Day 37: The chicken, it haunts my dreams. The rain is gravy and underfoot; broccoli and green beans.
So it goes.
Buck bcc buckaaaawck
Mate, I think you need to get out in the fresh air a bit. Or stop listening to Hot August Night. earworm special
Chicken is quite an affordable lean meat but could you occasionally mix it up? A steak with low cal mustard sauce or something, or salmon if it doesn’t stink up a small flat. Salad with vinaigrette on the side. Just so it isn’t identical meals forever
What would you do? A partner’s sibling having a wedding an another State assigns you cake duty. This means buying a weddin-ish cake, getting it to an airport, lap flying it for about 2hr, a 2hr train ride, and something more to venue.
I would say “no can do”
Guess what?
What?
Horrible Ex actually did do it
Guess what?
He’s an ex
He’s a goose.
I would order and buy the cake at the destination
That would be sensible
Nine colesworth mudcakes covered in canned whipped cream then pour Pauls custard over it.
Whoever came up with this is on either end of the intelligence bell curve, but I really want to try this now
Bugger the weddingish cake. Ask them straight out if there’s a colesworth handy where you can buy a packet of lamingtons before getting to the venue. You won’t have a kitchen, the transport will be extremely anxiety inducing, and you’ve got no idea what facilities are available at destination for assembly/decoration. Not to mention the microbiology aspect of transporting food over such distances. In quantities appropriate for a wedding. This is a bloody thoughtless requirement loaded onto you. Lamingtons, packet lamingtons, is all they deserve.
Bonus. The sister involved was a chef.
It occurs to me that the airline might not let you take a cake on board even on your lap. Nowadays.
They did in the way back when this applies to
What if you tell them it’s your emotional support cake?
I feel emotionally supported when I eat cake, so this would be acceptable to me
lol what? Surely you wouldn’t hand carry a wedding cake that far?
“Place all metal objects, laptops, and wedding cakes in the tray!” 😂
I’m not kidding. Peculiar Ex actually did do that.
Depends on how much I like the soon-to-be sibling in law.
If I like them, if try to find a local place that does wedding cakes and I would try to get there a day or so early to pick it up before wedding.
If I don’t like them, I’d tell them to take a long walk off a short pier.
I did like her before this. The multi -state ask utterly baffled me. It ended up being part a last straw situation.
That seems like an inefficient way to go about it, and inviting disaster. One knock could smear or crush it, if it doesn’t fall victim to turbulence or get dropped. Also after all that the freshness might be questionable.
Why not have a caterer or bakery in the same state deliver it?? Or at least them buying something there. They should choose and organise their own wedding cake so they know they like it.
This sounds like a very silly request
Unaddressed mail is wild. I just opened a letter addresses to our address but with no name, not even a return name (although strangely, a return address). It’s in cursive and I can’t read cursive but I’m pretty sure it’s some sort of conspiracy theory. All I can decipher is something about new governments and children of God. They also addressed this letter as “dear neighbour” even though the return address is 9 suburbs away
Even stranger - it’s a proper letter, like with stamps and an envelope and all the works. But the letter is a page ripped out of a ruled notebook
Edit: I searched the address and it seems to be some sort of weird gated Jehovah witness community thing. Absolutely wild
I searched the address and it seems to be some sort of weird gated Jehovah witness community thing.
Free toilet paper!
I was gonna say it’ll be something religious, and then I read your edit lol.
If you didn’t tear the envelope, put it right back and mark as NATA.
Unfortunately I did tear it, so I’m gonna save it til halloween then write some incomprehensible scribbles on it in red ink and stick it to the housemates door 😂
You, I like you and your petty horror mission. 🖤
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CBM advertisement. I am totally not admitting to just buying several kilograms of milo. They also currently have cheap period knickers if you are a size 12, and a metric butttonne of truffle stuff.
We know you are a Milo whore, don’t lie to us.
I rarely touch it, it’s all for Boyo’s morning mocha. 😹
Milo or Jarrah or Indulge Your Senses Drinking Chocolate?
Got to be Milo. I detest Nestle, But admit nothing else tastes quite the same.
Ok I haven’t tried it in a mocha but will do now since I need to buy chocy anyway. Thanks catfish
Every time i see it written I think “Baroque nickers”.
I believe that’s still well in the spilt crotch pantaloons timezone.
I remember a couple of years ago, I burned my immune system to the ground doing sport and gym, and caught pneumonia.
So what did this genius do? Not wait long enough before he went back to physical stuff and caught it again a week later.
This is what I remind myself of when I’m getting antsy sitting around sick now.
Rest is a kind of work , even tho we aren’t moving our limbs doesn’t mean we aren’t working. Rest is letting your immune system focus on fighting bugs and rest lets your body repair itself.]
I cried with frustration at having to lay in bed 23.5 hours a day for 8 weeks, but it was the only way my vertebrate would mend, only way my spine and nerves would reduce swelling. Rest. Let the body repair.
Just rest.
