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Sun, May. 27th, 2012 02:46 pm
We lost =( But I made banana cake :D All is right with the world.
AND I get a Sallie tonight, eeeeeeee!
AND I get a Sallie tonight, eeeeeeee!
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Mon, Jan. 2nd, 2012 10:33 pm
Thoughts from today's Belair walk:
o Houses are too expensive. I should just buy a vacant block and pitch a tent on it.
o Yan needs to come out and do something. You can only hide in the shadows for so long before people start poking at the shadows.
o I'm going to systematically go through my 5 nights a week cookbook over the course of the year and it will be awesome.
o Plan for tomorrow: watch cricket, go shopping in the lunch break, watch more cricket, book a haircut, walk to Belair again, up to Mum's and Dad's for dinner and also more cricket. Also, write while the cricket's on. This led to the Yan thinkings. Most of the walk was Yan-related.
Didn't go for a walk yesterday because it was still 33 at 10pm so I decided bugger that and turned the aircon on instead. Today there was a cool change so it was only 28 at 7:30, so that was nice. Still 37 tomorrow, tho, so we'll see if the walk actually happens. I WILL TRY TO.
Writing is going well! 1500 yesterday and 1250 today, so that's a good start to that resolution.
I haven't done anything portfolio-related yet, and with regard to houses I've discovered through a very brief search that my initial price range can either get me a unit in the CBD or a house in freaking Aldinga. I feel both of these are a step backwards from where I am now. This sucks monkey balls.
o Houses are too expensive. I should just buy a vacant block and pitch a tent on it.
o Yan needs to come out and do something. You can only hide in the shadows for so long before people start poking at the shadows.
o I'm going to systematically go through my 5 nights a week cookbook over the course of the year and it will be awesome.
o Plan for tomorrow: watch cricket, go shopping in the lunch break, watch more cricket, book a haircut, walk to Belair again, up to Mum's and Dad's for dinner and also more cricket. Also, write while the cricket's on. This led to the Yan thinkings. Most of the walk was Yan-related.
Didn't go for a walk yesterday because it was still 33 at 10pm so I decided bugger that and turned the aircon on instead. Today there was a cool change so it was only 28 at 7:30, so that was nice. Still 37 tomorrow, tho, so we'll see if the walk actually happens. I WILL TRY TO.
Writing is going well! 1500 yesterday and 1250 today, so that's a good start to that resolution.
I haven't done anything portfolio-related yet, and with regard to houses I've discovered through a very brief search that my initial price range can either get me a unit in the CBD or a house in freaking Aldinga. I feel both of these are a step backwards from where I am now. This sucks monkey balls.
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Fri, Nov. 4th, 2011 09:22 pm
Stick with what you love! You're a designer, damnit. Don't get turned off by the art theory that's part of the uni course. Seriously. By the time you get to uni, you'll love it. And journos get paid shit-all anyway so even that's not cool.
Those friends you've just made at your new school? They'll dump you in three years. I swear to all that is shiny it's not your fault. Don't ask for their reasoning: they're bitches, that's what you get for going to a rich bitch private school. But that's okay because that'll open you up to the entire world of the Internet and you'll make your best friends of your life there. They'll embrace everything awesome about you, they'll take you around the world, they'll get you into writing and they'll help you meet a thousand people in your head. And they'll stick around for a hell of a lot longer than three years.
In other news, I'm FINALLY able to pick up my Sallie package tomorrow! :DD Australia Post have been cockteases, telling me on Monday I could pick up my package BUT the bastards close at 5. I get home from work at roughly 5:05. So I've had to wait all week knowing it was there but not being able to do anything and ARG. Thankfully they're open Saturday morning so I can finally get it tomorrow yaaaaaay :D
I'm also going shoe shopping tomorrow. Again. I both hate and love it. According to the shoe world I have big feet, usually a 10 1/2. Sizing tends to stop at around 9 1/2, MAYBE a 10, but they never bloody fit. I pull four or five pairs off the racks that I would wear and love, they come back with one, maybe two of them in the biggest size they have, and they're too small so I walk out with nothing. I neeeeeed summer work shoes but they just don't exist for 'big feet'. You can find nice comfortable sandal-type things but they're better suited to shorts and a tshirt than an office environment. Tomorrow I WILL FIND SHOES >O Just you watch me.
