Autumn evenings, when the temperature drops are my favourite. Cozying up on the couch in a hoodie and trackies, after shorts and t-shirt during the day is so comforting.
This coffee ain't doing it. And the tiredness will continue for a couple of days more. 7am flight to Sydney tomorrow, and another early-ish morning on Wednesday before coming home. Easter break will be for sleeping.
Haha. You know it sista. It's exactly what she said when she emerged from her cave, touched the fridge, opened the cupboard, probably touched all the spoons in the drawer and made a bowl of weeties. She'll go back and hibernate soon.
Oh boy I'm real tired. I had some stuff in my hand to throw in the bin and I walked to the laundry, lifted the laundry basket lid and ALMOST released before realising that a moment earlier I'd thought about picking up yesterday's tshirt and putting it in the laundry basket and that's how that all happened. I think I might make the effort to seek coffee this morning.
I won't respond to my ex's message, but boy do I want to. I just want to photos of our dog Ruby. My ex and I adopted her when she was 1; she'd be 10 or so now.
Sweet puppy, my beautiful bow-legged Barb. Gosh how I miss you so, my Ruby-Rhubarb.
Help I had interview today for job I turned down despite good effort to convince me but head overflowing with Thoughts and Realisations and felt wanted yet cautious of attention and now have other opportunity come up through contact that is also bringing up many emotions brain firing in many directions and thinking about all of life's questions at once in a calm yet monumentous manner wrote 3 pages in Word of thoughts and fears which is like whoaaa but also shiiit also had coffee at interview and then did 500 things after and have not eaten since yesterday oh fuck okay I better make some dinner and eat it asap ahhhhh.
Yes ma'am. I have partaken of a delicious broccoli and tuna pasta and written down many more Thoughts that have settled.
This has sort of been a therapy-breakthrough type of day, without the $200 price tag.
I've assembled enough angels to be able to call out all my career-related demons by name, and get both sides to look each other in the eye and shake hands. Sometimes they do look awfully alike... 🤔
(One of those angels is you, by the way! I won't forget your comments about being gentle with my reactions to things after what I went through with my last boss. This has given me a lot of clarity and calm)
So we keep a jug of water on the bench by the kettle and bottle maker. You're supposed to feed the bottle maker boiled water that has cooled, hence the jug. I was in the kitchen cooking lunch when I saw the cat jump on the bench and start drinking from the jug. Doing my best not to think of the greater implications of this.
I used to leave a glass of water on the coffee table for my kid when he was a toddler, until I caught the cat drinking out of it one day. Gawd knows how long that had been going on for.
So I've been steadily working out for 6 months after being taken out for the same amount of time prior to a shoulder injury. I'm starting to see results and this pleases me.
I wouldn't say my shoulder is 100% but it's fine provided I stay away from certain movements.
Partner and I had a laugh at my ex's message, discussed which Schitt's Creek gif to send as a reply. Opted for no reply, still.
It was a nonsense message, with no substance. Sent to satisfy their own selfish need for forgiveness and closure. It would have made for better content on r/unsentletters. Self-centred as always; the most hurtful thing I could do to them at this point is to not even acknowledge it.
My lift for the GP tomorrow fell through so I canceled. I’m not making it there under my own steam.
I’m scrubbing cat bowls while puddin rests and have ordered some paper bowls for her meals while I’m drowning. A different brand of flea drops is on the way to break the cycle (Nexgard Spectra) because apparently Advocate can be less effective in the last 2 weeks.
Tomorrow I probably sort an appointment with the regular vet for this week. I’m very likely going to have to get her there myself in a taxi which is exhausting but I’ll do my best.
I haven’t forgotten the orange cat. The poor little eyes. I’ll call the council when I can but don’t know if he’ll be there. When things are less fucked I might do an occasional recce and see if I can trick him into the carrier
Someone stole the air release valve from my new watering system and a gecko from under one of the bricks I was putting in the car to take to the tip is now in the.. car.
Faceplanted with the dishes still soaking, woke up to the breakfast and meds alarm. It's ok. I already put a bucket under the dripping sink pipe. I feel like I've been put in a sack and beaten by hammers
I’ve always avoided these sort of things because of the terrifying quantity of packaging a friend showed me was involved in one she tried. Single apples do not need a nest thing and a vac bag!!
