birthday celebrations

This is a week of birthday celebrations for my family as it is my dad's birthday today and my sisters tomorrow. I think it could be a little bit sad, but you can't dwell too much on that stuff. So the fact that it's birthday week got me to thinking about how I could really refocus things ON ME!!!! My sister was looking through old photos and came across today's treat. This was in fact a birthday celebration of mine in 1995. It's a hoot. All of the people in the photo I had known for only a relatively short period of time - like 2 months as I had just started work in a new 'town'. I am happy to say that 2 of the people in the photo are still my bestie's after 14 years. The person taking the photo and who cooked such a yummy meal - a beef wellington - is no longer around...Just thought you might like a history lesson. And maybe tomorrow I will have some 2008 birthday celebration photos

another list

things I haven't done in the past few days

1. eaten chocolate
2. passed out on the bathroom floor from drinking too much
3. bought Kings of Leon tickets
4. finished doing my report cards
5. bought a pair of shoes
6. had a coke zero
7. taken any photos
8. had my car fixed from the flood damage
9. checked under the house to see how the damage is going there

so really quite uneventful last few days when you look at what I haven't done. I do know someone who managed number 2 though. Have you done any of the things I haven't???

weekend update

This weekend just seemd to fly by again. In summary

1. Christmas ? slash birthday shopping with dad for my sister. This was enlightening because as mentioned in a previous post Dad has no idea about what the right amount of stuff to buy for 2 daughters is. He bought 2 things with a combined total of 8o..yes 80 dollars and thought this would cover both birthday and Christmas for my sister. Oh how wrong he is :)
2. Did get dad to buy me a pair of shoes that I needed to even the score for the pair he bought my sister in Melbourne. AS i said to him - everyone will just feel better when the shoe thing is settled :)
3. Went to an Engagement party where I planned to drink plenty of mojitos alas they didn't sell them so had another cocktail that had lychee liqueur in it - that was quite yum. I am not a fan of lychees well because they look like eyes - but as an alcoholic beverage yum
4. Did some yard work with dad on Sunday
5. Had some of my fav aunties over for dinner - whereby we cooked 3 of the dishes that we learnt at the cooking class last weekend
6. and then alas the weekend was over...

This week will be busy at work so I may not blog every day - I hear the tears of sadness :)

another one of those days

I've had a few of them this week - you know when you just feel like your head is going to explode if one more person says something silly to you. Needless to say I am looking forward to the weekend.

making a list

It can no longer be avoided - it's that time of the year when I have to make my Christmas list. This has been a tradition in our family for a long time. I think it may have started because when you get to a certain age it's hard for your mum and dad to know what to get you - so I think it started because Mum wanted to know what we actually wanted. ( which is of course the true spirit of Christmas! getting what you want) In the past I have been super organised and divided my list into different categories - just to make it easier for the shopper ( I'm thoughtful like that) One year Mum bought my sister and I every single thing we had on our list - which was great but definitely not expected. (and I'm sure Dad didn't realise) You can always go a bit crazy and put things down that you know you won't get - my sister always used to put in hers a new car - and well she has one of those this year so that is unnecessary. I am having trouble compiling my list this year - because well I have bought myself every single thing I have desired as the year has gone along - and my bank balance is definitely a little sadder for that amount of retail therapy. This year will be different as I'm almost 90 per cent positive that Dad won't go crazy on the list and buy us everything ( although I do still hold out a 10% dream) - in fact we discussed Christmas with dad on the weekend - and I'm almost 100% positive that he had no idea just who mum bought presents for.

Today's photo is one from Christmas 2006 - and I think it

is a really nice photo.

corolling along

I got a new car at the beginning of the year - and when I jumped in it the other day - I noticed the odometer reading - It's hard to believe that I have done 10 000 kms already. I guess that has been since January - and well people probably do a whole lot more than that. How many kms do you do on average in a week? In a day? I don't think I would manage 500 on an average week and surprisingly I don't think I would do anymore than 10 in normal work day? I will try and take notice tomorrow - and will get back to you - with what i'm sure is some riveting information.

Thai-tastic

So the weekend cooking course was EXO! There were 17 people in the class and the chef was really nice. ( unlike some other chefs I have known in the past - LOL) We were all given jobs to do - which freaked both my sister and I out a little bit because :

1. I have a phobia about chicken. I wear gloves in the kitchen whenever I am dealing with raw chicken and I constantly worry that it is not going to be cooked properly and henceforth burn it to billy-o - so I was worried that I was going to be given the job that involved cutting up the chicken meat

2.My sister was worried that she would be given any job because she thinks she is bad in the kitchen although I sometimes think it is a cover to get out of the cooking duties - which then means she is actually quite brilliant.

We were however given jobs that we could deal with, which over the 4 hours included

• peeling garlic


• chopping chillies - finely


• cutting pork and threading them onto kebabs


• making paste


• roasting spices and


• cracking coconut cream

and then at the end we got to sit down to an absolutely yummy 5 dish meal - YUM. Guess what we are having for dinner tonight?

mojitos

so my current love of mojito's continues into the home furnishing department. (Once again sorry for the angle) but this is a candle I recently bought - the super special thing about it is that it has a wooden wick so that when it burns it makes a crackling fire sound - cool hey. I discovered a new candle shop at teneriffe and well it is fab.

In other news I have for some reason had an extremely busy week - with an appointment after work every single day this week , and a couple of back to work events- hence the slackness in blogging. This weekend I am away - again - up to Noosa - and my sister and I are going to be doing a Thai cooking course - so no doubt on Monday I will have some stories. Also finally today dad is getting his car that he is buying from the BMW sale...maybe this weekend I will also get that pair of shoes he owes me! I will remind him

GAME ON

Battle of the bodgey pedicure! So these were the shoes that were worn by the bride and I guess I was the bridesmaid - mine are the black ones. I do love them and I picked them up in Melbourne as did my sister - although dad bought hers and I am a pair of shoes down - I will try and remedy that at some stage in the near future.

Nice Day

for a white wedding...

so my sister got married yesterday! It was short notice, but this is a picture of her and my dad walking up the aisle! Unbelievable hey! We were all shocked! WE had a great day though :)