Not location specific, No rules: Welcome to ILX heaven

Just across the road-ish, still in Renfrew. Currently in a flat, moving to a semi with a lovely garden, hurrah!

accentmonkey, do you like whittaker's (new zealish) chocolate? if you send me something random, i will send you whittaker's ;)

or a piece of pounamu.

punani?

close but no cigar.

well, not really close at all. it's what we call jade/greenstone in new zealand.

Darragh! How rude!

Yum, whittaker's. I would like that. Goody! An exchange.

cool! what flava is your flava, lady?
72% dark ghana
62% cacao
coconut
almond
peanut
mocha
orange
hazelnut
... i'm trying to remember others...

did you get a piece of pounamu while you were here? traditionally, it's supposed to be received as a gift and never bought for oneself, so i could send you a piece if you don't.

jade/greenstone?

that is now my new slang for punani. this will make me impressively vague at the pub this weekend.

i have never bought punani for myself, xpost. technically, i don't think i've ever received it as a gift either, more of a consolation prize tbh

sympathy fucks?

greenstone as slang for punani has conjurors up some dodgy images.

i disagree, sympathy rox.

Rubyredd, any kind of milk chocolate is fine by me. But not plain. I'm sick of pretending to like plain chocolate just so that people will think I'm some kind of grownup sophisticate.

i shall surprise you. emailing you my address now :)

'this domain name does not exist' :(

you can email me at: justine at bukowski dot net

Wilco.

Hey, this Flight of the Conchords programme is funny.

accentmonkey, just tried to email you through ILX but I've no idea if it worked. would be up for mail trading for sure!

anyone here a big PEZ lover? email me with your address and I've got a surprise.

I GOTTA DA POSTCAHDS. A whole new batch! Who wants one!

Or ANOTHER one!

Me! Pick me!

I just got to work from an 8am appt at the endocrinologist. Please shoot me and the Austin bus system. Well maybe just the latter and buy me one car, k thx.

And now I'm about to leave for two meetings and then head home.

Let's hear it for minimal amount of work done on a Monday, hooray!

What a spectacularly bad Monday!

What should I eat tonight for dinner? I don't feel like making anything, and since I have to literally travel from one corner of the city to the other (well, from one corner to halfway-between-the-middle-and-the-other-corner), I can pretty much pick up anything for dinner. I am, however, cheap, so nothing pricy. I am tired of pizza, poutine, and macca's.

taco bell?
we're eating chicken strips and fries as we are both hungry and lazy tonight.

I'm doing work work tonight which goes against my principles. :(

I have just spent 30 minutes listening to me at 4. I am very angry/protective/ready to FUCK U ALL UP NOW!!! I was a cute kid.

Oh right, I was 4 years old.

What is poutine?

What do I do by the way? Should I make those tapes MP3s?? I don't think my kids (should adoption ever work that way) need to hear their father make squeak noises for 30 mins. It was lovely though. I feel very old. Could someone make me feel better please? I just need cuddles!

I had cheesy scrambled eggs (with a spoonful of salsa on the side) and toast.

Poutine is french fries smothered in cheese curds and brown gravy. I accept in theory that it can be a good dish, but I haven't had any that took less than a week and a half to digest.

I have only ever looked at poutine.

I would like poutine (I am Onimoed, this might colour my judgement as to what I would find edible and nice).

Poutine does sit in your stomach like a rock, but this is not necessarily always a bad thing. Sometimes you like to feel comfortably full of stuff you're fairly sure won't come back up (because it is too super-dense to be regurgitated).

Welcome back, Kev-lol.

I am not back yet! Thanks though.

I will make do with cornflakes :(

Oh yeah, I forgot. Still, at least the strike has been called off, so you don't have to sit in a yellow Fisher Price plane and have ads played at you loudly all the way home. That's something.

I've never had proper poutine wot with the cheese curds and everything, HOWEVER, I have requested the kitchen in the Head of Steam (as was) to give us CHIPS CHEESE AND GRAVY. They took a very long time to decide whether they could do this! Eventually they did, and we were very happy.

I believe 'poutine' should be pronounced 'poutsine'?

They have poutine in the MAPLE LEAF pub, but I hear they don't use cheese curds either so what's the point?!

(Chips and gravy being the foodstuff of the g0ds obv)

yes.

Unfortunately accentmonkey I cancelled my ticket yesterday morning! Well at least I get the refund and work covered my flight back (I am soooo important. Or they're understaffed, either or basically). It's Easyjet to Gatwick then Ryanair home. I'll wave to you from the plane, of course.

I was in Head of Steam with Stevem and 4l1x once I think. Is it in King's cross? V depressing place full of aged alcos and mean barmen? (Note: Stevem and 4l1x were heroes to meet us there, they were just in from Manchester where he had been fannying about djing).

Chips and ketchup with tabaco, bits of onion and mayo is better imho. The other sounds a little too dense & salty, if such a thing is possible

Head of Steam is just outside Euston station. I watched some rugby in there with Carsmile Steve and Ptee once.

Ah, quick google shows me that that is not the place. Right. Must finish packing for trip back. Chat tomorrow when I'll be *groan* back at desk. So need to find a job in France!

I know, I was watching Phil and Kirsty the other night (I know, I know, but they're so flirty!) and they showed this couple a house in a small town in France and it was insanely gorgeous and €40,000. Sometimes I wish Mister M was a tax adviser or someone who could work from home, and then we could hide away in France.

You could all visit us. At that price, we could buy two houses, and our guests could stay in one.

I keep coming across old repeats of Phil and Kirstie when flicking through millions of tv channels, and seeing old eps when the houses were affordable then realising that was about six years ago and same lovely house would now cost about a squillion times more.

My current house-buying favourites are Rocco and Dawn on Costa Chaos, the most deluded couple in the world. There was a Costa Chaos catch-up marathon on More 4 on Sunday, and I sat howling like a madwoman at them. Please someone else tell me they've seen this, i don't think it's worth a thread on its own.

I haven't seen it. Mister M bans any program where people poke around other people's houses (except House M.D.), and he is here at the weekend.

(o-no, i reallyreally believe that i actually did have two things)

I always thought Poutine was New Orleans dish. But the discussion of cheese curds makes me realize I was mistaken.

I have completed a deadline, with 30 minutes to spare, that I worked on all last night.

I'd love a latte as reward but everything on campus is still closed. :(

30 minutes to spare is plenty (by my piss poor standards)!

Well my client needed mockups to present at a meeting at ten. I was worried about emailing them before she left. In any meeting I've been with her she seems incapable of figuring up how to connect to the wireless.

Deadlines imposed by others are good for me. I work efficiently compared to normal laziness. I need more of them besides the ones I have to set.

Please tell me what I have forgotten to do re. impending house move. There must be something. I can't possibly have remembered all the stupid wee things I need to do, can I?

(I have read a list of things to remember to do that I printed off the interwebs, but there must be other things I need to do, yes?)

I am addicted to House, MD.

Er, bog roll.

You always need bog roll!

transport/set-up for furries
setting up/turning off utilities
shower curtains, paper towels, dining necessities easily at hand
a few changes of clothes, towels not packed
alcohol for relaxing afterwards