Also: toast + cream cheese + smoked salmon trimmings + mangoes on special + fried egg = awesome dinner. That is all :D
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Mon, May. 23rd, 2011 07:18 pm
So Mother's Day was last weekend :D Yeah I'm going to put more effort into updating in a timely manner one of these days, I swear >>
But yes. We took Mum and Gran (Dad's mum, who is 92 going on about 70) to Monarto Zoo, huge open-plains zoo out in the middle of nowhere. It ws SO much better than when I last went, which was admittedly a good 15 years ago. There's about a dozen giraffes now, one of which came RIGHT up to the bus with her big beautiful eyes, then gallopped off when the bus made noises she didn't like. Heaps of gazelley antelopey type things, pride of lions (six lionesses and a pimp. I mean lion), and omg the baby rhino was adorable~ <3 He kept making all this effort to stand up, stood there proudly for about two seconds, then plonked back down on his bum next to mummy. SOCUTE. Chimps were fun, too. And~ stuff.
BUT THEN. The main event, so far as Colin and I were concerned, was our dinner :D Sent Gran off to do dinner with one of her other sons, then we put on a mini-dégustation for Mum <3 The idea came from Colin when we were looking through the recipe books for ideas and couldn't decide between the mussels or the scallops for entrée, so why not do BOTH? :D AND WE DID. And it was awesome.
Started with paté and crusty bread, the only point where we cheated and bought Maggie Beer's Pheasant Farm paté, because it's awesome, we couldn't do better, and paté is complicated.
Then~ next one was me, with the mussels done in an awesome creamy bacon, garlic, leek and cider sauce and omg it was good. Next was the scallops, me with a bit of Colin, in that he barbecued them (PERFECTLY I might add) and I did the rest (sauce and potato/garlic/cauliflower purée. For those keeping track, we're up to 10 cloves of garlic for the meal now). Then Colin's turn came up with~ a lemon and passionfruit sorbet doused in Omni (cheap bubbly) to clense the palatte. Next was Colin's mini filet mignons, also barbecued PERFECTLY and omg so smokey and yum, with a salad by me~ that Mum said could count as a course in its own right, so count it we did! :D And finally, dessert by Colin, sticky mocha and date pudding.
Including the paté, seven courses all up. Yeah~ we're never going to top that XD Mum was just grinning the whole time, so we felt good :D And it was much fun! I like cooking fancy stuff =3
In other, completely unrelated news, I'm going to Sydney~ in September~ for the annual CFUD meetup that I missed last year :D Looking at fares right now and~ yeah. I don't care about the bad press Tiger gets, it's bloody hard to look past them.
Qantas: $304
Virgin: $253
Jetstar: $238
Tiger: $99.90
SEE? Less than a hundred dollars return to Sydney, people. You can't beat that. You couldn't DRIVE there for less than a hundred dollars. I'll hold off and see if any intriguing specials come up from Qantas or Virgin but~ not expecting anything. $99.90!
But yes. We took Mum and Gran (Dad's mum, who is 92 going on about 70) to Monarto Zoo, huge open-plains zoo out in the middle of nowhere. It ws SO much better than when I last went, which was admittedly a good 15 years ago. There's about a dozen giraffes now, one of which came RIGHT up to the bus with her big beautiful eyes, then gallopped off when the bus made noises she didn't like. Heaps of gazelley antelopey type things, pride of lions (six lionesses and a pimp. I mean lion), and omg the baby rhino was adorable~ <3 He kept making all this effort to stand up, stood there proudly for about two seconds, then plonked back down on his bum next to mummy. SOCUTE. Chimps were fun, too. And~ stuff.
