READING: All of the Agatha Christie mysteries in the order of detective and when they were written. I’ve completed the 12 books of Miss Marple and am just a few books away from completing the 45 books of Hercule Poirot.
WATCHING: Every Sunday night 13th Street presently is airing one episode of Agatha Christie’s Poirot with David Suchet. I am not sure whether I enjoy them or hate watch them. A few of the episodes take well known stories and changes them for unknown and seemingly zero reasons at all which makes me side eye this show so hard. Some of the episodes are true to the original story and some of them feature quite the cast – Murder on the Orient Express was one of the better ones with Jessica Chastain.
HATING: myself for getting sucked into Married at First Sight this year. This is truly trash television, it is so bad but I can’t look away. Thank the deities it finished last week and I can “reclaim my time“.
COOKING: I made a version of Chicken Cordon Bleu which was epic. I coat the chicken in Dijon mustard and pan fried, then towards the end I placed Beerenberg Cheeseboard Chutney spread underneath some very sharp cheddar that was left over from a cheese platter we had in February which needed to be used up. On the top I placed freshly cut smoked ham from Aldi.
LOVING: This Cordelia Street dress from TVSN, but #yobn2018 means I cannot buy it. There are some dresses which are the essence of me put into a dress and this is one of them. It is sold out in my size now. I feel like this is a great price and I probably would have bought it, if not for my current challenge.
CREATING: More choc-honeycomb no-bake cheesecakes.
WORKING: out very hard with the workout I have nicknamed “Yvette Hell” – I have chopped it into bits with Handbrake, so I can repeat the bits I most love until I master them. I just started on the Jenny Ford Hawaii workout last week and with any step workout it takes time for me to get the steps right.
MASTERING: There are some super challenging combination steps in my workout videos and every time I get one right I feel like I am winning at working out. Coordination has never been my strongest thing but I am getting better at it every day. I do enjoy these workouts.
MOURNING: The loss of my afternoon coffee mug. I was taking it out of the dishwasher and it hit another mug, and the game was over. I could go and buy another one from Few and Far for around $7, but we have plenty of other mugs I can use, and #yobn2018.
PLAYING: Diablo 2 with The Other Half. I am old school when it comes to games and this is one of my favourites. I am not a fan of the newer games. I prefer to play the older games that I know.
CLEANING: out the freezer in preparation for autumn and winter.
FREEZING: all the mushrooms. That has to be the best thing I ever learned to do.
I really need to try freezing mushrooms. I love them and I’m the only one who eats them. Plus I had weight loss surgery so I can’t finish a package very quickly. This would make life easier!
The Labours of Hercule Poirot is one of my favourites, mainly for the scenery.
Now I need to know how to freeze mushrooms. I must get back into reading Agatha Christie, I used to so love her books. I keep meaning to tell you, I choc minted the Crunchie cheesecake, I just have to press publish on the post! Thanks for the inspo!
I’ve read all of Agatha Christie but not for a very long time. Sounds like a fun thing to do.
I did the same thing with the Agatha Christie books! Did not care AT ALL for Tuppence and Tommy (?), and Dame Agatha really kind of lost it at the end – the last few books were all over the place and not tightly written (or as enjoyable) like the earlier books. I try to stay away from any filmed version of her stories – the books paint a picture in my mind and the filmed versions have never lived up to those images.