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| Thursday, December 24th, 2009 |
astemudfoot
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10:50p |
Happy festive season
I hope you all have a happy festive season! Whatever you choose to celebrate, be it time with family and friends, birth of a God or change of a season, I wish you all joy and happiness. Keep safe. Peace out. |
omnot
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12:59p |
Freed from the radio
I was wondering why I don't feel the drive to tune in to local radio any more, and I think it is mainly down to the weather. It used to be that the weather would have pretty heavy bearing on my work and social activities, but now, if I want a forecast, I go to www.bom.gov.au and it tells me. I far prefer news radio sorts of stations, but they are hard to pick up on the car radio out there in the Lost Valley of the Blokeosaurs. I sometimes hear the local radio station when I am visiting the Valley but it has changed. Or, rather, not changed. They used to play top 40 songs. They are still playing those same songs, but the songs are no longer top 40. It's sort of time-warp-ish. Also, the station is now part of a broad network, so the "local" news and weather are... less so. |
omnot
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8:21a |
Christmas light reflections.
The girls wanted to see the Christmas lights so, on our way home picking up a few fresh ingredients from a supermarket, we went in search. There are some pretty impressive ones near our home, but we'd driven by those in previous nights, without it being an official "going to see the lights" excursion. So I was making my best guess as to where would have good lights. ( cut for length )It was clear that the people here had enjoyed putting their lights up and that the adage applied was "if it's not outrageously gaudy and way, way over the top, you're doing it wrong!" We rolled out the other end of that suburb onto a main road. The street lights were dull by comparison, but I was satisfied that the kids had seen their Christmas lights. Two were asleep before we got home. |
pearl
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9:02a |
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| Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 |
mayela_delarue
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10:25p |
The rules of dating
Over the last couple of days, I have run in to a couple of friends who have read my dating posts. One I know through work (it's always interesting to see who reads my waffle! *waves to various work related people*) and the other I have introduced to you before, is ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) acoopers4me. As I've said before, I haven't contacted my recent speed date matches until tonight (more on that to come). And of course, a number of people including the above mentioned chaps, have asked me if I have heard from the speed daters, as they are given my contact details as well. M* was commenting yesterday that guys no longer know what the rules are, should they call/ email/ contact or is it left to girls now, since we're so forward, liberated, independent and so on. Today acoopers4me was saying that he and his girlfriend agreed that, should they ever break up, he would have the easier time of the dating world than she would. That the Good Guys already are or tend to get snapped up quickly, and are generally unavailable to us remaining single girls. And we can't forget the Dreaded Man Drought leaving girls short changed on the single guy front. ( Click for more thoughts on the rules of dating and more )But while I think of it, what dating rules do you know of or remember? What rules do you want changed or confirmed or defunct? Perhaps I can also start to redefine what 2010's dating rules are rather than fumble blindly through. So Greg, I accept, set me up. Current Mood:  thoughtful |
mayela_delarue
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1:16p |
For the impending festivities...
FINAL WORD ON NUTRITION FOR CHRISTMAS After an exhaustive review of the research literature, here's the final word on nutrition and health.: 1. Japanese eat very little fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us. 2. Mexicans eat a lot of fat and suffer fewer heart attacks than us. 3. Chinese drink very little red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us. 4. Italians drink excessive amounts of red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us... 5. Germans drink beer and eat lots of sausages and fats and suffer fewer heart attacks than us. 6. The French eat foie-Gras, full fat cheese and drink red wine and suffer fewer heart attacks than us CONCLUSION:
Eat and drink what you like. Speaking English is apparently what kills you.
