things i would post to lxy & jergins' board if i could

it's mystifyingly terrible, how do they muck it up so badly.

ruby, i solemnly promise i will never send you any cadbury white chocolate.

bag of pineapple lumps

gimme?

actually probably not, i'm not even that into candy, but 'pineapple lumps' seem enticing

xps yeah only whittaker's and nestle do good white choc. kind of feel bad for my mum since she spent so much sending it.

mookie, facebook yr address or ilxmail and i'll send you the pineapple lump bar!!! it will be a delight to your senses

the pineapple lumps are great! mookie, if you don't like them i will be sad.

happy 12, my darling sadboxers.

mookieproof, cheers. you've no idea how lucky you are to be the recipient of nz lollies from a nzsb. candy has nearly torn this board apart in the past. we're a bunch of candy gobblers and hoarders so ruby's speed-mailing is quite remarkable.

speaking of hoarding, i still have a box of jaffas and two bags of bullets hidden in my dresser drawer. please don't tell jergins, though.

<3 you all.

Mooks and tza got lucky bc I had about 6 other v v delayed xmas parcels I had to send. Oh and I made ytth go to the post office for me while I got a manicure.

pvmic!

sandbox husbands are saints is what i believe

hi my darlings i've missed you!

i love rotters<3

i just made a batch of anzac biscuits, but with pecans and chocolate chips! and not really biscuits but instead one HUUUUUUUGE biscuit! i made it especially for my dearest bc he gets home from a horrible work trip tomorrow, but probably i will eat like 75% of it tonight.

aw ruby, aw ytth, aw anzac non-biscuits! <3 you all!!!

<3 ruby, the last time i made oatmeal raisin cookies f. ate 1 and i ate 35.

anzacs with pecans and chocolate chips sound great! i always think they should have raisins in them, but they are a wartime shortages recipe so they are short on fripperies. also they had to keep for months because they were sent to the soldiers overseas by people who were good at baking things and then not eating them themselves but taking them to the post office and mailing them, fine upstanding anzac women of yesteryear whom i do not take after.

i don't like the anzac biscuits that you get in australia, they're not as good for some reason. they don't have the edmonds cookbook je ne sais quoi about them.

maybe the golden syrup here is a bit wrong.

we loved the anzacs ruby brought us. then we bought a package at grocery outlet and they were bad as cookies go but good as crackers go. i ate them with cheese.

store-bought anzacs are so inferior! they have them in nz too.

chocolate and pecans are SO FREAKING GOOD in them! also, i've stopped making them as cookies and now i just press the dough out into a baking pan - so much easier.

i only ate ONE last night, and ONE today, i am such a good thing!!!!!!

p.s. raisins have no place in anzacs, estela!!!!!!!!!!!!

lol, i had a feeling you would disapprove.

it's just that i love oatmeal raisin cookies more than any other cookies.

OMG

i have been desperately trying to sandbox via the old sandbox url (silly me didn't think the beta one would still be in play) and missing you all so very much (except for the week i was on vacation).

hiiii <3

i think stet said they all should work now. but since you're reading this, you already know how to get here so....

i am making coffee. soon i will be sitting here drinking it.

Sorry tza I forgot about ilxor.com/sandbox - have fixed that now.

it's ok, i was silly for not checking beta. you are the best, stet <3

hi my darlings i STILL miss you

what is up?

i won a hit-and-run trial this morning in the weirdest way and i can't understand it still. i am tired enough to go to bed now. it's 8:35.

well done.

guyz it's been the rainiest rain week in a lifetime of rainy weeks

More to come, I think! There is a tiny river in our basement.

same here!!

love it tbh

Our rain has been pretty noncommittal at best.

Also, wmatasux.

aw <3

i discovered some austrian schoko-bananen and i am wondering if they are anything like the legendary perky nanas i've always wanted to try.
http://produkte.schlecker.com/media/articleImages/Casali-Schoko-Bananen-1058679001.jpg

even if not, they are pretty delicious. i think this bodes well for my voyage to salzburg.

legendary perky nanas

the thing about perky nanas is that they don't actually taste like fake-banana flavour at all - it's a sort of a tangy sweet taste, more like pineapple

i always feel guilty when nz candy gets discussed.

A------------B-------------C

i was explaining to lxy that A is where the nz candy is sold and B is my house and C is the post office and that's why there's always so much trouble with me eating all the profits instead of posting them, it would work better if things were arranged:

AC-----------B

or if i left A with a stash of candy and drove resolutely past B and went straight to C and poured it into a mailing box and sent it off and then went back to B with a virtuous heart and maybe a spare bag of pineapple lumps and a couple of toffee milk bars that i had rescued from the box at the last second.

it's a shame they don't have a post office counter right in the candy store

i should buy a mailing box and address it and take it to the candy store and fill it and get the nice young nz girl who works at the candy store to tape it up and then make me drive me to the post office at gunpoint.

my boss just got back from nz today and brought me
mallowpuffs
hokey pokey squiggles
milk chocolate wheatens
dark chocolate wheatens

that's a good haul. i especially love mallowpuffs. also, i haven't tried them yet but when i was in nz i saw a mallowpuff & toffee pop collision that looked very promising.

oh yes my mum sent me a toffee pop/squiggle collision that was delicious!!

a giant raccoon just came leaping around the corner of the house! and then foraged around the yard for a little while. pretty cute and also pretty badass.

a couple weeks ago i surprised a cute pair of raccoons when i went out for a cig - the stopped on the fence and kind of huddled together and stared at me for a bit. SO ADORABLE.

i am watching THE KILLING which is set in seattle, and this along with my all-time favourite show GREY'S ANATOMY, would - if i had not experienced the opposite in person - leave me to believe that seattle is ONLY ever grey, rainy and dim.

when i went to seattle i got slightly sunburned.

scandalous.

when you come to new york i shall steadfastly shield you from the northern sun's cruel rays. for a beer or two, i mean.

aw, it's a deal.