still in bed on a work day

Taking a sick day today. A slightly pre-emptive attack, since although I feel crap I'm not on death's door yet, but I've been sick twice in the last 6 weeks and I don't want it to happen again. But it's my second sick day since I started. I feel bad. I don't get how people can pull fake sickies, the guilt would kill me.*
So I'm snuggling in bed, extra thankful to finally have the internet. Started watching The Guild (once again, I'm super late to the party), drinking lots of water and taking vitamin C. Gotta be better for Dr Who at youth group tomorrow night!
If this was Twitter, that last paragraph would be hashtagged 'geek'. Or possibly #unashamedgeek


* I had no issue skipping half my lectures at uni, go figure.

some good blog posts recently

I'm sure there were more, but this'll do for now...

• Advice for those turning twenty-one (actually, good advice for everyone).
• Garbage in, garbage out (or, deciding not to fill your head with crap)
• Lemon-blueberry pancakes (yum!)
• God isn't emo

good movies

I watched Where the Wild Things Are the other night. Quite good. Also, randomly, Red is good. What else have I watched? Dunno. Will edit this when I remember.

a change is as good as a holiday

I dyed my hair a reddish dark brown last week. Heaps of people have failed to recognise me, including my own mother. Most people say it looks good, but I kinda feel like you're obliged to say that when someone obviously changes their appearance. One of the ladies at church said she liked the blonde better though. I like her honesty.

new camera

Having muchly fun playing with my fancy new camera. Took this on Saturday night at Humphrey's birthday party.

how to cook bolognese for 30 people

1. Put the call out on Facebook and borrow a massive pot from a friend

2. Spend $47.05 at the supermarket and hope you’ve judged the quantities vaguely correctly.

3. Chop up a bunch of onions. How many? I bought five, but one was icky, so four. Four is good.

4. Dump them all in the pot with some oil. Add some more oil when you realise you didn’t put enough in initially.

5. Add half the mince to brown.

6. Give up on the whole “two batches” thing and add the other half.

7. Get an arm muscle workout stirring the mince.

8. Get really lucky and have browned mince with no burnt bits.

9. Start chopping up a bag of carrots.

10. Get frustrated with your rubbish chopping skills and decide three carrots is enough.

11. Add carrots.

12. Curse your can opener as you open a big tin of diced tomatoes. And another one.

13. Add tomatoes.

14. Fail at opening the tomato paste container. Attack it with a knife. Add paste.

15. Be enormously thankful you bought minced garlic. Add a few teaspoons.

16. Realise you’re gonna need more diced tomatoes.

17. Curse your way through another can opening. Add to pot.

18. Glance at your hands halfway through opening the 4^th can. Pray that it’s all tomato, not blood.

19. Thank the Lord that the tins of beans have ring-pulls.

20. Add some beans.

21. Hear the message tone of your phone go off and spend 5 minutes searching your tiny house for your bag.

22. Find bag on kitchen table.

23. Taste sauce and decide it needs more garlic. Add, then realise garlic is one of those flavours that gets stronger with time.

24. Put lid on pot and walk away.

25. Walk back and stir it a bit.

26. Stare at washing up, wishing for magic dish-washing powers.

27. Decide to write a blog post and wash up later.

pretty :)