Rebecca Jones's Diary - Spinster and Lunatic

I put up my little Xmas tree tonight :)



I also figured out how to do this on my little camera! Yay...

• 07:47 Big day at work chasing 60k
• 16:21 Work was ducked. Stupid spelling correction
• 17:53 Off to 2ICs for well earnt drinkies and BBQ

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Adj.

1) A description of a recipe that should not exist for religious reasons, but tastes good anyway. 2) Any cooking done with communion wafers.

Try some Matzo crackers and bacon dip - it's sacrelicious.

Hey LJers... if you want a Zwilling beanie to gift as a Xmas present this year, you better place your orders in soon to make sure it gets there in time! Last mailings recommended around December 10th.

I know it's snowing up in that fancy Northen Hemisphere... so I'm offering 15% off all orders over $50.00! Let me know if you want a custom order :)

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1. Here in Broken Hill, that Travis guy from Big Brother is running for mayor in the election being held today. How many here would vote for him if they had the chance?

2. As for the other act of noble voting, it seemed after the response to the HHIS reunions that the knee-jerk voting for next years Logies was guaranteed to go the way of Daryl/ the show. Now that Rove's show has ended, that may have people pushing to get him one last award. So, who would you predict would get the mad rush of votes?

Whoa, people who go to watch the Late Late Toy Show gets a lot of free shit.

http://www.threadless.com/ has all there super cool tees on sale for $9... tempting!

I'm seriously behind on my livejournaling. And my emailing. And messaging. I hope no one ever gets offended if I take a million years to get back to an email or a message, its not intentional-- I never intentional ignore a comment or email, I really don't, I just read it and then get distracted, and forget to come back to it.

I just posted up my thanksgiving dinner and all the recipes on Boho Kitchen.
We had a cider-roasted turkey with roasted applesauce (although I really wanted to try brining this year, I didn't plan ahead for it), mashed potatoes and gravy, pecan and sage sweet potato casserole, garlic buttered carrots (I didn't post the recipe because, well, they were carrots, with butter... and garlic), cornbread stuffing, no-knead dinner rolls, and pumpkin cream cheese tart.

I had a small crowd for a late dinner, around 7:30, so I had plenty of time all day to cook. Kate (although limited to the soft foods due to wisdom tooth extraction), Tommy, Sean, Shona, and Coly (his preggo partner Kelly couldn't make it as she had to work :( )... and myself, Cormac and Jane of course. I think no one left hungry. Sean and Shona stayed down from Kilkenny overnight and it was nice to spend some time chatting with them. I hope I didn't bore them to tears with our conversations on child rearing, but they were asking about it (actually came up during dinner a few times, too). I'm always kind of tiptoeing, so I don't sound preachy, but I feel really strongly (as you all well know) about a lot of things, and I have a lot of info on reasons for how we parent (even with the breastfeeding or attachment parenting, or child psychology). Anywho, I felt Shona (second or third time meeting her) and I really had a bit in common, its a shame they are just a bit far away in Kilkenny- had a nice time chatting with her. We're going to try to get up there to visit sometime. It was nice that everyone came and enjoyed themselves-- there's no point in just cooking for ourselves.

There is a tribute gig tonight for Jay (Cormac's friend who passed away about two months ago). Harper's middle name is in his honor, too. It's still really strange he's dead. I think this gig will be good for everyone-- all musicians want to do is get together and play and enjoy the music and I think that's what's going to happen tonight. I wish I could go-- but I'd say it'd be too loud for Harper. Perhaps if she had been a few months old. Either way, I'm delighted for Cormac because he's getting to play some music he truly enjoys playing (as opposed to stuff for drunkies he plays in the cover gigs).

Late Late Toy Show tonight! Just starting, looks cute so far. Apparently, this is a huge Irish tradition. So, I better get in on it. Too bad most of the time I just want to punch Tubridy in the face.

I had to put my foot down with Cormac re: Christmas decorations. I love Christmas. I love homemade/handmade Christmas stuff, and I LOVE decorating. My mom and I nearly always put up all the decorations during the weekend after Thanksgiving, the kick-off to the Christmas season. I know its completely arbitrary and even more so since we're atheists, but its so much fun. It's magical and sparkly and just having a Christmas tree in the living room every night with the lights twinkling really warms me up and makes me feel good. Maybe that's silly, but I love every thing about Christmas. Making spicy treats and tasty cookies and doing fun crafts. This year I have a few knitting projects to give a go. Either way, Cormac didn't want to put the decorations up until mom got here, what?! No go baby.

