Month: January 2012
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Steph & Eva: Challenge: Bento with Adult Theme – Eva made sexy bento! *applauds*
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New Year’s Eve 2011The Snook and I were invited to spend New Year’s Eve at Josh and Jamie’s house at Blue’s Point. They’ve got a great view of the Bridge from their balcony. I even got a new frock for the occasion! We had to get there quite early as they close off the whole…
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Dinner Tonight: Pork Chops, Maple Baked Beans, and ColeslawFor those that don’t know, the Snook and I take turns cooking dinner just about every night of the week. We use a lot of recipes off the Internet, and I thought it would be fun to document some of them here for you. (And I know…
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Spudds Christmas Party 2011A couple weeks ago was the annual Spudds Christmas Party. I went along to collect the award for our company. There were plenty of people there, but I knew NO ONE. So I got some practice at mingling and small talk with total strangers. (Protip: Find a hot Italian chick and hang…
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Cheers to my cousin Jenny for alerting us to the availability of Best of Bootie 2011. These free mashup “CDs” are available in January every year, and they are AWESOME. I love very catchy music, and frankly, these mixes are pretty much my only connection to what’s happening in modern pop and R&B. They make…
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Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals #36: British PicnicThis was our 36th cooking/blogging experiment from Jamie’s 30 Minute Meals, and I’ve now got a backlog of THREE meals, so get ready for a flood of posts! The weather has finally gotten appropriately “summery” here in Sydney, so we chose to make the “British Picnic” for this one:…
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The Wedding Blog – Amanda Palmer has finally posted the story of her wedding to Neil Gaiman, and it actually made me tear up a little. I identify with a lot of her reasons for initially not wanting to get married, and then for changing her mind. And I really identify with the idea of…
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2011 Knitting Round-UpAs you can see, my main output this year was socks. I don’t think there were very many of us who worked all the way through the Super Special Six Pattern Sock Club. But you know me – my favourite thing is to set a long term goal and then plod along doggedly…