SWEET AND SOUR

I'm on the hunt today... for of all things, Sweet and Sour Sauce!

I ♥LOVE♥ McDonald's sweet and sour sauce, and according to Steve and Bex, there is a Watties sauce that tastes EXACTLY like it.

ABOVE:  This is what I'm looking for apparently.

So, it's not sold at Pak N Save, cos I looked till me eyes were bleeding!  The kids said it's at Countdown, therefore I'm going to the Rototuna Countdown this morning to hunt for some.

While there, I will have a good look around the 'local' shops.  

I'm also going on the hunt for oxygen weed for the pond.  I think the fish would benefit from having more plants in the pond.  The little shits have eaten the water lillies, so I won't be spending that sort of money ever again!
They can have friggin WEED!  
I will ring around to see if anyone has any for sale.  Otherwise we can always go out to the lake to get some I suppose?

What else?  Meh... might get a load of washing on.  Vacum the house?  Bla bla bla.

ONWARD...

Got up this morning, first thing I did was look out the window at the fish pond.  It's not been looking too good the past couple of weeks, and yesterday I noticed one of the fish was looking sickly.

Sure enough, this morning, one dead fish.  SAD.

So, I am pretty sure they are being overfed.  My bad.  And the pond is too hot.

I am not going to feed them every day like the pet shop said.  I'm gunna go to every 3-4 days, cos there's plenty of 'food' in the pond for them naturally.

And as the little bastards ate the water lillies, I went hunting for cheaper plant options this morning with Brylee.

 ABOVE: I was told about this plant place a few weeks ago, but forgot about it till today.
Grrrr!   Look at all those friggin blue pots!
To think Bex and I scoured the city for blue pots, and there was this place just down the road with HEAPS.  And ... they are all damn cheap as compared to other places too.

OH ... and they had aquatic plants, so we grabbed a couple from there, and some oxygen weed from Animates too.

 ABOVE: Best thing?  If the fish eat these plants, they were really cheap!  Easy to replace.  Hopefully they don't eat them though.

Story time:  We need to get a new doctor.  So there's two clinics quite near to us.
I went to one about 2 weeks ago to ask for Enrollment Forms.

There were two ladies behind the counter, serving an elderly lady.  The lady wanted a repeat of her prescription.

OK, that's not going to take long right?  WRONG.

I stood there for over 10 minutes waiting while the receptionist and nurse tried to figure out what one of the ladies pills was her sleeping pill?  WHY?   Just write a damn repeat prescription already!!!

NOPE... they just went on and on about 'what one is the sleeping pill?'.   

I got really cross ... so I sat down to wait.  Trying to be polite right?

In the end, after waiting and waiting I just said really LOUDLY " All I want is 3 Enrollment Forms!", to which one of the ladies said :

"Oh right, I can get you those".    All I'm thinking is : Stupid, ignorant people!

Back to today.  Brylee and I fill in the forms and take them to the clinic, with our Driver's License as proof of identity, cos I'd been told that's what we needed to bring with us.

Only to be told by the receptionist, oh no, you need your Birth Certificate or Passport.  OMFG.

We walked out of there feeling like, really, really pissed off.

And I decided to go check out the other medical centre near us.

We get there, walk in and are immediately welcomed by the receptionist, we ask for Enrollment Forms, which she hands over and explains about the Doctors who work there, and said we did not need any proof of identity as we were New Zealand born citizens. 

The vibe was so positive, so I'm 100% sure we will be enrolling there.

 ABOVE:  Now we just have to fill out all the forms, in triplicate.  

ABOVE:  FOUND IT!

SUPER productive morning if I do say so myself.

I was in a bit of a funk yesterday.  I knew it.  Did you?

Today... I'm feeling much more positive. I've been getting a few negative comments about our new home.  It's so SMALL... pokey, tiny bedrooms, cluttered and so on.  ANON's, really? That's not nice.

If you have nothing nice to say, why bother leaving a comment?  You know I'm not going to publish it! YOU TWATS.

Brylee and I have just had a wonderful swim... very cold getting in, but then just perfect.  So much fun, I even tried my swim belt. 

I tied it to the ladder, up on the deck, and it was great.  Still will put up a pole though, so it's at the right angle.

Brylee is off to work soon, so just Stew and I home for dinner.  Hmmm... what to have?

Stew got home from work and we decided to go out for dinner.
No where 'fancy'... he decided we should try a local eatery in Chartwell.

ABOVE:  It specialises in Steak, but we chose Paella and Chicken.

First we shared a Seafood Chowder.  It was just lovely.

Then our mains came out:

ABOVE:  Looks lovely eh?
Deceiving as hell. 

Stew's Paella was gluggy, and the rice was raw in the middle!  AND the mussels were only half cooked, he really struggled to even get them open!!!  edit:  the two mussels on the top were open... the rest under the rice were not.

And my chicken?  Utterly tasteless.  And the beetroot was par cooked and ikk, and there was some other root vege that looked like a white beetroot (sure it wasn't though), and it was disgusting!  It was almost raw and tasted like dirt.  

We will never go there again.  Utter waste of money.

Such a shame really... because we have been really enjoying the luxury of being able to go out to dinner sometimes, now that it's just the two of us most of the time.

It's been a long time coming.

So... we are home now and will be having a quiet evening in front of the telly till bedtime.