I haven't done any in a while. Just spent too much time sick in bed this year, at least 4 months 😔, and the rest of the year was doing big house cleaning and sorting
You gotta stop giving those drug dealers an upfront payment before getting the goods. Especially if they tell you to desposit it via cashapp or PayPal lol.
Always cash when buying, and no pre-payment lol
Nah jokes aside that's fucked up! Like wtf? And the fact they did it on the weekend when they aren't open is evil. There isn't an after hours number you could call? Or something you could do via the online portal? Idk I'm sorry
Joking aside, you seem really cool and the kinda person I'd wanna hang out with and so you've more than got this mate! If they're obnoxious though then please do share the goss ❤️
Ahahaha thank you! I don’t think we’ll date because of circumstances. But definitely friends and I am very happy about that. Most importantly we had a great time!
It really is so soothing. I think the neighbours playing the classical music might be the two Melbourne famous musicians who live in my building. The lady is a composer and conductor for an orchestra, and the bloke is a semi-well-known jazz sax player. They are so cultured 😭 I'm intimidated lol but they're extremely down to earth and lovely people tbh
Nice work!!! Better than not doing them at all!! 3 pull-ups are hard! I can't even do one lol Very proud of you!! And you should be very proud of yourself too! 💜
Yeah, but you’re juggling some manner of complicated health issue - I do not know what, and I’m not going to ask because that’s your business, but you’re very open about the notion that your health is complex.
The benchmarks might be in different places for you
Strong! I couldn't do one now but I went from 0 to 12 in about 9 months a few years back. I know how hard it is! Keep at at it 💪💪💪
Edit: don't mean to one up you. The first one is the hardest, if you're at three now it's going to be easier from here to build.
Second breakfast was a success. Met with friend/colleague from last job and sat in a cafe playing chess for two hours. Won 2/2 games which is rare, she's better than me, and the second game was an absolute epic. No blunders, really long and spicy end game. Lots of fun!
Second batch of soap (the one I messed up and had to re-cook) is now out of the moulds and looking good. Now I just have to wait a couple of months for drying.
Took the Minipeelers out for an ice-cream and walked along the local creek. It's a windy, polleny kind of day but it wasn't unpleasant, not along the creek path anyway. Cut some of a plant outside that had keeled over for some reason. Did a couple of loads of washing and cleaned the bathroom. Am procrastinating on the kitchen.
Feeling a lot better thankyou! Just keeping up with the cortisone and calmoseptine and the rash has almost completely disappeared on my arms. How's your day going?
Good lord now things are warming up again my m. deliciosa is cooking up a new leaf. This thing is already nearly touching the ceiling. If I stop shitposting on here it's because it has claimed me as fertiliser.
Went for a walk down at Point Nepean and checked out some of the old structures. Fascinating stuff. So bloody thankful to live here! Now time for some drinks, music and chilling out!
Drove all the way to Preston to fill up at the last servo still doing 169/L (forgot I gotta drive to Ballarat tomorrow). Saved $7 compared to the other joints at 189, probably worth it as it would've only been about 50c extra of petrol. Dropped off some insanely overdue library books. Worked out how to undo the key lock I had my spare keys in. Laundry done. Now time to make a brunch of spinach, scrambled eggs, smoked salmon and toast.
Next up, grab some boxes and sort out empty jars (colleague has offered to take em all) and expired/unlikely to be used food in pantry. Might use up some of the pantry stuff to take tomorrow, maybe a big batch of BBQ jackfruit. E: nope it's going to be rice and curry, so jackfruit curry it is. And toor dal with spinach.
Ouchhhh. I haven't had to think about petrol regularly for quite a while (work car, then rarely needing to commute for work) and forget about the bloody PH price bump... Hope where you're going to will be worth the petrol tho!
Saturday morning insight into the weirdness that is my brain:
Dream recollection #1: being unable to breathe (scary, I have a feeling of being somewhat aware that I was dreaming but couldn’t quite wake myself up).
