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13 April 2013

Awesome/Annoying Saturday morning [More:]
Awesome : I got all my fruit and vegetables at Lidl for about half the price they'd have cost in Waitrose.

Annoying : That cauliflower that looked the size of a basketball was about 75% leaves and stalks, leaving an actual cauliflower about the size of a monkey brain. (Waitrose caulis are no different, so at least I only paid 50p for it unlike the £1.69 Waitrose charge.)

Very Annoying: On my way home, driving down a narrow lane with high hedges on both sides I nearly collided with a frigging Dreams delivery truck and had to drive into the hedge, scratching the side of my car. It took the arsehole driver five minutes to manoeuvre past me and all the other cars backed up behind me. There are signs saying this lane isn't suitable for small trucks, never mind trucks that deliver fucking beds!

Awesome : I went into one of those old-fashioned hardware stores that sells everything and got four soup spoons for 50p each. Every time I use a soup spoon in a restaurant I remember how much easier it is to eat/drink soup from one, and I make a lot of soup. So, win for me.

Awesome : The hardware store also had some beautiful rose bushes for sale, really healthy specimens at a great price.

Annoying: I couldn't carry any rose bushes, and parking restrictions mean I couldn't park anywhere close.

Extremely Awesome : I walked over to a butcher I'd driven past many times but never been into. It's a proper old-fashioned butcher, all free-range, organic meat (but no more expensive than Waitrose), and they have a cashier in a little booth to take the money, which is something I've not seen in a butcher store since I was a child. If the piece of rib-eye steak I bought for dinner tastes as good as it looks, I'll be going back.

Annoying : Driving home I had to go down a narrow street with cars parked all along the opposite side. The rule is that if there are cars parked on the side of the street you're driving on, then you give way to oncoming traffic. Except the arsehole in the Jaguar decided he wasn't going to do that, and so it was another 'slam on the brakes' moment. There was nowhere I could go, so eventually, after a bit of a Mexican stand-off, he had to reverse and yield to me.

It was no surprise to me to see he looked exactly like Larry David.

Awesome : I made a fabulous cheese omelet with some fresh free-range eggs I'd just bought.

Oh-so-Annoying : As I was flipping it out of the skillet, it fell onto the floor.

Awesome : An omelet takes 30 seconds to make, so omelet No. 2 has just been consumed.
Awesome: My cat wants scritches.
Annoying: My cat still wants more scritches.
posted by Ardiril 13 April | 09:09
Awesome: My five year old and my two year old crept into our room this morning for snuggles and nonsensical chatter.

Annoying: My five year old and my two year old crept into our room this morning for snuggles and nonsensical chatter.

It was 6am. On a Saturday. Le sigh.
posted by fancyoats 13 April | 11:06
Awesome: I've seriously slept in for the past 2 days and it is definitely helping, even though I'm still tired.

Annoying: Still tired.

Awesome: The meditation that my North person gave me to do is actually going quite well and I am pleased.

Annoying: I'm not sure I'm getting the messages that I'm supposed to be getting from the meditation.
posted by sperose 13 April | 11:39
Awesome: Spent the day with my mom up in CT today. It was really good to see her. She'd been in the hospital for a couple days this past week, but she's fine now. She hadn't been eating or drinking enough apparently, especially over Passover, and got dizzy and weak. Poor little thing. She ate good today, though, and was in good spirits. All black and blue from the precautionary heparin they gave her at the hospital, though. Hands, arms, and all across her belly. Purple.

Additional Awesome: Two fuzzy white baby hawk chicks have hatched (as seen on the NYU hawk cam, and there may soon be a third. My mom went nuts for them (I was showing her on my iPad). They are beyond adorable. So so so cute. Especially when mama hawk feeds them bits of rat. Yum!

Mild Annoyance: Crick in neck, swollen ankles, taxes not done yet, exhausted. But all-in-all, awesome is in ascendence.
posted by Pips 13 April | 22:51
Annoying (negative one has to come first cause it led to Awesome one): the movers who are coming to get all my ex-bf's things were delayed and are not coming until tomorrow, and I had already psyched myself up.

Awesome: I decided to go get a manicure instead, and my nail tech was all kinds of nice (we know each other well since I go every two weeks), even if she did make me cry a little from the niceness.
posted by Twiggy 13 April | 23:10
Awesome: We got faculty housing thanks to fiance's efforts! We will be moving into the city sometime this summer.

Annoying: Senator is shedding like crazy and when I snuggle with him I get fur in my nose for the rest of the day and it itches.
posted by rmless2 13 April | 23:55
Advice (from a non-parent) to fancyoats: Keep them up later!
posted by serena 14 April | 07:33
Advice (annoying or awesome) from fellow cat owner to rmless2: Pick your nose already!!! Also, use face wipes. Humidity and sweat make cat hair stick to your face and you can breathe it up into your nose.
posted by serena 14 April | 07:39
Serena- oh I have been picking. Sen is a bunny so his hair is even finer than cat hair. Fiance and i were on a double date last night and I think I found 76 new ways to surreptitiously pick.
posted by rmless2 14 April | 08:49
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