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And I’m awesome because Threadless told me so when my tshirt order arrived this morning.

I kinda bought 5 tshirts, but with the exchange rate, it worked out about $20 a tshirt. Bargain!

This is the one I’m wearing atm:

“Fail” cow not jumping over the moon

It’s going to take me 3 weekends to give all the shirts their proper induction. Never had such exciting variety in my tshirts!

So now a second Qantas plane has had to make an emergency landing this week – this time in Adelaide.

Why haven’t I heard anyone ask if these critical incidents (if I use the language we use at work) are linked to the offshoring of Qantas engineering teams? Seems a bit suss if you ask me.

(I promise to go back to pictures of cupcakes and stupid posts soon – something about this week is getting me all ranty and in the mood for heavier posts)

So after finally getting the right tip to pipe cupcakes the way I imagine them, I gave myself another go at another batch tonight.

These cupcakes will go to work tomorrow – themed in the WYD08 colours to celebrate surviving the ordeal.

The cats decided they couldn’t help themselves (again) by breaking through my well-prepared barriers and nomming 2 cupcakes off the counter while they were cooling (again). I decided to play their game and iced their 2 cupcakes and left them in their bowls to nom. All they really did was lick the icing off. But I feel like the winner in any case.

AND! I finally remembered to try out one of the cupcake trees I was given for my 30th last month. Didn’t think much of them, but after putting these babies on the mini-tree, I’ve changed my mind.

I’m sure for the most part, the people I will refer to in this post are innocent Twitterers. As frequently happens on Twitters as soon as someone follows a user on Twitter, they reciprocate the gesture – out of courtesy, to improve their friendcount whatevs.

But I think it pays to watch who adds you on Twitter, especially now that there are more and more spammers running their spam bots all over the place. But obviously not everyone is on the same page as me (“Why the hell not?” is a pretty good question at this point).

Just now, I got an email saying “osbournehsona39″ is now following me on Twitter. Yay! I go off and check out the profile of this intelligent person who’s decided to follow my thrilling accounts of making cupcakes, housework and bitching about His Popiness. While I’m sure “osbournehsona39″ is a “lovely person”, seeing that they are following 2000 Twitter users and their one and only Twitter is “i am bored and horny. wanna watch me on cam? cc req 4 age verification” doesn’t exactly make me want to stop from blocking them RIGHT THIS SECOND.

While I type this, “osbourneshona39″ has ELEVEN TWITTER USERS FOLLOWING HER/IT. ELEVEN. Some look like users where they have bots set up to auto-add new followers, but sheesh. I think some of these users really think they will get something out of this. Apart from the need to fill out a credit card fraud claim.

I also can’t help but wonder if who/whatever set this Twitter account up even knows the person in the photo they’ve used. Suddenly reminds me why I need to get scared of the internets every now and again.

Needless to say, “osbournehsona39″ has been duly blocked on my account, with hopes that she is eventually successful in the porn or piracy industry.

Since I was in high school, I told myself that if anyone from My List toured Australia I would have to find a way to go. By hook or by crook. No matter what.

Those people?

• James Brown
• Stevie Wonder
• George Michael

James Brown toured Australia about a year before he died. And I still regret not going, even though his gig was only 2 suburbs from where I was living at the time.

So then I heard that Stevie’s touring this October, and I knew I had to do better this time.

So I’ve bought myself a Diamond (ie $200) ticket to see Stevie at Acer Arena October 22nd. Own my own. Yes, I’m taking a leaf from Gus’ book and taking myself. I don’t know anyone else who’d want to go with me and spend that amount of money, so it was easier to just nerd it up on my own.

So now I have 3 months to listen to the albums and get myself psyched up. Bring it on!

Postscript: Turns out this pic of Stevie is from a rally where he showed his support for Barack Obama and his presidential campaign. The very same Obama who this week scored a basket from the 3pt line in front of a shitload of media during is Middle East tour. I want to move to America just so I can vote for him. Especially when you consider we finally voted this prick out last year:

I’ve been hanging out to try Bill Granger’s meat pie recipe since it’s been getting a mention on 702 Drive on a daily basis for the last 2 months.

Yes; I listen to AM radio. Yes; I am okay with this.

For reasons I can’t work out, today turned out to be the day. Bought the chuck steak, some new oval Maxwell & Williams pie dishes and the fresh herbs for the recipe.

The recipe is much easier to read here; the original source uses framesets or something equally horrid and it doesn’t render properly in Firefox.

And here’s how it turned out:

And it tasted pretty damn good, too!

This recipe is meant to serve 6, and the new pie dishes I bought were too big, hence the emergency use of our beloved square Maxwell & Williams bowls for single-serves. We didn’t have enough to fill every dish to the top, so they’re not as “fullsome” as I would have liked. But they still tasted damn good!

Next time I’ll use blade steak instead of chuck (cutting all the fat off the meat was enough to turn me vego) and maybe not use as much canned tomato. It doesn’t have that real gravy taste that I was expecting, but suspect the reduced tomato might help with that.

Tonight we served it with mashed potato, at the request of poor Dan, who’s been attacked by the flu bug. It worked out quite well because we used the mash to mop up the excess pie juice.

Overall, for a meal that I’ve never cooked before – and considering I’m never in charge of much more than cupcakes, egg sandwiches and washing up in our kitchen – this recipe gets 2 very enthusiastic thumbs up from me! Nom nom nom.

rah: look! i finally found a replacement sifter! dan: so now you can throw the old one out rah: but i want to keep the old one, it’s got sentimental value dan: we don’t have room for sentimental value! rah: oh, but we have room for your old comic books graphic novels!

For some reason it was difficult to find a replacement triple-sifter UNTIL TODAY! I’m convinced that this style of flour sifter is the reason I’ve won the baking competition at work 2 years in a row (that and we inherited it from Dan’s gran and she’s been the secret all along). I’ve only been hunting for a replacement because the handle on the old one is giving up and makes for a painful experience when dealing with more than half a cup of flour.

To celebrate, I shall make post-WYD cupcakes :o)

Waiting for a micro-glance of the Pope at Rose Bay yesterday.