Friday Five!

1.  We will also be ruthless in our continuous clearing of the garage this weekend.  Difference to PB is that we had mice destroying the items in ours.  And my husband has a hard time letting go.  He did relent last weekend that he doesn't need to save EVERY piece of scrap wood he's ever had in his entire life.

2.  I hope my husband contracts the fence people very soon.  I wanted it done by Easter.  It's tough when he's in charge of something.  We picked the fencing people BEFORE Christmas.  He always has an excuse...   

3.  I am getting man flu.  I have a sore throat.  Poor me.  I do have a pub lunch today as a meeting though, so hopefully that will help. 

4.  I'm going to shake up the meal plan this week and do 7 meals we don't normally do.  Feel like we are eating the same things all the time.

5.  My BIL and SIL are moving to Guildford...  I'm not sure how I feel about this. 

Friday again already?

Oh my.

1) Got three hours' sleep last night, was up looking for anything I might have kept from 2016 that had my "new" name on it (as in utility bills, etc.) Simply couldn't sleep - every time I laid down I thought of somewhere else I should look. Found quite a number of the necessary documents. Unfortunately, I had PDF'd and discarded the originals, for the move over. And Eire wants originals. (Sigh) I have the US passport and one other document in hardcopy - a form letter. Hopefully that will work.

2) Got the Daughter sent off really early again with a cooked breakfast, but didn't have any bread to make toast. She had to have a slice of almond (flour) cake, warmed up, with her eggs instead. Did ~not~ get a complaint on that.  I am now seriously craving toast, but am too lazy to get dressed enough to stumble down to the corner shop in the rain to get a loaf of bread.  It's cold and wet out there. They have shelf over shelf of toasting bread. But it's cold and wet out there. All kinds of bread. Raining and cold out there. Neeeeed toooaaaassst....

3) Still waiting for a current utility bill in hardcopy that my energy provider said would be here "early this week". Nothing much else I can do until it arrives. I guess I'll drop them a line. Again.

4) The Daughter wore the same outdoor boots in the house this morning that she wore while tromping out in the field yesterday. There is now dried mud throughout the front of my house. Oh, well, I was going to have to vacuum anyway, but had been putting it off. This is just incentive to get down to doing it. (She felt awful when she realized it, but it really is no big deal - it's dry and the vacuum will handle it fine.)

5) After I vacuum and finish the laundry I may be decadent and order myself a pizza for lunch. With all the toppings I like but don't usually get because the Daughter doesn't like some of them. (She'll be out all day.) A meaty meat  sounds rather nice. It feels chilly today, and a nice warm pizza appeals.  (So does turning the heat up.)


If I don't get to the laundry, I will ponder over a cuppa precisely what the meaning of the Meerkats off the TV commercials is, if the new little Meerkat is offspring or a nephew, and why the Meerkats are Russian? That accent ~is~ Russian, and not some other Eastern European one?  And whatever happened to the commercials with the obscenely rich Russian businessman who had everything made of gold and a tiny giraffe? (They were on when I was over here in 2015.)

Neeed toooaaaassssst......

Have you thought about keeping a loaf in the freezer Nan? Then there will always be bread for toast when you feel like it.

Yeah, usually do, but had a big Tesco shop last week and needed the space. It's a teeny little freezer.

toaaaaast... Sigh. Ok, may as well go. Can pick up a newspaper at the same time. I can wear the trench coat over the sweat suit so nobody will actually see how ratty I'm dressed, and if they do I don't really care today. 

Happy Friday! Here we are again!
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1.  We will also be ruthless in our continuous clearing of the garage this weekend.  Difference to PB is that we had mice destroying the items in ours.  And my husband has a hard time letting go.  He did relent last weekend that he doesn't need to save EVERY piece of scrap wood he's ever had in his entire life.

If you're worried about just throwing it out, we love scrap hardwood!  Getting it to us is a bit of a bother, though, isn't it?  Hmph. I wish we didn't have to live so far away from everything!

2) Got the Daughter sent off really early again with a cooked breakfast, but didn't have any bread to make toast. She had to have a slice of almond (flour) cake, warmed up, with her eggs instead. Did ~not~ get a complaint on that.  I am now seriously craving toast, but am too lazy to get dressed enough to stumble down to the corner shop in the rain to get a loaf of bread.  It's cold and wet out there. They have shelf over shelf of toasting bread. But it's cold and wet out there. All kinds of bread. Raining and cold out there. Neeeeed toooaaaassst....

Neeed toooaaaassssst......

We had kielbasa with cabbage and potatoes for dinner two nights running this week, and on the second night, my husband suggested toast. We have bread in the freezer, but no toaster.  But I made "skillet toast" (I'm sure there's a better name for it?), and it was amazing!  I think it was the first toast I've eaten in more than a year.  Totally hit the spot.

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My Five:
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1.  Oh, yay!  It's Friday!  Thanks for reminding me, PB!  With my husband home every night, every day feels like holiday/weekend/funtime, so I am losing track of the days again.

2.  Our weather currently looks gloomy.  We need dry weather so we can get some gardening done and so I can go out to the workshop and make some things.  June (our 5th anniversary and my husband's 40th birthday are in the first week!) is fast approaching!

3.  My sister is in Japan on holiday, and yesterday she sent me a picture of a bag from the NHK character shop... Domo!

4.  We bought a disco light on Amazon for £11. Cheap plastic disco light technology has come a long way since the days of Spencer's when I was a teen... This thing actually makes disco lights all around the room.  It even comes with remote control so we can turn it on and off on a whim.  I have had far more fun with that stupid disco light than I ever thought possible.

5.  As some of you know, I'm selling a Chester Draws on eBay right now.  Free shipping in the UK, and the current highest bid is £0.99.  Go grab yourself a bargain! 