Merry Christmas Current Mood:  amused |
| Sunday, December 20th, 2009 |
mayela_delarue
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11:23p |
Speed Dating Mach II
So Thursday night was the second of my Speed Dating adventures with Sydney Speed Date. The night was supposed to take place at The Camperdown Hotel which is a great pub that I really like. Disappointingly, on Monday evening, I received a text message saying the venue had changed and we were back at the basement Ivory Lounge so I can't say I was thrilled. ( The details )All in all it wasn't quite the level of fun it had been the previous week. And I think I need to graduate to a higher level of speed dating. I've spied the Fast Impressions University Educated Speed Dating featuring trivia questions with each guy in January and I think I shall go along because it seems a fun idea. And in the mean time I should contact the 4 guys from the last 2 nights I have received as friends and see how that all goes. |
omnot
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10:03p |
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| Saturday, December 19th, 2009 |
pearl
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7:26p |
An article in Japanese that I think is about kute-uchi and kumihimo by Masako Kinoshita (木下雅子): 正倉院所蔵の組紐の組成技法について: 附クテ打組紐技法による古代角組の組成実技再現の試み (Braiding Techniques for the Braids Stored in the Shosoin With Report on the Experimentation in Reconstruction of Ancient Square Braids Using the Archaic Japanese Braiding Technique, Kute-uchi) 正倉院紀要 (Bulletin of the Office of the Shosoin Treasure House) 31 2009 pp.1-36
http://shosoin.kunaicho.go.jp/public/pdf/0000000255.pdf |
| Friday, December 18th, 2009 |
mrsbrown
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10:27p |
Thought of the day
Today I went to an ACF rally about Climate Change, and a woman from Tuvulu talked about higher king tides washing away houses and farmland. And then, as I was reading an article suggesting that the current cuts suggested at Copenhagen are still likely to result in a 3 degree temperature rise, I suddenly thought, "hey, the disaster's really going to happen this time". When I thought about my response, I realised that none of the worries of the future I had in my childhood and young adulthood have come to pass. We have not had a nuclear war, the world didn't end on 1 Jan 2000, and the hole in the ozone layer is basically under control. Subconciously, my brain has been putting climate change into the same bucket, with the same likely conclusion. I wonder how many other people have the same response going? Edit: How many other people think that climate change will be resolved somehow, based on this erroneous thinking? Current Mood:  intrigued |
mrsbrown
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8:39a |
my wishlist
Posting this quickly from work - where I arrived at 8.30am - a personal record for the last 4 months. I thought I would post my wishlist now, hopefully in time to be of some use. Small notebook for in my handbag. The one I have is almost full and it's nice to have a new one each year. Although without Midwinter, next years may not fill up like this one did. The one I have is 9cm x 14cm and 1.5cm thick. I really like the elastic to hold it closed. I've noticed I do quite a lot of drawing in it, so if it had some pages with 5mm grids that would be awesome. I use a diary at work and last year I consciously went out to buy one with interesting pictures every so often. I like that. I also like A5 size, with a week to a page (2 weeks to an opening) Hair stuff. I can't seem to keep them, so hair ties, clips and bun things would be great. This would make a fantastic recurring present - at least while I have long hair. Rose would probably enjoy this sort of gift/s too. I need a compost turner. One of those metal things with a handle and a spiral on the end that you can screw into your compost pile and then lift. The watering can I have is dodgy. The water rose keeps falling off. Maybe I should have spent more money on it. but I don't think I knew how much I would use it. I plan to lie on the couch for at least 3 days over the holidays and I really need stuff to read while I do it. Help. Current Mood: motivated |
| Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 |
pearl
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7:42p |
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pearl
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10:06a |
Via ![[profile]](http://s.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png) florentinescot, via SCAToday, via the Joong Ang Ilbo: The National Museum of Korea has an exhibition on called The Crossroads of Civilizations: Ancient Culture of Uzbekistan. The thing that seems to be causing all the excitement is that there is a reproduction of (at least one of) the 7th c. murals from Afrasiab Palace, Samarkand, that has been interpreted as including two Korean ambassadors. What caught my eye, was this from the Joong Ang Ilbo piece: The actual nationality of the two men in the painting was long debated by specialists, with some saying that their clothing shows they are from the Silla (57 B.C.-935) or Balhae (698-926) eras. With the revelation of the jougwan, however, many have concluded that the men are from the Goguryeo era.A bit of background -- this is the Three Kingdoms period, so your three choices in the seventh century are Goguryeo, Silla or Baekje. And it seems all three varieties of kingdom official wore jougwan (조우관), although the main debate seems to have been between Goguryeo and Baekje.* (Just to confuse, what came after Goguryeo was Balhae, where they continued wearing jougwan.) The only argument I can find that firmly describes the ambassadors as Goguryeo comes from this article (will open a pop up window, and you need to go to page 97), which implies it isn't so much the jougwan that is the deciding factor, but the diplomatic clout of Goguryeo. If you want to see a line drawing of the reconstruction, this article [PDF] on page 33 will help. *For example, this article from the Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing Industry or here says Baekje officials wore jougwan. And so I don't get confused, again, this is the Korean Society of Clothing Industry. This is the Korean Society for Clothing and Textiles. They have all of their English pages here, and you can access their Korean journals for free here. |
