Karen's Journey

Well another fairy quiet day today - small sleep in before heading to town and checking out the homeshow. Was able to say "no" to a lot of the pressure of having in-home demos of products! *phew* We did enter a couple of competitions though - $5000 linen from linen cupboard (drawn tomorrow) and $2000 wine cellar which Steph really wants to win. Oh we also entered one for a $5000 room makeover so we would do the bathroom if we won that or would we do the kitchen??? LOL We did get some great info on heat pumps which we are looking at putting in the house at some stage in the next 12/18mths all going well. Also got some info on the security systems which we are investigating as well...

Decided to have lunch out today since we don't do that very often with just the two of us.... so headed back to Petone and thought we would go to "The Screaming Turtle" as I have been there a couple of times with the "gals" and its been great. So after raving about it to Steph, we went there and must say I was throughly disappointed as was Steph and neither of us will be rushing back there again in a hurry! My meal came out pretty quickly (and luke warm) and I had finished mine and it was another 10 mins or so before Steph's came out! I complained and they offered us free drinks but as we had already had ours I asked for our money back instead and all they would give us was $5. So yes not a great experience but I guess thats what happens when management changes.

Home for a quiet afternoon, made a batch of Raspberry muffins... was going to make a banana loaf as well for Steph but we didn't have enough flour so that will have to wait for a few days until I get to the supermarket again. Lovely dinner of crumber schnitzel with mashed spuds, pumpkin, peas and cauliflower :)

Might head off and have a bubble bath shortly all going well - going to be a wet and wild night here weatherwise so definitely the sort of night to curl up in bed with a book :)

Hope you all have a great week.