Thursday, 2 April 2009

Writing Lines and Banana Brownies

Stuck in the office - almost like writing lines...."I will fill out my calc file as I do a job and not leave it until the last day before the QA check to cobble it together, I will fill out my calc file......"and so on.
Only slightly more monotonous.
Apart from the light relief of being infuriated by Hevacomp - am starting to understand why people refer to it as Heapacrap. For no reason that I can gather - other than machine meglomania it keeps deciding to print out 976 pages with nothing but it's name on, or 376,000 at one point! By the time I've realised and frantically cancelled I've already been responsible for a several square metres of disappearing forest.
Still - I am grateful to have a job after a raft of redundancies have decimated the office this week. I worry that the rest of us may be facing the same someway down the line. I worry that those of us remaining aren't enough to cope if we win even one of the jobs we are waiting on. I worry about the people who've lost their jobs. I worry that Brad may be right when he says I'm a worrier.
Blackpool half marathon looms. I am supposed to be 'carb loading' according to Andy - whatever that is.
The little voice of (reason? laziness?) inside my head says 'Look at this pilfering collection of random food items, there's hardly any left, come on it's been six weeks now - you've done the challenge, you've learnt all your food eating lessons, you absolutely neeed pasta damn it! LET'S GO FOOD SHOPPING - cheeese, cheeeese, cheeeese' but another part of me wonders just what it is possible to make out of what is left and believes I still have food lessons to learn from this challenge.
Such as: banana and chocolate brownies don't make a bad breakfast. Also sushi and chickpea flatbreads may not be obvious partners but they're still a nice lunch.
recipe of the day is:
quarter a cup each of soya flour, chocolate powder and applesauce, mixed up and microwaved for 3 minutes makes a brownie. I replaced the applesauce with mashed banana and a little orange juice (bless free fruit at work!) and I do think a bit of baking powder might have helped.
I tried singing with the high group in the singing group on Tuesday and now understand why they all look so baffled all the time and keep asking questions. back to the lows next time.
Fossil fools day came and went without any action from me. I thought of everyone out there and wished I was.
I'm going home, however early that means coming in tomorrow.

1 comment:

Becca said...

I suppose the small voice might be the voice of schizophrenia.