On the migraine train today…
Think this has been my worst one yet.
gentle hugs
cups of tea, toast, aspirin and a quiet dim room
So effing cold and tired that I fell asleep with my oodie on under the covers and I didn’t even sweat. Although, it’s not been as cold as the previous nights
I had my electric blanket on high last night, same thing, no sweat
TGIF 💪🍾😪🙏🙏
The end of the day couldn’t come fast enough.
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I feel this is my soul.
Me as well but with a difference - I don’t work Fridays but yesterday was… challenging.
Fishes for you too and a cat to help you on your way.
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just keep swimming 🐟🐟
Gratitude thread ✨️
Grateful for female friendships! Not being upset like I was a year ago because my ex was too busy to talk to me. The sun. Dog attempting to wake me up twice, potentially because someone has either left the house or arrived.
Thank fuck it’s Friday 🍺
TFIF! 🍺
Grateful that the free food market this morning had bocconcini balls.
Bocconcini takes me back to my childhood! Don’t want to doxx your location, but where can I find a free food market?
This one is Eastern Food Rescue, which grew out of a Food is Free cupboard in Mitcham. There are a number of Food is Free cupboards around the place too which have free food at random times. The food is primarily stuff that is going to be thrown out from supermarkets and bakeries, so the quality can be variable.
@LowExperience2368 @Seagoon_ Female friendships are the best ☺️
(The only catch for me is I tend to be someone people come to with problems. So there’s been days when my bestie has come to me with troubles, and then my other bestie, and then mum, and then wifey 😫.)
Anyways. Grateful thoughts.
One of the ways wifey and I split jobs is that I do the dishes at night and she, in theory, puts them away every morning.
In practice, most days I end up doing it.
Well…
A couple of days ago, I waited to see how long it would take for her to do it.
6pm — nope. 7pm. 8pm.
Are you going to put them away? “In a minute!”
9pm. 10pm.
Eventually it gets to midnight. Still not put away and she’s fast asleep.
So I put them away. At midnight. I might have made a bit more noise than usual in the process.
She wakes up: “Why are you doing that now? It’s midnight!”
Oh sorry, it got to midnight and the dishes still weren’t put away from this morning, so I’m doing it…
Anyways.
I woke up this morning, and the dishes were all in the drawers.
Grateful ☺️
Grateful my filling is feeling better today
plastic straw 👅
Anti-gratitude thread
The delayed phase sleep syndrome I’m dealing with. Even when I’ve woken up early and gotten shit sleep, I can’t seem to fall asleep early. Going to the pharmacy to get my hands on some schedule 3 meds.
How do you even get diagnosed with DSPD in this country? I always get Drs and psychiatrists telling me to go to sleep earlier and be very dismissive when I ask for sleep tests done. Normal sleeping pills don’t work at all for me, the best tools I have are agomelatine, clonidine, and cannabis (all taken together if I need to force a sleep bc of society).
Anyways, I’m not grateful for dismissive doctors who think I am trying to get pills off of them to abuse. Also fuck my sleeping disorder!
Yes fuck your sleep disorder :(
I didn’t get diagnosed with it, but I think I have a delayed phase thing going on. It might not be disorder level, because I’m not sleeping at a mega ridiculous time, but my rhythm is just kinda in shock and I haven’t been to sleep before midnight probably in about two years.
I think it’s more a bad habit per se. Although no matter what time I wake up one day, I will still not be able to fall asleep. It’s strange.
I’ve only tried melatonin (gives me poor quality sleep) and weed (give me poor quality bank balance) for my DSPD. Is there anything else you might recommend?
I haven’t tried any medications for it, but yesterday anotherspringchicken recommend restavit or phenergan
@LowExperience2368 @DolphinLundgrin I ended up using Restavit too often and decided I needed to try something else. I now have a script for Endep (amitriptyline) which is safe to take long term if needed, it really helps me sleep.
I notice that I tend to have bad dreams more often when I take melatonin, but I’m not sure whether that’s an actual side effect or just a case of getting better quality sleep, and for longer. What dose did you take?
Melatonin is 5mg, doctor then suggested I crush it, which surprised my GP. I don’t dream either way though.
I wish toast stayed hotter for longer. It’s so often cold. I am ungrateful for lukewarm toast.
