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Tonight I made the microwave caramel (dulce de leche)

http://www.kitchenbutterfly.com/2010/02/11/dulce-de-leche-a-la-microwave/

ready to make the Caramel Fudge Brownies tomorrow:

http://www.bestrecipes.com.au/recipe/Caramel-Fudge-Brownies-L12575.html

with added macadamias - because I can, so there!

Back in February we rescued two female Rex cats, a 5yo Cornish named Tango and a 5.5yo Devon named Jini. They were raised together and had been part of a house of 11 cats. Divorce and loss of house ensued and they were thrown on the mercy of the public. After 3 months a (relatively) local organisation called Rex Rescue advertised them on their fb page. As we were looking for Rexes in particular we adopted them and they have settled in quite well.

As I mentioned in my previous pos, our problem has just arrived at the house. She is a 10yo Cornish Rex named Sheba who we got from Rex Rescue on Tuesday. She is a little toey with other cats and I was wondering if any of you had any tips for integrating another cat into a household. Our previous boys (passed from old age two years ago) were acquired as kittens so we've never really done the 'adult cats don't like each other' thing before.

Do you, my flist, have any words of wisdom ('cause your words tend to have that quality) to help the blended household? I'd really appreciate any insights anyone might have.

I'm in the process of importing my journal entries to my DW account and adding as many of you as I can find to my circle. If you're on DW and cross-posting here I will probably be de-friending you here on LJ to avoid double-ups. If you're on DW and I haven't added you to my circle yet, drop me a line so we can connect.

A poem for my husband. With appropriate thanks to Richard Marx for the lyrics, adapted for our story (apologies for the messed-up metre):

Whenever I'm weary from the battles that rage in my head
You make sense of madness when my sanity hangs by a thread
I lose my way but still you always understand
Now and forever you will be my man

Sometimes I just hold you too caught up in me to see
I'm holding a treasure that Fortune has given to me
I'll try to show you each and every way I can
Now and forever you will be my man

Love, I can rest my worries and always be sure
That I won't be alone evermore
I'm so glad that I've known you were there all the time, all this time

Until the day the ocean doesn't touch the sand
Now and forever you will be my man

John. I love you.

A couple of things that have crossed my radar this week that I thought needed wider dissemination:

http://jimhines.livejournal.com/606980.html#comments

and

http://thecurrentconscience.com/blog/2011/09/12/a-message-to-women-from-a-man-you-are-not-%E2%80%9Ccrazy%E2%80%9D/

although the comments in the second one do degenerate into a bit of name-calling.

John is away down the coast with our friend John. They seem to be doing a heap of walking on the beach with the dogs, drinking whisky and watching war movies.

We here at home are sitting kniiting in armchairs with cats on our laps, drinking sloe gin and tokay (not together - eeek!) and watching movies with hot actors - Jeremy Northam, Kenneth Branagh, Mathew MacFadyen, Toby Stephens, Colin Firth.

Wonder who is having more fun?

Off to the hospital tonight for my sleep study.

That'll be fun!!!!!

The glasses are great for the reading, laptop and knitting. But I can't see my twin monitors with them - or without my normal glasses.

Well it's back to the drawing board. Or the optometrist. For bifocals after all.

B*gger!

Have finally bitten the bullet and ordered myself some reading/computer/knitting glasses. Not bifocals or multifocals, just single vision lenses. I thought it through and decided it would be easier, especially with the twin-screen computer work. Pick them up next Friday.

http://www.etsy.com/shop/popsoupsupplies

The two on the right hand end of the top row are right up my alley! They are just begging to be made into the two sides of a knitting bag. I can adapt a cross-stitch chart to a knitting chart, I'm sure.