Saturday, January 13, 2007
A New Start - 12:39 PM
Intro
From now I am going to try and up date this a bit more, mainly because the easiest way for people to keep up to date with me is here, and this year I am going to try and be a better person. First week back at work and things went ok, I should have done more, but well…. It was the first week. It has been good to be in my own bed and back in my own routine and well away from my mother’s cats.
Week O Work
Over the break our PhD student managed to kill all our cells and they are now just bulking up in number now. From my point of view it was funny because the reason it happened was he was so afraid to do anything about the alarms going off he left them. After ringing almost every one in the company except me (the only person it seems who knows how the gas regulation system works). My bosses’ husband has made a comment that if Ed rings him one more time he will feed the phone to him. The filter set I had been waiting for turned up… Yay. So will be making some lovely cells that glow in the dark. Kind of like that. But by the end of this month I have to finish my paper. It is on food and inflammation, I have finally got all the results and they are making some sense so all good, now it is just up to me to sit down and do it.
Week O Social
This week has brought a new person on to the scene and her name is Kelly. She fits in brilliantly and is full of wanting to go out and drink and have fun, which we fully encourage her to do. She even lead us astray by teaching us how to steal signs, and since she is the one in the photo with it – It must have been her.
Kelly leading us astray
The lushes themselves
(Kelly and Brair)
From now I am going to try and up date this a bit more, mainly because the easiest way for people to keep up to date with me is here, and this year I am going to try and be a better person. First week back at work and things went ok, I should have done more, but well…. It was the first week. It has been good to be in my own bed and back in my own routine and well away from my mother’s cats.
Week O Work
Over the break our PhD student managed to kill all our cells and they are now just bulking up in number now. From my point of view it was funny because the reason it happened was he was so afraid to do anything about the alarms going off he left them. After ringing almost every one in the company except me (the only person it seems who knows how the gas regulation system works). My bosses’ husband has made a comment that if Ed rings him one more time he will feed the phone to him. The filter set I had been waiting for turned up… Yay. So will be making some lovely cells that glow in the dark. Kind of like that. But by the end of this month I have to finish my paper. It is on food and inflammation, I have finally got all the results and they are making some sense so all good, now it is just up to me to sit down and do it.
Week O Social
This week has brought a new person on to the scene and her name is Kelly. She fits in brilliantly and is full of wanting to go out and drink and have fun, which we fully encourage her to do. She even lead us astray by teaching us how to steal signs, and since she is the one in the photo with it – It must have been her.
Kelly leading us astray
The lushes themselves
(Kelly and Brair)
On Saturday I had the worse hang over I have had in a long time, all due to her and Briar. I made every one watch the Arnold Rimmer song while I sang along to it. But I paid the price, Nick made me get up in the morning and walk to the local café for breakfast. I said “You are doing this because you hate me”, he said “No, you played the Arnold Rimmer song at 2am – there needs to be punishment.”
The Arnold Rimmer song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMzIRPCngLo
Week O WoW
I finally made it exhaulted with Argent Dawn, so I am now attuned to Naxx. But with Burning Crusade coming out need week it doesn’t really matter. But yes bring on next week and the expansion.
Week O Being a better person
This is me reporting what I have been doing this week to be a better person and by better I mean going to the gym, healthy eating, not running over small children, ransoming the world. Well I have contacted UniTech to see if I can get some help with my work on the S800. It is about time I actually had this damn car running. So we will see, I have to wait for the office to open properly this Monday before I find out.
I have gone back to making salads for lunch and doing my Pilates in the morning. So now I just need to keep it up and not blow it all out the window with drinking sessions. So yeah I have started, and every one says the hardest step is the first one. So here is hoping 10kg by the end of this year has gone. So who knows the year has just started. But to encourage the rest of you to think more about what you are putting in your body I am doing a recipe of the week.
Recipe of the week
Smoked salmon, orange and blueberry with rocket and tarragon.
The combination of smoked fish and fruit is legendary as the fruit not only counteracts the richness of the fish, but also gives a pleasant freshness to the salad
Ingredients
6 sweet navel oranges
1 tbs brown sugar
2 tsp Dijon mustard
2 tsp arrowroot dissolved in 65ml cold water (cornflour will do the same job)
2 tbs chopped tarragon
250g blueberries
2 tbs pine nuts toasted
300g rocket leaves
400g smoked salmon, flaked
Instructions
Squeeze the juice from 2 oranges. place in a non mircowave bowl, add sugar and mustard and microwave for 1min. Whisk in the dissolved arrowroot, microwave for another minute and stir until thickened. Allow to cool
Using a small knife, peel the remaining oranges, ensuring all the white pith is removed. Quarter the orange lenghtways then cut into thick slices.
Place in a bowl, add the orange and arrowroot mixture, tarragon, blueberries, pine nuts and rocket leaves and toss to coat. Sprinkle over the flaked salmon.
265 cal per servering (about 3 pts Frances)
Blueberries are good because they reduce the darkness of the bags under your eyes.
The Book
Well I have started reading the The JustUs Girls by Evelyn “Slim” Lambright. Well other than the fact I am a white girl and I am not the target audience for this book it is reading ok. I am only up to the 4th chapter so still have a bit to go. But one of the things that has got me so far is, they went on about how expensive a funeral is but thought having a limo to go to one was normal.
Summary
Well week in summary, back and work and getting into it. We have put an offer on a house and are now going through all the stuff you have to do before you finally say yay or nah to it. By the 2nd of Feb should know more.
I brought a bottle of Dove Summer Glow, http://www.mydove.com.au/SummerGlow.asp And damn I am sold, this stuff is great I got the normal to darker skin and noticed I went a few shades darker after the first application. I didn’t go orange and there was no streaking. Brilliant and at $7 a bottle any one can try it.
I start back at ceramics at the start of Feb so nothing to report on that front. Saw The Da Vinci Code which was all round average – book is much better but then they spend a lot more time explaining the history and that which is what makes those books so good. And that is about it for this week.