Frugal February Day 24: Love It!

I had a pretty good day at work. We had a morning tea for my coworker's birthday, which meant delicious cake and an hour and a half of not doing any work. And I went to the Sushi Go Round for lunch! I know buying lunch is against the rules of Frugal Feb, but I had nothing at home and it only cost $6! Though I also bought a Coke Zero for breakfast...


After work I went to a birthday party! It wasn't a costume party, but I decided to dress up anyway.


I wore a short floral dress:

Sandals:





Bow earrings, a silver "bead" bracelet and a big flower ring:





And glasses:





Can you tell who I was dressed as?


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I was Meg!





To enhance the effect I also kept using Meg's catchphrases, including "what a bitch you turned out to be", "ouch", "I'm not posh" and (my favourite) "love it!". It was like we were the same person.


Meg, I had so much fun pretending to be you! What a delight!


It was a really fun party with delicious food and drinks.














And a lovely house.








The Two Megs brought these flowers:





The birthday girl (hello Emma if you're reading!) looked like a babe.





So did the other girls (hello!).





Thanks Emma for having us!! And Meg for driving. I hope you weren't offended when I said your car was too small to safely seat six people (ouch!).


Spent today: $8
Spent this week: $27
Spent this month: $339.95

Scavengebeer Hunt

I had my birthday celebrations last weekend! First the girls came over in the afternoon. I wasn't expecting anyone to get me a present but I got these lovely flowers:



And all this- macaron mix, photoframe, goodies from Lush, Coca Cola Lipsmackers, Scrabble teatowel, make-your-own-snowglobe kit, delicious cookies.

Plus this Harry Potter balloon!!

I made this sweet potato fritata which was yummy but way too difficult to make.

I need to find another recipe for this. Anyone got one?

The girls all brought food too, including this lovely chocolate birthday cake.

I think it is a Nigella recipe.


And here is a cracker with my favourite homemade carrot dip, which nobody but me seems to like. More for me!

You just puree a few cooked carrots, mix them with Philly and add a bit of garlic. I add Sambal Olek too for extra deliciousness.


Then we went out for a Scavengebeer Hunt - like a scavenger hunt, but with drinking!

I got SIX BOXES OF OREOS!!!!

We had to solve clues to get to a bunch of different places and drink at each of them. One of them was Carmen's; I never thought I'd see this:

(It's still a hole.)

The girls' team did heaps of extra things for bonus points too, including a photo hugging an old lady, a photo with a fireman, swapping shirts with a stranger, having a drink with a cocktail umbrella in it, and having a drink with an actual umbrella in it:

We were the last to arrive at the final destination but we scored so many bonus points that we won!! Good work girls! Chasing a firetruck down the street really paid off.

Afterwards we went to Rob's (thanks Rob!!) to party down.

Thanks everyone for coming and being so much fun!! And thanks James for organising the whole thing, you are the best.