My second coffee totally kicked in when I was... driving home (wow, that's not useful, heh), so I am ridiculously HYPER right now. Watching the end of S4 NCIS (yay, deep discount DVD ftw!) fiiiiiiiiinally, and defending my dinner from the dog who is reaaaal interested in it ( Read more... )

Spent all of today either sleeping, reading, or cleaning, and I feel much better (physically, AND as a person, heh) for it. YAY. ( blah blitty blah, I'm so stuffy, give me a scone. )

I apologise in advance for this. Also, Aussies on my flist? I do still love you. And so I say this in the nicest possible and most loving way:

TAKE THAT, AUSTRALIA!

*dances ecstatically* BEATEN BY TEN WICKETS for the FIRST TIME IN HISTORY. BY US. Second best game of cricket ever.

(C'mon, let me enjoy this. We so rarely beat Australia at ( Read more... )

Right. Auckland flistians. Who wants to come to the 20/20 cricket game on Boxing Day with me? C'mon! There's a SLASH IN THE NAME of it, even! And I will totally buy you chips or an ice cream at Eden Park, and pick people up if need be. I mean. That is, if the cricket ITSELF isn't enough inducement, hi. And we can disturb the drunken uni boys by ( Read more... )

...I just reread my cricket post from last year and am all in love with Andy Bichel again.

OMG.

I want a tape of that game, damnit.

..Shit. bed. right. SHIT.

It will never cease to boggle me that humans can - using only their muscles - launch themselves in the air high enough and for long enough to rotate three or even four times. That's just nuts, man. ...okay, so figure skating is about the most accessible Olympic sport for non-sports people like me, really, but STILL. Pretteh. *watches* *may or may ( Read more... )

Attention FROG!

My mum is cleaning out her cupboards - both kitchen and linen - and we're amassing a nice pile of random pre-loved kitchen utensils, among other things.  If I post a list/pictures, do you wanna see if there's anything you'd want, and then I can either post it or just, um, schelp it to Hawaii and make the Husband carry it home? (Hee ( Read more... )