More Positive Monday

Only Tuesday. Do these weeks seem horrifically long to all of you too? I am struggling against the mundanity of life at the moment. I think I need to start planning this year's trip. It's not going to be a big 3-week one like it usually is, so Varen & I were thinking Madagascar for 10 days - 2 weeks. Might be a bit long just to see some lemurs and do some scuba diving tho. Still thinking. Any ideas / suggestions? The idea this year is not to be too extravagant. We want a decent holiday some where that isn't going to cost a fortune to a) get there and b) stay there (Sadly that ruled out my Siberian Railway and Peru ideas ... but Peru is firmly on my cards for 2010 - finger's crossed). The other problem is I've been to just about all the nearby African countries. So finding a not-budget-blowing destination is tricky. I've been to all of them in the last 5 years so am not quite ready to be heading back just yet.

Other than that I had a lovely Monday night at home yesterday. Got my gym outta the way. Had my shrink appointment and left feeling great and more positive than I have in a while :) And then I got home to find Varen midway thru making us Minestrone soup for dinner. The new plan is that he'll make one meal a week and I'll make one meal a week. I know that doesn't quite add up to seven - haha! But I figure the "work week" has 4 evenings (Mon - Thurs). Inevitably we end up going out and doing something on one of the nights, which means we need to cook for 3 of them. But then if I plan meals and purchase ingredients that are going to go off if not used, I feel like I'm confining myself if a last minute plan pops up. Either the food goes off (what a waste!) or I don't go (equally a waste!). So we just whip up something quick and easy on the 3rd night if nothing comes up. It's working for us :)

So, the soup. It was truly delish. I can't wait to finish it off for lunch today :) Think I'll have to make some more of my Ostrich Chili soup again soon too ... yum yum. I do love soup :)