Gumm

OMG how many pieces of gum have I eaten today. I hope it won’t turn into a laxative effect. These past 2 hours have just been drawn out to the max. Only 15 minutes to go until I get on the train to go home and Yay! it’s the weekend.

Boost Juice Bars

I just had a moment, with a guy in my local juice bar.  Now this is odd enough for me to have moments with people as when I’m out walking, I’m miss stern face (which only happened recently-ish and is one reason why I’m trying to get back to the happy me) and I’m not all that confident in myself at the moment. My hair is growing out of an ugly cut and while it doesn’t look bad, I just don’t feel very me. I think it’s because I’m still in a new city, have no friends (yes it’s true!) and not enough enjoyment in my life that I’m a sour puss.

Wicked the musical

I wanted to go and see wicked the musical, but the tickets are $132 upwards.  I think that’s a little too expensive for just that. Some of them go up to 280.  The only reason why I wanted to see it was because it was on Ugly Betty!! At least I’m saving myself some dollars… I wonder if anyone will take in a webcam and record it haha.

Today was rather uneventful.  I guess Tuesday's aren't that exciting!! Tonight I exfoliated, I cleaned, did washing, filled up car with gas, did some more cleaning.  I didn't bother to take the dog for a walk tonight, but I will tomorrow as well as a gizillion things I have to do tommorrow.  This weekend is our xmas party. I'm not looking forward to it.  In fact, I hope I forget and don't go!!

Train Rides .. (suck)

With me taking the train again, this girl sat opposite me well, she had her feet all over mine and wouldn’t move them so today I put my feet on top of hers and spent the rest of the 40 mins with my feet on top of hers.

Jeebers it's cold

Oh help me Jeebers! The temperature over the past 3 days has plummeted. Today, for example, is supposed to be a high of 22 degrees. I'm not sure when this will arrive as so far, in the city, it's only been a high of 16.3 degrees. I'm wearing sandals (talk about stupid). It currently sits at 15.5. I've put my dash to the post office off until 3pm. Hopefully it will be warmer by then. I can't wear shoes as I've got a massive as blister on a toe. I think it looks more like a wart though as there is so much goo inside it. I've got some snaps to post but I'll do that tonight when I'm in the arms of my apple mac. Well, he hasn't called or texted yet. So I'm not really thinking about it (actually I kinda lie - this guy was amazing and I'll never see him again so it's kinda lame) if I wasn't such a retard and had problems expressing my wants and needs (haha) it wouldn't have been a problem. I can't remember much about him personally, that's why I want him to call. darn it.. just call me haha. Now, I've gotten it out of my system. Tonight I've got a bit to do.... Go home (now that I'm house sitting for 2 weeks - at least I don't have to bus it this time!), will probably get home about 6:30. Have dinner, take dog for a walk, I have some washing to do, cleaning. I spent like 2 days fixing my sister's computer. Thanks to her husband constantly downloading god knows what from limewire, there were trojans, adware, a whole lotta crap. I even purchased 1GB of ram for them (just waiting for it to arrive).. I even went as far as to install Nortons 2007 - (their 2004 just wasn't working for them - plus, after I removed all threats, the AV stopped working and I couldn't find it anywhere), but it does the full system scan which takes forever, then it gets to assessing 4538 threats and just doesn't finish. So everytime I log in it says Fix Fix and I'm like ARGH. Plus I want to get it finish so I don't have to spend much more time on this. It's racking me off ramsay.

1 Night Stands

What can I say, but on Wednesday night I've had probably the most enjoyable 1 night stand.  After I was out with an old work buddy,  I was in a pub and there was this guy So hot and not too young :).  Anyway, I had the best evening and it actually changed my mind about myself. I thought that only old married men liked me, but now I am not so sure.  This guy was so much fun as well, it was nice to be around someone like myself who actually lives life and knows how to enjoy things.  Well the evening was definately the best I've had since I've lived in Melbourne. This guy was from out of town but the evening involved a funny moment around will smith and featured a make out session to crowded house.  Now, I know how I am so when it came to the morning, it was just a 1 night stand, I didn't want to put him under any pressure. But he asked for my number.  Here's the silly part - he might  text, he might call, he might not.  But I keep checking my mobile phone. When is he going to text or call. I really did think this guy was amazing. Now I'm going to drive myself crazy over it. I think I will give it a week, and if he doesn't text or call then I can just stop thinking about him.  If not, I now have hope that I can find someone like him in this big city.

