earlier today:

Brother Windows: o hai! i can has batchilers diploama! On Friday!
Cim: But I thought the reason you wanted us to babysit was so you could take Carmela to an amusement park?
Brother Windows: Oh shit. Well, I can has diploama on Monday then!

... He and Wax are a lot alike.

quote of the day

I think we like P. Diddy better now.

"It takes me two hours to get ready. Worse than any woman I've ever been with. I take a long bath and then moisturise with oils and cologne when I'm still wet so that it all seeps into the porse - then I air-dry by dancing around to James Brown."

-P. Diddy

Tabbouleh Disasterrrr! D:

ARUUURGH FUCK.

I bought the ingredients for tabbouleh last Sunday, and I bought two bunches of parsley because I thought I remembered that that was the right amount. But when I minced the parsley and scallions I discovered I only had barely two decilitres of them put together, when I was supposed to have two and a half each. I went back to the store and bought four packets of parsley (brain failure, I guess) - but it turned out that just one of them made up the difference and provided plenty for the recipe. Then I stuck EXACTLY to the recipe's required amount of allspice and onion instead of doubling it like last time, and it's still WAY too much. And I already went to the store twice today, but then I ran out of lemon juice and only had half as much as it called for, which isn't nearly enough. So my tabbouleh is way, way, way over-spicy and over-oniony and under-lemony; it tastes mostly like allspice and cheap olive oil (which Wax keeps buying instead of Bertolli because she forgets even though I remind her that you can taste the difference whenever you use it for anything except cooking)! Argh, it's RUINED until I can go buy more lemon and scallions tomorrow and basically make an entire second batch of greens and bulghur to mix the mess into. ;__; I feel like my day is ruined because tabbouleh is like my favourite food and I was looking forward to it; and my mom is a tabbouleh maestro (although what isn't she a maestro at?), so failing at it makes me feel like an utterly unworthy descendant.

Mental note: 5 dL parsley&scallions / 2,5 dL dry bulghur / 1,5 - 2 dL lemon juice / ½ t allspice / less than ½ onion / 1 T sea salt / olive oil very cautiously to taste

an historic day

Have I ever mentioned to the Internets that OUR IKEA (an Ikea in the suburbs of Turku-Åbo, specifically in Raisio, that is) OPENS TODAY?

wax_jism and I were planning to go there tomorrow, but then we remembered we have to babysit. As bizarre as this may seem to some people, I would rather babysit the noobs than go to Ikea, so I guess that will wait for her next free weekday. (They're open on the weekend, yeah, but I predict miles-long queues on their first weekend open EVER.) I can't wait to pick up some more lidded green storage boxes and a half-circle desktop shelf for our Ivar shelves, among other things. I want to get an unfinished chair to paint, too. I'm not sure what I'll then do with that chair - maybe give it to someone in the family. At least, I'm pretty sure they should have latex primer and topcoat there, too.