Cookiescapades.

I mentioned the other day that I had made cookies. Oh yes. here are the pictures in their awesome glory.

I was given the cookies as a christmas present from a wonderful lady in the ward called Patsy, she makes the best food known to mankind and she gave out these cookies to a few lucky people, and she had a couple left over so she gave one to me and to Norma the other lady in nursery with Patsy and I.

They've sat for a few months and I decided to make them the other night. Everything in the jar is the dry ingredients and then she gave instructions on a little christmas card explaining how to make them.

Butter and eggs melted and mixed, then pour in all the dry stuff from the big jar and then mix it all and then bake it.

The biggest problem I have with baking cookies is that I have no patience to put tiny amounts on the tray and I try and squeeze as many on there as I can and just hope they don't form a giant cookie. Every time they seem to form a giant cookie. I need to get better at the actual cooking part I think.

The last two trays I did were more sparse and did come out cookie shaped rather than needing to be cut into cookie sizes and thus having straight edges.

I think the key is to not make all of them at once and have a lot more patience :)

Issues

So I've had some issues with something in the first Twilight movie for a while now.

I have loads of issues...

but this one bothers me and puzzles me greatly.

I specifically remember in the book that the scene depicted below was tale telling for Bella because she thought the waitress was stunningly good looking, and extremely hot, and Edward wouldn't look at the waitress at all because he only loves bella.

Now. If this is actually what the waitress was always meant to look like then I get it, she has a kind of look and unique something about her that makes her hard not to look at, but she isn't stunningly good looking — so this entire section of the movie makes very little sense to me or anyone that's never read the book, because it just looks like Edward is being rude by not looking at her and not that she's hot. Sorry unique looking lady. You're not hot, but you're not ugly either... and she also looks kind of old to me... like 35-40. Definitely not an interest to Edward.

In my opinion anyway.

Cool List

I came across this list on fail blog just a moment ago.

I've got

- learn to speak European

- grow facial hair (which I bleach)

- helmets (I made my own tank girl helmet

- design shades (fake)

- wear all black

- irony

- online frienships

- hang out with steve

You could say I'm well on my way to be cool. Oh yeah

18 years 18 years

Now I ain't sayin' she a gold digga...

... she got one of yo' kids got you for 18 years.

Not quite 18 years...

it has been 18 months though. I could have served a mission, did three semesters of english teaching, did a masters degree and a half, had two kids, doubled my transistors — according to moore's law... ummm I can't think of anything else.

it's been pretty awesome regardless of all the heinous stuff. :)

What I've done today:-

- got a puncture fixed that has been festering in my boot since January.

- posted a statement of intent to a lawyer

- filled the car with water in its water bit and its window skooshing bit and checked the oil and decided I need to get oil

- some design work for Eilidh's love

- baked Patsy cookies that she gave me (pictures to follow)

- packed all my master of design stuff into a box

- packed some other bits and pieces into a bits and pieces box

- tried 7,000 different links to try and download lost to no avail

- did my tax return and sorted out getting all my apple tax back for 2009 - 2010 (there's about enough tax in there to pay for my stuff to be shipped to the US or to buy myself a plane ticket to get out of dodge)


and I think that's that.

When I woke up this morning I was so happy that it was my day off... pure joy... joy joy joy. because of london last week it feels like I've not had a proper day off in ages. Sunday's a day off, I know, but I actually have to get up earlier on a Sunday than I do on a work day. Crazy.

Not for long though, because of iPad i've got a lot of long shifts coming up, which I can't complain about because it will definitely help the debt repayment :)

Here's my most favourite fail blog for this week:



You just don't know whether to laugh or cry. I'm sure there's some kind of depressing metaphor for life in there — like don't even try; there is no end; or the universe simply says 'hahahahahahahaha'.

Around the interwebs

So, I read the Fail blog and LolCat blog religiously, it's part of my daily life. Every now and then I will see something that makes me laugh out loud, I save the photo on my computer with the intention of sharing it and it always takes me a long time to actually share it.

So here are my current collection of Lol Cats fail blogs and other awesome things I have seen. :)