next entryQuit Smoking Day 5 - Narky
A fish miracle worker
Day 5 it is then, and the cracks are starting to show. I'm in a pissy mood with everyone and everything I come across including myself. Having nothing to do for a modicum of seconds is enough to send my brain into a nicotine deprived hissy fit whereby all I can think about is having a smoke. I'm going insane.
So it appears that the only way I can muffle the screams of nicotine currently deafening me by my inner voice is to try and avoid it. Play music loud, eat stuff, keep my hands busy or try to get compulsively involved into something other than getting wrapped up in the vicious typhoon of cravings and will power.
Some shopping eases the problem for an hour or 2, and I pick up Rick Steins Fruits of The Sea. I'm not a fish lover, but tonight we've got 2 tuna steaks to eat and not knowing the first bit about how to cook fresh tuna I decide the book might give a fairly good indication. I also pick up some bits and pieces that I need to do the tuna, including a griddle pan and a salad dressing shaker (that didn't have anything to do with the tuna but I thought it would be a cool idea). On another unrelated note I also buy Burnout Revenge for PS2, the adverts look appealing enough so I figure it would be worth giving it a go (besides, I liked the last one!).
By the time I get home its not long until I have to start preparing tea, which was a Grillade of Tuna with Olive Oil Mash, and very nice too - the homemade tomato sauce that went with it was delish! Phil has a go on Burnout Revenge whilst I'm faffing around with the last bits of tea, and then we eat. And, for a new and untried recipe I have to say it was very nice, I even managed to cook the tuna right (not dry and not raw either).
The rest of the evening is spent watching some TV and bidding on a few more things from ebay - this time mineral rocks. We didn't get the one we really wanted, but nonetheless, have some fab curio items on their way.
I really should think about getting a display cabinet for all our funky rock things.
Posted by Abi on the September 27, 2005 9:42 PM
smoked salmon: delicious and dead.
smoked haddoc: tasty and dead.
smoked duck : jummy and dead.
smoked Abi : nice and ...