NST October 2023 A New Start

f0xh0les

apple_muncher said:

Oooh, f0xh0les has a double scaffold date🤣🤣🤣

To be fair, I am a double scaffold type of girl. 🗼

grandmanerd

Thursday 5th October 2023

Thankful Thursday
let's be thankful for
Help and kindness you receive
Friends and family that support you
Time you have to make it happen
Life lessons that make you wiser
(OurMindfulLife,com)

Some people feel the rain, Others just get wet (Bob Marley)

We are all  a little broken but the last time I checked, broken crayons still colour the same

Failure is just success in progress (Albert Einstein)

Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it (George Bernard Shaw)

abundant1972

Morning all ⛅

Exciting news re the scaffolding f0xh0les. What will you be using your new space for when it's all done (apologies if I missed this). Maybe you'll get some hot tradies in to secretly eyeball 👀 when no one is looking haha.

Liking the crayon and rain quotes grandmanerd. I love feeling the rain when it is lightly drizzling. Perhaps less so when it's horizontal sheet rain haha. I will definitely try and focus on gratitude for thankful Thursday.

Cold gone but throat feels like it's done 10 rounds with a sandblaster. Took some honey... any other good old cures out there? Salt water gargle? Am making sure I am getting in my Vitamin C too. Today's plan of action is a haircut (budgeted for) and some exercise of some description. I am going to do some meal prep and freeze up 6 or so meals. I need some Tahini to make hummus but not urgent so will wait until my next big grocery shop.

How long will cooked chicken keep in the fridge in a sealed tub? Can I do anything to stop it drying out? Any tips on reheating or better to eat cold?

Today I am grateful for:

1) That first coffee of the day
2) A new book to read
3) My lovely snuggly throw

Is it a spend day if i have a haircut budgeted for? If so I may just get my Tahini after all haha. 

Catch you all later folks x

f0xh0les

Chloraseptic throat spray @abundant1972  - anaesthetic throat spray - magic! and lots of massage of your throat-ticles.   Absolutely no point suffering.

laura_lau

abundant1972 said:

Morning all ⛅
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How long will cooked chicken keep in the fridge in a sealed tub? Can I do anything to stop it drying out? Any tips on reheating or better to eat cold?

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it depends which chicken it is: is grilled or roasted without any sauces? If that's the case, it would dry out fairly quickly, I would say 1 day in the fridge max. If it's a type of chicken that has some other sauces (tomato, cream, curry, etc) then I keep it in the fridge up to 3 days. 

My favourite way to use leftover roast or grilled chicken is to make a chicken salad, which keep very well in the fridge for at least 2 days, up to three. I shred the cooked chicken to small stripes, then the day after I add gherkins cut small, black pitted olives (you don't need many) some hard cheese cut in cubes (great with aged cheddar, but anything you have in the fridge really), if you have some ham in the fridge even better. Then I make a little sauce, which sounds weird but it's just great, bear with me: chop one shallot super small, and fry it very gently in a small pan, you don't want it to brown. Once it's fried, keep it on the fire but put it lower, and put one table spoon of balsamic vinegar, give it one stir and then switch it off. Let it cool for a few minutes. Then you take a few spoonfuls of mayo, and you dip the vinegar sauce into the mayo and stir for a minute or two. It will become a slightly darker yellow, and will become very silky. Then you add the sauce to your other ingredients and mix it well. It tastes even better if you let it rest in the fridge for a couple of hours, or overnight. This is great to bring to work too, and it's always very successful with people of all ages. Let me know if you try it!

Toni'sfriend

Abundant - You could always freeze it and make chicken noodle or chicken and rice soup at a later date.

Not a NSD. Bought a cheap overnight bag in case it's needed tomorrow. Hopefully not!

Met Himself's friend for a couple of hours. Haven't seen him in years literally. Must do it more often.

Feeling very apprehensive today. xx

apple_muncher

Hugs, Toni'sfriend, lots of hugs x

Today I am grateful for a successful inquiry into a local indoor market, for seeing some gym chums whilst there, for mowing the lawn only taking 20 mins (and several week of prevarication...!), for starting to plot and plan our trip to Oz next summer, for 85% chocolate.

laura_lau

@Toni'sfriend I'm sorry you are feeling apprehensive today. Hope tomorrow will be a better day.

NSD for me today, almost didn't manage to do it as I saw one item I have been monitoring has gone down in price, but I will not need it for another couple of weeks, so I didn't jump to buy it. Maybe it will decrease even further? 

Today I have been struggling keeping my calm due to my manager literally micromanaging me needlessly since the moment I logged in this morning. She's still doing it now, and I still have 1 hour and a half to go, so I'm sure she will find the chance to ping me another time "can you take care of that request?" before giving me the time to actually work on it a minute after the request comes in. Luckily, tomorrow is Friday.

For the rest, just a regular day, have been out with the dog this morning, had a soup for lunch and didn't wake up in time for the yoga class this morning, as I forgot to set the alarm last night. Will try again tomorrow. I saw a recipe for Marmite spaghetti online, I might try that tonight!

I also managed to finish the yoke increases on the cardigan I'm knitting during my lunch break, not long left before I can separate for the sleeves!

Today I am grateful for:

1. It's almost the weekend!
2. My hobby that keeps me grounded and calm(er)
3. Chocolate.

grandmanerd

Hugs Toni'sfriend.  I've had a quiet pottering day, staying mainly in my room. Looked through a drawer, 2 ood items binned, changed the special filter on my machine, did some of the bathroom cobwebs (I'd have had to climb into the bath to do the others) and put bleach and cotton wool on some manky bits of the bathroom  . Lots of reading, very little screen time. Booked my covid jab. 2 bags went down last night, took 4 more down this evening and took them all down to the bins (brought washing up items and some diy and garden bits back inside). Finally I've spent the last hour or so lining up a row of 8 x 50 l containers with 3 old garden chairs over them (1 more container with the bay tree in it and one chair that's wedged in a corner with a lot of other stuff in the way to move across).

I have about half an empty drawer and 3/4 of the top of a chest of drawers clear to  show for my efforts and several bags with collections of stuff building up (crafty bits/ library books to go back/ a couple of clothing items to  go to the cs with  the pile of books downstairs and a rapidly filling bin bag).

I ordered a lot of cloth masks from shared earth and a couple of bags that I've had before. My lovely owl bag I lent to someone at art class to take her stuff home in and she vanished off the face of the earth and an accident befell the other one - we were clearing up at mum's and the bag fell off the couch and the jar of chutney inside smashed. I wouldn't risk trying to pull  glass shards out of the bag so wrapped and binned the lot.

Grateful for good books (finished the complicated one last night and have been reading an entertaining but easy read today), my legs not hurting at all in my newly fitted out shoes and I'm a lot more confident (my back and arms ache but that's from carrying things), being satisfied with what I've done even though there's more to do. 

cuddlymarm

Hi guys
Today was another NSD 
I nearly caved and went to buy biscuits while I was out at GP visit but the weather was rainy and I just wanted to get home.
Had visitors this afternoon who brought me a lovely bunch of flowers.
So today I’ve been grateful for pretty flowers, a nice catch-up and for DS1 and DIL FaceTiming us this evening so we could see our precious little granddaughter before she goes to bed.

Hugs to those that need them 
Cuddlymarm