Tuesday
23/07 - Chimichangas
Anyone else remember when Cherry (was that her name?) in Two and a half men had chimichangas? She said it like chimi-chan-gas! Lol it's always what I think of.. Anyway I've been making burritos a lot lately and this week I decided to take it to another level and do a little shallow frying to bump them up to chimichanga status.. Ah-maze! So much more filling and delicious. Interested in a "recipe"? I use air quotes because its basically a mix of convenience foods with minimal cooking - lazy girls guide ;)
Monday
22/07 - Comma, Comma, Comma..
Saw this in twitter and thought it might brighten someone's Monday morning.. It did mine! Have a great day!
Sunday
21/07 - The Weekend Project
I spent most of my weekend on the project below, had I not had the assistance of my brother I might still be making the drawers now.. They seriously took FOREVER!!!! I am so happy with them, they're perfect for makeup storage but there was I thinking the hard work was over and me came the fun bit.. I don't think I've ever had ALL of my makeup out like that before.. Quite overwhelming. It took a few hours to get everything straight but I love how its organised and the two units aren't full so I have room to grow which was what I wanted. Very happy girl!
The units are from Ikea and are called Alex, there is a tall 9 drawer version but I preferred the shallow drawers of this short, wide, 6 drawer version. Oh and yes I will be doing a full tour of it soon over on my beauty blog!
The units are from Ikea and are called Alex, there is a tall 9 drawer version but I preferred the shallow drawers of this short, wide, 6 drawer version. Oh and yes I will be doing a full tour of it soon over on my beauty blog!
Saturday
Friday
19/07 - More Work Stuff
In the hot seat today is Joanne.. She and I are all that are left of the temps, we've both been there for more than a year and we've both been given out notice. In a few weeks (end date TBC) we will be without work.. Great!
We are considering applying for a permanent position with the same company as a job share (between us we want to work 5 days) so that's a maybe but for now I think I'm looking at about 5 weeks. The most annoying thing is that it's fallen on the kids holidays.. For the remainder of my time I will basically be working just to pay the childminder.. In fact my calculations have me losing money on the deal *sigh*.
It made me realise that if you have 2 kids under school age you couldn't afford to go back to work, my childminder charger £3.50 an hour.. That's £7.00, I only earn £8.50 and after tax.. If this was a permanent thing it would make no sense at all.. Crazy!
Luckily I have the last week of the holidays off so I can spend that time with Ella while she's off.. And I guess plan my next move. It was expected but it still sucks to be let go, I'll miss everyone (almost) I work with so its sad but I like to think everything happens for a reason
We are considering applying for a permanent position with the same company as a job share (between us we want to work 5 days) so that's a maybe but for now I think I'm looking at about 5 weeks. The most annoying thing is that it's fallen on the kids holidays.. For the remainder of my time I will basically be working just to pay the childminder.. In fact my calculations have me losing money on the deal *sigh*.
It made me realise that if you have 2 kids under school age you couldn't afford to go back to work, my childminder charger £3.50 an hour.. That's £7.00, I only earn £8.50 and after tax.. If this was a permanent thing it would make no sense at all.. Crazy!
Luckily I have the last week of the holidays off so I can spend that time with Ella while she's off.. And I guess plan my next move. It was expected but it still sucks to be let go, I'll miss everyone (almost) I work with so its sad but I like to think everything happens for a reason
Thursday
18/07 - #ShareACoke
I'm positive I'm not the only one excited about the Share A Coke tour. I could never get anything with my name on it as a kid and the novelty of personalised items has followed me in to adulthood, strong! I queued twice with several people to make sure I got a complete set (and one for my Mums friend, Deana) - if you want to know when they're coming to you you can look online here. The bottles where we were were free and they were one per person but I hear it varies place to place..
Wednesday
17/07 - United States Of Tara
I am completely bereft that United States Of Tara was cancelled after on 3 seasons. We just finished watching them (in 2 weeks) on Netflix and I already miss her. The general gist is, Tara has multiple personalities not all of whom are particularly nice characters and the show follows her, her husband and two kids and how they cope with the disorder. It's not something I would have ever chosen to watch but Netflix has a new feature called "Max" which suggests shows based on other things you've watched (brilliant idea) - Max (spookily Tara's husbands name) recommended Tara and I wanted to recommend it to you guys.
We've come to the conclusion that we live everything from Showtime so we're making our way through other series made by them now.. Californication, Weeds and Dexter to name a few (I believe HBO is the same thing but correct me if I'm wrong - if so SATC is another) and you may have seen ads for the new Netflix original series, Orange Is The New Black (from the creator of Weeds) which also seems really good from the first couple of episodes.
I've mentioned before that we watch Netflix on US DNS settings so we get more content and although I usually point those with questions in the direction of TheDoofa.com I will put together a "for dummies" how-to if you'd like cause its just so much better than the UK version.
Anyway.. Go watch the show and if you already love that or anything else mentioned I'm hopeful for more suggestions from you guys!
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