Only a few days until Adam comes home. First vet visit all booked in, and have bought all sorts of supplies. Mostly marketplace so I've saved a fortune.
Geez that legit reminds me of a nightmare I had this morning. I can't handle spooky anymore. Even "Invasion of the Blue Lights" freaks me out to think about. Having said that, the artwork is really fantastic.
e: I am reliving my late teen 70s prog rock obsession and rediscovering how unbelievable Yes was (RIP Chris Squire the most insane bassist ever).
e2, 3:42am: we have now moved to Jean-Michel Jarré. Garlic powder is a game changer in cheese toasties BTW. Also this decaf tea is pretty awesome. I feel awake but not hyper. Calm, even. I could go to sleep on it if I wanted to but it's also keeping me awake
e3, 5:54am: looks like it'll be a rare true all nighter. And also, I have vastly underquoted for this project.
e4, 6:24am: fuckit, that's the best I can get through right now, a damn good set of data and maps that was crafted through an absolute mess. Time to get a few hours sleep before the psych appt.
I'm so sick of owners/directors/managers who make a workplace toxic. I work with really good people but I don't think I can work for the owner of the business I work for anymore. Pre-covid I had the fortune of working for two employers who took workplace culture very seriously and made sure that work was a positive, welcoming and supportive environment. Including my current role I'm now two for two on toxic workplaces. I'm really sad because I thought I had finally found my people, but my boss is awful and conniving and doesn't care if I'm thrown under the bus. I know the future will be fine, but it just sucks right now. The job hunt begins...
Falling asleep at the computer but I have a very hard deadline of 9am tomorrow to get this thing out. Drawing on those last reserves of self belief and confidence to trick myself out of how pointless this is and that in fact I am awesome at being succinct and presenting data in an elegant and concise manner. I've broken out the emergency matcha Quadratinis from overseas.
e: in happier news my shakti mat should now be arriving by Thursday or Friday. Come sooooon 🥺 🙏
I refuse to let this Monday get me down as it’s persistently trying to. The Sun is shining warm and bright. Friends if you can go outside for at least 15 mins, get your dose of Vitamin D. Shine on and hope the rest of your Monday turns out better! ☀️
Thanks I’m heading home now. Got frustrated because I had one final thing that tried to mess me up and at first my mood was that’s it i’m going home, digging a hole and getting in. But on the way home, my mood changed and now I’m going home and chill with a tv series I’m almost finished
Awww yeh!! At home i have your typical above stove cupboard with 2 shelves that is completely full, 2 deep on each shelf. I then have an entire basket under my butchers block full of spices and another full of sauces haha
My faves are mountain pepper and saltbush currently. I also have a ginger berry and Riberry plant growing at the moment but neither have fruited yet but im excited to try them when they do
Rest day from exercises today but tummy exercises completed. T-shirts look different now, look strangely stretched like I just pulled the pillow out from there!
Nice. I have my own version of All in Brawl in the oven now - it took longer to make than I planned for, so it is going to be a late dinner. I also made more than I was expecting, so will have lots of extra servings. Hopefully my version works as well as yours.
Uhhh like I like you, you have some good ideas, I’m not a hater but…. That sardine sushi, their comments were right hugs you’re a top person I swear especially the micro tatoes
I went outside to have a quick look at whether the beetroot seeds I planted had sprouted, and ended up doing 45 minutes of weeding. It's beautiful out there.
Do you ever make something and think oh this is pretty healthy? Oh no wait except for the shitload of bacon and the extra extra extra cheese I put in. Anyway I made a vegetable frittata bake quiche pie thing. I'll come up with a better name.
My dinner for later
Image of a dish of vegetables baked under cheese. I have renamed it "The all in brawl" due to the amount of vegies in there fighting each other.
Its funny looking at recipes online sometimes and they look tasty and they have a few serves of veg so look healhtyish etc, but then they have a creamy sauce or something and butter and pasta/bread and they end up being 800+ calories per serve
That sounds a lot what I am planning to make today. If you come up with a good name let me know. I've been going with a working title of zucchini/potato/egg bake thing.
The nicest sardines I have ever eaten came from Western Australia, and had a sprig of lemon myrtle included in the tin. They were blissful. I really like that flavour.
Young Miss Seagoon used to have a cat that would stick her head in people's boots. So to subdue her for brushing we placed a shoe nearby, she'd stick her head in it, then we'd brush.
yikes. Person hit by train near North Melbourne station, Sunbury, Werribee and Williamstown trains are being replaces by buses with about a ~60 minute wait. Glad I decided to stay home tonight
Every now and then, I take the time to unsubscribe to the shit that lands in my junk mail because IDK, procrastination. However, I find the more I do that, the more things pop up that I was never seeing. Like, I'm suddenly getting spam from a store I visited in another country 8 years ago and I'm reasonably sure it isn't new that they're sending out marketing emails.
