Buenas Noches all. I came here cos it was linked from the old reddit one which is alright sometimes but has some trollers. I see some names from the old lockdown days and pre-reddit "protest" purge. Hope you guise are all well.
Getting there! One bed's soil is fluffed up and looking pretty. Added some dynamic lifter too for good measure. Soil will subside a bit so going to throw on somefing on top and give it a another scratch before spring.
That bed has never been more empty. Feels good to have a clean start. Also felt good standing on that retaining wall on the right with all my weight and it didn't budge.
Cats love custard. Melbcat used to like the dairy free egg custard I’d make. Gotta be careful that it’s real vanilla though as imitation vanilla can be toxic to cats.
My fun cat cleaning moments were wiping at yellow ear wash runoff stains and oily brown liquid medicine on white fur
Finally found all my micro USB cables, and a watch I've got looking for about a month or so.
My girlfriend will collect things up in a grocery bag and dump it in the front room, or even on my desk, when she wants to clean and feel productive.
Unfortunately that just moves a bunch of unrelated things into a bag together that becomes harder to go through and I lose things because nothing is in a place that makes sense anymore
Ugh Mr P does the grocery bag thing too, just takes everything he feels is superfluous to the room, bag it up or toss it into random containers and dump it in a cupboard or under a bed. I hate it as it then becomes a separate more involved job to go through all the containers and bags and put stuff away like it should have been.
That was the situation with my watch. There are two places I usually put my watches and it was in neither of them so I couldn't find it. Then I'm looking for a USB cable that will actually transfer data and there it is in a bag with all this other stuff
I am big into storing things in a systematic way so everything is easy to find and nothing is lost, my husband likes everything to be out or maybe he is just lazy
My girlfriend wants to be like this but it doesn't fully happen. She also goes and cleans up all my stuff when the back part of the house is a complete mess and that's all her mother's stuff that could mostly be gotten rid of
I had 2 cable bags and a small container in my cupboard all full of random cables I've collected over time, and when ol mate was rifling through my cupboard he tipped them all over the place, and I don't know where anything is. And it's even more annoying because I don't actually know everything I had in them, so it's difficult to replace. Until I need it of course, and realise "hey that connector looks familiar, I'm sure I have one somewhere!"
They got breakfast when i had a five am pee, but they managed to swindle a second breakfast on Friday so now they're being extra coquettish in hopes of a repeat performance
Whoo, what a long day. Out to the city for movie, chat with friend, lunch at a HK cafe to satiate my cravings (Ovaltine! And yu xiang eggplant and you tiao), then sitting with my friend for hours of driving as she just bought a car and only recently got her licence and wanted to practice driving various routes including all the way across town... had a video call with a family member in between... I'm ready for bed now honestly. Also it's cold again. zzzzzz.
My kid and her friends encountered some cookers today so they stopped, read their little signs, had a giggle then as they moved on yelled "you are all a bunch of morons". ☺
Honestly I would advise against them speaking to cookers. Unfortunately you never know how they might react and I would hate for them to be physically attacked.
Still not really anything done today. Lots of sleep deprivation related blues. But at least I went to the gym. We shall persist. There is another chance tomorrow.
my place hasn't been cleaner for a long time but it's untidy because of all the sorting and chucking out of stuff and the furniture restoring , drives me nuts
so I suppose I'm saying, how can people take just a few hours to clean the whole house? I seem to do so much housework but it's never clean and tidy
It's just me and Gibson so it's fairly easy to clean. I'll be moving to a smaller place later this year, and I'm looking forward to less rooms to clean.
And also not living next to crack heads, not having insulation, closer to civilisation and paying less per month.
4/5 stars. Food is great if you ever get it, skilled and charismatic chef, but chef sometimes falls asleep after opening the food truck resulting in multi-hour delays. Worth the wait if you have nothing on.
I just watched All Shall Be Well which broke my heart and made me angry but also really made me want a sumptuous HK spread and mooncake 😭 please help chef
Get the openwrt core router working, taken apart and old school serial hacked a tplink to get the first WAP up and running, get it integrated, go to do the second one and...motherfuuuuuu i did not check the version number it is unsupported
Went down to the Burnley Brewing taproom for their closing down takeaways sale. Filled my little 9.5L homebrew keg with IPA at $5/L and bought three cases of cans too.
So tired today. I only worked 2 days this week but they were pretty physical days and I'm knackered. Managed to get a load of laundry done and the kitchen cleaned. Forgot I've been playing nurse to covid sufferers this past week, which has been oddly stressful and emotionally tiring. I just feel spent.
Went to a cardio class where we had to accumulate distance on the bikes and rowers as a team. My team came second last, but the team that came last had their bike reset the metres in the one of the rounds. Was a good workout regardless. Feel better than I would have if I didn't do anything :)
ffs, Ted Cat is a smoke persian and so godamn fluffy. So very cute but he bites and claws the whole time when I brush him, I wear gloves now, and he is a bit of a stinky dag. Def not a neeb cat like Bill.
House clean (mostly), still need to scrub the shower and fold laundry but that can happen tomorrow as that’s enough housework for one day. Enjoying an arvo coffee in the sun (it’s turned out to be a pretty nice day), going to get a quick workout in before dinner out tonight.
Chilli seeds are in on the prop. heat mat. This year (hopefully if they germinate) it will be just thai, habs and birdseye (if they overwintered).
Today's major thing is digging over the soil that's been trampled and compacted from doing the retaining wall. Soil is uneven af now and there's a fair bit of it and I'm running outta radox and ibuprofen.
I was hoping to see Psycroptic tonight but the show sold out. I don't buy tickets in advance much anymore in case the kids are a nightmare to put to sleep but they went down well enough tonight.
These are the risks you take, and good on the boys from Tassie for selling out their Melbourne shows
More stuff has been taken out to the courtyard for neighbours to take if they want
best find is a real italian stainless steel pasta maker with the attachments and instruction booklet . It was expensive when I bought it. But I'll never use it again and it's taking up space.
Murano vases are worth a bit of money (I have a collection of paperweights). Lucky neighbours! We put out a box of lemons a couple of days ago and most are still sitting there 🤔 most peculiar, they're usually gone pretty swiftly. Last year a woman pulled up when we had about 3 wheelbarrows full after the tree was pruned and grabbed several grocery bags full.