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  • Nov. 10th, 2009 at 10:16 PM

[info]cy_v
[info]eat_my_bento
Not completely bento-related, but I use falafel in my bento's occasionally:

'In Pita made the Foodbuzz Top 9 today! The Foodbuzz Top 9 is a photo-driven collection of top-buzzed posts within the Foodbuzz community.

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Now, 'in pita' is the title for my picture accompanying my falafel recipe, and this meant that my frikkin' recipe made it into the top 9!
This morning it was 5th, but now it's 4th! Look!

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-proud momma-

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Nov. 9th, 2009

  • 10:15 PM

[info]missanthropii
Hrm... meh

I have taken all my dreads out and dyed my hair with a special dye for dark hair which is supposed to lighten and colour in one step. It's supposed to be a plumy reddy violety colour. Which it is at the roots which was my own natural hair colour all virgin undyed. Then the lengths are various degrees of faded black, which now are a rich dark black with a slight purple hint in the light. It blends from the top to the bottom quite nicely i suppose.

So then I went to buy a synthetic weft in a burgundy colour i decided was best. They didn't have synthetic, so i spent £28.99 on 14 inches of human burgundy. They didn't have any any longer because "it is hard to find human hair in this colour" he says as though someone actually grew it in the colour they are selling it to me, and it wasn't just dyed, and that's why my hands don't get a red tinge on them when I am working with it, or something.

So I have double sewn it and back combed 2 sections of it. Then I cornrowed round my head twice and stitched it on. The problem I am having is that there seems to be so much of my own hair that you can't see the dreads in amongst it at all. I can't quite work out what to do about this, but at least can stop worrying that I am thinning! I didn't really think i was but you should have seen the hair balls i accumulated getting my dreads out. Still they hadn't been properly out since the beginning of august! ouch ouch and more ouch is all i can say to that!

I was actually amazed at how long my own hair is, it's no wonder that even a blanket stitch braid looks naff!

I think this is all convincing me to just get my own hair dreaded. I have even chosen someone to do it (wool hair gracey) i just need to find the cash. I might as well do it. I am not planning on leaving this job for about 5 years i don't think, so i may as well have dreads for 5 years and then cut my hair off and have it short. I just need to get it the colour I want it. I have no idea how to go about doing that. I think maybe in about 6 weeks I will bleach bath the lengths of my hair, and then try putting a deep reddish brown colour on.

Nov. 7th, 2009

  • 1:26 AM

[info]russian_mafia_x
[info]eat_my_bento
I'm not really sure if this is allowed, but I'll ask anyway.  Since Ichiban Kan online closed I haven't really been able to find a cheap store like. Even J-list is too steep for me.  So I was wondering if any of you guys are selling your boxes/accessories for cheap? I wouldn't mind buying used as long as everything is in good condition.  I'm mostly looking for more boxes in different shapes and sizes and functional accessories like silicone cups and such. 

Thanks!

x-posted to bentolunch.

Technical difficulties...

  • Nov. 2nd, 2009 at 11:24 AM

[info]pagan_gerbil

So you've probably noticed I've posted a bit more recently, but referred comments to my blog. Most of you probably know that I've always wanted my own space on the web, and LJ just feels too shut in and insular a lot of the time. Still, there's some stuff that won't be major-public, so that's what this place is good for.



I had some trouble putting up that film review - it posted twice, kept editing the wrong post, duplicated images... and now it's deleted itself. So I resubmitted it all and it should work fine.



I have been sick, again. I've been really sick a lot this year, I don't know why. Normally flu and cold doesn't really get me that bad, I can push through it and it's gone in a day or two but this year, it's been with me for a week or more and actually putting me totally out of action some days. I'm not one for 'man-flu', but I was actually trying to get out of bed to get a glass of water for about three hours yesterday. Then Jen came home and got one for me, and called the doctor.



My fever is gone at the moment, hopefully will stay gone, and I can move around a bit now which is good. I even managed a slice of toast earlier. Freddy is staying with his grandparents to avoid catching this, although I'm convinced he's the one who gave it to me in the first place. Hopefully, the worst of it (the temperature of 40 and the near-unconsciousness) is past and I'm on the way back to good health for at least a few more weeks. I will probably make an appointment at the doctors to discuss the constant ill-health though...

Nov. 1st, 2009

  • 6:08 PM

[info]missanthropii
grrr..... I STILL haven't really finished the decorating, these things take such a long time.

I have just about finished. I have finished the painting of the walls and skirting boards, and I have nearly finished the radiator I hope, i think it needs just one more coat. I have cleaned up the mess I made, and have done mammoth cleaning in the bedroom. I have also started to put the room back together, but I don't want anything touching any of the paint work I have done today (even though it does feel dry, but i already chipped some dry but still soft paint) plus I think the skirting boards may remain delicate since I painted emulsion over gloss. So all this means that I can't properly put everything back together. I have also had just about enough of tidying and haven't quite finished my school work, plus I am really hungry and fed up with wearing my skanky decorating clothes!