BUT THEN. The main event, so far as Colin and I were concerned, was our dinner :D Sent Gran off to do dinner with one of her other sons, then we put on a mini-dégustation for Mum <3 The idea came from Colin when we were looking through the recipe books for ideas and couldn't decide between the mussels or the scallops for entrée, so why not do BOTH? :D AND WE DID. And it was awesome.
Started with paté and crusty bread, the only point where we cheated and bought Maggie Beer's Pheasant Farm paté, because it's awesome, we couldn't do better, and paté is complicated.
Then~ next one was me, with the mussels done in an awesome creamy bacon, garlic, leek and cider sauce and omg it was good. Next was the scallops, me with a bit of Colin, in that he barbecued them (PERFECTLY I might add) and I did the rest (sauce and potato/garlic/cauliflower purée. For those keeping track, we're up to 10 cloves of garlic for the meal now). Then Colin's turn came up with~ a lemon and passionfruit sorbet doused in Omni (cheap bubbly) to clense the palatte. Next was Colin's mini filet mignons, also barbecued PERFECTLY and omg so smokey and yum, with a salad by me~ that Mum said could count as a course in its own right, so count it we did! :D And finally, dessert by Colin, sticky mocha and date pudding.
Including the paté, seven courses all up. Yeah~ we're never going to top that XD Mum was just grinning the whole time, so we felt good :D And it was much fun! I like cooking fancy stuff =3
In other, completely unrelated news, I'm going to Sydney~ in September~ for the annual CFUD meetup that I missed last year :D Looking at fares right now and~ yeah. I don't care about the bad press Tiger gets, it's bloody hard to look past them.
Qantas: $304
Virgin: $253
Jetstar: $238
Tiger: $99.90
SEE? Less than a hundred dollars return to Sydney, people. You can't beat that. You couldn't DRIVE there for less than a hundred dollars. I'll hold off and see if any intriguing specials come up from Qantas or Virgin but~ not expecting anything. $99.90!
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Mon, Mar. 30th, 2009 05:53 pm
I'm~ not very good at updating when stuff is happening, am I? XD; HERE LOOK STUFF =DD
Mum~ has broken her fibula =( When she and Dad were in Tassie last week, she slipped on a twisty knobbly tree-root-rock-and-rain combination and has basically been hoping since then. She went to the doctor today tho annnnd yes. The rest of the family is now unofficially charged with keeping Mum from doing things. THIS IS HARD because she likes going to "just get her glasses" and ends up doing the washing up. Or "just doing her own ironing" then ends up doing all of it. I managed to steal the vacuuming from her over the weekend... then found out she was taking down the washing at the same time askjdghs
Also~ over the weekend, dinner party! Which means delicious food, of course. Not that we don't normally get delicious food, but this was three courses of it X9 And also nibblies, which I've just made up again to have with mojitos. You envy. I do love our pre-dinner drinks thing we have going. Always happens on a Friday night, uuuusually on a Saturday, then any other night during the week when someone feels like a martini or experimenting with a cocktail.
And I've been working lots, which is nice because Bruce went in for his 195,000km service on Thursday. NOT ONLY BUT ALSO, he's been having an Issue. Two weeks ago, while driving Colin to work and sitting at the traffic lights, Bruce turned off =( No ugly noises or anything, just turned off, and turning the key wouldn't even make the engine turn over. So we managed to use gravity to chuck him in neutral and roll into the servo which was handily enough right there next to us. Sat there going 'well, the actual car servicing spot doesn't open til 8, what now?' for a few minutes, then tried the key again, and voila, life. Hurrah! we think. Self-fixing car issues! And off we go to work/uni.
Thennnn when Mum and Dad were in Tassie, he did it again, only this time he wouldn't start again. This was on the freeway when only Colin had the car, so he rang me up and went DDD: a bit, I sympathetically went DDD: back, and we resolved to call the RAA. So, RAA guy rocked up, charged $165 for on-the-spot membership sign-up, lifted the bonnet, got Colin to turn the key, et voila, Bruce lives. aksdghalsk my poor brother DDD: RAA guy also pointed at something in the engine and said that's what was wrong, which made us both go DDDDD: summore cos yaknow, engine issues are EXPENSIVE.
