So, once again Beau left me to tend to the ailments of children in the Wilds of Ireland (well, Galway, which for whatever reason, I always want to type as Galyway). I didn't have any plans organised for the weekend except to possibly hang out with Dr A (Kiwi Dr who studied with Beau and went to school with my Sis) and her beau. This did not come to pass. But I was fine with that as was feeling pretty pajama and internet-y ;)
I did no baking this weekend or in the past week. Oh wait, there was that bread and butter pudding :D!
Pajama-ing and internetting was fun. Esp as the last post I did got lots of comments. Who knew that Scars and Soapnuts would elicit so many comments and so much interest. I mean, I knew I was interested enough to post about it, but I post about heaps of things that don't get that much response. It's the time and place of it all, I suppose :)
My Friday night started out well, with me coming home to an unxpected letter from my Jenni, which she and a combo of people had written messages to me during the madness of the 48. She had also included a photo from the 48. I somehow felt the need to take photos of me with it and then with the various other things people had posted me (NZ lollies and stationary sets). They are now online.
Also, Voltron had made me dinner! Omnomnom. I was so hungry coming home that I was tempted by evil takeaways, but I was like, No! You can make yourself a delicious sandwich. I didn't even have to do that. I truly appreciate having a flatmate who feeds me (it was a rice salad with celery, chicken and pineapple. He also made dinner yest which was roasted aubergine with mozzarella cheese and tomato... and parmesan too omnomnomnom).
After dinner I felt like some serious relaxing and planned to have a bath, but then my Jenni was online and I got to skype with her (and Leelee). Skype is my friend!
I did a fair amount of skyping this weekend and got to talk to both Bean and her mum (my south island mother). It was Bean's birthday on Sunday and I got to wish her happy birthday and she has a webcam, so I also got to see her baby belly! Is beautiful. SI mum was also good. She seems super busy with her work and friends.
The weather on Sat was warm and summery (unlike the days before and after, it does rain. alot. here;) and I met up with mytholder and delichan for lunch and a walk thru UCC (local uni). Delichan had been before but she studied in Galyway so there was new interesting stuff for her too. I can't get over how there are Cabbage trees all over Ireland and got her to take a photo of me with one (kiwis in ireland, together). May post it later. I then mooched along with them back to their house to have dinner cooked for me (3rd day in a row!) by mytholder. It was sort of spag bol... except the bol was chicken pieces. I'd have done a much better job of eating it, if I hadn't just had 2 large Spiders (ice-cream floats for the uninitiated). Belly was full.
We also watched Hot Fuzz. It was the first time for delichan and me. It was *awesome*. I mean, people had told me to watch it, and I was like, yeah, later. Well, later happened and it was oymysomuchfun!!! Just ... good. I want to watch it again, just so I'll laugh some more.
Then we watched.... the Eurovision Final! I didn't watch the whole thing. I don't think my brain could have handled it. I just have to say, I understand more now why Ireland thought entering a turkey (puppet) was a good idea and not making a mockery of the Eurovision. You can't mock that thing anymore than it mocks itself!
Sunday I wrote Sass's letter, mooched around at home before heading into town to suss suitable baby clothes for Bean's Lentil (I didn't choose that nickname, they did, it pleases me). The Corpus Christi procession prevented me from crossing the road for a while, but I made it to Mytholder's flat eventually, picked up book, bowl and played Guitar Hero with delichan. Then back home to have my 4th dinner cooked for me in a row.
I also took pictures for a "How to Eat a Lum-yai" thing I want to post on thursday. That took about 2 minutes. I spent about 2 hours trying to figure out how to photoshop all the images together into one image. My brain is sore. Please help!!!
Point of Fashion: I did Ironing this weekend!
Current obsession: Why must reading Fastfood Nation make me want fries???