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Month: April 2010

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @randomknits I might recycle the bridesmaid’s dress from my sister’s wedding. I could have donated it! But instead it’s just in the closet.

    I’m live-tweeting #masterchef again over at @getupgo. More details on our site! http://bit.ly/9amFWN

    RT @kcarruthers: LOL ‘Glee’ Gleeks vs. Justin Bieber Beliebers: Twitter War! http://bit.ly/aY1dvq // Attn @getupgo!

    Channel 10: Your website sucks. The Glee page does not say WHEN THE NEXT EPISODE IS ON. You have no email address. YOU FAIL AT THE INTERNET.

    @toastman Actually I need to know for work, so not really a whitewhine. Still definitely a #firstworldproblem though. 🙂

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @Roceal Ours died last yr. Do you need a recommendation to replace it? Thomson Plumbing was cheapest and best we found: http://bit.ly/9ohPT

    Went to visit @SallyPompom in hospital but had to leave early. Fear I may have finally caught Snook’s cold. Bleurgh.

    Nope, not feeling good at all. Doing that Elaine Benes thing where I SHRIEK at fellow commuters in my head. MOOOOVE! MOOOOOOOOVE!

    I am live-tweeting #masterchef over at @getupgo with a couple friends from work!

    HAHA! Did you see the look on Jonathan’s face when Jimmy’s name was announced? I think he threw up in his mouth a little! #masterchef – KH

    @Epaulette *sob* I don’t have any pink pants! But I could tie a jaunty scarf round my neck…

    @randomknits Hahahah… Okay, Milk Duds are the antithesis of Peeps. Milk Duds are gooooood. I’m glad you’re trying a worthy American candy!

    @randomknits @gilmae Your next target: Sugar Daddy. Seriously. http://bit.ly/c2llqO

  • Still behind.

    Well, the depression of last week has lifted but I’m still finding it hard to get moving. I had both a flu shot and an allergy shot last Friday, and I’ve just felt a bit sluggish and flat ever since. My workouts have been frustratingly non-productive. I just feel like I’m fighting everything now. I’m also in desperate denial that I’ve finally caught the Snook’s cold. I’M NOT SICK. I’M NOT SICK. If I repeat it enough times, it’ll be true, right?

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @ozgamer Nice. My new fave photo apps are TiltShiftGen and ShakeItPhoto. 🙂

    Congrats to @TimBags and @Steffi_83 on their big news! 🙂

    @SallyPompom Hooray! Great to hear it. Still at hospital? Was planning another visit tomorrow evening…

    Eek, I time-shifted and I’m half an hour behind on Masterchef. Hopefully there are enough ads for me to catch up to @getupgo!

    @getupgo My husband referred to it as a Pavlova Hat. 😛

    I just paid off my final student loan payment. Over $40K paid out over 11 years. EPIC. I feel a little dazed.

  • Shared today on Twitter

    @witty_knitter Cute! He looks like Petey! 🙂

    Nearly at Marigold for yumcha with Steph and Eva!

    Holy crap. Marigold is NUTS.

    YUM CHA!!! http://twitpic.com/1gfnn4

    I just ate my first chicken’s foot. SERIOUSLY. (It was yummy.)

    What’s next after chicken’s feet? TRIPE! It’s a real day of firsts for me.

    My reward for trying new things: a beautiful sunny yellow custard tartlet! http://twitpic.com/1gg2vq

    For @randomknits: Mango Pancake Thing! http://twitpic.com/1ggb62

    @AusVintageGrrl Good luck! You’ll be awesome!

  • New Things

    Caramel BobI spent Saturday morning at my hairdresser getting new hair. I was tired of the red, and I was sick of the length. I needed something different. My usual stylist Desireé was booked out, so I had an awesome new Kiwi guy named Carl. Carl spent FOUR HOURS taking the red out. He did a full head of foils, and then another colour in-between, and then a third colour once the foils came out. Then he cut about half of it off, changing Big Red into the Caramel Bob. I love it! I feel grown-up yet funky.

