Please Goonie, can I have some more roast chicken
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Poor starving boy.
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Understandable… succulent and delicious roast chicken is one of my very favourite things.
curry pies have been reheated
Cleaned up and threw out all the vape shit. Chest still sore from that disposable one I bought today.
Hopefully everything’s back to normal tomorrow 🤞🏾
Keep one empty one to use as something to do with your hands when the need strikes. Helps a lot.
yes, all habits are sets of behaviours, keep some of the behaviours and it will be easier
like having decaf or milo instead of coffee after 1 pm 🫠
2 hour nap turned into 15 hour sleep oh yes
still sleeping a lot too, Seems that having only a few hours of fitful pained sleep for weeks on end wears a person out
Fire extinguishers - who knew? 30/50 - quite pleased with myself.
25/50
35/50. Unusually high for me, but I will admit there were a couple of lucky guesses in the mix.
45 woot woot
35/50 but like 3 were guesses
Was my night for the weird dreams - can’t remember the details of the first but there was some sort of seminar or similar being run or at least facilitated by the estate agent who sold the house. Mum was in it as well and I think surprised herself and everyone else by how well she was doing.
Second one I do remember was there was some sort of queue at what looked like the op shop where I donated a lot of the excess when I was cleaning out the place, and it was for a type of ice cream made in this really weird way that I doubt is possible, and a Karen type at the head of the line was having a rant because she didn’t think it should be available so no-one else should have it. You know the type.Breakfast 🍏🍎🍐🍊🍋🍈🫐🍓🍇🍉🍌🍒🍑🥭🍍🥥🥦🥑🫛🍆🍅🥝🥬🥒🌽🥕🥐🍠🫚🥔🧅🥯🍞🥖🥨🧀🧇🥞🧈🍳🥚🥓🥩🍗🍖🫓🍕🍟🍔🌭🥙🧆🌮🌯🥗🍲🍜🍝🥘🍛🍣🍱🥟🦪🍥🍘🍚🍙🐠🍤🪼🦀🐙 🍗🥮🍢🍡🍧🍰🧁🥧🍦🍨🎂🍮🍭🍬🍫🥜🌰🍪🍿🍯🥛☕️🍵🍺🍶🥤🧋🧃🥂🍷🥃🍸🍹🧉🔋
Bacon and egg roll with a large mug of tea plz chef
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Fried rice with sardines please
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Chip butty with tomato sauce and tea please.
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A massive steak and some potato salad please
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I had two really vivid dreams bathed in nostalgia and lovely warm vibes… The first I barely remember, except it had a very Harry Potter vibe and an incredibly rich and complex world with all kinds of back stories and secrets. Something about monsters and mazes. I briefly woke up wanting to go back to that world but ran out of plot. The second started out stressful because it was about middle school exams, but turned into this beautiful celebration with classmates with the school all lit up at night and people being lovely to each other. Ahh… 😌
…and now to GET UP AND FACE THE DAY!!! I am going to WALK to the other side of the suburb for a coffee and come back and then start looking at uni things!!!
I have coffee!
Freshly brewed. Profile today is chocolate fudge and raspberry.
Early lunch has been had too so I can relax
tiny patches of blue sky out there so I did some more repotting, those pots were still dry under the surface, we didn’t have much rain at all
Anyone know a good homemade solo recipe? I got sooo many lemons
I dunno about Solo, it would have artificial flavours and colours in it so you wouldn’t really get the same flavour from fresh lemons. But an alternate idea, you could look up recipes to make lemon cordial. Then mix with soda water to make a fizzy lemonade drink. Delicious!
this is the way
https://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/site/lemonade.htm
Also maybe lemon meringue pie? I actually found the old recipe I used in my teens. But it might be more efficient just to make a large amount of the lemon filling only, or lemon butter. That’s easier to store in jars and could use more lemons
Edit: I had issues uploading the jpg
Have a screenshot
The cat looks so upset at how inedible that haul is! So much delicious lemonade to be made out of that though, yummm.
