I’ve been recording movies off of TV lately. This is nice because I can watch it and delete it no wasting tapes anymore! I can fast-forward through the adverts! Anyway, I recorded The Day After Tomorrow and Weasel and I watched it over the weekend. It was hilarious! If I’d known how funny it was I totally would have seen it in the cinema.

I understand it is not intended as a comedy, but it was so over the top. It was cheesy and predictable. Their message was very heavy-handed. Plus, the episode of South Park that mocks it got it so perfect that I couldn’t stop drawing similarities and giggling.

So Weasel and I have decided that we need to seek out the disaster movies for our entertainment. Let me know if you have any recommendations!

I made a Chocolate Fudge Cake yesterday. I have a poor history with cakes. I invariably get something wrong and they turn out strange. For example, for my 25th birthday I made one but I put the baking soda in at the wrong time and it was very pointy on top. It tasted great, but it looked very strange. This one turned out okay, but it is a little dense and the icing is a little bitter. The things that could have contributed to this include:

• accidentally melting the butter instead of just softening it by being cunning*
• running out of self-raising flour and finishing off with plain flour
• eggs were straight from the fridge, not room temperature [thinking the cold would make up for the melted butter]

* My cunning was that while Weasel was making her lunch in the oven I’d put the butter in the separate grill part to catch the reflected heat and soften. Only I forgot the butter was in there and by the time I went to get it it was pretty melted.

I’m going to continue making cakes until I get it right. I must do more reading on the subject.

Mish is coming to visit this weekend. She arrives time on Thursday, she and Weasel are going out that evening. I think Weasel intends to work on Friday so Mish and I will hang out and do fun things. I have a few ideas for meals which should be very nice. We have a few ideas for activities too. I’m excited to get to play some board games and talk of many topics.

Horatio has been in France with his family for ages and still doesn’t get home until next Monday. I miss him. He still calls, but the conversations are very different and often it is fairly late by the time he can call so I am useless. I want to go visit him ASAP, but I have to wait and see when my next lung dilation is. I meant to call today to see if there was any news, but I forgot. Oh! I’ve totally added it to my Rainlendar for tomorrow. Now I won’t forget.

Still haven’t touched my counselling binder, but I’ve thought about it. I’ve had a fairly good day today and I had at least two moments where I thought I could probably get it out. Unfortunately, I was out on my walk during one and I don’t know what I was doing during the other. Perhaps not all is lost.

Weasel’s friend who I got to make giggly noises about and italicise things very kindly gifted her one of those foam swords. Weasel lets me keep it by my desk and poke her with it. This cheers me up. Especially if I can have a ‘bonk!’ noise to go with it. I ought to say that her friend is going to remain a friend, things did not work out as we hoped. Sad. Which explains why I was deliberately vague here, I didn’t want to announce too much when things were just getting started.

I have plans to make clothes for Fergus when I visit BlanketGirl in November. Weasel and I were discussing what we could do with said outfits once we had them. She suggested a website where he could offer his medical services with contact details etc. I said we’d need a biography. We started planning it out and every juncture makes me giggle more. I had cause to ask Weasel what his hobbies might be and we came up with dancing, political discussion and mycology [study of mushrooms]. The last one is hilarious because if you recall, Fergus has a stuffed mushroom that is his official chew toy. I’m very excited for the possibilities here.