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Author: Kris

  • Peeing in the road

    Peeing in the road
    We were joking around at work today, teasing one of my co-workers that she has pinkeye. (She really doesn’t.) Of course, I immediately heard my grandmother’s voice in my head saying “You’ll get a stye in your eye if you pee in the road!” I’ve actually mentioned that to Rodd a couple times in the past, but it appears to have been a uniquely Midwestern superstition. Have you ever heard it? I know I’m not the only one; there are a ton of Google results. What a funny thing, huh?

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    Can anybody in Sydney recommend someone for a partial kitchen renovation? I need to compare a quote.

    Congrats to @sitelyhq on the public launch of their sweet free website builder: http://www.sitely.com.au. Whoever coded that is AWESOME. 🙂

    How to Win at Being a Husband: “Are you going to your knitting group? Dinner will be waiting. Oh, should I download Portal for you?” *swoon*

    @liedra Snook was downloading it for me tonight. Will check when I get home. 15 minutes or so…

    @liedra Yikes. Like 4GB.

    @CerealBoy As someone who’s spent the past 3 years working on Joomla and Drupal sites, this one’s way better from what I’ve seen!

    @CerealBoy If you’re on Twitter, you’re a LONG way from the target demographic too…

    @CerealBoy I think it’s for very small businesses. People who can’t afford a custom site but still want something that looks nice!

    @drkknits This episode is killing me. Kurt’s song was beautiful, but everyone’s gonna get shattered, aren’t they? #glee

    This is the saddest #glee ever. WHY IS THERE NO ICE CREAM IN MY HOUSE?

    This morning I put on a blue track jacket that @eileenDCoE bought me as a gift. Snookums called me Sue Sylvester. *sigh*

    @mrs_sockvictim But it’s COLD out there! Better to have a Lindt ball and call it a night. 🙂

    @mrs_sockvictim Because of #glee and its dead parents, heartbroken beautiful gay young men, and a curvy girl starving herself. *sigh*

    Ooh, OtherAndrew posted some pics of merchandise INSIDE the Granny Square! http://bit.ly/cGobll (Rav link) Looks gorgeous!

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    Three days til the Sydney Half-Marathon. Venkatesh Kanchan and I are getting a little nervous.

    How to Win at Being a Husband: “Are you going to your knitting group? Dinner will be waiting. Oh, should I download Portal for you?” *swoon*

    Just completed a 5.09 km run with RunKeeper

  • RunningBlog: Week 19

    The first race of the year is under my belt! Sunday was the Mother’s Day Classic 8K, and you’ve probably already read my race report. This is my taper period for the Half-Marathon, so I’m taking things easy. I’ve done two other runs: an easy 5K through the neighbourhood, and a treadmill 5K at race pace. Feeling good. Only three days to go…

    May 8: 5.67km
    May 9: 8.09km
    May 12: 5.62km
    Total this week: 19.38km (12.1mi)
    Total in 2010: 404.72km (253mi)

    To meet my goal of running 1000km in 2010, I should be at 365km. Plenty of cushion.

    The big decision, of course, is what’s next. Oh, there’s the Bay Run in August, of course, and the City 2 Surf a week after. But what about the spring? Could I do… the big one? I’d been thinking about Melbourne, which will be 21 weeks after the Half. But then today the website for Sydney launched, and they’ve changed the course in a good way. So I’m torn. But Sydney is only 18 weeks away, and I’m not sure I’ll be ready to start training right away. Melbourne is safer… right?

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    @randomknits Gorgeous and lovely!

    Chicken strudel, mashed potato, broccoli and fancy pants purple carrots for my dinner. Courtesy of me.

    @Lauren_lolly_ Nah, got ’em at Eveleigh Farmer’s Markets at @CarriageWorks last weekend. 🙂

    @venks79 Does it count as carbo-loading? 😛 (NO BACKSLIDING, MISTER!)

    Finally pulled the electric heater out of the closet. The cats are regarding it curiously.

    @witty_knitter You forgot dipping it into ranch dressing. *drool* (The only food I miss from the U.S. is the really bad stuff, oddly.)

    @randomknits Outback makes to pretense as to authenticity. In this case, Aussie means “rough & tumble and “giant portions.”

    @randomknits @knitabulous USians also think we all drink Fosters too. Triumph of marketing over reality, really.

    @thepurple8 I know. But we also don’t live like Croc Dundee either, which is image Outback sells. Rough men eat a lot, they think.

    @bhmulder Well, that’s the irony. Outback is American, so it lets them pretend other countries do giant portions too.

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    Check out the 5.62 km run I did with RunKeeper

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  • My Daily Sydney

    My Daily Sydney – a lovely blog post from my friend Lyn with photos of her daily commute from Redfern to UTS. It’s a part of Sydney that I see every day and that never gets put on postcards.

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    @bhmulder Thanks. Caffeine and paracetamol work wonders. 🙂

    Just frogged like 6″ of lace. That error was really bugging me though. At least I’ll be able to sleep at night now.