Miscellaneous

Bored

24 September, 2004
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Reading etc.

I know, I’m not allowed to be bored what with all you wage slaves out there struggling away to meet deadlines and me being idle while my baby sleeps. But I am bored. So there.Â And it’s raining.Â Am so bored that I have completed a number of ghastly tasks that have been looming over me for some time. I may even try to write a second paragraph of my book. You know, the one that lacks plot, characters and dialogue. All I need now is for my mother to come in and tell me that if I’m really that bored I can go and tidy my room.

Comments

belgianwaffleon 24 September 2004 at 15:40

Look, if you’re very lucky and I get a good reference from Heather (ha ha), you may be able to blogsit for me. Surely that’s better than any goody bag. By the by, the publishing exec informs me that MY goody bag is on its way and it is excellent.

NorahSplogon 24 September 2004 at 15:42

I have a solution; have you ever noticed that you’re never bored when you have some horrible task to do? What you must do is decide that you really ought to update your CV / paint the cellar / wash the car / polish the cutlery / read one of those books you bought because you really ought to read it. As soon as you’ve decided that’s what you ought to be doing you’ll suddenly find a plethora of little things to occupy yourself with for “just five minutes more before you get started”. Works for me.

dmtson 24 September 2004 at 15:43

I’ll talk to you later about the reference but first of all I want to have words with you about stealing my idea for the book wiht no plot, characters or dialogue – there’s only room for one of those at the time.
It’s really bad if you’ve vacuumed under things or behind things.

belgianwaffleon 24 September 2004 at 15:49

Norah, I’ve done all that. No really, it’s just ghastly, I’m contemplating going through my old electricity bills and throwing out ones that are more than 6 years old. Heather, I would love to Hoover but am terrified it would wake herself and her views on the hoover are overwhelmingly negative…actually, I suppose if I was really bored I could wake the Princess, you know, Norah, you’re right, there are a couple of bits and pieces I should see to like putting up that picture etc.
By the by Heather, I suspect that there probably is a market for our plotless, characterless, dialogueless books (TM). We are post-post-modern. I think that PPM books are also very short. Maybe a paragraph and a half?

Great constipation stories

17 September, 2004
Posted in: Miscellaneous

Check out the horrifying, toe-curlingly embarassing story on Dooce. Warning: this features what the author delicately calls “poop”…

Comments

adam_ball

on 18 September 2004 at 11:55

Hey what’s wrong with foreign toilets? Unless you mean those nasty older european ones with a waterless platform for you to deposit your sample on. I’m convinced they are there to stop men spending half an hour in the toliet. Who can sit there with the humm rising around you for longer than is absolutely necessary?

belgianwaffle

on 18 September 2004 at 14:19

What can I say lads, you’ll have to take it up with Dooce.

Friar Tuck

on 19 September 2004 at 00:46

How do you find these stories?! Do you google “poo” everyday? Come to think of it, that’s more exciting than what I do in my spare time.
I cannot relate to the foreign toilet problem either, although I was a little reluctant at first to use the old Italian-style hole in the floor that you squat over. I mean, how are you supposed to know if your aim is right?!

belgianwaffle

on 20 September 2004 at 10:34

No, you don’t need to if Dooce is one of your faves.

Dressing to impress

12 September, 2004
Posted in: Miscellaneous, Princess

Yesterday, the Princess and I passed a juggler on the street.Â I said “look sweetheart, a man with balls”. Hmm.

We went to a party last night. I had nothing to wear. No really. I knew I was in trouble when I hauled out my maternity party wear and my hockey skirt from the bottom of the wardrobe and seriously wondered whether I could wear any of these items.

Comments

silveretta

on 13 September 2004 at 15:21

Is that what passes for sex education in the Waffle household?

belgianwaffle

on 13 September 2004 at 16:09

Hmm. Interesting Jack. Yes, Silver.

RockStar Mommy

(Homepage)

on 14 September 2004 at 06:06

I actually wore one of my maternity shirts once way after I was pregnant because I had nothing else to wear and it looked really cute. You couldn’t even tell it was a maternity shirt though. I got so many compliments. Go figure.

Locotes

on 14 September 2004 at 11:58

With a comment like that, you would have been perfect as a Dodgeball cast member….

belgianwaffle

on 14 September 2004 at 15:10

RockStar Mommy, I have looked at your photo album and see where you are coming from. I am, alas, only an aspirant rockstar Mommy and none of my maternity wear is likely to inspire compliments. I am reconsidering the hockey skirt though, little pleated skirts are very in, this season. Locotes, what’s dodgeball?

