31 Wednesday Jan 2007
Posted in books & writing, films, fun stuff, humour, miscellany
What are some of yours?
I came across this one earlier and posted in on the bad hair day thread (since it comes from Emo Philips – apparently we share a hairdo) but then thought it would be a good idea to start a separate post for favourite quotes. Anyhow, here is the Emo Philips one…
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I realised that the Lord doesn’t work that way so I stole one and asked Him to forgive me.
Okay, your turn. 
31 Wednesday Jan 2007
Posted in humour, life stuff, quizzes
Your Life Is Worth… |
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Mine’s worth much less than raincoaster’s apparently – must be an age thang. If I’d done the quiz a month ago my life would have been worth $382,000. 😕
30 Tuesday Jan 2007
Cute, huh?
You can make your own snowglobe here. 🙂
Though I couldn’t figure out how to copy it ‘animated’ with the snowflakes falling.
Meanwhile, Nog & I have started our own snowglobe collection. It started one day after Christmas when he was out and about and came home with a little prezzie for me – a wee snowglobe of the Giralda tower (looking more than somewhat like the leaning tower of Sevilla) and then later on we were pleasantly bullied into buying a snowglobe of the Sagrada Familia when we were in Barcelona – honestly, one of the best salesmen I’ve ever met. And apparently he gave it to us ‘half price’! 😉
Anyhow, have fun making your own snowglobes!
29 Monday Jan 2007
Posted in food & drink, life stuff
Why have I never thought of doing this before?
It first came to me last Monday. I thought that instead of preparing something for lunch (in Spain lunch tends to be the main meal of the day) that I would prepare four lunches instead. And within an hour or so I had made…
Easily enough food for the whole week, including snacks. And in the end it turned out that much less time was spent on both preparation and cleaning up than usual. Especially as a lot of the same ingredients were required (onions, garlic, peppers, etc) and so peeling and chopping up these ‘in bulk’ turned out to be much more efficient in terms of time spent.
And once everything was cooked and put into various plastic containers in the fridge it was like having a mini-buffet at our fingertips all week. I’m more of a ‘snacker’ than Nog is – he tends to prefer a ‘proper meal’. So for example, one evening this week he cooked some basmati rice and then just heated up some pre-prepared curry for it while I just had tortilla chips with hummous. Whatever.
It’s kind of liberated us from having to eat in the same way and at the same times and we both quite like this concept. It not only eliminates any feelings of guilt I might have if I don’t feel like cooking a proper meal one day, but it also means if either of us feels like a very tasty quick snack there is something really delicious just waiting in the fridge.
And as anyone who loves cooking knows … food never tastes quite as good just after you’ve spent two hours making it. So I’ve also been enjoying (for example) having a snack of bolognese sauce with freshly-grated parmesan on top two days later as it’s almost as if someone else made it.
Anyhow, Nog and I are both quite enjoying this new plan. Because, once we’ve got all the preparing/cooking/cleaning-up work over with it there’s all this lovely food that’s just there! For us to enjoy whenever we feel like it for the rest of the week. Mmmm…
28 Sunday Jan 2007
Posted in health & happiness, life stuff, musings
This is the beginning of WEEK 13.
Cool, eh? It was quite hard at first, for both of us (Nog and I both quit smoking on the same day – November 5th). And we do still get occasional ‘jonesing’ moments. But the benefits are far outweighing the difficulties.
For example, what we didn’t spend on cigs for two months paid for our posh hotel in Barcelona. Also, we both feel so much better physically, mentally and emotionally.
I think Nog has had the harder battle as he was dealing with a 37-year-old habit. I didn’t start smoking until I was 36 (duh!) and so for me it was more about changing behaviour patterns than actually feeling addicted to nicotine. Still, we both went through quite a rough time at first and appreciate that we could never have done it alone.
You know what they say – misery loves company. 😉
But more than that it’s been the daily mutual support that has kept us going.
So . . . yay for us! 
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