the latest shi-at

I passed all my exams so I'm really stoked.  In fact, I'm actually the old me now, well to a point anyway and here it is.... Should I or Shouldn't I? That is the question I'm pondering at this hour instead of packing. He's probably about 50? Tall, handsome and grey.  He's married. Nah I'm not going to do it.  I'm not one of those peoples. I'm afraid that when I see him though I will swiftly change my mind. I remember last time I smelt him and I was like ooh....But I have turned down many a hotter married man, like Paul. Wow, he was so hot, in fact, he was near perfect apart from the fact he liked to screw around and his wife didn't know. Well, I wasn't going to be one of those girls.  I'm still very glad I didn't do it with him. OMG I have to keep packing, definately a little armand will help. 

Music

Today I had a great album day..... I got the following albums which will bring my ipod back to life, instead of listening to a whole lotta pop:

Armand van Helden - Ghettoblaster 

Hed Kandi: The mix 2008

Hed Kandi: Beach House 2007/8

Hed Kandi: Serve Chilled 2007

The Cardigans - The best of

Jack Johnson - Sleep through static

Snoop Dogg - Ego Trippin

I'm just taking a break from study (as I'm so bored with it) I have already done some but I will do about 4-5 hours more later...just sitting here chillin listening to Beach House sooo goood... It's 31.4 degrees at the moment.

This week, is going to be a bit difficult. Monday after my exam, I have to come home and pack my stuff as I move on Saturday. Tuesday night I have to pack the rest of my stuff.  Wednesday night I've got a dinner date, Thursday I'll be going to my sisters as I have a day off Friday (going to dinner again) and then Saturday I'm getting up early to transport my stuff, might do some shopping in the city and then I have to get ingredients as I'm cooking a dinner that evening.

Now, the dinner that I'm cooking is going to be a bit strange. The main is just every day food. In fact the dinner is not so everything goes together, the idea is for me to try out different menu items. Which is why I'm having 3 different entrees.  So here is the menu....

Entrees: 

Parmesan ricotta on toast

Rustici

Salty Sage Bites

Main:

Peanut Satay Chicken with Rice

Side Chips

Dessert:

Sticky Toffee Pudding

Though with the cost of making that meal, I think I might scrap the Salty Sage bites. Honestly, I don't need 3 entrees but I'm making them in small doses. I think 5 dishes is a bit much to make from scratch so I've decided I'll remove the salty sage bites.

The biggest loser cookbook

I'm great at cooking for dinner parties (desserts are my forte), but on the whole for everyday cooking, I really don't know what to do. I only cook for myself, so it doesn't really matter too much as I mostly cook non fattening flavourless no sugar food. This week Big W has on sale the Biggest Loser cookbook - half price in fact. So this morning, my sister called me from her Big W the cookbooks had sold out. I knew there were some at mine, so I hastily walked down to Big W excited at yet another purchase of a good cook book. Of course, this is a cook book just for those every day meals - which as I said earlier an area that I am definately lacking.

I purchase a lot of diet cook books not because I do the diet, but because in there, there are some absolute gems of recipes. I purchased the F2 Diet and the salads in there are simply amazing and have feature in a lunch party every now and then. In fact I love that book so much, that I must get the actual F2 Cookbook.

The cookbook itself includes the following chapters:

Introduction

lunch box ideas

breakfasts

Soups

Salads

Snacks and light meals

dinners

Desserts

Dressings and sauces

In each recipe it contains a nutritional analysis.

The introduction itself is actually quite amazing with the information it has in it. Dietary guidelines, core food groups, standard portion sizes (for a variety of categories), weight loss info, getting ready to cook, food labels, planning ahead, feeding the family, ingredient substitution, household weights and measures, glossary, shopping list, planned menu for special occasions, suggested 7 day eating plan.

Cooking for breakfast is not really my thing and if I'm going to make a special breakfast I would make the ricotta pancakes with bananas and honey - damn they look good and low fat. What could be better?

