Unless you like pickled cabbage leaves

I really hate it when the umbrella that has spent several months stored in a cupboard looking perfectly functional reveals itself to have several broken spokes, and dumps rain on your head during unseasonal winter weather. It has been depressingly dark today under the overcast sky. I don’t usually mind working in a [...]

Dilemma

A dilemma I was faced with in the supermarket yesterday - Woolworths Organic Pasta vs Barilla Pasta.
I feel that buying the Woolworths brand supports organic industry, and encourages supermarkets to stock more organic products. It’s also cheaper than Barilla, so it’s affordable organic produce and makes my grocery bill more palatable. However, I [...]

Kitchen experiments

Over the past week I’ve been thinking about ways to organise the household’s weekly meals a little better, something we find a little difficult when we’re both out of the house for 11 - 12 hours a day. We’ve also been in a bit of a cooking slump recently, due to lack of ideas, [...]

Kind of organic

I woke up this morning, certain that I’d heard the alarm go off, got up and took my backpack out of the bedroom to pack my gym gear and lunch. And then I realised that it was Sunday, and I didn’t actually need to go to work. That’s what dreaming about the office [...]

Plastic royalty in disguise

I have indigestion, and consequently am unable to concentrate on anything except the fact that I’m in pain. (No, of course the indigestion isn’t self-inflicted. It has nothing to do with Darrell Lea. Why are you asking such impertinent questions? Off with your head!)
I own a plastic silver crown (or tiara, [...]

Things I’m excited about

The launch of the Sci-Fi channel on Foxtel on 1 December - Buffy! Battlestar Galactica! Firefly! Farscape! 24 hours a day! When I found the preview channel I raced over the Prince Valiant to tell him the wonderful news. He groaned. A channel devoted to sci-fi and me [...]

Tasmania and dairy products

It was a beautiful drive from the airport to my cousin’s house in Tasmania - as we drew closer, and began to drive along the coast towards St Helens, the enormous yellow full moon was rising above the water, its bright twin reflected in the bay. It was a beautiful beginning to our holiday.
I [...]

Materialism

I was in court this morning on a matter that’s the first I’ve been managing essentially on my own. I was unnecessarily tense about the whole thing, and dreamt last night that I was late to court, and the matter was being heard in the David Bowie Room. “Where’s the David Bowie Room?” [...]

Off the wagon

Bad things about having a party? The number of delicious things that weren’t eaten by our guests (um, because I forgot to serve them), like chocolate covered raisins, and potato chips, and jelly lollies in the shape of dinosaurs. In fact, we have a great number of jelly lollies in a variety of [...]

Protein, carbs and other dull stuff

After getting stuck at the same weight for many weeks, I have finally begun losing again. I changed my diet around a bit (I hate using the word, but “stuff I eat” doesn’t really have the same ring to it), and have been experimenting with a bit more protein, and a few less carbohydrates. [...]