Ungrateful that my filling seems to get really painful when I eat/drink anything hot or cold. I think eating dinner is what brought on the pain yesterday. Had similar pain today after I drunk some cold water and let it over to the left side of my mouth. Apparently I just need to avoid eating anything warmer than room temperature for the next 2 weeks, when apparently it’ll fix itself 🤷♂️
That sounds like the nerve is irritated. Not fun, but at least it means your tooth is still alive and you don’t need to go down the whole root canal route.
Yeah. I think I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m super thrilled that my teeth aren’t fucked beyond repair. I’m pretty good about brushing my teeth at least once a day now, but I went an extremely long time with only sporadic teeth brushing. I’m sure I’ll end up paying for that in the future
(Wtf Medicare, cover tooth and psychological care better you gronks)
trying to get a gold class ticket to Deadpool is damn near impossible. No, i dont want to go at 10:30pm.
Have to make A Phone Call. Wish me luck… Update: phone call made. Case manager was understanding and took me off Difficult Client’s schedule. Also it transpired that the system -at least the scheduling system - hadn’t been updated and was showing me still in Cheltenham.
You got dissss!!
Thanks, I did!
I have aquired fresh parsley and I don’t know what to use it for!
You could buy some mince and chop it up, mix it with the mince and make hamburgers or you could fry the mince and throw in chopped up parsley and spices or you could make a pesto with some pine nuts. Pine nuts are cheaper at Aldi.
I’m sort of a few days out from being able to shop again so I have try and make do with what I have at the moment.
I was going to make garlic butter bread/loaf slices and maybe thinking about using the pasley in that.
Was going to do fish burgers too but I don’t know if pasley mixes well with that?
@Duenan @CEOofmyhouse56 Parsley and fish definitely can work together 😊
Do you have any lemons?
Any neighbours with a lemon tree in the front yard?
If so, you might want to try a lemon parsley butter with your fish: https://www.recipetineats.com/lemon-butter-sauce-fish/
No lemon sadly :( @CEOofmyhouse56@aussie.zone
I was going to do something similiar to a Maccas Fillet O Fish.
Smokey Cheese, Tartare sauce and battered fish.
Sounds good.
Use the parley in the tartare sauce?
Yeah but are you making it because theres alot more in it than herbs. If you have a store bought one just add the parsley to a portion.
Also get some of your margarine and put it in bowl and add heaps of finely chopped parsley and a little bit of garlic, mix it all up and you’ve got garlic butter. Any leftovers put some glad wrap on it and put it in your fridge for next time.
Yeah, parsley goes very well with fish burgers. It’ll also keep in your fridge for a week. Just put it in a plastic bag so it doesn’t dry out.
Gremolata! Keeps for yonks in a jar if you put an oil film on top.
Parsley is also an excellent ingredient in dog biscuits. They love it. 🐕💖 🌿🦴
Fasolada or some other Greek stew is always my go to with parsley. Lots of good recipes here: https://www.mygreekdish.com/category/collections/traditional-greek-soup-recipes/
I put it in mashed potato , I also use a whole bunch when I make minestrone
Not a bad suggestion with the mash potato. Now I need potatoes.
Pretend it’s catnip and that you’re a cat
Scrubbed window down with alcohol wipes. I’m going to use neat vinegar on the painted sill because I am not colour matching gloss paint to fix it if it goes gummy. I have it open for a short time but this is a window where I can’t safely leave it or the blind open.
Avoiding the mending hamper…
Get a damp cloth and sprinkle some clove oil on it and wipe down where you’ve already wiped. And then wait. It will probably work.
Beep Beep 🚚
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Fried food of all manner with lots of various sauces.
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Yay!!!
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A hair of the dog for the horsies who celebrated a bit too hard yesterday please. 🐴
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Say friend, you got anymore of that good sarsaparilla?
Soup dumplings and xo please
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Cant tell if it was a dream, or if I really did hear mice in the roof last night. If it was real I’ve gotta say: they are late this year. Usually they come around May/June. God I hate the skittering sound when its on the plaster directly above your head.
Someone beeped and waved at me from their car as I walking on the street. I have no idea who that was. I just looked at them puzzled.
Another beautiful sunny day. 😊
I was listening to some Kitaro and it reminded me of this beautiful music, the music to Dream of Red Mansions. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qw9Wlq9bZso , here is the end title song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_9MidvKJk8
Time to attack the lawn with the push mower and accidentally run over a hose or 2.