I'm not a soup person (i guess ask me that again in winter - I just despise them!). When it comes to salads, I love lentils and seafood, so I really look forward to making calamari and asparagus salad hmm.....

Onto the snacks and light meals, the potatoes look good well, in fact all the snacks and light meals look good and they have such a variety, that they even have a recipe for steamed pork dumplings (damn I knew there was low calorie version somewhere!)

Dinners. Out of the dinners, I can see me making 19 of these recipes. I absolutely despise meatballs and spaghetti, so I won't ever make that but the rest I would most certainly make.

Desserts, I look forward to at some stage making the Ricotta and almond sutffed peaches, the
fairy cakes (as I haven't made those in years), the chocolate fudge cake looks devine, the pavalova roll sounds good, I'm a fan of making chocolate mousse......

God, I wish I had a kitchen aid mixer.......

1 week...

Well it’s now official in one week I have lost 3.8kg. But this morning I burnt my hand at work on boiling water. It’s still burning I feel it. It’s still red and has been about 1 hour since I did it. In fact typing makes it feel worse. I will stop

Let me get that

This week has been pretty much the good and the bad of it all rolled in to one. I have had such a hard week already that today I thought it was Friday.  How horrific to only find out it was Wednesday. The strain is showing on my work mate as well. It's tough. However, so many things have happened over the last few days. But I'm cooking a dinner Saturday week and as my silver spoon book is in a different country I'm trawling the internet for recipe ideas. On a brighter side of the week, I have lost 3kg.  I also had a techniques night last night at the MAC counter, I picked up a few great purchases as well.  But I still have an exam next week (sad note flat mate came back two weeks early from his holiday but he is off again saturday so I may still be able to study) I'm trying to find a place to live, I will only have a few hours to pack up all my stuff.... my mum is in town and I can't see much of her because I'm studying. The flat I looked at last week hasn't got back to me (in this country they do that!) and when I asked her about it nothing so doh! I actually think I'm on the brink of exhaustion again. I've actually got constant cramp in my darn foot. At least next week is only a 3 day working week. yay.

Rooms to let..

Well, it’s been 1 week so I’ve resigned myself to the fact that I never got that place in South Melbourne.  Darn I liked it very much. But now I’m over it. I’ll stew on it for a few minutes, but then I think, well, if I didn’t get it, it wasn’t going to be right for me.  I know I find the place that will but I’m not sure when that will happen!!

Can't stop

I can't stop procrastinating on my study.  My exam is just over a week away and I can't stop thinking of excuses not to study.  I know the time is nearing, but I'd rather be sleeping.  Last night I saw Juno instead of studying. Today I caught up on some grocery shopping, watched 2 really bizarre movies on free to air channels then caught up on Lost. Now, I never saw the first series of Lost and I saw maybe 1 or 2 episodes of the 2nd. It wasn't something I was really interested in - people trapped on a island - how many seasons could this possibly go for? Saw a couple of episodes of the 3rd, but that thing with the 108 minutes or whatever it was I thought it was just ridiculous. When the 4th season (and hopefully the last) started recently, I saw the first episode - by this time I knew the characters so it wasn't too bad.  But I certainly wanted to know what happened on the next episode. Man, it was entertaining. Although I have to say, I'm not a fan, and if this is not the last season, then I definately will not watch any more episodes.  I just wish the likes of Ugly Betty, Ghost Whisperer, Medium, Desperate Houswives were still being cranked out.

Help Me....

Is how I can best describe the day.  The other person I work with is away today. Which I’m okay with but I also know it’s going to be an absolute bore no one to talk to….Queue the loud American in our office. After a few weeks, it’s just starting to get irritating and my ipod is nearly flat so I’m charging it but at the same time trying to block out all this noise I don’t really need to hear. Every time he does something he has to announce it to the world. News flash buddy, these people are not interested in this conversation at all who gives a carp buddy really who does.  So shut your trap and get on with your work.

 

On a shopping note, I need to purchase some new shoes. Yesterday I went to so many shoe shops about 7 and couldn’t find any decent shoes – I actually got in a tizz over it!  So today at lunch time, I have to hit the pavements again to find me some shoes.  Last night I resorted to going online to the shoe shops. I have now seen some styles I like so I will go there today.  Although with my work mate not here, I don’t know if I will be having lunch. I wish I could work through lunch and leave early so I can shop, but I have to be here until 5:30. 

