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[st_aurafina]

Ugh, just found our neighbour-up-the-road's dog lying in the middle of the road with his legs akimbo, and thought for sure he'd been run over, so we put the hazard light on and ran out to help him, expecting a bloodbath, and the bastard got up and walked away. AAAAAAH! We put the dog (and his little dog sidekick) in the neighbour-up-the-road's back yard and locked the gate. But did not need that heart-stopping moment. Also, this is not the first misadventure these dogs have had. They're facebook stars, of the "Does anyone know these dogs?" variety. Make your dogs safe, or you don't deserve dogs.



Anyway...


MOVING DAY IS SET

I REPEAT, MOVING DAY IS SET

HOLY SHIT OMG WTF THERE'S SO MUCH STUFF WE ONLY HAVE A WEEK THE TENANT MOVES IN AS WE'RE MOVING OUT SO THERE'S NOWHERE TO RUN AWAY TO I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN HANDLE THIS

The cleaners have to come back and clean more - there was just that much dust. But the walls and shelves and windows are good, and I think we can start bringing stuff over from the pantry, the kitchen cupboards, omg help.

There's so much stuff to take to the op shop. There's stuff to take to the tip. There's stuff we're leaving for the Lions. (The Lions Club run a trash and treasure stall in late OCtober.)



Oh, but look at the treasure I found while packing:

It's lilacsigil's, from the X-Men show bag at the Royal Melbourne Show:

[Tetrapak of flavoured milk, labeled 'Chocolate dinkum flavoured milk' with a picture of Wolverine on the front with his claws out.


Check out the expiry date:

[Close up of the top of the box; it says "Use by 28 Nov 1994"]

Twenty year old wolverine milk. It'll put hairs on your chest, bub.

I feel like I should keep it. I mean, it's practically a family heirloom at this stage. Like Grandpa's unexploded grenade.




I got yer linkspams. And yer picspams.

- reign-soundtrack collates all the amazing folk-pop from season one. I am still enjoying this ridiculous show that has no fucks to give for actual historic events. And Adelaide Kane, who plays Mary, is really great. (And an Aussie! Go Aussie!)


- Speaking of Australia (casting spoilers for Arrow) STONE THE FLAMING CROWS MATE, CAPTAIN BOOMERANG IS A DINKY-DI TRUE BLUE AUSSIE COBBER/BAD GUY. THIS IS GOING TO BE GROUSE, MATE.

Not really.

The accent is going to kill me.

It's going to be Meryl Streep's Lindy Chamberlain all over again, and because it's Arrow, I will probably eat it up with a spoon.





- Tiny caravan you can pull with a bicycle - it's a tiny dwelling made from two water tanks. (Tiny dwellings are my fantasy right now. Moving will do that for you.)


- 23 Plus-sized bloggers to follow on instagram. I don't do instagram, nor do I particularly do fashion, but these women are amaze and gorgeous.


- How To Cook Quinoa Perfectly Every Time On The Stove Or In A Rice Cooker With Photos. I have a rice cooker. I have a packet of quinoa somewhere in the pantry which I'm sure to come across in the next couple of days as I clean out EVERYTHING.


- Something to covet: Eco-friendly rainbow sea glass jewellery. Pretty glass pebbles inna tube! Definitely something that I'd hang around my neck. (My sister said they look like jelly beans, which is not exactly dissuasive.)


- Recycled jeans journal. This is something I could actually make. I think I'd like to give it a go. WHEN WE HAVE MOVED. AND UNPACKED ALL THE CRAFT ROOM.


- The back of the Sleepy Hollow DVD describes Abbie as 'feisty'. This offends me; it's so infantilising, and it's not true at all. Abbie is measured and deliberate and not feisty. (Who the fuck is feisty, really? Apart from ponies.)

Here, have a picture of Amandla Stenburg. She's in a band. It's adorable.
They're called Honeywater





- This just came up on the Miss Fisher facebook page!


(Please have all the Mac! Maybe some Mac/Phryne? You know they must have one time at least.)



