Friday!

Hello!

I have a little bit of lunchtime left after the gym so I'm blogging now.

Fridays are always quiet here at work, just me and Chris at our set of desks. And no chocolate today either (we get a lot of chocolate at work here, people hand it out for any occasion at all, possibly because there is a Cadbury Factory outlet across the road). Had a great session at the gym today - we were doing sparring with boxing gloves, so fun! I've never done anything like that before I'm going to see if Darren will have a go with me in the weekend too now.

It has suddenly got very cold here. The temperature isn't too bad, just 2 degrees but it's the wind chill that gets you. It really feels a lot colder than Christchurch. I'm loving the big winter jacket I bought in Melbourne, I don't leave the house without it now.

So cake day tomorrow. I found a mistake in the recipe, the instructions called for the butter and sugar to be creamed, but there was no mention of butter in the ingredients list. Luckily I used my noggin and found the exact same recipe on the internet (who would have though the recipe that my Mum made in 1985 and kindly typed up for me a couple of weeks ago is sitting there on the internet) so now I know how much butter to use. 8oz if you're interested. Or 226g. I am going to need to go buy butter, though I forgot to get a lemon too so I need to go out anyway. A trip to the market tomorrow might be on the cards!

I love the market here. The food section is great! Really good interesting stuff, amazing cheeses and sausages etc. And then the non-food section, just stalls and stalls of crap. I love it! You can buy anything, and cheap! Actually all I've bought so far from the market is my little pepper plant I got last weekend with Lara, but I might buy something tomorrow, if I find things for Christmas presents.

Well I'm in a talkative mood and could probably think of more things to say and bore you with but I really should get back to work now.

Love to all,
Mindy