Anyway. I'm currently avoiding the fuck out of some tasks that I really need to do, which is making me grumpy because if I would just do them, it would be a weight off my shoulders. But instead, I'm avoiding them and creating a Grumpy Loop. Oy, Monday.
Any business that doesn’t respect my unsubscribe request just goes on the junk/blocked list. If I say I’m not interested in your spam, I’m not interested in your spam.
I just watched a HBO doc series on obesity . The scientists and doctors talk about all the changes in society that have caused this new epidemic. They describe our food environment as hostile!! The food we buy now is different to what was sold 30 years ago, it's much higher in calories.
Watching the series of course led to self reflection. I'm over weight, about 15-20 kg overweight. So how did I get this way. I grew up eating very little junk food. We never ate out, treats were rare, snacks were generally healthy.
I pretty much do the same. I rarely eat out, cook healthy meals at home. So little junk food. I do get lollies sometimes. ( I used to buy treats at least once a week ) I bake a cake once a month. I do like creamy yoghurt , have it once a week. I think I eat too big portions, and that is something the documentary talked about too.
Just for the record I have never been to kfc, to subway, to hungry jacks, to pizza chains, haven't been to maccas in a decade and then it was just to get an icecream, no taco bell, I've never had a hsp or bahn mi. Local fish and chip shop once a month and I wouldn't over eat.
Yet I'm fat. I've cut down portion size a lot, say no more often, I don't buy trouble. Hope I lose weight.
Obesity rates are climbing in all western countries. Hostile food environment is a good way to describe it. People are told to blame themselves, eat less exercise more, but our environments are not conducive to it. I read somewhere that our microbiomes have changed and that could be a contributor. I don’t think people 50 years ago had more will power, and plenty of people had sedentary jobs back then too. Who knows.
exactly, and when I look at how I live, I do a lot of walking, I generally eat healthy , I'm still fat. I make so few mistakes yet the consequences are severe.
A while ago I watched a doco with the UK twin doctors Xander and Chris. One ate sugar/carbs the other fats for a month. Neither of them put on weight. They start talking to scientists who said that it's only when the two are combined that the mice put on weight. Think chocolate, icecream, doughnuts etc.
But then past me ate more of those things and I am still paying the price.
My point is my diet was mostly good. It was just a few treats a week ( I might get 2 donuts from qvm or some lollies each week or have a few icecreams )
with even so few mistakes over the years I still put on a lot of weight.
all my grandparents were thin/normal. My parent's generation and the generation after that are fat. Could be that my parents grew up in a war induced famine. That messes you up .
It's probably one of my weird little things, but when ever I watch anything set in the 1930s I always get a little sad knowing they have no idea how the whole world is about change.
It's my Saturday and I know I should get out of the house but I really don't want to. Being back in the office for shift work just makes me want to spend my weekends in bed, which is just not healthy.
I was too busy stuffing my face to take a picture, but breakfast this morning was supurb. Waffles, caramelized pears and thick greek yoghurt. As a bonus there are six more waffles to go in the freezer for later.
Morning dog walk has been completed. The food cupboard yielded some zucchini noodles and potatoes, so I am going to do a zucchini/potato/egg bake, and an experimental zucchini pickle.
What could I have had,
If I was dealt a different hand
What could I have been
If I played them differently
Between the starlight and the sea
Rolling waves crashing over me
Tossed around endlessly
What could I have had
If I spent my life working hard
What could I have been
If I was someone different completely
Love me or leave me
It makes no difference to me
This is who I am now
Between the starlight and the sea
Turn that frown upside down friend. You might not have any pasta for work tomorrow. But just think that food tasted so damn good you couldn’t help yourself. Next time maybe cook double the pasta (literally just the pasta) so you can eat your fill and have left overs. I’m always happy if I can finish my food all in one go. You’ll just have to find something else for lunch tomorrow. That’s ok
Double brick buildings are great until you need to install anything that needs wiring or conduits outside the building. Then it's a total cunt and very expensive.
Online Orders 1 Week Delivery Challenge update: order 1 of 4 has arrived today. Off to a good start!
New Ray-Bans from Myer (via Sunglass Hut apparently) have arrived. My existing ones, which are exactly the same, have gotten so manky from years of use that I forgot how nice they used to feel/look. I think the thing which really did them in was taking them near sea/ocean water a bunch of times. Salt water and sunglasses are not friends.
I sensed something weird with the bacon once it went in with the stir fry noodles and decided to pick it back out. It smelt fine in the packaging but once it got into the wok it just smelt a bit...funny. Hopefully I don't die from this. I also regret forgetting to put in the other protein - egg.
So be my muse baby, hush enough talk,
Come swim in my rivers, occupy my thoughts.
I want to feel you baby, your hand on my face,
As you kiss me softly floating in outer space.
Been awake (and up and down) with indigestion since about 2.
And of course every time I almost nodded off Zooks started nudging me for food.
I've just fed her and crawled back in so hopefully I'll be able to nod off.
