Bullet Points are good, right? May 16, 2008

So Friday is bullet points day here at Marmite and Tea. You know you love them (yes J even you!).

So this is what’s up with me!

• I have an interview - yeah - T knows how to rewrite a resume!

• Reading Life as We knew if - I am very freaked out now and want to stockpile food and batteries and things to burn. I keep looking at our cupboards and thinking “This would not last long!” Although if I couldn’t have bread would I have the will to carry on?

• Also reading Looking for Alaska and loving it. This is going be one of those books that I am bothering my friends to read. When I love a book I really need everyone to read it too.

• Watching Gossip Girl. I resisted and resisted this show like crazy. Watched one episode and was hooked. I just love Chuck. I love when he twitches his eyebrows and don;t get me started on his wardrobe.

• Getting totally annoyed with myself at how often I press ; rather than ‘ who designed the keyboard this way? I am constantly writing don;t and haven;t.

• Making Apricot Brunch Bars. Supposedly wholesome but I know how much sugar and butter is in them! Still healthier than store bought I guess.

• Making bread - see what happens when the internet goes down for a day.

• Thinking Radiohead are absolutely lovely to give us tickets to another show in August, very generous. Thanks Thom Yorke and the rest of them.

• Wondering how I can get T to come and see Prince Caspian with me this weekend. I did after all watch Ironman last week, it’s very dull.

So that’s all folks, as Bugs would say or was it the Pig.  I can not remember I think it was Porky, right?

Have a fabulous weekend everyone

xoxo

(You have to imagine it in Kristin Bell’s voice)

Turn Down Service Friday’s 40 PC May 16, 2008

This week Robin’s offering prizes, if you can come up with a great caption, poem, or post in 40 words or less you can win some Pops Popcorn Truffles, don’t they sound like something you need to try? So join in the fun!

Rumple Me!

See I’m sure you can do better than that.I guess I’ll be buying my own Truffles. A

Wordlessish Wednesday May 14, 2008

The rain decided to stop, finally! So out I went into the sunshine with my camera.

I was messing with the white balance but I actually like this. It makes me think of The Water Babies by Charles Kingsley.

Part of the Vietnam Women’s Memorial.

Again with the W/B but it feels summery. That way everything goes blinding white when it is really hot.

More Wordless Wednesdays over here

Kirtsy the new Sk*rt May 13, 2008

This reminds me of when Marathon changed it’s name to Snickers.  The name wasn’t as good but the noughty, caramely, nutty goodness coated in chocolate still tasted great. It will be the same with Sk*rt, new name but same old fabulous linkage to great things you might otherwise miss.

What am I on about?

Well Sk*rt my newest bloggy discovery has had to change it’s name to Kirtsy. Due to legal wangles from an older but less popular Skirt Magazine (okay maybe it is popular but I haven’t heard of it which we know is what counts right?).

Despite the name change Kirtsy is still the place to go to find all kinds of cool things. Like this and this and this.

So pop over and have a look and if you blog about it you might win this.

How many are there of you? May 13, 2008

HowManyOfMe.com

There are 9 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

Only 9 of me, no wonder I’m easy to find in the blogsphere!  There are no people named Tuesday with our last name, another point in it’s favour as a name for future children

So how many are there of you?

Excitment and doubt May 12, 2008

I was sitting here composing a post about how I can’t find a job I want to do and how I really don;t want to teach full time again but I may have to because I’m not really qualified to do anything else and office work may kill me.

Then I thought I better actually go and look for a job and I found a perfect one. So perfect, so so perfect.

Unfortunately I don’t quite match their criteria even though I know I could do it. So I have to write a really really, really good resume and I haven’t written a resume since I left Uni. My last job I got off the informal interview they gave me when I just popped in to see if I wanted to apply (apparently I interview well).

So if any of you have any tips for writing a stand out resume. Please let me know.

You Twitter but do you Tumblr? May 12, 2008

So I am always one to jump on the latest band wagon and in an effort to make sure every single thing that passes through my mind is shared with friends and strangers I am now a Tumblreer!

Tumblr is better than twitter because:

You get more room I am always going into the red on Twitter I can not be succinct and I don;t want to learn!

Your can post photos - we could all have shared in the butt judging comp! (if you haven’t read about this go now I don’t mind. AFF’s post is much funnier than this one. This is one of her ten greatest posts, Puppy’s comment just kills me)

You can post links

and quotes

You can chat

It is prettier than Twitter - I’m all about aesthetics

So come join me and be a Tumblr - you know you want to!

Value for Money May 12, 2008

Were the Radiohead tickets worth $110 dollars? I wouldn’t know as I didn’t see them.

We left the house at 6.30pm tonight to travel the 36 miles to the concert. Doors opened at 7.30pm meaning the main event would start at 9ish. Plenty of time you might think.

At 10pm we were still sitting in gridlocked traffic in torrential rain and I mean torrential. This was god is angry, you’d better start on that ark type rain.

At 10.15pm our friends called, they had just arrived the encore had started and people were leaving. Probably imagining as horrendous a journey home. So we gave up and turned round I’m not quite sure why we didn;t do that earlier, so near and yet so far (the Hillary syndrome!).

11.30pm arrived home having spent 5 hours listening to Radiohead on the ipod!

The worst bit? T booked these tickets the minute they went on sale, he loves Radiohead where as I was kind of going on sufferance.

We did manage to have quite a good time on the road trip (!) although it had put me off doing a real one. It would have been better with Twinkies and Coke but still. I still can’t quite believe we missed it!

NB. I actually have no idea what Twinkie are but Americans eat them a lot in books on road trips, I think they are a kind of must have when travelling long distances by car!

Blogging not Sleeping May 11, 2008

This is fuelled by vodka and tonic, so apologies if I make little sense.

Tonight I learnt that Guinness had fewer calories than American larger. Even though this information was written down on a paper place mat and therefore must be true I am having a hard time believing it. It might be like porridge having less calories than a croissant, anyone know the truth?

Pub topic of the night was which US state would you be called? We liked Alabama, Hawaii and Tennessee, Indiana (obviously), Nebraska, Michigan, Texas, Alaska, California (Callie) best. I’m also holding out for DC even though it isn’t a state. I also like Tuesday, not a state but a good name – are you beginning to think my children might hate me?

In other news WordPress appears to hate me/is to complicated for me. Things keep changing and disappearing and not looking the same in preview as they do when published. Also the spell check only seems to work sometimes and I am a person who really needs a spell checker. Maybe there is a ghost in the machine?

Anyways not much more to say; I am so tired and so unable to sleep. I may go roam the internets and see what I can see. Or maybe I’ll go and watch the Twilight trailer again!

Sounds of Summer May 10, 2008

Adam and Joe are doing a whole show on summer. Things you love, things you hate and music that evokes it.  Luckily they have not made us suffer Summertime by Will Smith, yet.

We have had Girl from Mars by Ash which takes me straight back to 1996 - the first summer of me and T.  What I remember is lying in the grass, sitting outside at the pub, late buses home, kissing in the street, making mixed tapes, going to Glastonbury, sleeping late, converse trainers, reading Jane Austen and Jilly Cooper, BBQ’s, A’level results! Thankfully I have blanked out completely the hell of working at Asda (the early morning shift 5.30am to 11am - ouch).

So what songs remind you of summer?  And what do you love/hate?