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It's a beautiful day outside and I'm itching to go enjoy the fresh air; so, I'll make this post quick. I paid a visit to Propaganda a couple of weeks ago and found they have what I'm looking for but that it's way too expensive. In some cases a single t-shirt costs $40 - terrible!
I have to go find a cover/casing for my trekking pole for the South America trip later this year so it won't get damaged in transit. Also, I'm thinking of getting a pair of fleece gloves from Kathmandu because I don't have a pair [well there are gloves at home but they're girly ones my Mum bought years ago for herself]. Besides, you never know when it might come in handy and there's a winter sale - it's one of those items with 50% off the original price! :D
Ugh! I'm so disappointed with myself. I recently, and inadvertently, discovered this company that sells really great t-shirts through Ewnice who happened to be modelling one at combined cell-group last Saturday. I browsed the website to see if there were some designs I liked and there were some really good ones; but, I held off because I wanted to get some opinions from people who'd bought previously to make sure I wasn't wasting money on dud/nonsensical tees.
Initially some of the t-shirts were priced at USD$10 each. I wanted to get 5 particular designs [total: USD$50] which attracted a USD$20 shipping fee. After converting the price back into Australian Dollars, it would've worked out to be around $16 for each tee. Lo and behold, when I returned to the site this morning, I found out their "Summer Sale" had ended! The t-shirts were now back to their regular price of USD$15 each. Adding insult to injury, I discovered I'd just missed the one-day sale extension. Poo!
Ewnice assures me that Threadless have sales on a regular basis; so, I'm hanging out for the next one. :) There are a chain of stores here in Melbourne called Propaganda that sell products similar to Threadless. I think I'll pay them a visit in the meantime to sate my desire for cool and trendy t-shirts. :D
I was so excited when I got home last night that I prepared the mushrooms in the simplest and, I think, best way possible. I gave them a wash to get the grit and other yucky bits out, chopped them up into bite-sized pieces and fried them in some good-quality virgin olive-oil along with some garlic to really bring out the flavour. I finished the cooking process by lightly seasoning with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
I ate it as an accompaniment to the cumin-heavy pork curry and fried spinach my Mum had already prepared by the time I got home. May I just say that even though I nearly fried the buggery out of it, the milk-caps maintained the firm texture. It was definitely a new but worthwhile experience. If you haven't tried them before, get into it. Long live mushrooms! :)
You may wonder what this post's title is all about. It's the Latin name for what's commonly known as Saffron Milk-Cap mushrooms. The funny thing is I'd never heard of or seen these mushrooms until today - that's how common they are! A colleague here at work was kind enough to share his bounty from a trip to a state-forest on the weekend. I look forward to preparing them in a variety of different ways - grilled and fried to name a few. I'll even eat them fresh if I work up the courage to do so!
From what I've found out, they're supposed to have a firm texture and nutty taste. I'm sure it'll make a great mushroom steak!
I'll give you all an update after I've eaten some.
The weekend was quite full-on. I went to a Mens' Conference, hosted by City Life Church (CLC), called Redline 2007. Keynote speakers were Brian Houston, of Hillsong fame, and CLC's own Mark Conner.
I signed up for Redline because Brian was a big name speaker and I thought he'd have lots of meaningful stuff to say. It's not that I didn't get much out of his messages but it was much akin to watching those infomercials on TV late at night when all you can remember is a particular phrase that's repeated ad nauseum to try hammer a point home.
Mark, on the other hand, was an absolutely phenomenal speaker! His solid Bible-based teaching was interspersed with entertaining personal anecdotes and practical examples of how to apply to it to my own life.
The conference had an activity time/break for ~45min-1hr between sessions and there was finger-food served [in the form of party pies, mini-sausage rolls, samosas (?), and biscotti for sweets]. Being a blokey conference the activities available were naturally very macho. There was a giant jolly-jumper [okay, so the name sounds a little girly, but that's what they called in on the day...] which was essentially a huge rubber band fastened to a harness and arms, enabling the person strapped in to leap several metres into the air and perform aerial acrobatics. Next to this was a rock-climbing pillar - nothing special to report there. Finally, and this was the most interesting and bizzare, was 2 stripped out cars [a Ford and Holden respectively - sans engine and other flammable bits] sitting in the car-park. Interested individuals were given a pre-determined number of strikes, presumably to show their manliness/vent anger from a bad week at work (?), to damage the car as much as they can. There appeared to be no limit as to the number of times you could head to the back of the line after your turn. It was really very comical at times as you'd get these lanky and awkward teenagers/"men" attempting to wield a sledgehammer and attempt to partially destroy the car before them. The sledgehammer's shaft/next looked to be thicker than some of the guys' legs who stood up there trying to smash cars into oblivion.
I wish I had a camera and then you'd be able to see what sort of madness these people got up to but, alas, I forgot to bring it with me on the day. :(
Geek alert: I'm excited as this past weekend Blizzard Entertainment, one of the greatest games companies of all time, announced that Starcraft 2 was in development. No release date has been published but from what I've seen so far, it's pretty freakin' cool! =D It's been almost 10 years since the original game was released and it's about time they got to making the sequel! ;)
This is quite an interesting personality test. Do it and see what you get at the end!
Okay, so I've set up a new blog with Blogger.com and it was easier than I expected. It's touted as a powerful yet easy to use service and I'm really excited with what it can do. It'll be a while yet until I discover and use all the features and options at my disposal - w00t! It'll be a while before I convince myself to let go of my other blog but I'm sure it'll happen sooner or later. I could even have two blogs then now couldn't I? :o