You’re right. I’m taking your advice and lounging in bed and reading.
Might bring the laptop in here to play some games.
Thank you ❤️
so many hugs, let your body do it’s work 🤗
It’s cold today.
Got a dressing gown on and a hot water bottle on my lap.
Hardest part of my day is going to be taking out the bins today.
I wore out my old gown. 😞 Was a real good peter alexander one too. Bought a new gown yesterday and I felt guilty, like I betrayed the old one. It’s cute tho, it’s thick velour and has dalmations
I’m almost tempted to put on the oodie but I’m not sure if it’s cold enough for that yet.
It’s not betrayers. Think of it as passing on the torch and inheriting the old gown’s purpose.
My oodie has koalas on it. I think my other one has toast?
Got two old wisdom teeth removed this morning (not impacted, just decayed).
Total time spent in dental chair…28 minutes.
5 minute chat explaining what’s what
20 minutes of injecting local anaesthetic and waiting for it to kick in
3 minutes of the smoothest tooth extraction I’ve ever had.
Now the suffering begins
Wow. Mine was all 4 in hospital and I was bruised green & purple from eyeball to nipples
Mine have been out for over 20 years and were just regular teeth. No deep surgery was required thankfully.
My missus had hers out about 15 years and the had the same experience as you.
Simultaneously discovered my penicillin allergy. Worst school holidays ever!
I had no wisdom teeth. Considering the pathway my life has taken, it all makes sense.
Gelato is your friend.
I had mine out under a general aesthetic. Went private. Sent me home with the good drugs. I was high for a week. Didn’t feel a thing.
May I offer a snap lock bag of frozen peas for pain relief?
So I’m looking to buy more nerd electronics from core, and apparently if you choose their cheapest shipping option (conventional mail), they don’t cover anything lost in transit. That has to be illegal, right? Their cheapest shipping option isn’t even free
hahaha yeah they can claim that all they like. But if they can’t prove they even sent the bloody thing they’re fucked.
Tried some locals? There’s little bird electronics and pakronics
Little bird is also based in NSW (core is too). Paktronics don’t carry what I’m after. LB or core are pretty much the only options
Here is chonky Ted fast asleep after dinner.
I’m pretty confident we’ve hit the point where Tinyest is trying to talk to us not just saying words because he can. You can see him actively trying to communicate. We got “Ta” very clearly last night for the first time so we’re up to 3 clear words.
Its a real shock when they go from “baby” to “toddler” in your brain.
Wait until he learns ‘No’. Won’t be long.
I thought ‘why’ was the most painful one
why?
Because I said so.
why?
Today on audible I am listening to* Stolen Focus by Johann Hari * read by Johann Hari.
irl I listen to, watch or read the video/movie/documentary or book 3 times if I want it to stick.
In the United States, teenagers can focus on one task for only sixty-five seconds at a time, and office workers average only three minutes. Like so many of us, Johann Hari was finding that constantly switching from device to device and tab to tab was a diminishing and depressing way to live. He tried all sorts of self-help solutions—even abandoning his phone for three months—but nothing seemed to work. So Hari went on an epic journey across the world to interview the leading experts on human attention—and he discovered that everything we think we know about this crisis is wrong.
That looks interesting! I have the attention span of a goldfish these days, which is hugely frustrating. Does it offer some solutions?
it offers a million solutions 😊
the main one is trust your gut, you know when you are doing something you shouldn’t and you know what to do
of course , that doesn’t make it easy
I know I’m really weak, that’s why I have close to zero apps on my phone, I don’t use phone banking nor do I use any email. No shopping apps, no myki, no reddit and i’m not on any other social media, I don’t look at news, nothin’ . If I go out away from my lap top I’m away from all the computer stuff. I’m using my phone even less now that I got myself a lovely new watch.
My focus is still not great but that’s a ptsd thing and a loss of practice thing.
So that $25 Android Auto Wireless adaptor I got from AliExpress… Totally works @TinyBreak@aussie.zone 😳
Wild
Great to hear! Lets hope it stays that way.
I’ve now pulled out my old rotary beaters. Infinitely variable speed and a free aerobic workout with every bowl mixed!
Instructions unclear, tongue stuck in beaters
Instructions unclear. Beaters slip, bowl ends up on the floor. Swearing commences.
this is why I buy mixing bowls with a rubber foot
and lean up against kitchen bench
😂
I went to a poor school that didn’t have electric beaters so we were taught to dampen a tea towel, twist it, make it into a circle, then secure the bowl on top and beat away.
You appear to have seen me cook somehow
I made this.
Kind of like a smores but with stale anzac biscuits, marshmallow and raspberry jam so more like a warm Monte Carlo. It didn’t disappoint.
God that looks amazing!!!
It looks impolite. Excuse you.
The marshmallow tried to escape. It didn’t get far.
It is magnificent.
Hehehe. Thanks mate.
Neighbours beware, CHESS soundtrack ON Catfish vocals Active!
