8/2/2013

Day off! I don't like Fridays off because it interferes with the continuation of care and I miss a day of treatment with my patients. However, having a day to catch up is great.  I woke up early this morning to go swimming. Then my friend Steph came over for breakfast before we went on a 50km bike ride.  The weather was perfect this morning when we were in the pool but by the time we had finished breakfast it was really windy.  By the time we were 20km out it had started raining so it was a hard, cold ride home especially because my beautiful new bike  hates the rain. On our ride today we passed a Maybach.

For anyone, like me who didn't know.  A Maybach is a luxury car brand made by the owners of Mercedes.  They typically sell for a million and up.
http://www.maybach-manufaktur.com
I got home, washed my bike and did some chores. I find that I am so busy during the week that I do realise how messy things can get.
I have a really busy week next week so I wanted to cook tonight while I had the chance. I made broccoli and spinach pasta and strawberry balsamic ice cream. It was really good. The recipe is here but I changed it a bit. I feel so wasteful using 5 egg yokes when it's too rainy to make meringue, plus I opened the cabinet to realise that I was out of vanilla. The only thing that I would change is the strawberries weren't quite ripe enough so they were a bit tough in the ice cream. I needed to either have riper strawberries or cut them smaller.
My first big project of the semester is due on Monday so it's gonna be a big weekend of work.