The Imitation Game

We went to see this movie tonight, had to go at 6pm as it was the only time that it was showing. Warren took an age to get the tickets, we were going to book on line and then use the "jump the queue"line until we found that the tickets are dearer, there is a booking fee and we couldn't pick the seats that we wanted. Three strikes and definitely out!

We got there a little early but figured at it wouldn't be very busy which it wasn't but it took a while to get the tickets, apparently each person has to have the Cinebuzz tickets to get them cheaper and the girl found my details on the computer so she did a new one for me and then warren's was unreadable, result of him having his keys in his pocket most of the time.

Finally we got to our seats, we lie the ones that are actually for carers of people with wheelchairs, we have always said that we would move if they were needed but the row that they are in suits us for seeing the movies and there is extra leg room, win win situation.

The movie was good a drama which is unusual for us but was to do with decoding war messages. Hard to believe how women were treated (little schooling, unable to work in maths etc)the main character was played by the guy who has also played Sherlock Holmes and I'm afraid I always think of him as Sherlock. The movie was definitely thought provoking.

Going for a scan

I uttered these words to my husband yesterday and he asked "What on and when?" Nice to know that he was concerned and also that after all these years I can still surprise him at times. I laughed and said "A SCAN which stands for Senior Citizens Afternoon Nap."

I toddled off for my scan and ended up sleeping for about an hour. I must have needed it even though I hadn't done much, three loads of washing and a months worth of shopping and then of course there was the breaking down of everything to put it into meal or snack packs.

I didn't buy much meat thank goodness as the freezer was already pretty full of meat but we needed bacon and sauces.

New furniture

We have lived in this house for twelve years, although we have spent some time living and working away so it hasn't been a continuous time of living here. The problem is/has been the furniture that we came with doesn't really fit the size of the rooms even though this house is bigger or more rooms, the actual rooms are smaller or configured different.

We exchanged our table and chairs a few weeks ago as it just wasn't big enough when we have family over, now we have a table that we can easily fit six and even eight round, rather than four.

We had plans to move our lounge room around to utilize the A/C better and long term plan to replace the lounge suite in about eighteen months time. Warren was looking on Gumtree and asked, is this something that you have in mind for the lounge and showed me a picture.

Something similar yes, although I had thought in black to match our coffee table. He then showed me another picture of a setting that we had both liked. (Aussie open on TV, young Chinese player playing Lleyton Hewitt atm)(and cat needs a new battery,I see)

We did want a four seater to go across the room. Upshot is we bought both pieces and quickly moved the room around. Problem is, the rooms are even more crowded but we have listed our old chairs and lounge suite plus the massive coffee table. hopefully they will be gone soon. The chairs have coffee/drink holders!

Now we need new curtins but cant decide what colour, chairs are a similar colour to the carpet, currently dark green but want a change, hum chocolate brown, blue, maroon????

Chicken Snizichel

I don't even know how to spell it but I was over them. The last time i went shopping at Meat City, I bought lots of these and found when packing them for the freezer that I didn't have enough containers for single serves so I did a few in one larger container.

I put freezer paper between them so i could just get enough out for one meal, pretty smart hey? Except that last week, I pulled out the Whole container and didn't realize really what i had done until they were thawed. Result was three meals and one lunch the meat being chicken. I mixed it up and had salad one night, mashed potato and hot vegetables the next night, followed by chicken (again) and my version of fried rice, then the last for lunch today with salad. Finally we can eat something different! I selected some mince from the freezer this morning for the evening meal, so far so good.

Tidying one of the "hot spots" this afternoon (a buzz word which means an area that always seems to be messy)I discovered a voucher that I had been sent from the local club that we belong to, it was a free meal for one purchased, yep, we'll do that. Then i read the fine print, it was only available on Monday and Tuesdays until the end of the month.

