An early good morning to all. Just want to let you know I really appreciate this place. The banter, support, friendly advice, cute animal pics, all of it. It really is a wholesome corner of the internet. May you all have a superb weekend.
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2nd doggo walk done.
Still hopeless.
He does attract the ladies though, just not when he's passed out under a table with his face in a puddle of drool.
Zzzzzz ๐ง
aw, what's not to love. ๐
Public Service Announcement for people who use drink bottles with straws in them: you need to get a brush and clean inside the straw regularly. If you use the bottle for liquids that are not water you need to clean them every day. If the bottle has a built in piece that you put inside your mouth you need to clean inside that too.
I've just been cleaning up some stuff from lost property so it can go to the op shop and some of those bottles are really nasty inside, with algae and mould growing inside the straw and mouthpiece.
Ewwwwww
But thanks for the psa!
So true! I use those little brush thingies that come with reusable straws and then put the straws and the tops through the dishwasher. The bottles have to be hand washed because they're stainless steel and can't go through the dishie. I've learnt the hard way that some bottles have these overly complex flip out parts and whatnot that are just ridiculous and not worth buying because, while kinda cool and fancy, you just cannot clean every part of every part.
Also important is to let them dry out thoroughly before the next time you use them. I've got a collection of them which I rotate. Be prepared to replace them every few months. Man, the bottles I've bought over the last 13 years ๐ธ It's like pegs: when you've got kids you need 2 or 3 times as many as you think you'll need!
Migraine + cat purr = relief
Edit: It actually worked. I thought I'd be bed ridden again today.
hope you feel better when you wake up
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smoothing out those errant alpha waves with cat purrs or classical music really works
Miniest wanted to go for a walk today. I really didn't feel like it but went anyway. Then while we were at the local park some relos turned up with their girls and we were there for much longer than I wanted to be. I wasn't in the mood to be social but I willed myself through it. I've been so tired lately, on the weekends I feel like I've got just enough to push through the laundry and cook a meal or two and then anything else feels like an imposition. My social battery seems always on about 50% or less. I try to do something with the kids every weekend otherwise it's not fair for them, but I'm sick of having to push and force myself through everything.
From what you post here, I think you're doing an amazing job with everything that's on your plate. I think it takes an incredible amount of strength to do everything that you're doing. Truly โค๏ธ
Please try to take some time for yourself. You need it and you absolutely deserve it. Easier said than done I know, but if it goes on like this for a long time it'll take more of a toll on you.
Maybe for the next couple of weeks, you can take the kids out on the weekend on alternating weeks?
I don't know if that would help, but maybe it's worth a shot? It would at least recharge your social battery for a while.
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so many hugs
time to ask husband to do specific things if he's up to it, to ease some of the burden
Of course youโre tired. Youโre working a job plus doing all the housework and all of the childcare by yourself. :(
weight loss continues, I think I'm getting my face shape back, it's supposed to be oval, not round ๐ซ
Unfortunately my face shape changes very little, I just grow extra chins. This happens with disappointing ease as a result of having been an obese child in late primary school.
I'm loving your gradual weight loss; it really is the only way to get it off healthily and keep it off. Go Goonsy you good thing! ๐ช๐ผ
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I miss the people from labouring jobs so much :(
Packing continues. Onto the kitchen now. Finishing packing clothes, just leaving enough out for a few days.
The cats are enjoying the sunny day out on the terrace. ๐๐โโฌ๐โโฌ
I just dropped my soup, and my attempt to catch it just meant I threw it against the cupboard door instead of having it go directly on the floor. I called Mr Woof hoping for some assistance, but he just looked at it like "I don't see how your floor soup is anything to do with me" and walked off.
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Belated Happy Equinox.
Equinox... equine ox... a horse-like cow.
This has been today's That's Definitely Where The Word Comes From, No Need To Look It Up.
Nah, its "equi+nox" = nuts that split in half. Or possibly serves of poison (like in noxious).
Also wrong. It means Equine (horse) Nox (not) - literal translation: Not Horse (Day). Traditionally this was a day that farmers would let their horses rest, and the humans would perform the laborious tasks normally left to horses. Such as, pulling ploughs, taking hauls from the market home, etc.
That actually listens. Its (almost) opposite end of the year to Melbourne Cup Day, when horses work harder than usual. So it all balances out. I like this theory.
now you bastards have made me look it up
directly from Medieval Latin equinoxium "equality of night (and day)," from Latin aequinoctium,
A common misconception.
