I know perfectly well that I shouldn't eat all the cherries on the first day of cherry season (well, the first day I have cherries, same thing). They're soooo good. But my gut might not thank me later.
Already miss the ocean :( There's something calm but also panic inducing about being alone, 50m out, getting dark.. the mystery of what's below. Could be a giant squid, a horny dolphin... If something went wrong no one would know. But that has nothing on the shitshow that is southern x station just after 5pm.
I think today is perfect weather to cook the big pot of bolognese sauce I have been planning on. Unfortunately this means I will need to physically go to the shops myself to acquire onions. I guess if I have to go I might get some cheese as well. You can never have too much cheese.
Not disabled, dodgy back. The fancy mattress that is comfy to sleep on weighs a ton, changing sheets isn’t easy and I sure as hell can’t turn it myself.
I didn't get to buy myself a present for my birthday this year, but now I have this new role, I'm dreamily browsing for a new piece of music equipment lol and fancy cat trees of course.
me: yoo I need a teamviewer access for about 5 mins to update your firmware. Normally I could do it without you even noticing, but this one actually disables our tunnel software as part of the process, so I need a fallback. Won't take long, very quick.
chain A: Bah too much hassle, send me entirely new units for these sites
So our super food spread yesterday definitely broke the diet. I normally only weigh myself on Sunday, but I had to know: I'm 2.3 kg heavier this morning than I was 24 hours ago. 🙄
Here's hoping it mostly comes off again. I swam 1.5km and ran 9km afterwards, so I hope it mostly gets burned and not stored.
Still, special occasion was special. No real regrets.
And that wasn't even all of it. The "main" meat dishes were sticky Pork Ribs & Fried Calamari. Those were mostly eaten by the time the tasting board turned up.
It's fancy schmancy instant noodles with curry sauce again except this time I added some frozen vegan chicken in and added a bit of garnish.
appetising
I'm amazed that I focused on work quite serenely for 8 solid hours today and remembered to take the necessary breaks, etc. Need to see how much time allowance I've used up for this project though. Taken way too long on one section so gotta cut back on some others.
Nursing my jammed finger. That means no tennis for a bit 😩. But I guess that's also good because it gives my other injuries time to catch up because I play way too much anyway.
commented to the wife we were running low on baby Panadol as I was getting a dose ready for an unhappy kid, only to drop the bottle and spill everything everywhere. Turns out the next after hours chemist is like 20km away from my suburb, so that was fun.
Reading His Dark Materials after watching the series and can't stop thinking about the sort of daemons* Australian's would have. Like how many people are wondering around with huge arse kangaroos and koalas or the random arsehole with a full-blown cassowary. Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.
*Daemons are a physical manifestation of the human soul in animal form, they are not pets/animals and can speak and have their own thoughts and feelings, though you feel everything they do and vice versa (to an extent).
Also some poor fucker ending up with a witchetty grub, or some other weird insect.
On the other hand, they can shapeshift, and their chosen form is usually one that fits you personally, so I doubt that someone who ends up with a weird bug would mind too much. At least until someone tries to relocate the weird bug outside, or accidentally treads on it.
It's the clumsier people accidentally slamming their daemons in doors that might have a worse time. Getting your finger or hand caught is bad enough, injuring a physical manifestation of your soul probably hurts a lot more.
Very similar to indigenous 'totems'. Which can be almost anything. Interesting programme on the abc a couple three years back, I think off the top of my head it was Conversations with Richard Fidler. A woman with fertility issues went to stay in NT due to husband's job. She was bored and started talking to the local people. They took her swimming at a secret women's business waterhole, and she felt something wriggle inside. Shortly after she discovered she was pregnant, considerably against the odds. The local women assured her that her proto-baby had a totem - which was a striped leech and that the waterhole had given it to her. Never heard about any followup, but I think maybe this sort of thing might resonate with your comment. I have no information about how true this story was, but the abc are usually pretty good at fact checking. So probably not a wish fulfilment thing.
Covid seems to be taking turns around with the staff at work these recent weeks. I wonder how many people it's going to go through before we knock off from work for Christmas.
I’d say a fair few. I think a lot of people will have symptoms that they’ll just write off as being tired/time of year/allergies and there are some people who don’t get symptoms at all. So unless it hits like a ton of bricks and one might be in an industry that needs to be a bit more careful, it’s unlikely people will bother testing.
Trams have also been packed more than a sardine can. Masks and sanitiser. They don’t hurt to have if one is concerned and there are more viruses like RSV that can spread and be an issue to older adults/immunocompromised. 🤷🏻♀️
Yeah, I was working offsite from my normal workplace and I overheard a conversation about someone taking a RAT test but she only took it for one day and had a negative result and didn't do anymore and she came into work with symptoms.
I wouldn't be surprised if she was positive at that point and was spreading it around like wildfire at that workplace.
Does anyone have any proven methods for stopping mosquito bites from itching? A few of them are now massive and I scratched two of them so hard that I bruised the skin beside them.
All this because I put insect repellent on my arms and neck for my zoo based Christmas party but didn't think about the exposed skin from my ripped jeans and they had a FEAST.
There's a piezo electric mozzie zapper device which is the same thing as the click-starter on a bbq or gas hot water system. Gas stove's have them too but they're often mains powered. If you see an old gas hot water system on the nature strip you can extract the clicker/zapper without tools. Then you zap the mozzie bite to help with the itch. Or, and maybe TMI, zap your partners bits while blindfolded but consenting. It's a pretty mild zap, as young teens we'd collect them to torment each other.
Dig your fingernail into the bite location pretty hard, rotate finger 90 degrees and push in hard again so you're basically making a little cross right in the middle of the bite.
(clean hands beforehand obviously and chuck a bit of antiseptic on bite after).
I was thinking this morning thank God I don't have to work today, and when I called into the office to check on something they offered me a shift this afternoon.
Thanks but no thanks, people.
Annnd I have the worst buyer’s remorse… The level of it is a surprise. I haven’t not bought wanted not needed items before, but this…
(There is a little bit more to it which I think blew it up. I somehow bought the wrong side (there is L/R and I clearly stated which side when I arrived) and no one picked it up, including myself until I got home.)
I think it’s because I wasn’t 100% and I overrode myself. I’m also usually super fussy as hell and was a blasé.
We’ll try today. Downside is that it wasn’t immaculate when I took it and I didn’t think to actually ask, which is not like me. And if I had of, it would have been picked up.
It’s not 100% the end of the world, but it’s definitely a downer.
So I've been looking for a low (er) sugar teriyaki sauce for ages and found this. Taste isn't too bad. Definitely not the cheapest though. Yes I know I could make my own sauce but I'm too lazy.
Oh damn.. I just looked into what this is and listened to some of the groups in the lineup and that seems like a good vibe. I might keep a note of this one. Sorry to hear it's cancelled :(
It's been running for over 15 years but it seems like Council and this new cop in Wangaratta decided to shut the whole thing down less than a month out. It's been chaotic with the emails and backchat. The organisers are famously disorganised and prone to magical thinking as well though haha. At least all the money has been refunded
Given how close it is to the creek and how flat the land is, council probably wants a good flood plan in place in case it rains. Wangaratta is a known flood prone area.
City of Wangaratta has not been able to obtain satisfactory event documentation including an emergency management plan to ensure the health and safety of attendees at the planned festival in December.
Got my socks wet on my way to work this morning and they've still not dried even though I've stuck of to the loo to try dry them under the hand dryer a million times.