Random sunday braindump:
Had a BIG reset sleep last night. Feel asleep at 5:30. Woke up at 8 for a bite to eat and listened to podcasts for.a while then back asleep round ten for around 11 hours.
I knew I had not given myself enough rest to get over that flu and my brain has been ramping up in tighter and tighter circles all week. I feel calm finally today.
Today I will clean the sheets and make some food basics for the week and catch up on a little bit of planning work.
I think I need to reset my bujo rhythm too - it’s turning into an unmanaged Todo list of doom. I think I am going to try to enforce 20 mins at either end of the day to sit down with a cuppa and review/plan/organise.
That’s awesome that you achieved a big reset sleep!! Envious - I seem to be getting it in bits and pieces but never quite enough to feel fully recharged. I think I got 60% of the way there last night and hoping to try and get the rest in tonight.
I haven’t got the discipline to BuJo but my general to do list is chaos too, everything needs doing so I feel like doing nothing. Inspired by your comment, I shall grab onto a wisp of good mood/motivation with the sun this morning to prioritise tasks and de-doomify the list
We got this!! 💪🏻
How’s the day going?
I’ve been moving at the speed of molasses but at least I got three low-effort items done (watered plants, washed and dried towels and thermals), and a medium-effort task (vacuuming the house).
Cooking up this defrosted tempeh and tidying up the kitchen. Just need to fold my clothes afterwards and I think I’ll have done enough for today…
Same. Slow day but good. Washed sheets and towels and did a laundromat dry, tidied up my little meditation corner to try to get myself back on that train, and did some reading in the sun. About to make something quick for dinner then note down “must dos” for each day at work and done
Nice!! I’d like to create more of a screen free habit myself. Your day sounds so relaxing and grounded. It was the sort of day for it, I reckon. Here’s to us both having a much improved week ahead, shaking off the last of the post-flu fatigue :D
yep cheers !
I am not ashamed to say that I cried at the end of Deadpool when the song came on.
Got an 8am shift tomorrow morning, so today is relax and play games, and some study.
Tuesday and Wednesday will be my big study days, got a project to make for my prac which will be interesting bringing in on the bus lol.
bought ticket for 1pm deadpool
i should really get up
got up 12 minutes before the bus arrives
Performance: optimised
My anxiety could never
Straight into the mud… At least he’s now ok with getting in the shower.
He’s a goalie!
Gooooooaaaaaaaalll!
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Politics/class
I feel like Australia is increasingly becoming stratified. There are people who are still a bit more protected but the people at the bottom are left fighting each other for scraps and dragging each other down like crabs in a bucket.
Occupy Melbourne was incoherent and quickly squashed but these are the living conditions that were predicted and protested
It’s going to keep getting worse too. I give us about 4 years.
@melbaboutown @Seagoon_
Apparently the revolutionary French visited Australia and declared Australia practised “Socialism without doctrine”. That was long ago and trades hall today is a museum of collapsed trade unions. Both left and right totalitarian systems are currently regarded as frightfully modern era and intemperate. I can’t wait to see what comes after post-modernism.It has always been like this.
For a few decades the middle class forgot they were still part of the proletariat and weren’t really independent bourgeoisie.
Occupy was a Russian front, ignore it.
What the Marxists never say, or maybe they never figured it out, is that America and Australia only had good post war living standards for the working classes because they were the only western countries that hadn’t had their factories bombed to the shithouse. It meant we became primary and secondary industry powerhouses. But once industry had enough money again and factories could be built in places with cheaper labour we were doomed. That’s what capitalism is.
me and my husband had to get professional jobs overseas to escape the old boy network and that was 25 years ago
Just last week, John Quiggin released a book on pretty much this exact topic, called “After Neoliberalism”.
You can download the eBook for free, or order a printed copy here: https://press.anu.edu.au/publications/series/global-thinkers-series/after-neoliberalism
If you’re interested in an in-depth look at the economic and government policies that erosion of the middle class happened, it’s worth a read.
I’m not sure about downloading or ordering but I found this https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj4ha2QCX1w
Sadly it’d probably just confirm what I already have a sense of.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
But leaves the greater villain loose
Who steals the common from off the goose.
The law demands that we atone
When we take things we do not own
But leaves the lords and ladies fine
Who take things that are yours and mine.
The poor and wretched don’t escape
If they conspire the law to break;
This must be so but they endure
Those who conspire to make the law.
The law locks up the man or woman
Who steals the goose from off the common
And geese will still a common lack
Till they go and steal it back
~Late 1700s
Woot! Free cast iron griddle. Not the same colour as my other stuff, but who cares about that.
My hair turned out really nice today. Not sure why, I washed it with a detergent ’soap’ bar and haven’t cut it yet.
I think the issues I was having were only from hair being a bit too long and not remembering to brush it enough. I might grab a large paddle brush to make it easier
This is a really lovely win amongst the sea of other challenges you routinely face!
Yeah, life sucks but at least my hair looks good
I had a dream last night that the woman buying my sewing machine on Marketplace accidentally gave me way too much money (like a couple of thousand instead of a hundred). I knew the right thing to do was to let her know and give the extra cash back, but holding a big wad of money was way too tempting. I was still wresting between my decision as to whether to do the right thing or keep the money when I woke up.
Interesting…
Wrestling with any big decisions?
