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Adoption Certificate for Nellie, the Daily Thread numbat (with thanks to @Catfish)
Been relaxing this weekend. Time to hit the job search full time again next week. Here we go!!! Something will come through now that everyone is back hopefully.
In other news, I'm playing guitar for my friends spoken word performance. It's been really interesting writing music to that instead of making songs.
i have donned pants. This is a sunday achievement
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I put on a bra! ( also other clothes )
have watched/finished watching 4 movies so far today.
Just cold enough for a fire so I've lit one and am in the process of burning various stuff too sensitive to go into the recycling bin.
The cats are ecstatic, the little heat hogs.
About to shave my beard off for the first time in years, being sick has made it go all weird and brittle and it's massively irritating my skin so it's got to go. At least I can't go anywhere so no one has see me without it since it'll grow semi back by the end of the week.
...it may have ended with His Lordship realising he married a covert oompa-loompa, but my first goes at brick cutting and wall building went rather well methinks.
!spoiler
Other party outbid me - she named my top price and I wasn't prepared to go further, especially since the body corporate was demanding painting and gutter and downpipe replacement about the time I moved in.
Ah well, I had a feeling I wouldn't get it and a lot of places will be coming onto the market in the next few weeks.
I have a pretty sore back. ๐ญ Will put on my comfyest PJs, take drugs and watch a million movies over the next few days
Hugs to you. A nice little tipple might help those drugs work a little bit better. Just saying.
I did a COVID test and it came back negative but still coughing my face off today. Decided I wouldn't go to dinner tonight and cough all over the place. Think I might nap.
I drew a thing and it looked like a thing. Nice. I could learn to art so well if I could just focus. If only you had regular manageable dailies and could see skill points racking up in real life.
(I'm not downloading Habitica.)
As long as it wasn't a penis I'd like to see what you drew. Others might like to see penises though. Nothing wrong with that.
One day, I hope I can be as cool as Spock
Study success! First draft has been completed. I'm going to have a break for lunch, walk Mr Woof (always a great way to let my brain rest and quietly process things in the background) and have another look at it later this afternoon before submitting it. I even have a sensible number of words, there is only one section that will require much trimming.
Ugh. I fed the catkin at 6pm and napped, woke up at midnight to see she hadn't eaten her food and so hadn't taken her medication.
Removed it and gave her half of her usual dose to tide her over til 6am (mixed into some of her old Fancy Feast Royale) and she ate it. So she just suddenly doesn't like the particular flavour that makes up half the stash of food I bought and it's messing with her meds schedule. She started getting sooky, went between different trays and had the runs so she may have stress induced cystitis. I gave her some anti inflammatory pain meds to help. Also tried to give the other half of the usual pain meds but she won't eat it.
If she keeps this fussy eating up she's going to need her medication syringed into her mouth twice daily to ensure she gets it instead of doing it the easy way :(
I'd also taken her off the Zylkene to see if it actually does anything or whether the cost of that would be better off going to monthly Solensia injections. Jury is out on the Zylkene but she's seeming a bit stiff and I think she would really benefit from the injections.
Edit: She just squatted on the carpet and I wasn't fast enough to get a towel under her. Blood, definitely the cystitis. I've blotted it up, soaked the spot with enzyme spray and have a few towels ready in case I need to save the bedding. Heating her tiny wheat bag for her tummy. We're snorgling now
Sky glorious.
What up humans!!!?
Only lost one golf ball..
Found 3 newer ones..
...
Profit.
Just re-enabled my Work alarm for the first time since before Christmas. Sad times.
Ok, dog has been walked. Breakfast has been consumed. I will now sit down and do the work on my assignment that should have been done yesterday. I may need to tie myself to the chair, because my brain is already starting to come up with other things to do instead.
Had a weird suspicion but tonights dinner of beef and vegetable soup confirmed it, all warm/hot food since catching covid tastes really spicy to me... While I like spicy food, having every meal be spicy is going to get old quickly, especially as I transition back to solids (yay ulcers finally healing!).
I'd love it if this COVID cough could kindly fuck right off. I should get some lozenges.
Anyways, it's my dad's 70th birthday tomorrow but we're doing dinner tonight. On brand for me, I'm about to go and buy him a gift today at the last minute. Going to get him a Ring doorbell and chime, and I'll pay for a year of the subscription service for him. He has been talking about getting one for years.
I shouldn't be contagious anymore I think with my COVID but I'm wondering if I should mask up anyway. Hmm.
At the risk of being 'that person' you should probably be sure you're no longer contagious. It'd be rough to have at 70. And it's never a bad idea to mask up.
Oh, Felicia, where the fuck are you?
(Yes, I named my car.)
She's probably been out all night raging, and is currently in a carpark somewhere feeling really hungover and trying to remember what she got up to.
Fingers crossed.
I wouldn't have thought that a Volvo with some age on it was much of a target for joy riders, so maybe was nicked to order or for spare parts? The recent spate of thefts makes me think that someone has recently moved in to the area and has identified all the 'soft targets'.
I am logged in on the computer as myself finally!
I realised that Chrome now has a time setting when you clear cookies, and I had to change that.
Not a good weekend for dye. First the skirt I bought specifically to emblacken ended up not being all cotton so itโ now has stupid teal stripes, then my hair turned out rather insipid. Best not attempt eyebrows, I might turn into Spock.
Was up with Melbcat last night and fell asleep with the light on... My bills -_-
FYI Coles currently has half price on a bunch of Rexona deodorants (lowest are priced at $2.75 and $4). Debating it... A few of the scents would give me a headache. There's an 'invisible pure' roll on that might be less smelly but all of the ones that claim not to leave white marks suck. But the deodorants not on sale are $4.50 or $5 at the lowest and $8.50 at the highest. Wtf.
Oh well. Guess I try the least worst sounding roll on for science and report back in the 'What's Good At Coles' thread when it drops.
The special for 2 bags of brand kitty litter is on again so I might grab it. It works out about the same as the generic Woolies litter and with Coles I managed to get a $2 delivery slot. (I alternate depending what I need)
Edit: OI. It looks like they didn't apply the special on the litter >:(
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My name is The_Procrastinata and I have a problem. Itโs been zero days since I stayed up past midnight playing Hogwarts Legacy.
The game is great, and Iโm really enjoying it. Pesky things like work and sleep keep getting in the way of me playing it.
Playing golf with the p's later on today. Been a while... had a little practice chip in the backyard and I've already lost a ball.
Looking forward to it though. At the very worst it'll be a nice walk.
I watched Bardo for the second time. Without going into details it's like a wonderful magical Fellini movie . Probably my fave movie art style.
And now I am thinking of one of my fave movie scenes of all time ( the names are a coincidence ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iRKnmgSmcio
Assignment finished and submitted. Module quiz finished. I thought it was going to take me way longer, so I now have an unexpectedly free evening ๐
I have one more assignment and quiz due in a couple of weeks for this subject, then I have a few weeks break before the next subjects start.
