I have been Deadpooled
Was it good?
It’s fun, loud, messy, and silly. Not High Art.
And anyone who believes Hugh did that without pills I can offer a great deal on the Opera House.
Attempting this for dinner - Air fryer nachos
Oohh nachos. Sounds yummy!
You NEED to let us know how you go
omg, that could feed like 3 people, 4 tops
Well, yah Llab has levelled up in the migraine game. Forced ED visit was a first.
Feeling human at this point, highly underrated.
Thank you, thank you, thank you to people who made drugs.
Migraines are vile. Are you on preventative meds? It could be time to revisit your neuro if things have changed.
Yay for feeling human!
Thanks! Definitely revelling in my humanness today!
hope you feel better real soon
migraines can be scary , just rest now , so many hugs
Oof that sounds rough. :( hope it’s a quick recovery and stays that way for you here
Thanks so much!
Much, much better now. Never say never, but praying this is my first and last (visit).
Really glad to hear you’re much better. I can’t begin to imagine a migraine that’s bad enough to need to go to the ER - sheer torture. Also hoping it never happens again.
Out of curiosity, how long did you have to wait to be seen?
I was actually lucky. I think it wasn’t too busy at the ED, so triage was quick (one NS was on and another came on not long after. One person was being seen and one was in front of me.)
Maybe lucky if that took all of 10-15mins. I got in quite quickly, IV + anti-emetic first. Moved 3 times (chair + 2 beds). Dozed a lot. First bed was where I got Panadol (didn’t touch the edges) and finally whatever it was they gave me. After 30 mins it still didn’t clear, I moved beds again, but I managed to doze it off maybe after another 90min+ and didn’t need the next line. Maybe 5ish hours all up? It did take a couple of hours to see a Dr., but everything else was very smooth.
It was just the fact that it was so debilitating? Like at the worst, I could sleep it off for a few hours, or overnight, but this was not budging at all. I maxed out my OTC stuff and wasn’t sleeping through. Utterly nauseous, super light sensitive. Felt like living hell like a hangover on steroids. Given this was not alcohol related, definitely made me think how I ever survived hangovers in the first place. I mean I jest now, but there was no way I would have ever gone to ED if I didn’t feel it was this bad.
(I’ll admit I was slightly embarrassed. I hated the thought of taking up a bed from someone else who might have needed it more, so as soon as I was good to go, I was out of there. So grateful to all the HC staff. No one made me feel as though I was wasting their time and just said come back if it’s an issue again.)
It sounds entirely reasonable that you went to the ED! Who knows if it was a sign of something really sinister like a brain haemorrhage? That’s awesome that you got attended to quickly, given the rampant stories of overloaded EDs - which is a symptom of underfunding and not at all something you should feel personally responsible for. I’m glad they were able to treat you. It really sounded like hell…
🖤 It sounded like it was a bit of an anomaly from the snatches of staff conversation I could hear.
Definitely! I got checked for meningitis and asked a few questions to rule out anything else. The eye pressure I was most concerned about didn’t seem to be a worry and that eased off with every else. That was probably my main concern, so definitely worth checking! ✨
new to me cabinet is here, Bill Cat loves it. It really needs a clean and I’m stripping out the contact someone had put in
it’s perfect for my shell collection 😊🐚
spoiler
Ooh keen to see the shell collection when it’s done :)
Yay: brain fog seemed to be clearing
Nay: got short sharp shock diarrhoea immediately after eating out today
Yay: recovered quickly and took my young relative on her first ever drive and it went well
Nay: brain fog returning and can’t have tasty dinner :(
Yay: I have no commitments for the rest of the weekend and a light week next week, and can just sleep, and sleep, and sleep.
Damn. Really riding that roller coaster there.
What’s for dinner tonight?
Just plain clear soup and toast. Not gonna be too hard on my tummy for tonight at least
The cost of basic fabrics is pretty extravagant, even when you shop around. Sewing your own stuff isn’t thrifty anymore. It’s even probably a luxury hobby by now.
*I’ve checked clearance and discount fabric sites and wouldn’t want the stuff that’s affordable. The selection is not good
I agree with Seagoon - 2nd hand is the way to go. Op shops have sheets and often leftover fabric that’s been donated. Sacred Heart has a better selection than Vinnies. A single bed sheet is ample for a lot of projects. If you need a zip, rather than paying $12.50 in Lincraft, look for a garment with the right colour and length zip for $2. The crappiest garments often have good buttons or zips.
