More Baking

Another long night of golf watching, although I DID get a solid four hours in the middle somewhere.

It was 9.30am when I forced myself out of bed.

30 minutes playing with Harley.

10 minutes in the garden.

While I made breakfast, I sent Adoring Husband to the shops to pick up my parcel from the PO Box, buy some butter and a small takeaway coffee.

I planned to bake for a while and THEN create jewellery.

Not using a recipe, I made a key lime pie. Problem was that I made too much crumb base, so I decided to make a passionfruit cheesecake filling and fill four small tart bases as well.

Then I realised that I’d made too much meringue so I plopped the leftovers onto a flat tray and cooked it for 2 hours in a low slow oven … which created marshmallow.

By this time, I’d been in the kitchen for over 2 hours and certainly had no motivation to create jewellery!

Approximately 2 weeks ago, I slammed my ankle into the metal frame of the sliding laundry glass door. It hurt like the Billy O, took my breath away and made me curse. I don’t bruise, so I couldn’t get any sympathy from my house mates. 

Today … 2 weeks later, I found this!

I was so happy to prove I had an injury!

I sat down and rested for an hour before reentering the kitchen to make a wombok salad and potato salad to go with the crumbed chicken that I’d removed from the freezer in the morning. The very same crumbed chicken that I’d prepared on Saturday during my cookathon.

We had an hour of trivia before all heading to bed.

Lots of funny stuff on TV tonight, but I believe I will sleep well tonight, and very soon.

Nite all.

Too Tired to Start

Surprisingly, I was motivated to make some jewellery today.

I say ‘surprisingly’ because I watched a whole lot of golf last night and this morning - dozing on and off during the night - so I didn’t get any kind of decent sleep.

Out of bed at 10am.

Harley play, 10 minutes in the garden and I made my breakfast of sourdough toast with avocado and prawns and a cup of soursop tea.

I watched the second half of an annoying TV program “House Hunters” where there was no final result or conclusion. Seems to be a regular occurrence in the British version of the program.

That inspired me to lift my butt from the lounge chair and move into my art space.

I’ve decided to make some bracelets to sell at the art/craft expo at the end of June.

It took me about 90 minutes to sort through the cupboard full of beads, charms, findings and tools. Then select the ones I wanted to use, then pack all of the containers back into the cupboard, by which time I was too tired to even start creating!

All of the goodies are laid out on my table ready to go when I experience my next burst of motivation.

It was almost time for the football to start anyway, so I rested on my bed to watch that. 

It was ‘spaghetti bol Sunday’ so all I had to do was cook the spaghetti and heat up the sauce which I’d taken out of the freezer in the morning.

I did ok in my footy tipping but am still even with my sister at the top of the table.

Now the final round of the golf has commenced, so I’m off to doze in front of that for the night!

Nite all.

Product of my Generation

What a day!

It was about 1am when I finally fell asleep watching the golf.

It was 7am when I woke up and turned the TV on to the golf channel to watch the final 2 hours of round 2.

It was a bit after 9.30am when I climbed out of bed and took Harley out for his play. Forty five minutes later, I did a touch of gardening before making the decision to spend the day in the kitchen.

Hence, nothing on yesterday’s list got done.

I began cooking at 10.30am and finally sat down at 4.30pm.

The results of my cookathon was:

• Spaghetti bolognese sauce x 8 meals
• Chicken and vegetable soup x 4 meals
• Beef Goulash x 5 meals
• Butter Chicken x 6 meals
• Crumbed chicken x 7 meals

I am obviously a product of my generation because not once did I consider taking photos of my accomplishments!

So I found pics online that closely resemble my efforts …

Our freezer is now chock full and I doubt I could squeeze much else into those 5 big drawers, although the small freezer may have room for more. I’ll check tomorrow.

My lower back was giving me a bit of grief during those six hours and I had to take a 5 minute break every hour on the hour to ease the discomfort, but all things considered, I feel pretty good tonight.

If my body is still ok tomorrow, I might make a key lime pie because we’ve run out of sweet treats.

I’m now in bed watching the football. I’m not doing too well in the tipping this week and my sister has caught up to me! Eep! We can’t allow that to continue!

Ok, time to watch some golf now.

For Adoring Husband 🥰

Nite all.

A Gentle Friday

While BGWLBH worked at the Crafty Bee today, Adoring Husband and I had a very lazy, unproductive day at home.

I woke at 6.30am and turned on the TV to watch the PGA golf championship. I had watched it the night before until about midnight, so I caught the final 2 hours of round one.

I was out of bed by 9.15am for Harley play and I watered my garden. I also wrapped the newly formed tomatoes in their protective bags.

Leftover sausage rolls were my breakfast.

I watched the second half of a movie that I’d started to watch on Thursday. I watched the first episode of the new series of Great Pottery Throwdown and before my quiz shows started, I watched the end of the movie playing on the same channel.

I made more sausage rolls with the leftover meat mixture from Wednesday night and I had them for dinner, sharing with BGWLBH.

