Nicked fromcybogoblin 

The Food tasting meme

1. Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2. Bold all the items you.ve eaten.
3. Cross out any items that you would never consider eating (or eating again)
4. Optional extra: Post a comment http://www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.

To make the filling out of this form and generating the HTML for it a bit easier, reddywhp has played around with some PHP. Go to http://reddywhip.org/lj/foods/ and fill it out there. After filling it out, you will be given the code to copy and paste into your blog.

Livejournal users, remember to use your LJ-Cuts!

1. Venison
2. Nettle tea
3. Huevos rancheros
4. Steak tartare
5. Crocodile
6. Black pudding
7. Cheese fondue
8. Carp
9. Borscht
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( The rest of the list is behind the cut )

No internet shopping while drunk, no internet shopping while drunk, no internet shopping while drunk.....

Anyone know of a reliable (and affordable) plumber central-west-ish? I'm pretty sure I have a slow leak from my shower that has resulted in damage to my floor boards. Saying that, I can't hear it at all, and the only reason I think this is I can now see damp, sagging floorboards ander the frame of my bath, so I need someone who is not going to tell me (or my mother, who will be supervising as I will be at work) that I have a leaky internal pipe (and charge me for an unnecessary repair) when in actual fact there's a blown seal somewhere around the bath that I haven't spotted.

You know it's too warm for a hot water bottle when said hot water bottle is still body temperature when you wake up in the morning 

We cannot get through a Friday afternoon at work without a glass of wine. I think it's because once the booze comes out, we know we can go home soon - and usually sooner than we would without the wine.
In my case, I need something of interest to stop me imploding from boredom.

Wine's of interest.

The temp who is covering for our receptionist today is named Sheri Suckling

It's pretty unusual that I have such a good experience with a business that I want to do all I can to reward them for it.

 

This is the title of an article from a medical news service listed in Medline. As it's  a Medline listing of a news service, it provides no further information on the article than the title, author and idenfying information for the publication. I can only imagine what it was about - which leads to thoughts of the US sneaky sneaky invading it's enemies with McDonald's outlets, weakening their populations both with lack of physical fitness and mortality due to obesity-related illnesses and coronary heart disease. I don't think it can really be claimed to be genocide, as death will typically occur after reproductive age, so it shouldn't wipe out the population, but that is another possibility.
The other thought that sprung up was 'demonized [American spelling for consistency only] hamburgers' with the cutesy little image of a hamburger with flame eyes, little horns, a pointy tail, sharp teeth and a pitchfork.
 

b>82% Dennis Kucinich
78% Barack Obama
77% Mike Gravel
77% Chris Dodd
77% John Edwards
77% Bill Richardson
76% Hillary Clinton
75% Joe Biden
37% Rudy Giuliani
31% John McCain
24% Mitt Romney
23% Mike Huckabee
21% Ron Paul
16% Tom Tancredo
15% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz 

I think this mainly goes to show my views on war/killing people and anything related to healthcare/medicine. + the US is broken

Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! Last Saturday I pulled over and changed atom_kat 's flat tire (15 points). In March I put gum in terridian 's hair (-12 points). Last Thursday I stole caliban_man 's purse (-30 points). Last week I invaded Iraq, broke it, and couldn't glue it back together before Mom got home (-1012 points). In September a_thaliana and I robbed a bank (-50 points). Overall, I've been naughty (-1089 points). For Christmas I deserve a lump of coal! Sincerely, ginpixie

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Preserve our right to choose to wear short skirts! Sign this petition

 In the last couple of weeks, I have joined a Masters troupe of marching girls (having never marched in my life). The organisation that sets the rules for marching has recently decreed that Masters grade marchers (who can be any age over 25 years) must wear trousers instead of the traditional short skirts that the other grades wear. This discrimination made the ladies (marching girls are girls or ladies, NEVER women - antiquated? You bet! But they'll chuck out the skirts and not the language?) on my team so incensed that they ended up on CloseUp (if you want to watch the story, go here search using 'marching', it’s the second hit you get).

If it makes any difference to anyone, we wear the same tights that ice skaters wear, and those things make even my dimply thighs look smooth and toned! So sign so we can show some leg!

When I think that i've sensibled myself into a corner and that I'd have to risk livelihood and limb to really break out of my current mould, it is strangely comforting to realise that, if I really want to, I can sell my house, buy one in a small rural town and live with half the mortgage, on half the income.
 In some ways, I think that would be really good for me.

 

 Today it hailed while I was driving to work. For at least 5 minutes. October. In Auckland. Argh!
I'm just glad I wasn't driving over the Harbour Bridge at the time.

Today I managed to spill coffee down my cleavage without getting any on my shirt - I can't even SEE my cleavage in this shirt. No gapage whatsoever.
Nothin' but net!

I am in Las Vegas at a conference in a swank hotel, eating the free food and drinking the free booze, and work is done for the day. Doesn't get much better than this. 

A journal article entitled 'All that moves or is inattentive is not ADHD. Beware comorbidities.'

That is all.

Whether some people think at all.
Today I stood and waited 15-20mins while the only person in the Vodafone store in the new Albany mall capable of telling me about roaming gave instruction on how to use their phone to someone who was either too stupid to own a phone, or too precious to read an instruction manual. And said person did not even have being male as an excuse for the latter.
Seriously, questions like "Where do I look through when using the camera?" "How do I enter an email address in my contacts?" "Where do I find the 'and' symbol?" "How do i save a picture?" were being asked by someone who had obviously had the phone long enough to not still be carrying the box. I fully understand the use of a mobile phone may not be intuitive for some people, but the anwers to these questions are in the manual, and these basics, at least, are pretty clearly explained.
For at least 10mins of the time I was waiting she was entirely aware I was there, bu didn't seem in any hurry. I'm slightly suspicious that the phone may have been purchased somewhere that meant she didn't get an English language manual.
All that waiting, and in the end I don't have to do anything to set up roaming to the US, contrary to the information on the website.
The contrary to the website bit bugs me - I may check elsewhere, just to be sure.

Guess what I had for lunch? I went out to get a coffee and ended up getting that as well. $7 is a bit pricey when I think about how much it would cost to make, but the problem with roast vegetable frittatas is that they require roast vegetables. Roasting of vegetables Takes Time. I tend to think of roast vegetable frittatas as being a good thing to have for weekend brunch/lunch the day after a roast dinner - and this weekend is such that I don't have the time to cook a roast dinner on an evening that is followed by a weekend day. It's almost enough to make me take Monday off work, but then I would not have anyone to share it with, because Eric will be at work. Bah. The world is conspiring against me.

Guess I just felt like rambling.