astemudfoot
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3:27a |
Working on posting more often
A note in reference to last night..... One should not watch a show about cooking on nightshift. My stomach growled all night. I'm getting hungry just thinking about it.... mmm... food porn flashbacks. One should also not watch Bruno at work. I'm sure the dancing cock shots were not worksafe, hence I turned it off. I'm running a bit thin on movie choices to watch on nightshift. Got any reccomendations? |
| Tuesday, December 15th, 2009 |
astemudfoot
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3:25a |
forgive me lj
For it's been a long time since my last real post. It's 3:08am. This may not be coherent. Update: I got married. It was cool. I like being married. I love my husband. We now have 8 horses (3 on the market for sale... wanna buy a pony? You know you want one) 5 geese and only 1 rabbit as well as the usual menagerie. The bunnies all died except for the buck due to miximitosis. Quite sad really. So we got geese. They don't get mixo. And I like their joyous honking. We may have finally found the right set of ponies. We struggled to find the Bird the right pony. She is not as confident as the other girls, but somehow managed to bond to the little pony that threw her off 3 times and ignores her as a rider. So we had to find one she felt comfortable with and will actually ride rather than sit on and be ignored. We may have found him. He is on trial until Sunday when we have to make a decision to keep him or send him home. The Tree got a super-pony taht suits her well from a local pony club. They are best mates and love frolicing around together. Little Spice can now ride Misty independently. I rode Star for the first time in about 5 months today. He remembered everything we worked on and so we grew his lessons a little bit more. He was super. I forgot how much I enjoyed riding him, it's been hard to prioritise it when we're working so hard with the ponies. Now we just need to find the right 4-legged friend for CE and we'll have a full set. We are still sharing Star, but I don't think CE enjoys riding him as much. Star can be quite challenging for a beginner because he's almost too responsive. Minerva, the filly, is huge. She's 11 months old and taller than all the horses except Star. She had a hoot today dancing around the older horses trying to coax them into playing. She was bucking and charging at them as they ignored her and occasionally flicked an ear at her. I haven't laughed so hard in ages. I've been reading a book set in revolutionary France and I've just started watching Julia and Julie this evening, which is also set in France. Suddenly I'm homesick for a place I only visited for a fortnight in my youth. Visiting Paris relly effected me all those years ago. So new, yet so familiar, it felt like home. Not the kind of home you earn because you walk the same street every day and see the same people at your workplace, or work the soil with your own hands. But the kind of home where you step off the plane and you slip right into place like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle. I look forward to going back to France someday. Hmmm... itchy feet. Current Music: I feel - The Sundays |
| Monday, December 14th, 2009 |
omnot
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12:59p |
droman
The cats, as was foretold in the book of Beh, have taken to climbing the giftmas tree to harvest the abundant fruits one at a time, playing with each shiny bauble or figurine until they lose it under the furniture. Then they wash themselves with that typical "I meant to do that" air, then nap for a few hours before climbing the tree again in search of more prey. I find the gradual denudation and deformation of the tree amusing and they are not doing any lasting harm, so I see no point in chasing them off. Car is still good. Nothing fell off when I took it for a fang to Melbourne and back yesterday for Christmas Dinner #1. Still enjoying the "car as toy" phase, though not as much as with nippier vehicles. This is the largest feeling car I've owned and the QE2-ness is taking some adjusting to. The next Christmas gathering will be a lovely low key affair at the home of one of my sisters. She has decided that, as she is the hostess and does not care to cook a formal Christmas Dinner, she will place an emphasis on canapes and pre-lunch nibbles starting mid morning, and some time in mid afternoon we will move on to dessert. She is not planning to cook a "main" course, but has said that we're welcome to use the barbecue if we are in fear that we may starve without an officially designated lunch meal. This makes good sense to me, because we always overdo the food. By the time lunch is ready, we're close to fed anyway. Also, we rarely have an opportunity to trot out all the delicious dips, dipping items, antipasto, horderves, packets of things and jars of stuff and so forth that we have discovered, made, invented and enjoyed over the years. Ditto desserts, though I suspect that the focus will be on the savoury foods. I finally got around to trying the new Indian restaurant (very) near my house, and was very pleased with the quality, value and service. I was chuffed to have knowledge of somewhere I could recommend to people who ask "where's a good place to eat?" or to drag visitors to when the occasion might arise. Then on Friday, betwixt the bank and the car-collection, I was passing the Indian Restaurant and stuck my head in to ask a question only to find that the place is under new management. I'm worried that it won't be as good in future, but I can only wait and see. edit: it has been pointed out that it may not be adequately obvious that "droman" is "random" spelled... randomly. |
counter_ermine
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9:50a |
The weekend that was...
