Booooo. My landlord wants me to take off all my plants from the balcony because apparently a crack (that was already there long before I moved in) has gotten worse. Fair enough because they want to get it fixed. But it’s a lot of plants to lug down two sets of stairs, and then across and up another two to put in the common area…
I don’t know how long they will take to get the balcony fixed - in the meantime, watering and maintaining these plants is going to be a pain and a half. I absolutely can’t be carting water from my unit to the common area so I’ll have to use the communal tap 🤷♀️
What I’m worried about the most is if they say I can’t put any plants back on at all. I’ll be absolutely fuming if that’s the case. Let’s hope they’ll be reasonable. I know they’ve appreciated seeing the veggies and flowers on it and I know several of my neighbours have appreciated them too.
Trying not to spiral into negative thinking and assume they’ll up the rent after this fix as well >_< mustn’t jump to conclusions…
wants me to take off all my plants from the balcony
ouch… hrmm.
Due to some conspiratorial misdirection, you will not find “ice” tea in the tea section. Nor will you find “ice” coffee in the coffee section.
One would hop there was no ice in the supermarket at all
The customers bring it in.
i couldn’t find ice cream in the cream section
Did you check for ice magic in the magic section?
Where’s cream section? Hidden away like aisle 43 at Bunnings?
Just came back from Frozen Empire.
That was good in a way movies haven’t been for a long time
Testing out a double walled travel mug with some off.
Found it in the cupboard when I was looking for some stuff and was still amazed it was wrapped out.
I might regret making a coffee this late in the day but I must test this out!
People who do this shit should get eaten https://www.domain.com.au/news/200m-project-australias-most-expensive-ever-residential-build-chittering-western-australia-1281253/
If we wish to save the planet “eat the rich” is definitely the right dietary choice.
Australia has such a terrible gambling problem.
It’s shameful it’s been allowed to happen.
I hate that feeling of the blues when you have no reason to feel that way…
I’ve found that strangely, I tend to get that way on Sundays. Not Mondays, not Saturdays, only Sundays. I’m better these days, but a couple of years ago, almost every Sunday I’d feel like shit and really depressed. It didn’t matter what I was doing, even if it was something I really liked, I still felt sad all day
@Baku how did you get out of it?
I don’t really know. I did move into a better, more peaceful, and happier situation, but I still get it to a lesser extent
@Baku hopefully will find that peace one day
I think it’s Sundays for me as well. It feels like saying farewell to another week of my life. Bittersweet in a way.
I think it came about from my school anxiety. I only remember it being a thing not long before my school anxiety peaked
I used to blame my hormones …🤭
More roast fennel adventures! Today I made a “creamy” base of broad beans with finely chopped celery, leek, and a couple of chillies sweated for 10 minutes. Then threw in some roast garlic that was in the oven with the fennel, finely chopped fresh rosemary and some dried oregano and thyme, plus stock powder. Then blended it all together (thinned out with copious amounts of pasta water), and threw in the roast fennel, a tin of tuna, a handful of nutritional yeast, and finally some cooked risoni/orzo pasta. Topped it off with some fresh chopped parsley.
An interesting mix of textures and maybe orzo wasn’t the right choice (will it all congeal into a slab tomorrow?), but certainly tastes alright. If I had some capers or olives for a bit of extra briney bite, this would be 👌🏽
Saw a woman at the butcher spend $250 dollars on wagyu steak, and bought another 2 kilos of lamb cutlets. Not everyone is feeling the pinch!
I might rewatch Soylent Green this week.
Wow. How much steak was that?? There’s a dude at my local farmers market that does four grass fed porterhouse for 30 bucks and that plus a pack of snags or some mince does me for a month or more (I am mostly vego).
I suppose when we start eating the rich we will know they were well fed at least…
I could go some wagyu-fed, free-range billionaires right about now. Got my tummy grumbling!
From memory it was something like 6 pieces of wagu steak.
I don’t even buy meat. Only exception being homebrand cat food for my pet
A kid in Miniest’s class at school wants to be a butcher when he grows up. No wonder!
Christ. And here am I decided on 6 sausages instead of 10…
10 sausages, how profligate of you 😜
The cold is finally gone. Can’t wait to do some physical activity tomorrow. It’s been almost two weeks between injuries and being sick.
I need my happy chemicals stat!
Also, bedtime 😴 goodnight everyone!
