cravingoxygen — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 12:15:16 +0000

Hello all
I’m in a pretty good mood today. Regardless of the fact that it is school again in less than three days, the fact that I still need to write the ceremony for tomorrow night, that I still have tons of piano practical and theory to do and the fact that I couldn’t upload a new header for the site last night. Wonder why. Maybe because it’s all cloudy and cold and windy outside. That usually makes me cheerful for some reason.

I think I’ll go outside with my cup of hot chocolate and try to write the ceremony. I have a pretty good ending already. That’s the way it usually goes… I think of the ending or the introduction but am kinda stuck on the middle part. But that’s okay. Hot chocolate has done wonders in the past, I’m sure it can do so again.

Got into major trouble this morning for using 90% of our bandwidth already and it’s only the 12th. I’m being forced to pay for more if I want to stay online. Which I do of course. So I am now even more broke than usual. But whatever.

My uncle and my dad are having a meeting. My uncle is a programmer and my dad does the electronic bits, so they make a pretty good team. My uncle is also really into rping, scifi, fantasy, etc. so the two of us are always on really good terms. /me grins. He’s one of the few people in our family who talks to me as though I am not 6 or something, (Since the rest of the kids in the family are in that age group), but as though I am an actual human being capable of intelligent thought. And since we are a big family, there isn’t enough space for me at the other table, I always get to sit with the little kids. Oh joy. At their table I get to hear all about the latest antics of Winnie the Pooh and Eyore and trying to keep them from spilling their drinks all over the table, while I could be hearing about latest programming languages or listening to discussions on capitalism or predictions of the country’s economical growth at the other table. Which is way more interesting than Winnie the Pooh I assure you.
/me sighs
Also, I think, my aunt kinda uses me as a baby sitter for the others. I’m pretty sure that I shall be sitting at that table until I’m 80. And no. I am not 10 or something myself right now. I am almost done with high school. I wonder if I will finally be able to take leave from that cursed table when I’m done with school. *sigh* I’ll be able to dye my hair then too… black with electric blue, dark purple and silver streaks….
But like I was saying about my uncle, he’s really cool. Him and my uncle from Cape Town. They are both willing to accept the fact that I am interested in computers too and are willing to explain to me if I don’t understand the conversation. My favourite pasttime is to just sit and listen to them all talk. I learn way more that way than I ever would at school. He used to live with us for a while, back when he was a bachelor, but although he’s married now, he hangs around here a lot for work. I certainly don’t complain.
His wife is really sweet too. She’s pregnant now, with a little girl. I have decided that I shall adopt the baby as my favourite cousin and ensure that she is well-versed in the ways of the rper. : P

But whatever. I really have to go write that ceremony speech thing now. So bye. For now.

Your Ceremony-Writing Sarcastic Poet

cravingoxygen — Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:23:00 +0000

So much for practicing piano.
/me sighs
I have that rare strain of boredom again…. so much I can and should do, but nothing that I feel like doing. I don’t want to go work. I don’t want to practice piano. I don’t want to eat, even though I’m pretty sure that I’m hungry… Don’t want to go poetry-blog-hunting. Don’t even want to go on PS.Strange how I was fine when I wasn’t blogging, but now that I’m writing again, I can’t seem to stop. Maybe it’s addictive. Like a drug. Or more like nicotine actually. Doesn’t give you a high, just makes you numb. Numb. All over. Maybe some hot chocolate will help.
/me reads that sentence again.
Oh help. Did I just say that hot chocolate might help against numbness? Then I definitely don’t have it together.
/me checks for a fever.
Nope, not that.
/me goes to make some hot chocolate anywayI have officially perfected the art of hot chocolate making. Almost as well as my two minute noodles. And since I have nothing better to do, I shall now post the instrutions here. And yes, in case you were wondering, this is pretty much the range of my cooking abilities. Apart from pancakes and toast.Hot chocolate:

First, one needs three specific types of hot chocolate powders: All Joy Hot Chocolate, Nestle Milo and Nestle Nesquik.

Get a mug, preferably not straight but ‘v shaped’ if you catch my drift. Like \_/ not |_|

Start boiling some water

Take a moment to grieve for the sanity of the person writing this while you wait for the water. Reread the sentence before the one telling you to boil the water if you don’t see a reason to mourn my sanity.

Put a really heaped teaspoon of the All Joy, a heaped teaspoon of the Milo and a regular teaspoon of Nesquik into the mug.

Fill the mug about three-quarters with boiled water (yes, boiled but not boiling. If it were still boiling you would end up with a cloud of steam in your face. You only want water that has recently been boiled).

Fill the rest of the mug up with milk

Stir

Add a regular teaspoon of sugar

Stir again

That’s it.

Now for the two minute noodles:

Put the kettle on so long

Get out the noodles, I prefer Maggi or Choice. Mostly because I can afford them and these instructions have been tested and developed (by me) specifically using these brands (I have been told that I eat too much two minute noodles. Rereading these instructions now, it seems as though those claims might not be so far-fetched after all).

Keep the noodles in the packet and take out a container. Preferably a huge mug or a triangular-shaped, micro-wave-friendly holder thingy of about 750ml.

Crush the noodles. Yes, into small pieces. Not into powder, but still into small pieces.

Empty the packet into your container and add the spices that come with it in the little shiny packets.

Add the now-boiled water to the noodles, taking care to ensure that there are no clumps of spices on the noodles. Add water until the container is about three quarters of the way full. No more, no less. Trust me.

Put the noodles in the microwave for exactly two minutes and fifteen seconds.

Leave the noodles in the microwave for about twenty minutes after the timer went off.

Grate some cheese into a plate and get out the salt and pepper while you wait.

Now you can take out the noodles and pour off the water until you have only a tiny bit of water left at the bottom. Too much water means that your cheese won’t melt properly. Too little means that your noodles will be dry.

Then you add lots of cheese, pepper and a tad of salt.

Wait for the cheese to melt.

Grieve for the writer’s lost sanity yet again

Enjoy your noodles

So there. Maybe I do eat too much two minute noodles, but what the hey. I make the best noodles around. Hm. Writing useless recipes actually helps get rid of boredom. Maybe I should patent crazy recipes as being a cure for that weird strain of boredom. I’d have to patent the weird strain of boredom first, though. If it’s even possible to patent an emotion.

Oh well. That’s it for now. Maybe I’ll post again later tonight. If I’m still in this unstable mood.
And yes, I know that this entire post was lame. Gimme a break. I’m still a vegetable at this stage.

You Local Unstable Sarcastic Poet

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