I Just Don’t Get This
Well, we got the phone back. But not before it had gone for a swim.
The police made a visit to the store to look over security footage and the manager identified the store cleaner as the thief. The cleaner was on shift at the time and figured something was up so he skedaddled out to his car (where he’d been keeping the phone), excused himself to use the facilities and walked out some time later with a dripping wet phone, making out he had found it inside the toilet bowl. Ewwwwwww! Remember, I’d USED those toilets which is when the phone was swiped in the first place - it wasn’t pretty in there!
The police put the hard word on him and he eventually owned up and offered to pay for a replacement phone but as a consequence he has to appear in court and will probably lose his job. In the meantime, I still need a new phone! I mean, why couldn’t he just have handed it over? Why be spiteful and try to flush it down the loo? Sigh.
Amazingly, the thing still works and I was able to write down important numbers and such but there’s no way I could use it again after that. We still have to pay for a new phone (at $7 per month) but at least we have a small chance of getting some of our money back, even if the court date isn’t for a few months.
People just amaze me with their stupidity sometimes. The phone wasn’t worth losing a job over!
Cheers,
Lizzie
No Lunch Photo Today. Wanna Know Why?
Update: Security footage from outside the KFC store viewed today showed that I did indeed leave my phone on the table for all and sundry to see and that - amazingly - the thief was able to be indentified as a cleaner at the store. Story developing - the police are paying the person involved a visit this afternoon and we should at least find out what happened to the phone thereafter, whether it was hocked and so on. Best case scenario - he still has the phone and it gets returned, saving us the headache of shelling out for a replacement. Worst case - the phone is long gone, which would still mean paying for a new one, but as the security footage was able to identify the culprit, its fairly likely he will be fired from his job. And honestly? I’m not all that sad about that.
I met some girlfriends for lunch today. We chose KFC (it’s fast, okay? I’m pretty sure there was lettuce and tomato somewhere in my Twister…) I got there a little early and it was a lovely, warm day so I sat outside to wait. I stuck my mobile phone on the table in front of me so I would hear it ring when my friend text-messaged me.
Pretty soon I figured I needed to go potty. I gathered up my belongings and ducked inside to use the facilities. My friends arrived soon after and we settled down to a additive-laden fast food lunch. About half an hour in, I reached inside my pocket to grab my phone because it doubles as my watch. No phone anywhere. Friends both tried ringing my number - turned off (that’s weird, I thought). Went inside the store to ask if anyone had taken it in to the counter. Nope. Not in the toilets either. Pretty soon it dawned on me the blasted thing had been stolen. I must have left it on the table when I went inside to use the toilets. I immediately rang my husband (using my friend’s phone) and he reminded me to call our mobile provider to shut off the number, which I did. But in half an hour, the low-life who stole the phone probably rang China or something, sigh.
This KFC franchise is directly across the road from a police station too. Unfortunately, adjacent to the station is the courthouse, and plenty of, uh, ‘unsavoury’ folk frequent the KFC store and the McDonald’s and Pizza Hut right next door. The phone is long gone.
The most frustrating thing about this whole deal probably centres around the idea that had it been me, I would have immediately taken it inside the store and given it to a staff member. Some idiot is probably listing my phone on ebay right this second too. It was a newer flip phone and only 2 months old.
So yeah, no lunch photos today :P
Cheers,
Lizzie
A Week Of Lunches ~ Wednesday
On The Menu Today
“Lazy Bones Soup”
I wasn’t feeling particularly brilliant today. I’ve been a bit ‘meh’ for a couple of weeks actually - I’ve had a nagging cough which, frustratingly, won’t produce phlegm. This is actually rather important if you want to feel as though a cold is progressing. I’ve been sounding like a harp seal for weeks but don’t have any other sympathy-inducing symptoms that would render me unable to, you know, cook dinner or something. Just this annoying cough! Even Talented Hubby is beginning to roll his eyes. Don’t worry hon, I agree with you.
Today however, I just couldn’t make my body DO anything. Ever had one of those days? Then I got a headache. Tried to read for a bit, no dice. Eventually I felt so horrible that I lay down for a nap. Despite popular housewife lore, napping during the daytime is an extremely rare event in this house. But today, I ended up sleeping for two hours and woke up feeling worse than before (can somebody explain to me how that works?) I also missed lunch somewhere in amongst that so I was ravenous and not about to chop up fourteen billion ingredients for another salad, and I opted for the easy way out. It was 4:00 before I even slurped it down.
