my eyes!

sometimes you google something fairly innocently and find something you were truly not prepared for. 

the next time i'm about to kiss someone i may instead throw up. thankyou internet.

not to be ungrateful but i wasn't asking for a favour...

so my total came to $9.45 and you need to have a min $10 purchase to use eftpos. the lady tells me "don't worry about it", to which i reply "thanks. can i also get some cash out". she looks at me like i've perhaps just admitted to being involved in a hit and run and says "you need a minimum of $10. and it's the first thing in the morning! we don't have enough transactions at this point to be giving cash out". we complete the purchase and there are smiles and whatnot on both sides (it's 2 steps from my office. i can't throw down here). but i'm thinking, aren't you a business that operates under the agreement that people can get cash out, so therefore do you not have a float of some sort to allow for this, and i needed cash so i would have happily bought some bullshit piece of gum/envelope type item to get over the $10 mark and NOT TO BE UNGRATEFUL BUT I WASN'T ASKING FOR A FAVOUR.

well played genius

so it's a public holiday and we have a staff meeting scheduled for 9am and i'm staring at a shitload of marking. all in all this does not equate to me being especially cheery. add to this the fact that only bookmark is open today so i go there to get coffee etc. and i'm in the line and once you order you have to move to the pay queue. some people are waiting for food still so you need to squeeze past them. dude on the end, let's call him DICKFACE WHO NEEDS TO WAKE THE HELL UP AND MAYBE TAKE OFF THOSE SUNGLASSES BECAUSE YOU'RE INDOORS, OH YEAH, AND YOU'RE WHITE! ONLY RAPPERS WHO HAD THEIR HEYDAY IN THE 90S AND THE LEGALLY BLIND SHOULD DO THAT. so yeah he's standing there leaning back on the bar with his knee stuck out, staring at me. and when he sees me moving past he keeps his friggin leg there and then gets pissed off and rolls his eyes while smirking when i step on both of his feet accidentally and apologise. at that point if i was wearing stiletto footwear i would have loved to ram them through his ill-positioned sneakered feet. or you know, through his skull. let's see you smirk then boy wonder. AAUUUUGGGHHHH dumbass!!!!!!

EB, not the beer

ELAINE BROWN. ELAINE BROWN POSTED A COMMENT ON MY BLOG!!
i hadn't been to this page for a while but then i saw mysterious new comments had appeared. by none other than the aforementioned mrs. this has lead to this rather immediate post. where i now realise i have nothing else to say.

except that the letterman repeats are seriously bugging me, particularly the fact that they're not even from a decent amount of time ago but are from maybe 1 month back. i have a theory that it's olympics related. hmmm.

lost mind. need sleep.

so last night i was watching letterman and i laughed at 90% of the jokes. i even cared to see whether or not the wine bottle would float. this is obviously not a good state to be in and i can only think to blame the lack of regular sleep on my fondness for david L making fun of interns. i also decided to test my new electric mixer and make cupcakes at about 10.30. not having one for a very long time i forgot how noisy they are, but after starting i had clearly committed to the cause and so had to continue despite being fairly certain you could hear the churning throughout the entire building. then i figured it's not like i have crazy parties in my one-woman abode so that's probably bought me up some late night electric mixing time. but it probably doesn't help that the night before i made margaritas in my mega ice churning blender at around the same time.

anyway the cupcakes were really average, the recipe was too doughy and now i regret going for the one with the most basic ingredient list. it's much too patty cake for my liking. then i thought i'd make ganache from memory. which actually wasn't such a failed mission but the cupcakes really weren't worth trying to save. i now have 14 lopsided dough balls with ganache and cute metallic looking pearl decorations that i will most likely have to throw out. i've brought some to work to see if anyone's game but it looks like one big 'pass' will be coming my cupcakes way.

when you can't hide the dark circles under your eyes at 9am it's not looking good for 5pm after a day of computer screen glare

last night dinner at prophet was so so good. all i can think about right now is hummus. and maybe one miss brown who was a little protective of that dish. scarily so.

saw the happening on the weekend finally. was kind of a strange movie. on one hand it's a far fetched premise, although on the other hand i was talking to vicky last night about how we are living in the time where effects of global warming are becoming increasingly apparent and that made me think more about the movie and the fact that as 'far fetched' as the concept is it's a really nice parallel that the writers have put together. zooey deschanel is great, she has that semi ethereal quality that the leading ladies in these movies seem to have - mainly howard jnr. mark wahlberg feels really strangely cast though. this isn't a dismissive comment on the grounds of him not being a good enough actor because i think people are far to quick to think rockstar and the funky bunch and forget about boogie nights, the yards, the departed (oscar nominated?), we own the night and even stuff like fear. so while i do think he's a solid actor i do think he seemed so out of place with the dialogue of the movie. during the pharmacy stuff i kept thinking edward norton, it should be edward norton.

so the movie wasn't as scary as i thought it would be and the foot cam was a bit much in that one scene, but the general quietness of the death scenes was great. and mrs jones...that admittedly was freakin terrifying. the little girl in it was really good too, i actually didn't realise she doesn't speak until that one line when she did - i think that whole concept of silent actors is something that's hard to do well but she was really good and so young too!

i can't decide what i thought of the ending. i like the reporter comments and i think the standing on the stoop stuff is cute - not in a cheesy way but mainly because of how cute zooey deschanel is it just seems really sweet, but the repeat thing was maybe not quite right? but i have no idea how else you could do it so i'm thinking as i have no alternative suggestions i should just shut up.

marriage

i went to a hens night on the weekend which was really more of a hens afternoon as it took place during the day. this made me think about marriage as the wedding is next week. while normally it's not something i'm in favour of i have discovered the very cute johnny cupcakes brand (and man)


and these cupcakes


despite knowing nothing about him other than reading a blogpost about a lemonade stand i think i would marry him and then serve up these cupcakes (obviously in place of a 'real' cake) in a heartbeat if given the chance.

predominantly for the ability to have mail sent to me as 'mrs cupcakes'.

*yes i realise it's the name of a brand and not a person but this whole blog is rooted in fiction anyway ok.