Three Degrees of Separation

It's Friday, and it's taken me until today to feel remotely normal.  Think it was just a busy weekend, hormones, and I haven't slept great since I got home, despite being tired every night.

Work wasn't terrible, I intended to finish early on Thursday, but then got conned into attending a meeting in place of an absent manager.  It wasn't too late a finish though.

Did I tell you that something weird happened to my body with regard to bell peppers?  I've always been able to eat most things ... except peppers, they just never agreed with me.  After my last visit to Wagamama's, it dawned on me that the tiny amount of peppers in my favourite Yaki Soba dish, did not in fact... persecute me, as I should have expected them to.

And so, I decided to buy a few bell peppers, red, green and yellow, and I gave my own stir fry a whirl to see if I was okay after eating.  Lo and behold, I was absolutely fine.  Can you imagine how excited I was?  Peppers are just so good for you, I couldn't believe that I could eat them without repercussion.  Needless to say, since I did my test run, I've had stir fry most nights and I feel oh so virtuous and healthy, even after a huge plate full.  I've been having; fresh ginger, (lots of it... love it,) onion, red, green, yellow peppers, spring onion, beansprouts, straight to wok noodles, an egg, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce... just delicious.  I'm getting really good at it, I've discovered the trick is to throw the ginger and onion in first, after a minute pretty much throw everything else in together, but make sure the noodles are hot before you add the egg, then you're golden, otherwise, you're slightly gooey.

I did sleep okay last night, think I'm slowly getting back to normal.  I'm going to have lunch with Sheila today.  I can't wait, I'm ashamed to say that I haven't seen her since December, we only live 10 minutes apart, hence the shame.  This year has just flown by.

The weather continues to be terrible, the rain is torrential.  B was going to help me with the garden tomorrow but looks like we'll be rained off.  J & G have arrived home from two weeks in a cottage in Cornwall, had a lovely time but again, weather not good.

Did I tell you that I sent in a response to an article in Grazia magazine regarding "Miss Good Enough?"  I got letter of the week again, I was incensed by the article, I can't tell you how mad I was.  Anyway, it got me a prize worth more than £150.00, when I read the details of the prize I'd won, I'd actually never heard of the brand but when I clicked on the "testimonial" button on the website, names like "Bette Midler, Rachel McAdams, Jake Gyllenhaal..."  popped up.  You know, in the six degrees of separation game, I reckon I'm now only three degrees from the delectable Ryan Gosling!  Could I really ask for any more?  Two out of three letters I've submitted have won "letter of the week." This could become a bit of a game for me ;)

http://www.johnmasters.co.uk/testimonials.html