Locotes

on 14 September 2004 at 16:29

Ahem. Dodgeball is a new movie comedy out with Ben Stiller. About the game dodgeball. Full of ‘ball’ related puns. Basic yet amusing. I’m sorry, I was far too modern with that comment – I’ll try and find a renaissance painter quip next time.
😉

jackdalton

on 14 September 2004 at 16:47

Hockey skirt, hockey skirt, hockey shirt….. and a photo of same, legs included, on the Princess Diary please. Before Locotes has to make one…

belgianwaffle

on 15 September 2004 at 21:25

Locotes, thank you. Await reference to Botticelli masterpiece. Jack, hockey skirt is too large for Princess, it trails around her ankles..

jackdalton

on 16 September 2004 at 15:11

That’s it then smarty pants… we’ll just have to make our own.
You have been warned…

belgianwaffle

on 17 September 2004 at 11:19

Interesting prospect, Jack.

Instant soup

11 July, 2004
Posted in: Miscellaneous

Yesterday the Princess and I went out for brunch. We ordered a tea, an orange juice, a pain au chocolat, a croissant, a boiled egg and a bowl of muesli and yoghurt.Â When the waitress arrived with our order, she looked at us and asked “Are you waiting for someone else?”Â Humph.

Yesterday afternoon we went to the Asian supermarket downtown.Â Very exciting altogether. We bought a jar of “instant Vietnamese sour soup”.Â Today was chilly and rainy (alas) and, with great pride, I produced it at lunchtime.Â Mr. Waffle looked on dubiously as I poured it into the saucepan.Â The illustration on the outside showed bits of fish and exotic vegetables floating in a clear broth. The stuff I poured into the saucepan had the colour and consistency of bovril accompanied by a remarkably pungent smell.Â It turns out that you add a dab of it to the other ingredients (not included) to make “instant Vietnamese sour soup”.Â This is not my definition of instant.

Comments

belgianwaffle

on 13 July 2004 at 16:10

OK, you’re somewhat ahead of me on the waffle front. I’m really only an amateur waffle.

Questions I never thought I’d ask

26 May, 2004
Posted in: Miscellaneous

We’re going to IKEA this afternoon, is there anything we need other than a nailbrush?

Comments

jackdaltonon 26 May 2004 at 23:59

So go on, tell us what you bought….
🙂

belgianwaffleon 27 May 2004 at 08:53

Bought nothing essentially (note the cunning use of the word essentially). And no am too tired to be a loofah person. And even though they have featured in my past, I have always felt that they were kind of useless. I mean, it’s not like your back gets particularly grubby.

Locoteson 27 May 2004 at 12:27

So ‘essentially’ is probably 6 different pieces of furniture – you’re well on your way to being the latest to turn their house into an IKEA shrine.
Can’t say I see the point in loofah’s myself – I’ve actually found them highly uncomfortable any time I’ve experimented – I like the skin on my back where it is thanks very much! Needless to say my back is highly ungrubby anyway…

belgianwaffleon 27 May 2004 at 20:06

Not 6 pieces of furniture, no…

jackdaltonon 27 May 2004 at 21:30

Not 6, no…. See, a natural cutehoor answer!!! Politicin’ is totally in the blood, even when you take the Corkonian out of her natural surroundings and implement an IKEA programme and hide the car keys… 😉
[Do you go much to central brussels by the way?]

belgianwaffleon 28 May 2004 at 08:22

No am staying out of the centre of town, it’s clearly dangerous and inimical to my key retaining strategy.

jackdaltonon 28 May 2004 at 10:27

Shame… wanter to offer to buy you a coffee next week. 🙁

belgianwaffleon 28 May 2004 at 12:17

Are you really in Bxls next week? Mild shame as I am in Dublin!

Locoteson 28 May 2004 at 17:45

Indeed a cagey answer. I’d be proud if it wasn’t being used to fob off a fellow Corkonian!I note as well that Mr. D is offering drinks to Mr. Waffle’s better half now – so even the bonds of marriage aren’t sacred to him!

jackdaltonon 28 May 2004 at 20:54

It would seem so… Wednesday over till Thursday afternoon / evening. Ah well, such is the way of the world…. maybe someother time.
And just for the record, Locotes, the coffee offer extends equally to MrW – blogsub extraordinaire. But the pink bear goes back into hibernation until some other opportunity presents…

belgianwaffleon 29 May 2004 at 14:53

Locotes, in the matter of rash extravagance, I have to fend off queries from all quarters. Jack, have conveyed news of the pink bear to the Princess and she is gutted. Alas, maybe next time?