Happiness from folkmew, and other goodnesses and amusements for the day.

Yesterday, we had a visit from the postman at something like 8:00 in the morning. Yes, on a Saturday. filceolaire was more dressed than I was, so he ran down to retrieve-- a package from folkmew, which managed to get here from the US in only five days!

It contained:

Q-tips (I have plenty of these now-- I think I can safely say I'm stocked up through and probably beyond Christmas!);

Maple Flavour! We are already looking for more fun recipes to use that in;

Peanut Sauce Mix! We had Thai chicken tonight;

Yummy-looking ice cream recipes, which we have stashed in the ice cream recipe book that filceolaire picked up last week.

I also had a package slip last week that might mean bunrab's package has arrived, as well. Tomorrow's the day to check that out, I think.

Today, I upgraded my Mac to OS10.3, which was easy even if it did take a long time.

mokatiki and pola_bear took filceolaire out for Father's Day, and they came back with presents for everybody, including a beautiful skirt for me. I only wish I hadn't been so grumpy about the heat and the iPod and everything else, because I did not gush over it appropriately. Please consider yourselves duly gushed.

Alas, the new Coke Zero is not made with Splenda, as I'd hoped. It appears to be attempting (successfully) to simulate the taste of flat off-brand "Cola," and it lists "caffeine" as a flavour. I am not making this up.

And, while we were all having dinner (Thai chicken!), I got a call from Glen Cronkhite in California, who says my harp case will be ready by the end of June! Hooray!

Yet more goodnesses and amusements

I don't know how I could have forgotten to mention in this post that there are now lovely fairy lights strung beneath our loft bed. They give the whole little sitting area a delightful, soft, glowing light. filceolaire found them last time we were at Tesco, and he and the girls helped me put them up on Saturday night. Yes, I'll take photographs at some point, once we get the furniture situation in the front room sorted.

A day of Adventure-- with bonus packaged vegetarian food!

I know, I know-- just when you thought my life couldnt' get any more exciting, here I come with yet another fabulous adventure! And we're talking quality content here, too-- where else can you hear a story that combines long journeys, high tech, missed dates, mislaid addresses, crowds of screaming girls from Catford, lost items recovered, Lush-- and a six-pound can of Crisco? (If I tell you that I'm relating all this from a Portuguese restaurant across from a pub, and that I'm having breakfast at 6pm, will that help?) No? What if I told you I suspect I'm stealing the wi-fi from the pub across the street? ;-)

( But-- you're intrigued now, aren't you? )