Chilli Plants

I have just discovered American ice cream is really rich and now I have the worse case of indigestion ever! It was only meant to be a treat, but I am severely regretting it now!

I managed to buy Stuart a 'welcome to his new home' present, two chilli plants that he can look after (I will help), and hopefully harvest them in 80 days (it sounds a bit like Farmville!), anyway one is a habanaro and the other is some sort of Tabasco chilli plant. The difference is where in the UK we had to try and get the greenhouse warm enough to grow them, they should manage just fine outdoors (except when a hurricane rips through that is!). I made little saucers for them out of some of my reycled bottles - what a recycler!!

I am now a supermarket convert - going to the other side! I went to my first new large HEB's and it was amazing. HEB is a cheaper supermarket than Randall's and this one, which is not quite as convenient as Randall's to the house, has so much more, especially in terms of fresh produce. I watched one guy picking out lobsters from the tank. The fishmonger put the lobster on the scales and walked away - as you can guess the lobster tried to make a run for it, but fortunately was caught before dropping to its death off the counter. They had decorated cheese - I don't really know how to describe except, for example, there was a ball of goats cheese that looked like a scotch egg with a chilli sticking out of it. It was called a 'spicy goats cheese ball'!!! There was just so much, 24 hour Tesco's is going to seem like a breeze to get myself in and out of now. Aside from the weird decorated cheese, they had a good selection of tasty, not flavourless yellow coloured slabs you normally get. On the topic of cheese I was told you don't want to buy something labelled 'cheese food' as that means it has never seen a cow! They have a British section with HP sauce, baked beans etc, I felt strangely homesick while looking at it. No Twinning Assam tea bags though, only earl grey and English breakfast. I bought some Rose's Lime Jam, at great expense, as I am running out of my British bought marmalade. However, it is because I got overly excited in the big shop that I have my indigestion now :(

I went for a swim tonight because I was feeling gym guilty. I have only been for my personal training session this week and nothing extra. I was really proud of myself as I managed to get my heart rate up the most I have ever done at swimming, while wearing the monitor. As you can imagine, straight after, I thought I was going to die as it was not a sustainable level, unlike running.