Domestic goddess

This picture was me, yesterday, as I re-discovered the joys of ironing. Well, not joys exactly, but I used a steam iron for the first time and was totally amazed at how it made my ironing so much easier and quicker! I had a pile of stuff waiting to be done but had been putting it off, however since I just found the instructions for my iron which can be used either as normal one or a steam one, and had acquired a big bottle of distilled water (so's not to fur up the iron with scale as I live in a hard water area), I decided to try and figure out how to use it on the steam setting. The iron glided across the clothes effortlessly, and I was actually sad when I had finished. I think I may have missed my true vocation as a 1950's housewife. In fact the picture here does look a bit like me, as I do wear an apron when I am doing cooking and stuff, much to the amusement of some of my friends who have seen it. I'm sure it will be coming out again on Sunday as Russ is coming down for a job interview and has requested a "mixed dead animal pie from Momma Hannah's menu", so rabbit and game pie it is! I've been doing a lot more cooking lately in an attempt to eat healthier, am trying to empty the freezer but my efforts are being thwarted by Sainsburys who have got Ben and Jerry's ice cream reduced at the moment. So I've stocked up on the Cherry Garcia frozen yoghurt as a compromise as it tastes much the same (in fact nicer, as not as creamy) as the full fat version but is much less fattening. It also took all my willpower to walk past the shower gel aisle as the one I use is on buy one, get one free offer at the moment, and you know me, always one for a bargain. But since I have a whole unopened one already, I managed to resist but I suspect I will be sneaking back there next week to get a couple so that I can save £1.97 which is how much one usually costs.

Had a fairly usual week at work, but it's gone fairly quickly which was nice, and am looking forward to the weekend again. Last weekend I had a friend down and we went to London for the day on Saturday - it was great fun and we did the touristy thing and visited the Tower which I really enjoyed! I especially liked seeing the crown jewels, or "House of Bling" as it was described by one of the Yeoman Warders who were giving random tours to people, although we didn't stick around on one for very long as there were far too many Americans. I made a bit of a faux pas in one of the exhibition bits though, commenting that an interactive feature was "a bit gay", only to turn around and see a completely stereotypical gay male couple who were also studying it in detail - I think they found it funny though as they did smile and laugh, despite me being mortified. Note to self that I really must try and stop using that expression, even though I did pick it up from a gay friend in the first place... We then stayed around in London as we both wanted to see the musical Wicked, and managed to get overpriced tickets from some tout in Leicester Square - however it was still cheaper than what we would have paid on lastminute for the only seats they had available (best ones), so mustn't grumble. The show was excellent and well worth seeing, if you like that sort of thing.

I am still addicted to playing online scrabble, I have a few games on the go at the moment but am still not very good. There seem to be lots of people who are taking it very seriously, and so when they start bringing out obscure long words, I know it is time to start using one of the online word generators which I know is cheating, but it's all about placement and tactics to try and work out which words to put where. Well, if you can't beat them, join them, but I don't do this when playing with friends as I feel guilty!

Anyway, going to go and continue some of the current games now, more from the blog later (am aware have been rubbish at keeping it updated but don't want to write anything unless I have something to say... not that that has stopped me so far)...