Wow, I don't look at the forum a little over 2 hours and suddenly 4 extra pages appear!!!
I'm SO happy i'm home now - today was just totally hectic with loads of work - think it's gonna be like that most of the week really, but hopefully it'll calm down a bit then, although then sept starts and that's our busy month so i guess it won't be quiet for a while. But on the one hand that is nicer than my usual days of doing nothing cos at least the time goes faster
(downside is not as much time for BnB
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Well, I bought it already cooked so all I have to do is dress it (get it out of it's shell) - basically just snap the legs off, crack them open and get the meat out, apply pressure to the carapace so the body comes away, removed the lungs, mouth & stomach sac (luckily they tend to come away neatly so no mess or ickyness, not that I'm particulary squeamish but still) then pull all the meat out.
Was originally just going to garnish it and do a salad but might do nice thick seedy brown bread sarnies instead, if OH really wants a hot meal I might make pasta and mix the crab with a lemony creme fraiche chilli concoction and stir it through. Trying to keep it quick & simple tonight because of going out.
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If that's your idea of quick and simple you better never eat at my house! LoL - that all sounds like WAY too much effort! Sounds really yummy though but i don't see myself ever doing anything like it!
Tuna steaks, cheese and potato bake with brocoli. xx
Sounds yummy! I don't like tinned tuna at all but do enjoy tuna steaks - although of course that's another thing i never make
I'm really bad at cooking nice meals
I have mentioned it before, but I really want a new job, but I just can't find anything that pays as much, or has such a good maternity package.
What sort of jobs does everyone here do? xxx
Maternity package is all that makes me stay, six months full pay then three months at 90%, but I hate everything about it except my salary, which is now nearly 30K. Nothing has such good maternity package or pay.
And we rely on my salary too much for it to drop.
Once I get my BFP I will switch to a different role, and I just can't wait!! xxx
FX you get your BFP soon! My title is Administrative Officer, but there are about 4 of us with that same title in my office and we all do completely different stuff! Our company has 2 main services - Macro and Executive services - and i do the admin for those services. I do other random admin things as well at certain times of the month, like sending edited versions of our publications to certain data partners and stuff. At the moment i am on contract which means i don't qualify for maternity benefit so i only get what the law states which is 4 months unpaid, claiming UIF (unemployment Fund - not sure what the I is for), but UIF is rubbish, less than half normal pay and often only pays out after you're already back at work so most people count it as unpaid leave with a nice bonus once you're back at work LoL. But if i become permanent next year after my contract runs out - which is the plan - then i get 4 months fully paid leave
I'm quite happy in my job though as the pay is really very good for what i do, with a very nice bonus at the end of march each year and a really nice work environment etc.
I'm really hoping to go part time after baby arrives (FX) and then do two or possibly at q push three days, but alot of this depends on what OH decided he wants to do, either a side step or promotion, naturally I want him to go for promotion, but he likes the idea of a side step!!
My mum will look after LO so we won't have to pay for childcare, and at the moment we have spare money at the end of the month, so hopefully we could do it. Our plan is to have a second so that I am already pregnant when I return from maternity leave, then after second hopefully all being well I could give up, but that can only happen if OH has a promotion. The end.
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That sounds like a great plan! Hope it works out like that
We would have to send our baby to creche (childcare) as mil would never agree to look after baby all day (anyway she's already 70 and in no state to look after baby) - but thankfully i wouldn't want her to look after our baby anyway. My mother works full time so wouldn't have the time to look after baby, but she has said anyway that she wouldn't want to feel tied up looking after baby all day every day, but she's hoping to cut down her work load a bit next year so that on some days she can call and say she's fetching baby from creche and is going to look after him/her for the afternoon so that will be nice. Only problem is that the creche i'm thinking of sending baby to is really close to my work but therefore quite far from her house so she probably wouldn't fetch baby often from creche but i'm sure she will occasionally.
Thanks for the link to the wedding pic 24/7 - it's really lovely
(and now i know what you look like!
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I'm sure i was going to write something else but i can't possibly remember what!
Oh, for supper we had tenderised steaks, baked potato with cheese and mayo on, and creamed spinach and feta.
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