First time holding a bubs.
easier than holding a cat.
First time holding a bubs.
easier than holding a cat.
awww ๐
I don't mind being an arm rest
Edit: My temu haul is fucking incredible!!!!!!!
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
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.
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.
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.
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 ๐
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.
Light and easy are well tolerated by my older clients.
10/10 rant except for the part where it is a very real problem ๐ the dickhead husband of my favourite aunt is a bit like this - he can cook some very basic meals and a couple of overspiced dishes. But it doesn't matter how sick his wife is, he cooks when he feels like it (esp if there are guests to show off to), but she is expected to always cook. Really grinds my gears. Your old man might need a bit of a slap in the face about the reality of the situation...
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 peopleโs time.
Nope, this is someone else entirely. I think I need new friends honestly.
Today at the Op Shop I found an original Les Paul and Mary Ford vinyl. I think it's mono. ๐ ๐ธ
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!?
Tonight's movie is Before Sunset. Goodnight all <3
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
The news feels like foreshadowing in a bad apocalypse movie and I still need to go to work
It felt a bit like this when I was working on my thesis preso yesterday. Does any of this matter? Maybe we will be in WW3 by the end of this week. Whatever...
It reminds me of this meme I saw when COVID started of a Venn diagram of 'still having to go to work' and 'the end of the world'. It feels like we're in that overlap again
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?
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.
day off today, no painting or hard housework , that's why I painted my nails sparkly orange last night
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.
I called in sick and my manager made me feel like a jerk for it ๐ญ
Saturday housework (indoors and outdoors).
Wanted to chill in the afternoon but fam wanted to go to High Point (kill me). At least food and coffe were okay AND it was indoors.
Yesterday wanted to chill, but son wanted to go to the gym and my neighbour asked me for some help (he's a good one, so of course I obliged).
Working from home today but cannot be arsed going a damn thing.
My manager went home sick and all my motivation followed him out the gate...
Daylesford was cold as hell, but I lived
26 years ago, when I was in prep/grade 1, our dance/music teacher had us sing and dance to Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In
26 years later, having never heard the song since, I can still remember how it goes.
Took the day off. If I feel better later I'll jump back online.
Fuck this.
With all the talk of Logies on tv I thought Iโd share this gemโฆ
I have had an obsession with 'toasted' wraps this week. 'Toasted' meaning I am too lazy to get the sandwich press out and clean it so I put a bit of cholesterol spread margarine in a small frying pan.
It came about after I learnt a sandwich shop in Richmond were charging $16 for a tuna melt. I tried making a tuna melt myself. Wasn't the best, but maybe that was because I didn't add lemon juice or celery.
Today was Vegemite and cheese, with a side of vegetables so I could feel better about my choices after consuming potentially too much salt. Cheese and tomato also good despite the water content of tomatoes. I wanna try mushrooms next, but I feel as though they might be too watery. Maybe some chicken.
Chicken, avo and cheese is a classic. Cheese, ham, pineapple, mushroom and tomato paste is a pizza wrap. Cheese, egg, bacon/ham is a breakfast wrap. So many possibilities.
Place near my work does an amazing cheese and mushroom toastie. They add in pesto and use WAY too much marg, but it's fucking delicious. I might need to go and get one for lunch...
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