- Lastly, one birthday: Happy birthday to kaffy_r, my favourite revolutionary journalist. I hope you have the loveliest of days.


*rushes off to label things for the Lions because the Lions are coming*

Comments

[senmut]

BEST OF LUCK ON THE MOVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[st_aurafina]

OMG CLINGS

WE WILL GET THROUGH!!

[vass]

Good luck with the lions! And with the move! You can handle this! It will be terrible and stressful and terrifying, but you will survive it and then it will get better!

Thank you for the Wolverine milk lols. That is a brilliant find.

[Tetrapak of flavoured milk, labeled 'Chocolate dinkum flavoured milk' with a picture of Wolverine on the front with his claws out.

Because that is definitely vocabulary Wolverine would use. And if there's one thing Wolverine needs, it's calcium.

Twenty year old wolverine milk. It'll put hairs on your chest, bub.

(less sarcastically than before) Well, wolverines are mammals. So I guess wolverine milk is a thing you could harvest and sell. And if Wolverine were a carton of milk, he would definitely still be going strong after twenty years.

...wait. do DC and Marvel BOTH have superheroes called Boomerang? Are there, in fact, any mainstream superheroes from Australia who do not have a boomerang somewhere in their name?

I don't know much about Australia in the Marvelverse. What are we like? I know from Rachel Edidin that Canada is a terrifying, nightmarish dystopia, so I expect we're full of cute cuddly animals who can heal whatever's wrong with you by nuzzling you.

[st_aurafina]

I think they're pretty similar, but Captain Boomerang is definitely the more camp of the two - his costume looks a bit like an air hostess, and his name is George "Digger" Harkness. Omg headdesk x a million.

Whoever in DC land created Captain Boomerang decided he was from (I can't even imagine how they came across the name) Korumburra, which they then illustrated as red, fiery desert. The missed opportunity with the giant earthworms is KILLING me. Giant earthworms, they're such a comic book thing.

There's a really cool arc in X-Men where they're all living in the outback - drawn pretty correctly - and then Storm and Rogue and Jubilee (I think it was Jubes, but lilacsigil will correct me) teleported to Sydney to shop and get fabulous. (It was the eighties, so they were all pretty fabulous already.)

So, um, in conclusion, Korumburra lol.

Whoever controls the Vegemite controls destiny

[vass]

I didn't know about Korumburra and the giant earthworms. (At least, I thought I didn't, but a google image search is turning up some long-buried childhood memories.) That is SUCH a missed opportunity. South Gippsland: like Arrakis in a way.

[alexbayleaf]

I... I... Korumburra. *head explodes*

[umadoshi]

There's a really cool arc in X-Men where they're all living in the outback - drawn pretty correctly - and then Storm and Rogue and Jubilee (I think it was Jubes, but lilacsigil will correct me) teleported to Sydney to shop and get fabulous. (It was the eighties, so they were all pretty fabulous already.)

Hee! I remember that. ^_^ It was shortly (at least "shortly" in the grand scheme of things) before I began buying X-Men comics properly and was still reading them via the library. [/nostalgia]

[lilacsigil]

X-Men nitpicking time! The "boys' night out" was in Sydney, with Logan, Alex, Piotr and Longshot going drinking. The "girls' night out" was in Los Angeles, and they went to a mall where Jubilee happened to be living, and she tagged along when they teleported back to Australia.

[king_touchy]

Like Grandpa's unexploded grenade.

That thing is *exactly* like Grandpa's unexploded grenade. If both were let off, I think I'd prefer the grenade. Twenty year old Wolverine milk. It's kind of awesome, really.

[st_aurafina]

That thing's safe as houses! Hasn't exploded once in twenty years! / grandpa voice

I can't quite bring myself to throw it in the bin though. It's one of those YOLO things, I guess.

[lark_ascends]

All the best of luck on your move!!!!

Also, no, you can't throw out the milk. That's a heirloom, that is!

