It was a rather lackluster performance night on Australian Idol Sunday, so I wasn’t expecting much from the results show last night. In fact, the Snook and I basically fast-forwarded through everything just to find out who got booted. My finger slipped on the button a little bit during the group sing though, and that half-second glimpse was enough to know that we were missing something special. “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, THEY’RE DOING PSYCHO KILLER!” We went back. I can honestly say that seeing James Mathison pop up from beneath the camera singing “Fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa fa far better” was the single greatest moment I have ever witnessed on this show.

And yeah, Wee Ben got booted. He was boring me a little bit, honestly. So I’m not too put out. I still think it’s Matt and Tarisai’s to lose…

Frankly, I can’t believe it’s taken them this long to get around to stuntcasting Rent.

Not goooooood news. The bastards have rejected me. You must all now switch to using Yahoo as a search engine. I’m going to go drown my sorrows in wine.

The heat will be on!
The Snook and I have done some pretty crazy things in our time. We got married in Vegas with an Elvis impersonator. We’ve gone to grown-up Space Camp. We made a turducken. And yet somehow, I think this will be one of the best adventures yet: We’re going to dinner with two Iron Chefs. SERIOUSLY. In just over three weeks, we will sit down to a seven-course meal prepared by Iron Chefs Sakei and Chen. How INSANE is that? I cannot wait. I am primed and ready for anything. So bring on your fish ice cream, Sakei! Bring on your slabs of foie gras and piles of shaved truffle!

I know it’s extravagant. I don’t care. If you like food as much as we do, you’d do it too!

From Flickr: Craft Rooms. I’ve been thinking about this a lot, now that I’ll have a whole room to organise all my crafty stuff in!

How to make bibim bap. Excellent. I’m hungry.

Hooray! Kristen’s published a preview photo of Alexander in the Baby Yoda costume… 🙂

Sock Yarn for Sale
Thanks to the ever-fabulous kylie gusset, five skeins of the Knittery’s “Warm Pinks” Merino Cashmere sock yarn are winging their way to me from Melbourne. Not only is this a lovely yarn, but $5 from each skein is being donated towards breast cancer research. Two of the skeins are already claimed (by me and Hannah) but the other three are up for grabs if anyone’s interested. Because kylie got them at a discount for her bulk order and consolidated one Sydney shipment to me to save postage, each skein is $24.00 (lower than what you’d get on your own). Let me know if you’re interested!

Brain Teaser
Stefanie linked to this week’s NPR Sunday Puzzle, which is this:

Name a well-known city in the United States, two words, 10 letters altogether. Add the letter A at the front, add the city’s two-letter state postal abbreviation at the end, the resulting 13-letter chain will be palindromic, that is, it will read backward and forward the same. What city is this?

It took me a couple minutes of doodling on the back of an envelope to get it. This will be a tricky one for non-USians!