Bits & Bobs

I'm exhausted! Definitely looking forward to the weekend, even with the long weekend this week seems to be dragging :(

Last night I went out to a YUMMY work dinner at the Boathouse in South Perth. I thoroughly recommend it (and the gnocchi!) the views are some of the best I've ever seen of the city (and right on the river). It was pretty pricey so yay for it being on the company dime ha-ha but I'm definitely taking Hubby there, he loves views of the city at night. It was great to catch up with everyone from around the country and I was definitely amongst the big guns (all the managers from HQ), I felt really lucky to be included seeing as I'm not even a supervisor or anything!

Tuesday night I cooked a really yummy roast pork and gravy for the family and even though we didn't eat until late it went down well. I always feel like I live up to the title of this blog during those moments.

Tonight is RELAX TIME, I think we'll just make a simple chicken basil/lemon pasta dish. I feel like something really filling. Probably not good for the waist line though but oh well! I'm still hovering around my 73/74kg mark. I just feel proud now that I'm no longer ashamed of my body and I'll pretty much tell anyone who asks how much I weigh which I know is not a common thing (especially amongst women). It just feels so liberating to be at that point in my life especially because I'm not even 25 yet.

Still feeling a little off and hoping so much that I'll have good news to share soon but I don't think I will :( Oh well if it doesn't happen that's fine and we'll just continue going with the flow.

Hungover without the booze

I've felt gross ALL day but at least the headache is starting to go away. The only way I can think to describe it is like being hungover even though I haven't had any booze in forever. It probably didn't help that I had such a horrible sleep last night either. I was looking forward to coming home and collapsing but we're having my Mum and little sister over for dinner so that's been thrown out the window :( Then I thought yay I can relax tomorrow night but I've got a big work dinner booked for then so it looks like I can catch up on my zzz's on Thursday.

I'm being bad and pinning my hopes on this gross feeling meaning that maybe just maybe this means baby? (please ignore my hideous rhyming).

Heat Wave

It's been hot, hot, hot here in WA. I haven't really been motivated to do much which sucks but this weekend I'm getting out there. I guess starting tonight! We're heading out for belated birthday dinner with my Dad. I'm looking forward to seeing the look on his face when his cake comes out, it's going to be awesome. I'll be sure to post a photo and I'll try and get some of the food as well because it always looks and tastes amazing.

Saturday night we're going to the Outdoor Cinema with a whole bunch of people to watch Morning Glory, fingers crossed it's good. Sunday is dedicated to farmer's market, swap meet and sculpture by the sea (unless it's too hot). Then Monday is a public holiday, I've just started reading this:

Poor Hubby, I don't think he knows what he's in for on Sunday!

Dinner, Birthdays and Cake

This weekend has been both eventful and un-eventful.

It started with a visit to what used to be one of our favourite restaurants - The Mussel Bar in Fremantle. It must've been on everyone's to do list that night because it was super busy. But thankfully we got a better table than last night and were seated at a window overlooking some awesome old boats. Even though it was a fantastic dinner foodwise it was a great date night with my Hubby.

We started off by ordering their seafood tasting plate to share and 6 oysters. I will only eat oysters if they are tempura and I was so happy to find tempura oysters with pineapple salsa on the menu - they were YUMMY! I also really enjoyed the softshell crab and the sushi but other than that the remainder of the tasting plate was a little ho-hum. I'd also been trying to decide if I should order the yummy white wine mussels I did last time or if I should go with something different. I decided not to be a risk taker and go with mussels because I love them! Unfortunately I wish I'd taken the risk...they were WAY too salty and just tasted yuck. I should've sent them back but the place was so busy. Then we decided to order dessert and I chose the passionfruit brulee. We were busy chatting but the Mr kept looking at his watch and finally admitted we'd been waiting for 30 minutes and still no food (I'd lost track of time). He told our waitress who said she'd go check and it should be out soon...after another 15 minutes she came back and we asked them to cancel it because it still hadn't even been made!

Very disappointed and I wish I'd had the guts to say how unhappy I was with my main meal as well - they didn't even offer us a discount or anything, just a sorry hope we see you again! Sadly they won't not, it just wasn't worth the $100+ we both paid. (Hopefully it was just because it was so busy because our first dinner there was amazing!)

But other than the waiting and not so good food it was great. We talked heaps, held hands like teenagers on a first date and stared out into harbour. We talked about baby names and I advised him he had 5 veto rights (similar to that Friends episode hehe) and how because of our surname we definitely could not have a child named after a food or adjective :p

Saturday we were celebrating my uni friend's birthday and went out to Elmars in the Swan Valley. Needless to say too much wine (not enough food) and sitting in the sun did not a good Jess make. The poor husband he always looks after me when I get like this. I declared that my friend's last day as 23 was my last day drinking like a teenager! I just can't do it anymore, I lose the next 24-48 hours.

We then had my friend who has just been to South Africa (I definitely want to go there now!) come over and show her photos and video of her bungy jumping - VERY JEALOUS! I finally christened our Kitchen Aid (wedding gift from the in-laws) by baking a Cinnamon Tea Cake (yummy both boys went back for seconds). I must admit it is so easy to use, even if I didn't follow the recipe properly (stuff folding in sifted flour in between putting in the milk!).

So now I'm relaxing in front of the telly after doing the dishes (I felt I owed hubby something), stuck watching Top Gear because the Mr loves it. It would be Keeping up with the Kardashians but the dvd broke - too many sad sad housewifes renting it.

Life is good :)

Anniversary

We'd been dating for a long time before we got hitched and today is our 5 year and 9 month anniversary :)

We don't have a lot of plans, I woke up insanely early for a Sunday and want to get our to our local markets to score some good fruit and veggies. That will be followed by more house cleaning because I'm tired of living in so much clutter (it's pretty much my fault) although the kitchen is gross and I think I'll let the Hubby loose on that.

Tonight I have dinner with my uni girlfriends which will be fantastic. So much has changed in the 1.5 years since we left uni! We're going to do a semi-housewarming for the last one of us who moved out of home. So unfortunately the Hubby will need to eat left over chicken curry but it's yummy so no problems there!

On Wednesday for our 1 month anniversary we are shunning the family dinner (we're both a bit over his family at the moment seems like we always have to put in the effort and are severely under appreciated or even forgotten about) and going out somewhere cheap and cheerful. Possibly Italian and maybe a movie but because it's a work night I always like getting to bed no later than 10pm so maybe not.

I'm trying to be a lot more positive and happy about things and whenever I think something negative I just push it away. It isn't always easy, especially when drama is going on but I'm tired of being such a downer!