Closing some tabs

[st_aurafina]

It is surprisingly exhausting sitting in a chair for two hours talking finance with the bank, but we have pre-approval for the home loan. Next, solicitors for conveyancing, and the building inspector.


Closing some tabs. I've had some of these open for over a month. I guess I can hoard anything, including tabs.

- Warrnambool woman rescued after failed 'gap challenge'. This is what passes for fun in Warrnambool. Apparently you squeeze yourself between two buildings as a dare. And they're really old, cold, bluestone buildings, so if you get stuck, your core temperature can drop dangerously low. Especially if you've been drinking.


- How to make soft-boiled eggs. One of those simple things I just can't seem to get right.


- Archie Panjabi on The Good Wife's Kalinda: 'I can only play her in boots'. (from umadoshi)


- How to review your novel at a glance. This very much appeals to me - being able to spread the novel out on a table and see all the edits at once. Even if you do have to print it out in 8 point.


- Having Gone Largely Unnoticed In The ‘Game Of Thrones’ Series, It’s Now Impossible To Take Your Eyes Off It. About the detailed and gorgeously lavish costumes in Game of Thrones. The direwolves on Sansa's dress!


- Snopes: Does Disney's The Rescuers have an image of a naked woman hidden in it? (Spoilers: yes, it does.) This seems like a bizarrely elaborate kind of exhibitionism - I can't stop thinking about someone carefully editing the image into the cartoon (which I loved as a kid) and then what? Sitting in theatres, snickering to themselves? It seems kind of pathological.


- 1985 Breckenridge Ski Ballet. Apparently ski ballet was a demonstration sport at the 1988 and 1992 Winter Oympics. I just can't quite convince myself that I'm not watching a spoof.


- DIY Bracelet Loom. School is back and friendship bracelets are immediately the fashion. The kids here are wearing these linked elastic band things that look incredibly painful, and I hope they rediscover the woven kind. I never made them myself, but I always wanted to know how it was done.


- The Naughty Victorian Hand Book. Just. Can't. Stop. Laughing.


- The Entire Star Wars Saga Cross-Stitched By Hand. This is epic and amazing. Fandom and cross-stitch is the best of marriages.


- How to Spot Good Gelato from 15 Feet Away. Could also be titled 'How to give someone painful cravings for iced confections when the nearest gelateria is four hours drive away'. (via beatrice_otter, I think?)


- skatingfugly. The worst of the worst figure skating costumes.


- whatwouldcecilwear (Welcome to Nightvale) This has been cracking me up for days. It all seems so plausible! I found it via this incredible piece of art and the link beneath it.


Time for bed now, yay!

Comments

[killing_rose]

I totally admit that I am completely unfamiliar with y'all's systems, but if you have the practice of title companies and title insurance, do it. It's more expensive in the short run, but I cannot count how many times I've seen a borrower saved because they had title insurance when they bought their home---and how often I've had to say, "We have a serious deal killing problem" because they didn't.

[st_aurafina]

Thanks! I'll check it out with my solicitor when I talk to her.

[lurkingcat]

That friendship bracelet loom might have saved several pairs of jeans when I was at school. It's been twenty something years and I can't remember exactly how to make the woven ones but I do remember that we knotted the strands together and anchored them to our jeans with a safety pin while we were weaving them. So many holes from those safety pins!

[st_aurafina]

I did always wonder how people made them - I didn't know you had to sacrifice jeans!

[lonelywalker]

Wow, the ski ballet really sounds like a comedy skit where people "commentate" on someone who's just a random tourist mucking about.

I think Warrnambool might need a swing set or something equally thrilling to keep these kids 40-year-olds off the street.

[st_aurafina]

Yeah, I couldn't quite believe that the ski ballet wasn't a python-esque skit. It was just so absurd.

Warrnambool needs... something.

[vass]

How to Spot Good Gelato from 15 Feet Away

I KNEW IT.

I grew up within walking distance of Lygon Street, and I've always regarded with glowering suspicion those places with a zillion toppings and foreign objects studding their gelati.

My gold standard for a good gelati place is that they do banana well. And, like the link said, the good banana gelati is grey. Grey or mousey off-white at best. If it's yellow, it'll taste like cough syrup.

[st_aurafina]

Lygon Street! I miss it. And good gelato - I miss that, too.

[vass]

My primary school had gelato fundraisers sometimes. It wasn't especially good gelato, but gelati at school! Chocolate and lemon or strawberry and lemon. Way better than a sausage sizzle (although those were good too.)

BTW, I saw mills_23 (who lives in Warrnambool) on Thursday, and I asked her about the gap thing. She said she hadn't heard of it before it was in the news, but she's not really into getting drunk and doing stupid things, so.