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Well, since I want to start eating more ethnic foods, I decided to make a thai-style stirfry last night. It was basil, lime and sweet chilli. It went well, although I think I needed to fry the basil first, and use more of it, because I couldn't really taste it in the final dish. I used fresh capsicum, broccoli, baby pack choi and baby corn for veges, and plain basmati rice to serve. It was a very subtle sauce - the flavours of the veges really shone through. We had it with 'Holly's Garden' - a really nice Pinot Gris.

Notes for future trials: Juice of 1 lime, 2tbsp of sweet chilli sauce (ish), more than 1 stalk of basil, cook the basil in oil first. Maybe would have worked better with coconut rice.

It was rather yummy :)

LIfe is going interestingly at present.

Work has office space, which I'm going to be occupying for a couple days a week in the near future. I'll be staying overnight down there, which should be interesting to say the least. I shall have to be more organised than previously with foodstuffs, etc. C'est la vie.

Other than that ... I'm organising stuff for OSDC, and that's going very slowly. Stupid printing companies.

I'm enjoying driving. I'm getting slowly better at it, although I still make occasional mistakes. It's a fun car to drive.

I'm currently working on a costume for a party. Man, my sewing skills are rusty. Anyone feel like lending a hand, you're more than welcome :)

I'm not getting enough sleep. That's alright, though, because that's totally normal for me. I've cut down severely on my caffiene intake, and I've be working on my diet also, to try and feel more human more of the time. It seems to be working, except on weekends.

I'm spending a lot of time hanging out at afk these days. It's a good place to go to just relax and wind down, and also a good place for working. I like being able to work on a couch, instead of at a desk. It's certainly a lot more ergonomic for me. I have also been playing tf2. It's an fps I seem to be actually okay at, which is nice.

Rightio, back to work.

Going for my manual drivers' license in an hourish. I am confident, but still a bit ... uncertain at this stage.

The author of the Wheel of Time, died today. Rest in Peace.

Which is what my monitor did last night when I installed my shiny Nvidia 8800GTS.

*sigh*

I'm currently using vesa, which at least gives me a picture. I see more fiddling in my future.

I've been pondering a bit lately, on whether I really want to be working as hard as I do today when I'm in my 50s and 60s. I'm pretty sure the answer is 'no' - already I resent my day job for squeezing out the time I'd like to spend elsewhere.

( lots of words! )

So annoyed. If I hadn't been sick and had to take a half-day earlier this week, I could be down at the pub with my workmates, having a lot more fun than being the last person at work on a friday night.

Just a quick reminder - I'm having a birthday party tomorrow evening.

Where: Onyx bar and resturant, park road, milton - here
When: Friday (tomorrow!) night, 6pm+

Yay :)

I've been a touch busy lately.

Last week was the end of the 12-week thing I've been doing at the gym. End results? 4.4kg lost, and 19cm. Not too bad I guess, I'd hoped to do better.

As of this morning I seem to have lost another kg, which is cool. Maybe I can keep this up for a while, since I seem to have broken through the plateau I was stuck on for 8 weeks.

I'm a bit sleepy and incoherent. Also I have new boots! They are black and lace-up and fun :) Now all I need is the skirt and top to go with, and I'll have an outfit ... hm. Should wait another 10kgs, though. Maybe by the end of June ... meh. We'll see. If I do get a corset, I've figured out it will have to be custom - there are certain assumptions about body shape made with those things that simply don't hold for me. *sigh* being a shortass sucks.

Busybusybusy. With gym 3 nights/week and my other usual committments, free evenings are becoming rare. This is not a bad thing, since being bored is a terrible, terrible fate.

I've been sick for 3 weeks. Caught some stupid sore throat/blocked nose cold at work, but I'm over it and feeling better now. Work is goodish, if frustrating at times.

What else? Need more sleep. Haven't been getting enough. Humbug is tonight - must remember to take a nap first. Possibly going to the craft expo thing at the convention centre tomorrow. I should do more knitting.

/ramble

Monday? Maybe work. Probably play of some sort. Don't know what yet. a

It's been busy. And I don't quite remember everything that has happened since I last updated.

I recall Saturday last weekend being a humbug night - getting away pretty late, I think. Sunday ... something happened. I'm not entirely sure what. I think we ended up at the geekhouse. I recall it being a good weekend, if not overly excellent.

Monday, I missed my workout, because there was this presentation on supplements etc at the gym. Meh. Turns out, most of the 'fat burners' and thermogenics are ... well, not overly safe, and probably a bad idea, and stupendously expensive. No surprises there. Also, apparently having protein of the type that breaks down quick is a good idea post-workout. No surprise. Got a bunch of samples to try. Pity they're all milk-flavour-based.

Tuesday ... I know I missed my pilates class, but I can't recall why. Was I tired? Well, probably. Wednesday was fun - hung out with rohan after work, which was good, after doing a half-assed workout. Thursday was work and PT, owowowowowow. Details on the gym filter.

Friday was the most interesting day in terms of extremes, from disasterous to fantastic. In the morning at work, something went wrong, and there was a lot of anger flying around, which destroyed my composure totally. I don't cope with displays of anger, regardless of who it is directed at. It was a very bad morning. In addition, I had to reject two builds, which is the sort of message that can get a messenger shot. I wasn't, but still ... *sigh*. Then, at about 1.15pm, my day got infinitely better. Steve surprised me by rocking up in his mum's mx-5 and handing me a bunch of roses. :D He then whisked me off to Salt for lunch (:D :D). We then drove up the coast to a little place called Buderim White House, where we were to spend the weekend. Ah, it was divine. Absolutely marvelous decor, really good and friendly service, beautiful views, and totally luxurious. We took a few photos in the time we were up there, which should go up on flickr at some point.

It was lovely. friday we went out to dinner, to a nice place called 'decs'. Good food, interesting cocktails. Zonked out after we got back to the room. Saturday, breakfast early, off to the eumundi markets, and then to Yandina for the ginger factory, nutworks, and coffee factory. That was good fun. Drove around a touch more, got some wine, went out to dinner in maroochydore, eventually got back to the room for more sleeping. Sunday we went for a bushwalk in the morning, then drove around the coast a bit before heading home. Ended up in the city talking to Drew, and retired to his new place for coffee and chatting. Home late, sleeping ftw.

Monday was ... good. Ish. It wasn't extravagantly stressful. Still getting back into the rhythm of things. Went to gym in the evening, did a couple of classes, crashed.

All in all, a very mixed week. I'm very glad we had a break; I really needed to get away, even if only for a couple of days.