Monday, July 25, 2005
It's Monday. My day to cook. I decided to cook a casserole. Should be interesting. First I had to purchase a casserole dish. Then some meat and veg. The beef is soaking in red wine at this very minute. If I chop in a carrot and shove the lot in the oven, d'you think that will work? I'll report back later on if anything edible resulted.
Current weight: 77 kg.
I attribute the loss to my first day at the new campus. I kept getting lost and so ended up getting a lot of unexpected exercise.
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Current weight: 77 kg.
I attribute the loss to my first day at the new campus. I kept getting lost and so ended up getting a lot of unexpected exercise.
Saturday, July 23, 2005
Quote of the day: (from one of Jim's birthday cards) "I tell you, we are all here on earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you any different." Kurt Vonnegut.
I've been helping Jim celebrate his birthday. As it was his 50th I thought it was worthy of attention. I even bought him some presents (well, he did need a new vest) but I've made it clear that he's not to expect such generosity every year. That's his lot now till he's 80.
He was adamant that he did not want a party. Instead he favoured a series of smaller gatherings. Damn sneaky, he ended up celebrating his birthday about four times. He celebrated with his class on kebabs and pizza. Then M&A arrived fresh from their latest sojourn to Fiji and insisted on taking us out to Freo for a seafood platter that was so huge the table was practically groaning with the weight of it.
Celebration number three was at Jim's current favourite restaurant with P&I. Superb Thai cuisine and fine wines followed by chocolately desserts at the coffee shop next door. And his birthday still hadn't even arrived at this point.
On the actual day, clutching a magnificent bottle of red, the two of us strolled round the corner to a restaurant that claims to be a mixture of French, Italian and Japanese cuisine. Now, I'm all for fusion but I was somewhat skeptical of such an unlikely combination. I was delighted to be proved wrong as the food was great.
The following day Jim said he was sick of birthdays and there were to be no more celebrations so it was back to beans on toast for the rest of the week. Weight wise the damage had already been done. Current weight: 78 kg.
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I've been helping Jim celebrate his birthday. As it was his 50th I thought it was worthy of attention. I even bought him some presents (well, he did need a new vest) but I've made it clear that he's not to expect such generosity every year. That's his lot now till he's 80.
He was adamant that he did not want a party. Instead he favoured a series of smaller gatherings. Damn sneaky, he ended up celebrating his birthday about four times. He celebrated with his class on kebabs and pizza. Then M&A arrived fresh from their latest sojourn to Fiji and insisted on taking us out to Freo for a seafood platter that was so huge the table was practically groaning with the weight of it.
Celebration number three was at Jim's current favourite restaurant with P&I. Superb Thai cuisine and fine wines followed by chocolately desserts at the coffee shop next door. And his birthday still hadn't even arrived at this point.
On the actual day, clutching a magnificent bottle of red, the two of us strolled round the corner to a restaurant that claims to be a mixture of French, Italian and Japanese cuisine. Now, I'm all for fusion but I was somewhat skeptical of such an unlikely combination. I was delighted to be proved wrong as the food was great.
The following day Jim said he was sick of birthdays and there were to be no more celebrations so it was back to beans on toast for the rest of the week. Weight wise the damage had already been done. Current weight: 78 kg.
Monday, July 11, 2005
I had to buy a belt this week coz my jeans kept falling down and that’s not a pretty sight. It’s not that I’ve lost so much weight it’s more the stupid design that’s currently fashionable whereby pants hang on the hips not the waist. That’s fine for those with jutting hip bones but I think we have firmly established by now that I’m not in that category. I went to Subi market and plucked a fine black leather specimen of the rack. “Oh, you won’t need one as long as that, dear,” said the stallholder. “Yes, she will,” chirped my spouse. Well they were both wrong. I needed one that was even longer. Groan.
Apart from belt buying, a nice week. Thanks to those of you who sent your best wishes for my 49th birthday. Particular thanks to those who accompanied their greetings with chocolate. I don’t really like that sort of thing, as you know, but out of pure politeness I’ll probably manage to force down a little of the mud truffle or perhaps a Freddo choc frog.
In other news… I won $50 in a supermarket raffle. I promise not to spend it on anything edible. Series 2 of Star Trek Enterprise is out on video this week. I may be tempted.
