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silverai***Posted about 4-5 hours after actually typing it. Only just got home! Then off to bed quicksmart, not much time to get some sleep before the alarm goes off in the morning.
Currently sitting in the alleyway down the side of Victoria Hall in Fremantle with a bunch of other band members (Rush Hour Big Band). We're scheduled to play for some sort of council Xmas dinner thingy. It's a private gig that the band has been especially booked for. Kind of cool! Most of us have $3 Red Dot Christmassy ties on, to jazz up our usual black shirts, black pants outfit.
I discovered a simple recipe that I'm hankering to try out, if I can just get the time to make it and a group of people to eat the end product at the same time. It's just three ingredients: coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and vanilla essence. Then you bake them. Sounds good! They're called coconut drops - there appears to be all sorts of complicated recipes out there, but I like this simple one. I wanna add chopped up glace cherries too, I think it will be delish - mmmm.
Tonight is the first night of Six Big Things in five nights. First, this gig, meaning a late night on a work night. Then tomorrow after work I wanna make trifle, then I got work's Xmas dinner, then I got a housewarming/Xmas party to go to. Sunday day is fairly free, unless I end up going shopping, cos I do kinda need clothes that fit and stuff. Sunday night, the brass band I'm in is playing at the Kalamunda Xmas Carols. Monday after work I have the Xmas wind-up for a group I'm part of, and Tuesday is the Xmas wind-up for the brass band. So that's all the big things! Then next night I just have my regular dinner meet-up with some friends, but no rehearsal for the big band. Thursday night I finally get to go home and have dinner and snuggles with Zig again.
My family usually always has our Xmas gathering on Boxing Day lunch. It works really well for us, just all bring food for lunch, and then relax and graze right through dinner time until late. Unfortunately, this annual plan won't work this year. One of my brothers has started work out Kalgoorlie, and he works two weeks on, one week off. The timing is really terrible, he flies out on the 23rd, and doesn't get back until after New Year's. So in order to have a gathering with everyone there, we've had to shift it up to Saturday night 19th. It's not ideal, as I won't get there until 3pm or so, and the parents have to leave about 7pm cos they have the Sunday markets next day really early. But it works, and having all the family there is important. Luckily, Zig's family is fine - it's always Xmas Eve dinner, and it still is this year. The only complication there is that I'm working on Xmas eve, and have no idea yet if the boss will ok the shop closing earlier that day. I've petitioned him, and presented several reasons. Now I just have to wait wait wait for a decision to be made. Until then, I can't create any Christmas Opening Hours signs. I usually like to get them done about this time.
I decorated the shop with last year's tinsel (4 metres) and a roll of green curling ribbon that cost me $2.50 for 80 metres. I only used about 40 metres, and sent the rest up to Osborne Park for that shop. It looks really effective! I'm planning on using curling ribbon the decorate the house next year for the annual Halloween party (Masquerade theme planned). I reckon it will look fantastic, and it will be a good trial run for wedding decoration plans using curling ribbon.
Currently sitting in the alleyway down the side of Victoria Hall in Fremantle with a bunch of other band members (Rush Hour Big Band). We're scheduled to play for some sort of council Xmas dinner thingy. It's a private gig that the band has been especially booked for. Kind of cool! Most of us have $3 Red Dot Christmassy ties on, to jazz up our usual black shirts, black pants outfit.
I discovered a simple recipe that I'm hankering to try out, if I can just get the time to make it and a group of people to eat the end product at the same time. It's just three ingredients: coconut, sweetened condensed milk, and vanilla essence. Then you bake them. Sounds good! They're called coconut drops - there appears to be all sorts of complicated recipes out there, but I like this simple one. I wanna add chopped up glace cherries too, I think it will be delish - mmmm.
Tonight is the first night of Six Big Things in five nights. First, this gig, meaning a late night on a work night. Then tomorrow after work I wanna make trifle, then I got work's Xmas dinner, then I got a housewarming/Xmas party to go to. Sunday day is fairly free, unless I end up going shopping, cos I do kinda need clothes that fit and stuff. Sunday night, the brass band I'm in is playing at the Kalamunda Xmas Carols. Monday after work I have the Xmas wind-up for a group I'm part of, and Tuesday is the Xmas wind-up for the brass band. So that's all the big things! Then next night I just have my regular dinner meet-up with some friends, but no rehearsal for the big band. Thursday night I finally get to go home and have dinner and snuggles with Zig again.
My family usually always has our Xmas gathering on Boxing Day lunch. It works really well for us, just all bring food for lunch, and then relax and graze right through dinner time until late. Unfortunately, this annual plan won't work this year. One of my brothers has started work out Kalgoorlie, and he works two weeks on, one week off. The timing is really terrible, he flies out on the 23rd, and doesn't get back until after New Year's. So in order to have a gathering with everyone there, we've had to shift it up to Saturday night 19th. It's not ideal, as I won't get there until 3pm or so, and the parents have to leave about 7pm cos they have the Sunday markets next day really early. But it works, and having all the family there is important. Luckily, Zig's family is fine - it's always Xmas Eve dinner, and it still is this year. The only complication there is that I'm working on Xmas eve, and have no idea yet if the boss will ok the shop closing earlier that day. I've petitioned him, and presented several reasons. Now I just have to wait wait wait for a decision to be made. Until then, I can't create any Christmas Opening Hours signs. I usually like to get them done about this time.
I decorated the shop with last year's tinsel (4 metres) and a roll of green curling ribbon that cost me $2.50 for 80 metres. I only used about 40 metres, and sent the rest up to Osborne Park for that shop. It looks really effective! I'm planning on using curling ribbon the decorate the house next year for the annual Halloween party (Masquerade theme planned). I reckon it will look fantastic, and it will be a good trial run for wedding decoration plans using curling ribbon.
