So I cooked a roast chicken dinner tonight, but the fail lies where we didn't eat until 10pm! I know its the weekend, and Saturday so there is one more day of the weekend left, but I am trying to lose a little bit of lingering baby weight so like to try and eat dinner as early as possible... however the chicken was delicious, and the veges were pretty good (although just not quiet crispy enough) so overall it tasted really nice. I really am my own worst critic, in every way.. meh.
Yesterdays fail was rather epic, and not in a nice way. Friday night is our takeaway night of the week (yay!) and this week we decided to get chinese takeaway. Biting into my second dim sim, it hit what I thought was a bone, so pulled it out to discover it was not in fact a bone, but a piece of metal! I nearly threw up on the spot, and continued to dry reach for a good few minutes.
M phoned the restaurant for me to tell them, they said 'Free dim sim next time'. Sorry, but um we won't be eating from your restaurant.. ever again! Its a shame really as I've been eating from there since I was a small child. I don't know how long it will be before I'll be able to eat chinese without the mental image of the piece of metal running through my mind.
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Monty's Salad
I've had this stored in my phone for ages and wanted to get it written down.
Red cabbage
Broccoli
Green apple
Carrot
Parsley
Celery
Beans
Cauliflower
Radish
French dressing
Chop all incredients into little cubes, mix and dress with french dressing! YUM!
Red cabbage
Broccoli
Green apple
Carrot
Parsley
Celery
Beans
Cauliflower
Radish
French dressing
Chop all incredients into little cubes, mix and dress with french dressing! YUM!
Gotta start somewhere
Tuesday are always busy for us. My MIL comes over to spend time with her precious first grandson, he loves it. He always knows who to expect when the front door opens and his eyes light up and a big toothy grin breaks all over his cute little face.
So in preparation for her visit I like our home to look as perfect as possible, so that means vacuuming, cleaning the kitchen and getting myself showered and dressed before she arrives, plus keeping the little man happy.
By the time she arrives I am a bit tired. She give little X his lunch and dessert, then its play time. Usually I head out for a half hour or so and get myself some sushi, but today I made myself a massive chicken salad sandwich. Once that was eaten I was ready for a little nap myself! A bit more playing with the little man, and then it was his nap time.
We usually sit here and chat or watch a bit of UK TV on foxtel, today I actually dozed off a little few times only for a few minutes. Definatley needed and I feel so much better for it!
Tonight I'm heading off to see Lisa Williams at the Gold Coast Arts Centre, which I'm really looking forward to! That reminds me I have to go and charge my camera battery so I can get a photo with her at the Members meet and greet after the show!
xoB
So in preparation for her visit I like our home to look as perfect as possible, so that means vacuuming, cleaning the kitchen and getting myself showered and dressed before she arrives, plus keeping the little man happy.
By the time she arrives I am a bit tired. She give little X his lunch and dessert, then its play time. Usually I head out for a half hour or so and get myself some sushi, but today I made myself a massive chicken salad sandwich. Once that was eaten I was ready for a little nap myself! A bit more playing with the little man, and then it was his nap time.
We usually sit here and chat or watch a bit of UK TV on foxtel, today I actually dozed off a little few times only for a few minutes. Definatley needed and I feel so much better for it!
Tonight I'm heading off to see Lisa Williams at the Gold Coast Arts Centre, which I'm really looking forward to! That reminds me I have to go and charge my camera battery so I can get a photo with her at the Members meet and greet after the show!
xoB
Thursday, January 23, 2003
London ephiphany... part two
A few months into our relationship (a very happy one at that, he called me THE ONE) The hairdresser celebrated his 21st birthday.
For his birthday present, his parents gave him a return ticket to London. It was a sort of tradition in their family and his two older sisters (who were around my age) were both still living in London and well his parents weren't really in the know about our relationship, they just thought we were flatmates (yeah alarm bells should have sounded then in my head that all was not as it seemed with me and the hairdresser, that I
was just a means to an end for him).
To my elation and surprise, the hairdresser invited me to join him on his working holiday to London. I was ecstatic! My dream was going to become a reality.
I decided to wait though until my niece or nephew arrives (around end of May or early June) though before I joined him over there, and he is going to wait until I've had my 28th birthday. So we still have a few months to get everything organised, but its all so exciting.
For his birthday present, his parents gave him a return ticket to London. It was a sort of tradition in their family and his two older sisters (who were around my age) were both still living in London and well his parents weren't really in the know about our relationship, they just thought we were flatmates (yeah alarm bells should have sounded then in my head that all was not as it seemed with me and the hairdresser, that I
was just a means to an end for him).
To my elation and surprise, the hairdresser invited me to join him on his working holiday to London. I was ecstatic! My dream was going to become a reality.
I decided to wait though until my niece or nephew arrives (around end of May or early June) though before I joined him over there, and he is going to wait until I've had my 28th birthday. So we still have a few months to get everything organised, but its all so exciting.
Saturday, July 27, 2002
London epiphany.. the very begining
It all started when I was at Splendour In The Grass (a marvelous music festival held over two days in beautiful Byron Bay), well actually when I got home from the festival, I had my epiphany.
I felt that my life was dull, boring and wasn't going anywhere and it was time for a
massive change, an adventure.
I was born and had lived my entire life on the Gold Coast and I was tired of the same old same old. I had worked in real estate since I'd left school and it was becoming boring and monotonous.
But I had debts that a younger me had accumulated from a terrible 6 year relationship that had to be sorted and paid off before I could embark on my adventure, so there was no departure date at this point. Just the decision that I wanted to move to London and experience what life was like in a foreign city, the biggest city in my eyes, in the world. And most importantly to have a fresh start.
A couple of months later, I'd all but put my epiphany of moving to London aside, as a new relationship had started, with my much younger hairdresser, who I had a crush on for sometime. I'd invited him to our unit, which was on the Indy circuit in Surfers Paradise during Indy, and well we'd gotten together over that weekend and he'd pretty much moved himself in since then (the story of my adult life really, I was a bit of a pushover when it came to boys or men shall I say). I was 27 and he was 20.
Right around the same time my youngest sister discovered she was pregnant with her first child, my first niece or nephew, due mid May next year. So my life had taken a turn for the better and there were things, mostly people, that made me put off my dream of moving to London.
I felt that my life was dull, boring and wasn't going anywhere and it was time for a
massive change, an adventure.
I was born and had lived my entire life on the Gold Coast and I was tired of the same old same old. I had worked in real estate since I'd left school and it was becoming boring and monotonous.
But I had debts that a younger me had accumulated from a terrible 6 year relationship that had to be sorted and paid off before I could embark on my adventure, so there was no departure date at this point. Just the decision that I wanted to move to London and experience what life was like in a foreign city, the biggest city in my eyes, in the world. And most importantly to have a fresh start.
A couple of months later, I'd all but put my epiphany of moving to London aside, as a new relationship had started, with my much younger hairdresser, who I had a crush on for sometime. I'd invited him to our unit, which was on the Indy circuit in Surfers Paradise during Indy, and well we'd gotten together over that weekend and he'd pretty much moved himself in since then (the story of my adult life really, I was a bit of a pushover when it came to boys or men shall I say). I was 27 and he was 20.
Right around the same time my youngest sister discovered she was pregnant with her first child, my first niece or nephew, due mid May next year. So my life had taken a turn for the better and there were things, mostly people, that made me put off my dream of moving to London.
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