Utegate as told by lolcats. Heh. I thought it started out really funny but went on way too long.
Author: Kris
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Preserving Australia
Preserving Australia – preserving, canning, and cheese making at home. SWEEEEET. The Snook and I haven’t been able to find any Mason jars, but that site just pointed me to Redback Trading, who imports them. And they’ve also got stoneware (for sauerkraut and kimchee), cast iron cookware, and smokers? I am in PIONEER WOMAN HEAVEN.
Edited to add: Ooh, maybe I could make my own cheese curd for poutine!
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RunningBlog
Another light week thanks to the virus that laid me low on Friday.
This week: 9.5km (6mi)
Last week: 8.4km (5.25mi)I’m happy to report though that I finally made it out for a run this morning, and I felt pretty good. My shin didn’t bother me at all. I had some tightness in my calves and hamstrings, but I guess that could partially be attributed to me basically lying prone for 72 hours straight on the weekend and not stretching or exercising in any way. I’m eager to get back into my training plan if I can. This was meant to be a recovery week anyway, so I’ve got some breathing room. I’m just annoyed at missing three long runs due to the double-whammy of shin splints and sickness!
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Shared today on Twitter
I was feeling so much better today… until I realised my left ear & jaw are aching. An ear infection just after fighting off a virus? ARGH.
Ha! The Knitted Stig actually made it on to the show: http://bit.ly/4FRydh
@misswired My friend Kate – the one whose blog is linked. She put him in the Royal Easter Show this past year. 🙂
@Ezzles Might need to engage your services later this year, actually! Our place is nicely high-tech. 🙂
Listening to @ironbrandon on my way home and wishing I felt good enough to go for a run.
@Ezzles probably the US to visit the fam at the end of the year. We’ll need somebody to herd our idiot cats.
Broadway Newsagency has crowd control barriers up to deal with crazed lottery ticket buyers. No, I didn’t buy in. http://twitpic.com/8u3d4
Hm. Suddenly realized that conversations with the Snook occur across the unbreachable chasm dividing the world of the BA and the developer.
Just completed a 4.00 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/D0Ali #runkeeper
I feel great! Got some drops at chemist last night that helped earache. Went for 1st run in a week today & had ZERO shin issues. Yay July!
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Persian Love Cake
I really need to make the Snook a Persian Love Cake. Looks like something he’d like!
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There, I Fixed It
There, I Fixed It. Ha! It’s like CraftFail but for DIY and home repair.
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Shared today on Twitter
Wait, wait… Did a lesbian knitting group from the Netherlands just refer to the SSKers as “crafters” and invite them to a new group?? o_O
I stand corrected. They hit every group on Ravelry that had “Sydney” in the description, apparently.
@mrs_sockvictim I did too! I gave away my sneaky trick the other night, didn’t I? 🙂
@j_wren Feel free. I was more amused than annoyed. Go get ’em!
Where the hell are the Park St buses? Been waiting 10 minutes. Have seen every Newtown bus 3 times…
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Shared today on Twitter
Oy vey. One of the people booked in for my sock class was a 9-year-old. Who gave up halfway through. And who then puked in the shop.
@crumpet @glittertrash Ooh, we just got some Black Russians in yesterday’s veggie box. Very nice.
Bailing on Rachel’s Stitch and Bitch in favor of going back to bed. Talk about a lost weekend…
Feeling a lot better. House is a wreck and I accomplished nothing all weekend, but at least I can stop munching paracetamol.
Still in bed. Going to take one more day to rest and shake this bug.
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When Virii Attack
Sick. Ugh. I felt kind of crappy and tired last weekend, but it never turned into anything so I figured I fought it off. Turns out that wasn’t quite the case. Friday morning at work I suddenly became aware of a telltale tingling in my lip. Cold sore! Again! This is my second one this year, which is way more frequent than usual. I guess I was more sick and/or stressed than I thought last week. The problem is that as I’ve gotten older, my reaction to the virus has gotten more and more extreme. Having a blister is the least of my worries. The lymph nodes under that side of my jaw swell up and get painful and tender. If it’s really bad, I get shooting pains (neuralgia) all the way up the side of my face. That leads to a headache. It’s really pretty awful, and it can take more than a week to heal. Anyway, after my last one Dr. Chin gave me a prescription for an antiviral. The key, he said, was that I had to take it IMMEDIATELY when I noticed the symptoms. Of course, the prescription was at home and I was at work. I went to a drugstore at lunch to get some Zovirax and ask the chemist how long the window was for taking the antiviral. He said I could still take it that night when I got home, but the sooner the better. I finished up what work I could and then left early at 4pm. I grabbed the script at home and went straight to get it filled ($28 for three pills!). By then my lip was getting puffier and I was feeling more and more crappy. I took the antiviral, then doped up with lysine, vitamin C, and paracetamol. I basically spent all day yesterday in bed, which is pretty unusual for me. (I rarely nap.) The good news is that I think the antivirals have helped. The blister started disappearing yesterday and is now nearly gone. My glands are tender, but it’s manageable with painkillers. And I never got the shooting neuralgia pains, which is a big relief. I still feel dizzy and tired, and I’m annoyed that I’m going to miss my long run for the third week in a row. Still, it feels like this is going to be a much shorter recovery time. Back to bed, I guess…
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Shared today on Twitter
Have spent nearly entire day in bed, only stirring briefly for last visit to Bourke St Bakery. *sob* Time to try sitting up, I guess.
@rhagern Heh. You’re not an idiot; it’s only had search for the past 2 weeks. (It was in 3.0 update.)
Time to pop some paracetamol and man up for a trip into the city. My knitting students must not be disappointed!