Now, I’d like to tell you this was from a freezer stash of soups I lovingly and creatively prepared weeks in advance for such a day as this. After all, this is what Martha would do, right? And I’d love to regale you with tales of a simmering crockpot and warm-and-fuzzy family banter around the dinner table. That, however, would be pushing the boundaries of truth.
Nobody’s perfect!
Cheers,
Lizzie
A Week Of Lunches ~ Tuesday
On The Menu Today
The “Monster Redemption Wrap”
Oh, the picture does not do this one justice (not the least of which is because the whiteness is overwhelming - I have limited Photoshop knowledge folks!) I crammed so much stuff in this baby the lavash barely met in the middle. YUM.
We have: a wholemeal lavash rectangle thingy, smidgeon of light margarine, lettuce, low-fat smoked chicken deli meat (expensive…gulp), two different kinds of sprouts (they came in a trio pack), carrot, beetroot, semi-dried tomatoes (I was splurging, ‘kay?), leftover grape tomatoes from yesterday and a couple of dollops of salsa. And one big ol’ glass of water.
Now, the story behind the name…
Yesterday I rocked this healthy eating thing until about 4pm then went downhill faster than an Olympic luge athlete (I was going to type in ‘luger’ there but had the presence of mind to check the dictionary. Did you know Luger is a German brand of automatic pistol? Me neither. Although, perhaps an appropriate metaphor in this case anyway? LOL) I totally cave when the afternoon hungries hit. I think I’m going to have to start allocating two snacks - one when the kids have their after-school snack just before 4pm and another around 5 or 5:30 when I’m preparing dinner. Carrot sticks or somesuch. Anyhoo, once I started I could not stop, and then I managed to drop a full (plastic) jug of cordial all over the kitchen floor right as I was about to serve up my dinner (the others had already been fed). It took me almost an hour to seek out all the cordial drips, wipe them up and then uber-mop the floor. Though not traditionally the season for ants here at the moment, we know they’d be all over everything in a heartbeat if I missed a spot. Some of the cordial went under the dishwasher (sigh) so I had to douse the area where that met the tiles in surface spray. I hate ants with a passion. Auggh.
After that, I couldn’t be bothered making anything so I snacked again and continued to do so most of the evening. Big, BIG mistake. All brownie points I earned prior to 4pm were obliterated. Hence the name of today’s lunch, LOL. I will say though, the wrap was DELICIOUS. Messy, but oh-so-yummy. Kind of like eating your favourite burger in the whole world which you continue to do so even though you know your hands and forearms are going to get covered in burger juice by the end. And filling too. I’ve eaten more vegies in the last two days than in the week preceding, I think. Perhaps a little light on the protein today - but I’d love to try this again with ‘real’ chicken.
Cheers,
Lizzie
A Week Of Lunches ~ Monday
I’m not eating very well at present. In an effort to combat this, and probably because I’m in a silly sort of mood today, I’ve decided to post pictures of my lunches for one week. Discuss, suggest…heck, even mock my choices. I’m ready. Sock it to me.
On The Menu Today
The “I’m Starting The Week Healthy If It Kills Me” Salad Plate
We have two hard boiled eggs, some beetroot, lettuce, halved grape tomatoes, carrot sticks, salsa and a grainy bread roll. AND I did even better, only inhaling the heel of the roll (yay me!) Oh, and I put a little reduced-fat margarine on it, splooshed a smidgeon of fat free Italian dressing on the salad and poured myself a glass of weak-ish diet cordial.
I tried to make a concious effort to conform to that whole ‘half a plate of vegetables, quarter protein, quarter wholegrains’ deal. I think I did pretty darn well. This was an enormous plate of food but as I’m sitting here with a full belly I can tell I hit the right ratio. I’m satisfied but not bustin’ out of my jeans. Always a good thing.
I can’t guarantee I’ll keep this level up all week mind you! I have Errands Day planned for Friday which usually means the food court. The photo on that day is likely to be pretty pathetic because I’ll only have my phone’s camera to play around with :)
So what’s a typical lunch for you guys? What’s your ideal ‘healthy’ lunch?
Cheers,
Lizzie
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