Month: August 2010
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Shared today on Twitter
@SallyPompom Nice! Let me know when you want a lesson on the website. I’ll show you how you can post stuff directly yourself. 🙂
@drkknits Did you get your postcard? Kunaal said he got his last night, so you should get it soon!
@sharre 11-7 IS rough. Worst ever. My sympathies…
@henrytapia Welcome home!
So tired. Snook and I going to bed at 8pm. @kunaal84 says 1 day of jet lag per hour shifted. Is that right??
Oven repairman is here. Everybody send positive vibes that he’ll deem it a warranty repair!
Dear Bus Dude: Any remorse I would feel for coughing on you is removed by your refusal to close your legs and give me more than 20% of seat.
Teaching @zedsains how to use her iPhone. We have achieved genuine Childlike Wonder (TM) folks!
@atomic_anu @mpesce Heh. Only if he was on the 461 to the city at 8:45… 🙂
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RunningBlog: Weeks 31-32
I always knew that the last week of the trip would be hard to get in my runs. We were travelling by ourselves in Wisconsin, and we were doing a lot of sightseeing on our feet. (We spent nearly five hours walking through the House on the Rock, for instance, so there was no way I could run after that.) I did get in a 4-miler on the treadmill at our hotel though. Then we basically lost two full days in transit back to Sydney, and then another two to jet lag. Finally managed a decent run (in the freezing rain) on Tuesday, only to come down with a cold later that same day. I’m hangin’ on. My only consolation is that last week was a scheduled cut-back week anyway, so I haven’t wrecked my training plan too badly. I just need to get back out there as soon as I can.
Aug. 1: 10.05km
Aug. 4: 6.4km
Aug. 10: 7.13km
Total for these two weeks: 23.58km (14.73mi)
Total in 2010: 590.32km (368.95mi)My tally for 2010 has taken a beating though. I’m now 25km behind where I need to be to meet my goal of running 1000km in the calendar year. Eeek!
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Chunker!
Welcome to Chunkerville. Population: 2.
Yikes. Snookums replaced the batteries in our bathroom scales today so we could see how our weights fared after three weeks of American food. Folks, it was pretty depressing. I was actually thinking of going back to Weight Watchers. On a whim though, I checked out Calorie King. I used to like using their site to check nutrition information for Australian foods, but last year they switched to an expensive paid-subscription model. I was pleased to see today that they’ve scrapped this and gone back to FREE. If you’re Australian and you want to try out an online food/exercise tracker, I suggest you check it out. -
Worn out.
Tired.
Rest assured, I’m still working on getting photos up from our trip. But the double whammy of jet lag and then the sudden onset of a cold have left me wiped out. I’m tired of feeling so sleepy and worn out all the time. I just want sunshine and energy! -
Shared today on Twitter
Snookums scored the iPhone 4. So if you want to buy one outright, sounds like the Apple Store had some today. (Big queue though.)
iPhone 4 syncing. Brand new bottle of paracetamol beside me. Good for what ails ya!
Any iPhone 4 users able to try out FaceTime with me?
@imdominating OHFORGOD’SSAKE. No. I’m going to show them my horrible snotty bedhead. 🙂
@Lauren_lolly_ Yes, over WiFi. I’ll DM you my phone number. Give me a try when you can!
@ozquokka @redambition It occurs to me that it’s not much use if no one else has one yet! Oh well. It’s pretty and shiny. 🙂
@Epaulette Rodd got it for me today to make me feel better (and thus scoring mega Husband Points). They had stock at the Apple Store!
Whoa! I had no idea the Starmore books were getting reprinted. That’s awesome. I can finally own Aran Knitting!
@Lauren_lolly_ Yikes! Oh well, give me a call tomorrow if you think of it. 🙂
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Fairisle Vest
A Fair Isle vest, patterned after one made for the Prince of Wales in the 1930s. *sigh* If the Snook would wear things like this, I would knit them for him.
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the Weather
Scott Pilgrim vs. the Weather. I agree. This is how all movies should be marketed. I am also amused that Schwartzman seems really comfortable and off-the-cuff and funny, while Cera looks even more awkward than he does in movie roles.