Weekend review
Given that Thursday evening was our company Christmas party, Friday wasn't very productive at all. After greasy toasted sandwiches and cheese croissants in the morning, and a brisk lunch of pizza and sangria out on the balcony of Sun Coast Casino's Mimmo's, the office ended up closing an hour early. Incredibly tired by now, I headed home to sleep for a while. So much for the plan of seeing the early evening screening of James Bond.
Once I'd surfaced and showered I felt considerably better - enough in fact to thrash my sister, her boyfriend and my parents at an after-dinner game of Cranium. Ah, there really is nothing more hilarious than watching your 50-something mother simulating break dancing on the floor, and a room full of people attempting to talk like Yoda. Backwards talking I am...
On Saturday morning I was doing my bit for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in South Africa, score keeping at our club's annual no-gi Submission Wrestling tournament. Not that I was at all prepared to take part in the competition (due largely to recent limited time on the mat, and so much unhealthy eating and drinking over the past few days), but as usual there were no women participants.
After working on my tan in the afternoon, I was in an experimental culinary mood - making some so-so chocolate brownies first, and then a much more successful Seafood Marinara dish for dinner.
On Sunday, I finally got in some decent World of WarCraft time, reputation building with the Shattered Sun Offensive and Sky Guard (I will have my flying nether ray epic mount!), and continuing to quest on the new continent of Northrend. I hate killing insect type creatures - which seem to dominate the Borean Tundra starting region - so I've been slaughtering viking giants in the Howling Fjord region instead.
The only other events of significance on Sunday were a family lunch at Oscars, missing James Bond yet again, and watching Knocked Up for the first time. At 133 minutes for a comedy, I did find the film overlong. Nonetheless, it was very enjoyable, featured a fantastic supporting cast and stayed refreshingly grounded in reality. Although it did resort to audience-friendly cliches a few times - Alison (Katherine Heigl) keeping the baby, and Ben (Seth Rogen) growing all responsible-like - it was a pleasant change for once to see a female character who wasn't out to change her partner, hen-pecking him into a shape she prefers at the expense of his wants and very personality.
I didn't end Sunday in the best mood however. For one thing, I was still struggling to get a nasty whiteboard marker stain off my favourite, very expensive pair of shorts (and I always struggle to find flattering shorts, baggies and trousers). For another.... [blah, blah, blah, forced to remove this portion of the blog entry].
Once I'd surfaced and showered I felt considerably better - enough in fact to thrash my sister, her boyfriend and my parents at an after-dinner game of Cranium. Ah, there really is nothing more hilarious than watching your 50-something mother simulating break dancing on the floor, and a room full of people attempting to talk like Yoda. Backwards talking I am...
On Saturday morning I was doing my bit for Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu in South Africa, score keeping at our club's annual no-gi Submission Wrestling tournament. Not that I was at all prepared to take part in the competition (due largely to recent limited time on the mat, and so much unhealthy eating and drinking over the past few days), but as usual there were no women participants.
After working on my tan in the afternoon, I was in an experimental culinary mood - making some so-so chocolate brownies first, and then a much more successful Seafood Marinara dish for dinner.
On Sunday, I finally got in some decent World of WarCraft time, reputation building with the Shattered Sun Offensive and Sky Guard (I will have my flying nether ray epic mount!), and continuing to quest on the new continent of Northrend. I hate killing insect type creatures - which seem to dominate the Borean Tundra starting region - so I've been slaughtering viking giants in the Howling Fjord region instead.
The only other events of significance on Sunday were a family lunch at Oscars, missing James Bond yet again, and watching Knocked Up for the first time. At 133 minutes for a comedy, I did find the film overlong. Nonetheless, it was very enjoyable, featured a fantastic supporting cast and stayed refreshingly grounded in reality. Although it did resort to audience-friendly cliches a few times - Alison (Katherine Heigl) keeping the baby, and Ben (Seth Rogen) growing all responsible-like - it was a pleasant change for once to see a female character who wasn't out to change her partner, hen-pecking him into a shape she prefers at the expense of his wants and very personality.
I didn't end Sunday in the best mood however. For one thing, I was still struggling to get a nasty whiteboard marker stain off my favourite, very expensive pair of shorts (and I always struggle to find flattering shorts, baggies and trousers). For another.... [blah, blah, blah, forced to remove this portion of the blog entry].
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