19 days until mom gets here.

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• 21:41 Trent has asked me to 'knock one out' while he plays Assassins Creed in bed. I asked if he'd mind if I did it through my tears
• 22:21 CRAP @gabbyiskeen just reminded me with her tweet I need to think exactly what Im making Monday night for entree with family!
• 22:22 Poo www.worldrugbyshop.com/shop-by-team-all-blacks-all-blacks-micro-mini-umbrella.html Should have asked for this for Christmas
• 23:42 RT @Grosby: hahaha on FB a friends just "became a fan of Watching people's lives fall apart via status updates and news feeds." Me likey!!
• 00:03 Code 5150
• 07:25 RT @bews: Bye bye mininova. Yeah!! What a rude start to the morning!
• 07:29 RIP Mininova Happy to have used your sources. Now where to? #RIPMininova
• 07:49 Day 5 of 7. New catalogue signs to put up. Sale signs to write for the weekend. Would like to make commission instead.
• 08:00 I am thankful that I still have @eztv_it #RIPmininova
• 08:54 Now Playing ♪
  Nice Guys Finish Last : Cobra Starship : Hot Mess
  #TwitMusic
• 10:18 Work has just destroyed me. We're open 8am till 8pm Boxing Day. Fuck you consumer and your lack of family values
• 13:14 RT @missdmaree: Why the fuck is that lady pushing a pram around with no kid ? Christmas shoplifter 
• 13:20 RT @missdmaree: on my iPod ♪
  Bad Romance : Lady GaGa : R&B : The Fame Monster
  #TwitMusic That song gets stuck in my head all day!!
• 13:58 Giant Freddo frog. I need you.
• 14:07 Oh giant Freddo you're a WHITE Freddo. I ain't no racist but I love you more!!
• 20:02 I am absolutely so buggered - cant even get up from the couch :(
• 20:33 Damn you #Survivor and your stupid recap episode!!
• 20:57 twitpic.com/r5b52 - I sneezed after I put mascara on. Fail.
• 21:02 twitpic.com/r5bhe - I was told the list I needed was 'somewhere' on the desk... riiight...

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Guy #1: Whoa, that girl has like 50 shopping bags!
Guy #2: She's a shopaholic.

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I took a week off journalling.   That should give all of you reason to be grateful :D
At the start of the week I didn't feel well.  At the end of the week I had to take care of some real life stuff.
Have a nice weekend xox

Some of my fave pics of the night



Empire of the Sun

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• 22:55 Tired. Bored. Sleep.
• 07:44 No juice, no cordial and the milk is 6 days over date. *wahh* 
• 07:48 Now Playing ♪
  Bats : Paul Dempsey : Everything Is True
  #TwitMusic
• 08:02 I wish Vodafone rolled over thier unused credit like Virgin Mobile now does @VodafoneNews_AU
• 08:58 RT @Belkin The gadget Im most thankful for is my new Conserve surge protector - helping me make my Eco footprint smaller!
• 12:20 I have a pimple on my cheek. I am 30. How does this happen??
• 14:27 Now Playing ♪
  Womananizer : Britney Spears : The Singles Collection
  #TwitMusic
• 14:35 Eating part of 4.5kg of killer pythons mmmmm
• 17:55 Now Playing ♪
  Time To Pretend (MGMT) : Paul Dempsey : Everything Is True
  #TwitMusic
• 18:06 This pimple is going to hurt once I get to it!!
• 18:30 I want to make Kimchi - Im not allowed to bring any back from Brisbane - stupid Tasmanian customs
• 19:32 Yay ARIAs on MTV :D
• 20:25 Mmmm Robbie Williams #ARIAs
• 20:27 Haha Robbie Williams had to ask Ruby Rose her name at the end of the interview - a litte shame? #ARIAs

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Farting after eating turkey.

I let out out a massive turkey bark after Thanksgiving dinner.

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Curtains

Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

Guess where I'm going tomorrow night?



No idea who's playing or what's going on because all year I knew I wasn't going so I deliberately wasn't paying any attention - now I wish I had! I also think I've got a pretty good seat - it says Row: 3! Yeah! Also, it's going to be shown "in the round" this year so I am looking forward to how they will show that in Acer Arena.

Expect an update before the weekend on how it went. Hope I can take photos!!