My part of the house is long and skinny, with rooms branching off a hallway, and a single split system at one end. It's not really up to the task on extreme weather days and I find a fan halfway down the hall to push the cool air into the end rooms is essential. I also have to get this going before it's really needed, because if I wait until it's hot to turn on the aircon it doesn't cool the place down at all.
In winter when it's extremely cold I have to have an extra heater in the hall to blow some heat into the end rooms when necessary.
In today's episode of Cooking Adventures with a Sardine Enthusiast we will be experimenting with Sardine Sushi 🐟🍣
spoiler
Images: tin of sardines and various stages of sardine sushi production
To start, cook some rice. I used Coles white long grain and cooked it on the stove with a bit of salt. Then you want to pour in a little bit too much vinegar, and the olive oil from your can of Sardines (discard any non-olive oil, disgusting), and mix. Wait until your rice cools a bit (I didn't, ow), Spread out your rice onto a sheet of seaweed as shown. Press it down a bit. Add some hot sauce in a neat line like so. Arrange your sardines like they were confused and swimming in opposite directions of each other (they don't do this in nature, but that's okay). Roll it up. If your not experienced or don't have a sushi mat it's okay, just mash it all together and it will kinda work. Voila!
I want to preface by saying I understand, I'm annoyed but I understand.
One of the things I've enjoyed about my job is I can listen to my own stuff. I find total silence annoying so being able to do my own thing while doing my job is great. However, I just got off the phone with my job provider who said how my boss and her spoke and that I shouldn't be using my phone to listen to things because it's distracting. Which I'm annoyed about because it's accommodation for me.
So she suggested that she'd get a radio, and I replied saying that I find it distracting to listen to music with lyrics in them. And she said how "there's probably a classical music station" which fine, I don't mind classical music, I still hate it. I asked for a Bluetooth one and she said she'd look into it but yeah.
I'm just annoyed, like I enjoyed the fact that I could listen to my own stuff but having to listen to my boss chewing or snorting is going to be absolute hell on Earth. And it's not going to make my concentration better. I just, ugh.
Like at the moment it's just us two, but he talks on the phone to clients and freelancers. So it'd be annoying having to talk on the phone with music playing.
Did the last hour of work W/O listening to my own thing and he was talking to a freelancer and I was about to bash my head into the monitor.
That sucks, what an archaic way to look at things. I constantly have something playing on my phone (a podcast, a TV show I've seen 100 times, music) as background noise, it drowns everything else out and it's a lot easier to sink my teeth into my work. People function in different ways and they should at least try to understand that.
Like I appreciate the offer to get a radio, but what I listen to doesn't affect how I work. I'm just annoyed and frustrated. Might actually commit to that mental health day off sometime this week.
Psych had to do a last minute reschedule to Thursday. Boo because I was hoping to see her before Big Work Chat tomorrow, but yay because I could sleep in.
Client still needs everything done by today so no day off for me, I got 6 hours of sleep from 6 to 12 and now it's time to bash my head on the desk and cry at my increasingly broken time estimation/management (but also the client isn't faultless here, communications have been wack on their end).
And then the rest of the week I can't rest yet. More stuff to get done... Moving back to mine on Friday. Yay for not living in dead end suburbia, and yay for getting to tend to my plants again, but boo for having apartment neighbours, more traffic noise, dust, and most unfortunately no central heating and nice insulation :'( also no more streaming services. But I've decided I can watch a lot of new things on Stremio
@bot001 looks like there is a helicopter doing bog laps above Brunswick West, anyone know why? I'm currently in Pascoe Vale South so just north of its circuit...
Did manage to get back to sleep and slept until something after nine, I think? Only got up recently because Sammi decided I needed to stay in bed and be her pillow.
The CBFs seem to be in evidence and I'm not even working yet unless you count the executrix stuff. Alas, I will have to go out for cat fud at some stage due to the felines developing hollow tails over the weekend.
Edit: who the fuck downvoted this?
The poison mushroom situation that killed 3 people is awful. I can’t comprehend why people would eat random mushrooms they pick in the wild. It wouldn’t even matter if I was an expert botanist of fungi, I can’t imagine ever having enough certainty to risk killing myself for lunch. Just go to colesworth. Holy crap.
I’ve been reading up on this. Seems suss the person who cooked the poison meal didn’t get sick? So they didn’t eat their own meal, even try it during cooking?
Yeah it’s weird. They haven’t said if she picked the mushrooms herself or someone else did. But, why cook a meal with mushrooms if you don’t like mushrooms? And her comment was ‘I didn’t do anything’ is odd. What does that mean? Didn’t do what? Pick them, cook them?
Could just be a tragic mistake, but also feels odd.
Stopped at a red right arrow to the Eastern freeway onramp. Bogan guy behind honks me, sticking his arm out the window waving and shouting expletives at me to go.
Light goes green, so I say to my wife to watch on as he overtakes. And he overtakes rapidly, accelerator to the floor.