Well, to be honest - there isn't a whole lot going on! I work quite a bit, but sometimes not enough to keep my bank account full (just enough to save for our Christmas trip to USA). I work most every weekend, so that keeps me from spending too much money, or having too much to blog about. That said; we have had a few outings. The most recent being "Brits at the Beach", which just happened to coincide with our British friend birthday!  |
| Having a taste of British food: Yorkshire pudding & Pig in the hole |
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| Here Joseph is checking out a few of the cars from his homeland |
We've also indulged is some GREAT food!
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| Dave's improved sliverbeet pie: more silverbeet (swiss chard) leaves & less cheese (yes, you can have to much cheese) |
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| Silverbeet Pie with garlic sauteed silverbeet stem and steamed asparagus & beetroot |
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| Avocados from our flatmates office: we made a yum guacamole to share with a Canadian Couchsurfer |
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| There's nothing better than food from the garden (broad beans and beetroot), unless of course it's being cooked FOR you! |
So, life isn't all work! There's going to the gym and eating well too! I'm working on keeping my gym motivation from running off to join my writing, but I only have 1.5 moths of gym membership left, so I HAVE to keep going with it (granted I did exceptional at going 5 days a week for over a month...until I severely sprained my ankle (I probably should have gone to the doctors, but then I'd have been on crutches and that would have cramped the paycheck)). I am still going to the gym though - just not as enthusiastically. Perhaps if writing my blog was tied to money I'd have more incentive? That's why I go to the gym - when I bought my membership I spent ALL of the savings I'd put aside since getting a job ($350 I think - yeah, expensive!). I don't regret it though, I would be an absolute sloth if I hadn't started the gym to get me exercising during the wet, cold winter. When I started though, I calculated that my membership cost between 3 and 5 dollars per weekday. So - if I opted to skip a day, I was pretty much giving away $5 that day. That's kept me pretty motivated to keep up the attendance....that and stickers. I bought colored stickers to put up each day I went to the gym: green for resistance training (3x a week) and blue for cardio (2x a week).
I have heap of garden pictures loaded onto the computer. I hope to get another blog out before Christmas vacation ;) But for now.....I gotta get ready for work (for the cafe lunch rush), then go to the gym, then go back to work (for the restaurant evening shift).