I asked Warren if he was cooking tonight, he said "Okay where do you want t eat?" then i told him about the voucher. Off we went for an early dinner and on the menu for specials was Chicken Schnitzel! done in different ways, I choose the one with garlic prawns and Warren had Hawaiian. With the voucher, the meals cost us $12 and we did have a drink which was a few more dollars but no prep and no dishes, yay!

Taggies

Knitting sewing and crafting for charity, this was the title of a thread that I read on a forum. They were looking for places to donate to charity, several suggestions came and one that interested me was called something like Angels of the forgotten. It is a group who looks after mainly women and kids who through abuse or whatever have left their homes for a safe place. Often these people leave with nothing so the group try to give them basics hence the charity.

One of my things for 2015 (dont really want to call it a resolution as I know what has happened to those in the past!)is to do more for charity and as this place is close to where we used to live, I have decided to get a box of goodies together to send.Mostly it will be things that I have knitted sewn or crafted.

On their website there is a list with pictures of things that they require and one is "taggies" for want of a better name. They put these on bags that they give out to kids to keep their own things in. I already had a heap of squares that I had cut to match a set of matching squares as a soft toy for kids, the cutting out was fine but the there was lots of sewing and I did make two sets of twenty four before I gave it away to make something easier and quicker. That meant that I still had a pile of these squares. Put two together with a loop of ribbon and sew a fancy button on and its almost done. This morning I got out my hot glue gun and dotted glue on the ribbons and the insides of material to hold together and then there are taggies! Very simple and a pile off my sewing table.

Some of the ribbon used were some hanger straps that I have cut off tops that shops use to hang clothes on hangers, can usually get two loops from one shoulder strap, waste not want not! Glad that I found a use for them

I knew that I had a few beanies from my winter knitting so started the box with those OMG there were thirty Beanies! add a few pairs of pants that I had made which some how missed being delivered to the salvos and the box is already half full.

The last week or so i have been knitting small teddies, less weight and heat to knit while watching tennis, should have a dozen or so of those by the end of the month. The plan is to sent the box at the end of the month. This town/small city does get cold so beanies and scarves will be needed.

Karma

I'm not too sure that I know or understand karma but tonight we were taken out for dinner, picked up driven there and had dinner and drinks paid for all because we gave friends tickets that we received as part of our volunteer work at the tennis.

We couldnt use them as we were working and it made sense to us to give them to someone who could use them with no thought of a "pay back" as it were, is that karma? I don't know.

Dinner was very nice, we went to a different place that neither couple had been too before and we decided between ourselves that we would all have a different meal off the menu and compare, at one stage it looked like we were all going to have a seafood basket.

I opted for warm Thai beef salad, my goodness what a meal that was, massive, I was still eating way after everyone else was finished, i did not have dessert. One seafood basket was ordered another big meal, tempura prawns and fettuccine and mushroom cabonara, the last two also had dessert, cheese cake and chocolate cake with cream and dessert were large as well. We had all ordered off the "light meals" thank goodness, varied in price from $14 to $16.50 with dessert being $6 no matter what was ordered.

Penguins

Last night we went to see this kids movie. We had been introduced to the four penguins in the Madagascar movies a few years ago and this was just about the penguins.

Of course there were many families with kids and then there was us, two sixty plus old farts asking for tickets to the Penguins.

Warren had bought a movie ticket for $50 to give to some-one for Christmas but on discussion we decided that they probably wouldn't use it and so gifted then some wine instead. I figured they could regift it if it wasn't to their liking. We used the movie gift card last night even buying and ice cream (dessert) and a drink to share and we still have money left.

The young guy at the counter asked us (as he put some seniors cards through the machine) why Penguins? we both replied because they're funny!

It was a good laugh, completely unrealistic (I hope) but just so funny and fast moving, the music score was good as well and there were small clips back to other movies or references which kids wouldnt know but we did.

Warren was chatting to people at tennis today who had been but had taken their grandkids, that was their excuse.

If you want a good laugh go see it, def worth it.