10 Random Things I Can See

It's not even 2pm and already I've had the day from hell. I knew it was going to be bad from around 4am when I was awaken by what can only be described as a sound similar to a woman being attacked outside my house. It was loud. It was piercing the silence. It was so close. Really creeped me out. Jazz was asleep on my pillow and even he was sat bolt upright with his ears tuned in to the shrieking sounds. Transpired to be foxes fighting in the street. *sigh*

Work was no better. I've spent the entire morning dealing with everyone else's shit and I have a mountain of my own stuff to get through. To top it all off my boss has decided that he needs to "work from home" this afternoon and tomorrow. As much as I love when he's not in the office to bug me, his version of working from home involves sending two e-mails a day to make you think he's working. Really I think he's down the pub with his mates lol.

Now that brings me to where I am now; sat in Starbucks on my lunch by myself with nothing but my blog, a frappuccino and a skinny blueberry muffin for company. Clearing today's troubles out of my mind completely leaves me able to see these ten random things as I sit on a bar stool facing the window to the world:

• a cobbled lane with lots of puddles;
• a couple kissing as they part ways, one walking down the lane and the other down the street;
• a litter collector picking up pieces of rubbish individually with his rubber glove clad hands;
• a woman frantically typing away in the job centre opposite (probably blogging);
• pigeons everywhere;
• a bus advertising flights to Barcelona (what I'd give to be there right now...);
• a guy delivering bottled water-cooler water to my office building;
• two women gossiping and laughing loudly over cigarettes;
• an old lady trying to cross the road between traffic instead of walking to the crossing;
• a teenage guy and his mate staring at me 'cos I'm taking in my surroundings... better get back to the office.

Little Baker Girl

*dancing around the kitchen* I baked! I baked! I baked!

I seem to be going through this really strange phase at the moment whereby I appear to be enjoying mixing a bunch of ingredients together and producing something extremely sweet and unhealthily fabulous! *lol* It should probably be noted that although I have a degree which incorporated a huge amount of cooking etc, I'm rubbish in the kitchen. I usually use it purely for making coffee (I could rival Starbucks!) and making bowls of cereal. I'm such a non-cook that I actually didn't own a rolling pin or cookie cutters until last weekend when I decided to bake gingerbread men and oatmeal & coconut cookies. Then last week when I was off that random day I baked two loaves of gingerbread and a tray of Scottish vanilla tablet. It should be noted that I used the wrong type of butter in the tablet so it never set. But ho hum, the gingerbread was fab!! *yay*

I <3 CR

As you all know I'm a Starbucks addict. LOVE IT! Been to Starbucks in Edinburgh, Glasgow, London, New York, Jersey City, Toronto, Richmond... you get the idea. I'm addicted. It's like a comforter to me - you always know where you're at with a Starbucks. Now, I hold my hands up and say that I'm maybe not as loyal as I used to be because there's a lovely wee Caffe Nero around the corner from my office which I go to a lot, but I'm a Starbucks girl at heart. Well, very recently I discovered a contendor to the Seattle chain... in the form of Coffee Republic. Admittedly I've only been once for coffee so far, a skimmed vanilla latte, which although good confused me as it was served in a totally different shaped mug to the usual Starbucks form I'm used to. *lol* I know what you're thinking. What attracted me? Believe it or not it was something as simple as their logo. I *heart* CR. Now, I don't hear that very often...