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Nut and Bee lust.

8:34 pm, January 5th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in cuteness, girlthings, internets, roundups by Liz

Every time I receive a newsletter from Nut and Bee, Jarod has to restrain me from buying all the cute things.

Annette’s Sketchbook Sweeties are absolutely adorable. I already have eight of them hanging on our walls (unfortunately, in out of the way places due to the whole ‘no putting holes in walls while renting thing’), and have been wanting to add to the collection for ages.

Although, until we get walls we can poke holes in, I’ve had to settle for a notepad and a bunch of stickers. Still, it’s a win in my books. :D :D

I don’t think I like the new Doctor :(

10:59 am, January 4th, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, internets, roundups, whinging by Liz

Matt Smith has been named as the actor who will take over from David Tennant in Doctor Who - making him the youngest actor to take on the role.

At 26, Smith is three years younger than Peter Davison when he signed up to play the fifth Doctor in 1981.

Smith will first appear on TV screens as the 11th Doctor in 2010.

He looks a bit… emo.

BBC News.

Crazy Kitties!

3:17 am, January 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »
Posted in boythings, cuteness, internets, roundups by Jarod

It’s a pretty simple concept. Hit the play button, watch the cats be stupid, piss yourself with laughter. Well, that’s what I just did anyway.

2008 in review.

9:26 pm, December 30th, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Posted in girlthings, internets, local, roundups by Liz

I figure that I should probably do a filler post as the ‘last for the year’. I know I wont do it tomorrow — I’m not one of the lucky ones that has time off.
But anyway.

2008 in Summary:

January: Unemployed! I do miss it a little, but I don’t miss the no-money-coming-in thing.

February: Started with LEGO.

March: Spent lots of my pay on aforementioned LEGO.

April: Missed the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Tried to ignore the coverage as much as possible.

May: According to our Google calendars, we wormed the cat. How exciting!

June: We started this blog, and I made the first post. June was also the month our hot water heater and electricity decided it wasn’t going to play fair.

July: I left LEGO and started with the mysterious Alliance.

August: Jarod created the LEGO Olympics. You may say that this should be in Jarod’s summary, but I don’t think you realise how much time, effort and table space was put into this. There was a very valid reason I made him pack the LEGO away at the end of the Olympics.

September: The second annual Train Day occured! Oh, and it was our one year anniversary. Aww.

October: Jarod finally got to meet my parents (lucky him) and I was no longer 21.

November: I got to see Emma finally get married. Through the lens, and all. (www.mrandmrshancock.com).

December: Jarod and I have now lived together for a whole year. And I keep forgetting special anniversaries like that. At least Jarod knows he’s pretty much guaranteed to look good when he remembers a date.

In 2007 I traveled a whole bunch - Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide… and this year kinda sucked that I only got to go to Bathurst, and that’s mainly because I wouldn’t have missed Emma’s wedding for the world. I didn’t get to see all the lovely people I made friends with in all those lovely cities (well, except Brisbane, I don’t call that city lovely), but thanks to the internets I can still say hi.

I have grand plans of going to Melbourne and Perth next year (along with our Brisbane trip for another wedding in Jan), but we’ll see how that goes. Apparently when it’s not a company business trip it costs money and you have to take annual leave. Aww.

Hope everyone has a fantastic New Year.

See you all in 2009.

Broccoli kitten loves broccoli…

10:06 am, December 13th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, internets, roundups by Liz

Awesome.

There’s something about this that’s creepy.

8:36 pm, November 15th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, internets, roundups, traaiiiiin by Liz

I can’t pick which bit it is.

Is it the fact that their examples show ‘happy’ cat owners willing to set up their litter trays right next to their own toilets?

Is it that the ‘liquified waste’ gets deposited in the toilet?

Is it that they made something called the ‘PowerFlusher’?

Or is it because in the ‘How it works’ section, they have a photo of a cat curled up in the litter tray?

I mean, I’m not a fan of cleaning Train’s cat litter. In our house, as soon as we hear her scratching, the first person to say ‘bags not’ doesn’t have to clean it. (Mature, huh?)
But, I’d still prefer the scooping and emptying and cleaning to some machine that washes itself. And if I were a cat, I’d be a bit pissed if I really needed to pee, and my litter tray was filled with soapy water.

Yay, Obama!!

6:56 pm, November 5th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in geekery, girlthings, internets, roundups by Liz

And in other news….

Yeah.

Homer Votes 2008

9:05 pm, November 1st, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in comedy, girlthings, idiotbox, internets, roundups by Liz

Not good birthday news…

6:14 pm, October 30th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in geekery, girlthings, idiotbox, internets, roundups by Liz

Thanks (or no thanks) to ABC News

Doctor Who star David Tennant has announced he is quitting the hit science-fiction series.

Tennant, who has played the 10th incarnation of the Time Lord since 2005, says he will leave the role after completing production on the four special episodes to be screened in the UK in 2009.

“When Doctor Who returns in 2010 it won’t be with me,” he told the National Television Awards.

“The 2009 shows will be my last playing the Doctor.

“I love this part and I love this show so much, and if I don’t take a deep breath and move on now I never will and you will be wheeling me out of the Tardis in my bath chair.”

There has been no word as to who will replace Tennant.

No fair :(

WTF, Broccoli?

2:15 am, October 26th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in girlthings, internets, roundups by Liz

Very amusing post over at Bread and Honey. Go there and read it, so I don’t have to steal their stuff.

The Rotapult

4:50 pm, October 25th, 2008 | No Comments »
Posted in boythings, geekery, roundups by Jarod

Clearly the best thing ever. Be warned though, the camera angle of the two minute mark will make your brain explode.