What I did on my holidays

[todayiamadaisy]

• I reached level 100 to finally finish Cradle of Rome. According to the game, I built Rome, became Emperor and ascended Mount Olympus. Yay me.


• I resisted all temptation to buy the sequel, Cradle of Persia, because I am the Emperor and I am Strong.


• So I bought a game called Cake Mania 3 instead.


• I went to Melbourne and saw Wicked, which was good. I liked the book better.


• In a bookshop after the show, I thought about buying Son of a Witch, the sequel to Wicked, until I remembered my troubled history with its author, Gregory Maguire (namely, that I liked Wicked and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister but hated Lost so much it put me off reading anything else by him).


• I bought a new jacket (only in red) for work, made of this odd mesh stuff that I didn't think I'd like but that turned out to be lovely: light and drapey and perfect for summer.


• I also started my Christmas shopping, and had three separate women stop me to admire my crow pendant.


• At the station waiting to come home, I sat behind a drunk who was singing quietly to himself. He only knew one line from each song so his medley went like this:
  I read the news today, oh boy,
  Young Americans, oh,
  I can't get no satisfaction,
  Me father, he was orange, and me mother, she was green,
  And I'm blue.


• I discovered that I'm not thrilled by wasabi-coated peas. I don't dislike them, but they wouldn't inspire me to Party! as the bag claimed they would.


• I brought the ladder in, all the way from the garage, and cleaned out the funny little cupboard at the top of the built-in wardrobe.


• And today I'm going to laminate some recipes torn out of magazines or printed from the web. So it's all go, obviously.