Since the Tapestry Craft Stitch and Bitch will be going on hiatus in a few weeks – (*cough* Winter Sale! *cough*), the girls and I have been looking for an alternative location in the neighborhood. Last night I took Amy and Miss Jane over to Red Oak to see if it was suitable. It was! We started off with some of the Framboise Froment which got everyone in a festive mood. Then DING DING DING! Unbeknownst to us, the Master Brewer was down at the Australian International Beer Awards and Red Oak had just won a medal for their Special Strong Ale. The staff brought ’round a taster for everyone in the bar! We cheered. Another full-size beer later, and another victory for the Oatmeal Stout! (That was my favorite, I think.) And lastly, just before we left, they won another one for their “Rauchbier,” this crazy ale that uses smoked barley (and really, truly tastes like it’s brewed with ham). So we ended up having quite a fun evening!

NoPeriod.com. I’m so glad I’m back on the Depo Provera…

How Lightsabers Work. Cool!

Rules for Cats. So, so true. (Link courtesy of John.)

While watching Survivor last night…
Snookums: Well, of course Gregg (pronounced GREG-GUH) and Jenn (pronounced JEN-NUH) were going to get together…
A minute passes while he thinks about it.
Snookums: Actually, maybe I shouldn’t be making fun of people with superfluous double letters on the ends of their names.
Me: Ya think, ROD-DUH?

The cutest jacket EVER.
Heading out to yoga in my new pink reward jacket!

Tonight’s culinary adventure: homemade chicken ramen in the Wagamama style. I liberally substituted things in that recipe, throwing in a bunch of leftover bok choy, snow peas, and carrots. It turned out pretty well!

Check it out: Kevin Smith reviews Revenge of the Sith, and he likes it! He really likes it! (It’s also hugely spoileriffic – don’t look, Rob! – but thankfully it confirms that that script I read was legit.)

DietBlog: The all-important weigh-in was tonight… and my stomach was in knots all day. I was so stressed. I felt like it was the day before a final exam. By 5:00 I totally felt like barfing. I just had a horrible little voice in my head saying that it was all a mistake, that the scales had been wrong, that it was all a fluke, that somehow I’d manage to put on weight… It was awful. Eventually it was 5:30 and I headed over to the Dymocks Building. I spotted our group leader Emily and waved nervously. “I think it could be a good night,” I said, pointing at the “Total Loss: 4.9 kilos” in my booklet. “I’m hoping to reach my first goal.” I stepped on to the scales and tried to lean forward to see the digital readout, but I had to settle for watching the attendant scrawl it in my book: “6.0 kilos.” SIX KILOGRAMS. That’s thirteen pounds! The stomach butterflies disappeared. I felt JUBILANT. I rushed to tell Emily and collect my “5 Kilo Achievement Bookmark,” which I promptly MMSed to the Snook. I felt like hugging everybody in the room. I got congratulated by several of the other members. And when I got home, the Snook gave me the biggest, proudest hug EVER.

And yay! I get to go buy my reward tomorrow… Pictures to follow.

Random Tiger Tip for Australians: I was playing around with the nifty weather forecast widget (on the Dashboard) when I noticed that we were going to be having a very, very warm week. Curious, I clicked on the widget to be shown the extended forecast in Safari… only to discover it was for Sydney, Florida. It seems the widget defaults to US cities. Happily, Australian locations do seem to work; I just had to enter “Sydney, New South Wales” instead. Just so you know.