I saw a whale yesterday. (No, not in the mirror!) it was about 400 yards out to sea on the coast just near the house. We went out for a morning stroll on the seafront and there was a whale, swimming up and down. We thought at first it might have come too close and got stuck but after a while it just gave a flick of its tail and headed off out to sea again. It was quite startling but made me smile for the whole day.
current weight: 77.8 kg
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Apart from belt buying, a nice week. Thanks to those of you who sent your best wishes for my 49th birthday. Particular thanks to those who accompanied their greetings with chocolate. I don’t really like that sort of thing, as you know, but out of pure politeness I’ll probably manage to force down a little of the mud truffle or perhaps a Freddo choc frog.
In other news… I won $50 in a supermarket raffle. I promise not to spend it on anything edible. Series 2 of Star Trek Enterprise is out on video this week. I may be tempted.
I saw a whale yesterday. (No, not in the mirror!) it was about 400 yards out to sea on the coast just near the house. We went out for a morning stroll on the seafront and there was a whale, swimming up and down. We thought at first it might have come too close and got stuck but after a while it just gave a flick of its tail and headed off out to sea again. It was quite startling but made me smile for the whole day.
current weight: 77.8 kg
Sunday, July 10, 2005
Name that Candybar - Science Museum of Minnesota
The number of weird and wonderful websites out there never ceases to amaze me. This one has a selection of chocolate bars photographed in cross-section for you to identify.
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The number of weird and wonderful websites out there never ceases to amaze me. This one has a selection of chocolate bars photographed in cross-section for you to identify.
Monday, July 04, 2005
I went shopping today. I hate shopping. I suppose I'm just not very good at it. With the words, "Buy yourself a birthday present," ringing in my ears I hit the city. I decided I needed I pair of black trousers to replace the ones I inadvertently shrank in the tumble drier on holiday. Black trousers, surely nothing could be simpler. Easy peasy lemon squeezy. So how come I arrived home with a book, like I always do when I go clothes shopping? It's the same every time. After being demoralized for a couple of hours in the boutiques I hit the book shops and start to cheer up. Then I go to Target, buy something from their menswear department and put the whole sorry experience behind me for another year or so. That didn't work for me today though, even Target menswear failed me.
For a start I am overwhelmed by the sheer size of the department stores. As I stood gasping at the hugeness of Myers today I began to wish I could just whittle things down to a manageable scale. What I need is the equivalent of Google so I can type in what I'm searching for and have everything else disappear. It would be nice to click my fingers (a la Bewitched) and have everything that costs more that a hundred bucks vanish. Then, all those pink floaty things in a size 8 would waft away. Finally I could refine my search to black pants suitable for those who are not blessed with jutting hip bones and the daggy pair of trackies that I know I'm gonna end up with would materialize instantly and save me a whole lotta time and embarrassment in the changing rooms.
Yes, I know I could, in fact, do this either by employing a personal shopper or else by shopping online but that hardly seems efficient when I have to try on twenty pairs of trousers to find one pair that can be made to fit. There's no doubt about it, I'm just gonna have to diet till I'm a perfect size ten and then I can shop 'off the peg' anywhere. Of course, Il Gelato have sent me a birthday voucher for a free scoop so a delay is inevitable.
Current weight: 77.4 kg
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For a start I am overwhelmed by the sheer size of the department stores. As I stood gasping at the hugeness of Myers today I began to wish I could just whittle things down to a manageable scale. What I need is the equivalent of Google so I can type in what I'm searching for and have everything else disappear. It would be nice to click my fingers (a la Bewitched) and have everything that costs more that a hundred bucks vanish. Then, all those pink floaty things in a size 8 would waft away. Finally I could refine my search to black pants suitable for those who are not blessed with jutting hip bones and the daggy pair of trackies that I know I'm gonna end up with would materialize instantly and save me a whole lotta time and embarrassment in the changing rooms.
Yes, I know I could, in fact, do this either by employing a personal shopper or else by shopping online but that hardly seems efficient when I have to try on twenty pairs of trousers to find one pair that can be made to fit. There's no doubt about it, I'm just gonna have to diet till I'm a perfect size ten and then I can shop 'off the peg' anywhere. Of course, Il Gelato have sent me a birthday voucher for a free scoop so a delay is inevitable.
Current weight: 77.4 kg