Brings me in mind, too, of the food that went up into space in 1965 that we have at work. The ham is still solid in its package. I'm amazed by that.

[lark_ascends]

Also, wonder what it would be worth on ebay? Heee!

[st_aurafina]

We could strike it rich!! *gigglesnort*

[st_aurafina]

I think I'm more scared of your solid 50 year old ham than my 14 year old milk. Isn't it odd we can have these conversations!

[umadoshi]

Good luck with the move!

The Wolverine "milk" is...the only word coming to mind is "terrifying". Although having read the comment thread, I too am now curious about what it might fetch on ebay. *g*

[st_aurafina]

I would be too scared to sell it on ebay - some boxhead would drink it on a dare, for sure.

[bossymarmalade]

Twenty year old wolverine milk

I am trying to decide whether I abhor this phrase or love it beyond all comprehension or reason.

[st_aurafina]

It's just so nasty!

Also, I have this vision of an army of milkmaids that look like Logan in mopcaps with big hairy arms.

[ignipes]

Hope the move goes well!

[st_aurafina]

Ugh, thank you. I just want it over ASAP. I packed the chocolate. What the hell was I thinking?

[retsuko]

YAY! Good luck on the move! So glad it's finally happening! :D

[st_aurafina]

Me too! We're right in the middle of it, and I want it to be over.

[untonuggan]

BEST MOVING WISHES. XD

[st_aurafina]

Thank you! I feel a little discombobulated with my underwear in one house and me in the other.

(I'm trying to upload you a video of the cats running in their hamster wheel but I can't get it to go.)

[scheherezhad]

Best of luck on the move!

That Wolverine milk, tho. XD

[st_aurafina]

Thank you! We're right in the middle of it. It's like, DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR UNDERWEAR IS? And I don't, not really.

[lurkingcat]

MOVING DATE! GOOD LUCK!

Twenty year old Wolverine chocolate milk. It'll be fine. It probably comes with healing powers and everything.

[st_aurafina]

IT'S HAPPENING! THREE MORE SLEEPS!

That milk totally has healing factor, or it gives you healing factor, or something.

[realpestilence]

Wenches are feisty. I guess it's the corsets, they must squeeze all the energy upwards and it has to come out of their mouths or their heads will explode. Or something.

[st_aurafina]

Abbie is so far from a wench it makes my head hurt imagining her in a corset!

[frayadjacent]

Oooh, good luck with the move! I hope you're able to get a little time to yourself. :D

Rue is in a band!! Of course she is. Now I want to listen to it.

Also I keep meaning to check out Miss Fisher. Thanks for the reminder!

[st_aurafina]

Miss Fisher is awesome - so glad it's having success overseas, too.

[mergatrude]

Good luck! I hope the moving goddess smiles upon you.

[st_aurafina]

Thank you! I will make all the offerings to the moving goddess!

[wendelah1]

I have a rice cooker, too, a cheap one. Despite her claims to the contrary, I have had no difficulty cooking any variety of rice in it--short grain, long grain, brown, sprouted--it's all good. Steel cut oats turn out great, too. If I ate rice twice a day, I could see spending a small fortune on a rice cooker but not for once or twice a week. I've never tried quinoa in my rice cooker. I don't like the texture.

Yay for Miss Fisher season three. It will probably be at least a year after you see it until we do, but I am so looking forward to that third season.

Good luck with getting ready for your move!

[st_aurafina]

I want to try brown rice in the rice cooker - I really like it but I can't cook it on a stove top.

I love Miss Fisher! So glad that people in the US like it too.

[clare_dragonfly]

Yay! good luck moving!

[st_aurafina]

Thank you! One house is emptying while the other fills up!

[whatistigerbalm]

You can do it! You can!

[st_aurafina]

I THINK I CAN, I THINK I CAN.

[laurenthemself]

Good luck with the move!

Also, it's UHT milk. It's probably still good.

[st_aurafina]

It's still good! It's still good!

Ugh, moving sucks but it will be worth it.