Meet Harold - our friendly garden gnome.
Nothing tastes as good as the veges you grow yourself. We had fresh BokChoy from our garden last night .. Stir fried with garlic. Mmm was so delicious.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Harold
Nothing tastes as good as the veges you grow yourself. We had fresh BokChoy from our garden last night .. Stir fried with garlic. Mmm was so delicious.
2/52
In the last 2 weeks.. I have:
Our flight was derouted to Sydney on the way back as someone had an anaphylactic shock from eating business class food. After having spent the whole day wishing we had an extra day off, we sort off had our wish in a compromised bad end of the deal way. They finally put us up in a hotel room at 1am, for an airport pick up at 4am (yeah 3 whole hours later, why even bother Qantas?! I was hoping for one full day in Sydney!) Upon arriving in Melbourne, we bumped into a friend who left NZ 12 hours after us.
The highlight of Auckland was probably the fooooood & wine. Experienced the best seafood chowder EVER served in a (bread) bowl in a real bowl. I am currently in search of the best chowder in Melbourne.
So I've been driving lots recently, each trip home I clock up at least 240 kilometres. Its a tiring drive but I've discovered the sweet sweet benefits of cruise control, no more speeding on the Hume! I still have another speeding fine to pay off, but this one was in town for doing 59km in a 50 zone. Ouch.
At least I get credit card points.
- Driven 956km
- Been to Auckland & Sydney (don't ask)
- Come close to buying a pair of Ferragamo Varina flats
- Had my first half day
- Worked 3 days in a week
- Did my first surgical exo by myself- like actually raise a flap, remove bone and suture (with the help of my awesome could be a dentist nurse)
- Attended a beautiful wedding
- Paid off one speeding ticket, and (still) procrastinating about paying the next
Our flight was derouted to Sydney on the way back as someone had an anaphylactic shock from eating business class food. After having spent the whole day wishing we had an extra day off, we sort off had our wish in a compromised bad end of the deal way. They finally put us up in a hotel room at 1am, for an airport pick up at 4am (yeah 3 whole hours later, why even bother Qantas?! I was hoping for one full day in Sydney!) Upon arriving in Melbourne, we bumped into a friend who left NZ 12 hours after us.
The highlight of Auckland was probably the fooooood & wine. Experienced the best seafood chowder EVER served in a (bread) bowl in a real bowl. I am currently in search of the best chowder in Melbourne.
bliss
So I've been driving lots recently, each trip home I clock up at least 240 kilometres. Its a tiring drive but I've discovered the sweet sweet benefits of cruise control, no more speeding on the Hume! I still have another speeding fine to pay off, but this one was in town for doing 59km in a 50 zone. Ouch.
At least I get credit card points.
Sunday, February 28, 2010
One eyed jacks
Weekends always go too quickly. Got woken up Saturday morning to a god-awful ring tone, which is that of my on call emergency phone. Thankfully the calls weren't too difficult, with most people just ringing up wanting advice. I never actually needed to go into the surgery, the general reaction after you've told them how much it costs, is: "I think I'll just wait till Monday, thanks". I got a fair few calls over the weekend, i'm just glad my on call week is over and I won't have to worry about it again for another few months.
We went to NSW on Saturday! Crossed the border into Albury. Wowwww finally back to civillisation- underground carparks, Myer (!!), Sportsgirl, DanMurphy's and many other smaller shops. Finally got my shopping fix and it was great coz Myer was having a 1 hour only 75% off the marked down price sale. Managed to score myself a few bargains. A Wish dress that was reduced from $150 to $75, then take 75% off that it came to 18.75. I also had $15 left on my Myer gift card, which left me paying 3 dollars and 75cents for my skyblue Wish Savannah dress. I also got the bottom half of those Seafolly bathers I bought in Whitsundays, reduced down to $16.24. What a bargain! Who knew shopping in the country could be so much fun.
Sat night was Donna's (one of the nurses at work) 40th. It was out in the sticks in Whorouly. Oops gotta say it right, got corrected by a patient- Whoa-raul-lee, not Who-row-ly. It was so much fun- seeing my bosses' wife tipsy was classic. It was a good party, music was mostly country rock, brought to us by Bruce and David of the One Eyed Jacks. It was a fun night, we were pumping Timbaland's If we ever meet again on the way home, had enough of country barnyard tunes.
