First time holding a bubs.
easier than holding a cat.
First time holding a bubs.
easier than holding a cat.
awww 💖
I don't mind being an arm rest
Edit: My temu haul is fucking incredible!!!!!!!
we need details on the temu haul
Ran out of plates today
Babies!!!!
So there's 2. One is an absolute dead ringer for the dad. It's interesting what features they inherit.
Tonight's movie is Before Sunset. Goodnight all <3
getting stuff ready for my trip to nz in 2 weeks
and doing general tidying and organising
everyday there is less chaos, more done, a little more skill achieved 🙂
Nearly 3 months into my new role and I still haven't taken a day off. I have a feeling I may be falling ill when kids have school holidays.
Everyone I know is getting the flu or a cold one after the other. Sounds like it's your turn coming up
Two weeks ago, an acquaintance who I have a mutual friend with said she's having a birthday party this weekend and that she hopes I'm free. Gave no details, just said it was happening. I have heard nothing from her since, and she has left the last thing I sent on read. I don't really want to go anyway. Knowing her, she will probably text me the night of asking if I'm free, even though she is a Type A person and plans things in advance, so I don't think I'll follow it up.
Is this the same friend that shows up late all the time?! Another sign of lacking respect for other people’s time.
Nope, this is someone else entirely. I think I need new friends honestly.
So she sent no details on plans of her event?
And you asked for deets and crickets?
You can't go if you don't know.
Yeah it was just, "I'm doing birthday drinks on this day, hope you're free!"
Be direct.
"I would love to come. When and where is it?"
Periods suck (tw: menstuation and poop)
My lower abdomen cramping and bubbling like a witch's cauldron, the heinous poos, the feeling of exhaustion. And I ground my damn teeth last night so half my brain already feels asleep.
This week is poo week.
spoiler
Wait until you get older and it becomes a roulette game. Will it be light, heavy? Will it come today? Probably not and then when you least expected it, it pops in overnight when you've got important stuff to do in the morning.
It's your body's way of saying EAT CHOCOLATE.
Deal!!!
Wash it down with a glass of wine.
Physio mostly fixed it. Yay.
Also temu order is here. Saving it till after I feed the cats.
Sit in bed, uber eats, play with Gibson, unpack temu.
Not too bad an evening
Winning.
Today at the Op Shop I found an original Les Paul and Mary Ford vinyl. I think it's mono. 🙂 🎸
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7yH2ioBX_1k
I just checked my record player was on the right speed, surely he can't really be playing that fast!?
Is it too much to ask for a sock to be of normal thickness and to last at least 4 wears without getting holes?
$15 socks are not much better than $2 socks.
I had https://www.aust-woollenmills.com/ and https://brucegoose.com.au/ recommended recently while looking for socks. I went with brucegoose and was disappointed that the stripey socks are significantly tighter than plain of the same size, but otherwise the socks are holding up fine.
bruce goose for normal wears, for cold weathers I gots my tradies socks
Work socks! Not great if you have tiny feet like mine, but still better than thin socks.
Gone are the days of getting holes in your socks.
I've got that sleep-in brainfog because I had an early one last night dealing with an obstinate child then woke up a little later than usual this morning. I'm still feeling it
Does that mean that the non-obstinate child is your favourite today?
They take turns. One likes to be consistently difficult but the other likes to pitch in when things look like they could be going smoothly
Ol' girl goes in for her colectomy tm. In for a week +.
Bit worried about the recovery as she weighs bugger all. Definitely not going in in the best of shapes. I've locked horns w/ the ol' boy way too many times but the main thing is food.
Dude can't cook and that will be a problem.
How the fuck you can go through life and best you can do is a crumpet or overdone steak is beyond me. Hasn't even tried once.
I understand that generation is a bit different w/ gender roles etc. but following a recipe isn't exactly hard.
Ffs, drop the 'it's a womans job' shit mentality and learn. Seriously stuck in the 1950's.
Thanks for reading my rant.
Local council might have assistance available - especially if it's only for meals. If money's no object, then hiring someone to come in and cook every couple of days might be a useful way to deal with this.
I went through similar stuff with my parents and I do remember a dr explaining to me that people that age are unlikely to change their ways (probably after I’d expressed frustration about the situation), which was very hard to get my head around.
Could you stock the house up with microwaveable soups and meal packs (there’s a few companies that deliver). Hospitals also have social workers who can help, although if your dad is in the medical field I suspect he’d be resistant to ‘being told what to do’. Mine definitely was.
Could you enlist one of his mates or a rellie to have a quiet word? Or could your mum spend a bit of recovery time in a rehab place, if that’s an option?
I reckon you’re across all these things but just putting them out there. Sending healing thoughts for your mum and hugs for you - it’s such a difficult situation.
Having my routines messed up by moving and changing my work hours meant I didn't do washing when I should have and almost ran out of clothes. It's also been terrible drying weather, but I fortunately have an undercover area I can set up my clothes horse so I finally have clean and dry clothes tooday. Except for one t-shirt which got blown onto the ground and rained on.
I'm going to do my main cleaning day before my first night shift each week, which meant I got to come home to nice fresh sheets on the bed this morning. Athough I'm probably too exhausted at that point to really appreciate it.
After ditching my planned trip back to Melbourne last week I really have to go this week. Hopefully I can fit pretty much everything else I need into the back of the van (which will include the lawnmower which is really needed up here with the way the grass has been grrowing) but I'll also need one more trip in a couple of weeks to organise rubbish collection for a bunch of stuff I'm getting rid of. I'm looking forward to not having to keep doing that drive, or at least not on my own time - there will be regular trips back on work time which are a very different thing to losing your own days off.
With all the talk of Logies on tv I thought I’d share this gem…
My manager went home sick and all my motivation followed him out the gate...
The news feels like foreshadowing in a bad apocalypse movie and I still need to go to work
Woke up feeling great. Getting lightly loaded on hot toddys and a bit of weed seems to have done the trick. Thanks for all the advice.
Thought I’d get caught in heavy rain on the way home, thankfully it was on little spits of rain though it got dark very quickly.
Really could do without the wind blowing so strong.
day off today, no painting or hard housework , that's why I painted my nails sparkly orange last night
Totally bizarre online Doc appointment this morning. If I pay the extra for out of hours I expect the call to be then, eh? Missing a course I actually really wanted to do. Bollocks.
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