This is what we call the squint of approval
This photo of her being super pissed off, is my absolute favorite of all time
I’ve accidentally learned to play piano.
So, I use a keyboard to play melodies on my PC to make songs. Usually playing one finger on each hand, like how some people type lol
Tonight I wasn’t really thinking, just noodling away and realised I can play with all fingers on both hands!
Still awkward, but it blew me away.
That’s a very dirty look!!’ My cat is terrified of my piano. Feel guilty when I start to play and she runs out of the room
Hey, I’m one of those people that only types with one finger on each hand :(
So is my GP. It concerns me
My GP is a fucking machine when it comes to typing. He has to type at like 200WPM
I blame phones though. I learnt to type on a phone, and it’s a bit awkward to use more than 2 thumbs typing on a phone (at least with the size of them these days), so I think I just sort of applied that logic to computer keyboards but with my pointers instead of thumbs
I’m exhausted, but should probably eat something. Do not want to cook.
Eggs on toast? Easy dinners are great on Sunday nights.
Wise people of the information super highway: any tips on making hiccups go away? I keep getting hiccups every time I eat or drink anything, even water and it’s lasting an annoying (but probably not concerning) amount of time. Drinking water didn’t work, holding my breath didn’t work, laying upside down didn’t work, and controlled breathing exercises didn’t work and I’m out of ideas
Holding my breath generally works, but only if I do it like this:
- breathe in and out as normally as you can
- take a big breath in, big big. Fill your lungs alllllll the way up
- hold for as long as you can
- do not exhale suddenly!
- when you cannot hold any long, let the air out slowly, shape your mouth as if you’re whistling to do so. Like an small o shape.
- nice and slow until you’ve exhaled completely.
- repeat if required, but make sure you take normal breaths as per step one so you don’t hyperventilate
This helps me, as generally hiccups are caused by the diaphragm spasming. The full-lung breath-hold helps to like, reset it. And the very slow exhale is to stop the diaphragm from starting again from the shock of a sudden big exhale.
Thanks Chud, this fixed it. I guess I wasn’t holding it for long enough. The first time I held it for so long I could not exhale slowly, it was all or nothing. The second time I held it for a little less longer though, and a third time managed to fix it
Hiccups happen when your diaphragm gets out of sync with your breathing. Most of the effective methods force these to re-synchronise. Drinking water out of the BACK of the glass makes you bend over forwards, which temporarily halts your breathing and when you straighten up to swallow, you start breathing again in sync. Usually. Also you might like to slow down the rate of eating, as gulping air along with food can set off hiccups. As a survivor of a boarding school where food happened in a lions on the kill fashion, I learned to bolt food as fast as possible. This caused quite a few issues that I had to learn how to slow down eating to fix. Hiccups was only part of it.
I don’t think I really eat that fast. I used to, when I was at the last place I pretty much had no choice but to down it as fast as possible, but these days I’m much slower and more calm when I’m eating and drinking. I certainly didn’t eat any faster than usual today, but my diaphragm evidently was just not having a good time!
I did also get them as soon as I woke up (in fact they were actually what woke me up) so I wonder if falling asleep with my electric blanket too high may have broken something
Anyone seeing any Eta Aquariids out there?
Yesterday was Lucha Fantastica day and we absolutely loved it! It was at Collingwood town hall and we got there early, so first we went around the corner to Raphs for a coffee and snack, a nice tiny cafe that Mr P said did a great moussaka.
The kids could get right up close to the wrestling ring and my eldest (the keen wrestling fan of the family) was particularly enthralled. He was very interested in inspecting the setup of the ring and how it was put together. I never thought I’d spend a Saturday enthusiastically cheering a wrestling man dressed as a giant taco but there I was. Captain Chipotle chugged Valentina chilli sauce from the bottle. Chico was a crowd favourite, throwing lollies into the crowd throughout the show. I hear during the later adults show it’s tequila getting poured into the crowd ringside. One dude was wrestling dressed as an alien 😂 Mr P was happy there was Mexican beer and a margarita which was surprisingly strong, it really slapped. It was the kind of light hearted entertainment I’d been missing. At the end they had a couple of pinatas for the kids to have a crack at (some of those kids were swinging for Australia lol). An all round excellent day.
That sounds like so much fun actually
Walked to Moon for some cruller treats and stopped at Eddy gardens for some dog watching on the way home. Surely this makes up for rotting in bed all day yesterday?
