Look whats for supper!
Mood:  hungry
Cabbage Rolls

I've been busier than I have been for a long time - making these cabbage rolls for dinner. I haven't made them for a long time, and once made, they can be re heated for supper once again tomorrow night, when I probably feel least like cooking after a teaching session at school. In the top photo is the pile of 'hot' leaves as they peel off the head after being par boiled for 5 mins. They fall off quite easliy, only I always have to be extra careful at this point not to burn myself with the hot water.



Phew! finished at last!
They ONLY took about 3 hours all up to prepare, and using two cabbage heads I made about 26 rolls. We'll probably eat half of those over the next few days and I've frozen the rest for more easy peasy suppers. I lurve to be organised!
I am very disspointed that I can't seem to make the background of this blog a little more colourful. I experimented with my frontpage programmme - by making a coloured table to put the contents of todays entry in, and the whole thing side scewed all over the page, so I had to remove it. I'm going to work on doing this and making the page look a little brighter. I am also limited by this service provider as to the backgrounds and images I can have on the page! If I don't have much luck, I may even move this blog to another home. I will keep you all posted.

Ikea - you're a part of my life
Mood:  spacey


Life is full of disappointments this week.


Spring is not springing quickly enough for me this year. Its still cold and wet. This morning it was misty, and did I mention cold?
It's supposed to be warming up for the weekend, but I'll believe that it when it happens!


The domino effect of all this rain is that the laundry has piled ceiling high, my wire clothes drying racks are all full, with DD's clothes all drying too.


The 'bug' I've been plagued with over the three weeks has left me with not only low energy levels but also a feeling of "I don't care about anything "mood.


The antibiotics are frying my brains,the ear drops are making my ears itch, the eyes drops are making the computer screen fuzzzzzzzy.....


Ikea? We had a catalogue drop off in the middle of the night.
For some unfathomable reason, catalogues and junk mail is usually delivered here by cover of darkness, as if it were some covert operation. But my dog knows when they are coming, and he lets the WHOLE suburb know!!



This morning I found a tatty Ikea catalogue stuffed into my mail box, looking much worse for wear. I was going to have a look through it later on. Maybe I should wait till all the dominos have finished falling?

What could be better?
Mood:  celebratory
When Father's Day starts with this:

and ends with this?

Happy Fathers day to all the Aussie dads out there!

I love to be organised
Mood:  bright
In the last few years I have simplified and organised my life to the absolute nth degree, and tweaking the finer points is all I have to do these days to maintain the lifestyle that we created. I shall be writing a bit more about simplifying in a later post sometime.


Simplifying was one heck of a journey, and the twists and forks in the road made it one interesting ride.


I guess its all about problem solving really. I was never good at it at school. Give me a problem back then, and I would give up and toss in the the 'can't be bothered basket'. Now I relish hard to tackle places. Finding a solution is dessert for me - the equivalent of chocolate cake - with icing!



Latest thrill was organising my troubled corridor. With my ever decreasing space at home due to empty nests being filled again, we seem to have accumulated more than our fair share of "stuff". The computer has had more homes than me, and wheeeling it around the place was just not good for the machine itself, and for my poor back! Finally on a trip to the computer store to look at laptops, I discovered the workstation concept. WOW!! was it impressive.

And this is what it looks like in situ:

I bought one immidiately and have had it installed in the corridor. Its not in the ideal place, but it has wheels - so it can be moved - now just waiting for an empty spot in the nest!!

The cooking 'nerve' (or should that be nervous?) centre

This is where it ALL happens.

Bon Apetite - pie download
Mood:  hungry
all the way down the little red tunnel!

I must be on a roll in the cooking department this week, as we've had three super krissie meals three days in a row I'll have you all know. Could that be a personal record?



and finally the finished product

YUMMY!

Patriotism at the doctors surgery
Made myself an appointment to "see" (well barely can actually) the doctor, but you know what I mean, and took myself there for the consult. The tv is always on for the patients to watch whilst waiting. I didn't have to wait long which was a pleasant change from the mandatory hour on most ocassions.


There was a news programme reporting on the Olympians being welcomed home after arriving back to Australia from Athens. They were all wearing their team and country colours, and the Australian anthem was playing loudly, to a hugely participating audience. Now I am not normally interested in sport, or the Olympics - guess I was just born like that! But suddenly I got this lump in my throat as the words of the Anthem hit home...'cos we are young and free'...etc and just quickly thinking about some of the trouble hot spots in the world, we are truly fortunate to be 'free' in this country.


My eyes filled up momenterally, but I'm sure the eye drops will take care of that!

Oh and I forgot to add
Mood:  happy
a pinch and a punch for the start of a month - and for us down under - a new season. Officially spring starts TODAY! almost summer??(I wish)

This morning
I woke up (sounds like the start of THAT david cassidy record - 'this morning I woke up with this feeling'...etc)


anyways back to the story....thinking that I'd either gone blind during the night or it was incredibly dark this morning at 7 am. I slowly realised that my eyes were glued together, and took a while to prise open.


At this point, Dr. Krissie did a quick self diagnosis and came to the remarkable conclusion that I have conjunctivitis as part and parcel of this horrible virus that still seems to be lingering on.


I won't go into any more gory details on this topic as I don't want to put myself off dinner tonight and the little treat I've downloaded for you to enjoy. So please forget I mentioned my eyes, sit at the table chez Krissie, feel free to pour yourself a little of what you fancy ...and enjoy the meal.

Hang on
For today's post - which is being written as I speak. The bacon and egg pie is just downloading into the computer! See you all later, no time to explain.