Operation Beautiful

Now this is something I'd heard of before, on sites like www.givesmehope.com, but I'd never seen it in action, until a few days ago.

Operation Beautiful (http://operationbeautiful.com/) is to try and change the way women view themselves, to make them realise that they ARE beautiful. And all you do is put little post-it notes around; in bathroom stalls, on mirrors, in books...anywhere people will see them! All they have to say is "Smile, you're beautiful", or something more if you so wish.

My boyfriend lives in a small town, and we drive 20 minutes to do our grocery shopping. I was stunned to find on the bathroom mirror of the supermarket a note saying "Smile! You're beautiful!". And I did :)

I'd heard of this before so my surprise wasn't that someone would do that, just that word of it had reached all the way here! And even though I knew of Operation Beautiful, it still made my whole day :)

So I want you to reach out, post these anonymous little notes, and help women see their true beauty :)

Fried Eggs

Fried eggs are the bane of my existence. They seem so simple, but I find it SO hard to do! It's the whole "flipping" it thing (they're flipping difficult!!). I feel so daft because I can't manage such a simple little thing, it's very frustrating.

My boyfriend finally took pity on me and showed me (at mid-day, showing me in the morning never goes well!) how to do it. I think it'll take a LOT of practice, but I might finally get it?! I don't know.

I just always seem to break it or not get the spatula underneath properly. ARGH!

So this is the newest thing I've been fighting with, everything else has been fairly normal stuff that I'm used to making. Not been doing much baking, my boyfriend is unemployed and I prefer to attempt new things unsupervised - if I mess up I can slip it into the bin and no-one will ever know LOL

I might get some more jam and make some more jam buns though :) Or maybe make some cookies. I'm in the mood for a tasty treat :) Jam buns sound yummiest, but I have to get more jam first.

Cooking for more than 2!

Yesterday my boyfriend was out at work with a friend of his, and sent me an email saying he'd invited his friend over for dinner and a film. I did have a mini-panic over cooking for someone OTHER than my boyfriend, but I got over it quickly enough :P

My boyfriend requested pork chops, chips ("fries") and salad, though I did technically make potato wedges lol

I managed, as usual, to over-cater, as I was trying to use up the last of the lettuce, so they got two pretty full plates. The potato wedges (potatoes chopped up into thick slices with the skin still on) had on them "extra spicey" spice (I don't know what else to call it, it just says "extra spicey" on the pot), garlic, salt and pepper. I made chips for myself (I don't like the potato skin) which just had salt and garlic. The pork chops had Hickory Smoke on them which made the whole house smell soooo good. The salad had lettuce, tomato and cucumber, with whatever dressing they put on themselves.

The pork chops took a little longer to cook than I thought, the wedges were done and the chops still pink in the middle! So I just chopped them up into pieces and they cooked pretty quick then.

My boyfriend's sister said it "looked like something out of a magazine" (the salad did look quite pretty I must admit!), the men were touched that I actually served it all up too (what kind of host would make them serve their own food!) and they totally cleaned their plates! No mean feat, trust me! Both seperately said that it was very tasty, which given their empty plates I think might have been sincere :)

Yay me! :P