Short Break

Why is it when things can go wrong they will go wrong, but really!! does it have to be the weekend, so my beloved spent most of Saturday working, after taking me to the mall, we made a few purchases then prayer time began, so we waited in a coffee shop for it to finish unfortunately the call came in (not the prayer call) and that was the end of the shopping expedition.  So we headed home and back to the works computer, myself I headed into the kitchen and played around with a Latke recipe I had found, and the result of my efforts was a dish that was beyond amazing, I swapped out the potato for carrot, and instead of frying I baked the dish in the oven, lets just say that those Latkes will be a regular in our house from now on.

Over the last week or so I have drank coffee, drank more coffee, and on occasions .... drank coffee, how very odd that life used to revolve around drink, and now it still revolves around drink just not the drunken kind.  When I first arrived in Saudi I had a terrible urge for alcohol, how very odd it was too, as when in Bahrain I really only had three/four nights I think out of the whole month, and those included Christmas and New Year but once I stepped on Saudi soil and someone else was dictating what I could and could not drink that was me, like an alcoholic in rehab, I had a need.... thankfully that passed and I'm back to thinking drink is the devil, well until Goa that is....

Our passports are once again out of our care, they are now in the care of the Indian embassy, hopefully getting visaed up and what it cost as a relative pointed out was actually about the price of a weekend away to Bahrain.

Stitch is getting quite the rascal just now, he knows when I sit down that he will not get on my lap unless invited, but my beloved well that is totally different, I'm not sure who I should be chastising first, the dog for presuming or my beloved for allowing his to presume, maybe I should just take a stick to both of them, a tickling stick obviously.

Currently I am making Chicken Biriyani for supper, a friend sent me the recipe (all Paleo too) so I decided to try it out, after a false start and asking the ladies on the compound for help as I had no garam masala, Saadia came to my rescue and gave me some from her tub and gave me some great tips on it's preparation too, and also told me where to get the best spices from in downtown Khobar.

I didn't realise until yesterday when having yet another coffee with friends how much of Dammam and Al Khobar I have seen, ok some of it just the malls and supermarkets and downtown, but when you have seen more than girls who have been here for at least a year thats when you know you get around, I can make a shopping trip into an excursion no bother, and it can be supermarket or clothes or even furniture, I like to browse, well I do it so well, really I only do it to give the dog a break, he gets sick of the sight of me......

I do, I do...