but only by two days ;)

Sunday.  Slow cooked some lamb shanks.  We went and visited Annie and the family in the middle, so instead of putting them in later, I put them on earlier, but at quite a low temperature.  They actually turned out really well.  But I didn't manage to get any leftovers.  Doh.  

In the evening watched the last episode of The IT Crowd (the one-off final special).

Monday.  Woke up at like 5am.  No notes for the day (it's been a bit of a nothing week).  Leftovers for dinner and watched episode 10 of Against the Wind.

Tuesday.  Better sleep.  Was scanning Dad's slides of San Francisco and came across these.  I might have LOLed.  A lot.

Noted that I had an ok day, but that I'd gone on strike house-wise.  Can't remember why.  But I was cranky at everything and so Stu cooked dinner - duck and plum gyozas with bok choy and rice.  Very nice.

Wednesday.  Ok sleep.  Went into town for a doctor's appointment.  Had ten minutes or so before it was due so thought I'd grab a quick lunch at KFC.  Ha.  Firstly it was *slow as*, and when I finally did get to order, they said they had no fillets.  And I'm like WTF?  And he was like, do you want a zinger.  NO, I want a fillet burger.  And this was after David the other night had tried to get a fillet burger at Gold Creek KFC and they had no fillets.  You could maybe understand that because it was very late at night, but I was in Garema Place at lunch time.  No fricken excuse KFC!  So I walked out in disgust.  And met up with the sweetie who let me have some of his KFC - Korean fried chicken - at Cocorea.

Fighting with migrating CVS to a new server in the afternoon but I couldn't figure it out because I'm dumb.  Stu was late to pick me up because of a burst water main on Barry Drive.  So we got pizza.  Blerf.  Watched episode 11 of Against the Wind.

Thursday.  Ok sleep.  I think.  Ok day.  I think.  Work drinks were good.  

Friday.  Took a random day off.  Woke up early but got a bit more sleep, but a bit of a slow start. 

Michelle's strawberries are doing great!

Washed the sheets.  Then we ran errands.  Took about a dozen wine boxes full of books to Lifeline.  Went to the tip to drop off the old oven, all its trays, and the old extenda-line, which turned out to be free because it was all primarily metal!  Win!  Then to the Green Shed.  I picked up a big pile of jigsaws, as well as a chest of drawers I want to use as a pantry in the van.  $15 for all the jigsaws and $10 for the drawers.  Not bad :)  Came home briefly then headed out again for Stuey R's farewell.  Didn't get much done in the afternoon - too sleepie.

So this week we had our roof restored.  Wednesday they cleaned.  Thursday they primed.  Friday morning they did the first coat.  Friday afternoon they did the second coat.  Just before the rain that was due Friday night!

Friday evening met up with EffanC for drinks at the Pot Belly.  Got home minutes before the rain started.

Saturday.  Slept fairly well.  Did heaps of things on the todo list, but nowhere near enough. 

First batch of strawberries!  Although slugs had gotten to one of them otherwise would have had four.  #grunt

Went over to EffanC's for dinner, with Robert and Ian.

This is the bottletop of a Great Northern beer

Can you see the bird?

Sunday.  Woke up after 3am some time and never got back to sleep.  So a very slow start.  Had brunch at The Scottish Restaurant then did our food shopping.  Too tired to do anything much.  In fact we both had a nap in the afternoon.  Well I didn't have much of a sleep - my body simply refuses to sleep, even when it's super tired.  A bit after 3pm I got up and spent the rest of the afternoon cooking.

I cooked all this (except one of the bags of potatoes).  Two trays of roast veggies.  Then roast beef with another two trays of veggies.  A kilo of mince with bacon, onion and garlic, and honey mustard chicken.

After dinner I ended up with five meals of roast beef and veggies, four of honey mustard chicken, mince in four containers to be cooked with whatever, and two extra containers of roast veggies.  Basically enough food for the entire week.  And probably even longer.  

OMFG!  Not backdating!! ;)

Monday.  Slept ok.  Ok day I guess.  In the evening I got up to labelling the photo of sad bean!  This was a baked bean Stu had at breakfast one morning on our UK 2010 holiday.  It had a crease and a couple of specks of pepper at just the right spots to make the bean look like it had a sad face.  Stu couldn't bear to eat sad bean, and I don't like baked beans, so that poor little bean didn't get eaten, which was even sadder!  I might have had a little sad ten years later just labelling the photo I took of it :(:(

Up to episode 7 of Against the Wind.