Monday tomorrow- start of another week. My boss is away on a golfing holiday. How awesome to be away on holiday, while your staff work away for you. Early finish Friday arvo, then New Zealand! Cannot, cannot wait! Whoopeedoo, laters peeps.
We went to NSW on Saturday! Crossed the border into Albury. Wowwww finally back to civillisation- underground carparks, Myer (!!), Sportsgirl, DanMurphy's and many other smaller shops. Finally got my shopping fix and it was great coz Myer was having a 1 hour only 75% off the marked down price sale. Managed to score myself a few bargains. A Wish dress that was reduced from $150 to $75, then take 75% off that it came to 18.75. I also had $15 left on my Myer gift card, which left me paying 3 dollars and 75cents for my skyblue Wish Savannah dress. I also got the bottom half of those Seafolly bathers I bought in Whitsundays, reduced down to $16.24. What a bargain! Who knew shopping in the country could be so much fun.
Sat night was Donna's (one of the nurses at work) 40th. It was out in the sticks in Whorouly. Oops gotta say it right, got corrected by a patient- Whoa-raul-lee, not Who-row-ly. It was so much fun- seeing my bosses' wife tipsy was classic. It was a good party, music was mostly country rock, brought to us by Bruce and David of the One Eyed Jacks. It was a fun night, we were pumping Timbaland's If we ever meet again on the way home, had enough of country barnyard tunes.
Monday tomorrow- start of another week. My boss is away on a golfing holiday. How awesome to be away on holiday, while your staff work away for you. Early finish Friday arvo, then New Zealand! Cannot, cannot wait! Whoopeedoo, laters peeps.
Thursday, February 25, 2010
The weekend is so close, I can smell it already!
We finally have a decent living area! Even though you could close your eyes and think it could be off a page on the Ikea catalogue, I like to think I have sorta made it my own. Good thing Jackson has allowed me some freedom of space to decorate our living area, choosing the colour themes and pillow cases. Parallelism and perpendicular(ism)?. At the moment, the Bravia is just there for decoration 'cos there's something wrong with the tv port and the tv guy is meant to come fix it soon. At least Pulpitis (our WiFi network) is up and running!
Today is Thursday which means tomorrow is Friday, which means weekend!! Woohoooo. Thursdays are always the hardest because I start at 10am and finish at 7pm. Starting at 10am is a pain because it's not really late enough for me to sleep in, yet its not long enough for me to run errands/do some shopping. (By shopping, I mean BigW, Coles and KMart). I could potentially go to the gym before work I guess - the thought is there, the body just ain't willing.
Went out for dinner today with work colleagues at the Hotel Pincent . It was a good laugh, and always nice to finish off our Thursday late nights. I also used my buy one main meal, get the second for $5 voucher I found behind a Coles docket. Woohoo, I've never looked on the back of those dockets, always thought it was some kinda scam.
Friday tomorrow (TGIF), and 17.5 hours to the weekend. This weekend will be my first weekend staying up in Wang! I'm supposedly on call this week, but apparently I can "up" the on-call fee depending on where I am/what I'm doing. So at Donna's party on Sat, I think the call out fee will be 3x the normal rate! Haha
Gotta go drink my glass of milk. Jackson is making me drink a glass every night cos he thinks I'm at risk of getting osteoporosis. I probably am, and I'm anaemic too. Oh no, at least I've started eating chicken (sort of), my one step closer to eating meat again.
Today is Thursday which means tomorrow is Friday, which means weekend!! Woohoooo. Thursdays are always the hardest because I start at 10am and finish at 7pm. Starting at 10am is a pain because it's not really late enough for me to sleep in, yet its not long enough for me to run errands/do some shopping. (By shopping, I mean BigW, Coles and KMart). I could potentially go to the gym before work I guess - the thought is there, the body just ain't willing.
Went out for dinner today with work colleagues at the Hotel Pincent . It was a good laugh, and always nice to finish off our Thursday late nights. I also used my buy one main meal, get the second for $5 voucher I found behind a Coles docket. Woohoo, I've never looked on the back of those dockets, always thought it was some kinda scam.
Friday tomorrow (TGIF), and 17.5 hours to the weekend. This weekend will be my first weekend staying up in Wang! I'm supposedly on call this week, but apparently I can "up" the on-call fee depending on where I am/what I'm doing. So at Donna's party on Sat, I think the call out fee will be 3x the normal rate! Haha
Gotta go drink my glass of milk. Jackson is making me drink a glass every night cos he thinks I'm at risk of getting osteoporosis. I probably am, and I'm anaemic too. Oh no, at least I've started eating chicken (sort of), my one step closer to eating meat again.
