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Today I had a call with Matt to see how I was settling into things, so I relaid some of the food prep work I'd been doing over the past few days, and revealed that I was planning to go to the gym this evening to start on some workouts.

In the end I didn't actually make it to the gym as I had my cousin over for the evening, but I did make us an interesting salmon and cream cheese pasta dish - I'm not sure I'd make it exactly like that again (and for once I'm not sharing the recipe) as I'm not quite happy with it - while it was perfectly edible I think the Dijon mustard I added overpowered all the other flavours. One to work on!

As a tasty dessert (and because Bake Off was on), I made some apple cakes. Those ones I *will* share the recipe for, so pop back to this post when I've got round to adding it.

Instead of going to the gym this evening I've set an alarm to go in the morning - assuming I wake up in time - I'm not really a very good morning person, and getting me out of bed can sometimes involve a forklift truck!

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