a Beer, a Whine and The Spirit

We had our first "dinner party" in Mount Isa last night, with 5 doctors in attendance. I was a little nervous to be honest, as I hadn't even met 2 of them, but I had a pretty solid 3 course meal planned, and as long as there's wine, it's always a success! I served bite-size tomato, bococini, basil layer thingies that Hubs and I are kind of hooked on at the moment. It's such a fresh, light, tasty little something to have on the side or before a meal. I then served beef cheek stew which is Hubs' favourite. It slow cooked in the oven in my chasseur for 6 hours! It was only supposed to be 5 but the kids took a while to go to sleep. I think the extra hour made it even better though :-)

And of course for dessert, Hubs' other favourite, chocolate mousse. The food was a real hit (yay!) and the company was just lovely. And the best thing? We mostly talked about everything other than medicine!!! I sometimes don't really look forward to the conversation at these dinners, as I have very little to contribute to the conversation. Hubs always makes an effort to not talk shop too much, but it's hard when you don't have much in common with other people other than your work. But the people who came over last night were very interesting and it wasn't hard to keep the conversation away from rashes and cannulas.

Unfortunately this morning, as I was getting dressed, I put my neck/shoulder out quite badly and couldn't actually move. I'm so glad Hubs hadn't left for work, and he was able to stay home and look after the kids. I was in quite a bad way this morning, but after some pretty strong pain killers, and lots of rest, I'm not too bad this evening. And I'm really hoping it settles down a lot overnight. It hasn't been this bad in such a long time, but it's been niggling all week, so it was only a matter of time before it snapped. Fingers crossed for a speedy recovery!!

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