Tonight’s FoodConnect veggie box included the biggest Black Russian I’ve ever seen. Get in MAH BELLEH!

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Let’s be honest – this is CRAP. I can’t tell if that’s Leonardo Dicaprio or Matthew Newton.

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I wore my new @ColettePatterns Lucky Cats Sorbetto today! Making my own continuous bias binding makes me feel like a total badass.

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Just dropped off Carrot at the airport for his flight home. Great visit!

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Sewing another @ColettePatterns Sorbetto! Japanese fabric with lucky cats. Just need to add binding to edges…

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Tonight we introduced Scott Wellstead to Guitar Hero. It’s amazing the difference a professional singer makes to our “band”!

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There is a lot of foil happening. I always feel vaguely guilt about that, in a bleeding-heart Greenie way.

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Shorter, with copper chunks. My head feels 5lbs lighter.

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I don’t understand why, with Sydney’s supposedly sophisticated coffee culture, I can’t get an iced coffee without friggin’ ice cream in it.

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Anatidaephobia.

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It really is a Very Big Duck.

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My Grandma Veva predicted a bloodbath. Notre Dame players “would go home in an ambulance.” Mind you, she’s an ND fan. I’m also starting to think she’s a psychic.

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Commemorated ND’s loss by heading out into the furnace that is outside. (It hit 108 two hours ago.) This sort of heat always feels very Australian to me. I know we had hot days back home in Indiana, but never this dry or this windy. Stepping outside literally feels like the blast you get when you open a hot oven door. Crossing my fingers for all of you in bush fire prone areas…

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The moment a very special little boy met his new best friend.

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Feminist rage rising. At least I’ve got more anecdotes the next time the family start asking why I haven’t had kids.

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Just informed the guys on my office floor that we’ll be listening to the Notre Dame game tomorrow afternoon rather than music. They’re cool with that.

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Google had a good photographer at their Christmas party. You can hardly tell I’d been drinking for 6 hours!

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The heat today (109F!) ruled out any ND wear beyond a cap. GO IRISH!

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We bought a souvenir at the Space Center last month, and today we built it. NanoBlock shuttle FTW!

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Forecast tomorrow for Sydney is 43C. That’s 109F. This means that in the space of one week, we’ve spanned 50C (122F) going from Chicago to Sydney. #roasting

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