    Chicken FeetToday I headed to Marigold for yum cha with Steph and Eva and a bunch of friends. It was fantastic! Noisy and chaotic and packed, but fantastic. I ate everything. I even felt brave enough to try my very first “phoenix talon” (i.e. chicken foot). I KNOW! I just repeated to myself several times that it was just a funny-looking chicken wing. The sauce was delicious, and it was mostly gelatinous yumminess (with a fair few bones to spit out). I also had my first ever piece of tripe, which was probably more confronting (in terms of texture). I celebrated my bravery with some yummy desserts such as mango pancake and egg tarts. It was a magnificent feast!

    Tonight, the Snook and I headed off to Alexandria to mooch around the homewares stores and get ideas for our kitchen renovation. On the way home, we stopped off at Bunnings to cross a long-standing item off my House To-Do List: new toilet seats! We have two toilets, and I actually like the style quite a lot. But the seats! They’re flimsy old plastic with horrible chips and stains on them. We picked up some beautiful new ones and Snookums had them installed within minutes. The new ones are stylish, sturdy, and pristine white. It seems like such a small thing, but having these in my bathroom really does make me feel happier! Here’s the Before and After…

    Toilet - Before Toilet - After

  • Shared today on Twitter

    I am apparently closing in on the record for number of bleach foils on one person’s head. #hairsalon

    Behold the Bleach Foil Monster from Beyond! http://twitpic.com/1g4g2t

    @AirForceTed I’ll post a glamour shot at the end! But the intermediate stages are never pretty. 🙂

    Big Red has become the Caramel Goddess. Now for the actual haircut.

    @witty_knitter OI! Only I am allowed to make jokes about my Giant Heed. 🙂

    FOUR HOURS! But the Caramel Bob is done at last. http://twitpic.com/1g5nvo

    @stufromoz I love it. Will put a better pic up later. Full head of foils plus two other dyes to get the red out!

    WHAT THE HELL? I uploaded via Twitpic, and it gave me the link for somebody else’s photo! Will try again.

    And now for the Glamour Shot…. http://twitpic.com/1g68qi

  • Shared today on Twitter

    Silly Kris. Here I am RATIONING my precious soy sauce for my sushi rolls, when there were two more little plastic fishes hiding in the bag!

    Heaven help us. I have just bought the Glee iPhone app: http://bit.ly/9JRzPk. Knitting camp next weekend is gonna be AUTOTUNED AWESOMENESS.

    RT @venks79: ANZ Bank trials mobile ePOS http://bit.ly/acluXf

    @gilmae Just wait til @randomknits and I start doing iPhone karaoke duets over the Internets. (OMIGOD, IS THIS THE FUTURE OR WHAT?!)

    @gilmae Crap. Must pay off remained of student loan NOW or I’m gonna get screwed.

    @randomknits Holy crap. If St Brigid has one, I’ll lose it too. That’s ridiculously bad!

    @randomknits I was tempted to click Love for you, if only because there’s no EFFING APPALLING button. 🙁

    Dinner: Cincinnati Chili 3-ways. Yum. http://bit.ly/5MgoHr

    Hairdresser. I feel the need for a drastic change.

  • Strata AGM

    Further evidence of my inability to say “no.”
    Last night was our building’s Strata AGM. You’ll recall that last year the Snook put up his hand to be on the Committee. He was going to do the same this year, but he caught a cold yesterday and didn’t feel up to going. So I went along without him and put his name forward as before. Then it came time to elect the officebearers, and the outgoing chairperson really wanted to hand over to somebody else. No one volunteered. I eventually called the Snook to see if he was willing, but he really didn’t want to do it. That’s when my neighbour Mark (the treasurer) said, “Why don’t you do it, Kris?” Oh balls. Sure, why not take on ANOTHER extracurricular activity?! So not only did I get put on the Committee in the Snook’s place, I got installed as the bloody chairperson. I’ve never done this before.

  • Fireball!

    Ooh, did anybody in Indiana see the flaming meteorite?