Today is my “wash everything” day. All items of bedding inc. pillow and doona, and clothes, and my work backpack which is getting a little smelly. Going to take 4 loads but will be very content when I’m done
Even though I’ve been back in Perth a few years now, Aldi’s snow week here still amuses me:
None of the snow gear moves at all. This stuff would have been gone in the first few hours in Melbourne. I think this is actually the second week, too!
The ski gloves are excellent as bicycling gloves in cold weather - if Perf ever has any.
I saw my local Aldi team having a post-snow-sales celebration bbq out the back of the shop the other day.
another boring day of resting
I’m going to the chemist for more robitussin, any other chest infection things I should get?
Irish moss. Tastes like arse, will kill a cough stone dead so you can sleep
Garlic, horse radish and vit c if mucous is an issue. Will dry it out and stop the post nasal drip that makes you cough.
Maybe a humidifier/vaporiser if there’s an easy way to get one and mould isn’t a problem.
Other than that maybe some eucalyptus oil (bottle or spray) so you can put a little on the shower floor and breathe the vapour in when and if you’re up to a hot shower. (Be careful not to slip or let pets lick the oil.) The moisture thins and loosens the mucous so you can cough it out more easily. Get some Vicks if you’re not up to the shower.
Also easy foods so you can constantly keep eating while resting. Protein bars, Up N Go or premade protein shakes and salami/jerky if you can’t leave bed, tuna tins and soup if you’re more able to get up. Lots of protein. Lots of fluid and tea.
Also if you don’t have anyone to gently thump your back lean over the edge of your bed so gravity can help you cough your airways clear. Plenty of tissues to cough and spit into. Baby wipes and sanny. Bin nearby.
Hot water bottle for the chills and paracetamol for any fevers.
Edit: Also garlic and onion if you can eat them, especially in chicken soup
Source: Used to have frequent horrific bronchitis/chest infections
Humidifier and eucalyptus/tea tree oil. Just a bowl of boiling water and a towel over your head will do if you can’t get one. Liquorice is an expectorant too.
Like in Crocodile Dundee.
My dad’s cure was hot milk with butter, honey and garlic.
It won’t not work.
I feel both our dads are kind of in the ‘fuck that guy’ category. At least you live on the other side of the planet.
Replace the butter and garlic with fresh lemon juice and ~40% alcohol and we’re talking.
Funnily enough this recipe dates back to when I was a kid AND my old man is a full on alcoholic. This may be the only time that alcohol is not involved in a home remedy of his.
You’re not wrong about living far from him.
Haven’t spoken with him in a few years and feel like I’m missing nothing.
I just stopped talking to mine a few weeks ago. I realised every interaction was basically him shitting on me and being amused by it, and that I’m in my 40s now, am I going to listen to this shit for another 30 years?
I feel you.
My mum left him 5 years ago and I don’t miss him.
He hit me up for money a few years back and Iaighed him off. Ain’t heard from him since.
Feel bad for my kids cause wife’s dad is more of a fuck up than mine.
I have marketed.
I have procured
- fruit
- veg
- chorizo
- pork chops
- fresh fish
- felafels
- milk
- honey
- coffee
- bread
- soap
And a partridge in a pear tree
I’m zonked from the gym. Early dinner, some music making and video games then off to bed.
A pummeled charity koala and a crate of VB please
🥊🐨🍺
Going to the market. Requests will be taken
2 live quail and a bunch of chervil please
Lemon tart pls.
Churros if the truck is there. Extra sauce. And a 2nd hand book of art in the 17th century if easily available.
I do know just the chap to put you in touch with for the book. There’s a specific guy who’s exceptionally good for art books
Oooh please. Am researching rn for a private project. Dm me if possible.
One large rock.
^🪨^
Bacon and egg roll please
A job so I can get an orange friend for Gibson to boss around.
🐈
Beers, music, and the new update to Slice n Dice. Perf Saturday evening
What beer? I’m downing Pirate Life XPA and it’s goooood
I have so many pain meds can’t drink at all. 😔
We’ll drink on your behalf, worry not friend.
Plans for the day abruptly derailed by realisation of failing silicon job at base of shower wall right in the splash zone.
Try getting through marine epoxy grout you fucker
Still, shower pan under tiles should keep things waterproof unless the membrane has failed?
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60 year old house, 40 year old bathroom
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failure was at the transition between wall tiles and pan
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grout attachment on an oscillating tool?
Old stuff was straight silicone, so lots of swearing, picks, blades…but l’epoxie be situated in lovely clean voids and curing merrily away since 8:30 pm.
I can’t speak to epoxy grout, but I’ve been grouting recently and read on /ausreno that it takes a week or so to cure fully.
Yupples.
Was that for me? Generally f yuppies, but I don’t see the grout connection.
I always dreaded going to the post office on Saturdays because the queues would be long, the packages would be piled up everywhere and nobody had their shit ready when it was their turn. This morning however, only person in there was paying bills and there was a few tubs on the ground of packages but nothing like what it used to be. The purse strings are tight here in the inner north.
In other news there are far too many pictures of me in my new passport of varying sizes and colors. 0/10 do not recommend.
I stole the pics his lordship didn’t use last time he had his passport done and they’re left fir random encounters in strange places around the house. Unexpected husband!
Good night everyone 🐱
goodnight fluffybutt 😘
Up early today. Cleaned house (family effort), mowed the lawn, went to the gym, had GyG for dinner…now chillaxing with beers with my feet up.
Gotta appreciate the little things.
This kids gonna drive me insane and if he doesn’t the wife will. I said a 4pm nap was a bad idea, lo and behold who was right? 8pm and he won’t go to sleep. He’s gonna be up till 10pm again I can tell. And im a bad dad if I don’t do my part in helping fix a totally avoidable situation of my wife’s own creation.
Lie on your bed with baby in your arms. Breath slowly and rhythmically to imitate sleep . Baby will copy and fall asleep.
Bad dad, no.
Bad partner…maybe.
Parenting is full of mistakes and misjudgments.
You and your wife are in the same team and need a united front.
One fucks up, the other fixes it.
It gets worse when kids become toddlers and older.
Take it on the chin, help out and keep it in your pocket as a favour in the future 😁
I used to stay up late and play video games with my son next to me on the couch when he was little.
You got this mate.
I trimmed my beard, shaved, gave myself a haircut, showered and was seconds away from booking a room up on the border for the night but then all of my motivation just fell away. I might just stay home and save my money, then go for a drive and find some mountains and start a new audiobook tomorrow just for a day out.
I do need to source some lunch though.
