My Mum is Australia's Top Chef.

Australia just doesn't know it.  Seriously, she made these pork balls and they are SO GOOD.

They're all covered in sesame and they have Chinese 5 spice, they're pretty uncomplicated but they're so delightful.  The spices do a little dance with the pork on the tongue, and the sesame and the lovely slightly grainy and crunchy outside gives it that yummy satisfying texture.  And you have a little plum sauce with it, and it adds this sweet dimension that makes the pork SING.  So. Fucking. GOOD, YO.

Awww yeah.

I stumbled upon a cache of pictures of Yul Brynner naked.

WHO WANTS TO SEE 'EM!?  ROFLMAO!!

Today I get shit DONE.

Or started.

Things I managed to do today:

- Went and saw my psych.
- Had a shower.
- Bought a canvas for a new commission, paint for old commissions, and some bits and bobs for the cards.
- Bought wood for the awesome painting I'm doing for Swancon next year.

Things I want to get done from here on in:

- Draw some cartoon sketches and scan them in for Christmas cards.  I'm open to suggestions!
- Get a haircut.

I think that's all I can manage to do today.  Maybe if I lie down a while until my brother and his friend get here, I'll get more done.

Kick me in the tits, why don't you?

Okay, so I'm all excited about my laptop working, right?  Right.

No, wrong.

I just realised, like, two seconds ago, that my damned fan isn't working.  This is why my laptop is overheating in a major way.  I missed it because I habitually use a laptop cooling pad. 

I hate, hate, hate to think how much this'll cost for me to fix.  I really, really do.  If I continue to use the laptop without fixing the fan, it'll melt down.  I'm out of warranty.  I wish I could just fix it myself.  :( 

I'm absolutely and utterly pissed off right now.  SO MAD.  I laid down good bucks for this laptop.   A YEAR mofos.  A SINGLE YEAR.