Kelly Azuma

Yesterday I had “one of those days”. It all started out ok actually. I had a good day at home and got a few things sorted out. Then it came time to start making dinner and I had planned to make lasagne. I got a large pack of beef mince (1kg) last time and I had stuck it in the freezer at the time.

Well yesterday morning I asked Yasu to take the meat out of the freezer to defrost. When I started to get ready for making the lasagne, I looked everywhere to try and find where he had put the mince meat but I couldn’t find it. I was totally at a loss. So I called him at work to ask him and he told me “oh, I put it outside, on the bbq table”. What the?? Who puts it outside in the middle of winter? Not as if there is any sun around to defrost it. Anyways, so I go outside and there is the mince on the bbq table, ripped open in the middle by our neighbourhood cat – I’m supposing – with a big chunk out the middle and all the rest of it thoroughly rotten!

Boy was I so mad!! I said a few curses about him, I tell you. I was just so mad, because I had been looking forward to having lasagne you know? And then to find out that he had done that. Then he rings me back about 5 minutes later and asked me what I was going to cook, and I didn’t know, and when I said about the meat all he could say was “too bad”. Well after that comment I felt like slamming him, I really did!! That made me madder, that comment.

So anyways, before I discovered that I had made a cheesecake for dessert, thankfully I discovered the meat after, because I probably wouldn’t have made it otherwise.

So I dug around in the freezer and found some more beef mince but only a .5kg size one, so I thought, well I’m gonna make lasagne, at least I will have lasagne, there might not be enough for him, but that’s “too bad”.

Anyways so I made a nice lasagne and there was enough for him and me, so all turned out well, but sometimes I just have to say, where was his brain?? I don’t know where he got that stupid idea from.

So here are a couple of photo’s I took :)

Rare Lemon cheesecake with whipped cream piped around the edge,
and grated chocolate for decoration

Yesterday morning I woke up with a sore throat and I thought it would go away but it hasn’t. :( I have been medicating myself with a homeopathy remedy that Yasu and I always use (first stage illness), lots of water, and some citrus ginger nodo-ame. I’m slowly getting over it. However, I’m writing this at 4am, because Yasu somehow woke me up again at 3am, I think it might have been his coughing, and I couldn’t get back to sleep.

So here I am on the net killing time, basically.

I got made an offer to go into business from an ex-teacher of mine today. At first I thought it was a good investment, but after a little looking into it, discovered it was basically like a pyramid selling scheme, although they keep saying it isn’t. It’s a one-time set up fee, and then you sell the package to someone else for $1500, and keep $1000 for yourself. Every subsequent time you sell, the amount is doubled, until they say, you earn a 6 figure income within 12 months. The item you are selling is a legitimate item, a kind of law of attraction based program with cd’s and dvd’s and a journal. However, after thinking about it and finding out more, I don’t think it’s right that someone should have to pay $1500 or more for this information, and I certainly wouldn’t feel right taking someone’s money for it! I also can’t believe my ex-teacher would do that. It just seems so wrong and like blatantly ripping off people who can’t afford it in the first place. The people who buy these kind of things are usually at the end of the road, up to their eyeballs in debt and looking for a way to change their life. Things are hardly going to change if they are forking out over a thousand dollars and getting themselves further into debt.

Maybe I’ll never be rich with this thinking, but I couldn’t live with myself doing that kind of work, and certainly the money would not be worth the guilt I would feel. So, I’ve turned down the offer and I feel a wave of relief wash over me with that decision, so I know it was the right one.

Apart from that I made lasagne for dinner last night. It was the first time I’ve ever made it, and it turned out brilliant! Yasu loved it so much he had seconds, wanted thirds but didn’t have it because he’s worried about his weight. He’s got it in his lunch box for today though so he has a reason to have it again. :) I was really pleased with the way it turned out and the bechamel sauce (although very naughty) on top was to die for!