I tried them some years ago. Meal was perfectly fine but agree there’s so much packaging, and didn’t really save any kitchen time. I think it’s main benefit would be to take away the mental load of planning meals. Personally if I need convenience I prefer to grab one of those premade meals from supermarket like a youfoodz. They aren’t brilliant but are healthier than takeaway. Gets the job done when no time to cook.
yeah, when I can't be bothered thinking about what to eat, a bag of salad and a bit of protein (whatever I feel like at the time) takes no time to cook, is cheap and healthy.
not sure- never done either, as I tend to trip chain and just walk through the supermarket each day as I come home from work/the beach/wherever (if I need any food)
I went off to Coles because I've been sugar deprived and wanted some Malteser bunnies. Saw a young chick stacking the Easter shit and she asked me what I wanted and I told her and she picked a bag and I said "oh no not the kitkat they're shit. All I see is a sea of purple". I swear it just flew out. I thanked her and walked away then it dawned on me that perhaps she was a Cadbury rep and that's why she was wearing purple. Oops.
Anyway "WHERE THE FUCK ARE MY MALTESER BUNNIES COLES? I ASK 3 DIFFERENT PEOPLE AND THEY SENT ME TO THE PURPLE. SOMEONE WILL GET HURT".
I've made the switch from Spotify Premium and have finally taken YouTube up on its offer of a free 2 month trial of YouTube Music which comes with YouTube Premium. I was already blocking YouTube ads on my PC but it's nice to not have ads on my phone too.
Not 100% sold yet on YouTube Music but I haven't really put it through its paces. I've only played some of the curated playlists. I was concerned about the lower audio quality than Spotify but experts online swear that YouTube Music do some magic to make it sound as good if not better so here I am, trying it out. Quality sounds pretty good to me so far too.
I've been using it for over 10 years. I actually much prefer the old Play Music service that Youtube Music replaced. No ads in Youtube is as important as the music service itself to me, now.
It's been my music streaming service of choice for several years after moving over from Spotify.
But I'm starting to move back to physical/owned media because of the way YouTube interprets COPA.
You can't save music to a custom playlist if it's "for children", you can't play it in the mini player.
I'm a teacher, making curated playlists with children's music is important for me, as I imagine it's equally important for parents who want to put all their skills kids favourite songs in a private family playlist to keep car rides sane. It's baffling that YouTube won't let me do this.
And because my algorithm is so fucked up if I start a "radio" from something like Aladdin or the Lion King (you know, show tunes that are appropriate for kids) it will start playing Beetlejuice right afterwards, because I listen to that album in my own free time, and the algorithm recognises them both as soundtracks, and doesn't understand how that might not be appropriate for me to have as background music in my classroom.
I've set up a children's profile to avoid this radio issue, but then it limits music that is children appropriate but not marketed as such, songs like the Carpenters "Sing" or even Beetles here comes the sun, are "not for kids" so I can't play them on a kids profile.
I finally saw another car the same as my own on my way to the supermarket! As in the exact same model (50 year anniversary model which only comes in 1 colour which is unique to that model). I beeped at it. Twinsies!
About mummers ( medieval travelling actors) . If your name is King, Knight or Priest or some other title or religious title you probably had an ancestor who was a mummer who had that role in Passion Plays. I think I had an ancestor who played such a dramatic role.
😂 . So you have Matt Damon as Bilbo. Christian Bale as Thorin. That Henry Ford guy as Gandalf. The VP snide marketing guy as Saruman. Lee Iacocca is Balin . Ferrari/Agnelli is smaug and the win is the stone. Racing is war, Ford even calls it war. The race team are the dwarves.
If my garden is rockery style with large rocks, fifty spiky grass bush things and kangaroo paw, cornflowers etc really aren’t gonna mesh in there are they? But the house has formal hedges ….
I have a formal hedge that I love creating chaos behind with lots of colour and texture, different heights and intersting plants. Like the hedge is holding it in from exploding and painting the world.
In other words, plant your cornflowers. All the colours you can find!
Yeah, it's an odd measurement. I mainly care because it means we're superior to tassieburgers :)
Seriously though, it's meant to measure things like poverty, literacy, unemployment, the things usually deemed essential in western societies. The worldwide chart seems to list the US quite high up though, so I'm not sure it really reflects anything besides "how well developed are rich people in western countries" vs "how undeveloped are the poorest people in the poorest countries"
Anyone got a good removalist they can recommend, please? I don't need it for the whole house, just some of the heavier things. South East burbs, if that helps!
We used Andy from here to move my Mum's heavier things a few years ago. We usually move everything ourselves, but after you've hit 40, it's time for the pros to do the heavy lifting.
I was so tired earlier that I just realised that I called my bathroom the laundry in my little story about being tired. I guess it's kind of both.. in a way.. the laundry is literally a cupboard in the bathroom.