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Friday, June 12, 2009
Dish #24 - 10 Facts.
The Dish: As some of you may or may not know, I'm kinda weird and particular about spelling and English words.
Oh fine: This is what happens when you are on the Internet for too long. Damn, I need to get out more often.
#1. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
#2. "Lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.
#3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
#4. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
#5. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
#6. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
#7. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
#8. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
#9. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
There you go: 9 totally useless facts. I knew #6 and as for the rest, I have my doubts. How many did you know? Oh, and fact #10, fact #5 has nothing to do with words.
Oh fine: This is what happens when you are on the Internet for too long. Damn, I need to get out more often.
#1. "Stewardesses" is the longest word typed with only the left hand.
#2. "Lollipop" is the longest word typed with your right hand.
#3. No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or purple.
#4. "Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters "mt".
#5. Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.
#6. The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every letter of the alphabet.
#7. There are only four words in the English language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and hazardous.
#8. There are two words in the English language that have all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and "facetious."
#9. "Typewriter" is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
There you go: 9 totally useless facts. I knew #6 and as for the rest, I have my doubts. How many did you know? Oh, and fact #10, fact #5 has nothing to do with words.
Monday, June 8, 2009
Dish #23 - Happy Baking!
The Dish: I have decided to post the recipes that I have used and blogged about in the past couple of weeks. I've tested these many times so I hope they turn out as well for you as they did for me. Most of these recipes are based on the ones I found on Allrecipes and I have added extra notes or altered ingredients to make them even tastier. Enjoy and do let me know if something doesn't work out or you've found different alternatives! Here are three recipes so far that I'm happy with. : )
More to come...Blondies, Lemon Cheesecake...I'm currently working on a Mango Mousse Cake.
More to come...Blondies, Lemon Cheesecake...I'm currently working on a Mango Mousse Cake.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
Dish #22 - Adventures...
The Dish: Having gotten 5 hours of sleep, I heard the buzz of my cell vibrating at 9:30 in the morning. I grunted and rolled over - as some of you know, I am NOT a morning person - almost chucking the little thing across the room. Seriously? C'mon. On a Sunday morning? Whatever they want, NO. However, against my better instincts and whatever judgement I had at that point, feeling bad for whoever's taking taking the effort to actually call me that early in the morning, I went and tried answering it.
'One missed call. 3 Messages."
Missed Call: Sarah H.
Text #1: From Zak which I am not going to repeat here.
Text #2: "Hey girl u up yet?"
Text #3: "Im going to pic u up at 11 but were going to check out the falls...nigira falls"
Who? When? Where? Was she talking about the NIAGARA FALLS? I'd been there at least 25 times the past 10 years. I refuse. I protest. I demand a change of location...say, the Yorkdale mall? This was when it hit me that I had promised to spend the day with Sarah (post-on-off breakup #1-2-3-4-5...etc with current-ex-current-ex-current beau). I love that girl to death but where does she come up with these ideas? Whatever, it was too late and I might as well just suck it up and go with the flow.
10:15 I realized the time and that I had 45 minutes to sleep, sleep, get my sleep and get ready.
10:32 I crawled out of bed, feeling like crap just got thrown onto me.
11:05 I'm ready.
11:25 Sarah is nowhere to be seen and not replying to any of my texts. As I was thinking how pissed I'd be if I'd gotten out of bed and she didn't come, my door bell rang. I opened the door and there she was, holding a brand new cell phone and smiling. "I busted my old one. I dropped it into water. Then I tried blowdrying it. The text pad worked for a while, the letters all messed up, but then it went into shock and died." Or something along those lines. I couldn't help but laugh and gave her my landline so she could activate her new phone.
12:00ish Finally we get into the car and we drove past dungy towns and boring landscape, aweing and gawking at every ugly little industrial building and bridge we saw. We visited two wineries: Southbrook and Inniskillin; I bought a bottle of ice wine at the latter for Father's Day. Then we finally hit Niagara-On-The-Lake and the Falls. Sarah actually thought there was a lake on a hill at Niagara-On-The-Lake, like a special little lake surrounded by trees. I'd been to the town many times and I have never went and looked at the lake, a lake, any lake for that matter. So it turns out it's just Lake Ontario and not even a nice view of it. The Falls didn't look much different. But for some reason, Sarah and I both thought it looked smaller than from what we remembered. The most interesting thing was the hundreds of seagulls at the bottom of the lake. I recall spotting them usually but not that many of them. It was kind of disturbing. There must be a lot of fish going over the Falls.
17:10ish We came back with all limbs attached and did all that in 5 hours, thanks to Sarah's speeding at 140km/h down busy QEW/401 the whole time. Phew. Gotta live life at full speed right?
'One missed call. 3 Messages."
Missed Call: Sarah H.
Text #1: From Zak which I am not going to repeat here.
Text #2: "Hey girl u up yet?"
Text #3: "Im going to pic u up at 11 but were going to check out the falls...nigira falls"
Who? When? Where? Was she talking about the NIAGARA FALLS? I'd been there at least 25 times the past 10 years. I refuse. I protest. I demand a change of location...say, the Yorkdale mall? This was when it hit me that I had promised to spend the day with Sarah (post-on-off breakup #1-2-3-4-5...etc with current-ex-current-ex-current beau). I love that girl to death but where does she come up with these ideas? Whatever, it was too late and I might as well just suck it up and go with the flow.
10:15 I realized the time and that I had 45 minutes to sleep, sleep, get my sleep and get ready.
10:32 I crawled out of bed, feeling like crap just got thrown onto me.
11:05 I'm ready.
11:25 Sarah is nowhere to be seen and not replying to any of my texts. As I was thinking how pissed I'd be if I'd gotten out of bed and she didn't come, my door bell rang. I opened the door and there she was, holding a brand new cell phone and smiling. "I busted my old one. I dropped it into water. Then I tried blowdrying it. The text pad worked for a while, the letters all messed up, but then it went into shock and died." Or something along those lines. I couldn't help but laugh and gave her my landline so she could activate her new phone.
12:00ish Finally we get into the car and we drove past dungy towns and boring landscape, aweing and gawking at every ugly little industrial building and bridge we saw. We visited two wineries: Southbrook and Inniskillin; I bought a bottle of ice wine at the latter for Father's Day. Then we finally hit Niagara-On-The-Lake and the Falls. Sarah actually thought there was a lake on a hill at Niagara-On-The-Lake, like a special little lake surrounded by trees. I'd been to the town many times and I have never went and looked at the lake, a lake, any lake for that matter. So it turns out it's just Lake Ontario and not even a nice view of it. The Falls didn't look much different. But for some reason, Sarah and I both thought it looked smaller than from what we remembered. The most interesting thing was the hundreds of seagulls at the bottom of the lake. I recall spotting them usually but not that many of them. It was kind of disturbing. There must be a lot of fish going over the Falls.
17:10ish We came back with all limbs attached and did all that in 5 hours, thanks to Sarah's speeding at 140km/h down busy QEW/401 the whole time. Phew. Gotta live life at full speed right?
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
Dish #21 - They lied.
The Dish: Whoever said love was the magic ingredient in baking? They LIED! It is so not. I made two separate batches of oatmeal cookies yesterday and ... they weren't so magical. I followed the recipe down to the dot. The recipe was reviewed by 2000 people and they all gave it five stars! So this is where I'm confused. They are supposed to be soft, moist AND chewy. The first batch ended up being hard, dry and crunchy. The second batch was a slight improvement - softer and chewier but again not moist, really bland and I can even taste the baking soda as an after-taste. Ugh. Further investigation is needed.
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