Monday, February 22, 2010
Moving Weekend
20/Feb was hectic - between packing & loading things onto the truck, we also had to go to IKEA & Bunnings for last minute furniture shopping. Thanks to Doug (our removalist from Wang) who was able to drive the truck directly to IKEA & load the couches straight in.
Our garden is currently very bare except a strawberry plant I've placed in a pot - hopefully it will begin to fruit later in the year. Currently ambitions for the garden are to grow herbs, lettuce & a blueberry plant, all thanks to Bunnings, the shopping paradise. Apparently you can grow potatoes in a pot too, but that's just going a bit too far.
21/Feb was spent going to Beechworth visiting the 'famous' Beechworth Honey & Bakery. The Bakery was alright, but they do have other outlets in other locations such as Bendigo etc. Afterwards got a bit tipsy from wine tasting at Brown Brothers. Even though Dan Murphy sells the wines cheaper, Mel was compelled to buy 3 bottles out of guilt - coincidentally all 3 were packaged in pink.
Joined the gym today as a family membership for $12pw & went to Body Step - Mel is complaining she is still hungry after a massive dinner even though she didn't even exercise that hard.
Will update with photos soon.
Tentative date for housewarming is 17/Apr. A facebook event page will be created 'soon'.
Our garden is currently very bare except a strawberry plant I've placed in a pot - hopefully it will begin to fruit later in the year. Currently ambitions for the garden are to grow herbs, lettuce & a blueberry plant, all thanks to Bunnings, the shopping paradise. Apparently you can grow potatoes in a pot too, but that's just going a bit too far.
21/Feb was spent going to Beechworth visiting the 'famous' Beechworth Honey & Bakery. The Bakery was alright, but they do have other outlets in other locations such as Bendigo etc. Afterwards got a bit tipsy from wine tasting at Brown Brothers. Even though Dan Murphy sells the wines cheaper, Mel was compelled to buy 3 bottles out of guilt - coincidentally all 3 were packaged in pink.
Joined the gym today as a family membership for $12pw & went to Body Step - Mel is complaining she is still hungry after a massive dinner even though she didn't even exercise that hard.
Will update with photos soon.
Tentative date for housewarming is 17/Apr. A facebook event page will be created 'soon'.
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Goodbye to being homeless
Sorry for not posting for the last week or so; things have been pretty hectic with moving to a new house (yay for not being homeless anymore!) and buying all the household items. Can't seem to get Mel's new BRAVIA TV to work - it does not pick up any signals at all. And of course there is really nothing else to do so we just lie on the carpet staring at the ceiling 'cause we don't have any furniture except a small shelf.
Work has been bludgy lately except for the day where all I had all restorations in Q3 & having to give blocks twice because the first one didn't work. But at least I finish at 3 on Fri arvos.
Work in progress for our housewarming - tentative date set some time around April (currently 17/Apr), and will be visiting Brown Brothers Winery this weekend to stock up on some wine.
(New 32" TV)
(Shelf being used as a dining table)
(Banana bread from packet)
Work has been bludgy lately except for the day where all I had all restorations in Q3 & having to give blocks twice because the first one didn't work. But at least I finish at 3 on Fri arvos.
Work in progress for our housewarming - tentative date set some time around April (currently 17/Apr), and will be visiting Brown Brothers Winery this weekend to stock up on some wine.
(New 32" TV)
(Shelf being used as a dining table)
(Banana bread from packet)
Monday, February 8, 2010
Plum Galore
One of the benefits living rurally is the fresh abundance of fresh produce. Its harvest season and we've been having plums in all different forms- Stewed plums, plum tart, plum jam. I'm pretty plummed out to be honest. Plums for breakfast, dessert and oh yeah, why not grab a plum from the tree just before heading out to work.
I'm not a big fan of plums really and I never knew the association between plums and prunes, until I found out that a prune is a dried plum. No wonder they call shriveled old ladies prune face. Better not eat too many prunes Jacko, laxative effect!
I'm not a big fan of plums really and I never knew the association between plums and prunes, until I found out that a prune is a dried plum. No wonder they call shriveled old ladies prune face. Better not eat too many prunes Jacko, laxative effect!
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