For the third time a so called friend has scheduled a belated birthday do on my actual birthday. That will be a Regrets, none at all.
"Sorry can't come, doing stuff for my birthday" is a valid reason not to go.
Fuckers.
Heeeeeeeeyo
I had a glorious time today wandering around Clunes at the Booktown festival and buying second hand books.
It's continuing tomorrow if you fancy getting out of Melbourne.
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Just went out and bought a new vacuum, and been using those moth pheromone glue traps. Seems to be doing the trick!!
I swear to Ahura Mazda that I'm never moving to a place with natural fibre carpet ever again.
If I can't get rid of them with the vacc, pheromone glue traps, and white vinegar, then I will contact the RE - preferably after I get a job and can afford to get Mickey into a cattery while a hardcore pest controller comes in. I'm not giving Mickey neurological damage and death with pyrethroids ffs
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Give me your most overrated actor that somehow is critically acclaimed.
Mine is Sean Penn. Apart from being an arrogant douche that beats women, his acting is pretty shit.
Dude just mumbles his lines and acts surprised at random shit.
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The birds wonโt stop kick flipping their water bowl to the ground. At least itโs no longer humans doing it? -_-
These fucking tree suckers are now coming up in my backyard.
Yesterday I used the rotary tool to drill holes in the bin but I really donโt know if I have the energy to start raking leaves and putting stuff in there.
Extended complaining
Iโm feeling so frustrated at how disability and other environmental barriers make hobbies so difficult, especially outdoorsy ones. Before things got like this and before I lived here I used to enjoy forest walks, gardening, tai chi, handiwork (on top of the solitary indoor stuff which is now getting worn thin). Edit: Also I gave nightlife a go but decided it wasnโt really for me.
You get the picture.
It leads to being terminally online which wouldnโt be so bad in the circumstancesโฆ but there seems to be a massive generational divide and culture shifts that make it the opposite of good.
And yeah, the internet always had a shittiness to it but there were at least some norms around managing it then (like โdonโt feed the trollsโ โnot your personal armyโ โlurk moarโ and โdo not go online and talk to adults while announcing that youโre a childโ) and Iโm finding the behaviour to be ruder and more maladaptive now. The users are inappropriately young and somehow more obnoxious than they used to be. More invasive.
(And yes, this is an expected function of getting older, but I have never liked kids and teens. Iโve been a cranky old person since I was 8 years old. This crop just have managed to worsen or invent new bad behaviours. Social media is getting very toxic.)
The people I actually talk to are drifting away.
I really feel like all of the online platforms except this one are just a bad fit for me, and I feel like the area I live in is also pretty incompatible for me.
Plus Iโm in pain all the damn time. -_- Quality of life is pretty low right now.
I could join online disability groups but I really donโt want to. Thereโs little new information that I canโt Google and I donโt want it to be my identity and the centre of my life, you know?
I have other things Iโd do but Iโm not currently up to it. Not really workable until I get my health managed and possibly move out of my current shithole. Which may never happen.
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It feels like I only woke up 2 hours ago.
It's a lovely day to be outside today. I've just been out taking some cuttings from my rosemary, hopefully I will have somewhere decent to plant them when I move. I have blue, pink and white flowering varieties. The blue flowering one I originally planted over 20 years and three houses ago, mostly moving in a pot, but now growing in the garden along with a child plant grown from a cutting.
I've also pegged down a bit of thyme into a pot for it to hopefully root so I can take that too, but I only grew it from a seed last year so I'm not too concerned with that one. My mint tends to grow rampant in the garden so I'll probably grab a few rooted pieces of that to take with me too.
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But mom, I don't wanna go to work!
Sky yellow.
I had a brilliant day. Sun. Got bought two coffees by different friends and got a puppy cuddle and a toddler cuddle (don't worry I know the puppy and the toddler). Had an amazing haul at the salvos - dishes to put under my pot plants, a denim jacket and a nice blazer for work, even a bloody calculator that I have needed for ages. Shopping done and food washed and away. Kitchen cleaned. I am ded.
Only dark spot was mould on the pizza base I was planning on cooking ...boo. having a wine and thinking about what to cook instead...
I love these autumn days.
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Gon cook some dumplings
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