Hello Monday – PLAYWORKEATREPEAT

Hello friends, it’s great to be here with Holly and Sarah for Hello Monday. I always like to start the week with this link and follow everyone’s posts. I don’t always get a chance to read as many blogs as I’d like because it’s usually late in the evening by the time I log on. And by that time, I’m exhausted after a busy day of work. But I try to make up for it the next day…and the next…and the next. Haha, there’s never enough time in the day, right?

Here’s a recap of the weekend. Thank you very much for stopping by 😊

Friday evening

I had some leftover Asian ingredients in the fridge from a creamy coconut and peanut noodle dish I made last week: wombok cabbage, cilantro, and bean sprouts. For some reason I was craving soup even though the weather is hardly soup-friendly.

So on Friday evening (it’s still daylight saving time) I walked to Woolworths and picked up a BBQ chicken to make some Asian cheater soup. Just a few Massel chicken stock cubes in simmering water with crushed garlic, ginger slices, soy sauce, some noodles, wombok cabbage, shredded chicken, plus a sprinkling of spring onions, coriander and bean sprouts to serve. Boom. I whipped up an impromptu photo in a flash.

Steve was at work and Sam was out with friends. So it was just me, my soup, and The nanny keeps me company on TV.

I spotted a young Chuck McGill from You better call Saul in the episode and had to pause it to take a photo for Sam. It’s funny to see actors appear in old sitcoms from their early days.

SATURDAY

Saturday morning brunch.

Then I spent the rest of the day feeling really tired, with almost no energy, which is very unlike me. It’s very hot and humid here and it’s hard to get a good night’s sleep. Maybe I was just sleep deprived, tired from the week, or both. So I didn’t do much on Saturday.

Sunday

Then Sunday I woke up feeling much better, although it was still an uncomfortable night. We have a tower fan in our room, but it’s so noisy. It’s always like do I want a quiet night or a sweaty night? We really should have another fan.

I think the hot cross buns hit the supermarket shelves just after midnight on Christmas Day. But it was the first one I had so far. We like brioches the most because they are sweeter and much fluffier than regular brioches.

I spent the rest of Sunday catching up on household chores. It’s not something I like to do, but with my birthday last week, things I would normally do during the week piled up. Well, at least they were done, and I felt better knowing that I could start a new week without any chores remaining.

I always say I love summer until I meet a cockroach. And then I’m for the cold because there are no insects in winter. That’s exactly how I felt Sunday night.

I was home alone with Steve at work and Sam on a date. I had been watching a movie on Netflix and was about to go to bed when I heard a plop and the beep of the induction cooker. At first, I thought it was Mochi, our cat (running out of the kitchen). I was about to get angry with her. She’s not allowed on the kitchen benches, and after many automatic deterrents, she finally learned.

But no, it wasn’t her because when I turned on the kitchen light. This was the biggest, ugliest, hairiest cockroach ever. Shudder!!

About half a can of bug spray later, and I was jumping up and down screaming under my breath, it was dead. Scroll quickly if you don’t want to see the crime scene.

My friend had texted me the moment my soul was entering my body, so I zoomed in and took a photo to send to her. Then I disinfected everything, only getting as close to the victim as possible.

My work was done and I couldn’t go near that thing, so I left a note for whoever got home first.

And now I’m completely okay with the fact that fall is just around the corner. Luckily for me, it took me almost the entire summer before I had my first close encounter. Have a great Monday and I’ll see you here on Wednesday.