 

Even though today is Friday, it’s already dragging on and on.  If only my ipod could charge extra fast so I could just relax with some soft beats.

Unwritten

Is a song, even though it's a oldie, I think it's a goodie!!  So I've been playing it in the morning and in the evening. Today was totally awesome.  Well, if you take away work it was. Work is still crazy busy so much so that you sometimes you just want to scream - I worked until 6:30pm. Went off to look at an awesome flat - we'll see if we get it, if we don't no worries. Wore my new blouse to work, found an AWESOME work clothes shop that is extremely great clothes at wonderful prices.  Had some man news - that was also cool. I love good man news. Went out for dinner and few beers afterwards. OMG there was this amazing bar dude but I need to stop looking at those kinds of guys - that's what I did in my 20s.  But FARK he was sOOO hot.

Hot here, so hot in here

Today was supposed to be 28 degrees with loads of showers or so said the bov.  So I dressed for it. Instead there was a high of 32.8 degrees. After my walk to work I just stunk of BO.  It was truely hideous. What's worse is this apartment gets really hot at night and there was a notice up advising that the air con was not working in all apartments due to a power cut and that it would be back on Tuesday (which made no sense). So I sweated for some time and I have put the air con on. I feel some cold air, but I'm hoping it will come back on during the night so that I can get some sleep. 

Dirty Dirty, Verrrry Dirty (and certainly not the good kind)

Yesterday my flat mate went on a holiday for 1 month, which means that this is the last I will see of him as my tenancy is up on the 22nd Feb. Now, this should be a great time however, I know what he's like and he has left me with a lot of cleaning up to do if I want to get my bond back which of course I do!! The fridge is filled with all sorts of nasties, the kitchen I had to start cleaning and had a lot of taking out of his rubbish.......Those darn pizza hut boxes with pizza still in them. Oh it's simply gross.

I managed to put all of the disgusting dishes in the dishwasher, even though the dishwasher trips the power for whatever reason. In the middle of my skype session, I had to reset the fuse box. But at least that's one job down. Then I started to clean out the fridge. But I'm not really looking forward to cleaning the sink..

This is not what I had planned for my ideal weekend!

Argh is that me?

Yargh as I  look at myself in the mirror. My eyes telling the tale of a long but good evening.  I drunk so much wine followed by spirits and beer and I even had a pack of smokes.  My stomach, of course, not feeling too good this morning, my toilet which is very noisy, is making a noise which I can't handle today.  My head is not in a good state. Then I get up and go to lay back down when I hear my alarm clock go off which I didn't expect and makes me nearly jump out of my  skin.  Last night I had some hilarious conversations and, as always the night goes better after I split from company of the work colleagues and decide to discover Melbourne by myself.  Yes, true vintage, MissE is back baby!  Seriously though I have no idea what time I will study today or even if I will be capable of it. I just wish at this hour, that I had a wireless keyboard. Too tired to pick put the laptop oh and I wish my flatmate would hurry up and leave for his flight.  I don't think he's gone already - in fact he hasn't even cleaned his dishes... shit head.

Kiwi Girls Really are Slags

Wooool, I met quite a few men this evening, some to DIE for (looks wise) but this Kiwi girl really stole the show on the whole slag award.  This poor guy was getting married to this Kiwi girl in Rarotonga (which I couldn't understand him when he said Rarotonga in his version, really how can you mix up this saying?) But he was talking her up totally when I  met her she looked like something hard out of Once were warriors (and he really was proud to parade her around) but I couldn't help but feel sorry for the poor guy he was talking about his wedding and the kiwi slag (I can't remember her name) was getting numbers from the band (and it wasn't quite the wedding numbers) every now and then he would watch her and I just wanted to hit him and say hey your girl really is a slag.   But he just didn't get it that his girl was a slag.  It was sad a bit. Even sadder is that I left the hot Saffa for what.. I really need my sleep but he was a kinda hottie like don johnson smooth haha.

Getting High

Sometimes I think damn I would like to be high right now.  This is one of those times. It's early Friday but I think it would top the day off if I was high as a kite. I'll just dream away for a few minutes .....