Category Archives: With a list

Don’t you just love an unnecessarily complex meal? I know I do. Last Friday I discovered individually stone-grilled steak at the Weston Club in Canberra (for $10 at lunch time Thursday or Friday). You get your choice of sauce (I voted mushroom), plus vegetables or salad, plus your preferred form of potato (chips, mash orContinue reading “#94: Eat novelty food”

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”

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”

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”

I borrowed someone else’s children for this one. Anyone currently residing in the antipodes will observe the blue sky in these pictures and know this was not a recent picnic. (I miss the sun so badly right now.) It happened about a fortnight ago and, since I hate and fear the outdoors, wasn’t technically myContinue reading “S#56: Feed Ducks”

I believe happiness comes from having most – but not all – of what you want. As humans, we’re built to need work, but we need our work to have a point, whether it’s re-tiling the bathroom or bringing forth the zombie apocalypse. We also need at least some of our goals to be definitelyContinue reading “#10: Anticipation”

As you know, soup grows in tiny little tins on a soup tree. The tins ripen and turn metallic, and then they’re picked and sold in the tin-tree aisle of your local supermarket. Today I chose to make a different kind of soup – the kind from Actual Vegetables. I confess I’ve made home-made soupContinue reading “S#74: The Old Fashioned Way”

Ben suggested I conduct a nerf duel, using historical rules of combat. But historical rules are always either: a) stuffy (like, I’d need to be a nobleman, which would require quite a bit of lifestyle change). b) bloody (and it’s REAL hard to draw blood with a nerf gun). Nevertheless, I got me some guns,Continue reading “#148: Nerf Duel”

This is an idea from lovechelsealauren.blogspot.com (thanks Chelsea!) I’m rubbish at collages (virtual or otherwise) but I quite enjoyed suddenly having a visual representation of some of my best awesome moments from the last little while. So here it is! The links to the relevant blog entries are: #132: Try, try again S#81: Ice Cream ParlourContinue reading “#118: Collage of Awesomeness”

I have a confession to make: I don’t like ice cream. For me, it’s simply not unhealthy enough. There’s not enough sugar, colouring, flavouring and chocolate to make even high-quality ice cream cut it for me. But I have solved that pressing concern. Some of you are familiar with Jigsaw, Goodberries or Cold Rock iceContinue reading “S#81: Ice Cream Parlour”

‘Nuff said. I spent about half an hour looking at this photo and giggling, and I giggle again every time I look at it. No cats (or fish, or glass items) were harmed in the making of this picture. Play along at home: Find a pet (or, in a pinch, a small child) and amuseContinue reading “#134: Play with a cat”

Today my car is broken (despite having a major service under two weeks ago), and needs a new part. Today I went to the shops (because we were utterly out of bread) for a “few things” and ended up spending $100. (I looked at the receipt to figure out what happened, and realised that most ofContinue reading “#131: Take a nap”

Steph Metal’s suggestion number 63 (from http://steffmetal.com/101-ways-to-cheer-yourself-up/) is to experience new things – something new every day for a week! I began today, seeing “Guitar Trek” at the ANU at 2:50pm, as part of the ABC “Sunday Live” program. As you can guess from their own photo, they were creative with their guitars – byContinue reading “S#63/1: Guitar Trek”

I admit I’m cheating – I finished this trilogy on Saturday. Some days are just more awesome than others. Pamela Freeman’s fantasy adventure trilogy (for adult readers, rated M) “Blood Ties” “Deep Water” “Full Circle” ] I don’t recommend reading just one book of these – you technically can, but the story arc won’t work asContinue reading “#125: Read an awesome book”

I woke up sore from yesterday’s sewing. Pretty sure that makes me an ATHLETE OF AWESOMENESS. This idea came from another awesomeness enthusiast, http://www.yesandyes.org/ Here’s how to guerilla garden, Louise Style. 1. Grab an enthusiastic bunch of friends. 2. Select a public garden that needs love (the half-dead plant in the pot is my oh-so-generousContinue reading “#108: Guerilla Gardening”

Yay! It’s time to begin the saga of daily awesomeness. The concept is simple: I do something awesome every day, and blog about it. For a year. My total list is already well over 200, and I’m sure to think of more awesome things along the way (suggestions VERY welcome). I’ll still write twittertale-related things eachContinue reading “#90: Write a letter to my future self”