“I” but that’s norr how ye maik porridge!

Posted on November 8, 2008 by borysSNORC

More letter lists…. and I was totally right the “I”s were ridiculously hard. And I made it harder on myself by not using ‘Icecream’ cos it kinda goes without saying that everyone likes icecream of one variety or another. Can’t wait for the ‘Oh Oh Ohs”. True. it’s quite difficult. See if you can come up with a list of things starting with “I” that you like.

List of 10 Things I Like That Start With “I”….
1. IVF – it’s a miracle 🙂
2.   Internets – are for porn… goats, midgets what have you. Rule 34!
3.   Istanbul – one of my favourite European cities such an amazing place
4.   Idioms – the origins of many English idioms are truly bizarre
5.   iPhone – the love affair continues unabated after several months
6.   Insurance – hate the bills but like being covered if shit happens
7.   Isfahan rugs – thanks to Shmael in Quetta who rarely barters with women
8.   Icehouse – actually just the one song ‘Nothing too Serious’
9.   Italian men – Ciao bella! Want to see my scoot? 😉
10. Instant Messaging – being able to catch up with friends and family when you see them pop online is fantastic. It’s easy and convenient and I’m sure has allowed me to keep in touch with people overseas or interstate who I might have lost touch with otherwise.

List of 10 Things I Hate or Dislike That Start With “I”
1.   IVF – it’s a curse 🙁
2.   Insulin resistance – causes the metabolism of a dull witted slug.
3.   Intolerance – variety is the spice of life… get over it
4.   Ipswich – wanna go crack some laps on Fridee night? ewww.
5.   ‘It’s a Small World After All’ – used to work for Disney… nuff said
6.   Ironing – is for other people
7.   iTunes – necessary evil if you want other ‘i’ things
8.   Internal monologue failure – no one wants to know what’s in here
9.   Illegible handwriting – no one writes and when they do it’s fugly.
10. Infertility – It’s one of Nature’s cruellest jokes to imbue a desire to procreate yet fail to provide one with the intrinsic capability to do so…. ‘Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practice to conceive.’

You sew and sew…

Posted on November 7, 2008 by borysSNORC

It’s well overdue that I make my poor sir_phil a new tabard. I can’t quite date when I made the old one (maybe about five or six years ago?) but we’re off to Crown in Innilgard this weekend and I figured it’s high time that I replace the old dodgy one. It never used to be dodgy of course, but years of it being smucked around with big sticks and being left in sweaty armour bags have taken it’s toll.

I decided last week that I’d make it, had dramas at Spotlight trying to find black cotton drill and there was no red damask available in their stinking stores for love or money. So we’re plain red this time and hopefully the new pattern will prove more durable as it has more space around the sleeves. Started making it on Monday and was finished by Tuesday afternoon… how’s that for getting stuck into a project – if only my embroidery projects went from inspiration to completion with the same speed 🙂

Mr Ray has no idea I’ve made it for him, so I’m writing this on Wednesday night and won’t be marking it posted until after he has it… so Friday I guess. Here’s some pics:

and the obligatory bee… of course!!!

Sisterly love.

Posted on November 6, 2008 by borysSNORC

Speaking of stupid BigSal smooshing my little car…. we are still going through the paperwork to get the insurance nonsense authorized and I’ve just heard from BigSal that the insurance claim is going to be a little more complicated …

Salaberge says: I have to call Matt
Salaberge says: I’ve had a complication
Salaberge says: someone went up the back of me yesterday
Salaberge says: 🙁
Salaberge says: not bad, just a small scratch/indentation on the bumper, but it’s put the alignment of the bumper and sidepanel out more
Salaberge just sent you a nudge.
borysSNORC ™ says: oh no
borysSNORC ™ says: is everyone okay? how bad is it?
Salaberge says: not too bad
borysSNORC ™ says: lol… sorry!
borysSNORC ™ says: i shouldnt be laughing but you know – karma’s a bitch!
Salaberge says: 🙁

Apparently she stalled her car when driving off from a set of traffic lights and the person behind her didn’t notice and drove into her. She truly is THE worst driver I know. Even when she get’s hit from behind it’s still her fault!
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Is it any wonder we loathe and fear them?

Posted on November 5, 2008 by borysSNORC

A 13 year old girl was stoned to death in Somalia recently and now I can’t get it out of my head. I’m sitting here bitching about shitty fabric stores and complaining about my sister smashing my car and this poor girl…

I read the original report about this a couple of days ago which stated that it was a 23 year old woman who had been raped by three men and subequently convicted of adultery and condemned to death by stoning under Sharia law. In that report they claimed the woman had confessed to the adultery and had requested to be prosecuted under Sharia law and it was further claimed that she felt her ”punishment’ was justice for the adultery she had confessed to.

This more recent article claims that it was not a 23 year old woman confessing to adultery that had been stoned but rather a 13 year old girl whose father had attempted to report the rape in an attempt to have the perpetrators held accountable. Instead of the attackers being bought to trial this poor father has indavertently signed his own daughter’s death warrant when she was detained and charged with adultery.

A 13 year old girl. I can’t even put into words how horrific it must have been for this poor girl to be subjected to this entire ordeal. First she suffers through a rape from multiple attackers and then when she should be protected and nutured by her family, her community and the justice system she suffers even further at their hands. Reading the details on how the stoning proceeeded made me sick to my stomach.

1000 onlookers, 50 men hurling stones and one petrified 13 year old girl burried up to her neck.
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I hate being in the Spotlight.

Posted on November 5, 2008 by borysSNORC

Or more correctly… I hate Spotlight.

For anyone who doesn’t know, Spotlight is a chain of fabric stores across Australia…. or I should say they used to be fabric stores. Once upon a time they stocked predominantly fabric and habadashery but now they sells things like crockery, bed linen, homewares and crafty stuff (like scrapbooking nonsense, paints, felt, feathers, beads buttons etc). Our local Spotlight used to be a regular stop and was always guaranteed to have what you needed’ in sewing staples. You could turn up pretty sure they’d have plenty of standard lines like 100% linens, cottons, damasks, threads and bias binding etc,

But they’ve rearranged all their stores (up here – don”t know what’s going on elsewhere) and have literally halved their space allocation to dress making and furnishing fabrics and given that extra space up to scrapbooking shit. For anyone who doesn’t know, scrapbooking is a craft craze for people without any original thought or creativity where they make photo albums/journals and fill them full of overpriced little stick ons and supposedly pithy sayings and observations. We hate scrapbooking too in case you can’t tell. But I digress…

I”m doing a little sewing (revamping an old tunic to be a bit more acceptable) and went looking for black cotton drill to use as lining fabric. So I headed to Spotlight because they’ll have five types of black cotton drill to choose from right? Wrong. No black cotton drill. No black cotton braodcloth, no homespun, no indian cotton, no calvalry drill, Nothing in furnishing fabrics or dress fabrics. The closest they could direct me to was some flimsy black poplin. No shit. They even called the huge Springwood store for me and they didn’t have any black cotton drill either.

So what, you might say. Well it’s true like every other business they have every right to maximize their profit by expanding on their best selling departments and scaling back their lesser earners. But my objection stems from the fact that they spent several years edging every other fabric store out of the market with lower prices to the point where there’s hardly anywhere else to shop for material and now that they’ve succeeded in being just about the only fabric store in the city they’re stocking less and less fabric!!!

Bastards. I’d totally boycott their stores except there’s no where else to go!

SPOTLIGHT
SUCKS!!!