As long as they call it today
Thursday, 21 April, 2005
Today I went to the city to go shopping with a friend from school (more to spend time with her than to go shopping). We visited Lush, Lincraft (scroll down for knitting links), the Oxfam shop, Kinokuniya, Dirt Cheap CDs, Rockbottom Music and EzyDVD where I found Mansfield Park in Region 4 for $14.95!!! (*mutter* just after I bought it in Region 1 ...) which now leaves in me in a bit of a dilemma: which one do I keep? (I bought the Region 4 with the intention of making it a gift):
Any advice on this petty issue would be greatly appreciated!
We lunched with another mutual friend at Sakae (they give you free refills on your Japanese tea and they serve eel!) then made our way down to Market City to gawk at ugly clothes (and wonder why they were so ugly) before getting Asian ice tea drinks and catching the train home (had an unpleasant encounter with an elderly Asian lady who sat down on the seat I was saving for my friend and refused to yield it while pretending she didn't understand English).
This evening we had friends over whom I was expecting at 6:30 but who rocked up at 7 pm. (Funny, mum was complaining the other day in her generalised fashion that Australians never arrive on time, they say they're coming when they don't and they don't bother to RSVP when they do. Perhaps that only applies to postgraduate lunches. Stu did have a good excuse though.) I made chicken drumsticks, fried rice and Haoran's noodle salad. But I was only expecting to have three guests plus us and so I'd only made five drumsticks. Instead there were four plus us and when I quizzed Ben privately about it, he looked puzzled and said, in husband-like don't-be-silly-you-must-have-forgotten fashion, “I told you Eltham was coming.” In typical wife-like I-can't-believe-you've-just-embarrassed-me-socially fashion, I have dredged up the vindicating evidence: an email dated Sunday, 17th April at 14:32:55 which says:
Simon and Doug are coming with Stu on Thursday
Note the very conspicuous absence of Eltham (who, nevertheless, I was very glad to see!) I am, no doubt, completely overreacting and am hoping that Deb will solve all my problems for me over the weekend. And Ben did share his drumstick with me and the boys polished off the fried rice and didn't make too many silly remarks in my presence. We watched bits of the Tropfest DVD which came with the SMH (the only time that Ben has ever bought that rag) and talked about evangelising people of other world religions and ate Connoisseur English Toffee ice cream for dessert which I had bought for Tuesday's dinner guests who didn't show because, contrary to my expectations, they weren't actually 100% confirmed and I didn't know because I hadn't arranged it (but it was okay because I saw one of my guests the following morning when he unexpectedly dropped in on another friend I was visiting so I was able to briefly catch up with him and news of his lovely new wife then).
(Perhaps I should make it a future rule not to have two nights for dinner guests in one week; it's far too stressful.)
Anyhew, tomorrow I will attempt to finish Assassin's Quest (Robin Hobb) and fail miserably because I'm only up to pg. 470 and the book is 831 pages long; I will desperately avoid Greek but then knuckle down to doing a bit of it out of guilt; I will pack and, as Ben A has already reported, tomorrow evening I'm off to Canberra to consort with Ben A, fellow knitter Lorien and Deb (the latter I will teach how to knit in a round and hopefully she will cure me of going to bed at 1 am before next Tuesday when college begins). If I have time before I leave, I will blog great and wise chunks of my Old Testament 1 textbook. Sleep well and may your dreams not turn out like his.
Blinks:
A way of funding writing in the future: pitch and idea and get people to support it.
Place where you can hire play equipment for parties, etc.
How to recalibrate the home button on your iPhone.
Unsolicited manuscripts accepted by Pan Macmillan with certain conditions.
Thought Balloon is a group blog in which the writers tackle a new theme every week? month? with one-page scripts. This URL is for their Phonogram ones.
How to sew a zipper on a knitted garment.
Issues organised by tale.
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Oooh!
It’s nice to get kudos but alas I cannot take any credit for the famous crunchy noodle salad recipe (or should that be Christian noodle salad recipe)?
I first encountered it at beach mission. Gwen, our lovely used-to-be cook (who in her past life was a headmistress) cooked it, to warm reception, every second meal at beach mission. Naturally, she brought it to the beach mission reunion as well.
When I remarked about how fantastic it was and how I wish I knew the recipe, Ben Stonehouse helpfully pointed out that it was on the back of the noodle packet. And thus, one of the staples of my salad collection was found.
So, no credit due to me at all!
- Haoran the Humble.
Funny you should mention being cured of 1am bedtimes, considering the time we got to be (and woke up!) this weekend! Hope it wasn’t too much of a struggle today!