You’re a Star!

I’m interrupting my Hawaii posts because I need tell you guys about my new addiction!

It’s a ceasar chicken salad by Pret.  It’s sooooooo yummy I’ve been eating it practically this whole week, ever since I had it for the first time on Tuesday anyway.

It consists of slices of fresh cucumber, tomato, lettuce leaves, some slices of roasted peppers and chopped olives.  Sounds pretty standard so far right?  The star of the salad is meant to be the generous helping of ceasar chicken which is nicely moist, coated with light mayo and truth be told, it is actually really tasty.

But for me the true star of the salad is the smattering of pistachios across the top.  Oh my god, it’s absolutely genius!  I can’t even begin to describe the dimensions the pistachios add to what would be just a bog standard chicken salad.  Each time I got a pistachio in a forkful I reveled in the substantial crunch it added to the texture and even better still, the fragrant, nutty flavours it released in my mouth.  Gorgeous.

Anyway.  Enough gushing over a sad pitiful work time lunch.  That’s work for you, so dreary that a mere salad becomes some kind of golden highlight.

It’s Friday evening guys!!! (^___________________^)

I’ve been waiting for this time the whole week and finally it’s here.  Phew.  It’s been a long week.  Although yesterday things were livened up by the arrival of a parcel early in the morning!  Thank you Heri!!! =)  I had to wait till I got home at the end of the day to open it though but it was nice to have something to look forward to during the long work day (besides the salad that is).

It was filled with lots of cute goodies like some really fantastic cookie cutters, I love them!  Ugh I love getting packages!!!

But the best thing of all was the Star Beauty lamp, oh my god, it’s so pretty!!!  I love it so much!  Thank you Heri!!!  It’s like a planetarium in my living room, so peaceful and soothing to the soul =)  Absolutely fantastic.

 

Happy Birthday Ah Ma!

Dear Ah Ma,

Millie wants to wish you “Happy Birthday” too!  It’s not midnight here yet so it’s still 22nd September and she’s still in time.  She’s just a little bit late because she’s a nocturnal creature and only just got up!

So once again GM and I, and now Millie too wish you a very happy, healthy, prosperous, lucky and smooth sailing year ahead! ♥

Millie X LX3

GM surprised me again today!

He’d told me in an email that a dress I’d ordered had arrived (I got it sent to his work address) so I didn’t think anything of it when he was digging around in his bag tonight and took out a parcel.  I soon noticed though that instead of just the one parcel there were two so I asked him what it was and he said, “A present for you”!  How exciting!

And it was…………………

The Panasonic Lumix LX3!

Wow I was so surprised!  I’ve wanted this camera for ages, MONTHS.  I contemplated buying it when I was in HK in early May but because I’d already spent lots of money in Perth and just bought a new bag in HK I was feeling guilty so I didn’t.  And regretted it after I came home.

Here’s what it looks like.  I borrowed this pic off google images.  GM has even ordered me the leather case from Japan!  It’s on its way.

I tested it on our Millie.  She’s grown a bit, can you tell?

GM and I have made real progress this last week in terms of bonding with her.  Tonight I lured her to my cupped hands with a bit of broccoli and instead of snatching it and running off to eat it somewhere else, she stayed in my hands.  But the most amazing thing is, she not only stayed in my hands, she actually sat down!  Isn’t she cute?

The pic is a bit blur because she moves a lot, very quickly.

After eating she did her normal grooming.  Soooooooooooooooooo cute!

And finally, a good shot of her looking straight at me.   Hehe.

Today has been a lovely day because it was really quiet in the office so I had a good time slacking off haha.  I met GM for lunch and we tried out a little Thai restaurant in the area which was actually pretty good.  Work gave me a mobile, a Nokia 3109, not great but at least now I will be able to call and text my friends free of charge haha.   My application for funding to study a Japanese language course was approved over the stipulated maximum amount (£200, I got £255) and I was informed that I have been accepted into the course to start on 29 September.  I came home and got the dress that I’ve been wanting for a long time which I thought might have gotten lost in the post since the Royal Mail are going through a series of strikes at the moment and apparently have a backlog of millions of letters and parcels undelivered.  And then I got a surprise gift that I have been coveting for ages!  And Millie sat in my hands and ate broccoli!

What a wonderful day!

But I feel a bit bad because GM keeps buying me all these surprise gifts and I never buy him any.

Nice to Meet You Everyone!

We’re really excited.  I don’t think I can sleep tonight.  Because we bought a hamster!!

We got her tonight at around 8pm and we’ve been watching her all night.  And we want to keep watching her.  It’s a girl hamster and she’s really sweet.  GM is besotted because it’s his first ever pet!  In fact, it was his idea to get a hamster, I think he has been hankering after a pet ever since we went to my mate’s and played with her cat who is really affectionate and lovely.  Even I love that cat, I even miss it sometimes!

We’ve bought her a cool country-style home complete with rustic cottage.  Isn’t it cute?  Her bedding is lavender scented!

This is her first step into her new home.  Aww.

Syrian hamsters are nocturnal creatures so she’s been really active the last hour or so, exploring her new house and all its nooks and crannies.  At the moment she’s doing some running in her wheel!

Halloooo!

We still don’t know what to name her.  I’ve been looking at baby names on the internet the whole night.  We’ve kind of narrowed the choices down to Millie or Daisy.  What do you all think?

Best Friday

Happy Friday everybody! ♪  \(^o\) (/o^)/ ♫ ♬

Although it’s late on Friday night and will be Saturday soon, but still, it’s the weekend!!!  Yayness!  *(^O^)*

I’ve come to the conclusion that this is the best Friday of this year for me so far.  Why?  Because:-

1.  Firstly, this is the weekend of relief, relaxation and calm after last weekend’s nerves and panic;

2.  I have a day off on Monday!  Yay! =) ;

3.  This is the first Friday this year when I don’t have to dread going back to work with the Rottweiler the next week.

If that’s not cause enough for celebration what is??

AND to top it off, according to weather forecasts our wash-out of a summer will temporarily be suspended this weekend and next week for some proper summer weather.  Yayness again!!

I love Fridays but this Friday I love Friday even more than usual =)

Have a lovely weekend!!! ♥