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hellison ([personal profile] hellison) wrote2007-12-20 11:17 am

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In the absence of the mud yesterday evening, I managed to get quite a lot done!
Went up to the stables to see Ziggy and say hi to everyone, and discovered they're having a xmas party tomorrow night. Which should get going around the time we're all leaving the pub from the end-of-work pissup tomorrow afternoon... Could be interesting.

Came home, made food, even cleaned the kitchen (a bit) and, after dinner, decided to set up the new printer/scanner thing that came with the laptop. The *sensible* thing to do would, obviously, have been to clear the desk and set it up there. Not on the sofa 'to see if it works' first.
Still, it's a big sofa, there's room for me and it ;p
Then played with scanning a couple of photos and now need to buy paper to play with the printing, but for once I achieved technological SUCCESS without swearing, disaster, or throwing anything. Go me!
Just think tho, now I can scan all those photos (but not Those Photos) from years ago when there was No Digital! Hours of fun tormenting Thesme reminsicing lie ahead.

Also watched How To Look Good Naked. Love Gok. Why is he not my best friend and personal shopper??
'Fetch me that waist cinching belt, we're going to party!'. Must. Fight. Desire. To. Buy. Huge. Belt.

OOh also go home to find a Mysterious Package on the doorstep which, given previous experience, made me distinctly nervous, but thankfully turned out to be a present of No Horror at all - Slash's autobiography! Shall look forward to reading that over xmas. And possibly comparing with Lemmy's. I feel Lemmy may still win tho.

And then the mud came back, so all was well and I could stop doing things.

How did you spend your evening?

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2007-12-20 03:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow. That's impressively insane cooking!
But yes, naturally, any meal without potato is just a snack!
(I have an English friend who married a guy from here and is still perturbed by the varieties of potato needed to constitute a meal!)

[identity profile] lazy-hoor.livejournal.com 2007-12-20 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
My in-laws never, ever eat a dinner that doesn't have a potato somewhere on the plate - be it Italian, Chinese or... I was gonna say Indian but I think that's a bit too exotic for them.

I only had two types of spud for the last Xmas dinner I made. Last year I had three, P was really happy.

[identity profile] hellison.livejournal.com 2007-12-20 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Heh I don't think my da ever voluntarily ate a meal that didn't contain some form of potato. He used to sit down at home to a big plate of curry and rice - with boiled spuds on the side.

[identity profile] lazy-hoor.livejournal.com 2007-12-20 03:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes! Actually I did have an Indian curry (out of a jar) there once, it had roast spuds on the side.

When I worked for the Dairy Board I ate in the canteen and they looked at me a bit odd cos I didn't want mash with my lasagne. Me and my weird sassanach ways!