If you're worried about just throwing it out, we love scrap hardwood!  Getting it to us is a bit of a bother, though, isn't it?  Hmph. I wish we didn't have to live so far away from everything!

Girl, it's not even real wood.

Like the cutoffs of MDF shelves from Ikea, batons of pine, etc.  But yet there is a big stinking pile of it in the garage creating a trip hazard and taking up space!

hahahhahahah. cute art!

Girl, it's not even real wood.

Like the cutoffs of MDF shelves from Ikea, batons of pine, etc.  But yet there is a big stinking pile of it in the garage creating a trip hazard and taking up space!

Kindling?

Girl, it's not even real wood.

Like the cutoffs of MDF shelves from Ikea, batons of pine, etc.  But yet there is a big stinking pile of it in the garage creating a trip hazard and taking up space!

Oh, okay... Yeah, that needs to go.  If it was real wood, it would make sense to hang on to.  Yay!  I'm not sad about living too far from everything (a pile of wood that doesn't exist) anymore!

hahahhahahah. cute art!

I made it to make KoD happy.  She loves chester draws. 

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh    Toast Is Good!   


(And the bread was on markdown to 40p - I can't bake it for that cheap.)

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh    Toast Is Good!   


(And the bread was on markdown to 40p - I can't bake it for that cheap.)

Nice price on the bread!  Toast surprisingly satisfying, isn't it?  Enjoy!

Toast really is one of the simple pleasures in life!

It really is. A nice cup of tea and a couple of slices of toast with butter. Mmmm.

Yeah, it's a great price. The shop puts leftover bread on deep discount after the truck comes in for the week. Nothing at all wrong with the bread, other than it's pretty much at its sell-by date. Never lasts much more than a few days in our place, after that point, anyway.    I never know what's going to be on sale, and was amused earlier this week to find   bread with all the crusts cut off on sale! (Now, in MY day a kid could darned well eat the crusts, too!    )

I only ran out this week because I forgot the Daughter had field trips and needed sandwiches to take, so I used it up making sandwiches. Yesterday's lunch was roast beef/cheddar/rocket on wheat sandwiches, Vlassic Kosher dill pickle spears, a packet of roasted almonds, some low-carb cookies, and hot tea. She should be sitting down to a too-carby lunch right now, but I also ran out of like baby carrots and stuff to put in the lunchbox. So she got a peanutbutter sandwich, cheddar and some crackers to go with it, a bag of sultanas, a couple of gluten-free, low carb ginger-snaps, and a big flask of hot milk tea. She'll work all the glucose off trudging around and trying to not freeze.

Poor kid, I bet she's not having a lot of fun today in the rain! Her legs were soooo sore last night. (She wore my heavy Duck boots and had to do a lot of walking. The boots insured no blisters, but they are heavy to walk in if you're not used to them!)  I think I'll make a big batch of chicken Tika to have ready for us to eat when she gets home, so she can snarf, and then just put her feet up on the couch and take it easy. (Alternately, I've a crock-pot's worth of good chili frozen and could do a frito pie. Hmmmm. Tika, I think. Less carby, still nice and warming.)

They say the Gulf Stream (trans-Atlantic conveyor in the ocean) is weakening and so we may be in for more winters like this last one. I'm good with that as long as I can make chili and curry! 

It really is. A nice cup of tea and a couple of slices of toast with butter. Mmmm.

Yeah, it's a great price. The shop puts leftover bread on deep discount after the truck comes in for the week. Nothing at all wrong with the bread, other than it's pretty much at its sell-by date. Never lasts much more than a few days in our place, after that point, anyway.    I never know what's going to be on sale, and was amused earlier this week to find   bread with all the crusts cut off on sale! (Now, in MY day a kid could darned well eat the crusts, too!    )

I only ran out this week because I forgot the Daughter had field trips and needed sandwiches to take, so I used it up making sandwiches. Yesterday's lunch was roast beef/cheddar/rocket on wheat sandwiches, Vlassic Kosher dill pickle spears, a packet of roasted almonds, some low-carb cookies, and hot tea. She should be sitting down to a too-carby lunch right now, but I also ran out of like baby carrots and stuff to put in the lunchbox. So she got a peanutbutter sandwich, cheddar and some crackers to go with it, a bag of sultanas, a couple of gluten-free, low carb ginger-snaps, and a big flask of hot milk tea. She'll work all the glucose off trudging around and trying to not freeze.

Poor kid, I bet she's not having a lot of fun today in the rain! Her legs were soooo sore last night. (She wore my heavy Duck boots and had to do a lot of walking. The boots insured no blisters, but they are heavy to walk in if you're not used to them!)  I think I'll make a big batch of chicken Tika to have ready for us to eat when she gets home, so she can snarf, and then just put her feet up on the couch and take it easy. (Alternately, I've a crock-pot's worth of good chili frozen and could do a frito pie. Hmmmm. Tika, I think. Less carby, still nice and warming.)

They say the Gulf Stream (trans-Atlantic conveyor in the ocean) is weakening and so we may be in for more winters like this last one. I'm good with that as long as I can make chili and curry! 

Your daughter is one LUCKY girl.  Packaged lunches and curry waiting for her at home?  I'm jealous.

Don't tell me you write a sweet note for her to find on her napkin.  It'll send me over the edge of envy!   

Your daughter is one LUCKY girl.  Packaged lunches and curry waiting for her at home?  I'm jealous.

Don't tell me you write a sweet note for her to find on her napkin.  It'll send me over the edge of envy!   

I was thinking the same thing as I read this.  I totally did NOT have this kind of mom, but I had friends who did.  I was so envious.  (I.e., well-done, Nan!)