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general joy
Sep. 26th, 2004 07:21 pmQuite a nice weekend overall, despite the massive amount of work that I (should) have been doing. A brief Complaint, and then the Happy Stuff, in Easy to Read Daily Highlight format:
Complaint: I /hate/ dishes. I've spent at least 90 minutes today washing and putting away various dishes--as I seem to do every day. I know, I know: 9 people, lots of food, lots of dishes. But it feels like there are very few of us who actually take the time to put the clean dishes (and more importantly, silverware) back. The dish rack ain't that big, folks--and while we're on the subject, it'd be great if people could make sure that a dish is completely free of crustiness before they set it to dry in said rack. *sigh*
Happy!Friday: Blenheim Palace is way cool, and the gardens are way huge. Three hours is way too much time to spend there. Letters from alcavana, ejberman, kmmatero and a wedding announcement from lkmaxwell--eeeeee! Housemate Jeff is v. jealous.
Happy!Saturday: phone call from kmmatero--warm fuzzies! Jeff demands a pie at dinner; roommate Sian starts looking at recipes to see what we could conceivably make. 10 minutes later, she's atop the garden wall out back, picking apples off our neighbour's tree. In the dark. I collect what she's picked, have a brief case of hysterics and drop them all when startled by a camera flash, but recover enough to help bake 2 enormous apple crisps. Mmmm. We then spend an hour going through cookbooks, marking recipes and making a list for shopping tomorrow. (Nerds. I love it!)
Sunday (meh): Strategically planned a visit to the Nelson House computers during the dinner hour. Had place all to myself, and could mess about on internet to heart's content. Only real sadness: nobody online at home to talk to. :( (I'm not really addicted. I could stop at any time, I swear.)
Complaint: I /hate/ dishes. I've spent at least 90 minutes today washing and putting away various dishes--as I seem to do every day. I know, I know: 9 people, lots of food, lots of dishes. But it feels like there are very few of us who actually take the time to put the clean dishes (and more importantly, silverware) back. The dish rack ain't that big, folks--and while we're on the subject, it'd be great if people could make sure that a dish is completely free of crustiness before they set it to dry in said rack. *sigh*
Happy!Friday: Blenheim Palace is way cool, and the gardens are way huge. Three hours is way too much time to spend there. Letters from alcavana, ejberman, kmmatero and a wedding announcement from lkmaxwell--eeeeee! Housemate Jeff is v. jealous.
Happy!Saturday: phone call from kmmatero--warm fuzzies! Jeff demands a pie at dinner; roommate Sian starts looking at recipes to see what we could conceivably make. 10 minutes later, she's atop the garden wall out back, picking apples off our neighbour's tree. In the dark. I collect what she's picked, have a brief case of hysterics and drop them all when startled by a camera flash, but recover enough to help bake 2 enormous apple crisps. Mmmm. We then spend an hour going through cookbooks, marking recipes and making a list for shopping tomorrow. (Nerds. I love it!)
Sunday (meh): Strategically planned a visit to the Nelson House computers during the dinner hour. Had place all to myself, and could mess about on internet to heart's content. Only real sadness: nobody online at home to talk to. :( (I'm not really addicted. I could stop at any time, I swear.)
