Sushi For Breakfast

Day 230 Today is Mum's birthday. I'm grabbing a slice of birthday cake while there's some left :D



She spent the late afternoon with her granddaughter, who apparently slept the whole time :) My sister is doing better, still no word on how long they want to keep them in, but they're both definitely progressing well.

Day 203 After work I had a 'fun' time shopping. It wasn't bad, just a bit unusual. It started with getting some petrol, which was OK except there were queues because there was only one person on duty in the kiosk (another woman came on duty just as I was at the paydesk) so that took a little while longer than it could have. I then went round the little shopping centre near work, got some DVD envelopes from Wilkinsons and a 2011 pocket diary from the cheap card shop:



This is the pic for this entry because I have Plans. Writing plans, for next year, something for every day, and I can get started on the prep work now, and I thought this would be a convenient way to plan rather than do something electronically. No, I'm not telling you what the plans are yet. Nearer the time I will.

I went all round Tesco although I had only gone in for three items: blank DVDs, Diet Sprite or 7-Up, and sushi. I also bought some things that Sainsburys don't sell (plain flavour yoghurt bars and fruit flavour Club biscuits) and some jalapeno hummous that I've been thinking about since I saw my friend eating some. I made it back into my car without getting rained on and headed for home, and just as I was leaving the car park:

BUGGER! I forgot to get Sprite/7-Up!

Curses. I was driving home, and thought if I don't get some I'll be thinking all weekend about how nice a glass of Sprite/7-Up would be and I didn't get any. So I stopped at Sainsburys and got the last three bottles of Diet Sprite (they were all out of Diet 7-Up). And yay, I now have Sprite and sushi and it's yoga tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to it. Hope that's not an ominous sign.

Day 199 Today's meals are brought to you in the form of toast, lemonade, and Immodium.



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Day 186 A Custard Cream. Because it's Monday morning, with invoices to raise on a tempramental database and my friend M is on hols for two weeks. So some biscuity comfort is required, and none more comforting than a custard cream.

Day 172 Poppadoms. Yum.



I bought two packs of plain poppadoms, I thought it might be good to avoid spicy stimulants until my lips are back to normal (they're a little better today) so I'll have to get the flavoured ones another time. Something to look forward to, I love flavoured poppadoms. I love plain poppadoms too. They're easier to eat at home, cos when you have them in an Indian restaurant I always feel like I could consume the whole pile in a frenzied Taz-like whirl, all the aromas you get in and around Indian restaurants, I can't go near one without feeling hungry.

Day 157 Dad picked these carrots about an hour ago. They're very nice, as evidenced by the half-carrot in the middle of the pic.



The long straight carrot was grown inside an old Pringles container, the rest were in a regular vegetable trough. They're from a pack of mixed seeds of carrot varieities which are known for being paler colours than the usual vivid orange, and they taste a little lighter too, but still very carrotty.

Day 146 Every time I visit Marks & Spencers Food Hall I look out for these. They come in a pack of ten, two each of five box designs, and are packed to the brim with raisins.



And Atlantis is home! Quite possibly home for good. Luckily I got to see the landing via NASA TV. So beautiful, and such a perfect showcase landing. Will probably post more on Atlantis separately, but for now enjoy the coverage at the BBC Website.

Day 140 Crackers. Cos I wanted them. Been sleeping most of the evening, stupid neuralgia :(



Left-to-right: water biscuit, Jacobs cream cracker, cheese cracker. Yum.

Day 127 To remind us that it's still spring out there, whatever government we will eventually get - this is one of the trees in the back garden:



We have had meetings today at work, and of course the home-catered food for lunch, and we spent half an hour shifting boxes for another team in return for getting the meeting room for longer. But it felt like we spent most of the day watching the results come in (they're all in now, apart from one constituency which will vote at the end of the month because one candidate died during the election campaign) and trying not to get too specifically doom-and-gloom. Whoever gets in, government budget cuts will affect us because people will have less money to spend on things like the services we provide. And it's possible that we could get ministers from any of the three main parties, and could be dealing with ministers from more than one party. Plenty of wait-and-see, but I think my hopes of finally getting an ezine out that's full of actual Things Happening aren't going to be met for a while.

Day 121 I went back to Marks & Spencers today to get some more T-shirts, thought it prudent while they've got plenty left in my size. Bought 1 each in red, light blue, spring green and turquoise-green. I also went to Boots to stock up on stuff - Beconase, pressed powder, foldup hairbrush - and some food. They sell sandwiches & lunchtime stuff, I find the quality varies depending what you go for, but they usually have sushi. They have a long-standing thing called Meal Deal - where you can buy a salad or sandwich, drink and snack (eg crisps or a cereal bar) for £2.99. I bought this lot - individually it would have cost me £4.79: