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Hope everyone's 2009 will be excellent.

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Also, I just found the post I made on Christmas day wishing you all a good day didn't post. I was posting from the browser on my phone from bed before I got up, so I didn't check it actualy posted. Silly me, trusting the phone I helped to make :-) So, I hope you had a good day. If you didn't, I hope the New Year will bring you all you hope for.

I have to say a huge thank you to lavvyan  for her fantabulous present. I'm quite sure you know exactly what I was imagining at the end, lavvyan . Thank you, it's brilliant.

I bought a Nintendo Wii. It'd fab, even if I'm deeply rubbish at the games. 9 shots for a 3 par hole in the golf! Even Rodney would be mocking me. The cow racing is loads of fun, as is shooting aliens. I just spent a hour playing the Wii Sports and actually worked up a bit of a sweat. Terrible really, how unfit I am. But, that's part of the plan for the Wii. I'm going to buy a Wii fit board after Christmas (when I hope there will actually be some in the shops) because I'm way more likely to use that than join a gym.

It did make me want to write a Wii Atlantis story. I think John and Ronon would like the sick humour of Destroy all Humans, you just know Teyla will be an ace at SSX Blur and Rodney would hate playing Big Brain Academy in case he didn't win.

My folks, my brother and his girlfriend are coming over tomorrow so they can all have a play. I'm sure my bro has already had a go of someone's but Dad should enjoy himself, as long as he doesn't put his back out. Mum can't really have a go as she can't see. Mind you I think she'd probably get as high a score as me as I'm crap. And she can use the force. She used to manage to throw a rolled up dish cloth at trouble makers across the class room when she was teaching craft classes just aiming from their voices.

For lunch I'm making a tuna wellington as my brother and his girlfriend don't eat meat. She doesn't eat onions or garlic either which is a nightmare. I've made the mushroom pate part already with some chestnut and prorchini mushrooms so I can assemble them tomorrow after I steam the spinach. I think I'll do individual ones rather than one large one, mainly because I've got small-ish pieces of tuna steak. I've also made cocoa snaps (like ginger snaps but with cocoa) and I'm going to make a tangerine mousse to go with them. I shall let you know how it goes.

Okay, so I was in the supermarket the other day and spotted this cookie packet and nearly burst out laughing. My mind may be in the gutter but the illustration looks nothing like Matchmakers. For those outside the UK who might not have heard of them Matchmakers are rather gorgeous little chocolate sticks with mint crisp pieces in.

( Click for a cookie surprise... )

Snagged from GraphJam



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I only just managed to contain myself in the supermarket. I was behind an idiot woman at the express check out. Note the name. Express, meaning  accelerated, fast, high-speed, nonstop, quick, rapid, swift. Not in her world.

I couldn't believe it. She had that glazed pout that Victoria Beckham has most of the time, the one that makes you wonder if she's got some sort of brain injury. I think even the woman serving was stunned by her ineptitude. I limited myself to eye rolling when what I really wanted to do was shout at her. This is what was going on in my head.

"What are you doing? Stop rummaging in your bag! If you're looking for your wallet, why didn't you do that when you were stood in the queue for ten minutes rather than when the server is already ringing up your goods? Come on, just pull a bag off the stand. Good god, come on it's just a frigging carrier bag not a mensa puzzle. That's it, rub it between your finger and thumb. There you are it's open now, aren't you clever? Oh, okay put your purse on the floor, that makes sense and wastes another minute where you have to work out what you were doing when you stand back up. Jesus, are you a goldfish? Stop acting like this is the fist time you've ever done this. I know you must have been in a shop before and I'm pretty sure I've had the misfortune to be stuck behind you in Tesco before now. Oh, yes now you have to pay. So that wasn't your wallet you were getting out before. WHAT ARE YOU DOING. GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!!!! And please god, have pulled out of the car park before I have to."

I can't believe it really. I'm just so happy, mainly because I wanted Obama to win but there's also an awful lot of relief that Sarah Palin is not going to be anywhere near anything important. Of course she'll probably get a talk show on Fox, where she'll fit right in.

What upsets me though is the Yes vote for proposition 8. Very depressing that a state that can vote for change and Obama and all things good can then decide that it's okay to limit who people can marry. Baffling.

This was the view from my bedroom window this morning. The hill has disappeared in the clouds, something that happens all the time, but there's white stuff all over the place! Totally doesn't happen in October.



Okay, so it's not much snow but I still feel all festive, which is mad because it's not even November yet. However I have posted my Christmas (reverse) wish list. Leave a comment there if you want a Christmas present.

In other news, I'm seriously considering a move to Sweden next year with work, but we haven't seen the relocation package yet so it's still all up in the air. My boss has me running all sorts of odd projects to do with the handover of work, which is actually kind of cool as I can spend my days writing stuff with my head phones on and being anti-social :-)

The camera was the one from my phone and, despite the fact that it's one of the phones I helped make, I have to say it's crap. To be fair I said that at the time and no one listened. Ho hum, maybe that's why we're downsizing.