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Superfly With No Goodbye

Published
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Randi
on July 17, 2007
in Cooking, Family, Food, Life, Love, Music, South Africa and Weather
. 4 Comments

This past weekend seemed to go by so fast! Victor and I had a braai at his place on Saturday to celebrate our six month anniversary. He made the fire and I cooked the meat; I ended up smelling like a braai myself! I like braais, especially in summer; meat off the braai with some potato salad and a cold glass of juice or soda… Oh, I am so craving those summer days!

I’ve been downloading content for The Sims 2 for my sisters and I as my father had upgraded his computer’s RAM; now the game runs smoothly instead of lagging like before. My sisters had been hogging it for days and I hadn’t had a chance to play until this morning while they were at school. I got bored a while after of making a family and starting with their house. I’ll finish it tomorrow maybe, if I’m in the mood…

I want to start making custom content for The Sims 2; clothes, bedding, recolors… I don’t know, I guess that I’ll see in time because my computer is a bitch. I’m running out of space on my hard drive so I have to sit down here and sort through my files and keep what I actually want and need. It’s really slow and I want to upgrade it when I can afford to so that I could have a game or two installed.

I’ve finally been able to download Harris Tweed’s song, Superfly. It’s my song of the moment and I’ve been listening to it way too much over the last forty eight hours… The lyrics “Superfly with no goodbye” is being played over and over in my head like a scratched record and it’s stuck like that. I can’t get that song out of my head! I have to buy their CD as soon as I can; not only because I like that song and that they sound great, but because they’re local too!

Bah!

Published
by
Randi
on March 30, 2007
in Baking, Books, Cooking, Food, Gifts, Health and Website
. 5 Comments

I have been ill. For over a week and I am only just now starting to feel better… I hate being ill…

So my batch of choc chip cupcakes for making the hi-hats… Flopped. They shrunk, the choc chips were all at the bottom… The whole batch just flopped. I was disappointed because of this but I put each flopped cupcake into a desert bowl and made little desert hi-hats instead… Anyway, it tasted good and everyone liked them on Wednesday…

I had received the book that Crowe* had bought for me. There are so many cookies to try out… My younger sisters and I can not wait to bake some cookies.

I am starting to feel sick again… I will write whenever… I do not know when… I do not care right now…

Insert Witty Title Here

Published
by
Randi
on March 18, 2007
in Baking, Books, Computers, Cooking, Family, Food, Friends, Gaming, Life, Love, Movies, Shopping and Technology
. 3 Comments

The package containing the items that I had purchased recently arrived last week. I now have a new webcam, a Logitech QuickCam® Pro 5000. Its image quality is way better than my old AIM webcam and my father’s old Logitech webcam combined. Even though I have hardly used my new webcam, I am in love with it. I had also purchased three DVDs; The Corpse Bride (I really want to get The Nightmare Before Christmas on DVD too), Queen of the Damned and Sin City…

After watching Sin City I now wonder why I had even purchased it… I had not seen it before and I know that I had bought it just because of that and thought that I would maybe enjoy it… Wrong! My younger sister seemed to have enjoyed it though as she wanted to watch it a second time. I told her that she could have the DVD but she did not want it, she wants Step Up instead…

I bought The Sims 2 Seasons expansion pack too. I still have not gotten to play The Sims 2 on my father’s PC yet… My younger sisters have been hogging it and I honestly do not feel like playing it when it lags so badly. I think my father’s PC may need some more RAM and more disk space… I do not know… My sisters whine when the game lags and they actually pray for it not too. It is kind of annoying when they go on and on about it lagging. I think I will rather play when it is running smoothly, someday…

I had also bought a cookbook, Cupcakes! And on Friday night I had made delicious choc chip cupcakes that my family loved, especially my father. They turned out very moist and spongy and I had thought that they were undercooked when I had tasted a piece. I had done the touch and toothpick test before taking them out of the oven and my mother had assured me that they were in fact properly cooked. I guess that it had been too long since I had such a cupcake…

Crowe* had recently bought me a cookbook by the same author, Big Fat Cookies. It should be delivered soon, I hope… I can not wait to start baking some delicious large cookies! I plan on making a batch of a chocolate chip version of chocolate covered hi-hats on Tuesday night for Wednesday; I am dying to try this combination of cupcakes.

I helped Victor move in to his new place yesterday; he now lives practically up the road from me. This morning he and I went to collect his PC and some other of his belongings in Pretoria, went out for lunch and then went to his place for a little while before heading back to my place. I am really happy that he is living closer, he is happy and I am glad that he does not have to drive far during the night to get back home after visiting me, anything could happen… I worry too much about him…