Month: October 2002
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Cuteness overload. Check out these pictures of new baby animals born in Australian zoos. I want a baby koala, Daddy!
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Weekend Sporting Highlights: Notre Dame defeated Stanford 31-7 for their fifth straight victory of the season. All my girls were at the game. Man, that would’ve been fun. Go Irish! The Sydney Roosters won the Rugby League Final over the New Zealand Warriors 30-8. I watched the second half and it was awesome. Good on…
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On Monday I shall be wearing red panties (if I can find some at Kmart, that is). You should too!
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary How does your garden grow? “I live with my brat in a high-rise flat, So how in the world would I know.” — Roald Dahl My garden is being quite contrary at the moment. The Snook and I are trying to grow basil in a big pot. We bought seeds and…
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Can you identify these computer screens from movies? I only got 6 out of 12 correct.
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Friday Five: 1. What size shoe do you wear?I wear a 9 1/2 in U.S. ladies’ sizes. I’ve given up on knowing what that equates to in any of the other countries I’ve lived in. I find that if you ask a salesperson, they can usually help you to convert. 2. How many pairs of…
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School Disco starts in Sydney tomorrow. *shudder* They’re even bringing in a former Neighbours star to promote it.
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This Herald article (“Greer attacks abortion pill instead of backing it”) makes it sound like Germaine Greer suddenly went all anti-choice. Instead she just points out that it’s a procedure nobody wants to go through and therefore the best action is to try to reduce the number of women wanting/needing one. Sounds pretty sensible to…
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Gym WeirdnessAhh, I knew the gym would distract me from that mess. Today’s observations: I counted three people wearing jeans. THREE! People who wear jeans to work out always remind me of the stupid kids that would forget their gym clothes in junior high. Please, just go to Kmart and buy some $3 cotton shorts.…
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Oh my gosh. This Cornfusion Corn Maze looks like the funnest thing ever! I’m seriously going to try to do this the next time I go home to the Midwest. Who wouldn’t want to run around in a maze of corn that’s the size of six football fields?! (Link courtesy of TD, who’s already been…