I can make better jokes about nuts
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st_aurafinaHappy Thanksgiving, USians! Hope you are full of good things and nice feelings, or at least not miserable. Enforced family jollity can be the opposite of fun, so hang in there, if you're working hard on that level. *hugs all around*
1. I found an Australian version of Graze, the subscription service that sends you tasty snacks in the mail in a pretty box: Harvest Box. It does have some fairly dodgy "We're nuts about nuts!" blather on their website, but the box is fun and I'm enjoying having a protein-y snack during work. I share a box withlilacsigil, and we have one snack each on Thursday and Friday. We've had two boxes so far, and I think I'll keep going.
In this box we had:
Top left, roasted pistachios (very nice despite not being a particular fan of them)
Bottom left: Thai lime and chilli cashews and peanuts. (SO GOOD OMG)
Top right: Summer Garden, sort of fruity nutty mix. (Quite nice.)
Bottom right: Raspberry Swirl with yoghurt covered raspberries and nuts. (Liked it a lot.)
It's $7.95 a week. The packaging is recyclable, and the snacks are inventive, so overall, I think I'm going to stick with it for now. I have a code for half-price packs, if anyone wants to try it out. Lemme know!
2. The local pool opened this week for early morning laps, and we've been twice. Which is awesome. The water is EFFING COLD. Which is not so awesome. If, at 7am AEST, your dogs twitch and the windows break, that will be me, failing to embrace my inner penguin.
3. Our Relay For Life team is having a sausage sizzle tomorrow, yay! We will have sausages in bread at work! I was amazingly productive last night, and made chocolate brownies and sesame squares to sell at the adjacent cake stall. This is the first Relay For Life event since the car accident - Shirley was a team-leader - so we're all a bit on tenterhooks but I'm hoping it does well. Also, sausage! Inna piece of bread! Probably with onions!
4. Local birdlife has hatched their babies, and we get to see all the adolescent birds learning how to bird. There's a family of magpies that come to our back yard, and the adolescent magpies are ridic and adorable, and lazy. They do not want to bird! They don't want to hunt for grubs! I know when they've arrived, because they have a whingey kind of EEEEEEE EEEEEEEE EEEEEEE cry, which I can only interpret as "Mum, Mum, why can't you just spew down my throat? I'M HUNGREEE! MUM MUM MUM!" Their parents ignore them, and eventually they start digging for grubs, but there's a lot of EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE and also some faceplanting, because balance is hard.
There's a family of wood ducks that live in the creek behind work, and they're much more polite. Soft quacky noises only, and everyone, even the teenagers, busily grubbing away.
5. Loving TV right now! Sleepy Hollow, SHIELD, Elementary. We're giving Almost Human a go even though I'm not sure yet if it's meant to be a dystopian story of the rights of the individual, or a massive bro-yay party. (Or ro-yay, aslilacsigil calls it.)
Hey, can someone give me a vertigo report on Catching Fire? Is it as bad as the first movie? (Which I would give a 9.5 on the Blair Witch Scale.) I'd like to see it withlilacsigil, but Hunger Games was pretty much unwatchable for her. I'm hoping a different director will be good.
1. I found an Australian version of Graze, the subscription service that sends you tasty snacks in the mail in a pretty box: Harvest Box. It does have some fairly dodgy "We're nuts about nuts!" blather on their website, but the box is fun and I'm enjoying having a protein-y snack during work. I share a box with
lilacsigil, and we have one snack each on Thursday and Friday. We've had two boxes so far, and I think I'll keep going. 
In this box we had:
Top left, roasted pistachios (very nice despite not being a particular fan of them)
Bottom left: Thai lime and chilli cashews and peanuts. (SO GOOD OMG)
Top right: Summer Garden, sort of fruity nutty mix. (Quite nice.)
Bottom right: Raspberry Swirl with yoghurt covered raspberries and nuts. (Liked it a lot.)
It's $7.95 a week. The packaging is recyclable, and the snacks are inventive, so overall, I think I'm going to stick with it for now. I have a code for half-price packs, if anyone wants to try it out. Lemme know!
2. The local pool opened this week for early morning laps, and we've been twice. Which is awesome. The water is EFFING COLD. Which is not so awesome. If, at 7am AEST, your dogs twitch and the windows break, that will be me, failing to embrace my inner penguin.
3. Our Relay For Life team is having a sausage sizzle tomorrow, yay! We will have sausages in bread at work! I was amazingly productive last night, and made chocolate brownies and sesame squares to sell at the adjacent cake stall. This is the first Relay For Life event since the car accident - Shirley was a team-leader - so we're all a bit on tenterhooks but I'm hoping it does well. Also, sausage! Inna piece of bread! Probably with onions!
4. Local birdlife has hatched their babies, and we get to see all the adolescent birds learning how to bird. There's a family of magpies that come to our back yard, and the adolescent magpies are ridic and adorable, and lazy. They do not want to bird! They don't want to hunt for grubs! I know when they've arrived, because they have a whingey kind of EEEEEEE EEEEEEEE EEEEEEE cry, which I can only interpret as "Mum, Mum, why can't you just spew down my throat? I'M HUNGREEE! MUM MUM MUM!" Their parents ignore them, and eventually they start digging for grubs, but there's a lot of EEEEE EEEEE EEEEE and also some faceplanting, because balance is hard.
There's a family of wood ducks that live in the creek behind work, and they're much more polite. Soft quacky noises only, and everyone, even the teenagers, busily grubbing away.
5. Loving TV right now! Sleepy Hollow, SHIELD, Elementary. We're giving Almost Human a go even though I'm not sure yet if it's meant to be a dystopian story of the rights of the individual, or a massive bro-yay party. (Or ro-yay, as
lilacsigil calls it.)Hey, can someone give me a vertigo report on Catching Fire? Is it as bad as the first movie? (Which I would give a 9.5 on the Blair Witch Scale.) I'd like to see it with
lilacsigil, but Hunger Games was pretty much unwatchable for her. I'm hoping a different director will be good.
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Date: 2013-12-02 08:48 am (UTC)Catching Fire is sounding like we can manage it - thank you!