Pretty pleased yesterday to hop on the scales and find my weight unchanged from the Monday before Christmas. It's like my body decided to cut me some slack over the holidays - "so you want Doritos and dip for dinner? Go for it. Ice cream every night? Heh why not. Alcohol? Bring it on." Plus all the usual holiday fare. Even more surprising when I ( Read more... )

Walked into work this morning to find that the weekend's system upgrade was the exact reverse. What a mess! The only thing that was working as it should was outlook, and even that gave up the ghost mid-afternoon. And it was a systems-wide issue, too, impacting every department. Customer Care got hammered by callers who couldn't transfer funds into ( Read more... )

I don't often post about food, probably because I don't often cook, but last night the mood was upon me and I just grabbed whatever I had to hand and threw it in a frying pan with a knob of butter - ended up with broccoli, cauliflower, two carrots, a capsicum, some cherry tomatoes, aubergine, mushrooms and chicken breast, plus some crushed garlic. ( Read more... )

Woolies is running a competition to win a home entertainment package, and to enter all you have to do is buy any three eligible products from participating brands in a single transaction. Looking through their catalogue to find the eligbile products, I found icecreams, Skittles, kid-size packets of chips, adult-size packets of chips, popcorn, ( Read more... )

I had my car window repaired last week, and they didn't charge me a cent - they reckoned the car was still under warranty. I pointed out that it is a November 2007 build, first registered in May 2008, and by my reckoning the warranty expired last year, but according to their records I bought it as an ex-demonstrator, and the warranty period didn't ( Read more... )

Christmas came early this year as my boy gets on a plane tomorrow to head south for the season. It's the downside of divorce; not only do you have to share with the other set of parents but also with your ex. And as the other set lives in New Zealand, and the ex is interstate, we have to take turns to have the kids home for Christmas ( Read more... )

Wet, rainy and cool today, giving me a perfect excuse to sit gawping at various screens all day. I had a lot of fic bookmarked to read and managed to tick a few stories off my list. Also watched "Sense and Sensibility" - the 1995 version with Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Hugh Grant, Cate Winslet and Hugh Laurie. Wonderful movie! And yes, it made me ( Read more... )

Had a terrific weekend. Yesterday was the Birman club Christmas party, for which I trekked an hour north to our club president's home. Good friends, good food and good conversation; actually, a bit too much of that good food. I really didn't think I'd be able to eat again yesterday, but ( Read more... )

My son was given a deep fryer for Christmas from a mate and last night he was telling me about some of their more unusual food experiments, including deep-fried battered lamington fingers, and pie toasties. He had tried deep-frying a pie too but apparently it was still cold on the inside when the outside was done so next time he wrapped a pie in ( Read more... )

My house smells so good tonight, after I made up a batch of pumpkin soup. I'd forgotten to buy sour cream but it was just as good without it. And I have another two nights' worth in the freezer now ( Read more... )