Dream recollection #2: randomly eating a piece of 5 day old bread.
It's self care. It's okay to have leisure time, in fact it's normal and human and healthy. Do your best to quell those self sabotaging thoughts and enjoy! You're allowed to enjoy things guilt-free, but if you require permission then it is granted 😂
I think you’ve just got to come to terms with that it’s not a waste of time and just gradually change your viewpoint on things.
You’re having some recreational time to yourself, would you feel any different if you read a book, listened to a podcast, movie or watched tv or did something socially?
I often feel like I'm "not allowed" to do nothing, especially when there is housework or similar I "should" be doing. I feel enormous guilt at the "wasted time," even though it's actually really important. My parents especially would have frowned at the periodic inactivity, but they aren't living my life.
In an exciting start to the morning I have done some more updates to my budget spreadsheet. I have now mastered the use of TRUNC, ROUNDUP and EVEN functions. Hopefully my pay calculations will now match my actual payslips without rounding errors.
I think I lucked out either environmentally or genetically. I always feel so awkward when allergies pop up in convos.
The old man (who's a sub specialist doc) says "that's because i didn't care when you were crawling through the garden or dog shit as a kid". I mean thanks but maybe it worked.
Me too. I don't fully understand the grief people go through over allergies, as I don't have any myself. I too credit my lax (by current standards) parents who turned us kids out of doors a lot so long as we stayed in a pack. Also many childhood pets, cleaning with soap and water only (no anti-bacterial shit). And home cooking by Mum, a survivor of the Great Depression and rabidly anti-waste of good food. Tea yes, but no coffee or lolly water for us kids either.
The brain is a ruminant,
Though only when the sun sets,
Reclaim the ruins and the remnants,
The river mouth regurgitates
Riddles from the red-raw years,
Rhymes to ride the tide of tears,
Resolute in the face of fears.
Re-masticate the reveries,
Feel them flow forth freely
Between the gaps and synapse.
A lapse of judgement partly
Resides within the wraps,
The wrinkles, and the folds
Of the grey matter maps;
Memories unresolved, retold.
drainage. Our land slopes, the previous owners put in a brick retaining wall for a level garden bed. It had zero drainage, so was essentially a bathtub. The pipe is socked 65mm AGI, the arms slope down to the centre line, except the last one that the centre slopes into, and then goes out a drilled hole that will hook into further drainage. Finish gravelling over the pipe, fold the geotextile over like a fat sausage, kick the dirt back and then later putting in decorative dividers that will mimic what used to be a pile of concrete and brick bed dividers I painstakingly dug out.
Ended up making a shit tonne of food, in addition to the dal and the slow cooked jackfruit, made a massive broccoli and pea and cashew curry that is bloody delicious if I say so myself. Not much progress with the jars and haven't started pantry cull yet. But I don't mind because I have momentum and a plan... and had a few nice family chats today so that was worth it.
Downside is I've picked up a nasty headache out of nowhere this arvo. I'm going to dish out this food, chuck everything in the dishwasher (I will fucking miss this dishwasher), finish the leftovers and call it a day. Gotta love winding down to Fresh Produce on PBS
Thanks. Had some Nurofen earlier which did nothing. I am gonna have some again, plus extra water as I think I'm dehydrated. I suspect it'll be better once I wake up. Feels like it was a reaction to something. So tired! I'm going to take it easy when I get back tomorrow.
Your food sounds awesome! Sometimes I get a mid afternoon headache from standing at a prep bench all day. It's something to do with the angle of your neck. I hope you feel better soon!
Oh, I hadn't thought about neck angle at all! That's something to keep in mind. I'm really glad to read that you're feeling better too despite the Dr being unhelpful the other day. Here's to a restful and healing night for us both.
It said there was stock online. I've been checking stock levels and it wouldn't let me buy it until now because it was out of stock. Something must have changed on the backend of their website
I know I'll probably get a refund but I'd like to think someone at dispatch for Kmart is now going on a Jingle All The Way style quest to find me a copy of this book