You know, I like to give the local greengrocer and butcher a little slack when it comes to errant apostrophes because sometimes it all gets a little confusing. The occasional "apple's" or "sausage's" is not going to kill me.
However, I do think the professionals should be held to account.
I found this lovely example in a well-known national renovation magazine. I just couldn't bring myself to engage this firm to build my laundry. If they confuse their plurals perhaps they'll confuse my request for lino instead of vinyl flooring.
However, I do think the professionals should be held to account.
I found this lovely example in a well-known national renovation magazine. I just couldn't bring myself to engage this firm to build my laundry. If they confuse their plurals perhaps they'll confuse my request for lino instead of vinyl flooring.
And this little beauty came home from Blossom's school. It's the front cover of her homework book. I'd say whoever printed this didn't do enough homework themselves.
In other news...
In other news...
- I am exhausted from the new school routine. Blossom has to be at school by 8am four days per week due to her before school commitments (pilates, dance, band) and PL is at school soon after that. Leaving the house by 7.45am each morning with kids dressed, lunches packed and multiple activities catered for is all too much for this little bear. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
- PL gets homework. Now you KNOW how I hate homework. This combined with his school support-related exercises each night is causing me apoplexy at the other end of the day. zzzzzzzzzzzzz
- I think I need a midday Nana nap.
- I would have a midday Nana nap if I wasn't trying my damnedest to get a part-time job.
- I am certifiably crazy. Nothing surer.
- I know how early and late many of you work. How on earth do you do it? Pass on your secrets, please.
Oh, and I've been told I need to get a slow cooker. Is that the secret to easier night-time meals?
I think I just need a cook.
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I used to be able to work, work, work, but I think reaching a certain age has slowed me down considerably. Burning the candle at both ends is no longer an option.
First we have hellish heat, now this rain. I'm going stir crazy not being able to ride. The only upside is that this is perfect chook roasting weather, with all the trimmings.
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Slow cookers are great for the evening IF you have time in the morning for food prep.
Unless it's stuff that you can just throw in (without browning meat or peeling carrots, potatoes etc) then there is that downside.
And, personally, I can't handle touching raw meat in the morning. Ugggh.
Now.. I have a slow cooker and heaps of recipe books which I'm happy to lend you so that you can "try before you buy", but in my experience the easiest "morning recipes" involve raw chicken and cans of cream of mushroom soup (or the like).
And it sounds like you're struggling for morning time. Unless you did it AFTER school drop off.
Some of my favourite meals ever come out of my slow cooker... usually on the weekends when I enjoy preparing them in the morning unhurried.
I feel as though a whole new work day begins when Toto gets home from school now. There is SO MUCH homework. I get very scratchy.
I don't do the slow cooker thing. I don't like to leave electrical appliances running when I'm no tin the house. We do, however eat lotso f easy stuff - cooked and thrown onto lettuce, avocado etc and it is a salad. Our current favourite is called bacon, eggs and chips salad. Boiled eggs, finely chopped bacon and thinly sliced potato (cooked in microwave). A bit of dressing and there you are...
(I cannot even bring myself to look at the apostrophe horrors!)
Wow M - so much on your plate and attempting to fit in a part time job? You have more energy than I do!
I am shuddering at the apostrophes.
Hadn't thought through the bit where the slow cooker is on all day. Not sure I could do that with our dodgy electricity supply.
I'd do a big bake up on a Sunday but I'm too lazy.
You are brave to take on a part-time job! My sister was complaining last night about all the homework her youngest has to complete. He, like J.T., has attention issues and would prefer to build forts with his crayons/pencils instead of using them for their intended purposes... so it truly is a chore to wade through endless worksheets at home.
Why did they manage some of the plurals correctly then screw up the last one? That bugs me almost as much as the apostrophe abuse.
We have a big freezer and I make up mega batches of soup / pasta sauce / curry / casseroles, etc. They're pretty easy to just defrost at the end of the day.
You then might just need to make a salad or buy some bread for the soup?
my girls just do prep and kindy, and I still run around in the morning like a headless chook, I go to work to relax....
One big key to the 'getting home and cooking straight away' saga is to make sure the meat has already been defrosted.
Any success with the killer dress?
I use the slow cooker in winter and prepare the night before so all I have to do is turn it on as I leave the house.
Having loads of pre-prepared stuff and left overs in the freezer is my saviour.
Menu planning works well, when I can be bothered to do it!
Blossom's homework book has me appalled at that apostrophe use!
Um...
I work full time and I am not sure that I have cracked the whole shopping/cooking thing.
I am trying to change my relationship with cooking so that I see it as relaxation rather than a chore. I will let you know if this works. I am not optimistic.
As an ex-print-rep, can I just say it's not the printer's fault ? It's hell trying to get end clients to sign off on copy, or copy alterations - they go 'yeah yeah yeah' .. unless, of course, it's printed with error, then they jump up and down.
And mag printing is the worst for it.
As for slow cookers - I have one, but only use it once or twice a winter ... to me everything tastes a bit 'samey'. Someone once suggested "brown" to me, and yes, I had to conclude .. everything did indeed taste a bit 'brown'.
Good luck - sounds like a hell of a schedule ! I too am not make to cope with such things AND cook and/or eat !
xx
Definitely a slow cooker, but I wouldn't touch meat in the morning either (or any time by choice). Get it all ready the night before - beef rendang in a slow cooker is the best meal on earth - even my vegetarian daughter wishes she could eat it!
And the grammar thing drives me mad, I am a teacher and I heard a colleague say "setting outs" today, my hair stood on end. The kids stand no chance!
Wow - a lot in this post!
I have to agree with H&B and say that things started to taste very "samey" when I used my slow cooker - BUT as Greenfumb attests to her Beef Rendang, I have to say the "samey" all changed when I started cooking Asian dishes in the slow cooker - Green Chicken curry, even Laksa!
And I hear you about the early starts. I have to leave the house by 7.50am and it is tough work. And then it all starts again after pick up. I said to my husband that my "second shift" starts in the afternoon just when my energy is flagging - and then the bloody homework. I just want to scream out about the homework. I don't think I did ANY until 6th class and somehow I survived. I am reading so many articles on the topic of homework - many of which do not advocate it at all for primary school children. The competitiveness of school these days is just doing my head in (goodness, that just made me sound very old!)
And I am also considering some form of return to work - but at the rate I am going I will still be considering it in November ;-)
forget the part time work - you have a full time job already !! le xoxo
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