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GIRL INTERRUPTED
Dec. 17th, 2020 09:17 amI was on a little streak there, then I missed Tuesday and Wednesday. With good reason, firstly on Tuesday I finally dragged out all my Christmas stuff and put up my tree and lights, and before I knew it it was 1am and I needed to get my corpse to bed as I had an early start.
Wednesday was also a lovely reason to have missed blogging, I'd organised the first face-to-face work catch up we've had since we went into iso in mid March, and it was so great to be with my team again! We held it at one of my team member's homes, she made a gorgeous grazing board and fruit punch, one of the other gals did a coffee run and brought everyone coffee/hot chocolate, and the third made an incredible chocolate raspberry cake. My god, this cake. It's an adaptation of this recipe, using raspberry jam instead of marmalade, and tossing in a few fresh raspberries. I cannot recommend it enough, especially with some freshly whipped cream, my lorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd!
On Monday I have to have an inspection of my property by the rental company which is such a pain in the arse because now I have to tidy up and do things like try to chuck out the ninety billion boxes that are accumulated on the back porch from all my online shopping, and de-cobweb the front porch. This normally means I will upset the spiders who own said webs and then I won't sleep for days wondering if they'll be back for revenge.
My nice thing today is a TV series that I have literally watched and re-watched compulsively all year, Escape to the Chateau. I goddamn love this show, I will recommend it to anyone who will stay still long enough to hear me out, and I successfully hooked another victim this week - this friend has now binge watched five seasons in about 5 days and is ready to die for the stars of the show, as am I. In brief, a quirky couple from the UK (Angel and Dick) buy a run down chateau in France in order to renovate it for their home and a future wedding venue business, and shenanigans ensue. They have two adorable kids, and speak very little French, and there is a LOT of work to do on the property. It hits all my feels, it's got home renovations and adorable children, delicious cooking and couples who are driving each other around the bend in the most loving and supportive way possible. 10/10!
Wednesday was also a lovely reason to have missed blogging, I'd organised the first face-to-face work catch up we've had since we went into iso in mid March, and it was so great to be with my team again! We held it at one of my team member's homes, she made a gorgeous grazing board and fruit punch, one of the other gals did a coffee run and brought everyone coffee/hot chocolate, and the third made an incredible chocolate raspberry cake. My god, this cake. It's an adaptation of this recipe, using raspberry jam instead of marmalade, and tossing in a few fresh raspberries. I cannot recommend it enough, especially with some freshly whipped cream, my lorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd!
On Monday I have to have an inspection of my property by the rental company which is such a pain in the arse because now I have to tidy up and do things like try to chuck out the ninety billion boxes that are accumulated on the back porch from all my online shopping, and de-cobweb the front porch. This normally means I will upset the spiders who own said webs and then I won't sleep for days wondering if they'll be back for revenge.
My nice thing today is a TV series that I have literally watched and re-watched compulsively all year, Escape to the Chateau. I goddamn love this show, I will recommend it to anyone who will stay still long enough to hear me out, and I successfully hooked another victim this week - this friend has now binge watched five seasons in about 5 days and is ready to die for the stars of the show, as am I. In brief, a quirky couple from the UK (Angel and Dick) buy a run down chateau in France in order to renovate it for their home and a future wedding venue business, and shenanigans ensue. They have two adorable kids, and speak very little French, and there is a LOT of work to do on the property. It hits all my feels, it's got home renovations and adorable children, delicious cooking and couples who are driving each other around the bend in the most loving and supportive way possible. 10/10!