Tuesday.  Hurty woke me up and kept me awake for an hour and a half.  But otherwise slept ok. 

<work rant snipped>

But look!  Itty bitty Cape Weed flower!

Leftovers for dinner, UK labelling and episode 8 of Against the Wind.

Wednesday.  All the stoopid.  I don't even remember what now.  I ranted to Stu over a drink at Beirut Bunker Bar and pushed it from my memory.  

Stopped in at the markets on the way home to go to the chemist, and the sweetie even cooked dinner! :)

I thought this looked pretty cool - looks a bit like the Matterhorn!

Thursday.  Filled with rage at someone watching Bathurst near me at work without a headset - not even at their desk, but in our area because their own desk is outside the exec offices and that would look bad.  And three or four conversations going on around me meant for NOISE and I seriously nearly lost it.  Fortunately I have the bestest boss ever and he went and muted Bathurst for me so I didn't go postal.  Watched the second episode of the French sun documentary.

Neil and I saw these at lunch on Thursday.  Not a huge amount of information on the Beam website, you need to download the app to find out useful stuff, you know, like where you can ride them.  45c/minute introductory rate to ride one.  Wonder how well they'll last.  I wouldn't mind taking one for a trip around the lake :)

Friday.  Deleting all the things!  Did a massive cleanup of routes in the morning, and cleared out a big decommissioned app in the afternoon.  In between I had lunch at Herbert's with Tony and the Chrises.  Big lunch, so dinner was a small serving of popcorn (needed some fibre to counteract all the meat I had at lunch).  Watched Arrietty in the evening, which we last (first) saw at the movies in 2012.  The movie is based on the "The Borrowers" books which really annoys me as a title because they're not borrowing, they're *stealing*.  Just sayin!

Saturday.  Slept well.  A day of All The Things.  We did do a quick Bunnings run and food shop.  I'd already voted during the week so didn't get a democracy sausage (I think a lot of places aren't doing them anyway), but Bunnings has started up their sausage sizzles again, but they load the sauces for you.  So not quite as pretty as a photo as my actual democracy sausage featured on Atlas (Gastro) Obscura :)

Stu cooked dinner which was lovely of him - grilled eggplant with a sauce of miso, mirin, and sake.  Quite yummy.

In the evening we watched the first episode of season 3 of Discovery.  I enjoyed the first season, but the second season just got way too convoluted and hard to follow.  The first episode of this season was fine, hopefully this season won't be as complicated as the last.  Up to episode 9 of Against the Wind.  

Sunday.  Today.  For once I'm not backdating.. craziness I know!  Woke up at 3:45 to go to the loo but didn't get back to sleep for hours.  At 4:51 I got up to have some cheese because I was hungry.  Apparently just a little bit of eggplant and rice isn't enough to keep me full all night.  I did eventually get a bit more sleep, including have a dream that I was staying at Dooce's house, and it was *massive* and Stu for some reason was sleeping in some other building on the *campus*, and I was talking to Leta about what life was like being the daughter of such a famous blogger.  So a pretty slow start.  Did a few things on the todo list.  I was going to do some more Lego part picking of Vic's sets, but by the time I'd gotten the files organised and found the sets and gone through them for what they had already it was after lunch.  Then we went and visited Annie/Stu/Immy, and then came home and did cooking and photo processing and blogging and suddenly it's nearly dinner time.  Hrmmmmm.

Backdating, cause I'm a slacker ;)

Tuesday.  Woke up at 5am for over an hour.  Meh day at work.  Taco Tuesday.

Wednesday.  Woke up at like 4am.  Crazy intense day of meetings.  Rollout planned for the afternoon didn't work.  Part of it we had no idea why, another part we realised before we started it wasn't going to work so didn't go ahead.  Meanwhile all my other work is slipping.  Hrmm.  After the failed rollout Neil and I went to the Labor Club (first time since last year!) and debriefed over a bottle of bubbles.  We actually came up with some ideas.  For dinner I cooked chicken thighs, with a lemon/butter/thyme sauce inspired by @phonakins.

Had a game of Kismet with Kit and Pete, that Pete won, but no UK photo labelling.

Thursday.  No slide scanning other than finishing off yesterday's roll (*going* to work sux!!  Doesn't leave me nearly enough time in the mornings (or evenings)).  Watched the second episode of Against the Wind.

