My friend had a baby last week and this week her appendix burst. No bueno. I'm making some meals to take to her fam; I've got a veg lasagne, meat sauce (to have with pasta or rice, or add beans and it's a chilli, burritos, etc.), and a pesto chicken pasta bake. Do you think that's a good spread? They have three boys (plus the beb).
Sounds pretty comprehensive. Maybe a Hello Fresh or Funky Food subscription or similar for a month to take the pain out of shopping might be a nice idea if within your budget. I think it more likely that your friend will need someone to run the washing machine and/or dishwasher every couple of days - time means more than money when you're stretched to the limit.
She has her husband at home for another month or two which will be a huge help, and her boys are old enough to help out (late primary/early high school). She's just asked for meals so far; I'm pretty sure there's a few of us doing it so they should be covered for a good while.
Day 22/70: First day of week 4 weigh-in.
Down 1.2kg. I weakened a couple of times this week and had chocolate and licorice. Nice that it hasn't killed my progress.
Urgh. I’m struggling with a sense of hopelessness. I try to help others but can’t seem to even help myself.
I’m trying Moobeans on the new food to see if it can go in the rotation. She’s happily eating it and I’m glad to see it contains supplemental choline and taurine as well as ‘vitamins’.
I still need to monitor her sensitive tummy and check out some finer details on salt/ash levels as it’s a cheap home brand which can have a poor track record and I otherwise wouldn’t buy. (I’m hoping that it’s one of the times the dry food is trash but the wet food is passable.)
I’m kind of leaving my plants to do their thing with the occasional Seasol/water. Waiting to see if the spinach comes good or if damping off claims them all.
So I did something a bit bad this morning. An old dude was in the car wash bay before me. He only gave his car a rinse with the hose, then he hit stop and left. I drove in and saw it said he still had like $8 credit left so I was like "score" and started washing my car thinking he just overloaded it.
Then as I finished I thought that $8 seemed to go a long way then noticed it hadn't stopped and it had kept adding time. After reading the sign it turns out the 'credit' was a $15 credit card hold and you can stop it anytime before that using the stop button on the card reader (not the stop button he used on the wash options) and it'll just charge you for the time you used with a minimum of $5. I hit the correct stop button so he wouldn't have his card drained but the damage was done.
So he ended up paying $16 to rinse his car and also wash mine...
I bought some mini custard tarts from coles and they were shit. No custard taste, just loaded with sugar. Fucking disgraceful at $5.50 for 6. Disappointment is real. 😔
So disappointing! All the stuff from colesworth bakeries have gotten stingier to the point where I'm pissed off at it all. All those profits and you couldn't put a tiny bit more filling in the lemon curd tart or mini chocolate croissants! It wouldn't kill them to do more of the rhubarb and apple fruit mince pies I got addicted to before they filled whole sections of the bakery with their usual shitty fruit mince pies with waxy pastry. Bastards.
My assignment is due in a couple of hours, and I still have not finished. Most of the way there, but I need to do some serious editing. Unfortunately the caffeine from my extra coffee earlier is wearing off.
Edit: OK, I'm done. I have exceeded the word limit with reckless abandon, but I just can't brain any more tonight.
I will say it is an improvement on all the ads for wills and pre-paid funerals I was being flooded with a while ago. I guess they decided they have some life left in me yet.
Recently bought some new Sheet Society sheets, and holy hell has the quality dipped! Maybe I just got a shit batch, but I will not be spending that much again to find out.
Super bummed because I love my old washed cotton set, they were warm in the winter and cool in summer. This new one is just thin, see-through, and doesn't feel at all like washed cotton.
The washed cotton vintage sheets at Canningvale are a delight if you're looking for more one day. I've just ordered a second set to try and secretly replace my partner's old scuzzy sheets 😬
Hey DT, when would you say is a better time of the year to buy a used car - leading up to or just after Xmas? (Nov vs Jan) I told myself I'll wait til next year but the itch to get behind the wheel is building. (Along with the irrational urge to end my lease and throw everything into a storage unit and head off to wherever... ... Not that I have that much money...)
Last full day here. Time to stock up on Prima LaMian which, in case you didn't know, is the best instant noodles of all time. Of all time! (and expensive, but still like half the price here - $9 for 4 packs on special). Laksa is the all time classic, but I think I'll also get the curry noodles, fish soup and black pepper crab. These instant noodles (and in a pinch, the nissin black garlic ones) are one of my very few exceptions to the avoid-palm-oil rule.
It depends on the sports. 1 hour of running that keeps my heart up around 165-170bpm nets me up to around 4,000 extra kilojoules. A 25 minute commute to work at around 130bpm Gives me 1,000 extra kilojoules.
The daily 8700 thing seems to account for about 7,500 daily steps. I don't budget my kilojoules close to whatever I get from just steps, but it isn't a lot. Maybe 100 extra kilojoules per 1,000 steps?
These numbers also change depending on age, weight, gender and height. So your numbers while being in the same ballpark will not be the same as mine.
Hmmmm I see. Thanks for the detailed response Nath. So essentially sticking to a 8700kj diet is still 'cutting' if I play 2 hrs of tennis / 15k steps a day. Interesting!
Depends on height, weight, age, gender, daily incidental activity. There are some online calculators or fitness/phone device apps that you can enter the parameters into to give an estimate. It’s never exact, but will give a better indication.
I've had that for 4 years but I'm also someone who happily sleeps on anything from air mattress to particle board and be reasonably fine the next day (I have the equivalent of that mattress. Mine has been discontinued.)
Doing something I almost never do and breaking up my drive back from the border with a coffee half way. For those who know the Hume well: "Bacon Jam.. Really??" will tell you where I am.
Made the mistake of ordering woollies chicken Kyiv. 2 tiny, very hollow balls of chicken nugget meat with some nasty cheese type sauce inside. Never again.
Also got 8 strawberry iced donuts substituted for cinnamon donuts. Guess what flavour I really hate? My OH now has 8 donuts and I have none.
Was there recently, it really is dead feeling. When I was younger I remember people used to go out to Chapel street for a night out; to restaurants, bars, clubs and just to hang out. Not just locals, but people came from around Melbourne. For some reason the younger crowd doesn’t go there anymore, and for the older people, unless you live locally it’s too hard to get to. Maybe it’s because there’s so many other options in CBD, inner north, inner west, etc that there’s really no need to go there anymore. There are better options whichever side of town you’re on that are more convenient and have a better vibe.
I think it means you're a dickhead. It's illegal to have any body parts outside of the car. If you are carrying something oversized you would tie something red to it to alert other drivers that it is oversized. His hat probably got sweaty so he is drying it.