babykitty: standard morning position

newkitty: standard morning position

Today I:

• scrubbed bathroom (particularly the shower)
• washed towels and bathmats
• cooked paprika goulash for 5:2 weeknight dinner
• cleaned 3 flights of stairs, all the skirting boards and dusted ridiculously fussy stair railings
• de-cluttered a broken lamp
• fed wormies and attended to the worm farm
• washed laundry walls
• consolidated vitamins (so many duplicate bottles)
• vacuumed laundry + don’s office
• steam-mopped laundry, don’s office and main floor
• potted coriander plant outdoors
• consumed many pots of tea
• cleaned glass doors on dining area cabinet
• cooked red beans and rice for dinner
• oiled wooden fruit bowl and handles of big spoon and cheese cleaver
• used black sugru to repair headphone cord, reattach silicon spatula head to handle, reattach rubber handle to garlic press and stick peg to inside cupboard door. That stuff is way awesome.
• baked cranberry and coconut biscuits

  

• unravelled stripey hat and re-knitted into a cowl

newkitty helps with knitting

I was planning to get a jump on some SML work this evening, but I am so physically exhausted that I can barely think. The plan is to drag myself out of bed early instead.

I’m really pleased I threw myself into this today, I needed a reminder that I can get a pretty big amount of tasks completed if I set myself to it!

I have no idea where today went.

happy tea!

I was awake at 5:25am, fed the kitties, read a bit, drank coffee, are raisin toast, pottered, drank tea, made sofrito for a paella later in the week, shopped for kitties supplies, bought some really fantastic steaks from feather and bone and visited the fruit+veg.

Then Don and I sat down and made a quite lengthy list of mostly Palace-ly tasks we’d like to complete in the medium term – which I guess is before the end of the calendar year. Exciting stuff like have the top balcony re-grouted (to hopefully address the leaking), repair and paint Bessie’s room, have the air-conditioners serviced …

I know, I really do find it exhausting to live such a glamorous existence.

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I’ve complained before about bunches of herbs which wilt as soon as they enter ThePalace(OfLove) and our interim solution to buy wee potted versions – which at least last around 2 weeks.

Sadly, on Saturday last week there were no pots of mint available and we were forced to buy a bunch. Within 3 hours it was wilted almost beyond saving – and we needed it for dinner on Tuesday.

So I took to the Information Superhighway in an attempt to rescue it. I found these instructions which looked pretty promising.

I’d always shoved cut herbs in water, BUT I’d not cut the stems, nor had I covered them with a plastic bag. I was somewhat skeptical, but took the approach that it couldn’t hurt to try.

And what do you know …

seven days later (we’ve already used about half the bunch)

I think we can call this a success!

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While at the fruit+veg this afternoon, I impulse bought this chocolate.

love ♥ your ♥ insides ♥

It is completely amazing! And hey, much cheaper than wine (am now just over a month into my no drinking project!) and much more delicious. Normally I would scarf down the whole lot in one sitting, but fortunately one little square goes a very long way. This is fabulous as it means there will be more to enjoy tomorrow.

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And tomorrow I have much to accomplish. Unfortunately most of it is Palace-ly upkeep and a then couple of hours of SML work.

Tedious, but I’ll definitely have earned that chocolate by the end of it.