It’s going to be a bumpy night !
WHY? WHAT’S HAPPENING? HELP!
It’s cooled down enough to go back to the blanket I’ve been slowly crocheting. 8ply wool is not ideal for summer.
Huh, seems like today’s the day for feeling an unspecified sense of unease. Bad memories keep floating up today. Angry at traffic. Constantly feeling anxious about my bladder. Had to use my own work phone rather than shared device for work fieldwork today and its battery life is getting from bad to worse. Even the battery pack isn’t saving it. Sitting in the car waiting for it to get to at least 10%… shame, I had hoped to power on through and finish this entire section today (and throw the shit part - and only the shit part - to someone else 😬)
One thing I can tell you is that it helps just to accept the traffic for what it is and not get angry at it.
I often just take a big sigh in the afternoons and tell myself that the traffic is there and there’s no point getting angry at it but it does help to have radio shows on at the time that I like to listen to.
Bugger about the phone though :(
I’ve definitely had to exercise a lot of patience and calm on the Monash (which I normally avoid like the plague). Today I just felt really short with people going too slow in a way that was impossible to get around easily. But it’s much much easier in the Nice Work Car which has dynamic cruise control and all the things to warn you of other cars doing silly things
I am here and am stuffed
it took from 9am to 7.30 to move the stuff, 3 guys
Well done! Hope you get settled in well
Thank you. i hope so too 🫠
Welcome home 😊 that’s a big effort.
thank you 🙂
i see it as transitional and transformative 😐
Digging through the freezer for dinner tonight, I discovered a packet of Mr Chen’s Beef Teriyaki dumplings. In the spirit of science, I followed the packet directions to cook them for dinner. Verdict : don’t bother. Meh at best, though freezing probably did not improve them.
I love pan fried dumplings. Have tried cooking at home and they are never as good as the restaurant ones. Have given up, it’s just one of those things that the pros do better. Steamed at home are fine tho.
Have occasionally fluked a good batch at home - mostly using Diana Chan frozen ones. I think the secret is to hover over them and keep flipping until the right colour, then add not very much water to steam them at the end. Would be grateful for tips from experts though.
Got a call from my new boss about starting next week.
Come in whenever on Monday, we’ll get a coffee, set up your equipment and go from there.
If you want to work from home the rest of the week that’s cool.
Butterflies officially gone
cool
and good luck 🙂
There is a crack in the sky and something is trying to break through.
Bad Wolf.
Woke up terrified. Bodes well for the day
I feel really tired, everything is over stimulating me today like I’m having sensory overload, hate this feeling.
Also body feeling hurty so that’s not helping.
no hugs
just the most gentle music in the world
Thank you!
Ugh ugh ugh ugh. Hate that. Haircut tomorrow at least (long overdue) so i won’t keep feeing my fucking hair
I need a haircut too, maybe that’s a next week job.
hugs
I’m feeling like that today, too :-(
Wishing calming vibes for us both
Quick hack if you’re caught in a flight or fight loop: tense every muscle in your body, all of it, hard as you can, really fucking go for it. You should be shaking from the effort. Hold for about ten seconds and then release
Your body basically just thinks it completed the fight or flight sequence and is out of danger.
Will try that, ta
Good tip, thank you!
Oh interesting. Will try it out.
really hard to shake that mentality when you wake up with it. Extra special self care today. Buy that expensive coffee, put a nice cupcake with it.
Finally got around to watching the season finale of Severance.
All I can say is wow, what a ride even if the last few episodes seemed way too slow.
bad sleep, woke up crying about the war in america, it’s hotting up 😿
but then for about the fifth day in a row i had that humperdink song in my head , c’an’t take my eyes off you’
I maybe to blame for the Engelbert earworm but I swear I’m not responsible for the American shit.
everyone I know did their best to stop this from coming 😿
I blame the press for being stupid cunts and not knowing what the important stories are, they just ran with smut for the money
elections need good info
Press have a lot to answer for!
vacuumed the floor yesterday. Was vaccuming again 2 hours later cause the kiddo wanted a musli bar. And it was then that it dawned on me: this is why my house looks like a dumpster fire most of the time. Unless I’m cleaning 24/7 it just aint gonna remain clean. Ah well.
This is why we got a roomba
I want a roomba, but am nervous about the cat having an accident somewhere and it being smeared across the house.
We never had any issues on that front - we have an old as balls 880 series. It has on occasion found vomit…and eaten it. We only found out when wondering why the hell the roomba smelled like that.
Since the poop smearing vids went viral the newer models actually have detectors for that sort of thing. They’ve been promising their fecal painting days are over since '21
House clean once a day is achievable (with robovac). The rest of the time it’s just life happening. Better a happy house than a clean, unhappy one. Don’t sweat the small stuff (except ants).
yeah mrs is fairly keen on a robovac. If she cant come up with a Christmas present this year I might float that idea. Give it a week before the cat crowns himself king and rides it around the house though.
If that happens, we need pics.
Googly eyes are a must as well.
They’re little cyclones. They cause havoc in one room in a short time then move on to another to destroy.
People made the mistake of giving my kids grated cheese yesterday, they grab a handful and try to put as much into their mouth as they can. It’s a nightmare of a mess because you can’t just vacuum it. Leave it to dry and it could just get stomped into the floor. Sweep too hard and you could just smear it. We really shouldn’t just offer them the bag to grab handfuls
thats the worst! yogurt is bad too.
Yoghurt dries out fast and then you’re left with that semi solid paste of the cultures. It’s a real headache if you don’t get on it straight away
Are they old enough to use it as a chopstick training medium?
I own a dog, dropped cheese is NEVER a problem.
Unfortunately we don’t have a dog. It would be very well fed at our place.
Chopsticks would be beyond them at the moment. We still need to get them to use cutlery instead of just their hands
Dog ownership should be a prerequisite for parenthood, if only to do the food clean ups!
Peeler and I were just comparing notes on this very topic. Houses suck, they require more cleaning the more people and pets we put in them!
I have no kids and still struggle to keep the place decent. Mess is so easy to make and cleaning is such a chore. Literally every action to exist makes mess. Eat food, use toilets, walk around, wear clothes etc. Not to mention general stuff and storage and actually doing things and living life. I wonder if people with pristine houses just sit and stare into space most of the time, so no mess is created. The way I see it, if regular cleans are getting done and nothing is unhygienic, good enough. My house is lived in. It’s reality not instagram.
life is a battle against entropy and chaos
You let it go at one point, because life is too short for that nonsense. I insisted my kids remain in one place when eating, which helped a bit lol. I’ve said to people before, “People live here. It’s not a fucking display home!” Those people include my in-laws, who in the past were prone to randomly wander in unannounced and do what I call a “peer and sneer.” The old man especially was a terrible fuss pot. Fuck 'em! As long as the place is not actually a hygiene issue you’re golden.
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No one here yet?
Good very early morning everyone. 😘
Insomniacs assemble!
Present. 🫡
Hiya!
Mornin’!
Good morning! Is this the first wake up in the new place for you? If so, happy new house day!
tomorrow will be the first morning 🙂
Oops I was a day too early!
I’ve had too much coffee today, I feel so wired and jittery at the moment, maybe too much energy and can’t get rid of it.
Stayed up late having a great chat with some mates on discord. We’re all facing pros and woes in our lives. It was great to talk it out with some peers.
