Hair of the Cat

Guess Who's Coming to Town?

2009-12-12T23:51:16Z

This guy. Yeah, he's still around. He's on an extensive spoken-word tour and he's coming to Halifax, yay! And we have tickets, yay! Mike isn't a fan but he's going anyway. I'm not even sure what he talks about these days - looks like gay marr...

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Quick-n-Dirty Restaurant Review: The Carleton

2009-12-12T23:38:33Z

In a nutshell: don't go there. Mike and I both ordered the Angus striploin. If what we were served was Angus, I'm the queen of Siam. I've had better tasting sawdust. Fatty, tasteless pulp. The "frites" were over-seasoned and the service, whi...

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Film Review: Trailer Park Boys - Countdown to Liquor Day

2009-10-16T13:32:52Z

Yes, I saw a Trailer Park Boys film. And to add to the shame: I enjoyed it. I don't watch the show; however, the trailer for this film cracked me up so I had to see it. The hilarity for me was mostly due to the use of Independent Armored Trans...

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What am I working on?

2009-09-29T22:33:19Z

My first sweater: The Mrs. Darcy Cardigan. So far, so good. There is some ribbing near the bottom that unfortunately doesn't show up very well, but it's there. Really. Also my first knee high: I'm working on the gusset currently. Yes...

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Three Things

2009-09-03T22:48:51Z

1. I made a Rainbow Cake. My first attempt was made with diet pop as the recipe suggests, but that didn't work for me at all. So this time I followed the cake mix instructions and got a nice-looking, fully-baked, colourful, edible cake. Unfor...

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Death Proof does not mean yawn proof

2009-08-22T19:01:40Z

[WARNING: SPOILERS] Tried to watch Death Proof last week. We managed to get about halfway through, then gave up. It truly was a tedious, time-warping mess. Crazy guy with stuntman's car kills five drunk/high young women after the audience must ...

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Film Review: Julie & Julia

2009-08-08T21:27:29Z

This is a film that can definitely be summed up in one sentence: A bored office drone decides to cook all of Julia Child's recipes from one of her cookbooks (524 of 'em) in 365 days, and for some reason the writers thought it would be good to thr...

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Vacation

2009-08-06T10:27:06Z

So I've been on vacation the last week, and it's been fantabulous. Mike was able to be off for most of my vakay so it worked out very well. We were able to check out our fair city as tourists, and we had a friend from Maine come visit! This pas...

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My first sock!

2009-07-14T22:13:28Z

I used a pattern from Come to Silver, and even though it appears to be straight-forward, it could have been much simpler. The explanation for Kitchener stitch ... not very helpful. I watched a video tutorial instead. But hey, it's my first ...

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My Shopping Spree

2009-07-06T13:39:57Z

For me a shopping spree is anytime I buy more than one item at a time. Saturday I bought three items, therefore it was a shopping spree. My first purchase (and best, I think): I finally succumbed and bought a Yarn Harlot book (see my Links on...

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