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Despite clearly stated goals of sleeping + resting the long weekend didn’t quite work out as planned.

Saturday:

• Beach with woofer: chocolate croissant from Abhi’s bakery, men with cameras stalk woofer in the surf (yes he is that pretty)
• Fremantle Markets: am reminded again why I hate crowds, fail to acquire tree-frog leadlight sticker or a copy of the Skinner's Box book.
• Visit brothers: provide snack food, receive appreciation. Watch football, be saddened by team, I’m surprised WCE lost by only 18 points. Baby brother has broken his foot falling out of a tree and is in a half cast up to his knee, mother has apparently been fetching things for him all week, no-one told *me*. Am not allowed to illustrate cast, take photos instead :p
• Do laundry: clean room, admire ceiling, vacuum ceiling, vacuum feather boa accidentally – can’t quite believe it just ate the whole thing, didn’t know you could do that.

Sunday:

• All OTW monthly meeting: arrive 5 mins late (7:05 am Sunday), deliver AD&T report, and celebrate progress
• Cut grass: kill mower, buy whipptersnippter, cut grass more, rake, get blister (have perfectly circular sore on my thumb, looks like someone stubbed a cigarette out on me), throw ball for woofer into flowering bush, woofer covered in little blue flowers – knew it had a purpose (flowering bush, not woofer).
• Slashgropers: loan Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to… everyone? Pimp Better Off Ted (made of awesome, go watch it, really), see remade Sanctuary pilot (not awesome) and pilot for The Unusuals (which is looking pretty decent)
• Download Adam Lambert performances from American Idol – yes I know :(

Monday:

• OTW – do unspecified *things* mostly involving the next code deploy, designs for Collections and Challenges and pondering an Admin interface re-design.
• Coffee: spend an afternoon with girliejones for coffee – win!
• Dinner: spend evening with flamebyrd and S.O. and maharetr starting with Indian food and followed by icecream. Meet pentapus, take pentapus home (bootleg American smuggling operation)
• Made maharetr and pentapus watch Better Off Ted 1x01 & 1x02

Tuesday:

• Froze neck, stayed home, read and slept.
• Didn’t have to *make* anyone watch Better Off Ted 1x03 & 1x04 *grins*

Anyone who wants to head over early and help inflate things / entertain us is very welcome.

In Cannington. All welcome :)

Wed. 6pm. All welcome.

Thank you all so much for making my birthday celebration part of slashcon, for the excellent company and the eleventyone delightful conversations and thank you to angstslashhope for turning up and being all interesting, cute and clever. Apologies again to chaosmanor for the impromptu Little Red Riding Hood re-enactment, I had no idea we were so loud. I saw some new vids, heard some wonderful stories read out loud, learned some more about vidding, a lot more about podcasting and had some very dubious crocodile porn written for me. Yay!

Thank you also to missyjack and riverbella for the virtual gifts! I have been blessed both in love and material gifts this birthday *clutches book from maharetr, shiny new second monitor, new pjs and copy of Bladerunner*. callistra baked me cake too!

Oh and there will be Boondock Saints and Sahara this Saturday at the House of B&D by the way.

Dinner in Fremantle with maharetr , sunset over the ocean, live music at the Fly by Night (aussie soft pub rock / folk schmoop / blues), some light household maintenance (at least one task per week damnit), discovering it’s a vacuuming day (the Universe decides – we don’t) beach with the woofer (there are few things in the world better than putting your face into the side of a freshly sunbaked, clean dog), dinner with mother and brothers.

Have also started watching Carnivale and Kyle XY, both of which I blame on ascetic_hedony. Have seen a truely ridiculous amount of media in the last six weeks. 

Torchwood S1 which has great individual episode writing and no overall story - this drives me crazy.
Doctor Who S3 which I thoroughly enjoyed. John Simm was wonderful.
Ultraviolet the TV series which was dark and interesting .
Batman: Mask of the Phantasm which was just ridiculous.
Smallville S6 which is cracktastic, I blame cupidsbow. I shall watch S7.
Eureka S2 which is even stronger than S1 and still very amusing.

This being on leave is really working for me. I made it out to Baker’s Hill today and had the pleasure of wrapping trees in wire (darn those tree-eating horses), the joy of being snuggled by Grevillia (who turned out to be very cuddly), the sheer unmitigated glee of setting fire to things and, of course, the chance to catch up with zebra363. Win!

There are few joys that can compete with sitting out under the stars, roasting marshmallows and keeping the camelids awake.

It's City Food and Wine Month this March and various restaurants are doing special $15 lunches. Who wants to come?

Let myself or mynxii know on or before the Monday just before if you want us to book you a seat (2 days notice).

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Made furry ears and tail for kae_dash , fixed maharetr 's leather pants and did fake pirate tattoos, did makeup and nails for ascetic_hedony for Pride. That's my creativity splurge for the year! Pride was fun, dancing at the Court even more so. Dancing at Sin after the bestest of the best. Have been offered $500 for maharetr, in retrospect I should have offered to trade.

Bollywood Burlesque Circus Comedy Cabaret thingy at the Fly By Night was of mixed quality; was feeling the lack of sleep but thoroughly enjoyed myself and feel there should be more Bollywood in my life.

I am loving having a sewing machine. Have just finished girlifying (mynxii terminology) my new hiking pants. They are a bit shorter in the leg and now have a waist. I want to live in a city that has a big enough population to support women's sports gear darn it. No I don't. I love Perth, love, love, love.

Photo of K

Woofer went to the vet and has been dignosed as having a soft tissue injury in his right elbow. He has drugs and strict instructions not to exercise which he will ignore the second the drugs kick in. Ah well. Hope it will be enough, if not, we go back for X-Rays.

Have also updated Supernatural recs post. You already know I have no taste so no complaining now.