05.04 pm
Well, here I am – sorry about last night, but I was just so tired yesterday afternoon! After lunch, I thought I’d just go into the lounge and read for a bit – Sal came and sat next to me on the recliner (it’s funny – he doesn’t like sitting on laps, he prefers sitting next to your legs – usually on the right hand side! My beautiful Gingee did that, too!) So there’s me reading, with Sal sitting companionably next to me, and the next thing I know, it’s almost our dinner time, and both cats were clamouring for their dinner too! So, I’m sorry about that, but I didn’t get a chance to write anything!
Anyway, not to worry – we finished our “Tour Of Northrend Duty” a little earlier than we usually do on a Sunday – and boy, did we have a day of it! We were actually doing quite well, questing around Howling Fjord, and having lots of fun, so Julian decided that by this stage – we’d just hit level 73 – we were probably about good enough to run Utgarde Keep, a five-man dungeon… on our own! Anyway, I said “sure! Why not?! I mean, what’s the worst that can happen to us? We’ll get killed! But that’s OK, I have my trusty Soulstone to revive me if that happens!” (what’s a Soulstone? Well, Warlocks are able to “take” the soul from something dead – it doesn’t seem to matter whether they killed the corpse or not – and use it to instantly bring themselves back to life if they’re careless enough to get themselves killed. They can only carry one Soulstone at a time, and each Soulstone is only viable for 15 minutes. It usually “runs out”, just as you’re quietly getting yourself killed!) So off we go to Utgarde Keep. I have to admit though, for two (probably silly!) people running a five-man Dungeon, we did pretty well, even if we weren’t able to finish it! We did knock off the first Big Boss (after dying two – or was it three? times!) We were stymied at the second last Big Boss though – mainly because there were two of them. The idea was to get the big one down to 10% health, then turn on the second one, bring him down, then go back to the first and finish him off. We died about three or four times attempting this – and we almost pulled it off! We even got the first one down, and the second one more than half way – but in the end, they were just too strong for us. We’ll go back and have another bash at it in another couple of levels, I think… However, we did go up two levels – we started off at level 72, and finished the day off at level 74, which was pretty good going, if you ask me!
Apart from doing the shopping, and cleaning out the Fish House, Julian did a lot of washing yesterday, including a doona cover. Once the doona cover came out of the dryer, he spread it out on the bed to let it cool down, and to allow the worst of the wrinkles to smooth out a bit, before putting it on the doona and making the bed. “Someone” found it, didn’t they! 🙂
Isn’t he sooo cute! We let him cuddle in it until it started to cool down too much, and he got bored – er, about two minutes, I think, then he bounced off to chase his blue sausage (a small, catnip scented, soft toy that he absolutely adores!) then the doona was put into the cover, the bed was made, and Satai couldn’t have been less interested in it if it had been made from stone!
On to the “good” bits! 🙂 Because Julian went out shopping in the morning, he brought lunch from Bakers Delight home with him – a ham and cheese Danish, and a rather spicy pepperoni and capsicum “pizza” roll, of which we had half each, and two fruit and white chocolate scones, of which we had one each – with just a smidgen of butter… For dinner last night we had a fairly basic, good old Aussie meal – “steak and chips”! But! It was the yummiest steak, cooked to absolute perfection! Julian cooked it on his (fairly new – he got it for Christmas) heavy cast iron frying pan (skillet?) so that it came to the plate complete with those snazzy “professional-looking” diagonal sear marks on the meat – which makes it taste ever so much more betterer, dontchano?! 😉 Oven baked chips, half a fully organic, completely home-grown, Black Russian tomato (delish!) and steamed sugar-snap peas completed the main part of the meal, and for dessert I had a beautiful, “jammy” fig from the tree growing over our back fence, the last of my Williams pears (again, a little “floury”, but still edible and tasty) and a Lemon CHOBANI yoghurt. Remember I was telling you about the round, black, “Noir” Sourdough loaf that we bought at the Tree Frog over at Doncaster Shoppingtown the other day, and how I wanted to try it toasted? Well, today for lunch I had two slices of the “Noir” loaf – one slice with just plain butter, the other slice buttered, with a little bit of Leatherwood Honey on it. I tell you, that bread was made to be toasted! It was fantastic! Sourdough makes beautiful toast anyway, but this was just “toasted heaven” – the touch of Leatherwood Honey was nice, yes, but honestly, that toast didn’t need anything to dress it up for the red carpet, it was already wearing an “haute couture dress with stiletto heels”! Next time we’re over at Doncaster, we must get some more! Tonight for dinner we’ll be having our usual Sunday night omelet – with cheese, red capsicum, fully organic and home-grown tomato, bacon and diced onion, which Julian fries before adding them to the omelet. For dessert I’ll have another of the “over-the-fence” figs, a brown Nashi pear, and an Apple Le Rice.
Weigh-in yesterday morning. Wasn’t nice! Two points up from Friday, from 74.5 kg to 74.7 kg (*pout*)
Weigh-in this morning. Was even worse! 😥 Up another two points, from 74.7 kg to 74.9 kg
Ah well, it’s nearly Easter… and after that, we’re both going to be doing a stint on the Optifast diet! Just as well I kept all my meal plans and menus! 🙂
And once again, that brings me up to tomorrow! I’m not quite sure what’s happening! Oh! I just remembered! I will be over at Doncaster again! Tomorrow! For that Optometrist appointment I had to re-schedule! Good! We can get some more of that fantastic bread! 😀 Then we have to pay a visit to Bushy Park – all I have left in the way of fruit are a couple of brown Nashi pears, and a couple of “over-the-fence” figs! We’ll need bananas too, and some more stewing fruit – I hope they have some apricots left – they’re the easiest to pull the stones out of without mutilating the fruit too much… and it’s looking like the poor cats will be on their own for most of the day, poor little babies! :/ Sean will be over in the afternoon – and I think that’s probably enough for the day! I’m not sure if I’ll get a chance to write anything tomorrow night – I’ll try, but I can’t promise! But you know you’ll hear all about our doin’s the following day anyway, don’t you! 🙂 And so I guess that’s about “it” from me again for tonight! Do drop in again tomorrow night (or the next night!) to catch up on all the news chez nous, but in the meantime, please try to bee good, remember – life isn’t about finding yourself, life is about creating yourself – and don’t forget to always drive carefully, to keep cool – or warm, depending on the outside temperature, and to look after yourselves… but above all, please don’t forget to stay safe! 🙂 ciao, all! 🙂