Just saw you on here and it occurs to me you're a tattooist.

I am currently going through a fair amount of the preparatory stages for a tattoo and would like to pick you brains if it's not too much trouble.

Do you have an email address I could hit you up on?

If my calculations are correct it's the 20th in Alaska now and this guy wanted to wish you happy birthday:

OK, I'm sure no one is on at the moment but I'll probably bump this in the morning because I could probably do with the advice.

My middle sister's 21st birthday is about three weeks away and given that she's currently a poor Uni student and a lot of her friends are going to travel about 300kms (185M) to be there I've offered to take care of catering for the thing.

In short I'll be taking care of a barbecue for dinner serving something like 20 people and breakfast (probably more likely brunch) for around ten.

At the moment my plan is as follows:

Dinner

honey soy chicken wings
barbecue pork ribs
shish (lamb) kebabs with a lemon and rosemary marinade
beef bulgogi
avocado and mango salad with passion fruit vinaigrette
Greek salad
either coleslaw or a potato salad (if the latter probably new potatoes with a mint and parsley dressing)

I'll also barbecue some onion, potato disks (if I don't do a potato salad) and maybe some sausages. I'll probably serve some kind of hot flat bread too.

Breakfast

Given the number of people I think I'll probably barbecue again, I'm thinking:

bacon
chorizo
eggs
tomato
mushroom
spinach
hash browns
chicken (maybe)

I'll accompany it with orange juice, coffee and (for the kids who aren't driving) champagne. If I'm feeling particularly adventurous I'll do some fruit salad.

Any thoughts? Do you have any ideas about how I can improve this? Wicked barbecue type recipes you can send my way? Is there anything I've overlooked?

Thanks in anticipation.

Does this look about right?

Ingredients:

* 2 cups all-purpose flour
* 1 tsp baking powder
* 1/2 tsp baking soda
* 1/2 tsp salt
* 1 cup sugar
* 1 large egg, lightly beaten
* 1/4 cup canola oil
* 2/3 cup orange juice
* 2 tsp grated orange zest
* 2 cups fresh cranberries, chopped

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 400 degrees. Line muffin pan with paper muffin cups. In a large bowl, combine flour, baking powder, baking soda, salt and sugar. Combine with a whisk. In a small bowl, add beaten egg, oil, orange juice and zest. Stir well. Make a well in the flour mixture and add wet ingredients. Stir until just moist, being careful not to overmix. Fold in chopped cranberries. Spoon batter into prepared muffin pan. Bake for 16-18 minutes, until muffins are golden and spring back when touched.

Makes 12 muffins.

Per Muffin: Calories 204, Calories from Fat 47, Total Fat 5.1g (sat 0.4g), Cholesterol 18mg, Sodium 196mg, Carbohydrate 36.4g, Fiber 1.4g, Protein 2.9g

Apparently today is your birthday.

I ran into this meme last night on facebook but given that I never know who to tag on that thing and I'm taking a quick break from bashing my skull against the TEC I thought I'd repost mine here so anyone can play.



To play:

1 - Go to "wikipedia."
Hit “random” or click http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first random wikipedia article you get is the name of your band.

2 - Go to "Random quotations"
or click http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four or five words of the very last quote of the page is the title of your first album.

3 - Go to flickr and click on “explore the last seven days”
or click http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days
Third picture, no matter what it is, will be your album cover.

4 - Use photoshop or similar to put it all together.

And yeah, I know I used 7 words, sue me.

Can you tell me how it is?

Kthanx.

It's been your birthday here for a while and I figure it is there too now and so I thought I'd take the opportunity to give you a cake.



But the cake guy messed up the spelling.

Hope your day is ace.

So your birthday is almost over here but I figure it'll be starting around now in the US.

I suck at baking so I made you these.



And got you some flaming drinks.



And a monkey to sing happy birthday (don't ask).

I've been trying to update my other blog but I'm having some problems.

I've opened your parcel and you're the most awesome santa ever.

Hopefully I can sort things out and update my other blog tonight.

Thanks heaps.

Big Hugs