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We regret to inform you of the sad demise of the much-loved Router at the home of MrsFife. It will be greatly missed.
Until it can be replaced, MrsFife shall be rarely seen on the cyberstreets.
No flowers please.
No, it’s not spelled that way in American? Why not?
I was wondering if maybe the spelling choice has to do with whether the last part is pronounced as “log” to rhyme with “bog”, “fog” and “cog” or as “logue” as in “rogue”, and er, “rogue”. (If anyone knows of any other words that rhyme with “rogue” please do mention them. My brain is all shook up from my sneezing all day today.) I ask because I tend to pronounce travelogue (perhaps wrongly) to rhyme with rogue, but dialogue to rhyme with bog. Also, does it say something about my readers that my last post got more comments than any other one, as far as I can remember? Was it the pronunciation issue or the serendipity of finding something forgotten?
Oh and before you go, if for some reason you don’t follow Cute Overload, do go and look at this post and this one. I want me some of that fertiliser!!! Also, maybe I should have been a baby orangutan. Or something.
We did some cupboard rearranging last night and I discovered a set of 5 dpns in size 2.25mm. Yippee! They must be from Heide‘s generous RAKing a few months ago. See what being organised/cleanly can get you?
And on a totally unrelated note, referring to the Yarn Harlot‘s latest post, would Americans spell travelogues as travelogs? You know, like analogue (but not dialogue? Why? And related to programme.) If not, why not?
I’ve been tagged for a meme I haven’t seen before on a knit/crochet blog (not the ones I read, anyway) by Deepa, so here goes.
Three other names I go by: Wet Blanket, Princess (not in a nice way, said by the husband) and Mucchu (by my mom, for being, well, a wet blanket!)
Three screen-names: MrsFife/Dormouse/swapnae
Things I like about myself: My brain (mind?) most of the time.
Things I don’t like about myself: How about everything else?
Things that scare me: Lizards *shudder*
Scared about: Lizards *double shudder*
Hobby: Knit/crochet/read/surf
I catch myself stealing: glances at confident people
Something that gives me the creeps: Liz… oh, you know what!
About me: I’m vague (sorry, Deepa!) š
Bungee jumped? Would love to!
Food: Predominantly vegetarian, all sorts of cuisine, but please leave out the smelly oils.
I like to read: Murder mysteries, especially British. Also police procedurals, the kind Americans specialise in. And travelogues. The husband always refers me to any manuals that come with whatever we buy, (a) because he can’t be bothered (b) because I like to know things.
Emotional: I don’t understand this, but I should reply “VERY!
I strongly detest: Inconsistent behaviour
I regret: too many things to mention
I love: chocolatecats (both chocolate and cats, not a new breed of cats or type of chocolate)
Intuition is: sometimes right
Three essentials: Books, Internet, sleep
I believe: Religion should never be a social activity
Funny thing you read today: Somebody came to my blog looking for a “murderer with a canvas in Italy”. Now that’s a story I’d love to find out more about!
Thing I want to do badly now: Achieve some GOALS! (Which ones? Well, having goals would be one)
Dream Career: Being paid to nitpick (hey, I am a copy editor!!!)
I want to go on vacation to: England and the rest of Europe, also Egypt.
I want to visit: Um, anyone with a few cats? And also any place they let you play with tiger cubs.
Three girl names I like: (Why?) I like the names of ragas and of things in nature.
A song you sing a lot lately: Kondalalo nelakonna (by Annamacharya)
Are you happy this ended: er…
Me tagging:
Let’s see. How about some real people for a change? Okay, I’ll tag Kimberley and Vik!
Deepa tagged me a few days ago, and I’m just now getting to it. Sorry, Deepa!
I have vague memories of doing this meme a few months ago, but am too lazy to go dig around in the archives, and moreover, it wouldn’t be in the spirit of things…
A) Four jobs I have had in my life:
1. Market research executive
2. Freelance feature writer
3. Consultant (!!!) copy/sub editor
4. Wet blanket
B) Four movies I would watch over and over (I’m not a big movie fan, actually…):
1. Chupke chupke
2. Saptapadi
3. Vamsa vriksham
4. Maqbool
C) Four places I have lived:
1. Hyderabad
2. New Delhi
3. Bombay
4. Visakhapatnam
D) Four TV shows I love to watch:
1. CSI
2. Law and Order: Special victims unit
3. Other People’s Houses
4. Instant Khichdi
E) I have been on vacation:
1. Mount Abu and Udaipur
2. Bhedaghat Falls, Bhopal, Pachhmarhi
3. Darjeeling and Gangtok
4. Shillong and Guwahati
F) Websites visited daily:
1. Gmail
2. Yahoo! mail
3. Google Reader
4. Macbytes
G) Four of my favorite foods (we are not a healthy eater, are we?):
1. Puri-sabji/Chole-Bhature
2. Walnuts (they are a food, aren’t they?)
3. Curd rice with pickle (comfort food!!!)
4. Potato fry
H) Four places I would rather be right now (I’d be just the same misery wherever I was!):
1. In a world where I would have done so many things so differently
2. With cats
3.
4.
I) Four people Iām tagging with this questionnaire:
1. You there, behind the potted palm
2. Reader #1.46
3. Accidental googler – yes, that means you!
4. Caught you!
And now I go back to manfully (womanfully?) ploughing through the thousands of blog posts in my Google Reader…Just managed to catch up with my mails. Crochet Partners is always the most prolific. And then I’ll have to get back to knittyboard, not to mention Crochetville. Sigh. (You notice I’m being too lazy to even bother linking to any of these places.)
Don’t you think “blighted ovum” sounds like “sainted aunt” or something faintly biblical? I think I prefer the Wodehousian “Cursed Eggs” better. We’ve been down this path before and it is a bit tedious to be doing it again within 10 months. Frankly, I hadn’t heard of blighted ova before I had my first one and although I do collect trivia and other useless information, I’d have preferred not to be bothered with this little tidbit. Wouldn’t you?
“Blighted” also gives me an itch to make symbolic comparisons with marriage, life, dreams…Oh the associations!
The good part, though? I’ve had my mom fly down to be with me while I kick and scream so I should brush through this fairly handily, hopefully. And I don’t have to cook or heat my own hot water bottle (although the husband does that fairly handily, too). Yay!
Turning comments off, so it won’t look too much like a self-pity-cum-whining post. (Ha!)
Oh and I’m currently reading The Aunt’s Story by Patrick White (no relation to the sainted aunt, by the way). I’m out of touch with literature, being recently more immersed in the shoot-and-run genre. But I’m muddling through.
We shall be back with cheer shortly (might be pretty quickly, too, if the last time is anything to go by). Ta-ta!
This time it was this one by Connie Willis.
Normally I am not a science fiction fan but I really needed a book. It was fun, very British (Willis is American), Wodehousean. But reading the blurbs of her other books, I’m not sure I’d read them. I’m not into science fiction (did I say that already?) Now I am once again new-book-less, except the Oxford Dictionary of Biography. Sigh.
After a long gap I’ve bought myself a couple of real books to read. Haven’t begun them yet, but I have high hopes.
And this one:
Hoping to have fun.
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