Absolutely. I used to haunt the local op shops. Unfortunately I’m not getting many opportunities these days. Pretty grumpy about it
Ah, gotcha, disregard my other comment.
if what you want is fabric for warm comfortable trackie pants try looking at some new fleece blankets
Way ahead of you. They looked like they’d be recognisable as blankets though (at least the lighter colours that would show less white cat fur)
How about buy a track pants that are a couple sizes bigger than you need and then adjust to fit. You could keep the waist but slim down the legs, for example. Probably cheaper than buying the fabric.
Ditto with yarn. It’ll cost you a fortune to knit or crochet yourself a jumper, like a couple of hundred dollars.
Op shops sometimes have fabric, but you have to be lucky, and have the time/energy/transport to travel around.
My best op shop find ever was lots of yarn. I got there just as they were putting out what must have been a knitter’s whole stash, and included real wool yarn, in large quantities of matched lots. I bought enough to make four or five jumpers, at something like $1 a ball.
Yep. Energy and transportation are what’s missing.
Also the knowledge to figure out what you’re looking at. Op shops aren’t generally fond of you burn testing things!
I buy second hand items to use the fabric. Just have to look very carefully.
Yup! And finding non poly stuff is getting harder and harder. Where you really blow money though is on the bits people don’t always think of. Zippers, facing fabric, the amount buttons go for is obscene!
I’m not even after quality! Just looking for cheap as chips trackie pants fabric in a generic colour. And only because the current clothes are so bad.
Edit: I’ve still got some zips and buttons from long ago op shop hoards
If you can find those church run or community opshops like those of old (IE not a Vinnies in a trendy suburb or any that focus on getting top dollar for trendy women’s clothes) where the volunteers are little old ladies, they’re still worth a look.
I do most of my shopping in Brunny and I just want to shout out and say everyone there dresses so stylishly. They might not have designer clothes but what they wear they wear so well and confidently.
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Anti-gratitude thread.
I woke up after midday today which was unintended.
I’m also running out of peanut butter :(
Still sick 😢
What I just paid out of pocket for a Saturday GP appointment. 💀💀💀 All because I missed their call on Monday, and they hadn’t been able to get back to me since.
I feel this pain in my bones.
It almost feels like a fine…
I still have half my work day to go.
I had a couple of replacements arrive this week, but I haven’t had much of a chance to play around with them. One of them was an old Oppo AX7 that I had laying around. It was actually just about completely dead. I got it in 2019, and it was the first sort of decent phone I had. It was 300 bucks, and I paid for half of it, with the last place I was at paying for the other half. I used it for a couple of years, before eventually dropping it so many times that the LCD broke and a black blotch started spreading along my screen. Still worked. Until in the middle of the night it stopped working. I purchased a new screen for it in 2023 planning to fix it up and use it as a wardriving device, but I couldn’t get the fucking screws out. I tried everything, and even asked 4 different people to give it a crack. Damn Oppo really don’t want you fixing their phones. I did some googling, and found that someone suggested using a tiny bit of super glue to bind it to a screwdriver and get it out. That didn’t work. I gave up with half (4) of the screws left. Gave it to one of the techy workers, and he managed to get 3 out using a bit of solder, but that one was forever stuck. That’s actually why I bought the S8. Had it and the screen replacement in a little bag I was planning on taking to ewaste, but then old mate snapped it in half. So I got a working phone out of a broken one lmao
The other notable thing was the MacBook that was stolen. I got it back in 2018 and was the first laptop I had. In 2020 my charger broke, and I asked my last place to get me a new one. That got me some dodgy knockoff from eBay, and after a few weeks, it sparked when I plugged it into the port and charred one of the ports, burning out one of the pins on the charger. I cleaned it up a bit and borrowed a genuine one from my school which charred and burnt out too (no sparking though). I deemed it mostly a write off and put it in its box and kept it in some drawers, intending to replace the I/O board when I had $150 to spare. When I moved in here, I decided to order the cheapest eBay charger I could find, just to see if it would happen again and determine if it was worth replacing the I/O board. It worked, and never had another issue. Funnily enough though, in 2018 a kid at a previous placement got shitty with me and scratched the back up quite a bit, so I also basically got an upgrade out of this one too.