The visitation was a grand success with rio-bar successfully sourced and a timely reminder that nothing is open in Ballarat after 12pm on a Saturday! A great number of star pickets that have been rusting in the ground for 20years were removed by the dint of good hard effort by sacred-chao, tenbears, doushka's mum and others. Horse poo was collected, thanks guys I don't know if you quite understand how much I appreciate that! Some fences gates were rehung and sacred_chao got to demonstrate how clever and tooly he is! This basically means that the horses can now be shooshed through the paddocks rather than catching each individual one and walking them through. Built a small gate that is essential to the shooshing process. Released the geese today after Aste trimmed their flight feathers, fingers crossed that they stay until tonight. It was lovely to have company and the work on the farm is greatly appreciated! |
| Sunday, December 13th, 2009 |
celsa
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9:07p |
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mrsbrown
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7:14p |
Rose's wishlist
while I think of it - some hints if you want to give stuff to Rose Rose loves gardening. We "check our garden" several times a day, exclaim over how big the sunflower plants are (they are now taller than she is) and argue over the watering can. She also loves watching gardening shows and tonight exclaimed over the scarecrows in a school garden, admired the pink flowers and was enthusiastic about the rainbow coloured fan that's similar to the one in splodgenoodles garden. Rose also likes reading. She can now name most of the letters of the alphabet when she sees them and sings the alphabet song with only a few funny phrases. Books would make nice presents, but we do already have a lot. We read The Cat in the Hat Comes Back at Hrothgar and Ava's place this weekend, and she's still quoting it. We don't own that one. Rose's language has exploded in the past 4 weeks. She has gone from someone who is difficult to understand, to somebody who describes complicated scenarios. She has also gotten very adamant about the world going her way. I'm not sure I would describe her as easygoing anymore. Also, if you ever ask Rose what sort of pizza she would like and she answers "apple pie pizza", you will be safe if you buy her a tropical pizza with pineapple. Current Mood: flatCurrent Music: discussion of dinner options, Rose is singing for pizza |
mayela_delarue
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2:28a |
Hyperactive Speed Dating
Well punters, you've been waiting to hear the next instalment of my search for love, with baited breath I dare say, so here it is. ( Delve into the world of Speed Dating )So all in all, we had a pretty good time, it was really full on and exhausting talking to people for 3 minutes only to work out whether you would suit each other. It really is an exercise in being Hyperactive and being able to be engaging 19 times over! It was a night full of giggles, and I am looking forward to next Thursday, though I will be flying solo, no wing woman to help veto boys (or pimp me, turns out she was promoting me to some of the guys as she had them after me). Current Mood:  tired |
| Saturday, December 12th, 2009 |
pearl
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10:02p |
There's been a few updates to the Baltic Knowledge Pages (mostly Estonian and Free Journals & Databases). If you have any links you desperately want put up there, let me know. I'm still fairly erratic in my updating though. |
celsa
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7:43p |
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hometime
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12:10p |
Being a biology teacher, I get all sorts of odd questions sometimes.... the toilet questions: Why do so many people die on the toilet? the sex questions: Do people have sex while thery're pregnant? How does the morning after pill work? and my personal favourite.... does this look like oral thrush? the nature of the universe questions: If the universe is constantly expanding, is it just the space between things which is expanding, or are all the objects expanding as well? and then there are the downright strange questions: When you were our age, did you like Britney Spears? Do caucasians get stretch marks? (from an Indian boy) Why do we have eyebrows? Why don't we have four eyebrows? |
| Friday, December 11th, 2009 |
hometime
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10:07p |
Still sick. But getting better. |
counter_ermine
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10:09a |
Its' Friday!
Hooray for Friday and the joy of not being at work for two whole days! It's the last "teaching" week and the activities for next week look kind of cool. I'm going to the moviesw, playing lazer tag and going to the pool. If only I was doing it with my mates rather than me students, but I'm getting paid so I might just shut up. Had a job interview yesterday, bit of a red letter day as it is the first Ballarat job interview I have got in over 12 months looking for work in this fair city (this doesn't mean I haven't been working, more that the fulltime gig, striking distance from home has just not been available to me). I think it went well, I looked very sharp in the wedding suit plus red and gold silk tie and we will see. I have the weekend on the farm this weekend, so the plan is to get a bit of work done - also recover from the snot invasion that is currently infesting my body - the codral cold and flu tablets have helped me get through the week, but it has to stop somewhere! I had other stuff to say but it has fallen out of my head... Oh... Rob and Coz, lemmings from Sydney are in Flagstaff Arizona with their dogs nad ferrets and are playing in the snow - see new userpics. I don't think you guys read LJ but Hi! I hope everyone enjoys their weekend! |
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