Monday? Seriously?

It's weird being in work when no one else is. *looks nervously over shoulder* The library's closed to readers for the next 2 days, so I'm here to attempt to not leave a pile of mysteries behind me when I leave on Friday.

I leave on Friday. *tries to breathe* Which would be awesome if it wasn't so terrifying.

The weekend was given over to Real Life (shockingly), so huge apologies to everyone to whom I owe fic, comments and emails. Hopefully I'll get them done today.

Part of that Real Life stuff was planning a holiday in January. The summer here has been...well...what summer? And the lack of sunshine has been horrendous for me. So we're chasing the sun south, probably either to the Canary Islands or Cape Verde. Does anyone have any other recommendations within a 6 hour flight of the UK? Or know of a nice, quiet hotel in the Canaries? All suggestions gratefully received.

Speaking of travel, I have train tickets to Cardiff! Next Saturday, crystalshard and I are heading over to see miss_zedem! Woo hoo! I seriously can't wait, even though I'm going to have to take a purse big enough to carry the gazillion tickets I had to buy to save myself money. Instead of an Oxford-Cardiff return, I have a return from Oxford to Didcot, then singles from Didcot to Swindon, Swindon to Cardiff, Cardiff to Swindon and Swindon to Didcot. Yes, thank you First Great Western. And when you print the tickets, they all come with two ticket-sized receipts. And the return will be in two parts anyway. So I make that *counts on fingers* 16 tickets altogether. Train Tickets: you're doing it wrong.

Otherwise, we had a nice dinner out with my parents-in-law and I got a lovely top from them for my birthday - it's all lacy and pretty. Oh, and I've fallen in complete lust with the Acer Aspire One, but am going to wait til January to buy it, when hopefully the 1GB version will have come down in price. Still, with the other half's new laptop arriving this week, I'm experiencing serious laptop envy.

Hope everyone's weekend was nice! How's your Monday?

Comfort Food

I had a really bad case of the munchies, and just made myself the recipe below. It's probably completely inauthentic, but it's yummy and it's fat free, so I adore it. Apologies for the rough and ready instructions, but it's what I think of as an 'As You Like It' recipe, where I slightly change the quantities each time, depending on what I've got to hand and how I'm feeling.

( Prawn Creole, Slimming World-style )

Serve with rice or just eat on its own. If we have rice, we generally pour the remaining marinade on that before topping it with the prawns and sauce. If I could, I'd eat the sauce on practically everything in the house, including the roast lamb we're having later on. Nom.

Damn I need a food icon...