Although oddly, both of these arrived completely filthy. The phone was bought from CeX and the MacBook from some refurbishment shop. I can understand why the person Hocking them wouldn’t clean them, but why wouldn’t the shop? I’m not a huge fan of fingerprints all of my screens. Takes 2 seconds, and a 3 cent alcohol wipe (or free with a zinger meal) to take the condition up a few notches
Holy crap.
My 🐱 giving me anxiety with such a close win tonight.
Wish they’d stop doing that to me!
Went shopping for a birthday gift for 10yo, who apparently is into Rainbow Friends. Ugh, I hate buying Roblox game merch, like they need my money. Minipeelers started to get shitty at each other, so I bought them each a $5 pool noodle and had them fight it out in the park next to the train station. They had fun with it, and it made a few people smile as they went past.
We’re running a roaring trade off in gift bags with a roblox gift card and giant bags of mixed Lollies in my 10yo’s friend group.
I’m gonna keep that in mind for next time, that’s a good one.
That’s brilliant!!!
@CEOofmyhouse56 @PeelerSheila Reminds me of a few years ago, when I had to go along to a friend’s kids’ birthday party.
I really didn’t know what to get as a prezzie. I ended up picking a stuffed pink unicorn toy that cost maybe $10.
Fast forward to the party.
The kids parents and grandparents absolutely spoiled this kid.
I’m talking hundreds of dollars worth of toys. It was just obscene!
The living room of their house ended up filled with them. A Barbie doll house that was taller than this kid. A ride-on toy car. Half a dozen battery-powered things that made annoying noises.
Anyway. Eventually the kid opened my present.
Hrr eyes lit up. She grabbed it, cuddled that unicorn, and left all the other toys on the ground.
Her grandma and grandpa were visibly miffed.
So yeah. Sometimes a cheap, fun toy trumps hundreds of dollars of overpriced plastic crap. 🧸🦄🎁
Well done! Lol, I bet half that stuff broke within a couple of months. So much waste.
The last of the shitty brickwork is outta the grouuuund!!!
Since i need to put in drainage anyway, thinking of maybe dropping french drain lines along the original dividers. Hubby quite liked them, but they were shot to shit and in the way of my planned wicking beds.
Yay 🎉
WE WON?
Shit
Yup! Thought you would have been watching it!
No. I’ve had it on the Olympics
God I’m annoyed.
Old man is 80 attempting to clean gutters (that I’ve already cleaned). Ladder would be 2.8m high. When I wasn’t looking he moved the ladder which I had anchored and tethered at the correct angle on flat gravel. At 80, doing it in inappropriate footwear, moved it to undulating wet grass with a running hose (going all over the ladder).
So I gave him a lecture on how fucking stupid that was. He didn’t take that well.
Just last month putting blinds up inside, he was scaling a step ladder in socks.
Fucken death wish.
Stubbornness at its best. My dad’s prone to it as well.
Sigh
@Duenan @Bottom_racer And people wonder why I’m scared of ladders!
it is honestly one of the most rational fears anyone can (and should have) with DIY stuff (same at worksites). Stats for falls (especially at that age) from that height are shocking.
Yeah, my partner gently teases me about it.
I’m generally okay with heights. Like, I can be outon the balcony of a 20th story building, no worries.
But. There’s no way you’ll find me above the second- or third-top rung of a ladder.
(There’s only one handywoman in our house, and it’s definitely not me 😆).
Well, one of the highest %age of falls includes a ladder.
May or might not help: https://www.health.gov.au/resources/publications/dont-fall-for-it-falls-can-be-prevented?language=en
(Hmm, just realised I have no links markup button.)
Anyhoo, facts: risk of falls is higher post surgery. Does he really want to risk a break or joint replacement (NOF breaks do not equal fun). There will be pain, recovery and restrictions.
Not to mention all the other nasties you can do.
Nothing is a good as your own stuff is you if don’t need it replaced. (Pride before fall. Pun intended.)
And I’ll add to this that the 12 month mortality rate post hip fracture for those over 65 is around 50%. It truly is life changing and not in a good way.
seriously, if you use a ladder wait until you can get someone to help
