“r” before “e”, except after “c”
the random news:
wouldn’t it be great if the guv’ner of texas turned out to be gay?
“sex and the city” ends in the us tonight. nobody tell me!!! the final episode doesn’t air here til march.
the man with 18,000 lives, ozzy nearly died twice in last year’s accident.
an amish reality show?!?!?
wonder where new catchphrases come from?
love him or hate him, you can count on nader to run in an election year.
is that a pang of sympathy i’m feeling? spot dies.
pondering earlier today…things i have adapted to quite easily:
turning everything into a question (e.g. “can you not?” “did you not?”, also saying “i did do”)
spelling (i.e. eradicating “z”, throwing around extra “u”s with abandon, putting “r” before “e”, comes from writing all those government reports!)
no snowboots and mild winters (coulda saved a lot of space on sweaters in my suitcase!)
four weeks holiday (well, duh!)
the art of drinking on schoolnights (and it *is* an artform)
things i still cannot seem to master:
running a bath (always too hot, too cold, spilling over and leaking through the bathroom floor…)
cooking (okay, i admit, this is primarily an excuse for my laziness)
the difference between lagers and bitters (this is practically sacrilege, but i am now at the point where i am too embarrassed to ask!)
metric in general (i think i am just deficient in that gene… okay, another excuse for laziness!)
things i will never understand:
the advanced technology exists to *mix* the hot and cold water *from the same tap*, why not use it?
the switches on plugpoints and the “standby” mechanism on televisions – what purpose do they serve?
the topless women in the daily newspaper (not a *good* paper, mind you, but still…)
bagging your own groceries (trying to juggle money, bags, change while you hold up the queue and they sit there and watch you [quite possibly laughing behind your back as you leave] seems so very inefficient)
indiscriminate use of butter on all sandwiches
how to keep the mass quantities of heavy change from ripping the lining of your pockets (*sigh*, time to drag out the needle and thread again…)
why is there nothing open after 11:00?!?!
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15.02.2006 @ 20:17 pm
[...] Thus, the brownie box mix. So we had dinner, and I went to bake the brownies. And I went to follow the directions on the back. The ingredient measurements were in millilitres. And my measuring cup is in decilitres. (you see where this is going, don’t you?) those of you who know me know I’m not great with metric at the best of times. I was tired, and had had a few glasses of wine and I wasn’t thinking properly, and only realised once I had a big bowl of brownie soup, that I had well and truly fucked up. There was much sobbing and J had to calm me down as I poured my brownies down the sink. The cumulative weight of all my culinary disasters caught up to me, and I was inconsolable. [...]