Random thoughts on what I've been doing

[wellinghall]

Having a haircut

Buying tickets for "Casino Royale"

Planning a visit to Luton Museum, to see the Harlington chess piece

Sorting out sveral weeks' worth of post etc, into piles to recycle / do something with / file

Sending off a chest of drawers to be repaired

Buying too many books on Amazon, Abebooks and eBay (but some of them are Christmas presents, so none of them count towards personal book-buying - that's right, isn't it? ;-) )

Thinking I really must get round to putting some stuff up on eBay

Needing to send Wayne & Christina's book back to Amazon, because the print quality is awful (has anyone else got a copy yet?)

Looking forward to receiving the new Tolkien Encyclopedia from Amazon.com, which is quicker and cheaper than ordering it from Amazon.co.uk

Preparing to deliver updates / surveys for the village plan to our road; no-one ever leaves us with just the right number to deliver, because (a) they forget about numbers 2, 4 and 6, or (b) they forget about 33A and 50A

Failing to arrange a date to see Saxon anytime soon

Working out that there are nine (yes, nine) work-related seminars that I could go to over the next four weeks; and thinking that that's about seven too many

Surviving the first of my three major meetings at work in three days, and looking forward with trepidation to the next two

Just getting by with one student off sick and one in the Lake District and Edinburgh

Cursing Waitrose for slipping tomatoes into about 90% of their ready meals

Chasing the electrician who is meant to be giving a quote for some wiring; and wondering whether it wouldn't just be simpler to find another one

Not getting round to ringing the decorator and saying "come and do it"; and thinking it's now going to be too late to get it done before Christmas

Thinking we should be chasing up the books we are having re-bound

Trying to sort out the rest of this month's birthday cards / presents

Comments

[didiusjulianus.livejournal.com]

Could you put that behind a cut please duckie?

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

*quack*

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

Cursing Waitrose for slipping tomatoes into about 90% of their ready meals


Ooh, it must be bad if you don't like tomatoes. I have enough trouble with peppers, which seem to lurk in about 80% ready meals, pasta salads, pizzas etc., even ones which you would never expect them to be in. But tomatoes are even more ubiquitous. Luckily for me, I like them.

I suppose the proper solution should be to start cooking things from scratch, rather than buying pepper-ridden ready meals, but that would cut down on the important things in life, like LJ ;-)

[wellinghall.livejournal.com]

if you don't like tomatoes

"can't eat".

Okay, it's not actually 90%, of course. But it is an inconveniently high proportion of foods that don't look as if they should contain tomatoes :-(

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I can't eat nuts, and I get really annoyed by the number of foods that don't actually contain nuts, but claim that they do. Usually they just say "this item is not suitable for nut allergy sufferers," meaning "it doesn't have nuts in, but in the off-chance that our sloppy production processes have caused a nut to sneak in, you can't sue us." In some supermarkets, there are NO items of food that claim to be okay for nut allergy sufferers. Some even put "contains nuts" in big capitals on things that absolutely do not contain nuts, which is a LIE and VERY ANNOYING. /rant

(Fortunately, I'm not allergic in a fatal sort of way, so ignore warnings such as these. I get annoyed in principle, though.)

[estiel.livejournal.com]

Gracious. Never thought it'd be *easier* to cook organic vegetarian from scratch. Thanks for revealing the downside of quickie nuke cookery.