How Was You Day?

[Cirtur]

Fenghar got raped at the drunken costume orgy.

[Lethal Interjection]

How was my last two weeks?
As that was roughly how long I've been gone.

Last weekend I was in my former roomate's wedding. It was a good time. A fun bachelor party, and really, the groom's side of the wedding party was a lot of fun. A friend from BC flew out and the bunch of us all get along really well, so it was a lot of fun. Helps that it was all friends and no family, and three of us went to university together, and the fourth has the fourth has hung out with us on an occasional basis. So yeah, that was good times.

Then I worked for a few days, which was busy and interesting. Turns out, as a the overnight meat stocker, I've been doing too good of a job. So they wanted to hire someone to cover me when I'm not in. He'll also be covering produce when that guy's not in. Problem was that we both had Sunday/Monday off. So we needed to change the schedule. Which was worrisome. We both kind of wanted to remain. Basically, I wanted to retain my Sundays off, and his girlfriend has Sundays/Mondays off, so he wanted some semblance of shared time off. So, with compromise, he has Monday/Tuesday off, and I now have Saturday/Sunday off for the forseeable future. Which is 39487 kinds of awesome. Weekends off from now until whenever. Suhweet.

Then I went to my other friends for this weekend, which was good times as well. Hanging out with four friends before the one pops out her kid next month. Good times. Watched Brother's Bloom (good) and Away We Go (fantastic). And today I'm going to go out and have some Tim Horton's French Onion soup for lunch, making a nice roast dinner and doing some cleaning. Good times indeed.


Also, I've wiped new posts, so if anything interesting went on in the last weekish, then some linky love would be appreciated.

[Apocalyptus]

Well today was Cup Day, which meant that being a public holiday I didn't have to go to class, not that I probably would have gone anyway. However when I got up I found to my dismay that my Mum had decided to go do the gardening in the front yard, with my brother's Jack Russel to keep her company. Now this would normally not be a problem, but she had decided to tie him up with one of those extensible leashes so he could walk around and look at stuff without being able to run away. However, she'd chosen to tie the leash to the water tap outside. When Biko got particularly enthusiastic about something or other he ended up wrenching the pipe out, making it necessary to turn the water for the whole house off. Which was fun.

But the rest of the day was good - every year we get together with two other families at one of our houses and eat way too much good food, before watching the race. The hosts this year said they had already cooked heaps so we didn't bring food, but I brought stuff to make a huge pot of Masala Chai. It was the first time I'd made it myself, and it turned out pretty good, if a little bitter. We didn't have enough honey though, because I accidentally dropped it in the gutter

The race itself was pretty boring, although the horse I was sort of going for because of it's name 'Shocking' (I was advised to pick Alcopop, but that's neither here nor there) won. Pity I never bet on anything.

And then I got to watch kids' TV for a few hours (one show of which had a character with a ridiculously bad attempt at an Australian accent) and then explain a feminist viewpoint on 'The Jetsons' to a 9 yr old while the three Mums looked on the internet to see if they could organise a summer holiday with us to Tasmania or New Zealand.

[Cirtur]

Cup day? Man I wish I had a holiday for inanimate objects.

Do you like, give each other cups?

[Oldrac the Chitinous]

It's second in popularity only to Boxing Day, when you give people boxes.

[Sahan]

Yeah, I have no idea what Boxing Day is either, I always assumed there was supposed to be a boxing match or something on the day when I was little. I had an exam on during the Melbourne Cup, but I don't particularly care about horse racing, anyway . It's not like it's an exciting sport, and the trainers and jockeys get peanuts for their efforts, whilst the usually wealthy owner of the horse rakes in the cash. The horse probably doesn't even get peanuts, probably something cheaper, and the horse is the one doing all running. Also, I was already cringing at the horrible pun that would be repeated over and over as soon as I heard the horse's name.

[Oldrac the Chitinous]

Shocking?

[Sahan]

Yes! Arrgh, we get it, the name can be used to describe the manner of the win, anyone could have thought of that, so don't think you're special for thinking it up!

[Oldrac the Chitinous]

Ah.

Well, at least it's only one word.

[AHMETxRock]

Not feeling well.

[Oldrac the Chitinous]

What happens when a Muslim gets the swine flu?

[AHMETxRock]

Allah takes away one of the virgins.

[Sahan]

Did you know that most commercial soaps are made from pig fat? How do Muslims get their way around that little problem?

[AHMETxRock]

It merely reacts with the dead skin to remove it. We constantly wash ourselves, so that it isn't even on our body very long.
If you do it right. Also, we have our own group of products. All our food is organic, for example. A person might be turned away by our food being more expensive than the American United Beef company, but they have shitloads of steroids and fuck them, your health is worth it.

[Sahan]

Fair enough. It got mentioned to me a few years ago, and I just remembered it and wanted some facts.