AH had Thursday nights leftovers …

Chicken pieces coated in soy, honey and chilli, with roasted potato, capsicum, carrot, onion and tomato, topped with crumbled goats cheese, pine nuts, parsley and steamed beans

I didn’t taste it, but I’m told that apart from the chicken being a bit dry, it tasted delicious. I may have overcooked the chicken a touch. Bugger.

Tonight I was in bed ready to watch the football at 6pm, have watched both games and will now fall asleep with the golf in the background.

I have no plans for tomorrow. There is lots that I’d like to do, like:

• My washing
• Clean my ensuite
• Vacuum my bedroom
• Mop the hallway
• Wash the big glass sliding doors
• Rebound with my hand weights
• Start my budget diary
• Make some jewellery
• Do more of my seahorse art
• Tidy my dressing table
• Clean the cage of my pedestal fan

I could add more to that list, but we all know that my motivation level will be low enough to do very few, if any of the chores or activities on that list!

Sleep time for me now.

Nite all.

The Midweek Plan

A day in the bay, running an errand for Adoring Husband and doing the usual running around at the butcher, baker, seafood, newsagent, green grocer, juice bar and supermarket.

Home by around 2pm.

I spent the afternoon preparing home made sausage rolls. Full of finely diced celery, carrot, onion, spinach, capsicum, garlic, pork sausage mince, beef mince, salt, pepper, egg and breadcrumbs. Lots of flavour inside with delicious puff pastry covered in sesame seeds. Delicious!

We played trivia and were again, all in bed before 7.30pm.

I’ve spent the evening in bed watching YouTube videos of John Edward. It almost feels like I have my mum with me. She LOVED John Edward. It’s been a long time since I felt the “mum connection” so it’s been nice.

The time is rapidly approaching midnight, so it’s time for me to sleep.

Nite all.

Delayed Catch Up

I had an excellent night of sound sleep, but it was still difficult to get out of bed this morning.

Needless to say, I was a touch late for meditation.

It was a small class but it held a lot of value and the feedback was positive and inspiring.

The weather was not conducive to sitting by the river for our promised catch up so we booked a ZOOM meeting for midday and then spent 3.5 hours sitting on our own beds talking our heads off, solving the world’s spiritual problems and advising each other on how to reach our own next spiritual level.

I love our long chats.

BGWLBH decided to head into the bay for the day.

I made fried rice with garlic, lemon, butter barramundi for dinner.

We played trivia for an hour and again, were all in bed before 7.30pm.

I have nothing planned for tomorrow, which is a good thing, because I rarely follow through with my plans haha.

Now it’s time to sleep.

Nite all.

Another Lazy One

We had some patchy rain today and a couple of short, sharp showers that were so heavy, we had to increase the volume on the TV.

Before I got out of bed, I watched the end of the final round of the golf tournament that I’ve been following. None of my favourites were among the front runners, so I didn’t stay up late and only turned it on at 6am to watch the final hour.

I got out of bed earlier than usual to wash my hair, play with Harley for 40 minutes and then make some breakfast.

I then parked my butt on the couch for the rest of the day!

A couple of fluffy Netflix movies, my quiz shows and I made stir fry vegetables with rice for dinner. Adoring Husband got bonus steamed beef dim sims on his plate. Leftover trifle for dessert.

That was my day. It was lazy and indulgent and just the way I like my days.

Meditation early tomorrow, so it’s time to sleep.

This is Harley with his butt on the arm of AH’s chair and his head on the arm of my chair.

Nite all.

Unfulfilled Plans

I thought that I might spend part of my weekend in the art room making jewellery or finishing some acrylic art paintings that have been waiting very patiently for me to return to them.

While the idea seemed appealing, my motivation and enthusiasm was less than energised.

On Saturday, I watched the new Netflix movie with Sally Field called “Remarkably Bright Creatures”.

I LOVED it - needed tissues - I adore Sally Field as an actor. I also adore octopuses, one of which played a main role in the movie. I highly recommend this one.

Otherwise, football and golf took a lot my attention.

I missed 2 games in my footy tipping. I’m very annoyed that I changed one tip at the last minute and shouldn’t have, but I am, however, in the lead by 2 points now.

The golf is being played in USA, so it’s not even televised until around 10pm - I leave the TV on with the volume on low, all night, so that I can doze on and off and see the live scores each time I wake up.

I admit, it’s not very restful and I have felt quite weary all weekend because of it, but I do enjoy the golf, especially when my favourites, Adam Scott, Jason Day, Rory McIlroy, Tommy Fleetwood and Cam Young are playing.

Today, I made a trifle with BGWLBH’s leftover birthday cake. Raspberry jelly, custard, sliced peaches, fresh strawberries, whipped cream and chopped pecans sprinkled on top. It was delicious.

I received phone calls from Number One Son and Bubbles for Mother’s Day and a text from Vegan Chickie. Adoring Husband bought me a lovely plant. My best Mother’s Day for a number of years!

Easy spaghetti bolognese from the freezer for dinner.

We did play some trivia and were all in bed before 7.30pm.

I think I’ll sleep well tonight.

Nite all.