we got some bad news on Punkin on Thursday, there was a lump. With his other health issues what we thought was another year or two dropped to months.

Yesterday we got the blood results. we're now looking at weeks, possibly days, and having to make some hard decisions

It hurts.

Happy birthday to me

Happy birthday to me

Holy shit I've had too many

Time to go to fucking sleep

Posted on the wrong thread. Pre coffee, apologies.

Good morning to everyone except those who don't take their backpacks off a crowded train/tram in peak hour where everyone is squished like marshmallows

Got some feedback from the ABC correspondent. He complimented my writing and asked me to narrow my focus down to moving from sobriety to where I am today.

Also, cat that's high on brushies:

I'm feeling ok. I am going to the shops for a bit. Wish me luck. 😬🤞

Scrap cardboard might be good to practice paint on. I just have to cut a piece, clear somewhere to work, start learning to mix, not get any on the cat... collapses onto face

Annoyingly I'm interested but just weirdly stuck

Edit: Also I walked in the kitchen and got a tiny piece of broken glass to the heel. Wtf. I haven't broken anything in a very long time and vacuumed recently so it must have been tracked in from outside.

Edit 2: I've done a quick vacuum of the area to make sure Melbcat doesn't step on any glass splinters. She's still hiding in the dark bathroom. I'll let her rest.

::: spoiler Art rambles I've cut a flap of cardboard from a box headed for recycling, torn a piece of printer paper into small strips to swatch paint comparisons onto, and grabbed a paper bowl and a wooden spoon to use as a 'palette' and 'palette knife'. (Sorry. I'm just kind of in a major pinch for energy/physical ability - I am at least trying to avoid plastics.) I wish I had some newspaper or a drop sheet but I'll do it on the table beside my bed and be very careful.

That's the prep. If I stop now and pile them onto the cleared side table I'll at least be ready for next time.

The cardboard is light brown but that's ok. It's actually good because it gives a starting midtone. A little light but it could work when making desaturated 'dusty' yellows, greens and greys for Australian bushland. And because it desaturated there'll be a lot of mixing of the same colours into each other, so that creates a colour harmony?

I don't know. I'm just copying the artist I watch on Youtube. :::

DRUNK ON A TRAM DING DING

Today's preserving efforts: Marinated capsicum and peach jam with apricot & grape.

If anyone here is playing helldivers 2 on ps5, hit me up!

No sonnets written,
Too many rules for rhyming,
Autumn's haiku time.

I guess the cost of living issues are affecting protestors. They are on a budget!

I was hoping I had enough apricot in the freezer to make an apricot jam today, but I only had a tiny bit. So today's jam is peach with apricot and grape. Future planned jams are strawberry, mixed berry and peach/plum/cherry mix.

Stupid midnight munchies ruining my chance at a fasted blood test.

When I wake up the first thing I do... EGGS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seP1w3XPBfo

Time to relax.

Was given a work laptop today but is heavily locked down by restrictions on windows 11.

Been creatively trying to bypass some of the restrictions, now if only I could at my own background image, that would be nice.

I’ll have to do some research to see if there’s a way to override the organisation’s logo.

Melbcat has been crying on and off all day and looking uncomfortable. Very unusual for her who never even really meows. I've made a vet appointment for tomorrow.

I have been reading a book about back medicine

TIL that most diagnoses and prognoses of back injury and sciatica are based on American insurance actuarial tables and insurance guidelines and not scientific research.

I watched the movie The New World today.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhj4b5CzyhU

I often think that Australia and all of us here under the Wallace Line are the normal world and that the rest of the world are the strange ones. And why shouldn't I think like that. Why should I adopt the view of the Palearctic or Nearctic that their world is "The World". When I travelled and lived overseas their world was the strange world.

I suppose it depends where you grow up.

pretty sure the city is crook. A whole bunch of sneezing and sniffling on the train and in the station. I'm still fighting off daycare germs myself.

in hamburgers

Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋

Why did I go out today!? It's too hot, I look like a sweaty pig on the tram rn