On the one hand, it's great to feel useful and to be doing stuff for family.
On the other, I totally forgot how easily drained I can get by being around loud people all the time. @_@
As much as I want to wean myself off screens, I am also glad I brought my devices...
:(
So, G has just passed. I'm glad we could see it coming. May he live on through my aunt's other dog's jumper.
The thing I wish I got about cancer is how it happens. What happened in G's body? Was it something he ate, something in the environment or something in his genetics? What made those cells sneak through the cell cycle checkpoints? Early detection is the key, so could we have prevented it?
I will probably never know the answer to these questions in my lifetime.
But I'm so grateful for the time I got to spend with him.
It's always hard when a pet passes, they're part of the family.
Cancer is difficult with dogs too, because their heart beats so fast it can spread through the body quickly. On the flip side, I heard it means they can recover from strokes quickly as a result
Iโm so sorry. Itโs one of those things where there are contributing factors but we never really know why
Very early night. Goodnight everyone โค๏ธ
i hope you have a good sleep mate :)
sleep well and may you have sweet dreams
12 bucks for a rump steak. Gotta love a country pub.
I have yet to find out if I am lucky or it's just really bad...
It was ok.
Too Good To Go app is actually damn good. Basically you can place an order at participating places to get a "surprise" bag of any food that's still good but they haven't sold. It's pick-up only as far as I can tell.
Got all this, and more that's in the oven heating up (this is two surprise bags) for $15.
that looks really good, and you can choose different places for different cuisines
good idea all round
At what point do I get worried my neighbour (whose name I don't even know) isn't on a long holiday and make a welfare call?
If you are worried enough to ask the question here you're worried enough to make a welfare call.
Call it through to police on 000 - it might not seem like enough of an "emergency", but it is something that gets organised via 000. Don't worry you are wasting police time, they do a lot of welfare checks and there is almost never something actually wrong, but some of the time someone has fallen and is lying on the floor in desperate need of help and organising the check saves their life.
If theyโre someone you usually see getting about regularly and you havenโt for a while, you could always call the non-emergency line and see what they think
Trying to not become known as the local curtain twitching nutter. Maybe she does this every year or two? Argh.
To become the local curtain twitching nutter (CTN) you need to be calling in repeatedly, probably for multiple neighbours. A real CTN calls 000 weekly as a minimum, but if you are properly commited to it requires multiple calls a day.
Itโs a relief to know that peering through the front curtains occasionally when thereโs a noise doesnโt classify me as a CTN, even if I feel like one ๐คฃ
I'm not a CTN. I prefer going outside with my binoculars and a step ladder.
Go knock on the door and explain that you were worried as you hadn't seen them in a while.
This is the way. If you know any of the other neighbours you could ask if they know anything. If no explanation, then proceed to calling for welfare check.
Check to see if mail is piling up and whether bins have been moved in a while, knock on the door a few days in a row maybe, see if you see or hear anything.
And donโt be afraid to call.
Mail is a good point. I now have a name.
Back in Melbourne ๐ญ I love this city but ๐ญ
Windy.
My security camera alerted me to a cardboard box crossing my driveway, and on our walk we followed a couch cushion blowing down the footpath. I also have a new collection of rubbish blown into the corner of my yard where it tends to gather (fortuitously it is the corner I keep the rubbish bins in).
Melbcatโs kidney disease is progressing, probably because she canโt eat the medical food, doesnโt want to eat the home cooked medical diet or food with phosphate binder in it, and doesnโt like the low phosphate food I found. She only wants high protein food that are bad for her kidneys and my options for her intolerances are limited.
But thereโs hope. Iโm going to get her phosphate binders compounded so either they taste better or itโs a format I can directly dose her with. And thereโs a different flavour of low phosphate non-chicken food she likes!!!
Expensive but this is why I pinch pennies so hard. Iโm going to buy her this food
you are such a good cat mum ๐ญ
farken google sheets keeps shitting up my work screen suggesting I add pizzaz with tables!
Why donโt they take some of that AI they keep stuffing everywhere, get it to look at the data, realise itโs not table data and then shove it up their arseholes sideways
Slept better again! So maybe taking the pill at 5am is a winner.
Fingers crossed
Had a vet house call. Apparently Ms Gibson is starting to get a little too "fluffy".
The patient was not amused lol
Its her winter fur....
Iโll pass on the message lol
That's great about your sleep. I've heard meds can interfere if you take them at the wrong time
I didn't pay enough attention to the recipe for the last meal kit item I was going to make for dinner and just assumed it would be in the typical 30-60 mins timeframe. But it is slow cooked for at least 2 hours. So beef stew has now been reschedulted for tomorrow night and I've got some sausages and bread rolls defrosting for tonight instead.
I've been noticing a lot of billboard ads from banks about scam and fraud prevention. I wonder if there's a new wave of paranoia about these things from AI because there seems to be more than usual
Whenever I have a joint, I don't get the munchies. I can see how you can, I just don't feel the need to. Is there something wrong with me?
I remember one of the first joints I had after a few bevvies, got munchies, got an ice cream pizza. That didn't end well.
Beer then grass you're on your arse, grass then beer you're in the clear!
When I first started smoking weed I used to get the munchies bad. Eat until I was sick sometimes, my smoking friends were the same and we all enabled each other. It doesn't help that certain foods taste great when you're baked. Then came a time the craving for food just stopped completely and it doesn't happen anymore (although I rarely smoke these days).
Old age.
I just smoke occasionally for medicinal purposes.
I drink my coffee too slow while working so it always end up cold before I finish it and have to microwave it to be warm again. It's a shameful habit but I can't seem to drink it faster. I remember at my last job, others would guzzle their coffee like it was water. I'm a sip, forget and sip again type person.
same, don't worry about it, I don't, it's my coffee and I'm the one drinking it, not them
Same problem here.
One thing that might help is getting a coffee cup with a lid on it to keep it warm/hot for longer.
So fun to draw
O Yarrabyte, Yarrabyte, whence art thou Yarrabyte?
Denied thy Briongloid and refused thy calling.
Or if thou wilt not, be but sworn my request
And Iโll no longer be a Spudtato.
Bubs has a uti and is having sneezing fits. Back to the vet! I also need to get one of her meds compounded so I can make her take it.
olive bread is in oven , sausages will go in oven once the bread is done
that's bread and dinner for tomorrow too, tomorrow will be a busy run around day for me ๐
Something I didn't anticipate when I stopped taking suboxone, was that there would be days where I was neither happy nor sad.
Just.. Neutral.
It's an alien feeling.
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Painkillers for my toe and back please.
this milk allergy is making me utterly miserable, the meal replacement shakes , while so good for dieting just do not agree with me so I stopped , and then I had bread which had milk in it, the olive spread had milk, so that made me flare up again
I am going to have read labels carefully
in the meantime, to cheer myself up I;m going to make some olive bread, it's delicious and I know it will have no dairy ๐ธ
Right there with you. I miss dairy so much.
If you wanted suggestions
Nuttelex is the gold standard dairy free margarine but for cheap bulk option the Coles โregular spreadโ is also pretty safe for me. You can also do as Italians do and dip the bread in olive oil.
There is plant based protein powder from Natureโs Way but I donโt know if they still sell the unflavoured variety (which I preferred since it doesnโt contain artificial sweeteners) and it doesnโt have any added vitamins or anything. I know they do have flavoured varieties like strawberry or chocolate.
Bulk Nutrients probably has vegan meal shake options but from what I remember my other intolerances precluded them so I donโt have any specific options to recommend
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