Friday.  Woke up at 4:40.  OK day.  It was actually pretty quiet (some hardware problems had a lot of people offline that would usually be sending me work).  In fact I wandered off for an hour and a half in the afternoon to get stuff done around the house.   See, working from home is much more efficient.  I can flex off for an hour or two when the workload is light.  If I was *at* work I'd have to hunt around for things to do.  Not that I don't have any shortage of things to do, my todo list is a hundred years long, but sometimes on a Friday afternoon you'd rather just be tidying the house.  Did a Bunnings run and some food shopping (omfg Coles was closed! Some eftpos issue affecting their stores nationwide, so we went to Aldi, and fortuntely they had a caramel mudcake that I wanted to get for David's birthday), and may have had the Scottish Restaurant for dinner.  Watched episode 3 of Against the Wind.  Had to laugh and the really bumpy camerawork while they were following people walking/on horseback - no steadycams in 1978!!  

Saturday.  Slept in til 6:20!!  Felt so much better.  Got ready then basically just started prepping lunch.  There might have been a slightly epic lamb roast for the little brother's birthday lunch :)

A few peeps came over to wish him a happy birthday :)

I might have eaten too much ;)  

Watched some more Against the Wind, but I have to keep stopping it to go look up the history (the series was based on actual events).  In the evening we watched David Attenborough's Witness Statement, which was completely depressing for the first half.  There was more of a message of hope in the second half.  Stop breeding.  Check.  Go solar.  Coming soon.  Eat less meat.  Need to work on that one.

Sunday.  Mostly decent sleep.  Just did All The Things all day.  Managed to chip one of the good bowls while doing the washing up which gave me an epic sad.  I searched and searched everywhere for that chip but never found it.  I was hoping to minimise the impact by supergluing it back on, but it vanished off the face of the earth :(  In the evening we shared a bottle of McGuigan's shiraz that I bought on our Hunter Valley trip in 2012, and funnily enough I was wearing the same tshirt Sunday as the day I bought it :) 

Watched the first episode of a French documentary on the sun, and episode 6 of Against the Wind.

Backdating, cause I'm a slacker! ;)

Monday.  Slept well.  Ok day at work, although I felt like I was waiting for everyone for stuff, and I was just in limbo.  Leftover brisket and salad for dinner.  Got kitchen cleaned and UK photos done by 19:30 so got stuck into blogging.  An hour and a half later and still not caught up.

Tuesdsay.  Went to the chemist at lunch.  But the markets are closed Monday/Tuesday which made for an eerie place to go.  But they did have Floriade there too!

Wednesday.  Woke up at 4:30 and never got back to sleep.  Another day of stoopid meetings.  Was going to wait for the sweetie, but I'd had enough by 4pm and went to meet the sweetie for a drink, followed by dinner at Happys.

Thursday.  More expensive drinks at Pot Belly.

Friday.  Woke up at 3:30, think I only got about fifteen minutes more sleep just before 6am.  Hurrah.  Lunch with Tony/Jess/Keira at Herbert's, but I'll stick that in another post.  In the evening headed into Belco for C's birthday pot luck barbeque.  A whole crowd of "neurodiverse" people, such as are her friends :)  A very pleasant evening by the lake, and we were among the last to leave, and still managed an early night :)

Saturday.  Logged into work to try and finish off some work I didn't have time for on Friday (too much stoopid) but Notes had crashed, so it was a sign to just shut it all down.  Then we headed out to the club.  Stu read a book outside while I did another coat of primer on the main benchtops, and started some more of the cabinetry as well.

The boys had stained the dick as well

Happy hour started super early (like 15:30!) and Rob and Lyn brought *heaps* of food, which ended up being our dinner.  We avoided the various parties around the place and had a nice quiet evening by the fire (not that we needed the fire - the day had been super hot!).

Sunday.  Woke up at ~1am and didn't get back to sleep for like four hours, and then only had a little more.  Heard people going home from parties at 3am new time (2am old time).  Headed home in the morning (we could have stayed another night but Stu thought we should go home). 

Found out all that yellow stuff around Canberra is Cape Weed, an invasive species from South Africa.

I was so tired it was a bit of a nothing day.  All I managed to achieve was towel washing and jigsaw.  Had roast pork for dinner and watched Ponyo.

Monday.  Woke up at 5am (new time, so really 4am old time).  But!  All the things!!  Had a really productive day.  Started watching Against the Wind (more on that in another post).  Did some blogging catchup, although no UK photo labelling.