Keep the money and invest in avocados. She clearly doesn’t need it
35/50 - quite proud of myself
An abysmal 5/50.
35/50 as well! That was a fucking hard one though, I should have given a crazier answer for Florida lol
15/50 🥰
30/50
25/50
Normally I’m hot garbage at these… But today I’m 7% up in average.
What sorcery is this? 😂
Yes!!! I did it!!!
0/50!!!
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🌳🥄
A major difference between my wife and I:
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I spent 10 minutes banging a wooden spoon on a standard kitchen knife trying to open a coconut. I give up after the wooden spoon disintegrates, the coconut still closed.
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My wife comes into the kitchen and swings the same knife at the coconut a few times. Less than a 30 seconds later, we have access to coconut water.
I grew up watching my mum crack open coconuts all the time though I’ve only done it myself a couple of times. I think you have to do it perpendicular to the seam. Whereabouts are you getting fresh coconuts? Are they any good? I’ve wanted to have a go at getting some but for grating the flesh, not for water.
We’ve gotten it from a few vendors over the months, like from Queen Vic market, Footscray, and most recently yesterday in Springvale Central.
My wife otherwise thinks they’re all not fresh - it lacks the taste of when the young coconut is opened freshly chopped down from the tree. I thought it’s so sweet it’s almost artificial.
In my wife’s home town home we have a rather large heavy knife. A few well placed hits is all it takes to get the water.
You obviously loosened it for her
Use a drill.
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So Mr P tested positive for covid today, but via some miracle or misadventure all the rest of us have tested negative. Thank goodness, as Miniest was at a party earlier and if she’d tested positive I’d have had to contact the parents 😬Now he is quarantined in his room moaning and demanding things lol.
Oh that’s no fun — poor thing 😔😷
I remember a couple of months back when my partner had covid, it was a logistical nightmare.
She got the bedroom, I got the living room and slept on the couch.
We both wore masks if we had to be in the same room for any reason.
And then one day I gave her a bowl of soup and she managed to spill it all over the bed. (Thank heaven for mattress protectors!)
Making the bed while wearing gloves and a mask is not an experience I’m keen to repeat anytime soon!
The good news is she started getting better after a week or so. And had completely recovered after a month.
She first noticed her sense of smell was returning while walking past some smokers in front of Woolies.
“Do you smell that? Wait — I can smell that! I can smell the smokers!” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a nonsmoker so overjoyed at the smell of cigarette smoke! 😆
Anyway wishing Mr Peeler a speedy recovery. Yeah, it’ll be tough, but hopefully he’ll be feeling better in a week or two. Take care 💜🫂
Hubs lost his sense of smell and taste both times with covid - the one time I caught it i didn’t. He’s still scuntch about it.
My partner seriously freaked out when she lost her sense of taste and smell. But thankfully it returned (allbeit slowly) over the following weeks.
Thankyou for your kind thoughts 🙂 It’s awkward here as he’s walking through the lounge to use the bathroom frequently enough for me to be concerned about mine and the children’s health. So I hunted up my family’s old chamber pot (mum called it “the gazunder” because it gazunder the bed) and gave it to him to use. But, like all diehard smokers, he still goes out to smoke 😠
I had covid recently and my OH and kid didn’t get it, despite all being together in the house. Fingers crossed you’ll avoid it (and I hope Mr p has a speedy recovery)
Thankyou Springy, here’s hoping all our previous practise with masks and sanitiser pays off!
Just had some Portuguese chicken. Definitely challenged my spice tolerance levels. Mouth and lips still tingling 10 min later.
On an unrelated note, I find it astounding that new builds, even ones that look relatively expensive still have single glaze windows.
going to do the good old fashioned walk into a place hiring with a smile and a CV and maybe a handshake
big pay cut if i get it but it is the line of work i’ve always done and enjoyed instead of this random job i have right now
it will also bring regular breakfast back
Good luck chef! Applying for jobs is daunting but you sound like you’ve got it together 🦾
There’s definitely something to be said about doing work you enjoy even if it pays less. We won’t complain about regular breakfast returning either.
Thank you!! It’s the exact line of work I’ve been telling people I want. I will feel much more relaxed too given it is work I’ve been doing on and off for a very long time. Offers some future too unlike what I do right now.
Sounds like a triple win. Let us know how it goes, and hopefully all the stars align and they’re a good place to work at, too :D
Thank you! Yeah part of the reason I’m going in tomorrow is to see if I vibe with them :D
Hey Kitten. Not sure if you’ll see this.
I sent you a PM, would you be able to take a look at it?
Crossing all bits for you chef!
Thank you!!
Good luck!
Thank you!
Good luck Chef!
Thank you!
Good luck!
Thank you!!
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So, for the last week or two, my zygomatic bone (the corner of my eye socket furthest from my nose) has been hurting. When I blink or touch it, it hurts a lot. There’s no bruising though, or any real swelling. But it’s painful and sore.
I’m low key stressed it’s something serious, but it could also be a small fracture from when Mickey pounced on my head. Could be nothing. I should go to the doctor, will have to make an appointment this week.
Got a tuning fork? One lecturer told me an old timey approach to diagnose broken bones was to hold a tuning for to it and see if the broken bits vibrate causing pain.
I do not! But I expect my GP to whip one out 😂
