June 20th, 2009

1. I’ve been doing crown braids the hard way for over a year. Turns out this method is much easier. It’s this kind of thing that makes you want to stab Time in the eye with a fork; like when I learned after three years of penniless bus-taking at Uni that you can re-use the same ticket for any trips made within two hours after purchase.

2. Searing a roast chicken before roasting by placing it for ten minutes in the hottest oven you can muster produces a succulently moisty fowl.

3. Sometimes it’s a good thing if one’s snortlepig prevents one from coming online at 2PM as intended to write a blog post entitled “Is The Canadian Dead?”, because a) it is callous and b) it turns out he left early in the morning, and was not decomposing in his room as you feared; and in fact, you could have shouted at the baby after all when she was being a pesk, although it’s probably just as well you didn’t.

4. Claude Rains had six wives. Imagine!

5. There are at least three different ways to construct Victory Rolls, that staple of 1940s hairdos.

6. When felting down an op-shop jumper in order to make a coat for the snortlepig, putting Helpdesk Man’s work trousies in the wash along with said item will cause it to become red and fluffy, even if the jumper has already been through the cycle once.

7. New camera or no new camera, I’m still rubbish at taking pictures. I attempted today in a brightly-lit room to capture an image of the snortlepig prancing around merrily. I do not know how on God’s green and verdant earth it happened, but what I ended up with was this:

rowans-eye

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7 Responses to “Things I Learned Today”

Grumpy Miss Marshall Says:

Whoa, you are a gifted child.

AprilElf Says:

I’ve been meaning to ask –did you never examine your bus ticket to see what kind of information it had on it when you first started catching buses? :P

smokering Says:

That would be crazy. I think I started writing epic poems on the backs occasionally, but they ended up getting squished in my backpack.

smokering Says:

I would have thought yellow, myself.

Kovac Says:

Why yellow?

smokering Says:

‘Cause… evil. Probably because I recently watched that X-Files episode with the stretchy liver-eating hibernating individual.

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