I never got around to buying the wood for the shelves, or the stain for the wood, so that can't be done yet, but i think that can be a job for this week maybe, or next weekend at the latest. I hate half finished jobs and I am the queen of them, so I want to get them done as soon as possible to stop the job being dissolved by the mists of time.

I also need to hang my mirror, but think I will use a screw and a wall plug rather than a masonry nail and really can't be bothered with drills today, plus I think the [paint work will thank me for waiting a day or two. I have at least put the hangings on the back of it though so it is ready to hang. And I tried sanding down a drawer in a great chest of drawers I have that gets stuck, but despite sanding it hasn't helped, I think maybe I am sanding in the wrong place, but I can't work out where the sticky point is.

Hmmm, it does feel like a million years since I was last at work because I have been so busy, but i also feel a week is not long enough...

Film Autopsy - Surrogates

  • Oct. 31st, 2009 at 11:54 AM

[info]pagan_gerbil

This film review is going to be heavy on spoilers. Move along if you’re not into that sort of thing. I will warn you to start with, I am a nit-picker of films. I will latch on to something and unravel it, and try and understand how the world of a film works. This often makes it look like I hate a film, or at least think too much. Sci-fi films set 10 minutes into the future are perfect for this – a lot of things can be assumed about the way the world works now with that 'one big difference'.


To sum it up right here, I enjoyed this film. It’s a fun action flick, Bruce Willis is good as usual, and the style and appearance of everything in the film helps to sell the story. When people act as their surrogates, they are slightly off, but not entirely ‘uncanny valley’, if that’s even appropriate. The ‘cheaper models’ shown in the film are definitely sitting in the uncanny valley but everyone appears to have the equivalent of a Ferrari, as far as I could tell.


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Oct. 30th, 2009

  • 5:01 PM

[info]missanthropii
So this half term my major activities for completion were to be:
1) decorate the bedroom
2) take out, wash, dye, make new dreads, put them in (ie sort my crapola hair)
3) do my work

So far I haven't even done one of those and it is Friday.

I am going to do the 3rd coat of paint on half the skirting boards now, then I will nearly have finished the decorating. My final tasks are the other half of the skirting boards, touch up where I got red paint on the pink, touch up where I got paint on the ceiling, 2 more coats of paint on the radiator, clean up where I got paint on the floor, put the room back together.

So in amongst all of that I have time to either do a half attempt on my hair or do my work.

Given I get paid to do my job and not my hair I am thinking that I probably should do that and not my hair.

My hair is terrible though, but i don't really want to just take it out and put the same dreads back in as I really want to change it drastically. I don't know whether to put off changing it, or just redo this in the meantime.

Anyway, off to wash the roller, paint the skirting boards, and see if I can find some clothes to go out in (my clothes are all hung over the banister as we don't have wardrobes, they normally hang in an alcove in the bedroom ,so obviously had to move out of the way for decorating purposes. One thing's for sure... I'm not going out in the painty clothes I am currently wearing.

Oct. 29th, 2009

  • 9:22 PM

[info]missanthropii
I am watching "Kate: My beautiful Face" about a girl who had sulphuric acid thrown in her face. It is very disturbing. But she looks a lot better than you would think it possible to. She can't eat though because it has corroded her oesophagus or something, she is fed through a tube into her stomach.

As I was watching I thought, "didn;t this happen ages ago". But then as she described what happened I realised it wasn't the story I was thinking of. She had acid thrown in her face by a man in the street while she was on the phone. The other case I am thinking of was someone who answered the door to an unknown person who threw acid in her face. Does anyone remember that? I think it would've been about 10 years ago. Maybe it was a storyline in a soap or something, but i think it was real.

I have googled it and most of what comes up is to do with Kate.

There are quite a lot of examples of this though, my google search has thrown up a Russian, a Ukranian, a Bangladeshi, an Iranian and a Pakistani victim all within the last couple of years. Plus a christian baptist who stepped in to break up a fight.

I appreciate that isn't that many in the grand scheme of things but this is such a horrific thing, I am amazed there are as many cases.


Edit - wow, it;s actually a common punishment in some places:
http://www.france24.com/en/20090225-pakistani-women-acid-sulfuric-kerosene-attacks-Depilex-Smile-Again
Where are all these people getting sulphuric acid from anyway?

Oct. 29th, 2009

  • 11:43 AM

[info]missanthropii
I feel bad about semi-deserting lj for fb. But yesterday I was back on lj with a vengeance - you may have noticed. But equally you may not have noticed. There have only been 7 entries on my friends page since yesterday lunchtime. I have a whole heap of communities and about 60-70 active(ish) friends, and yet no-one posts.

Now I am not complaining because until yesterday I was guilty of this too. But what is up with that? I think I need to find some more lj friends and spice up my friends page, and then I need to post m0ar so that I can spice up their friends pages

But right now I need to go and buy some red paint