why do I have three separate pairs of 3.25mm circular needles? I have never needed any 3.25mm circular needles!

more importantly, why did i not read the pattern properly before working on it for two evenings? huh? WOULD IT HAVE BEEN SO HARD?

excuse me while i rip everything out.

QUICK, A QUESTION:

is there a significant difference between "whilst" and "while"?

Dear Coles, when I said I didn't want any free samples, what I meant was I didn't want ANY FREE SAMPLES. I do not want your free "my first tuna!", I do not want your free hollandaise sauce, I DO NOT WANT YOUR FREE FROZEN KIPPERS.

For godsake. free hollandaise sauce is one thing. FREE STINKY STUFF is an entirely other, deal-breaking thing. We shall now be using Woolworths.

Anyone want some frozen kippers? One day only deal!

And also, greater dandenong is hiring both librarians and customer service staff. There's a chance that all those jobs have someones name on them, i admit, but dandenong and springvale library are both excellent places to work at - the pay is decent, the co workers are almost all excellent, and there is good food nearby.

hey someone was looking for library type jobs? Korowa is going to advertise a library tech shortly, I believe.

And someone wanted to stalk me on tripit? I am there, with my (gasp) real name. That is, the name on my drivers license rather than the one on my passport. Though I don't believe you can stalk me effectively without signing up and asking my permission. I've imported a bunch of the details of our trip to europe and it made it very clear that i fucked up one of the flights and so we have one day less in edinburgh. if i never post again, louise has gotten annoyed about this. oops.

from craftzine's review of savory baking:

"This is great for the intermediately skilled home cook looking to expand his/her repertoire of favorites. The tart I made required that I know how to toast walnuts (dry in a pan is how we did it), separate eggs (crack the whole thing into a bowl and pick up the yolk with your fingers), handle fancy cheese (remove the foil but let the food processor handle the rind), and work with delicate dough (I used a big cake mover to transfer it to the tart pan)."

Really? separating eggs is a skill for an intermediate cook? Toasting walnuts is not a beginner skill? Using a "big cake mover" is a remarkable achievement? This is a dough one makes in the food processor and then kneads - and then the recipe points out you can patch the dough with scraps. Yes. They are all identifiers of a delicate dough. One that needs special tools.

Remove the foil from fancy cheese. Goddamn. The reason she doesn't specify you should remove the shell from the walnuts is that the recipe only asks for walnut pieces.

Man, I must have been an advanced cook when I was nine! I'd never even heard of risotto, but I could separate eggs!

Reasons I may be the youngest person who lives on my block:

Today's junkmail consisted of an ad for really small and extremely comfortable hearing aids.

also,
when is caity coming homeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Did I tell you recently how glad I am that I never had to go to high school in America in the early 60s?

This much.

cake for breakfast.

at noon.

but i am dressed. i even have plans to leave the house today.

What is this? Is this hayfever? i have sneezed more today than ever before!

Hayfever is awful! I totally actually sympathize with all the hayfever sufferers I used to insincerely sympathize with.

sneeze.

but on the bright side, HOLIDAYS. now I can sneeze at home!

beth is being congratulated by KING KWOK

So we've got plane tickets and a hotel booked. Louise and me are off to sydney for the weekend!

---look caity! I booked a hotel room before I got to the city! more than 24 hours before I'd need it! It's almost like I knew I would...

I replaced my photo wall this evening, without actually printing any more pictures, just rearranging most of the ones that were already there. (I'd taken them down so I could put up the conbook and see how it all looked printed out.)
There's one photo of pirates from the Galway st pat's day parade, and one photo of the crowd at the Falls last year, and one photo of me and maddy, and one photo of me being touristy in ireland somewhere (blarney i think). Everything else - about 40 photos originally, only 30 now - is landscapes and skies. And the crowd at falls is really a landscape with sky above and crowd below. it very much looks like "who travelled thru europe on her own? someone with a camera!"

I got home from work two days in a row to find no continuum related email i had to deal with! WIN.

caity louise and beth, because of timing issues, we will be watching spn on monday (the 14th) soon after 7pm. come and help us! there will be fangirl-mocking! and probably food - let me know if you're coming and i can work out how much food.

clare would also like to inform my flist (and not her own, for some reason)
-she has stood on her own foot
-she is snuggling teh kitty
-we are out of creme caramel and i should go pick up some more on my walk
-now she is having a shower.

this is the end of the clare related news.

clare is going to the toilet.

Ahh, poop. My job didn't take out nearly enough money to pay back my HECS. Now I owe the tax office $1500! Not the kind of tax refund I was looking for in a year that involved two conventions and a trip to Europe.

Who wants to come round my place tomorrow night and help me slice and laminate badges for the convention?

You do? That's great! I'll be home at 5, and we can all order takeaway for dinner.

Excellent! See you there!

Or alternatively, perhaps I am cranky because I am about to be quite unwell. Ugh.

I need to make up a new tshirt:

No, it's not my hormones. You actually are a turd.

I may have promised to join the old girls choir tmw.