Steff Metal suggested in last week’s comments that I should grill bread and thinly-sliced zucchini, and combine them with cream cheese (and sneak in some coriander when no-one’s looking). I did (minus the coriander, since I don’t like it). But, since I was experimenting, I also tried THIS: I washed and peeled the potato and sliced itContinue reading “Three-Ingredient Thursday: Cream Cheese Lunch of Doom”
Category Archives: Daily Awesomeness
#166: New Year’s Resolution in another month
*deep breath* I promise, for a period of four weeks, to eat for maximum digestive health in the following ways: 1. Begin each day with a tall glass of tepid water (with a squeeze of lemon), then fifteen minutes’ exercise – all before breakfast. 2. Continue exercising six days a week, except when I’m sick.Continue reading “#166: New Year’s Resolution in another month”
S#92: Road Trip
Look at a map. Australia is big. Now look at an orange-peel style map (less pretty, more accurate) and take another look. Australia is big. In Australia, road trips historically result in drinking your friend’s urine, and possibly using their mummified corpse as a shade cloth. This might be why road trips in Austalia areContinue reading “S#92: Road Trip”
#159: Go to a wedding
Strange but true: I have a phobia of weddings. But on Saturday one of CJ’s cousins was married to the love of her life, so we drove up to Sydney to join the fun. The groom promised, among other things, that “although we sometimes fight like Batman and Two-Face, I know we’ll always laugh aboutContinue reading “#159: Go to a wedding”
S#82: Old School
Jeepers! Gosh! Yippee! Buck up! I cannot describe to you in any Earth language how relieved I am to have finished today’s awesomeness – reading the Trixie Belden adventure “Mystery on Cobbett’s Island” and the even more thrilling “Gay Dolphin Adventure”. My original squeamishness (and jealousy that I wasn’t born into an era where this.Continue reading “S#82: Old School”
#158: Day of Rest
“Do not kill” is, for most of us, a no-brainer. Ditto for “do not steal”, “do not commit adultery” and we all know that “do not covet” is a good theory. This entry is about the forgotten commandment of the famous ten. Those of you who are Christian will be pretty familiar with the oldContinue reading “#158: Day of Rest”
#154: Play the chocolate game
CJ just had a birthday. In the course of conversation, I discovered something truly horrific. He had never played the chocolate game. There are a lot of chocolate games, I know. I’m referring to the one in which players sit in a circle around a large block of chocolate, rolling a pair of dice. WheneverContinue reading “#154: Play the chocolate game”
S#68: Silly Slippers
That is all.
#157: DIY Green your home
The “y” above may be a teensy exaggeration. Yesterday most of Australia celebrated the Queen’s Birthday (much like New Zealand did one week earlier). Other than a slew of geeky partying options (scroll down for details), this means one thing for couples everywhere: The To-Do List. Is there anything more wonderful than having a husbandContinue reading “#157: DIY Green your home”
S#72: Play Board Games
As a continued celebration of my five thousand writing hours, I gathered several friends to play “Up and Down the River”, Take Two, and the world’s best board game, Settlers of Catan. You can actually see the cogs of my mind whirring in the above picture. Settlers takes up just enough of my mind toContinue reading “S#72: Play Board Games”
#156: Celebrate a Milestone (with Yum Cha)
Ni hao! In his tips for writers, Ian Irvine says, “Remember the 10,000-hour rule. That’s roughly how much work and practice it takes to become accomplished in any field, whether it be sporting, creative or professional.” According to my calculations, I am now halfway there, so I devoted this whole weekend to “Felon’s Five Thousand”Continue reading “#156: Celebrate a Milestone (with Yum Cha)”
Three-Ingredient Thursday: Pea and Pork Soup
Time for lunch! I confess, I don’t know the difference between ham, bacon and pork. Can anyone enlighten me? In the meantime, I made Pea and Pork Soup. I needed to use up some green lentils, so that was all my three ingredients! As you can see from the above picture (just before I roastedContinue reading “Three-Ingredient Thursday: Pea and Pork Soup”
#46: Writing Binge
Yesterday I spent over ten hours writing. Wonderful! I finished the current twittertale, wrote one-third of the next one (which is currently called “When Good Libraries Go Bad”), and wrote an entire story for that kitten/pegasus/unicorn/Wil Wheaton/John Scalzi/clown sweater painting – oh, you want to see it again? Okay. A writing binge is a lotContinue reading “#46: Writing Binge”
#48: Breakfast in Bed
A few days ago I bought English breakfast muffins (much like hole-less bagels if you’re wondering). This morning, after instructing CJ to stay in bed when he woke up, I grilled three muffins and spread them with real butter and honey, golden syrup, jam, and crunchy peanut butter. I took them downstairs and we ateContinue reading “#48: Breakfast in Bed”
#155: Three-Ingredient Thursday # 1
I love food. No really, I LOVE food. The fact that God designed us to eat three times EVERY day says all kinds of wonderful things about him. So, based on this challenge (http://peaslovecarrots.blogspot.com/2009/11/10-recipes-10-days-3-ingredients.html) I’ll be dedicating Thursdays to recipes with just three whole ingedients (cooking fat, water, salt and pepper are permitted freebies). HopefullyContinue reading “#155: Three-Ingredient Thursday # 1”
#99: Rediscover Winter clothing
There comes a point in the year when a girl has to wrestle open the Bottom Drawer and dig out the clothes that can only be worn when the air outside is cold enough to flay skin. It is at that moment the aforementioned girl goes, “Ooh! I remember that scarf! Hey look, my favouriteContinue reading “#99: Rediscover Winter clothing”
S#68: Gratitude
I love sunny days. I can’t believe I’m still comfy in crocs. I love having two cats to glare at me in shifts 24-7. (My older cat is currently attacking the couch, which is made even more entertaining by how self-conscious she is about being so silly.) I love that I now work (partly) fromContinue reading “S#68: Gratitude”
#121: Eat CJ’s Trifle
Some time ago, I pointed out to CJ that Donkey (of Shrek fame) makes a deeply erroneous statement that goes a little bit like this: “Parfait! Everyone likes parfait! I ain’t ever heard nobody say, ‘I don’t like no parfait’.” The fact of the matter is, I don’t like parfait (that is, trifle). At all. WhenContinue reading “#121: Eat CJ’s Trifle”
#155: Marshmallow Gun
Yep, that special time is finally here. CJ and I cobbled together the following: 1. Blow dart. Materials: Aluminium foil and sticky tape. Method: Roll aluminium into a marshmallow-sized tube, fastening it in place with tape. Flare the end if you like. Loading weapon: Put marshmallow inside tube. Fire power: Human breath. Rating: One Star.Continue reading “#155: Marshmallow Gun”
#161: Move furniture at 2am.
I just updated yesterday’s balloon entry, including a video. I hope you like it. Clearly, there was a party at my place last night. And so it was that I found myself washing dishes at 1am (that’s not actually the awesome part, fyi). Cleaning up the entire party before even going to bed made meContinue reading “#161: Move furniture at 2am.”