Holy crap! According to this AskMeFi question, my severe nearsightedness means that I actually have super-powered vision up close. I had no idea. I can’t read most text until it’s within 6 inches of my nose, but evidently once stuff moves into my focus, I am SEEIN’ THE HECK OUT OF IT. Suck on that, normal-eyed people!
Artisan home canning and preserving. Oh, neat! Apparently canning supply sales are up 50% this year. Another food technique to get obsessed with. I am such a freakin’ hipster sometimes.
“Edward is fast, can read minds, and is into underage girls. There’s really no contest.” http://bit.ly/Gduil
Just sent company-wide email asking if anybody wants to run City2Surf as a team. Co-workers seem quietly horrified.
@redambition Running the whole thing is highly overrated!
Thinking that the best way to start a long weekend is to go to bed extremely early and sleep off the entire week. Ohhhh, yeah.
@coach_chris I got maybe four positives (inc. @venks79) out of like 40 people. Disappointing! And they’re all seemingly fit 20-somethings.
Am now obsessed with idea of artisan home canning. My hipster tendencies are showing themselves… http://bit.ly/ie9HG
Just sent company-wide email asking if anybody wants to run City2Surf as a team. Co-workers seem quietly horrified.
Am now obsessed with idea of artisan home canning. My hipster tendencies are showing themselves… http://bit.ly/ie9HG
BlenderDefender – how to train the damn cats to stay off the counter. We need this!
How the Snook wishes he could play piano. Yes, I’m serious. Exactly like that.
io9 has a whole bunch of new TV promos for Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. Getting very excited!
And web-goddess.org IS BACK! We had to use the Snook’s card to get past the stupid Verified by Visa errors.
Just completed a 4.08 km run with @runkeeper, check it out http://bit.ly/9EFks #runkeeper
It’s definitely running season. I bet I saw over 100 runners in the Domain just now.
@knitness Wow, they’re really strict about it, huh? Sorry to hear it!
@shanea Does she scratch the corner? We put double-sided tape strips on the corners/arms of ours. They really don’t like that.
@shanea We found some fairly wide double-sided somewhere. Check this out: http://bit.ly/OhTcU. Something like that.
Torn between nostalgia for “our song” and embarrassment over the fact that it’s by Wheatus. *cringe*
@brodrigu I SAID I WAS CRINGING, DIDN’T I? (Shut up. It’s an awesome song.)
Finally heading out to knitting… I can’t wait for the 3 day weekend!
@knitness I’m heading out but there are still 5 people here…
It has been decreed that M&S SnB – once the Sale is over – will officially leave the shop @ 6.30 and retire to Grace Bar every Thurs. 🙂
@jokercom Thanks. It was the Verified by Visa. I had my bank de-enroll it and then it worked.
Torn between nostalgia for “our song” and embarrassment over the fact that it’s by Wheatus. *cringe*
Wow. I think I’ve mentioned before that every now and then I stumble across some cultural touchstone of my childhood that the Snook didn’t experience here in Australia, and it’s always really weird. At some point I became aware that he’d never seen the Little Rascals. The series wasn’t unknown here (Ma Snook knew of it), but it wasn’t shown every day after school like it was in the 80’s for us. On Wednesday, Ma Snook came to Sydney and lent us a DVD entitled “The Best of the Little Rascals.” It was six episodes, and we watched the whole thing tonight. OH MAN, NOSTALGIA. I don’t think I’d seen any of those in probably 20 years at least. The first couple were from when Spanky was still really little, and we both freaked out how much he looks like Penn! (Seriously, Sis. There’s a Halloween costume in the making.) And I remembered so much of them! I think I’d seen every episode. I found myself recalling the obscure kids’ names and knowing what was about to happen. Best of all, it ended with “Hearts are Trumps,” source of my numerous quotes about the He-Man Woman Haters Club. It was so fun.
Also – Spanky’s catchphrase was “Okey-dokey”? Is THAT why I say it all the time?? Seriously, I caught a ton of phrases and inflections from me, my sister, and my brother in there…
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