Happy Tuesdays

There are many reasons that make Tuesdays the happiest day of the week.



Firstly, petrol prices are at their lowest on this day (but don't ask me why). So most locals will try to fill their tanks on Tuesdays. Today, Hubby pumped at $1.007/litre. Cool!



Secondly, on Tuesdays, Dominos' pizzas are only $4.90 each, as compared to $6.90 normally. Second to MacDonalds, Dominos is our most frequented fast food joint. We call to make a phone order, and it's ready by the time you drive 10 mins to pick it up. Its pizzas are very reasonably priced (some supermarket frozen pizzas cost just as much) and most importantly, they are very very delicious, with generous toppings. We never knew Dominos was so good until we came here. Two large pizzas to feed the family (plus leftovers for KK's lunch the next day), for less than $10, where to find such good deals?



Thirdly, with Tuesdays being pizza nights, this means I don't have to cook! I don't need to think of what to cook and can use the time instead for baking or other hobbies.

Tuesdays are also 'walking days'. The local community hub has a walking group every Tuesday morning. Usually I'll put XX in a stroller and join them for a walk around the area, for fresh air, for exercise, for socialising. It is followed by morning tea at the hub. Even Hubby comes along when he's in town. The people in the group are quite nice and friendly.

Even KK has reasons to be happy. On Tuesdays, we give him some pocket money (20c) to bring to school for lollies!



To mark Happy Tuesday today, I made this Santa Claus cake! No lah, actually I've wanted to make this cake for a long time, after seeing its cute picture on Happy Home Baker's blog. The strawberries were on sale and they looked so beautiful I couldn't resist buying. This gives me the perfect kickstart and I finally plucked up my courage to try making a sponge cake again last night after the earlier failed attempt. Seeing that it didn't deflate, I went to get the cream and white chocolate today to decorate it. It wasn't very easy assembling the cake. The creaming was quite atrocious. Maybe I lack the right tools, I was using a spatula to spread it and the edge of the cake was the most difficult to get the cream on nicely. But thankfully, the end result still looks quite pleasing. Have you noticed that my santa's face is kind of tan? The original one is white but I used my leftover chocolate icing sugar (don't waste), so my whipped cream is light brown in colour.....haha....alamak, became asian Santa loh!

I couldn't think of any special reason for the cake so here's to Happy Tuesdays for us and advanced Merry Christmas to everyone!!