HOWEVER. Service of around $150 included, it all came to $471, so we're not too irritated. There's always SOMETHING that comes up in addition to the basic service. There'd better not be for the next one, cos the 200k is the biiiiiiig service on its own. Growl. Hate cars. Why must everything about them be so expensive? ><
In happier news~ I got lots of editing done today, and made some headway with the plotting of book two =D I've got all the stuff I know down in relatively chronological order, so now the big gaps are more obvious and therefore easier to fill, or so we hope. Now I'm wondering whether to natter about this with Sallie and/or Shanra. On the one hand, it helps sort things out. On the other, I never like spoiling people XD; WE SHALL SEE.
And now~ I have things to read :DDD --or not because the oven buzzer's just gone off for my smoked salmon tarts. BUT. READING WILL GET DONE TONIGHT. ♥!
Mum~ has broken her fibula =( When she and Dad were in Tassie last week, she slipped on a twisty knobbly tree-root-rock-and-rain combination and has basically been hoping since then. She went to the doctor today tho annnnd yes. The rest of the family is now unofficially charged with keeping Mum from doing things. THIS IS HARD because she likes going to "just get her glasses" and ends up doing the washing up. Or "just doing her own ironing" then ends up doing all of it. I managed to steal the vacuuming from her over the weekend... then found out she was taking down the washing at the same time askjdghs
Also~ over the weekend, dinner party! Which means delicious food, of course. Not that we don't normally get delicious food, but this was three courses of it X9 And also nibblies, which I've just made up again to have with mojitos. You envy. I do love our pre-dinner drinks thing we have going. Always happens on a Friday night, uuuusually on a Saturday, then any other night during the week when someone feels like a martini or experimenting with a cocktail.
And I've been working lots, which is nice because Bruce went in for his 195,000km service on Thursday. NOT ONLY BUT ALSO, he's been having an Issue. Two weeks ago, while driving Colin to work and sitting at the traffic lights, Bruce turned off =( No ugly noises or anything, just turned off, and turning the key wouldn't even make the engine turn over. So we managed to use gravity to chuck him in neutral and roll into the servo which was handily enough right there next to us. Sat there going 'well, the actual car servicing spot doesn't open til 8, what now?' for a few minutes, then tried the key again, and voila, life. Hurrah! we think. Self-fixing car issues! And off we go to work/uni.
Thennnn when Mum and Dad were in Tassie, he did it again, only this time he wouldn't start again. This was on the freeway when only Colin had the car, so he rang me up and went DDD: a bit, I sympathetically went DDD: back, and we resolved to call the RAA. So, RAA guy rocked up, charged $165 for on-the-spot membership sign-up, lifted the bonnet, got Colin to turn the key, et voila, Bruce lives. aksdghalsk my poor brother DDD: RAA guy also pointed at something in the engine and said that's what was wrong, which made us both go DDDDD: summore cos yaknow, engine issues are EXPENSIVE.
HOWEVER. Service of around $150 included, it all came to $471, so we're not too irritated. There's always SOMETHING that comes up in addition to the basic service. There'd better not be for the next one, cos the 200k is the biiiiiiig service on its own. Growl. Hate cars. Why must everything about them be so expensive? ><
In happier news~ I got lots of editing done today, and made some headway with the plotting of book two =D I've got all the stuff I know down in relatively chronological order, so now the big gaps are more obvious and therefore easier to fill, or so we hope. Now I'm wondering whether to natter about this with Sallie and/or Shanra. On the one hand, it helps sort things out. On the other, I never like spoiling people XD; WE SHALL SEE.
And now~ I have things to read :DDD --or not because the oven buzzer's just gone off for my smoked salmon tarts. BUT. READING WILL GET DONE TONIGHT. ♥!