Pretty much! 60 year old tree, so zero fucks and never ending fruit
We use this one, not fizzy but you could add soda water if you want. traditional lemonade
We actually have the ability to force cabonate :)
And when I have lots of lemons, I juice them all and freeze 1 cup portions in snap lock bags.
Do you want soft or hard? I suppose my hard recipe would be ok without the yeast, but probably not last as long.
Hard also good! I was gonna make soft and add vodka later for hard, but gimme whatcha got
Champion.
(Btw, have you ever made limoncello? Try with kumquats instead)
Congratulations! to Boyo who has poured half a bottle of pancake mix directly onto the stove top.
pre or post mix
Post
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Gas, electric or induction? Eeek for a Sunday morning.
Gas. Thankfully hasn’t seemed to get into the vent bits.
Ahhh jesus
Whew! Bullet dodged I guess.
Oh, that’s messy.
Yes….
Nearly better off waiting for it to cook, then peel it off!
I wish my rental had insulation lol
Off to the gym, then get ready for my interview tomorrow. Whilst in bed, nice and warm.
I did it! It took me a while but by god I did it!
Homemade Monte Carlos. All thanks to you guys in the thread yesterday spurring on my dissatisfaction of bought biscuits. Thanks guys! 🫡ooh nicely done!
Impressed. No gaps!
There is a homemade monte carlo shaped hole in my life. Please send help (and monte carlos).
They look WAY better than the store bought ones!
Spectacular!
they look really delicious 10/10 would nom right up
They look amazing!!!
Confession: I didn’t get around to watching The Bear last night, and I didn’t get out of bed when I meant to this morning to walk across the suburb for a coffee 😑 I lolled around in bed reading about “pretendians” in Canada until I truly felt sick in the head from hunger/dehydration.
But! I have had a good day nevertheless.
Still had a coffee, then did the grocery shop, and cooked a heap of food, some for the freezer. I’m onto a new bag of basmati rice that is banging - real game changer, worth paying the extra $1/kilo, my hoppin’ John/pilao dish came out beautifully. I also teed up a couple of easy social events for the next two weekends which is great.
This is banal but I’m also proud of myself going to Officeworks to get two monitors and a dock on the very last day of the FY (couldn’t spare the cash until I got paid). It’s an oblique act of self care: a gift to myself to be able to WFH properly when needed, so I can manage my time and energy when I can’t handle people or early starts.
It was a lot of money (why are docks so fucking expensive) and i felt uncomfortable and could’ve just procrastinated on it even further; part of me wishes I bought everything second hand, like nearly everything in my house, or researched better brands… But I’ve accepted that right now it’s better to get something good enough and move forward, rather than insist on perfection and waste time and energy in limbo for too long. Like how it took me 2 years to get a second hand vacuum cleaner at the cost of a clean house and my sanity. Action is important. I’m glad I managed to be an adult for myself and get this done.
The biggest accomplishment for today was…
journaling!
I also sat down at the cafe and the library and had a few uninterrupted hours of journalling after a long, long time. Last weekend I cleaned my house; this weekend was about tidying up my mind a bit. I wrote down the things that are and aren’t working for me with my living situation, jobs, finances, etc.
It was so important to acknowledge both, and work out how to maintain the good, while also acting on or reframing the things I’m not liking. Getting the wfh setup was part of that. Taking back some agency, and not developing resentment against something I acknowledge I do actually have some control over. Worked out when I can afford to drop my hours and how to stay financially comfortable enough. It does mean negotiating a higher salary at my three month review…
It was a really welcome moment of evaluation because I really want to head into this last bit of study with a clearer intention and not fall into old, bad habits of WHEEE and then self-hate. Wanted to be aware of my unmet needs this time, so I don’t try and pile all my expectations on my new activity and then inevitably get disappointed/burnt out. I want to pace myself, seek balance, and still do some great stuff BECAUSE of moderation, not by pushing myself insanely.
I’m just watching a bit of The Bear now which is timely because Carmy is a great reminder of who I’d be if I didn’t wise up. And then bedtime so I can wake up recharged and ready tomorrow.
